British Prime Minister David Cameron will be arriving in Bengaluru on Tuesday on a two-day visit.

Congress workers kick-started their Bellary yatra on Sunday amid the sounds of bugles, beating of drums and bursting of crackers.

While the Army and Railways worked overtime, pulling the injured and the dead out of the Sainthia train accident in West Bengal where over 60 people may have lost their lives on Monday, the South Western Railways has quietly buried three major train derailments in the last two weeks, the latest being on Sunday near Shimoga.

Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, whose criticism of external affairs minister S.M. Krishna at the conclusion of their two-hour-long talks in Islamabad drew flak, has reportedly called and all but apologised to his Indian counterpart for any perceived insults thrown at him while he was on Pakistani soil.

The Karnataka Assembly on Thursday passed six bills amidst slogan shouting and tearing of copies of bills and other legislative papers by the protesting Congress and Janata Dal-Secular legislators who have been stationed inside the assembly premises for the fourth day demanding a CBI probe into illegal mining.

Pandemonium broke out in the Karnataka Assembly on Wednesday after the Opposition raised the issue of alleged illegal mining scam leading to adjournment of the House for the day.

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, yesterday’s child prodigy, is all grown up! At 22, he will join the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology at Powai in Mumbai next week.
Taking up this assignment ends the confusion in the young professor’s mind on whether to set up a computer lab at home in Patna or to migrate to Waterloo University in C

Buoyed by a string of successful launches of foreign satellites, Indian space scientists plan to tap the emerging market in Africa in order to secure commercial contracts for manufacture and launch of satellites.

A malfunctioning turbo pump in the indigenous cryogenic engine has been identified as the rogue component which sent the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D3) into the Bay of Bengal soon after lift off on April 15, 2010.

Indian space scientists are trying to fix a power glitch which forced a shutdown of half the transponders onboard INSAT-4B satellite, disrupting telecasts by 50 television channels and telecommunication services of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) since Thursday.