State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL launched its mobile TV service on experimental basis on Friday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:19 pm
Cold conditions continued in
the national capital where the minimum temperature dipped
marginally on Friday. Source: Zee News : States | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
UPA chairperson President Sonia Gandhi will on Friday meet veteran leader K Karunakaran, who recently joined the Congress, at Thiruvananthapuram. Source: Zee News : States | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
Three Afghan nationals, who were
taken into custody by police for allegedly travelling with
fake passports, have been handed over to the crime detachment
wing. Source: Zee News : States | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
Criticising the fuel price hike as
"improper", AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa on Thursday asked the Centre
to withdraw its decision as it might lead to a cascading
effect on the prices of all commodities. Source: Zee News : States | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
A teenaged girl who was prevented from going out with her friend to celebrate Valentine's Day committed suicide by hanging herself at her house. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Old rivals Pakistan and India agreed on Friday to increase the number of flights and routes between their countries and allow more airlines to operate them, they said.
With the Australian tour of Pakistan hanging in balance, skipper Ricky Ponting has expressed his reservation over playing in the country. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:03 pm
An auto driver murdered his concubine by attacking her with a crowbar at Sembium in North Chennai in the wee hours of Friday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:51 am
Foreign exchange reserves declined $1.864 billion to $290.808 billion for the week ended February 8, according to data released by the RBI today.Foreign currency assets were down $1.858 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 11:45 am
Amid reports that he was facing life-ban from the PCB for breaching its code of conduct, Akhtar said he was hopeful of winning the Board's confidence back. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:43 am
The Sensex opened with a huge negative gap of 226 points at 17,541 on bearish cues from the US markets. The index soon slipped to a low of 17,445 - down 322 points from the previous close Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:37 am
More than 8,000 children participated in the planet's biggest hug on Valentine's Day here to set a Guinness world record, Spain's EFE news agency reported on Friday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:32 am
US-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Tata Advanced Systems to manufacture S-92 helicopter cabins in India.Sikorsky is a Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:30 am
Shell India will increase the capacity of its LNG regasification terminal at Hazira in Gujarat to 3.5 million tonne per annum from the current 2.50 million tonne per annum."The capacity will Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:22 am
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Thousands of cars and motorcycles queued up at the few petrol stations open in Nepal on Friday as a strike by an ethnic group demanding more autonomy in the southern plains disrupted supplies.
The Sensex opened with a huge negative gap of 226 points at 17,541 on bearish cues from the US markets. The index soon slipped to a low of 17,445 - down 322 points from the previous close Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:04 am
New Delhi, Feb 15 : Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today exuded confidence that the domestic economy will grow at 9 per cent this year and inflation can be contained at an acceptable level. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
The kidney transplant racket's Jammu connections were being probed Friday with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raiding the premises of alleged kingpin Amit Kumar's father-in-law. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
Delhi Police Friday registered a case against seven of its personnel and arrested one of them for allegedly accepting bribes in the kidney transplant scam headed by Amit Kumar, who was nabbed last week in Nepal. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
The rise in India's wholesale price index slowed slightly at 4.07 percent for the week ended Feb 2 against 4.11 percent in the preceding week, data released Friday showed. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
Nicholas Piramal India Ltd's (NPIL) recently de-merged independent wing NPIL Research and Development (NRDL) has signed a second agreement with the Indianapolis-headquartered pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly and Co, for developing a new drug. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
Indian screen superstar Shah Rukh Khan is spending an estimated Rs.1 billion for perhaps the costliest Bollywood movie to be made so far. The movie for children will be in the VFX medium, using computer-generated special effects. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 15 Feb 2008 | 10:00 am
By Mini Joseph Tejaswi Jerry Yang-led Yahoo plans to cut 1,000 jobs globally BANGALORE: Jerry Yang's "strategic work-force re-alignment" has started in India as well. Yahoo! India on Wednesday sacked ... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India is in the grips of a smoking epidemic that is likely to cause nearly a million deaths a year by 2010, more than half of them among poor and illiterate people, according to a st... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:46 am
Bangladesh's Election Commission had announced that it wanted to hold general election in the country, which were put off in Jan last year following imposition of a state emergency, by 2008 end. Th... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:35 am
The Sensex is now up 323 points at 18,090.The NSE Nifty is up 102 points at 5,305.Hindalco has zoomed nearly 7% to Rs 175. Tata Steel and Ranbaxy have soared 4.5% each to Rs 813 and Rs Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:34 am
An Assistant Sub-Inspector has been arrested in connection with the Gurgaon kidney racket, even as six other policemen are absconding, police said on Friday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:33 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India can sustain economic growth of 9 percent despite a possible global slowdown and keep inflation under control, the prime minister said on Friday, as data showed a marginal slowdown in wholesale price inflation.
A court here issued summons against real estate barons Ansal brothers besides four others for allegedly tampering with evidence in the Uphaar fire tragedy case. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:11 am
Shoaib Akhtar has been dropped from a domestic tournament in Pakistan on disciplinary grounds after being accused of having a negative influence on the dressing room. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:10 am
Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor has doubted that it could be a solution to prevent repeat of incidents like the recent racism row during Sydney Test. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:08 am
The Sensex is now up 296 points at 18,062.The NSE Nifty is up 95 points at 5,296.Hindalco has zoomed 6% to Rs 174. Bajaj Auto has soared 4.5% to Rs 2,170.Ranbaxy has rallied 4% Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 9:05 am
The Sensex is now up 235 points at 18,001.The NSE Nifty is up 76 points at 5,278.Hindalco has soared 5.7% to Rs 173. Bajaj Auto has surged 4.3% to Rs 2,165.Ranbaxy has rallied Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 8:36 am
NPIL Research & Development (NRDL) has signed a second new drug development agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to develop, and in certain regions commercialise, a select group of Eli Lilly's Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 8:35 am
Inflation based on the wholesale price index (WPI) declined to 4.07% for the week ended 2 February from 4.11% in the previous week.The inflation was at 6.58% in the corresponding week a year Source: Business Standard | News Now | 15 Feb 2008 | 8:14 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Australian Tom Moody has signed up to coach one of the franchises of the money-spinning Indian Premier League (IPL), a senior Indian cricket official said on Friday.
DEKALB, Ill. (Reuters) - A black-clad man fired into a lecture hall packed with students at an Illinois university on Thursday, killing five people and wounding 18 before shooting himself dead, police and college officials said.
Work on building the first phase of the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), the state's most ambitious project to date, is expected to start in June after the central government has given it special economic zone (SEZ) status. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 4:00 am
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Parliamentarian Rajesh Ranjan, also known as Pappu Yadav, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for ordering the killing of a rival politician in 1998, lawyers said.
PHOOLNAGAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Pakistani prime ministerial hopeful from a party loyal to President Pervez Musharraf says he is not against forming a coalition with either of the two main parties tipped to come top in next week's election.
A scion of the illustrious RK banner has returned to the roots. After 20 years of being a management honcho, Shammi Kapoor's son Mickey or Aditya Raj Kapoor is directing a Hindi film. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 15 Feb 2008 | 2:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education has revised the design of question papers in all the major subjects of Classes XII and X to assess Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in children that will focus on evaluating their ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: The Left parties and the BJP have condemned the rise in oil prices and threatened to launch protests. “We protest against this decision and will organise widespread protests against it. This hike was not necessary and ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Perth: Australia captain Ricky Ponting was hard pressed to hide his emotions while talking about Adam Gilchrst and ‘Gilly’s’ last international game at the WACA. Said Ponting: “He probably won’t like me ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
BANGKOK: The discovery of 84 spoon-billed sandpipers on a coastal stretch of Myanmar offers fresh hope for the birds. This comes only months after Russian researchers reported that numbers of the tiny birds — with their speckled ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Jammu: Sixtysix stranded passengers in the snow-hit areas were airlifted by the Indian Air Force choppers from the Udhampur airfield to Doda district following directions from the Jammu and Kashmir government, officials said. Chief ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
HYDERABAD: The new prices of petrol and diesel per litre after revision which will come into force from Friday onwards is as follows: Hyderabad: Petrol: Rs. 51.05 (Old: Rs. 48.79 -- Rs. 2.26 hike). Diesel: Rs. 34.94 (Old: Rs.33. 80 -- ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 15 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Ending uncertainty over controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen`s stay here, government tonight decided to extend her visa beyond February 17, with a caution that she remain "sensitive" to India`s traditions and not "hurt" its secular ethos. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
The CBI will get in touch with Canadian authorities to trace the money Amit Kumar, alleged kingpin of the multi-crore rupee kidney racket, is suspected to have kept in that country even as Enforcement Directorate stepped in to probe financial ramifications of the case. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
Contrary to the Indian Coast Guard`s earlier assertions that the Sethusamudram project posed a big threat to the country`s national security, Vasantha Karanna Goda, Vice Admiral, Sri Lankan Navy on Thursday said that there would be no threat to either India or the Island nation if the canal project becomes operational. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
A special CBI court in Patna on Thursday pronounced its much awaited verdict in which controversial RJD Lok Sabha member Rajeev Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav and MLA Rajan Tiwari were found guilty in the alleged murder of CPI-M MLA Ajit Sarkar. Special CBI judge B M Srivastava today awarded a life sentence to Pappu Yadav and two of his accomplices, Rajan Tiwari and Anil Yadav, for hatching a conspiracy to eliminate the CPI-M leader. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
Demanding immediate withdrawal of the hike in petrol and diesel prices, CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta on Thursday said it was a "damn lie" that the left parties were consulted on the matter. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
The government on Thursday said the Indian Ocean Naval Initiative was not a military alliance, but a move to frame a cooperative maritime venture of the littoral states to tackle threats like terrorism at sea and environmental disasters. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
BJP today attacked the government for increasing the prices of petrol and diesel and announced a nationwide agitation against the hike, which it said will heap burden on the common man. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
Maharashtra has always put the country`s interests first and abided by the `Rashtra dharma` (national ethos), Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said, in an apparent indication that he is not pleased with his nephew Raj Thackeray`s campaign against north Indian migrants. "Shivaji Maharaj took help of Pathans who belonged to other religion and other country in his fight against Mughal invaders," he said in an editorial published on Wednesday in Sena mouthpiece Saamana. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
A six-day old strike by over 2,000
workers, including 1,400 Indians, at a Bahrain construction
firm was withdrawn on Thursday after the company management agreed
to a nearly 27 per cent hike in the salary. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a
proposal for approaching the UNESCAP to include two stretches
of roads connecting India with Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh
in the Asian Highway Network. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Feb 2008 | 11:43 pm
India's doubles specialist Mahesh Bhupathi Thursday said the country had a team promising enough to qualify for the World Group of Davis Cup tennis. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 6:03 pm
Two rival groups of gangsters clashed inside Meerut jail in Uttar Pradesh. Six inmates were critically injured. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 6:02 pm
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Thursday apologised for the death of a man in Nashik in violence that followed the leader's arrest Wednesday. But Thackeray denied any role of his supporters in the killing. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 6:02 pm
The Uttar Pradesh government Thursday banned a book on Rani Laxmibai, better known as Jhansi ki Rani, for allegedly objectionable content. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 6:01 pm
Power Finance Corp (PFC), a dedicated power sector financing institution, will raise $4 billion from the domestic market in 2008-09 to fund several power projects in the country. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 6:01 pm
Orissa registered a 6-1 win over West Bengal in Group B of the fourth junior boys national hockey championship here Thursday but eventually lost out to Mumbai that advanced from the group to the quarterfinals. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 6:00 pm
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistanis vote in an election on Monday that could bring about the downfall of President Pervez Musharraf if it returns a hostile parliament with a prime minister who wants to be his own man.
Guess what Rabri Devi wished her husband Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Valentine's Day - 'Hamari or Lalu-ji ki jodi bani rahe (I wish our married life continues happily)'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 4:02 pm
Venugopal N. Dhoot, president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) Thursday welcomed the government's decision to hike petrol and diesel prices by Rs.2 and Re.1 a litre. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Feb 2008 | 4:02 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government modestly raised retail prices of auto fuels on Thursday, the first increase in 20 months, sending shares of state oil retailers surging but dashing hopes of an early cut in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
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.
