Uttar Pradesh: At least 60 percent voter turnout was recorded in Uttar Pradesh’s first phase of assembly polls in 55 constituencies Wednesday and the figure is expected to rise, the Election Commission said here. “Initial estimate is 60 percent. It may go up to 62-64 percent,” Deputy Election Commissioner Alok Shukla told reporters here. “The [...]

Bangalore: The Lokayukta Court Monday ordered a probe by the Lokayukta Superintendent of Police into the private complaint against a BJP MLA for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. Judge N K Sudhindra Rao directed the SP Lokayukta to submit his report by March 12. B Eranna, a Pre-University lecturer in [...]

Chennai:  A Tamil actress who allegedly resorted to prostitution to tide over a financial crisis was arrested along with her stepbrother on Saturday night. The police suspect that it was her stepfather who worked as her pimp. The stepfather was said to be absconding. Caroline Mariyath, a 22-year-old Tamil film actress and popular model from [...]

Damascus : At least 200 people were killed and hundreds wounded in Homs in the most brutal government crackdown till date in the 11-month old uprising in Syria, activists have said. Two main opposition groups, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees claimed that the death toll was over 200 [...]

Bangalore : The Janata Dal(S) members of Karnataka Assembly led by Former Minister H D Revanna today staged a dharna in the house and later walked out in protest against the government for hurrying through an amendment legislation relating to religious institutions. The Bill, which was once rejected by the house, was re-introduced in the [...]

Dharwad : Karnataka Director General of Police (DGP) Shankar Bidari  said the department had decided to deploy bomb disposal squads wherever necessary in the state. Addressing reporters here during his visit to receive ‘Mratynjaya Mahanth’ Award at Dharwad Murugha Math he said the police force was being updated for maintenance of law and order and [...]

New Delhi: A supreme court bench, in Subramanian Swamy`s case against former union minister (DMK) A. Raja (in jail), delayed by congress rules for 12 months, to take up for consideration, has severely criticised the Prime Minister’s office, for its delay on 2-9-spectum corruption case. The Supreme Court (SC) took PM and his office to [...]

Bangalore : Former Chief Minister Bookanakere Yeddyurappa’s stars are rising again, after Makara Sankramana, and the JD-S spokesman and ex-MLA, Y S V Datta has been trounced in the case of  Bhadra Upper Bank Project corruption. The Lokayukta Bangalore police who conducted and enquiry as per orders, informed the special LA court on January 30(today), [...]

Panaji : Disturbed by the spate of sex attacks on teenage girls, including rape of a two-year-old infant, Goa police is most likely to issue safety advisory for women.   The state recently witnessed two separate cases of rape, molestation and kidnapping incidents in different parts of the capital city while Colva police station in [...]

Ahmednagara : In a 63rd Republic Day message given to Indian people at large, and people elected representations sitting in parliament at New Delhi in particular, passing laws that are applied to one and all, but hardly concerning/consulting them in a democracy, social reformer annasaheb Hazare in a recorded video message here on Jan 25, [...]