Bengaluru, Sept. 24: The Indian Institutes of Management and Prometric have extended the registration period for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010 to October 7. The sale of CAT vouchers will be open till October 4 while registrations will be open till October 7.The decision to extend the registra

The Gujarat High Court on Friday constituted a new three-member Special Investigation Team for a fresh probe into the alleged fake encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan in 2004. It will be headed by Joint Police Commissioner of Delhi Karnail Singh, and will have senior Gujarat cadre IPS officers Mohan J

Bangalore -Engineering colleges in the city are getting better employment offers for their pass-outs this year indicating the job market skies that were so far overcast with clouds of recession are slowly clearing.While big IT firms are yet to line up to the campuses, the total number of offers fres

New Delhi - A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia will on Tuesday decide the fate of the special leave petition seeking deferment of the Allahabad High Court verdict on the Ayodhya title suit.Besides the Chief Justice, the bench would include Justices Aftab Alam and K S Radhakrishn

New Delhi - Announcing a eight-point Kashmir formula, the Centre today said a Group of Interlocutors led by an eminent persons will hold ''sustained dialogue'' with all sections of Jammu and Kashmir and also review deployment of security forces in the Valley, especially in Srinagar.Unveiling a packa

Muscat - Aftab Kola, senior journalist with Oman's leading English Daily, Times of Oman, has written extensively on Islam and related aspects during the holy month of Ramadan. An entire page in Times of Oman was dedicated to Ramadan every day and was handled by Aftab who not only produced his own wr

Bhatkal - Heavy rain accompanied by strong winds and thunder-storm which started at around mid-night yesterday damaged several electric poles and many trees were uprooted at several places here in Bhatkal. A Mysore-Panaji Volvo came under a falling tree at NH 17 near Haneefabad and went off the roa

KOLKATA - Seven elephants of a herd died after being hit by a goods train in the Banarhat area of Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday night.While four were killed on the spot, the rest died on Thursday. The dead include a sub-adult and two juvenile elephants, Divisional Forest Officer (Wild Life II) Su

New Delhi - India's second largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) Thursday launched its hatchback car Next Gen i10 at a price ranging from Rs.3.49 lakh to Rs.5.91 lakh (ex-showroom in Delhi)."With the Next Gen i10, we hope to continue the legacy. That is why we have further boos

GENEVA: A report by three UN-appointed human rights experts Wednesday said that Israeli forces violated international law when they raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla killing nine activists earlier this year.The UN Human Rights Council's fact-finding mission concluded that Israel's naval blockade of t

JERUSALEM: An Israeli security guard killed a Palestinian in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem on Wednesday, triggering clashes between police and rioters, including in the compound of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.Israeli police stormed the holy site to stop Palestinians from throwing stones at Jewish worship

The expansion of the northern courtyard is one of the major works initiated on the orders of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. The project, covering an area of 1.5 million square meters, reaches up to the circular road north of the Grand Mosque and Jabal Kaaba Road to the west.The thr

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been honoured with the 2010 World Statesman Award by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, an interfaith coalition which promotes mutual understanding, tolerance and peace.India's ambassador to the US, Meera Shankar, accepted the award on behalf of the prim

DUBAI: AGEGroup earned the right to meet Active IT Distribution in the final of the 9thDulsco Ramadan Cricket Tournament Uniforge Bhatkal CC by 73 runs in the semi-finals played at Zabeel Park Dubai. The 20-over tournament is being organized by Dulsco SC in association with the Dubai Municipality an

Bhatkal - Taluka level cultural and literary competition was held recently here at Magdoom Colony Govt Urdu School wherein students showcased their skills in around 13 event categories including Naat, Qirat, Hamd, Ghazal, Qawwali, Speech, Group Discussion, Art, Kannada and English poems, Monoacting,

Bhatkal - Bhatkal Academy, a welknown coaching center in the town organized a beautiful Eid Milan program recently at 'Baagh-e-Rahmat' located at Tengingundi beach. The program was started with the Qirat of Danish Askeri. Qousen Naitey rendered beautiful Naat while Abdul Mannan delivered the welcome

Things are on the up for US billionaires with more than half of them adding to their net worth in a year which once again saw Bill Gates as the richest of them all, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.Gates, founder of Microsoft, was the richest person in the United States for the 17th year in a row w

India's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a lower court in northern India to delay a verdict on whether Hindus or Muslims own land around a demolished mosque in northern India.The postponement of Friday's verdict to September 29 came after a man appealed to the Supreme Court for a stay on the judgme