NEW DELHI: Upping the ante, sulking NCP today warned the Congress that if its demands like coordination committee for UPA coalition and better treatment of allies were not resolved by tomorrow it would pull out from the government.The party led by Sharad Pawar has also indicated that any pull out in Delhi could have a cascading effect on the...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has named four Indian-American scientists among 96 researchers as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.The awards bestowed on Sridevi Vedula Sarma, Pawan Sinha, Parag A Pathak and Biju Parekkadan is the highest honor given by the US Government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of...

NEW DELHI: Stepping up pressure ahead of the indefinite fast from tomorrow, Anna Hazare today issued a new threat of a 'jail bharo' agitation if the government does not concede to their demands in three-four days.Hazare's video message came a day ahead of his Team's fast from tomorrow in Jantar Mantar demanding setting up of a Special Investigation Team...

ISLAMABAD: External Affairs Minister S M Krishna will undertake a three-day visit to Pakistan from September 7 to review the second round of the bilateral dialogue process with his counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar.Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal met Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani yesterday and informed him about the dates for Krishna's visit, diplomatic sources told PTI.The dates...

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray today said one should not read too much into his visit to ailing cousin and Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray at Lilavati Hospital."These are two different issues. There is no need to look at it through the political lens," Raj told reporters when asked whether any political truce was expected with...

NEW DELHI: Stepping in to conserve the big cat, the Supreme Court today directed that there shall be no tourism activity in any of the core zones of tiger reserves across the country.A bench of justices Swatanter Kumar and Ibrahim Kalifulla also warned of contempt proceedings and imposition of exemplary costs on states which failed to notify the buffer...

WASHINGTON: Cricket might sound and look like Greek to the Americans, but they are in full support of the cricket diplomacy between arch rivals India and Pakistan."We're for cricket. We don't understand it, but we like it," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said replying to a query on resumption of cricket ties between India and Pakistan.The United States shares...

NEW DELHI: Pranab Mukherjee will be sworn in as the country's 13th President on Wednesday at a special ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament.Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia will administer the oath to Mukherjee at 11:30 a.m. in the presence of Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, UPA chairperson...

KANPUR: Captain Lakshmi Sehgal, who was part of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army, died here today following a brief illness.Sehgal (97) breathed her last at a private hospital at 11.20 AM, her daughter and noted CPI (M) leader Subhashini Ali said.Sehgal was admitted to the hospital on July 19 after she suffered a heart attack at her...

NEW DELHI: Agatha Sangma, who had campaigned for her father P A Sangma in the Presidential polls, today offered to quit as Minister of State for Rural Development.NCP sources said that Agatha met party Chief Sharad Pawar ahead of a meeting of the party leaders and expressed her readiness to quit the Government.The talk in party circles was that...