Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday charged the party with exploiting the Dalits and said her government was capable of changing its 'mindset' Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Jan 2008 | 11:16 am
The head of a three-member family here has 'confessed' to murdering 21 persons in parts of Maharashtra and Bangalore over the years. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Jan 2008 | 11:12 am
Established as one of the popular players on the women's tennis circuit, Sania goes up against Venus Williams in the third round on Saturday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Jan 2008 | 10:37 am
Leander Paes and his Hungarian partner Agnes Szavay moved into the second round of the mixed doubles even in the Australian Open here on Friday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Jan 2008 | 10:35 am
A 25-year-old Indian woman and her two children were killed in a mysterious fire at a motel owned by her husband in the US state of Florida. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Jan 2008 | 10:05 am
Two alleged gangsters were killed in a shootout with the city police in neighbouring Thane district on Friday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Jan 2008 | 10:01 am
Five persons had a narrow escape when the helicopter in which they were travelling overturned due to a technical snag at the Infosys helipad here on Friday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Jan 2008 | 9:59 am
Punjab government has apologised for allowing the sale of a country liquor named 'Rang de Basanti', which is also the name of a song associated with the country's freedom struggle. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Jan 2008 | 9:48 am
Chennai: Anil Kumble reached yet another landmark in the third Test at Perth on Thursday. The champion leg-spinner’s 600th Test wicket was achieved at a critical juncture for India on day two — he prised out Andrew Symonds ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
Mumbai: Pravin Mahajan, convicted of murdering his brother Pramod Mahajan, on Thursday filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court challenging the trial court’s order sentencing him to life.— PTI ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Even as 11,225 poultry birds were culled and 5,877 eggs and 1,218 kg of poultry feed destroyed on Thursday in the bird flu-affected districts of West Bengal, fresh cases of unusual mortality were reported from two blocks of ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: A meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on fuel prices on Thursday remained inconclusive. There were, however, indications that a hike was imminent. “The GoM will meet again in a day or two to debate the matter and ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
Thiruvananthapuram: Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said that Left extremist groups are attempting to create problems in Kerala after having realised that they can no more use the State as a safe haven. Speaking to journalists ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: A day after the online community raged over the attempts of toy corporations Hasbro and Mattel to remove the free online versions of their games Scrabble and Boggle from social networking site Facebook, creators and fans are finding ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani Thursday called for holding elections to the Karnataka legislative assembly at the earliest. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jan 2008 | 6:31 pm
The 1,000-km Ganga Expressway will be completed in four years, the Uttar Pradesh government said Thursday as it formally announced giving the contract for the Rs.400 billion project to JP Associates. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jan 2008 | 6:30 pm
The battle of wits over the issue of carving a state of Bundelkhand out of Uttar Pradesh took a turn Thursday when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi put the ball back in Chief Minister Mayawati's court. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jan 2008 | 6:30 pm
A five-member gang that last month killed two Bangalore women by smashing their heads as a 'sacrifice' to enable it find a hidden treasure has been arrested. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jan 2008 | 6:30 pm
IT training major NIIT Thursday inked a pact with global English skill testing body Educational Testing Service (ETS) to offer its TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) test exclusively in India. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jan 2008 | 4:32 pm
The cabinet Thursday decided to give permission to upgrade the Ambedkar International Airport at Nagpur into a world class aviation hub for passengers and cargo at a cost of Rs.26 billion ($650 million) with the status of a special economic zone. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jan 2008 | 4:32 pm
Exiled Bangladeshi novelist Taslima Nasreen Thursday again made an emotive plea to be allowed to return to Kolkata from her confinement at an undisclosed location in India, saying if she were refused she will lose faith in Indian secularism. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jan 2008 | 4:32 pm
Muslim organizations have demanded an apology from Godrej Group head Adi Godrej for hosting controversial author Salman Rushdie in Mumbai. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jan 2008 | 4:31 pm
New Delhi, Jan 17 : The West Bengal Government has been asked by the Centre to take stern measures at village level to curtail the spread of avian influenza in the other parts of the country. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jan 2008 | 10:00 am
Dharamshala, Jan 17 : A twenty-two year old Tibetan youth took a 500-kilometre journey on foot from New Delhi to Dharamshala demanding a free Tibet. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jan 2008 | 10:00 am
India is hopeful that Australia will take a positive view of uranium sales to India after the conclusion of a safeguards pact with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with Canberra indicating that it had not yet closed the issue. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jan 2008 | 10:00 am
Goa is again in the news for all the wrong reasons. The political crisis that has gripped the coastal state's seven-month-old Digambar Kamat government with the resignation of three ministers had been waiting to happen. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jan 2008 | 10:00 am
New Delhi, Jan 17 : A sword, said to be around 2,500 years old, has been discovered by Chinese archaeologists from an ancient tomb in the eastern province of Jiangxi. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jan 2008 | 10:00 am
New Delhi, Jan 17 : A Chinese farmer recently came across a giant glossy ganoderma, a rare type of fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine, known as the "elixir of life" in ancient times. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jan 2008 | 10:00 am
PERTH (Reuters) - India captured three quick wickets to rip through the Australian top-order after their own batting had collapsed on a dramatic start to the second day of the third test on Thursday. ... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jan 2008 | 9:50 am
The 26-year-old does not renounce his father, Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but in an interview, he said there is a better way to defend Islam than militancy. Source: Times of India |
Many years ago, when the nineties had just come upon us, a young man with an unusual bowling action but no passport was picked for India. Source: The Indian Express |
Namakkal (Tamil Nadu), Jan 18 (PTI) A schoolboy was arrested for shooting a
saleswoman at a sports store at Tiruchongode near here, police said here today.
Sixteen-year old Ranjith had visited the shop yesterday and asked Lokanayani
(53), to... Source: PTI News : Top News |
Kolkata, Jan 18 (PTI) Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today described
the bird flu outbreak in the state as "alarming", even as panic gripped Kolkata
following death of some birds in the city.
Amid reports of slow pace of culling... Source: PTI News : Top News |
After the Gorshkov mess, New Delhi has now pointed out material deficiencies in Moscow's upgrade of submarine INS Sindhuvijay. Source: Times of India |
The Congress government in Goa is making desperate efforts to stave off a crisis after four MLAs, including two NCP ministers, withdrew support on Wed Source: NDTV News |
Can Asia, or for that matter, the rest of the world, rest in peace if ideologies of religious extremism, exclusivism and global domination -- and these ideologies neither respect democracy nor tolerate secularism and plurality -- are allowed to grow in our midst? Source: rediff News |
PETA
chief Ingrid Newkirk and his two associates were arrested for blindfolding a
Mahatma Gandhi statue in Coimbatore, as part of a campaign against
Jallikattu. Source: Times of India |
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has asked the state governments not to use the word 'Dalit' in official documents, saying the term was "unconstitutional". Source: rediff News |
Mysore, Jan 18 (PTI) Five persons, including three directors of auto spare-part
manufacturer, Automotive Axle, had a narrow escape when the helicopter in which
they were travelling overturned due to a technical snag at the Infosys helipad
here... Source: PTI News : Top News |
One of the main missions of the key functionary of the banned LTTE, who was arrested along with seven Sri Lankan nationals in Chennai on Thursday, was to kidnap rival group member and Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) leader Varadaraja Perumal and his family next month. Source: rediff News |
The Calcutta High Court has rejected all writ petitions against the Singur land acquisition matter. The petition was filed claiming that the land in S Source: NDTV News |
The CIA director described Pakistan's role in the war on terror, saying "The United States has not had a better partner in the war on terrorism than the Pakistanis. The turmoil of the past few weeks has only deepened that cooperation," he said, adding the two countries now had 'even more clearly mutual and common interests'. Source: rediff News |
An elderly man was gored to death by an angry bull during the traditional jallikattu bullfighting event in Tamil Nadu's Theni district, reports Source: NDTV News |
Founder-director of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Ingrid Newkirk, and two functionaries were arrested on charges of blind-folding statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Park in Coimbatore as part its campaign against the nod given by Supreme Court for conducting Jallikattu. Source: rediff News |
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that four lakh birds will be culled in the affected districts and the process would be completed within seven days. Source: Times of India |
Twelve people are convicted and seven others acquitted by a Mumbai court in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case. The sentencing will take place on Monday. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
The young awardees comprise one of the most endearing sights of the Republic Day parade, mounted on gorgeously caparisoned elephants. In the 50th year of the awards, there are 22 recipients - 18 boys and 4 girls - of the awards, instituted by the Indian Council for Child Welfare. Four awards were selected posthumously. Source: rediff News |
Leander Paes and his Hungarian partner Agnes Szavay move into the second round of the mixed doubles. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
New Delhi, Jan 18 (PTI) The Supreme Court today stayed the death sentence
awarded to three AIADMK activists in the Dharmapuri bus burning case in which
three girl students of an Agricultural University were burnt alive in February
2000.
... Source: PTI News : Top News |
New Delhi, Jan 18 (PTI) For the 22 children chosen for this year's National
Bravery Awards, courage is a way of life.
Whether it is Babita (17) and Amarjeet (15), who saved several people from
drowning, or 13-year-old Congress Kanwar, who... Source: PTI News : Top News |
Despite Goa CM virtually throwing up his hands, coalition partner expresses confidence that the crisis-ridden government will survive. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
Last year, on October 10, the Delhi High Court had asked the CPWD to clear illegal structures that had come up in 55 bungalows... Source: The Indian Express |
The hunger strike is to protest against the indefinite detention of the five ethnic Indian activists under a draconian security law. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's journey into the drought-hit Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh has become the party's biggest hope of wooing back Dalit v Source: NDTV News |
After giving a target of 413, India made early roads in the Australian batting as Irfan Pathan removed their openers on Day 3 of the third Test. They need 348 to win. Source: Times of India |
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the death sentence awarded to three AIADMK activists in the Dharmapuri bus burning case, in which three girl studen Source: NDTV News |
NDTV presented awards to Indian heroes in a glittering function at Taj Palace, New Delhi. The function was attended by dignitaries, celebrities and ot Source: NDTV News |
The Calcutta High Court rejected all petitions challenging the acquisition of land at Singur for the Tata Motors' small car plant. Source: Times of India |
Kolkata, Jan 18 (PTI) Describing the outbreak of bird flu in West Bengal as
'alarming', the state government today said it has targeted culling of four
lakh poultry in the affected areas to check the disease.
"We will have to kill four lakh... Source: PTI News : Top News |
Expressing optimism that Goa government will survive, NCP leader Praful Patel said that the commitments made to party MLAs in Goa will have to be honoured. Source: Times of India |
Srinagar, Jan 18 (PTI) Surface and air links to the Kashmir valley continued
to be cut off from the rest of the country for the third day today as heavy
snowfall triggered landslides at Panthal and other areas.
No vehicles - either from... Source: PTI News : Top News |
The Sensex on Friday logged its biggest fall of 2008 as it tumbled 687 points on heavy selling by funds, triggered by weak global cues and rising inflation. Source: Times of India |
Pravin on Thursday filed an appeal before the high court challenging the lower court's order and the evidence on the basis of which he was convicted. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
A group of ministers is likely to meet on Saturday to seal a decision on raising prices and duty rationalisation. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
A five-day-long festival organised jointly by the Central Tibetan Administration and Prithiviraj, the Maharaja of Kutch, presently on in the city... Source: The Indian Express |
Beleaguered Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat is going to consult senior Congress leaders in an effort to save his government. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
Even as chances of an early commissioning of Maneri Bhali phase-II hydroelectric project appear bleak due to technical snags... Source: The Indian Express |
Coimbatore, Jan 18 (PTI) Founder-director of People for Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA), Ingrid Newkirk and two of its functionaries were arrested on
charges of blindfolding a statue of Mahatma Gandhi here, as part of its
campaign against... Source: PTI News : Top News |
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the MCD to provide proper streetlights in the Sainik Farm area following rising incidents of crime there. Source: The Indian Express |
Twelve people were convicted and seven acquitted by a Mumbai court on Friday in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case of Gujarat. The sentencing is on Monday. Source: rediff News |
A 38-year-old visually impaired teacher of a blind school in south Delhi's Sant Nagar has been arrested on charges of raping... Source: The Indian Express |
Intensifying her attack on the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday charged the party with exploiting the Dalits and said her government was capable of changing its "mindset". Source: rediff News |
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