Saudi Arabia will lift the ban on women drivers in an attempt to stem a rising suffragette-style movement in the deeply conservative Islamic state. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jan 2008 | 11:36 am
Cricketing greats from the C'wealth nations such as Sachin Tendulkar should be considered for traditional British honours like the knighthood, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jan 2008 | 11:26 am
Taking a major step forward in their strategic partnership, India and France are expected to unveil a framework agreement for civil nuclear cooperation. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jan 2008 | 11:22 am
Force India has now set about the task of unearthing homegrown Michael Schumachers and Lewis Hamiltons with a new driver programme. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jan 2008 | 10:51 am
Australia's cricketers have dismissed suggestions they are in danger of losing their place as the world's best team after their shock loss to India last week. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jan 2008 | 10:50 am
At least 44 Tamil Tigers and two soldiers were killed in fierce clashes between the rebels and security forces in the embattled northern Sri Lanka. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jan 2008 | 10:43 am
The Indian Olympic dream is all set to get a 3.6 million pound boost with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown launching a sports initiative in the country in partnership with UNICEF. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jan 2008 | 10:41 am
President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any possibility of rigging in the upcoming general elections and said his government has made 'fool-proof' arrangements. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jan 2008 | 10:39 am
Poor global cues continued to impact Asian markets and Indian bourses were not spared the meltdown Monday. A benchmark index lost nearly 3 percent in early trade. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 21 Jan 2008 | 9:00 am
Pune/At least 38 people were killed and 41 injured when a bus carrying them from Nashik to Mumbai in Maharashtra fell into a gorge, police officials said Monday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 21 Jan 2008 | 9:00 am
Satyam Computer Services Ltd Monday announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bridge Strategy Group, a Chicago-based management consulting firm, for $35 million. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 21 Jan 2008 | 9:00 am
A 23-yr-old man has been arrested for killing his 15-year-old sister by setting her on fire in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari district, police officials said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 21 Jan 2008 | 9:00 am
Beating estimates, Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India's fourth largest IT services provider, posted 29 percent rise in profit during the quarter ended December 2007. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 21 Jan 2008 | 9:00 am
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Monday praised India's Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath for being a 'best-selling author and a successful trade minister'. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 21 Jan 2008 | 9:00 am
People here awoke to a bone-chilling morning Monday with the city recording the coldest night of the season, as the mercury plummeted to minus 2.2 degrees Celsius. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 21 Jan 2008 | 9:00 am
Laxmi Niwas Mittal, the president and chief executive officer of ArcelorMittal, the largest steel company in the world, wants to set up a base of engineers in the eastern metropolis. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 21 Jan 2008 | 9:00 am
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prefers to look the other way as fringe elements among the Hindu rightwing have increasingly targeted media. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jan 2008 | 5:00 am
Chriselle Almeida, who plays a lesbian in the film 'When Kiran met Karen', is not fazed by the possibility of her role eliciting shock and anger from the Indian audience. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jan 2008 | 4:02 am
Actor-politician Govinda became Bollywood's angry young man for a moment when he slapped an intruder on the sets of a movie last week. The incident made headlines and drew sharp reactions from film personalities. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jan 2008 | 4:01 am
Gamariah (Jharkhand): Abhijeet Mahato, an engineering student doing research in a college in the U.S., was found shot dead at an apartment complex in North Carolina on Friday, his grandfather and former Jharkhand MLA, Dhananjoy Mahato, said ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 21 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
Coimbatore: The Airport Authority of India (AAI) has embarked on a plan to expand the airport infrastructure. Talking to The Hindu , Airport Director K. Hemalatha said that the Coimbatore Airport had 25 aircraft ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 21 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: The Centre on Sunday ruled out setting up of the 2nd State Reorganisation Commission (SRC) to consider demands for separate statehood. — PTI Page 12 ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 21 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
Ranchi: The Congress on Sunday said it was not happy with the report submitted by Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda on his government’s performance, but would talk to other UPA allies before taking the final decision on its ultimatum ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 21 Jan 2008 | 12:00 am
Arguing that the communal card cannot help win elections, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Sunday said the state assembly elections last month were won on the basis of good governance and positive thinking. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Jan 2008 | 7:00 pm
London-based steel baron L.N. Mittal Sunday evening called on West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and discussed investment proposals in the state that is now witnessing an industrial resurgence. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Jan 2008 | 5:00 pm
Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh Sunday said he was prepared to face any action by the state government as an inquiry was launched into an alleged land scam involving him. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Jan 2008 | 5:00 pm
When visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked a group of Indian girls their ambitions, he must have been taken aback by the answer of a slight-looking schoolgirl. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Jan 2008 | 4:01 pm
Widespread resentment swept through cricket fans over Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and in-form V.V.S. Laxman being dropped from India's squad for the triangular one-day series with Australia and Sri Lanka in Australia. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Jan 2008 | 4:00 pm
Unveiling plans for institutionalising a third alternative from a common policy platform, the CPM today called the BJP its "No. 1 enemy... Source: The Indian Express |
MAI would identify the budding drivers who can make it big, Force India would do everything else to groom them for the big league of Formula One. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
Can Sachin Tendulkar join the honoured rank of Sir Don Bradman? If British PM Gordon Brown has his way, he would recommend the little master for a knighthood. Source: Times of India |
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown does not specify any country in the context of failing states but it is seen as veiled reference to Pakistan. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
At least 37 people, including four children, are feared killed, and about 36 others injured when a bus carrying devotees returning from the Saptshring Source: NDTV News |
Britain PM Gordon Brown feels that cricketing greats from the Commonwealth nations such as Sachin Tendulkar should be considered for traditional British honours like the knighthood. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
Sensex saw the biggest absolute fall in history by falling 2062 points intra-day. It closed at 17,605.35, down 1408.35 points or 7.4%. Source: Times of India |
Six years after the rape and assault, Bilkis Bano has asked the Gujarat government to reassure her and her family of security. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
Lights switch off forever in three homes: killed in police firing are a 19-year-old who wanted to be an engineer, a daily wager with 3 kids, unidentified youth. Source: The Indian Express |
There seems to be no stopping to the growing fan following of the 19-year-old son of slain Benazir Bhutto, who is being wooed and fawned over, not just in cyber world but in Karachi. Read on... Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
Journalists and employees of media houses in Gujarat are holding a protest rally in Ahmedabad to highlight recent attacks on the media. On Saturday, m Source: NDTV News |
A study reveals that 12 % of children going to government schools start taking additional paid coaching from Class 1, reports Navneet Sharma. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
The killing of Abhijeet Mahato (29), an Indian student in the US state of North Carolina, does not appear to be a case of gang violence, police said. Source: Times of India |
India's former grand slam champion Mahesh Bhupathi says he was approached to fix a result as far back as the mid 1990s. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI) The Supreme Court today declined to entertain a
petition seeking uniform rules for all the High Courts for dealing with the RTI
applications.
The court did not agree with the contention that different rules adopted by... Source: PTI News : Top News |
Three people have been hacked to death in ethnic clashes in Nairobi slums as Kenyan political crisis persists. Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'News' | 1 Jan 1970 | 12:00 am
Concerned over sound vibrations causing damage to the 10-century Khajuraho temple structures, the Madhya Pradesh government has approached the Airports Authority of India... Source: The Indian Express |
Tactical systems such as main battle tank Arjun, light combat aircraft Tejas, a family of radars, electronic warfare systems, sonars, torpedoes, armaments and missiles have been successfully developed in the country and many of them are being delivered to the armed forces. The recent success of the DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) in the launch of interceptor missile and Agni-III has taken our country into the elite club of a few developed nations. Source: rediff News |
Bilkis, who met journalists with her one-year-old child and husband in tow also lambasted Zaheera Sheikh, who turned hostile in a similar case, and dubbed her a 'betrayer of the Muslim community'. Source: rediff News |
There are reports of fresh cases of bird flu in West Bengal, with one more district being affected by the virus. In fact, poultry deaths have been rep Source: NDTV News |
Researchers in the United States have carried out a study and found that drinking even two cups of coffee everyday during pregnancy could double the risk of losing a baby for expectant mothers. Source: rediff News |
The killing of an Indian student in the US state of North Carolina does not appear to be a case of "gang violence", police said, as senior I Source: NDTV News |
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday described the plans by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to forge a third alternative as a "mirage". Source: rediff News |
Mohd. Haneef, the Indian doctor wrongly implicated in the failed UK car bombings, said Australian authorities might have targeted him because of his race and religion. Source: Times of India |
Cooperation in civilian nuclear energy, defence, climate change and economic linkages is high on agenda of talks between India and France during French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to India on January 25-26, informed sources said on Monday. Source: rediff News |
The saga of match-fixing in tennis took a fresh twist when India's former Grand Slam champion Mahesh Bhupathi said he was approached to fix a result in the mid 1990s. Source: Times of India |
Eleven persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a special court in Mumbai on Monday for their involvement in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape and murders that took place during the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002. Source: rediff News |
Bilkis, who was six-month pregnant, was gangraped during the communal riots that erupted in Gujarat after a coach of Sabarmati Express was set on fire in Feb 2002. Source: Times of India |
At least 25 people, including four children, are feared killed, and several injured when a bus carrying devotees fell into a gorge. Source: Times of India |
After the Tatas and the Jindals, it was the turn of London-based industrialist and the world's fifth richest man Lakshmi Niwas Mittal... Source: The Indian Express |
There is intense speculation about Carla Bruni not landing in Delhi as part of the presidential entourage but joining Sarkozy later in Agra. Source: Times of India |
India today said it was seeking details of the arrest of two of its nationals in Spain in connection with an alleged terror plot. Source: The Indian Express |
Three days after 12 people were found guilty in the Bilkis Bano case, the Mumbai Sessions Court sentenced 11 of them to life imprisonment. In an histo Source: NDTV News |
Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and V V S Laxman, part of the current Test series against Australia, were today left out by the selectors... Source: The Indian Express |
The country's farm sector will slip into a deeper morass as a result of rupee appreciation that is hurting exports of agricultural products... Source: The Indian Express |
Forty-four Tamil Tigers and two soldiers were killed in fierce clashes between the rebels and security forces in the embattled northern Sri Lanka, where fighting has intensified since the government pulled out of a six-year-old ceasefire pact with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam this month. Source: rediff News |
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any possibility of rigging in the upcoming general elections and said his government has made "fool-proof" arrangements to put Pakistan on the path to "true democracy". Source: rediff News |
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