Gold prices zoomed past all previous records to set a new peak of Rs 12,415 per ten gram at open on Wednesday as stockists indulged in enlarging their positions on firm global cues. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 12:05 pm
Pakistan on Wednesday said India's test launch of a nuclear-capable undersea ballistic missile could trigger a fresh arms race in the region. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 12:02 pm
Australian pace bowling spearhead Brett Lee has turned to technology to refine his bowling technique, the media reported here on Wednesday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:59 am
CA has assured the BCCI that they are taking the matter of Mathew Hayden's offensive remarks against Harbhajan Singh seriously and looking into the matter. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:57 am
Russia will deliver aircraft carrier Gorshkov by mid-2011 with the two sides resolving the deadlock after India agreed to pay "considerably more" for the warship. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:57 am
Navjot Singh Sidhu lambasted the Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav for ignoring the vital concerns of Punjabis in the Union Railway Budget. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:44 am
A body representing Indian entrepreneurs and executives has warned Chancellor Alistair Darling that his plan to impose a heavy tax on non-domiciled UK residents will lead to a exodus. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:43 am
Birla Sun Life Asset Management Company Ltd on Wednesday appointed Anil Kumar as their new Chief Executive Officer. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 11:36 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's patent office will consider this week whether to override patents on cancer drugs made by Pfizer and Roche and allow a generics firm to export copycat versions to Nepal in the first case of its kind here.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia batsman Matthew Hayden has been charged by his national board after describing Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh as an "obnoxious weed" and challenging teenage fast bowler Ishant Sharma to a fight.
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 177 points at 17,983 on positive cues from the Asian markets. The index touched a high of 18,137 - up 331 points from the previous close - in morning deals Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 10:35 am
Discussions with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the Indo-US nuclear deal were progressing well, Anil Kakodkar, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), said today Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 10:25 am
MILAN (Reuters) - Bird flu can strike again in high-risk areas of India although the country reined in the recent outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in West Bengal, the United Nations' food agency FAO said.
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 177 points at 17,983 on positive cues from the Asian markets. The index touched a high of 18,137 - up 331 points from the previous close - in morning deals Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 10:03 am
David Beckham, who is just one match away from winning his coveted 100th England cap, admitted he has his work cut out to be fit enough to play for his country again. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 9:57 am
Cricket Australia (CA) charged Australian opener Matthew Hayden with a breach of its Code of Behaviour for making offensive remarks against Harbhajan Singh. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Feb 2008 | 9:50 am
The Sensex is now up 36 points at 17,842.The NSE Nifty is flat at 5,270.HDFC has zoomed 5% to Rs 2,705. Mahindra & Mahindra has soared 4.3% to Rs 657.BHEL and Ranbaxy have Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 9:49 am
International hedge fund D E Shaw Composite Investments (Mauritius) has invested $250 million (approximately Rs 1,000 crore) in Mack Star Marketing - a group company of Mumbai-based real estate firm Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 9:43 am
Crude oil price moved above $102 per barrel as the dollar fell to an all-time low against the euro, according to a report on the website of Bloomberg.Crude oil for Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 9:39 am
The Sensex is now up 127 points at 17,934.The NSE Nifty is up 20 points at 5,290.Mahindra & Mahindra has zoomed 4.5% to Rs 659, and HDFC has soared over 4% to Rs 2,680 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 9:21 am
Turkey to address some of the complaints of the Kurds, and move from combat to economic and political initiatives to solve the problems."It's very important that the Turks make this operation as short... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 9:14 am
New Delhi, Feb 27 : US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on a two-day visit to India met his counterpart A. K. Antony here today. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 9:00 am
The Sensex is now up 181 points at 17,987.The NSE Nifty is up 43 points at 5,313.Mahindra & Mahindra has zoomed over 5% to Rs 663. HDFC has soared 4.3% to Rs 2,686.Larsen Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:58 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India plans to capitalise on a growing pool of local talent and the nation's booming economy to play a bigger role in Asian golf, a senior golf official said on Wednesday.
Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, today announced its six-weekly, non-stop services to Kozhikode (Calicut) starting 1 July, 2008.Kozhikode will become the third city in Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:44 am
The Sensex has pared gains and is now up 173 points at 17,979.The NSE Nifty is up 41 points at 5,311.Mahindra & Mahindra has zoomed 5% to Rs 662. HDFC and Larsen & Toubro have Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:31 am
The mere mention of the name of Lalu Prasad, India's irrepressible Railway Minister, sparks off either a smile, or a guffaw or a smirk (depending upon how you take to him). His rustic humour and witti... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:11 am
F or the first-time job seeker, the market is teeming with opportunities. In the bargain, the new job seeker, with no experience to back her up, could feel a little lost choosing between different job... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:11 am
A New York-based Human Rights group has created a video game called ICED, designed to create awareness about US immigration policies.The video game allows players to walk in the shoes of an undocument... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:08 am
Legendary Bengali screen actress of yesteryear Suchitra Sen has been admitted to a city nursing home in Kolkata after she complained of fever and related ailments. The actress was admitted to Belle Vu... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:08 am
UPA government's key Left allies CPI(M) and CPI on Tuesday joined hands with the Third Front parties in attacking the Centre's agriculture policies and favouring coming together of these parties to fo... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:08 am
Half of the global population will live in cities by the end of this year for the first time in human history while in India's case, it will only be 29 per cent, a latest projection by the United Nati... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:08 am
NEW DELHI (AP) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he is impressed by how much the relationship between the American and Indian military has grown in recent years, and says that the United States is... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:04 am
New Delhi, Feb.27 : Repeating its feat of 2007, Aptech garnered the maximum awards for franchising at the celebrated Indian Franchising Awards 2008 held in New Delhi. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Feb 2008 | 8:01 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States and India will study the possibility of a joint missile defence system, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday, stressing talks were only in their early stages.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's defence spending is likely to rise by between 8 and 10 percent in this year's budget, not enough to please the armed forces, but enough for a gradual modernisation of the world's fourth-largest military, officials and analysts said.
Want a home loan for your dream house? Chances are that banks may misplace your house documents, leaving you high and dry. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Feb 2008 | 6:02 am
Director Mira Nair is going to cast the intense Irrfan Khan and Hollywood stunner Natalie Portman in her next directorial venture 'Kosher Vegetarian', a love story between a Gujarati man and a Jewish girl. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Feb 2008 | 3:31 am
Preity Zinta regrets that she couldn't get Harbhajan Singh in her Mohali team for the Indian Premier League (IPL). After all, both of them have their roots in Chandigarh. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Feb 2008 | 3:31 am
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - By the end of the year half of the world's population will be living in cities for the first time in history, the United Nations said in a report released on Tuesday.
Bollywood is proud that Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta have helped filmdom forge a lifetime's bond with cricket with the Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Feb 2008 | 2:00 am
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - Cricket is not the only sport in India -- that is the message that Olympic officials in the country of 1.1 billion people are trying to get across.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a Delhi High Court order allowing controversial godman Chandraswami, who is facing prosecution in a dozen criminal cases, to go abroad to meet his disciples. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In view of the security arrangements put in place for the storage of question papers, this year’s Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examinations will be held only in the afternoon, from 1.45 p.m. onwards, ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Imphal: Two unidentified militants were killed in an encounter with a team of police commandos and Assam Rifles jawans at Kongba in Manipur’s Imphal East district, official sources said on Tuesday. Militants, travelling in a ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday said military-to-military ties with India would remain independent of the civil nuclear agreement whose fate hangs in the balance with three Senators telling Prime Minister Manmohan ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
HYDERABAD: Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao’s son Hari Hara Prabhu was kidnapped from a hotel in Chitoor, Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday. The incident took place at 7 p.m. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Despite a cut in passenger fares and some freight charges, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad said in his budget speech that the gross traffic earnings were likely to grow by 12 per cent to Rs. 81,901 crore in 2008-09 against Rs. 72,755 ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
A Delhi Court on Tuesday framed
charges against multi-crore scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi and
over 20 of his alleged associates for selling fake stamps in
the capital, but absolved them of the stricter offence of
printing the counterfeits. Source: Zee News : States | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:54 pm
The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the MCD for misleading it on infrastructure development for the commissioning of an ultra-modern abattoir in the capital, the deadline for which has been extended repeatedly due to a dispute between the civic body and a private contractor. Source: Zee News : States | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:54 pm
Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat
On Tuesday said that the government was open for a dialogue with
the promoters of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the
coastal state. Source: Zee News : States | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:54 pm
Amidst public outcry over the
alleged gangrape of a student of Sambalpur University, Orissa
government on Tuesday ordered a probe by Revenue Divisional
Commissioner while students staged demonstrations and
boycotted classes protesting the incident. Source: Zee News : States | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:54 pm
A day after Jharkhand Chief Secretary
P P Sharma went on leave, the state`s senior IPS officer
Amitabh Choudhary, who had sought permission to prosecute him
on graft charges, on Tuesday followed suit, causing flutter in the
state administration. Source: Zee News : States | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:54 pm
With the investigations into the recently busted terror network in Karnataka leading to arrest of several students of top professional colleges, the state police has asked managements of the institutions to tighten their screening process for admissions. Source: Zee News : States | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:54 pm
Mahatma Gandhi`s grandson Arun
Gandhi was on Tuesday arrested by Mumbai police while trying to
hold a demonstration defying prohibitory orders near
Gandhiji`s statue near the state secretariat. Source: Zee News : States | 26 Feb 2008 | 11:54 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government on Tuesday cut rail passenger fares and freight rates and unveiled a major push to modernise its huge network as it tries to woo voters ahead of a general election and bolster a fast-growing economy.
There were mixed reactions in Karnataka Tuesday over the railway budget for 2008-09 with opposition parties lamenting that the state got a raw deal in terms of new projects and fund allocation, and trade bodies terming it as growth-oriented and progressive. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 6:01 pm
Led by former Indian cricket board president Jagmohan Dalmiya, a majority of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) members Tuesday sought a grater piece of the pie in the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) to be played here in April. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 6:01 pm
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Tuesday laid the foundation stone for a drinking water project at the Hogenakkal waterfall to be constructed with Rs.11.4 million in aid from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 6:00 pm
The son of Union Minister of State for Coal and well-known film producer Dasari Narayana Rao was allegedly kidnapped by some unidentified people Tuesday evening. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 6:00 pm
The US Tuesday said it is hopeful that India will do what is required to complete the civil nuclear deal even as it sought to expand defence ties with New Delhi regardless of the fate of the nuclear initiative. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 5:01 pm
In a significant ruling ahead of the Union Budget, the Supreme Court Tuesday advised the courts to exercise greater judicial restraint while invalidating economic legislations. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Feb 2008 | 5:01 pm
India is set to test fire on Tuesday its first-ever under sea ballistic missile at a place ten kilometre from Visakhapatnam and join a select band of five countries equipped with the technology of nuclear deterrence. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:06 pm
The US has said it was "very pleased" with India`s decision to extend the tenure of its Ambassador Ronen Sen here as it would help bilateral ties to continue in a "positive direction". Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:06 pm
The civil nuclear deal touted as the "symbolic centerpiece of relationship" by the Bush administration will be the focus of talks External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee ill having during his visit to the US next month. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:06 pm
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is likely to meet Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani to push forward the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal during his visit to India beginning Tuesday, a senior government official said. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:06 pm
The Bush administration has said there was a "little bit more time" than the July deadline suggested by a top lawmaker for the Indo-US nuclear deal to be passed in the US Congress, while stressing that any internal pressure within India to quickly move the deal forward was "good". Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:06 pm
Lured by the huge business
potential offered by a large number of Indians preferring to
study abroad, universities in Europe, especially from Italy
and Germany, joined the fray to compete with those from US, UK
and Australia to attract students from India. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Feb 2008 | 1:06 pm
