Chintalnar : After 12 days of captivity, Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon, 32, was finally released on Thursday evening by Maoists, ending the tense hostage crisis in Chhattisgarh. As evening set in, a weary looking but relaxed collector, wearing a light blue shirt and a hand bag hanging from his right shoulder, emerged out of [...]

Washington  : The moon is set to get a lot bigger and brighter than average this weekend as it officially becomes full on Saturday (May 5) at 11:35 p.m. EDT.   And since this month’s full moon coincides with the moon’s perigee — its closest approach to Earth — it will also be the year’s [...]

Washington : Hundreds of internal al Qaeda documents embedded inside a pornographic movie on a memory disk have revealed plots of carrying out attacks in Europe similar to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Terrorist training manuals in PDF format in German, English and documents found, according to intelligence sources cited by CNN, which said it [...]

Bangalore :  Indian Air  Force chief Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne on Saturday said religious fundamentalist groups like the Taliban operating in Afghanistan may shift close to the Indian border with Pakistan, at Wagah, if the situation deteriorated after withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the U.S. forces from the region. “In [...]

Mangalore; The astrology should not support superstitions and patently bad social practices if they want to protect social health and welfare of all citizens, Mulky Chandra Shekhara Swamiji, an eminent astrologer, international building sciences expert, and spiritual guide at his retreat (ashram) in  Mulky, honoring Vishwanath Bhat for his selfless service in the field of [...]

Madurai: The Madurai Adheenam monastery led by 292nd Guru Aruna Girinath(80) has appointed the tainted and notorious Nityananda of Bidadi near Bangalore, as the next Swami in his place, which is close to Madurai Meenakshi Amman Koil(temple), with a 1400 year old history to the Mutt. The Adheenam Mutt has units all over the world. [...]

Bangalore: H.D. Revanna elder brother of ex-cm Kumaraswamy, a former minister and president of KMF, new an MLA, has demanded an enquiry by CBI into the mystery of Rs.50 crore losses incurred by KMF, after he left it. He charged the present MLA and chairman of Karnataka Milk Federation, Gali Somashekhara Reddy(brother of Janardhan and [...]

New Delhi: Where as Pakistan Govt. had refused to provided any identity cards its minority group of citizens in the last 60 years or more, the Supreme court (PSC) chief Justice Iftiqer Choudhry and a bench of 2 others Pak Judges took up the task on its own, and took the Govt, to action, by [...]

Chandigarh : Batting icon Sachin Tendulkar turned 39 on Tuesday and will celebrate the occasion with a simple cake cutting function with his family and Mumbai Indians teammates later in the evening at the team hotel. Even though Tendulkar has no special plans up his sleeve for his birthday, his Mumbai Indians teammates have planned [...]

Islamabad : The Bhoja Air plane that crashed near the Pakistani capital went into a sudden dive shortly before it disappeared from the radar screen and slammed into the ground, a senior aviation official said on Saturday. Bhoja Air’s flight B4-213 from Karachi to Islamabad suddenly dropped from 2,900 feet to 2,000 feet after it [...]