The head of studies at the Royal Air Force pilot training college is a convert to Islam who has criticised Nato air strikes on Libya in a Muslim magazine. Dr Joel Hayward is dean of the college at Cranwell, the RAF's equivalent of Sandhurst, and has taught many of the pilots spearheading the militar

Dubai - 10 August 2011 (PTI): India's biggest mosque, surpassing the capital's Jama Masjid is to come up in Kerala with expatriates in the UAE and Middle Eastern countries contributing generously for the project. Estimated to cost Rs 12 billion (Dh 1 billion), the new mosque, to be called 'Share Mub

Bangalore - 10 August 2011 (PTI): Spelling more trouble for former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, the Lokayukta police has registered an FIR against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act on charges of financial irregularities in the Upper Bhadra irrigation project related works. In l

New Delhi - 10 August 2011 (IANS): Hardening its posture, Team Anna Hazare today told a Parliamentary panel to recommend to the government to replace the Lokpal bill with a stronger anti-corruption draft legislation, or else the activist would go on an indefinite hunger-strike from August 16.Haz

Mumbai - 10 August 2011: The police on Monday received 100 more complaints against Singapore-based online consumer survey company SpeakAsia, accused of cheating investors of crores by promising them huge returns on their investments. Among the victims who recorded their statements with the police wa

Washington - 10 August 2011: Americans by a large majority believe theUnited Statesis on the wrong track and nearly half think the worst is yet to come in the economy, aReuters/Ipsos pollsaid on Wednesday.President Barack Obama's approval rating dropped to 45 percent from 49 percent a month ago, acc

Bhatkal - 10 August 2011: Student belonging to Anjuman Engineering College, Mohammed Arfat s/o. Moulana Ashraf Muallim was severely injured in a road accident near TFC Hotel. According to the sources, the accident took place at 8:30 am when an Auto rickshaw coming from Nagappa Naik road rammed into

New Delhi - 10 August 2011: The government on Tuesday said that prices of petrol and other fuel could be lowered if global crude prices continue to slip further.A fall in crude prices would also help the government bring down its subsidy bill on fuel which would help curb the fiscal deficit. The go

Mumbai - 10 August 2011: Reliance Communications on Tuesday kicked off a price war in the tablet market, with the cheapest 3G model aggresively priced at Rs 12,999. However, the seven-inch, Android tablet, sourced from Chinese telecom major ZTE, is custom-made for the Reliance network. The device

Moroni - 09 August 2011: At least 50 people including children drowned in rough seas when a passenger boat sunk off the Comoros archipelago in the early hours of Tuesday after its engines failed, the country's public prosecutor said.The vessel was ferrying more than 100 people from the capital Moron

New Delhi - 09 August 2011 (PTI): The government intends to set up six AIIMS-like medical institutions in different states and Rs 847 crores have been released so far for them.Stating this in theRajya Sabhain reply to a written question, health and family welfare ministerGhulam Nabi Azadsaid the gov

London - 09 August 2011 (AP): A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. In London, groups of young people ra

Mumbai - 09 August 2011 (PTI):Anna Hazareon Tuesday alleged he is being targeted by the government, claiming his records in theArmywere being checked and people sent to his village in Maharashtra to check on his organisation."I have not done anything wrong throughout my life," Hazare said.The 74-yea

Kabul - 08 August 2011: Thirty members of the American special forces have been killed in Afghanistan in the deadliest day of the 10-year war for US military personnel when the Taliban shot down a Chinook helicopter. The majority of those killed were from Navy Seal Team 6, the unit that killed O

Is the US heading towards another financial crisis? Although it might be a bit early to predict with certainty the future implications of the debt crisis facing the US today, the situation is fluid enough to raise an alarm for theUS governmentas well as foreign investors. Because of the recent finan

Mumbai - 08 August 2011 (PTI): Gold price breached the Rs 25,000/10 gram mark for the first time, as the yellow metal became the safe haven in a global economy rapidly turning stormy. In Mumbai, gold of 99.9 purity surged Rs 460 to Rs 25,230/10 grams while 99.5 purity gold rose by a similar amou

London - 08 August 2011 (PTI): The British capital continued to smoulder under a series of 'copycat' riots that engulfed the city for a second day, with looting and arson reported in new areas, just miles from the site of next year's Olympic Games, prompting authorities to arrest as many as 160 peop

Bangalore - 08 August 2011 (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda today expanded his five-day-old ministry inducting 21 with Cabinet rank but left out the mining magnates Reddy brothers and their close associate Sreeramulu. All the ministers who were inducted had served in the outgoi