India

New Delhi, Oct 11: Air travelers should not expect any relief from sky-high domestic airfares this festive season which are up by over 30% since August despite airlines increasing domestic flights in coming winter. Airlines will operate about 11,900 weekly domestic flights — 3% more than the summer schedule but still way less than the figure of 13,500 seen two years back when Kingfisher Airlines

Bhubaneswar, Oct 10: Cyclone 'Phailin' which was to make landfall two days from now, possibly near Gopalpur in Odisha and in north Andhra Pradesh, today intensified into a severe cyclonic storm travelling slightly northwest and lying about 800 km from Paradip in Odisha. The storm, 870 km from Kalingapatnam and 900 km from Visakhapatnam, would intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm in the next

Bangalore, Oct 10: It's rather ironic that former Karnataka tourism minister G Janardhana Reddy is cooling his heels in Hyderabad's Chanchalguda prison, considering that it was close business links with Andhra Pradesh that brought him untold riches. Reddy, who controlled a three-tier system spanning the entire operation of illegal iron ore mining from excavation to the wharfs of Belekeri port

Bhubaneswar, Oct 10: As cyclone "Phailin" moved towards Odisha coast and lay centred about 850 km from Paradip, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today sought the help of defence forces to meet the impending situation. "Our past experience indicates that despite the state government's preparedness, impact of a very severe cyclonic storm requires support of the defence forces to mitigate the effects of

Brunei, Oct 10: Looking to strengthen the relationship with top countries of Asia-Pacific region, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today discussed various economic issues and other areas of cooperation with his counterparts in Australia and Japan. During his meeting with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Singh is believed to have discussed a wide range of issues, including sale of uranium to

New Delhi, Oct 10: Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily has kept his word to take public transport to work. He claimed that around 600 litres of fuel could be saved daily if others in the ministry followed his self-imposed austerity. “My journey was pleasant. Hope it will start a movement,” he told a TV channel, little aware that several people were inconvenienced by his gesture. Commuters faced

Hyderabad, Oct 10: The fasting YSR Congress Party president, Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, was forcibly shifted to Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) late on Wednesday night after his health deteriorated. Earlier in the day, a team of doctors from Osmania General Hospital advised him to call off his five-day-old fast after his blood sugar levels dropped and ketone bodies reached alarming levels

Hyderabad/New Delhi, Oct 9: Andhra Pradesh government today put all its departments on high alert in view of the cyclone threat as Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy appealed to striking government employees to return to work to meet any emergency. Seemandhra got no respite from power blackouts for the fourth day today while talks with striking government employees failed and a cyclone threat

Aligarh, Oct 9: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Wednesday targeted both the Uttar Pradesh government and the BJP over the Muzaffarnagar riots and said politicians engineer riots to win polls. "Both Hindus and Muslims of Muzaffarnagar told me there is no enmity between people but politicians divide them," Gandhi told a rally here in western Uttar Pradesh. "These politicians know that if there

New Delhi, Oct 9: A day after Rahul Gandhi attacked her, BSP supremo Mayawati today slammed the Congress for adopting a "casteist" attitude towards her party founder Kanshi Ram by not declaring national mourning on his death. The Congress Vice-President had yesterday accused Mayawati of not allowing any Scheduled Caste leader to rise in Uttar Pradesh, as he said the Dalit community needs "escape