India

Mumbai, May 23: Alarmed by the deaths of two tigers in Maharashtra forest reserves, state Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam announced that over 500 armed guards will be recruited for the four forest reserves of the state and will be given shoot at sight orders against poachers. This comes a week after an alert by the state Forest Department that poachers in Madhya Pradesh have been paid an advance

New Delhi, May 23: Marking the third anniversary of the UPA II government, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday put the ruling coalition in poll mode, warning her party and allies that they have two years to get their act together as UPA-2 can hope to renew its mandate in 2014 only on the basis of performance rather than promises. Her remarks came after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his

New Delhi, May 23: A trial court here on Tuesday asked the Delhi Police to apprise it of action taken by it on a complaint against Yoga Guru Ramdev for his controversial remarks against parliamentarians. Metropolitan magistrate Purshotam Pathak sought an action-taken-report (ATR) from the police by June 22 on a complaint by a law student, Vibhor Anand, in which he said that remarks made by the

Mumbai, May 22: Continuing its free fall for the fifth day in a row, rupee set a new low of 55.47 before ending at 55.39 against the dollar on relentless demand for the American currency from importers, especially oil refiners, even as foreign fund flows remained muted. At the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, the domestic unit opened sharply higher at 54.60 per dollar from its last close

New Delhi, May 22: Notwithstanding Italy’s unhappiness over the “unacceptable nature of the judicial developments” involving two of its marines, India today made it clear that it will not “interfere” in the trial of two Italians facing murder charges in Kerala. “The judicial process is on and the Government of India is never known to interfere in that process,” External Affairs Minister SM Krishna

Chennai, May 22: A G Perarivalan, who is one of the three convicts on death row in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has scored more than 91% in the Tamil Nadu class 12 examinations. Perarivalan scored 1,096 out of 1,200 marks and tops the list of 35 prisoners who successfully wrote the examination in March. Perarivalan is facing the gallows, along with Murugan and Santhan. The three had sought

New Delhi, May 22: Song writers, artistes and performers can now claim royalty for their creations as the Parliament has approved a law to provide the much-delayed justice to them. The Copyright Act (Amendment) Bill, 2012 was passed by the Lok Sabha, which witnessed unusual unanimity on the matter with members from all parties supporting the measure for creative artistes whose benefits are

Mumbai, May 22: India's rupee fell past 55 per dollar to a record low as concern Europe's debt crisis will worsen prompted investors to pull money out of emerging-market assets. "It has been touching lows quite regularly, said Subir Gokarn, a deputy governor at the Reserve Bank of India. "There is clearly a strong pressure on the rupee to depreciate. This is coming from a number of factors. One is

Rampur Singhara, May 22: The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle. Two years later, she is about to graduate from high school and wants to be a teacher. The eastern state of Bihar has been so successful at keeping teenage girls in school, the

Penukonda, May 22: 24 people were killed, at least 16 of them charred to death, and more than 40 others injured when the driver of the Bangalore-bound Hampi Express apparently overshot the signal and rammed into the rear of a stationary goods train in Anantapur district in the wee hours on Tuesday. The impact of the collision that took place at 3:15 am at Penukonda railway station in Andhra