New Delhi, Oct 14 (PTI) The country''s competitors came out with flying colours and helped India finish a historic second in the final pecking order with more than 100 medals as the Commonwealth Games, that had a troubled build-up but proceeded smoothly thereafter, came to a close today. A record me

Bangalore - Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday expectedly won a vote of confidence in the truncated state Assembly, a victory which will depend on the High Court's decision on the disqualification of 16 MLAs.Facing the second trial of strength in four days, Mr. Yeddyurappa's motio

Panaji -The Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd (KRCL) has launched diet food in select trains, a senior railway official daid today."Since the time we have introduced diet food, we are getting good response. There is a section of people who are conscious about their diet even in the journey," KRCL's Pub

It has been my considered view that December 6, 1992, would not have happened in the age of 24-hour news television. Through the forest of microphones and broadcast vans that would have swarmed the disputed site in Ayodhya, it would have been impossible for either the Uttar Pradesh government or the

DUBAI - The captain of a Qatar Airways flight from the Philippines to Qatar died of heart attack on Wednesday.Sources said the captain, a 43-year-old Indian national, apparently suffered a heart attack after the flight took off from Manila. The crew and a doctor on board tried to revive him, while t

The miracle occurred. Against all odds, the Chilean miners trapped 69 days underground were pulled out one by one from their pocket of survival in a hour-long journey from the centre of the earth. At the time of going to Press, 19 men from the 33 had been brought up in the capsule rightly dubbed The

LONDON: Unruffled composure over two decades, in the face of the world's most hostile attacks and the frenzied demands of a celebrity-fixated society, confirms the true greatness of Sachin Tendulkar.For a man in his 38th year, Tendulkar's appetite for runs remains unsated and his unrelenting determi

NEW DELHI: As the Centre pitched for thorough and quick subscriber verification exercise for security reason, the telecom operators on Wednesday assured the government of their cooperation in getting details of customers but asked the home ministry to ensure cellphone users were not harassed by the

BANGALORE: With the Karnataka high court ruling it will decide the plea by five independent MLAs against their disqualification on October 18, the fate of the B S Yeddyurappa government will remain uncertain until then despite Thursday's trust vote, which it's expected to win since the HC has also d

NEW DELHI: China recently started work on extending its rail link in Lhasa to its border with Nepal, but for India it might just be a red herring.In a development, which has alarmed officials and strategic community here, Beijing is simultaneously working on bringing its rail link right upto Nyangtr

Bangalore - Mahendra Singh Dhoni was all smiles at the post-match press conference. After marshalling his team to a 2-0 series triumph against Australia, the Indian captain said: "I am fortunate to have a side that has performed well in the past one and half years. They have done well in difficult c

NEW DELHI - The Allahabad High Court based a significant part of its judgment in the Ayodhya case on the evidence provided by the Archaeological Survey of India's report on its excavations at the site, submitted to the court in 2003.However, that report is still hidden from the public eye, and a vir

Bangalore - India completed their first ever series whitewash of Australia as Sachin Tendulkar led them to a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over the visitors in the second and final cricket Test here today.Tendulkar (53 not out) added a half century to his first innings double ton and capitalise

MUSCAT - The body of Beebi Lumada, the Indian domestic maid who died at Muscat airport after being stranded for four days after she lost her passport, was buried around 6pm (Indian time) yesterday at her native village in Chittoor district of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.The body was

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New York -After years of intense diplomatic canvassing, India has won a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) after a gap of 19 years. India needed 128 votes but secured 187 in the 192-member UN General Assembly, which met on Tuesday. India was standing unopposed for the A

Bangalore - (PTI)In a new turn to political developments in Karnataka, Governor H R Bhardwaj today offered one more chance to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to prove his majority in the Assembly on Thursday. Holding that the trust vote taken in the Assembly yesterday by the BJP government was "not

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