Islamabad, May 13 (IANS) Pakistan’s outgoing ruling party, which faced defeat in the May 11 elections, Monday announced that it accepts polls results despite “serious reservations”. Pakistan Peoples Party was placed fourth with 30 seats in term of securing National Assembly seats announced so far. The party could not secure [...]

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Indian cricket board Monday refuted charges of flexing its muscles in the International Cricket Council (ICC) to get Laxman Sivaramakrishnan elected in the cricket committee and ruled out pulling out of next month’s Champions Trophy in England. Board of Control for Cricket in India [...]

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Dismissing reports that its vice president Rahul Gandhi may replace Manmohan Singh after a rift between the latter and party chief Sonia Gandhi over the dropping of two ministers, the Congress Monday said the prime minister will continue till the 2014 polls. “We refute such [...]

Bangalore, May 13 (IANS) Leaning to write Kannada alphabets on mud as his parents could not afford slate and chock, Siddaramaiah has come up hard way to take over Monday as Karnataka’s chief minister. Battling odds Siddaramaiah, born Aug 12, 1948 at a small village Siddaramanahundi in Mysore district, a [...]

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The government Monday came out with a slew of guidelines for the Indira Awas Yojna scheme for building houses for rural poor, including increased allocations and a requirement for constructing compulsory toilets for each unit. Seen as a bid to rev up the programme ahead [...]

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) An eight-year-old girl was recovered from Kanpur railway station a few hours after she went missing from New Delhi railway station Monday, police said. “Acting swiftly on the complaint given by the mother of the missing girl, police with the help of GRP (Government Railway [...]

New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited Nawaz Sharif to India, Bharatiya Janata Party questioned why government was in a hurry to invite the Pakistani leader who is set to lead the country for the third time. “The prime minister has been in too [...]

Shillong, May 13 (IANS) A Meghalaya court Monday issued non-bailable arrest warrants against CMJ University’s chancellor Chandra Mohan Jha and two others in connection with the alleged forgery and irregularities committed by the institution, a lawyer said. “The court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant and search warrant against Jha under [...]

Mumbai, May 13 (IANS) Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Cameron White won the toss and elected to bat against Mumbai Indians in their Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Wankhede Stadium here Monday. Teams: Mumbai Indians: Dwayne Smith, Sachin Tendulkar, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Rohit Sharma (captain), Kieron Pollard, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan [...]

Gurgaon, May 13 (IANS) The office of a realtor was Monday raided in Gurgaon by Punjab Police in connection with a complaint of a Rs.210 crore fraud in Ferozepur in Punjab, Haryana Police said. The raid was conducted at the company’s office in Time Tower on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road and [...]