Describing upcoming parliamentary polls as the 'mother of all elections', Pervez Musharraf warned that there would be 'zero tolerance' for any protests during and after the exercise. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:34 pm
Thousands of screenwriters returned to work after a 14-week strike that devastated film and TV production schedules and idled some 50,000 workers in the entertainment industry. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:30 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government modestly raised retail prices of auto fuels on Thursday for the first time in 20 months, sending shares of state-run oil retailers surging but dashing hopes of an early cut in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
A Canadian businessman, claiming to be the secret love child of former American President John F Kennedy, has called on the family to provide a DNA sample for testing to prove it. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:37 am
Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamna' condemned MNS for the death of a 'Maharashtrian' in Nashik in the violence that flared up after the arrest of Raj Thackeray. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:23 am
A special court awarded life imprisonment to RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, former MLA Rajan Tiwari and another person in the sensational Ajit Sarkar murder case. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:20 am
A man allegedly chopped off the private part of a youth for raping his wife in Chata Kotwali area in the district. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:08 am
The suspension of all members of the opposition Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) in the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly was revoked just hours after they were sent out of the house Thursday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The police recovered mobile phones, CDs and pornographic material from Meerut jail when they were called to intervene between two groups of clashing inmates, a police official said here Thursday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Mumbai Feb 14 (IANS) Chennai-based pharmaceutical major Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd (OCPL), Thursday announced that US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has approved sale of its non-antibiotic, anti-emetic granisetron hydrochloride tablets in that country. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The Indian cricket team will have a new physiotherapist before the home series against South Africa starting next month. This follows the resignation of Australian John Gloster, who put in his papers citing personal reasons, the Indian Cricket Board said Thursday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The West Bengal government is moving court against the unauthorised hotels and resorts that have come up on the sea beach at Mandarmani in violation of Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
A youth in Orissa has broken at least 185 beer bottles on his head and about 100 tube lights on his body in an attempt to create a new world record. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
India's cricket board will try to get support from other friendly countries at next week's chief executives' meeting in a bid to completely stamp out sledging from the sport, a top official said Thursday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
From visiting cancer patients and holding special movie screenings to flirting and sipping wine, Bollywood stars had various interesting plans for Valentine's Day celebrations. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
A subsidiary of engineering construction firm Punj Lloyd Ltd, Sembawang Engineers and Constructors Ltd (SE&C), has bagged a contract to set up a resort in Singapore from Asia's leading resorts developer Las Vegas Sands Corp's affiliate Marina Bay Sands Ltd. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi will arrive here on Thursday evening on a two-day visit to the state. Source: Zee News : States | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
A two-member team of the Food
and Agriculture Organisation (fao) of United Nations
Organisation on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the control and
containment of bird flu in West Bengal`s Nadia district. Source: Zee News : States | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Terming as `unacceptable` the
report which showed lesser number of tigers in Orissa, the
state government on Wednesday said the actual number was much higher. Source: Zee News : States | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Mock terror and chemical attacks were carried out simultaneously at various stations of Delhi Metro early morning on Thursday to check emergency response of various agencies involved in disaster management. Source: Zee News : States | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
Union Minister P R Dasmunsi, who
was today appointed as chief of West Bengal unit of Congress,
indicated he would like to continue in the government at the
centre. Source: Zee News : States | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
A month after the Central
Information Commission`s direction to trace out records
relating to the drafting of Atal Bihari Vajpayee`s
Independence Day speech in 2002, the Prime Minister`s Office
has expressed inability to locate them. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
Prime Minster Dr Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS), 2008 here on Thursday. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
The two-day concluding public hearing into the 1985 Air-India bombing that killed 329 people begins on Thursday. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
He might have been a leading light of communism in the world, but Indians know less about Vladimir Lenin than Russian President Vladimir Putin. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
A special CBI court in Patna will on Thursday pronounce its final verdict in the CPI-M MLA Ajit Sarkar murder case, in which controversial RJD Lok Sabha member Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav is a prime suspect. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:57 am
Controversial RJD Lok Sabha member from Madhepura Pappu Yadav on Thursday broke down as the Special CBI Judge B M Srivastava sentenced him to life imprisonment. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:46 am
India has emerged as one of the major sources for cut flower imports into the UK, according to the flowers and plants industry here. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:44 am
Left parties today called for nationwide agitation against the decision to hike petrol and diesel prices, saying their suggestions to cut excise and customs duties to minimise burden on the people had Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:42 am
PPP's Zardari has become a staple of comedy TV shows since he started sending out feelers on his intentions of becoming the country's next prime minister. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:42 am
Left parties said their suggestions to cut excise and customs duties to minimise burden on the people had been "completely ignored". Source: Daily News & Analysis | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:39 am
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - The main airport in Indian Kashmir will open for first time to international traffic this summer as part of an effort to boost the Himalayan region's ailing tourism industry, the state's chief minister said.
The Sensex opened with a huge positive gap of over 300 points at 17,265, which also turned out to be the low for the day.Sustained buying in heavyweights like L&T, Reliance and ICICI Bank Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:30 am
The Union Cabinet today approved the implementation of the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission that calls for re-drawing legislative and parliamentary constituencies. The government is to Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:30 am
The government today hiked the price of petrol by Rs 2 per litre and diesel by Re 1 per litre from midnight tonight to curb losses of public sector oil companies.The decision will Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:10 am
The Sensex opened with a huge positive gap of over 300 points at 17,265, which turned out to be the low for the day.Sustained buying in heavyweights like L&T, Reliance and ICICI Bank saw Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 10:02 am
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians seeking love on Valentine's Day speed-dated in deckchairs on Bondi Beach, while Japanese trekked through snow in search of romance and Filipinos sang syrupy ballards.
The Sensex has gained over 800 points at 17,754.BHEL has zoomed over 12% to Rs 2,225. L&T has added over 7% at Rs 3,508. NTPC is also up 7% at Rs 202. REL has gained 10% at Rs 1,712 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:50 am
Sun Pharmaceuticals has obtained tentative approval from the USFDA for its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for Divalproex Sodium delayed release tablets, the generic version of Abbott's Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:48 am
Larsen & Toubro (L&T), India's largest engineering and construction conglomerate, has secured an order worth about Rs 311 crore ($78.8 million and QR 287 million) from the Qatar General Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:46 am
The Sensex has moved up nearly 750 points to 17,698.BHEL has zoomed over 11% to Rs 2,200. L&T has added 5.5% at Rs 3,462. NTPC is now up 6% at Rs 199. REL has advanced 9% to Rs 1,695 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:38 am
Tata Industries, a Tata Group company, and the Boeing Company, the world's largest aerospace and defence conglomerate, have agreed to float a joint-venture company to execute orders worth more than Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Feb 2008 | 9:32 am
SYDNEY (Reuters) - International cricket is in danger of losing its top players to India's lucrative Twenty20 competitions unless their countries agreed to let them play, Australia captain Ricky Ponting said.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's failure to agree a biodiesel policy has forced firms to shelve expansions plans, putting it way behind energy-hungry rivals like China in the drive to greener fuels, a top industry representative said.
Yahoo! India, the Indian subsidiary of the global search engine and news portal Yahoo! Inc., has sacked 45 employees across various levels for their poor performance. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 5:32 am
LAHORE (Reuters) - Security fears may have kept Pakistani politicians off the streets, but their faces can be seen every way one turns in the city of Lahore.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Police arrested Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Wednesday for inciting violence after his party's workers attacked north Indians who migrated to the city.
Mohit Ahlawat has opted out of director A.R. Murugadoss' 'Gajini' and, contrary to rumours, Aamir Khan, who plays main lead, isn't responsible. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 3:30 am
Melbourne: In a watershed event in Australian history, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Wednesday apologised to the country's 4.7 lakh-strong Aborigines for past injustices against them, saying he wanted to remove a "great stain from the nation's ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010; more than half of these among poor and illiterate people Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
MUMBAI: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex snapped a five-day falling streak on Wednesday by gaining 341 points, with funds resorting to buying on firm global cues. The 30-share Sensex, which was on a downward march for last ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The visiting Russian Prime Minister, Victor Zubkov, is learnt to have given a “sympathetic and positive” response to India’s plea for a major stake in the Sakhalin III and other major oil and gas projects in ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
BANGALORE: Lok Sabha members from Karnataka have outperformed their counterparts in the Rajya Sabha in the utilisation of funds sanctioned under the MP’s Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme. As on December 2007, 28 Lok Sabha ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Smoking is killing nearly a million people a year in India, exacting a higher toll than previously thought, but allied problems are often different to those seen in the West, according to research published on Thursday.
AIADMK leader J. Jayalalitha Wednesday said her party will return to power in Tamil Nadu and also rule India in future while the state's ruling DMK 'will be shattered to bits'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Feb 2008 | 6:30 pm
The allotment of 100 acres of land in Uttar Pradesh to the Sahara group and the construction carried out on it has been found to be 'illegal', a minister said Wednesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Feb 2008 | 6:30 pm
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Wednesday launched a major offensive against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and termed her government as a 'complete failure' on all fronts. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Feb 2008 | 6:30 pm
There was no place for Maoism and terrorism on college campuses in this country, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader L.K. Advani said here Wednesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Feb 2008 | 5:31 pm
Fear-stricken Nagma Bano of Bihar Wednesday gave birth to a child in a toilet of the train she was travelling on after being forced to leave Nashik in Maharashtra. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Feb 2008 | 5:31 pm
The Congress had taken the Left parties' support only to keep 'communal forces' out of power, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Wednesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Feb 2008 | 5:30 pm
Indian gas marketer GAIL India and Russian firm ITERA Oil and Gas Company LLC have come together to explore opportunities in key areas of hydrocarbon business in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, it was announced Wednesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Feb 2008 | 5:30 pm
The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the central government to consider appointing eminent scientists M.S. Swaminathan and P.M. Bhargava as special members of a technical panel that examines the pleas for allowing open-field trials of genetically modified foods and crops in India. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Feb 2008 | 5:30 pm
