Jailed Chinese political activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, for his efforts over two decades, to promote democratic rights in China.Jailed Chinese political activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a decision the Chinese government has criticised

Karnataka Assembly serves notice on 11 BJP legislatorsThe political crisis in Karnataka, arising out of 14 Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs withdrawing support to the Yeddyurappa government, continued on Friday, with at least 10 of them sticking to their stand.Sources in the government and the Janata Dal

New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Women wrestlers and archers excelled Friday winning three golds between them as shooters continued to add to their kitty, taking India's Commonwealth Games gold tally to 20 on the fifth day of competitions here.Anita won the gold in the freestyle 67kg category defeating Canad

Al-Hamdulillah Bhatkal Community Eid Milan 2010 in Dubai was very much appreciated by the audience and the event was deemed a success, we the organizing committee place on record our sincere thanks to all the corporate sponsors and the support sponsors from our community, as well as, those who contr

Yahoo! began rolling out changes to its Web search engine on Thursday, the first significant revamp since it partnered with Microsoft to take on market leader Google.Microsoft and Yahoo! reached an agreement last year which calls for the US software giant to eventually power searches at all Yahoo! w

Mario Vargas Llosa (74), celebrated Peruvian-Spanish author and one of the most renowned novelists of his generation, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".After the award was an

With an eye on the approaching India visit of United States President Barack Obama, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee expressed hope that India would be made a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and that despite the global economic slowdown the Indian government would neith

The United Arab Emirates will not suspend BlackBerry services on October 11 after resolving a dispute with its Canadian maker Research in Motion over access to email and other data, reports WAM on Friday.The UAE had said it would suspend BlackBerry Messenger, email and web browser services to about

New Delhi - A body of Muslim scholars and clerics from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh today rejected the verdict of the Allahabad High Court on the Ayodhya title suit or any reconciliation bid and demanded that the Centre clear its stand on the issue. Led by Shahi Imam of the Delhi Jama Masjid Maulana Syed

New Delhi - BJP today said its dissident MLAs in Karnataka, who had raised a banner of revolt against Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, may be served a notice under anti-defection law if they did not fall in line. "We are confident that the crisis in Karnataka will be resolved soon.We would like to wa

NEW DELHI: Shooters Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh bagged the first gold of the day and women won the first ever archery medal at theCommonwealth Games on Thursday, taking India's gold tally to 12 and overall medal kitty to 25. Vijay Kumar and Gurpeet Singh's gold came in the 25-metre pistol pairs

New Delhi - Anisa Sayyed has shot to fame with the gold medal which she won along with Rahi in the shooting event at Commonwealth Games.It has not been an easy journey for the shooter who hails from Pune. She was employed with the Indian Railways and checked passenger tickets at Vile Parle station i

New Delhi- India is expected to launch six more nuclear reactors in the next two to three years, a top government atomic scientist said here."Six more reactors are scheduled to be launched in the next two or three years," Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India R Chidamabaram said he

PALO ALTO, California - Facebook is introducing tools that will make it easier for people to separate their online friendships into different groups and copy all the personal information they have posted on the Website.The new features will start rolling out to Facebook's more than 500 million

BANGALORE - Sachin Tendulkar capped a fine year with the most coveted cricketing reward in recent times 'The Sir Garfield Sobers Cricketer of the Year' Award as the maestro glittered bright amidst a galaxy of leading players at the LG ICC Awards night here on Wednesday. Tendulkar became the second I

Bhopal /New Delhi - Incensed over being equated with SIMI, RSS hit out at Rahul saying he needs to learn more about the country before making such "meaningless" statements.In unusually strident remarks, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday equated the RSS with banned terror outfit, the Students Islamic Movemen

STOCKHOLM - An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics.Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were honored for their dev

Karwar - Karwar defeated Bhatkal Inter-Football Association (BIFA) 1-0 in the finals of the Dist level flood lights football tournament being played here at Karwar. In the recently concluded tournament, 11 strong teams from all over the district have been participated. Earlier in the quarter-finals,