Fear continues to grip hundreds of
north Indian labourers here, who are availing of every
possible mode of transport to reach their hometowns, days
after dust seemed to settle down on the violence sparked by
MNS campaign against migrants. Source: Zee News : States | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:56 pm
An ongoing probe by the Corps of
Detectives (CoD) into terror networks in parts of Karnataka
has revealed that a techie arrested here recently had been
providing technical support to extremists, police said. Source: Zee News : States | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:56 pm
At least 11 people including six suspected United National Liberation Front (UNLF) insurgents have been killed in two separate incidents in Manipur on Saturday. Source: Zee News : States | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:56 pm
Orissa has managed to rope in
investment proposals worth over Rs 2,00,000 crore (USD 50
billion) for setting up mineral-based industries, steel mills,
power plants and alumina refineries, a top state government
official said. Source: Zee News : States | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:56 pm
At least 12 people were killed and four seriously injured when a bus plunged into a stream in Assam on Sunday. Source: Zee News : States | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:56 pm
Defending his stand on the agitation
against North Indian migrants, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday said the stir was not
"unconstitutional". Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
Army officers facing General
Court Martial (GCM) proceedings, often far away from the place
of their posting, have found a sympathiser in the Delhi High
Court. Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
Twenty-Five Indians on board the
Panamanian cargo vessel `MV Rezzak` are feared dead, a top
official in directorate general of shipping here said on Sunday,
six days after the ship went missing in the Black Sea. Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
India`s High Commissioner to Pakistan, Satyabrata Pal, met Pakistan People`s Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari to congratulate him on his party`s performance in elections. Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
At least three persons were
injured when a fire broke out in a Amritsar-bound express
train this morning near Deoband in Uttar Pradesh, railway
officials said. Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
To give para-military forces a
decisive edge in anti-Naxal operations, special units of CRPF
will soon be equipped with higher fire power, Anti-Material
Rifles (AMR). Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
Prominent Indian scholars Irfan Habib, Subashni Ali and Saeed Naqvi have been denied Pakistani visas, and hence are unlikely to participate in the World Social Forum in Karachi Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates will arrive in New Delhi on Tuesday, and is expected to discuss the Indo-US nuclear deal and to pitch for a Rs 450 billion multi-role combat aircraft contract. Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
The Supreme Court has upheld the
termination of an employee who was on a "sick leave" for
nearly two years, but failed to produce a valid medical
certificate to justify his absence. Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
After securing a month-long suspension of passport of arms dealer Suresh Nanda, the CBI has approached the government to revoke his passport for his alleged involvement in receiving kickbacks in defence deals including that in purchase of Barak missiles from Israel and armoured recovery vehicles. Source: Zee News : India National | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:55 pm
Pakistan has blocked access to the popular video-sharing website Youtube for alleged "blasphemous" content. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:28 pm
Ace shuttler Anand Pawar has become only the second Indian to win Austrian Open men's singles crown. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:24 pm
President Pervez Musharraf's spokesman denied reports in a section of the media that he is considering stepping down rather than being forced out of office. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:20 pm
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Ricky Ponting scored a brilliant century and Adam Gilchrist claimed a record-equalling six dismissals as Australia beat India by 18 runs in an absorbing tri-series one-day international on Sunday.
In a bid to reduce losses to shareholders after a dismal listing at India's stock exchanges, Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Power Ltd Sunday announced issue of bonus shares in the ratio 3:5, which means that the company will issue three free shares for every five shares held. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:00 pm
Special worships were held in over 100 temples, free food was served to the poor, mass marriages were conducted and AIADMK cadre distributed sweets in Tamil Nadu to mark the 60th birthday of J. Jayalalitha Sunday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:00 pm
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Independent candidates have emerged as major challengers to the Congress in Meghalaya, which goes to the polls March 3. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:00 pm
While the 80th Academy Awards for Merit has the global entertainment industry electrified, it has yet again bypassed India, the world's largest producers of films. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:00 pm
Kerala will expand two of its international airports - at Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode - and come up with a new one at Kannur with the state government identifying more land for the purpose. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:00 pm
I-League champions Dempo Sports Club Sunday returned home to a rousing welcome, but coach Armando Colaco reminded his players the job for the season was far from over. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:00 pm
Reliance Power Ltd (RPL), part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG), Sunday announced it would give three bonus shares for every five held in an effort to reduce losses by shareholders after a dismal listing at Indian stock markets. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:00 pm
Sydney, Feb 24 : Splendid century by Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir was not able to save Team India from losing the one day international (ODI) against Australia by 18 runs, as Brett Lee claimed his second 5 wicket during the ongoing Commonwealth Bank tri-series. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 24 Feb 2008 | 1:00 pm
SYDNEY (Reuters) - India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was asked to change his wicketkeeping gloves during his team's tri-series match against Australia on Sunday after pulling off a spectacular catch to dismiss Adam Gilchrist.
As uncertainty over formation of next government in Pakistan persisted, the PPP, which emerged the largest party in the recent general election, today asked the Musharraf regime to invite it to form Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:48 pm
It's a green fuel breakthrough in aviation -- the first flight by a commercial airline to be powered by biofuel is to take off from Heathrow airport. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:41 pm
Kerala government's decision to leave the HMT land deal for the courts to decide was intended to protect two ministers in the cabinet, KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala alleged. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:37 pm
Pakistani cricket officials were left disappointed by their Indian counterparts, who rejected the proposal to play a short one-day series in March. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:31 pm
President Pervez Musharraf is "sulking" after the strong performance of opposition parties in general election and has retreated into a mental bunker, a media report said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:27 pm
As uncertainty over formation of next government in Pakistan persisted, the PPP asked the Musharraf regime to invite it to form new administration. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:23 pm
Pakistan's Test spinner Danish Kaneria is contemplating his future with the national team after being continuously ignored for the one-dayers. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:16 pm
Even as the country is re-positioning itself as the world's most favoured IT hub, Indian companies are highly exposed to the "internal attacks" generated by the "insiders". Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:09 pm
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Reliance Power Ltd on Sunday set a 3-for-5 bonus share issue in an attempt to cheer shareholders after a miserable debut following a record $3 billion initial public offer.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's army chief, General Moeen U Ahmed, left Dhaka on Sunday for a week-long visit to India aimed at reviving defence and political ties and boosting security co-operation.
Personal and corporate income tax cuts, excise duty relief and simplification of taxes are expected in the Union Budget for 2008-09, the last full-fledged budget before the next general elections Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 Feb 2008 | 10:48 am
Consolidation in the retail industry would result in nearly 50% of the malls shutting down by March 2010 and the hoopla surrounding the sector would considerably subside by then, a brand expert has Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 Feb 2008 | 10:44 am
In an unprecedented move, Anil Ambani Group company Reliance Power will give free bonus shares in the ratio of 3:5 to all its shareholders to compensate the losses they suffered when the company was Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 Feb 2008 | 10:08 am
The Bombay Stock Exchange plans to pick up 26% stake in Ahmedabad-based National Multi-Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (NMCE), an announcement of the formalisation of the tie-up is expected here Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
KARACHI (Reuters) - India has rejected an invitation to play a three-match one-day series in Pakistan in March, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Sunday.
Technical analysts expect triangular movement next week as the markets hit the gap at island reversal area. Island reversal is an occurence where a stock price will gap up/down, trade higher than this Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 Feb 2008 | 8:16 am
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the principal opposition party, seems convinced that the upcoming national budget won't meet the challenges faced by the Indian economy, saying survival has become the motto of the present government and soft attitude its policy. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Feb 2008 | 6:31 am
Party divas beware! Next time you decide to hang out at a classy lounge, bar, or discotheque, don't just gulp down the drink proffered by your 'friend'. It could be mixed with a lethal 'date rape pill'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
DUBAI (Reuters) - Aysha sold her wedding gold to pay traffickers $200 to find her and a cousin jobs in Dubai. A world away from her village in Uzbekistan, she was forced to work in a disco and expected to offer sex.
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - Sections of India's sporting community fear that the cricket board's new professional Twenty20 league will eat into sponsorship revenue that could have gone to athletes preparing for the Beijing Olympics in August.
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.
For all those complaints about taxing, unimaginatively planned tour schedules season after season you would have thought our suffering cricketers with tired minds and bodies needed a break for rest and recuperation. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:31 am
Filmmaker Sanjay Gupta wants to adapt the story of an ordinary man going on a rampage in a city after being pushed to the brink. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:01 am
Celebrities make good game show hosts. After Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan, it is filmmaker Karan Johar's turn to host a game show, but on screen for a new Balaji production. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:00 am
President Pratibha Patil is exploring the possibility of having civilians monitor military operations in the northeast and Jammu and Kashmir in a bid to tackle complaints of harassment of women by security personnel. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Feb 2008 | 3:00 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An opinion poll on Saturday showed an alliance between the two biggest groups opposed to President Pervez Musharraf was the preferred choice of Pakistan's voters.
HUBLI: Software engineer from Bangalore Mohammed Yahya Kammakutty alias Yahya Khan who was arrested for his suspected terror links will be in CoD custody till March 6. The team of officials from CoD, which brought him from Bangalore, ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
GUWAHATI: About 85-90 per cent of 20.35 lakh voters exercised their franchise in Tripura on Saturday to decide the fate of 313 candidates in specially customised Electronic Voting Machines. Chief Electoral Officer G.S.G. Ayyangar told ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Sonepat: The screening of ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ was banned in Sonepat district of Haryana on Saturday after Nationalist Congress Party activists staged demonstrations outside cinemas. The district administration has suspended the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has asked the Information and Broadcasting Ministry to take action against tobacco and liquor companies indulging in “surrogate” advertising in print, electronic ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Mumbai: A Panamanian cargo vessel, carrying 25 Indian crew members, has gone missing since Monday in the Black Sea. The news comes as a shock for the family members. According to reports, the ship left for Turkey on February 17 from ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Superstar Aamir Khan Saturday night won the Filmfare Best Director Award for 'Taare Zameen Par', which was also adjudged the best film, while Shah Rukh Khan ('Chak De! India') and Kareena Kapoor ('Jab We Met') won the awards for the Best Leading Actors in the male and female categories respectively. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Feb 2008 | 7:00 pm
The boards of directors of HDFC Bank and Centurion Bank of Punjab (CBoP) today separately gave their in-principle approvals for merger of the two banks. HDFC Bank is expected to pay Rs 10,000-Rs 12 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Feb 2008 | 6:50 pm
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front as well as the main opposition Congress-led alliance are optimistic of forming the next government in Tripura after a large turnout in Saturday's polling. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Feb 2008 | 6:00 pm
Unidentified gunmen shot dead Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Laxmikant Yadav Saturday night in Bihar's Bhagalpur district, police said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Feb 2008 | 6:00 pm
Continuing his tirade against migrants, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray now wants all Biharis here to leave Maharashtra following protests against him in the Bihar assembly. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Feb 2008 | 4:32 pm
