
Lucknow: Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, will file her nomination for the Kannauj Lok Sabha by-poll on Tuesday, a Samajwadi Party (SP) leader said. The by-poll was necessiated by Akhilesh Yadav's election to the state legislative Council and Dimple was fielded following consultations and deliberations, the leader said. This is the second innings of Dimple Yadav, the first being when she was fielded by the...

11:44 AM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: The trial in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case has been adjourned till June 8. The case was adjourned due to the death of a member of Ghaziabad Bar Association. Aarushi's parents, Nupur and Rajesh, have been charged with murder and destruction of evidence. Apart from this Rajesh Talwar has been charged with misleading the probe. Nupur Talwar's bail plea was rejected by the Allahabad High Court last week,...

11:31 AM, Jun 04, 2012

The Directorate of School Education in Tamil Nadu will declare the Class 10 board exam (SSLC) results at 1.30pm on Monday, June 4. Around 11.5 lakh students have appeared for the examination this year. The results, which are usually declared by the end of May, have been delayed because the examinations were postponed from the end of March to the first week of April due to a delay in distribution...

10:11 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Chennai: It may not have turned out to be as happy an 88th birthday for DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi as he might have wished. The multi-factioned feud within the veteran leader's family showed no signs of abating even on the leader's special day on Sunday, while the birthday celebrations themselves were a far cry from those of a few years past. With photographs of MK Stalin, Kanimozhi, Dayanidhi Maran and...

10:08 AM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: A young engineer, Kundan Jaiswal, risked his own life while trying to chase and nab an alleged assailant. He didn't drive past like everyone else when he saw a helpless man being attacked on the road. "It was a Saturday evening and I was travelling home with my brother in an autorickshaw through the Old Delhi area," Kundan said. Recalling the events of the day, Kundan said, "Suddenly...

09:52 AM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: The rush for admissions at the prestigious Delhi University begins on Monday with the common pre-admission forms being made available for aspiring students both online and over the counter. The University offers 54,000 seats in over 60 colleges spread across the capital but the spectacularly high cut off rates in recent years tend to make the students nervous. The common pre-admission forms can be availed both online and...

09:40 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will continue its questioning of YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy for the second day on Monday. Jagan Reddy is being interrogated for his role as prime accused in the alleged disproportionate assets case. The CBI on Sunday took Jagan Reddy for interrogation in the disproportionate assets case after the Andhra Pradesh High Court granted a 5-day custody of him to the agency...

08:40 AM, Jun 04, 2012

London: Scientists say they may be able to prove by the end of the year that the elusive Higgs Boson, or the particle that is responsible for giving mass to the universe, really exists. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, will be switched off at the end of this year for some major upgrades, but Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director of European Organisation for Nuclear Research...

08:40 AM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: At a time when the government is battling an economic and political crisis, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gandkari will meet yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Monday. Ramdev is expected to present a letter to the BJP President, asking him to support the movement demanding the government to bring back the black money allegedly stashed abroad. He is also likely to request Gadkari to help enact a...

07:34 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Hyderabad: Seeking to boost BJP's chances in the bye-election to Parkal assembly seat in Telangana region, party MP and official spokesperson Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said separate Telangana is possible only with the BJP. Javadekar, who campaigned in support of the saffron party's nominee at Parkal in Warangal district, said separate statehood is neither possible with a sub-regional party like TRS, which has only two MPs, nor with the Congress....

05:30 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Mangalore: Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for terming BJP-ruled Karnataka as the "most corrupt" state, Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Sunday said the UPA government was steeped in scams and asked the Congress General Secretary to keep his house clean before criticising others. Rahul has no right to criticise the BJP when Congress- led UPA government is steeped in corruption and scams, he said. "The Congress leader must first...

04:33 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Beirut/Amman: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad condemned on Sunday the "abominable" massacre of more than 100 people in Houla, saying even monsters could not carry out such acts, and promised a 15-month-old crisis would end soon if Syrians pulled together. Assad repeated earlier pledges to enforce a crackdown on opponents he says are terrorists carrying out a foreign conspiracy, while offering dialogue with opposition figures who had avoided armed conflict or...

03:45 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Dubai: Osama bin Laden led a frugal life, spending all his personal wealth on attacks against the West and serving his guests good food, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video posted online on Sunday. In the half-hour tape titled "Days with the imam, Part Two" a bespectacled Zawahiri, who took up the reins of al Qaeda after bin Laden's killing just over a year ago, fondly recalled...

02:36 AM, Jun 04, 2012

Nellore/Tirupati: Rebutting the allegation of Kadapa MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and his followers that he was being victimised, Congress on Sunday said that "world" cannot turn a blind eye to his alleged corruption. "If Chief Ministers can go to jail, Union Cabinet ministers can go to jail, from Congress party and principal opposition party, what does Jagan think of himself? Has he come from heaven? He wants the whole...

01:20 AM, Jun 04, 2012

New Delhi: Yoga guru Ramdev will on Monday meet BJP president Nitin Gadkari to seek his party's support for his campaign against black money. "Ramdev will tomorrow meet Gadkari during which he will present a letter to the BJP chief seeking his party's support to bring the black money stashed abroad and for enactment of a strong Lokpal legislation," a spokesman for the yoga guru said on Sunday night. Earlier,...

12:29 AM, Jun 04, 2012