New Delhi:  India's monsoon rains reached the southern Kerala coast on Friday, weather officials said, offering relief to farmers who have been waiting eagerly for the start of the wet season that is crucial for their summer crops. A slight delay in the monsoon's onset is unlikely to have a major

PUNE: It now appears that trouble was brewing in Unnati Nagar near Hadapsar for nearly an hour on Monday evening when a gang of 30 to 40 men drove around the area on their bikes, pelted stones and attacked at least one more person before they targeted Mohsin Mohammed Sadique Shaikh (28) and beat him

Brussels: Western leaders prepared Thursday to deliver their first face-to-face message to President Vladimir Putin since Moscow seized Crimea - stop meddling in Ukraine or face tougher sanctions.   Leaders of the Group of Seven industrialised nations head from a two-day summit in Brussel

Mangalore: State Health and Family Welfare Minister UT Khader met Union Railway Minister DV Sadananda Gowda in New Delhi on Tuesday June 3 and held talks with them on the various railway demands of the region. Khader also submitted a memorandum to the Union Minister enlisting various demands incl

AZAMGARH: National award winner actress and former MP Shabana Azmi today said a section of minority was still nervous of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he talked about women, poor and youth but nothing specifically about them. "At the time of elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised

NEW DELHI: India's southern coast could witness the arrival of this year's monsoon in the next day or so after sporadic rains in recent days heralded the arrival of the wet season that is crucial to farmers in Asia's third-largest economy. "Conditions have turned favourable for the monsoon onset

Dombivli, Thane:  A woman conductor on a state transport bus was dragged out of the vehicle, stripped and beaten by a male passenger on the outskirts of Mumbai this morning, police said. The incident took place on a bus which runs between Kalyan and Panvel in the Thane district, at around 8:30 am

Dubai: A Pakistani woman is battling for her life after falling off a moving car on the busy Shaikh Zayed Road. Heena Kashif Khan, 31, was seated next to her husband, who was driving her to work when she fell out of the vehicle. The two-seater pickup truck was travelling at around 110 km/h when

New Delhi: Only 7 Muslims have made it to the final list of this year’s National Defence Academy & Naval Academy (NDA) out of total 570 successful candidates. Adeel Mohammad was in the top ten by coming in at 9th rank in the list. Last Friday, the UPSC has declared the result of the written p

New York: If you speak more languages than one, it is good not only for your social image but also for the health of your brain, a research said. Bilingualism has a positive effect on cognition later in life. Individuals, who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the sec

Several universities in India do not meet the basic requirement of simple good governance, according to former Chief Justice of India Rajendra Babu. "Even though the country's economy has grown through globalisation, we have to think about global competitiveness of the graduates of India. The res

New Delhi:  Senior BJP leader and union minister for rural development Gopinath Munde died this morning reportedly of a heart attack after a road accident in Delhi. He was 64. At about 6.20 this morning, Mr Munde was on his way to the Delhi airport when an Indica car crashed into the minister's S

Heavy rains, accompanied by gusty winds and thunder, hit many parts of Bangalore for over four hours on Monday night, disrupting life and exposing the poor monsoon preparedness of the government agencies.  The City experienced a 'monsoon burst,’ which according to Indian Meteorological Department

Ras Al Khaimah: The Ras Al Khaimah Public Prosecution is investigating a multiple vehicle crash that injured 18 schoolchildren and three drivers on Sunday. The accident happened on Al Salihiya Road between Al Khazan roundabout and Digdaga area. It occurred as the Al Himham government s

Mallikarjuna Kharge, who was chosen leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, today said his party would not function as an "opposition for opposition sake" and its approach would be "issue-based". "We will not function as opposition for opposition sake. It (our functioning) will be issue based in the

Abu Dhabi: Some residents of a building on Airport road in the capital have been compelled to sleep in their cars because the building’s central air-conditioning has not been working for the past 12 days. “Since the air conditioning system has been out since May 21, I moved to a hotel apartment

NEW DELHI: Civil Services aspirants will get two more additional attempts from this year onwards to write the prestigious exam but there will be no change in its format and syllabi, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) said on Tuesday. "The aspirants should note that the government has deci

WASHINGTON: They know the risks of the internet better than anyone, but most cyber experts still shop and bank online with care. "We operate in the 21st century ... I've got to shop online, I've got to pay my bills online," Brigadier General Paul Nakasone, deputy commander of US Army Cyber Comman