In a major victory for the B.S. Yeddyurappa government in Karnataka, which is bracing for the fallout of the Supreme Court decision on the fate of the 11 BJP rebels, the Karnataka high court on Monday upheld the order of Speaker K.G. Bopaiah disqualifying five Independent MLAs on the grounds of defection.

Even as the Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor took to the skies from the Yelahanka Air Force Station on Saturday, spectators were taken aback when they saw the Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the air show.

The first Bollywood actor to fly a combat aircraft in India, Shahid Kapoor took off from the runway on Saturday amidst, as he himself confessed, much anxiety. Clad in a smart green pilot’s suit and aviators, the actor was fulfilling the dream of every boy who wants to be a pilot, even if it was for just a couple of hours.

With “violent disturbances” in the neighbourhood posing a security challenge to the country, government on Wednesday vowed to rapidly modernise the armed forces and said the defence expenditure was bound to go up in the coming decades.

India's biggest air show Aero India 2011 began on a bright sunny on Wednesday in this aerospace hub with a spectacular fly-past and breathtaking aerobatic formations by the Indian Air Force (IAF) flee

Five construction labourers died and several others sustained injuries in a wall collapse at an under-construction building in C.K. Palya on Bannerghatta road.

Taking strong exception to radio-tagging by US authorities of scores of Indian students duped by a “sham” university in California, India on Sunday described it as an “inhuman act” and demanded severe

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After 28 months of being set up to probe the 2008 church attacks in Karnataka, the Justice Somasekhara Commission of Inquiry has given a clean chit to the state government of Mr B.S. Yeddyurappa, while stating that Hindu outfits, in collusion with the police and the district administration did attack churches.

Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said he was planning to file a defamation case against governor H.R. Bhardwaj for the comments made against him as well as the public outbursts against the government. Mr Bhardwaj had termed the Cabinet resolution asking him not to allow the prosecution of the CM “the thief complaining against the police” and this has angered Mr Yeddyurappa no end. However, he did not specify which comment or outburst he was distressed about.