The State government has failed to take major steps to map suicides and work towards its prevention, despite the National Bureau of Criminal Records naming Andhra Pradesh as the state with the fourth

It’s official. There will be no IIT-JEE and AIEEE exams from next year (2013). Students will have to take the new Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for admissions to prestigious IITs, NITs, IIITs, deemed univ

AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad, in an exclusive chat with this newspaper on Sunday, cleared the air regarding rumours about an impending announcement about a Telangana state, a change in the

All-India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary and Union minister Ghulam Nabi Azad clarified on Sunday that the Centre had not fixed any deadline for taking a decision on the state bifurcation

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulated the scientists for the successful launch of PSLV placing in orbit France’s SPOT 6 satellite and the Japanese spacecraft PROTIERES. “I am delighted at havin

It’s official. There will be no IIT-JEE and AIEEE exams from 2013. Students will have to take the new Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for admissions to prestigious IITs, NITs, IIITs, deemed universities an

It’s ironic that while the prestigious biodiversity conference COP-11 to be held in the city next month is to showcase the city as an ideal investment destination, there are daily three hours of sched

India may have successfully waged war against polio, but Haj pilgrims from India this year need to be immunised against this crippling disease before embarking to Saudi Arabia.

A seven-year-old boy from the city has won the silver medal in the Kumite event and a bronze medal in the Kata event at the International Karate Open Championship held in Malaysia in the first week of

Here is some good news for the defence forces deployed at border outposts in snow clad glaciers, deep forests, deserts etc., as well as those on board naval ships, in far off deep seas. The Defence R