Judges cannot do with merely dictating a portion of the judgement as such a practice would render the entire judgement invalid, the Supreme Court has said. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:24 pm
The CRPF late on Thursday night busted a suspected militant hideout near Bhaderwah Doda district of Jammu – at least 800 metres away from the location where UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi with Home Minister Shivraj Patil would be meeting the affected people on Friday. In what looks like a murder plot on the Congress chief, the CRPF recovered 4 kg RDX, 2 grenades and many detonators from a house near Tel Mata Mandir in Kannauj. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:24 pm
The Supreme Court on Friday refused a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition seeking a direction to the Election Commission to derecognise Raj Thackeray`s Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) for his controversial remarks against north Indians. The Court asked the petitioner to approach Bombay High Court. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:24 pm
Pradeep Sharma, the alleged killer of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar on Thursday claimed before a city court that the prosecution had allegedly changed crucial pieces of evidence, including a wire, recovered from the crime scene. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:24 pm
The alleged mastermind in a kidney transplant racket, Dr Amit Kumar, will appear before a Delhi court on Friday. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:24 pm
The Supreme Court will on Friday hear a petition seeking direction to the Election Commission to derecognise Raj Thackeray`s Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) for his controversial remarks against north Indians. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:24 pm
He said the whole thing has started only to checkmate Indian Cricket League (ICL), the rebel league promoted by Subhash Chandra-led Essel Group. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 11:42 am
Screening of Hritik Roshan-Aishwarya Rai starer 'Jodhaa-Akbar' was banned in Madhya Pradesh on Friday after demonstrations against it by the Rajput community at cinema theatres. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 11:40 am
Hero Honda Motors (HHML), the two-wheeler manufacturer, today signed on as a co-sponsor for the Indian Premier League (IPL), scheduled to start from April 16, 2008 onwards.Hero Honda becomes Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 11:09 am
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 219 points at 17,516 on weak cues from the overseas markets. The index displayed range-bound (17,400-17,500) movement for the major part of the trading Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 10:33 am
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters Life!) - Shahtoosh, the world's finest wool, is still being smuggled from Tibet to Kashmir, in defiance of a worldwide ban aimed at saving the highly endangered Tibetan antelope.
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 219 points at 17,516 on weak cues from the overseas markets. The index displayed range-bound (17,400-17,500) movement for the major part of the trading Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 10:03 am
The Sensex is now down 347 points at 17,388.The NSE Nifty is down 78 points at 5,114.Bajaj Auto, Satyam and HDFC Bank have plunged over 4% each to Rs 2,304, Rs 438 and Rs 1,478, Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
Inflation based on the wholesale price index (WPI) moved up to 4.35% for the week ended February 9 when compared with 4.07% in the previous week on higher food prices.Inflation was 6.52% in Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:37 am
The central government is likely to announce the new mining policy in the next two-three months - a move that is expected to pave the way for large-scale investment and job creation in the sector Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:30 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's opposition election winners were trying to forge a coalition on Friday, raising the prospect of a government intent on forcing U.S. ally President Pervez Musharraf from power.
The Sensex is now down 355 points at 17,379.The NSE Nifty is down 78 points at 5,114.Bajaj Auto has slumped 4.8% to Rs 2,296, and HDFC Bank has plunged 4% to Rs 1,481.Satyam Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:24 am
The Sensex is now down 313 points at 17,421.The NSE Nifty is down 68 points at 5,124.Bajaj Auto has slumped 4.6% to Rs 2,300, and HDFC Bank has plunged over 4% to Rs 1,480 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:07 am
Mumbai, Feb 22 : Warrior community protests against the Bollywood biopic 'Jodhaa Akbar', suggesting an Mughal-era romance between the Emperor Akbar and Rajasthani princess Jodhaa. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Lahore, Feb 22 : The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has invited the Indian cricket team for a three-match one-day international series next month in the event of Australia cancelling its team's tour to Pakistan over security concerns. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the world powers against a 'new game' in their nuclear dispute with his country, the Fars news agency reported Friday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Patients visiting Himachal Pradesh rural health centres may soon be able to consult both allopathic and ayurvedic doctors for treatment. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Mahendra K. Goenka, a man who lived in a rented flat in Howrah town in greater Kolkata area for the past 50 years, has won a contest that gives him an apartment in Eden City Mahestala, an upmarket project funded by foreign direct investment. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Software solutions provider i-flex Solutions Ltd has said that Japan-based Rakuten Inc and Tokyo Tomin Bank have successfully launched an online banking branch based on its Flexcube solution and the Vietnam-based FPT Bank will be installing this core banking solution this year. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Jyoti Basu Friday reiterated his desire to quit the party's politburo on grounds of ill health. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee is beginning a series of meetings with leaders of various political parties Friday in an exercise aimed at smooth functioning of the crucial budget session. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
A tiger was captured Friday by West Bengal forest department officials from a village outside the big cat's core habitat in the Sundarbans mangrove forest. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
India were drubbed 5-0 by Japan to finish runners-up in Group C of the Thomas Cup Asian Zone qualifiers on Thursday.India will now have a tough task to qualify for the World Group as they face Group A... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Feb 2008 | 8:46 am
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals today reported a consolidated net profit at Rs 547.55 crore and total income of Rs 1,701.08 crore for the year ended December 31, 2007.According to a release Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 8:42 am
Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the multi-crore kidney transplant racket, was today sent to judicial custody till March seven by a CBI court here. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 8:38 am
The Sensex is now down 306 points at 17,429.The NSE Nifty is down 67 points at 5,125.Bajaj Auto has plunged 4.5% to Rs 2,300, and Satyam has tumbled 3.5% to Rs 442.HDFC Bank Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Feb 2008 | 8:36 am
The demand is feeble, not even listed in the charter of demands that they would present to the Railway Minister. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 8:36 am
CRPF personnel recovered an IED an hour before the scheduled visit of Sonia Gandhi and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to Bhaderwah town of Doda district on Friday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 8:33 am
Australian captain Ricky Ponting has blamed the International Cricket Council for not acting in time to develop the Twenty20 format to its potential and trying to put lid on it. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 8:22 am
Now posted in Pune, Angre was once with the anti-extortion cell of Thane police and is credited with over thirty encounter killings. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 7:48 am
CARACAS (Reuters) - Working on foot in cold conditions, search teams scoured the rugged Venezuelan Andes on Friday for a missing passenger plane thought to have crashed with 46 passengers on board in the high mountain region.
"We understand the situation there and what is happening," a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 7:45 am
"We should be going after al-Qaida and making sure that Pakistan is serious about hunting down terrorists, as well as expanding democracy," Obama said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 7:43 am
Democratic Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has joined party rival Barak Obama in promising an end to tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Feb 2008 | 7:33 am
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Former New Zealand wicketkeeper Adam Parore, who retired from international cricket six years ago, has signed a contract with the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL).
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand could begin their tour of England in April without three leading players, who will be competing in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL), New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has admitted.
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Five children have died and 96 other people have fallen seriously ill in Bihar after eating sweets and rice offered to a goddess at a village shrine, health officials said on Friday.
India might have tided over its worst ever bird flu outbreak, but the virus left thousands of shuttlecock makers in a West Bengal town in dire straits as the fear of infection choked the supply chain of goose feathers. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Feb 2008 | 5:32 am
'Yeduta nilichindi choodu' from 'Vaana' continues to be on top of the charts this fortnight too. The list is more or less the same as the last one with the exception of a song from 'Ontari' entering at second place. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Feb 2008 | 5:31 am
Bollywood director-actor Rajat Kapoor says women might play ornamental roles in reel life but they are more powerful than men in real life. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Feb 2008 | 4:02 am
'Rang De Basanti' actor Siddharth says he is ready to play a gay role because he feels sexual orientation is a natural and personal choice. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Feb 2008 | 4:00 am
CHENNAI: Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss, who met Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Thursday at the Gopalapuram residence for over 30 minutes, reiterated that his party would remain in the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led Democratic ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
London: India-born authors Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai will be among those vying for ‘The Best of the Booker,’ a one-off award to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the literary prize. It will honour the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
MADURAI: Be it a major offence or a simple nuisance of miscreants, police intervention will soon require just a short messaging service (SMS). There is a dual assurance from the police — firm action and confidentiality of the informer. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
PUDUCHERRY: Addressing separate press conferences on Thursday, leaders of the Communist Party of India (CPI), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded the resignation of Health Minister E. Valsaraj, following an ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to re-examine the contentions of Som Mittal, former Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Global Software Ltd., for quashing the FIR lodged against him by the Karnataka police, alleging that his ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
BANGALORE: The Corps of Detectives (CoD) arrested a software engineer, suspected to have links with the banned group Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), at the Mico layout police station limits on Thursday. However, four of his ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
HYDERABAD: VVIPs in the country would soon have an advanced jamming protection system as part of enhanced security cover. The vehicle-mounted system developed by the city-based Defence Electronics Research Laboratory is capable of ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Bharti Airtel, India's leading mobile telecom services firm, Thursday said it was ready to share its active infrastructure with other operators. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:03 pm
With a gift of six horses worth a little over Rs.35 million ($850,000), New Delhi is attempting to build bridges with Bangladesh's army chief in an attempt to persuade the eastern neighbour to cease support to anti-India insurgent groups operating from that country. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:03 pm
The Congress in Kerala will 'look into' complaints that a programme telecast by party-backed Jaihind TV channel insulted party leader and Defence Minister A.K. Antony. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:02 pm
The Ahmedabad-based Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) Thursday announced the launch of a new two-year Post-Graduate Diploma in Management-Business Enterprise (PGDMBE) from July aimed at creating a new breed of entrepreneurs in the country. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:02 pm
Janata Dal (United) president Sharad Yadav Thursday described the auctioning of cricket players by the Indian Premier League (IPL) as a national shame. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:02 pm
The Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council has penalised the Jaipur franchise for not meeting the mandatory minimum amount set for buying players at Wednesday's gala auction of cricketers. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Feb 2008 | 8:01 pm
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Mahendra Singh Dhoni's parents have urged him to forget about the cash from his bumper Indian Premier League (IPL) contract and concentrate on cricket.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Thursday it was very confident that a Navy missile hit the toxic fuel tank of a defunct U.S. spy satellite, which could have caused harm if it had fallen to Earth intact.
The Delhi High Court has termed
Blueline buses as "killer" and held them responsible for
most of the accidental deaths in the Capital. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:27 am
The Delhi High Court has severely
criticised insurance companies for their "apathy and
obstructive attitude" in settling compensation claims of motor
accident victims. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:27 am
An indefinite shutdown called by Gorkha Janamukti Morcha, which is demanding statehood for Darjeeling, (GJM), crippled life in the three sub-divisions of the district in West Bengal Wednesday. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:27 am
A 40-year-old woman was
allegedly raped by two Haryana armed police personnel and a
commando attached to the state Governor in the wee hours
today, police said. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Feb 2008 | 11:27 am
