India

Guwahati, June 10: The presence of mind of two women pilots saved the lives of 48 passengers and the crew aboard a Guwahati-bound Air India plane Sunday after it was noticed that a front wheel of the aircraft missing as it came in to land here. "During a pre-landing check, the ATC discovered that one of the two front wheels were missing. The pilots were immediately informed and an emergency was

New Delhi, June 10: Law minister Salman Khurshid has hit out at Team Anna accusing them of getting personal and undemocratic in their fight against coruption. With Team Anna member Kiran Bedi attacking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh once again, Khurshid said there are many questions which the anti-corruption crusaders also need to answer. Hitting out at Team Anna, law minister said, "How come they

Rajkot, June 10: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the UPA govt and said that the Congress will be wiped out in the 2012 assembly elections. Modi said he was optimistic about winning the assembly elections due in the state. Addressing the state executive meeting, Narendra Modi also hinted at change at the Centre and said the people of the country were fed

Mumbai, June 10: The Reserve Bank, on Saturday, permitted NRIs to send remittances more frequently, a step to boost foreign currency inflows and check rupee fall. Resident Indians are now allowed to receive as many as 30 remittances from NRI friends and relatives during a year as against 12 earlier, according to a latest RBI circular.Analysts said that the RBI decision would help raise foreign

New Delhi/ Chennai, June 10: Setting the stage for fresh hostilities, the Prime Minister's office on Saturday aggressively dismissed corruption allegations levelled by Team Anna against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over coal block allegations for being devoid of evidence. Minister of state for PMO V Narayanasamy followed up a curt letter to Hazare with a fusillade against the Gandhian leader's

New Delhi/Mumbai, June 10: The HRD ministry's decision to hold an all-inclusive common engineering test appears to have split the Indian Institutes of Technology vertically. Indications are that IIT Delhi and Bombay could back IIT Kanpur in holding their own entrance test while Madras, Roorkee, Kharagpur and Guwahati will stand by the Centre's decision. If the current wave of resentment among

New Delhi, June 9: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has written a letter to social activist Anna Hazare rejecting all corruption charges levelled against the PM over the alleged irregularities in the allocation of coal blocks. The letter, written by Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy, says that the allegations seem to be based on the leaked report of the Comptroller and Auditor General

New Delhi, June 9: Amid the controversy over Rs 35 lakh expenditure on Planning Commission's toilets, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh today quipped that he himself spends '18 hours of a day on toilets alone'. "I believe the biggest issues in front of us are malnutrition and toilets, these are the two faces of one coin... I have MNREGA, PMGSY, drinking water etc under me but I spend maximum time on

Jammu, June 9: Some 400 civilians, including children, trapped at Khardung La pass on Srinagar-Leh national highway in Jammu and Kashmir have been rescued, an official said. According to a defence spokesman, multiple land and snow slides occurred Friday night along a 10 km stretch at Khardung La pass. The Khardung La pass, one of the highest motorable passes in the world, is at a height of 17,800

Kanpur, June 9: Rejecting Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal's 'one nation, one test' proposal, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, has decided to conduct its own entrance test for undergraduate programmes from next year. IIT Delhi is also likely to follow the Kanpur model and hold its own entrance tests from 2013. In a resolution on Friday, IIT Kanpur's 210-member