'Foreign militants pose threat to JK'

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 3: Government of India Wednesday said presence of both foreign and local militants continues to be a matter of grave threat to the peace and security of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh said the government has adopted various counter More

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Sadananda Gowda to be new Karnataka Chief Minister

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Bangalore, Aug 3: Ousted CM B S Yeddyurappa loyalist and sitting MP D V Sadananda Gowda will be the new Chief Minister of Karnataka after he was elected BJP Legislature party leader today defeating Jagadish Shettar of the rival camp in a bitterly fought secret ballot. 58-year-old Gowda, Lok More

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Mamata, opposition discuss renaming of West Bengal

Kolkata, Aug 3: In a rare development, West Bengal's Trinamool Congress-led ruling alliance and the Communist-led opposition Wednesday came together at an all-party meeting here to discuss issues ranging from the renaming of the state to the reorganisation of districts. "Today we had a discussion More

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Kasab not fasting during Ramadan: Official

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Mumbai, Aug 3: Pakistani gunman Ajmal Amir Kasab, convicted and awarded death sentence for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is not observing fast during the ongoing month of Ramadan, a senior official of Arthur Road jail said. Though Kasab had observed fast for a select few days More

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Normalcy returns; Govt attacked over inflation, terror

Monsoon session

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 3: After normalcy was restored in Parliament following two days of disruptions, the Opposition today targeted the government over rising prices and incidents of terrorism, in the backdrop of the recent Mumbai blasts. The Lok Sabha took up a discussion on price rise under a More

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Computers to monitor midday meal scheme

INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

Agartala, Aug 3: Quality of food, stocktaking and complaints. All these and more will soon be streamlined with the central government finalising plans for a computerised monitoring system of the midday meal scheme that reaches out to 110 million children across the country. The world's largest More

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2 accused granted bail by Bombay HC

MALEGAON BLAST

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Mumbai, Aug 3: In a major setback to National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Bombay High Court today granted bail to two accused in the September 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case after observing that there was no material to connect the duo to the blast. Shivnarayan Kalsangra and Shyam Sahu More

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4,500 MBBS seats added: Azad

New Delhi, Aug 3: Easing of norms in medical colleges has resulted in addition of approximately 4,500 seats in MBBS courses, while nearly 6,400 seats have been increased at the post graduate level, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Tuesday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya More

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Richie rich: Punjab's millionaire woman cop in CBI net

JAIDEEP SARIN

Chandigarh, Aug 3: A palatial bungalow, lakhs in cash and jewellery, two luxury cars and a well-stocked bar with the best of international liquor brands -- CBI sleuths stumbled upon all this and more during a recent raid on woman Punjab police officer Raka Ghira. And everyone -- from her More

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India urges Pak to free its fishermen

New Delhi, Aug 3: With more than 250 Indian fishermen languishing in the jails of Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna raised the issue of their release with visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar here last week. Pakistan arrested 156 Indian fishermen in the last seven More

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NIA chargesheets G M Bhat, ors in hawala case

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Aug 3: The National Investigation Agency has chargesheeted Ghulam Muhammad Bhat and others in connection with alleged hawala racket. The chargesheet names Ghulam Muhammad Bhat, along with three other accomplices, including Muhamamd Sidiq Ganai, who had allegedly collected over More

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