Nine or 10 blasts target crowded areas within the Walled City; HuJI hand suspected; nationwide alert

Jaipur: It was a peculiar situation for doctors at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital — using the mobile phones of the dead to convey the unfortunate news to their kin. Of the 20 bodies brought to the hospital, the mobiles on three ...

An emotional speech moves MLAs to tears

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the phone and he expressed his shock over Tuesday’s blasts. Ms. Raje, who was away in Jodhpur during the day, reached the capital in the ...

Oil companies were hoping it would help partially offset their massive under-recoveries

Centre promises all help to Rajasthan in dealing with the extraordinary situation

Shukla chips in with three wickets as Daredevils fails to chase a modest target

Mumbai: The board-appointed Commissioner Sudhir Nanavati submitted a 14-page report on the slapping row involving Harbhajan Singh and S. Sreesanth to the BCCI on Tuesday, which will decide the fate of the India spinner in the next few days. ...

Chennai Super Kings to stick to its openers Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan and Stephen Fleming

Earthquake devastates small cities and towns

BEIJING: Rescuers are racing against time in the search for survivors on Tuesday, a day after a quake struck China’s south-western province of Sichuan. The death toll has surpassed 12,000. Premier Wen Jiabao, who flew to Sichuan on ...

BANGALORE: Anup Sridhar and Saina Nehwal will be the Indian contenders in the badminton event of the Olympics at Beijing. The two made the cut on the basis of being the top-ranked Indian players on the Badminton World Federation’s list. ...

JAIPUR: Doctors and paramedical staff in all emergency and intensive care wards at the Rajasthan government’s Sawai Man Singh Hospital here had their hands full trying to revive blood-spattered victims, many of them brought in a ...

Kathmandu: Nepal’s king Gyanendra has been asked by the Maoists to leave the Narayanhiti Palace before May 27. According to sources, Maoist Chairman Prachanda told reporters that a message had been sent to the king, asking him to ...

New Delhi: The United States has strongly condemned the “vicious act of terrorism” in Jaipur. “There can be no possible justification for the murderous attack on innocent people,” U.S. Ambassador to India David ...

It will help reduce their under-recoveries

LONDON: The international campaign in support of Binayak Sen, human rights activist languishing in Chhattisgarh for allegedly helping the banned Maoist rebel movement in the State, gained momentum on Tuesday with a protest outside the Indian ...

NEW DELHI: Human rights activists will launch a nationwide protest on Wednesday seeking immediate release of Binayak Sen. He has been in jail since last year for his alleged links with Maoists. Dr. Sen, a doctor by profession, has been ...

Pranab Mukherjee discusses possible joint production of sophisticated military hardware

Karachi: A Pakistani court on Tuesday acquitted PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in a case in which he was charged with smuggling artefacts and antiques into Britain. — ...

Coimbatore: If a student opts out of an institution immediately after admission, the institution is bound by law to return original certificates and also refund fee after deducting the processing fee. After the publication of plus ...

Candidature of Ramesh Rathod’s wife finalised

6,480 students secure A+ grade for all subjects

Lucknow: A vehicle that formed part of an UP Minister’s cavalcade rushing through a busy area of the city on Tuesday ran over a pedestrian killing him on the spot. ...

Islamabad: In a setback to Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, Pakistan’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday recommended that his capital punishment should not be commuted to life imprisonment. — ...

HYDERABAD: An Intermediate final year student of Narayana Junior College for girls in Kukatpally died of injuries after a fall from the fifth floor of her hostel building on Tuesday. According to police, K. Deepthi could have leapt to ...

NEW DELHI: Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has called a meeting of the heads of all Central educational institutions here for Wednesday to discuss their preparedness for implementing reservation for the Other Backward ...

Mission: to upgrade 2000-km range Agni II

BANGALORE: The government-owned Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology has come up with a healthcare offer aimed at catering to the needs of the working class. People who want to have a complete heart check-up can just walk into the ...

Notice issued to West Bengal government on special leave petitions