India’s powerful national security adviser M.K. Narayanan has resigned in the wake of the devastating Islamic militant attacks in Mumbai. M.K. Narayanan handed in his resignation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh & that the premier accepted.
An aide to the prime minister said: “More senior members of the government are likely to be shown the door” [...]

Indian Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, who faced severe criticism over series of terror attacks in the country since 2007, accepted “moral responsibility” & sent his resignation to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today.
Finance minister P Chidambaram is going to take over as the new home minister & the finance portfolio is [...]

IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) has informed that it intends to build 650 examination centres across the country, including 15 in various jails, for its ensuing “term-end examination” commencing December1. IGNOU has also established 15 examination centres in jails for inmates who have enrolled to its various undergraduate courses.
Tihar Jail is one amid the [...]

Yes Bank Chairman Ashok Kapur was found dead in Mumbai’s Oberoi Hotel, which was under terrorists siege for several hours since late Wednesday evening. Body of Kapur, non-executive Chairman of the Bank, was found in the hotel where he had been staying.
Kapur was one of the promoters of the bank, along with his brother-in-law Rana [...]

Bollywood actor Ashish Chowdhury’s sister & brother-in-law were among the many hostages killed at the Oberoi Trident Hotel in Mumbai. The actor, who had been maintaining a tense vigil outside the hotel ever since he came to know about the terrorist attacks, broke down after hearing the news.
Ashish said, “My sister Monica & her husband [...]

Following are the emergency contact numbers in Mumbai.
1. Police hotline: 100
2. BMC Disaster Management Cell: 22694725
3. Blood Banks: 1910
4. Ambulance Services: 1298
5. Railway Any Emergency: 23004000
6. Airport Police Helpline: 28225709
7. Indian Red Cross Society for Blood bank: 22663560
8. Missing Persons Bureau: 22621547
9. Police Control Room Helpline: 22620111, 22151855
10. Mantralaya Nariman Point Helpline: 22024243
11. J J [...]

All terrorists holed up in hotel “Taj” have been killed. Police has rescued all hostages inside Nariman Hoyse. Around 70 People have been rescued from Hotel Oberoi. Pakistan has denied any role in the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar said that it had no role in the strikes and there should be [...]

The wife & the two teenaged sons of Taj Hotel’s General Manager Karambir Kang were killed in the terrorist attack in the hotel A relative of the Kangs family, which hails from Mohali, said while Karambir Kang was not in the hotel last night, his wife Neeti & sons Uday 14 years old & Samar [...]

Former Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh, who was the pioneer of the first non-Congress coalition government at the Centre & one of the major leaders of Mandal movement, passed away in New Delhi after a prolonged illness. VP Singh was suffering from blood cancer since 1991. He was also suffering from renal failure.
VP Singh was [...]

Vijay Salaskar, an encounter specialist, has been killed in Mumbai India’s deadly terrorist attack today. Salaskar now is added to the 70 dead & 200+ injured names of today’s Mumbai attacks. Salaskar was shot dead reportedly Wednesday at a location not yet determined. “Deccan Mujahideen” claims responsibility for the attacks. IPS Officer Ashok Marutirao Kamte [...]

At least 25 people have been injured in four shootouts & as many explosions at Colaba & Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) Station in southern part of the country’s financial capital late Wednesday night but there was no immediate report of casualties.
The shootouts took place at Colaba & CST while a grenade exploded at Mumbai [...]

Three eminent Sikh religious musicians were thrown out of a US Airways flight after the pilot refused to fly with them on board in California, a leading US-based Sikh group alleged on Wednesday. The three, Gulbag Singh, Davinder Singh & Iqbal Singh, had boarded the plane in Sacramento on November 15 after being cleared by [...]

The metrological department have sounded an alert in the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu as Cyclone “Nisha” is expected to hit between Nagapattan & Vedranyam coasts. As many as 3,500 people have been evacuated & moved to the safer place. The wind speed at the coastal areas was at 50km/hr. The alert was issued after [...]

India’s legendary goalkeeper Peter Thangaraj passed away in Bokaro Monday night following a heart-attack. He was 74 years old. Thangaraj, nicknamed “lamp post” during his playing days, was survived by his wife, a son & three daughters.
He belonged to the golden era of India football & was part of the team that won gold in [...]

A Delhi court has on Saturday allowed the plea of police seeking further interrogation of an alleged kingpin of an inter-state prostitution racket for nabbing & cracking the entire network. Metropolitan Magistrate Ravinder Singh sent Geeta Arora alias Sonu Punjaban to two days police remand, allowing the plea that her custodial interrogation was needed. The [...]

The Indian Rupee has on Friday touched a new low of 50.59 against the US Dollar. The fall was triggered by offloading by foreign funds & weakening international currencies against the US Dollar. The demand for dollars is very strong in the global market, but the supply is limited. That is the man reason why [...]

Veteran Tamil actor M N Nambiar passed away today following a brief illness. He was 92 years old. The actor was suffering from age-related ailments for the past four months & breathed his last at his residence in Chennai.
He was survived by wife, son & a daughter. Nambiar made his film debut in 1935 [...]

The Maruti Suzuki has launched Maruti A-Star (Alto) today. The company is aiming to sell about 50,000 units in the Indian market & a one Lakh units to be exported. It will be manufactured at its Manesar plant.
The new-generation 998-cc engine offers 67 BHP power & has been designed to meet future environment [...]

Around 800 doctors, including 500 specialists, will be recruited by the Haryana health department in the next one & a half months, the state’s health minister Kartar Devi said Friday. The minister has said that recruitment of 200 of these doctors was already in process & the remaining recruitments would also be done shortly.
Kartar [...]

Few Days after the murder of Arpana Jinaga an IT professional from Andhra Pradesh in the US, another Indian student was shot at on Sunday by unidentified persons in the southern American state of Tennessee. Pulluri Shashank, 22 years old, an MBA student at University of Middle Tennessee (MTSU), was shot at near his apartment [...]