A senior Jammu and Kashmir official has said that power supply and road connectivity in 80% areas of snow-bound Kashmir Valley has been restored. Source: Zee News : States | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
A Puducherry Sessions Court will today hear the Sankararaman murder case, in which Kanchi Sankaracharyas, Jayendra Saraswathi and his junior Vijayendra Saraswathi are the main accused. Source: Zee News : States | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
The minimum temperature in the national capital on Monday fell to 3.8 degrees Celsius, six notches below normal, even as the city experienced cold winds.
The minimum temperature yesterday was 5.5 degrees Celsius while the maximum was 19.8 degrees Celsius. Source: Zee News : States | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
Kerala`s ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) began its much discussed conference here Monday amid indications that the factional feud between groups led by Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan and state unit secretary Pinarayi Vijayan would dominate proceedings. Source: Zee News : States | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
Ways to enhance trade and economic relations will dominate the agenda of Prime Minister Victor A Zubkov`s visit here from Tuesday during which the two sides are expected to sign five agreements, including one in aviation sector. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:15 pm
People in different parts of the country are celebrating the spring festival of `Vasant Panchami` with great enthusiasm on Monday. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:15 pm
The national human right
commission has issued a notice to the Gujarat government in
connection with the alleged rape of a girl student by six
teachers in Patan district of the state. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:15 pm
India-US relationship is going to be stronger in the coming years and in 10-20 years it will become the most important relationship America has, US envoy David Mulford has said. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:15 pm
The demand for separate hardship
and counter-insurgency allowances to para-military personnel
will come up for fresh scrutiny at a meeting to be held on Monday at New Delhi. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:15 pm
IFCI has decided to offer voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) to employees.IFCI is planning to reduce manpower, mostly non-professionals, from around 470 to about 150 to suit business Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 11:51 am
Kingfisher Airlines will operate its first international flight between Bangalore and San Francisco in August this year followed by Bangalore-New York and Mumbai-London flights during the same month. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 11:50 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Shares in India's Reliance Power sank as much as 21 percent in a chaotic debut on Monday as valuation concerns and global market turmoil dented investor demand following its $3 billion IPO, the country's largest.
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Indian shares dropped 4.78 percent on Monday to their lowest level in nearly three weeks, as investors fretted about the health of the global economy and a feeble debut by Reliance Power roiled sentiment.
ALLAHABAD, India (Reuters) - The embalmed body of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian mystic and Beatles' guru who helped bring transcendental meditation to the West, was cremated on Monday on a huge pyre of sandalwood by India's holiest river.
Reliance Power, a subsidairy of Reliance Energy, was listed at Rs 548 - a premium of 21.7% to its issue price of Rs 450 - on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).The stock hit a high of Rs 600 and Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:53 am
Steel major ArcelorMittal today said it has got provisional approval from the Orissa government to acquire 7,750 acre to set up a 12 million tonne steel plant, a township and a power plant in the Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:45 am
The Sensex opened 38 points lower at 17,427, and slipped deeper into red as the day progressed. Heavy selling in mid-noon trades saw the index plunge to a low of 16,458 - down 1,007 points from the Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:33 am
Six C-130 Hercules, America's latest military aircraft and fighter planes, will soon join the fleet of Indian Air Force (IAF) planes. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:32 am
State Bank of India (SBI) today reduced its benchmark prime lending rate (PLR) by 25bps to 12.5%.The new lending rates would be effective February 16.Interestingly, the bank's move Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:30 am
SBI said it will revise its benchmark prime lending rate, State Bank Advance Rate, by 25 basis points from 12.75 per cent per annum to 12.50 per cent per annum. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:18 am
The Sensex opened 38 points lower at 17,427, and slipped deeper into red as the day progressed. Heavy selling in mid-noon trades saw the index plunge to a low of 16,458 - down .. points from the Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:03 am
Australian fast bowler Stuart Clark admitted that the current Indian team is going through a golden patch and asserted that his side is 'still the best'. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Seventy-five percent of Pakistanis want President Pervez Musharraf to quit, according to a survey released by the U.S.-based International Republican Institute on Monday.
Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) is likely to cut lending rate by 25 basis points for select consumer loans.S A Bhat, chairman, IOB, said the asset liability committee of the bank will take a call Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 9:40 am
Despite India's move to introduce minimum wages for expatriates, more than 69 per cent of the Indian workers are planning to quit their jobs this year. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 9:37 am
AIADMK General Secretary demanded imposition of President rule to 'save the state' in the wake of naxalites looting arms from a police station in Dharmapuri. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 9:35 am
The Sensex is now down 620 points at 16,844.The NSE Nifty is down 199 points at 4,921.Reliance Energy has slumped over 12% to Rs 1,725. ONGC has plunged over 6% to Rs 935 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 9:30 am
ALLAHABAD, India (Reuters) - As dawn broke over the Ganges, India's holiest river, priests made offerings, locals brushed their teeth and men lathered themselves with soap -- while Westerners snapped photographs.
Sourav Ganguly said that it was 'disappointing' when his one-day record is only next best after Sachin Tendulkar, but he had 'accepted' the selectors' decision. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 9:19 am
The Sensex is now down 615 points at 16,849.The NSE Nifty is down 188 points at 4,933.Reliance Energy has slumped 14% to Rs 1,692. HDFC and ONGC has plunged around 6% each to Rs 2,620 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Feb 2008 | 9:05 am
The melting US economy and the appreciating rupee is in no way stopping the growth of the Indian IT industry poised to a 33 per cent growth in fiscal 2008. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 9:01 am
Mahela Jayawardene said Australia's reign in World Cricket is over and claimed that India's five wicket win against the hosts at MCG has opened up the tri-series competition. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 8:59 am
Police arrested four persons in two different cases for possessing weapons illegally. Police said in the wee hours, two motorcycle-borne riders were stopped on suspicion at Dahisar. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 8:51 am
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Police in Indian Kashmir detained dozens of demonstrators on Monday who were demanding the remains of a separatist leader hanged and buried in an Indian jail over two decades ago, police said.
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Chairman Shekhar Dutt on Monday said that it is a special day of listing of initial public offering (IPO) of Reliance Power. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Feb 2008 | 8:22 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India does not contribute to global imbalances and the country has an important stake in the normalisation of global financial markets, the head of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Monday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British pop singer Amy Winehouse, whose rapid decline into an abyss of drug abuse shocked fans last year, won five Grammy Awards on Sunday after taking a break from rehab to perform at the show from London.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh spinner Mohammad Rafique is considering an offer from Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan to play in his Indian Premier League (IPL) team when the inaugural Twenty20 competition begins in April.
Maharashtra, which accounts for 10 percent of the country's poultry industry, has taken a number of steps to prevent the outbreak of the bird flu that has wreaked havoc in West Bengal. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 Feb 2008 | 6:00 am
Kerala's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) began its much discussed conference here Monday amid indications that the factional feud between groups led by Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan and state unit secretary Pinarayi Vijayan would dominate proceedings. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 Feb 2008 | 6:00 am
"Pravesh has always been star material, " says Rahul Mittra, close friend & CEO Brandsmith who has worked very actively with Pravesh right from the time Pravesh stepped into the entertainment & communication industry. "Pravesh was a rage in all our events & campaigns like the Samsung 10 year celebrations, The First Bike Drive, IBM Daksh annual day, Delhi Police Week, etc & has always been our first choice. We would be now looking at top corporate brand endorsements with Pravesh, " says an elated Rahul Mittra. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 Feb 2008 | 5:33 am
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal has named an airport in the remote Everest region after pioneering climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953.
This quiet Uttar Pradesh town at the confluence of the holy Ganges, the historic Yamuna and the mythological Saraswati is suddenly hot on the global map as thousands of devotees from across 100 countries have gathered here to see the place from where Maharishi Mahesh Yogi began his journey as a physics student to become a world famous spiritual leader. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 Feb 2008 | 4:31 am
An experimental filmmaker at heart, Ashutosh Gowariker in his latest film 'Jodhaa Akbar' experiments with the romantic genre. Touching new levels of lavishness and grandeur, the magnum opus releasing Friday has a dream cast - Hrithik Roshan as Akbar and Aishwarya Rai as Jodha. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 Feb 2008 | 2:30 am
Katrina Kaif is extremely angry with some media reports that she was manhandled and slapped by boyfriend Salman Khan in public at a coffee shop in Mumbai. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 Feb 2008 | 2:30 am
Smriti Irani and her mentor Ekta Kapoor have patched up and Ekta says she wants her most popular 'bahu' to come back to Balaji Telefilms. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 Feb 2008 | 2:30 am
BANGALORE: Karnataka’s Director-General of Police (Corps of Detectives) Ajai Kumar Singh on Sunday said the 2005 terrorist attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here was masterminded and executed by Abu Hamza, a Pakistan ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov supports broader cooperation between his country and India in oil and gas. “We see no obstacles to Indian business joining new projects in this sphere,” Mr. Zubkov said in an ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
VIJAYAWADA: Levelling charges of corruption against the city police, member of the National Commission for Women Nirmala Venkatesh on Sunday asserted that the inordinate delay in bringing the culprits in the murder of Ayesha Meera to book was ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
MUMBAI: Fearing that cousin Raj Thackeray would hijack his party’s agenda by taking an anti-north Indian stand on the question of the rights of the local Marathi “manoos” (men), Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Melbourne: Ricky Ponting called Ishant Sharma a dangerous customer to face with the angles he manages to create. The Aussie skipper explained here on Sunday, “He brings the ball into the right handers more than most right-arm ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Amit Kumar, the alleged mastermind behind the kidney transplant racket, was on Sunday produced before a Chief Metropolitan Magistrate here who remanded him to CBI custody for 12 days for interrogation in connection with the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
SAMBLA (HARYANA): Distressed farmers were forced to sell their body-parts for survival which led to the kidney scam, United National Progressive Alliance leaders said at a rally here on Sunday. “UPA rule has rendered farmers helpless in ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Teenager Ashwin Sundar yet again underlined his versatility with three podium finishes in two classes as the first round of the JK Tyre National Racing championship kick-started the 2008 motor sports season here Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Feb 2008 | 6:00 pm
The West Bengal government Sunday ordered a judicial probe into the police firing in a northern town that left five Forward Bloc supporters and a cop dead last week. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Feb 2008 | 5:00 pm
Thousands of followers and admirers of the icon of transcendental meditation swarmed Sunday at the Maharishi Ved Vidyapeeth here to pay their homage to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who died at his spiritual headquarters in the Netherlands last week. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Feb 2008 | 4:30 pm
SRINAGAR, India - Indian forces killed a top commander of the largest Kashmiri separatist group in a gunbattle in the restive Himalayan region, police said Sunday. Farooq Ahmed Dar, the financial... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:24 am
Hot on the heels of Tata's people's car and the people's laptop, comes the people's phone. The $20 (roughly £10) product will be unveiled tomorrow at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress &ndas... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:14 am
New Delhi/Mumbai, Feb 10 : Northern India continues to shiver under intense cold wave conditions as several regions reeled under extremely low temperatures. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Lahore, Feb.10 : Caretaker Prime Minister Muhammadmian Soomro has said that there is a need for opening more trade routes with India to facilitate the export of cement and other products. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The Tamil Nadu Police have been put on high alert following several narcotics seizures, the latest being that of poppy seeds worth over Rs.30 million at the Chennai Port. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Power outages like the one that shut runway lights at the Indira Gandhi International airport Friday may continue till it gets electric supply directly from the main grid, an airport official said Sunday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
About 1,000 new HIV positive cases have been detected in Jharkhand in 2007, taking the total number in the state to nearly 2,900, an official has said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin made a remarkable comeback to down India's Rohan Bopanna in a marathon five-setter and take the tie to the deciding singles rubber in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I tennis here Sunday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Fifty-four-year-old 'supreme star' R. Sarat formally inaugurated the first conference of his political party near this temple town in Tamil Nadu Sunday in the company of his actor wife Radhika to the accompaniment of frenzied applause and traditional south Indian music. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
DECISION DUE: India is expected to announce a minimum wage level for unskilled labourers in the UAE by February 15. (Getty Images) India will announce a minimum wage for its unskilled labourers wor... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Feb 2008 | 10:59 am
