NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ruling Congress party has strengthened its hand against the opposition and leftist allies with a farmer-friendly budget, raising a chance of early elections and reviving hope for a controversial nuclear deal.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will spend $12.5 million to create a special force to guard its last surviving tigers, as numbers dwindle in the face of rampant poaching and destruction of their habitat.
BJP`s star campaigner Bollywood
actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha addressed a series of
election rallies in Meghalaya and asked the people to vote
for the saffron party. Source: Zee News : States | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:59 am
Rejecting allegations by some
political leaders that, investigations into the suspected
terror network in Karnataka was targeted against a particular
section of society, police on Thursday said the ongoing probe was
"impartial". Source: Zee News : States | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:59 am
Veteran CPM leader and former West Bengal Minister Prashanta Sur died early on Friday after prolonged illness, party sources said. Source: Zee News : States | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:59 am
The Madurai bench of the Madras High
Court has held that to constitute a valid will, the testator
has to sign it, attested by two witnesses. Source: Zee News : States | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:59 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian shares fell 1.4 percent on Friday to their lowest close this week, after the national budget failed to cheer investors already shaken by turbulent global markets.
With 11th Five Year plan giving special focus on education, government on Friday earmarked a whopping over Rs 38,702 crore to the sector in the Union Budget 2008-09. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:33 am
Mobile phone users would now have to shell out more money for buying new handsets, with the government proposing to levy one per cent excise duty on them. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:28 am
Buoyant revenues will enable the government to meet its fiscal deficit targets, but the goal to eliminate revenue deficit has been pushed by a year. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:26 am
With the 'please all' efforts from farmers' loan waiver to raising of IT limit, the Union Budget 2008-09 was dubbed as an election-oriented exercise by friends and foes alike. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:18 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday described a government plan to waive unpaid loans held by millions of indebted farmers as too little, too late.
The Sensex recovered 320 points from the day's low of 17,258 to close with a loss of 246 points at 17,579. Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented his fifth budget for the UPA government today, but Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 11:02 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government promised higher spending for ailing farms and funds for rural revival in its budget on Friday, but it stuck to fiscal goals and pledged to keep inflation under control ahead of elections due in 2009.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today termed the Rs 50,000 crore agriculture loan waiver as a "generous" gesture from his government towards distressed farmers.Commenting on the union budget Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 10:40 am
Dubbing it as an "election budget", India Inc today said Finance Minister P Chidambaram has done a "remarkable job" to ensure that economy continues to grow at 9% even as it was divided over loan Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 10:30 am
Harry Potter fans find giving up JK Rowling's wizard books harder than ditching fags and suffer from withdrawal symptoms that drugs addicts do. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 10:22 am
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 44 points at 17,780 on negative cues from the global markets. The index extended losses to over 100 points, and thereafter exhibited lacklustre movement till Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 10:16 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Sonia Gandhi, the head of India's ruling Congress party, said on Friday a decision to waive farm loans owed by some 40 million poor farmers was a "historic and revolutionary step".
The Sensex ended (provisional) with a loss of 358 points at 17,466 after gyrating between 17,780 and 17,258 today.The NSE Nifty was down (provisional) 96 points at 5,190. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 10:03 am
Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhary said on Friday the budget will provide relief to women in both rural and urban areas. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 10:02 am
Union Budget 2008-09 unfolded modest increases in allocations for the social sector but the emphasis was on sweeping gestures impacting a large number of people. Farmers were the main beneficiaries of Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:59 am
Rohit Sharma feels the youngsters in the team would need to rise up to the occasion to win the cricket tri-series finals against Australia starting Sunday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:54 am
The Sensex is now down 263 points at 17,561. SBI has witnessed fresh buying and the stock has surged nearly 4% to Rs 2,118.Maruti has soared over 4% to Rs 870. Bajaj Auto has rallied 2.5% to Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:52 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Eight-times champions India face a desperate fight to avoid missing the Olympics for the first time when they embark on the men's qualifying tournament in Santiago, Chile on Saturday.
The Sensex continues to recover and is now down 240 points at 17,584. Auto and FMCG stocks are the major gainers, while energy and technology stocks are weak.?? Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:29 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government on Friday proposed changing its excise duty structure for sales of petrol and diesel in a budget that failed to cheer the oil sector, which had hoped for wider tax changes and steps to encourage investment.
Seldom has a union finance minister had more cushion while formulating a budget than P Chidambaram when he set out to do the numbers for 2008-09. With tax revenue booming and economic growth running Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:25 am
Budget 2008-09 seems to be trying to do a balancing act. While distributing freebies for the rural sector as well as the common man, it has also increased allocations towards social sectors including Source: Business Standard | News Now | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:21 am
Dubbing farmers as the 'most important businessmen', Manmohan Singh said the government has been generous in its response to deal with the depression in agriculture sector. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:19 am
"It is a good budget. There is something for all sections of society," said Nalini Chidambaram, eminent lawyer and wife of the finance minister. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 9:08 am
Antony welcomed the 10 percent hike in the defence budget for fiscal 2008-09 to Rs.1,056 billion ($26.5 billion), saying it would aid in the armed forces modernisation drive. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 29 Feb 2008 | 8:46 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram presented the Union budget for 2008/09 on Friday, the fifth and final full one of the administration
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has accepted a mercy plea from an Indian national who spent 35 years on death row on spying charges, and ordered his release, a minister said on Friday.
The highlights of the Indian budget for 2008-09 presented by Finance Minister P. Chidamabaram in the Lok Sabha Friday: Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 29 Feb 2008 | 5:32 am
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram was Friday all set to present his seventh national budget Friday amid concerns over economic slowdown and a push for reforms suggested by the economic survey unveiled a day earlier. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 29 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Television artiste Deepshikha will be seen as a nosy page 3 journalist in media magnate Nari Hira's 'Bhram' and the character is loosely based on well-known columnist Shobha De. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 29 Feb 2008 | 3:01 am
As Farah Khan's 'Om Shanti Om' releases on DVD, complete with a 16-page booklet that gives an insight into the cast and crew of the movie that has come to be known as 'OSO', I caught up with one of the stars of the film: Simon Hewitt. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 29 Feb 2008 | 3:00 am
Tamil superstar R. Madhavan needs to shed six kilograms to look compatible on screen with Shruti,Tamil entertainment heavyweight Kamal Haasan's daughter, who is set to make her debut with the star. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 29 Feb 2008 | 2:00 am
HYDERABAD: Setting at rest the speculation over the past several days about the new Chief Secretary, the Government appointed the senior most IAS officer, A. Raghotham Rao, to the top slot in the bureaucracy. Mr. Rao, who is Chief ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 29 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
In 1973-74, Rule 24 was used in U.P. and Orissa, after delimitation, to conduct polls in record time Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 29 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Setting the record straight, Delhi University’s History Department on Thursday clarified that Upinder Singh, daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, had neither written nor edited the text that has kicked up a storm over ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 29 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday granted mercy to an Indian prisoner who has been on death row for more than 30 years. Kashmir Singh, now over 70, was jailed on charges of spying in 1973 and was sentenced to death. His ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 29 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Optimism, but with caution, is the watchword. — P. Chidambaram This sort of economic process, which brought about discrepancies between rich and poor, will lead the Indian economy to greater ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 29 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
Favours partial sale of profit-making non-navaratna PSUs, and tackling of inflationary impulses Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 29 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
It will also hear writ petition filed by Kerala NGO seeking direction to de-commission existing dam Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 29 Feb 2008 | 12:00 am
A leading member of Darul Uloom Islamic Seminary, which has described terrorism as anti-Islam, on Thursday said that it will organise seminars against the menace in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Lucknow. Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
Indian prisoner Kashmir Singh,
who spent 5 years on a death row in Lahore jail, will be
released immediately as President Pervez Musharraf has
approved his mercy petition, Pakistan government said on Thursday. Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
The US on Thursday sought to allay the
impression that it was pressurising India to wrap up the civil
nuclear deal, saying it was only expressing its "opinion" as
it cares about the agreement and the relationship with this
country. Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
After months of differences within, the government today decided to seek vacation of stay in the Supreme Court on the controversial Sethusamudram project noting that no study has been conducted to determine whether or not the bridge between India and Sri Lanka was man-made. Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
A local court on Thursday remanded organ
transplant racket prime accused Dr Amit Kumar to five days in
police custody for questioning in connection with removing a
man`s kidney in a village here in 1995. Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
The government has approved incentive
schemes for creating 1,00,000 employment opportunities a year
for the physically challenged persons in the private sector,
the Lok Sabha was told on Thursday. Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
In case of a government employee`s death, his or her dependents cannot seek an appointment on compassionate grounds as a matter of right, the Supreme Court has ruled. Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
India on Thursday asked the US to
remove "irritants" in growth of bilateral trade by taking a
re-look at the export regulations on high technology items as
Washington sought to market its new Validated End-User (VEU)
programme to raise exports in the field from this country. Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
Industrialist Ashok Todi, main accused in the mysterious death of computer graphic teacher Rizwanur Rehman, has said his family did not want a divorce between his daughter Priyanka and Rehman. Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
"You are working over time to finish democracy," a visibly angry Speaker Somnath Chatterjee castigated members in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Disapproving the members` action, Chatterjee said, "with great sorrow, sadness and resentment, I am forced to adjourn the House". Source: Zee News : India National | 28 Feb 2008 | 11:59 pm
India has expressed concerns to Malaysian authorities on grievances expressed by certain Malaysians of Indian origin over their social conditions and religious rights, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told parliament Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Feb 2008 | 6:32 pm
India and Saudi Arabia Thursday held talks on strengthening bilateral ties, including ways to increase Saudi investments in Indian infrastructure, petrochemicals and energy. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Feb 2008 | 6:31 pm
Openers Aakash Chopra and Shikhar Dhawan slammed unbeaten centuries to steer Delhi to a comprehensive 10-wicket win over Punjab and earn full four points in the Ranji Trophy north zone one-day championships here Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Feb 2008 | 6:31 pm
The four-day Mumbai International Boat Show (MIBS) that kicked off Thursday evening has proved to be a treat for all those who love the romance of luxury boats and high seas. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Feb 2008 | 6:31 pm
Haryana has decided to double the number of seats in technical courses of the state's polytechnic institutes to 50,000 to meet the demand for skilled technical personnel. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Feb 2008 | 6:31 pm
