New Delhi - 10 July 2012 (PTI): The government today said remittances from abroad will not attract service tax, putting to rest the concerns raised in view of new tax norms."The matter has been examined and it is clarified that there is noservice taxper se on the amount of foreign currency remitted

Mumbai / Nashik - 10 July 2012 (PTI): Police on Tuesday found human remains, including three skulls, near a farm house of starletLaila Khan, raising suspicion that they could of theBollywood actressand her family members who had beenmissingsince early last year.The remains were dug out after a day-l

Bangalore - 10 July 2012: Amidst confusion and dissidence by outgoing chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda, rural development and panchayat raj minister (RDPR) Jagdish Shettar was formally elected as theBJPlegislature party leader in Karnataka.In what was to be a smooth affair, the meeting turned out

New Delhi - 10 July 2012 (PTI): BJP on Tuesday lashed out at home minister P Chidambaram for his remarks that themiddle classis ready to pay for mineral water and ice cream but can't bear an increase of Re 1 in price of wheat and rice, saying he has shown insensitivity towards them and ridiculed the

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New Delhi - 10 July 2012: Amid increasing complaints about misuse of the Tatkal scheme, the railways has introduced a slew of measures that will come into effect from Tuesday.Under the revised scheme, passengers can bookTatkal ticketsfrom 10 am instead of 8 am.No authorized agents, including those o

London - 09 July 2011 (AFP): South Korea's Samsung won a patent battle on Monday against US rival Apple, with a British judge ruling that Samsung's Galaxy tablet was not "cool" enough to be confused with Apple's iPad.Britain's high court ruled that the Galaxy tablet made by Samsung, the world's larg

New Delhi - 09 July 2012 (IANS): The Delhi government plans to appoint around 1,000 Urdu teachers , an official said Monday. "The government has sent a proposal for appointing around 1,000 Urdu teachers to directorate of education ," said the official. Besides, the government will recruit 100 Urdu l

States advised to give preference to drinking water and irrigation and enhance groundwater use. Alarming depletion in water levels (at 57 per cent of last year's storage) of important reservoirs, owing to delayed and weak southwest monsoon, has prompted the Union government to issue an advisory to

Falling for the fourth day in a row, the rupee lost a hefty 50 paise to close at 55.92 on persistent dollar demand, especially from corporates and oil importers. The local currency touched a one-week low of 56.07 intra-day but there was no sign of RBI intervention to shore it up. With the US dollar

Mumbai - 09 July 2012 (PTI): TheBombay high courton Monday acquitted five accused in the 2002Best Bakery riots casefor want of evidence but upheld the conviction of four others sentenced to life term by the trial court.A division bench comprising Justices V M Kanade and P D Kode, who had on July 3 r

Bhatkal - 08 July 2012: Bike rider indentified as Ahmed (32) from Moosa Nagar was critically injured as a result of collision between Bolero car and a bike here at National highway near Tenginguding cross, Bhatkal. According to the sources, the Bolero car knocked down bike rider at around 4:00 pm an

The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Gujarat government to file a survey report of the religious sites which were damaged and destroyed during the 2002 riots in the state. A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra also asked the state government to quantify the amount needed for bui

A New Delhi-bound Air India airplane made an emergency landing at Nawabshah in southern Sindh on Monday after developing a technical problem with its hydraulic system, an official spokesman said. All 122 passengers and crew members on board the plane are safe. The captain of the Airbus aircraft, go

Bangalore - 07 July 2012 (PTI): Jagdish Shettarwould be the new chief minister of Karnataka. The decision to make Jagdish Shettar the CM of Karnataka was taken at theBJPcore group meeting in Delhi on Saturday, sources said.Karnataka chief minister Sadanand Gowda will resign on Saturday evening, sour

Jeddah - 07 July 2012: The month of fasting this year will begin on July 20 and the celebration of Eid Al-Fitr will be on Aug. 19, according to a senior Islamic scholar in the Kingdom. Member of the Council of Senior Scholars Sheikh Abdullah Al-Manie said fasting will end on Saturday Aug. 18. The da

Boston - 06 July 2012 (Reuters): About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that US authorities shut down last November. Some blogs and news reports hyped the risk of an outage,

Bhatkal - 06 July 2012: As per the directions from Tahsildar office, issuing of new ration cards with photograph is started in Bhatkal for temporary ration card holders who don't have their family photographs on it. As per the directions, the temporary card holders are requested to visit their ratio