In a move that could help improve foreign partnership and investment in India’s higher education sector, the University Grants Commission has allowed Indian institutes with Grade B accreditation to en

2 IM men plan terror hits in city | DCHyderabad, Sept. 24The National Investigation Agency said that two terror suspects belonging to the Indian Mujahideen — Tahseen Akh-tar and Waqas — who were alle

Indore: Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday kicked up a storm when he claimed that the ruling BJP had got 10,000 burkhas stitched for Narendra Modi’s Wednesday meeting in Bhopal, for

Bengaluru:  Jnanpith laureate Dr U.R. Ana­n­thamurthy, who is in the eye of a controversy for his remarks against BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Naren­dra Modi, says he has no option but to oppose

Vijyawada: A one-day bandh called by Samaikyandhra Parirakshana Samiti was total and peaceful in all the 13 Seemandhra districts, on Tuesday.
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The eight-member Pakistan judicial commission that is in Mumbai to examine Indian witnesses of the 26/11 terror attack did not cross-examine two of those witnesses on Tuesday.

After winning a landslide in the recent panchayat election, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamul Congress continued its triumphant march and registered an emphatic victory in the civic body polls winning eight of the 12 municipalities where polls were held on September 21. In 2008, the Trinamul Congress had won only three — Habra, Guskara and Diamond Harbour — of these 12 municipalities. In other words, it added five more to its tally.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday rooted for peace in Junglemahal and pledged food and jobs for all. While addressing a rally in Bagmundi of Purulia district, which was once the hotbed of the Maoists, she vowed that she would not allow violence to return to the Junglemahal.

A 14-year-old girl, who went to a police station to file a rape complaint, was humiliated by a senior police officer in Kushinagar district and also forced to strip.

After Gujarat CM Narendra Modi raised the issue of security of Gujaratis in Kenya, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told Mr Modi that his government is attaching the highest priority to safety and welfare of all Indians in Kenya, in the wake of a terrorists attack in Nairobi.