The stage is all set for the single-phase Meghalaya Assembly elections that are scheduled to be held on Monday. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:30 pm
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has appealed for peace in Darjeeling that is roiled by an agitation for separate statehood. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:30 pm
Sri Lanka`s Army Chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka, who has vowed to crush the Tamil Tigers, will pay a six-day visit to India from Sunday to deepen military cooperation between the two countries. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:30 pm
Hit hard by the flip flop over the `Ram Setu` controversy, the Centre in its fresh affidavit before the Supreme Court has put more emphasis to counter the environmental concern for pushing the Sethusamudram Project. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:30 pm
India may be free from highly infectious bird flu now, but the UN agency Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned the government that the dreaded disease could resurface again. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:30 pm
Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda is confident that the Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for next year, will be held this year. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:30 pm
President Pratibha Patil presented the Silver Trumpet and Trumpet Banner to her bodyguards in an impressive ceremony at the forecourt of the Rashtrapati Bhavan last evening. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:30 pm
Flamboyant boss of the UK-based Virgin Group, Richard Branson expressed his intention to enter into India's GSM mobile services space as well. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:09 pm
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Sachin Tendulkar scored a masterly century to lead India to a comfortable six-wicket win over Australia in the first tri-series final on Sunday.
Amid continued nudging by the US to conclude the civil nuclear deal at the earliest, the government is expected to spell out its plans on the issue tomorrow in Parliament when External Affairs Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:06 am
Notorious for irritating frequent and long commercial breaks, the television channels are good taxpayers giving to the exchequer more than one-third of their pre-tax profits, much higher than the Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:03 am
New Delhi, Mar 02 : India may be free from highly infectious bird flu now, but the UN agency Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned the government that the dreaded disease could resurface again. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Caribbean population. Fans and officials say the stadium offers their community a chance to draw professional players, cultivate youth programs and attract new fans to the game."There's a tremendous a... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:54 am
Unidentified militants killed one person while security forces arrested two upper ground workers of LeT in the Kashmir valley overnight, official sources said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:51 am
Prince William, the second in line to the British throne, is planning a romantic snowy getaway with his Canadian girlfriend Kate Middleton. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:44 am
India could manage just 159 batting first against South Africa in the final of the Under-19 World Cup. Only Tanmay Srivastava offered any resistance, scoring 46 at Kuala Lumpur's Kinrara Oval. Only th... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:43 am
The television channels are good taxpayers giving to the exchequer more than one-third of their pre-tax profits, much higher than the industry average of about 20 per cent. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:39 am
Amid continued nudging by the US to conclude the civil nuclear deal at the earliest, the government is expected to spell out its plans on the issue on Monday in Parliament. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:30 am
The new government in Pakistan should review the causes for the Kargil war, including President Pervez Musharraf's role former premier Nawaz Sharif has said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:17 am
Richard Boucher will undertake a two-day visit here from Tuesday during which the two sides are expected to review progress on implementation of the civil nuclear deal. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:10 am
Korea's Choi Kyung-ju won the Johnnie Walker Asian Player of the Year award for the second time in his illustrious career during a Bollywood-themed Johnnie Walker Gala Evening here. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
A group of tribals here sacrificed a hen and prayed to god to ward off evil spirits so that India defeats Australia in final cricket match of triangular series. Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni belongs to Ranchi in Jharkhand. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
A petition by the Uttar Pradesh government in the Supreme Court asking its permission to cut over 2,000 non-existent trees for a road widening project, 500 meters from the Taj Mahal, has landed the state government in a soup. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Kashmiri separatists have reacted angrily to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari's statement expressing readiness to set aside the Kashmir issue to focus on other aspects for improving relations with India. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Ahead of assembly polls in Rajasthan this year, the opposition Congress will hold a rally here Tuesday to protest what it calls the 'misrule' of the state's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) is planning to open offices in states in a bid to reach out to socially marginalized populations all over the country and redress their grievances. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
A Singapore-based firm has accused the state-managed Airports Authority of India (AAI) of bias in a deal for installing common use terminal equipment (CUTE) at 13 airfields across the country, saying its rival was unfairly selected. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 2 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
A total of 19 school drop-outs are contesting alongside doctors, professors, teachers, bureaucrats and journalists in the Meghalaya assembly election due on March 3. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 9:03 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed and up to 40 injured when a suicide bomber attacked a traditional tribal meeting in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, officials said.
Korea's Choi Kyung-ju won the Johnnie Walker Asian Player of the Year award for the second time in his illustrious career during a Bollywood-themed Johnnie Walker Gala Evening. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:50 am
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A controversial young Nepali girl worshipped by many Buddhists and Hindus as a Kumari, or "living goddess", has given up her divine position following a request from her family, an official said on Sunday.
Disappointed with the budget proposal relating to the export sector, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath will soon meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and seek fiscal relief for exporters Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:34 am
The Bharatiya Janata Party criticised both the Central and the Uttar Pradesh government for dealing with serious issue like terrorism 'softly'. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:33 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The rupee is unlikely to appreciate as sharply this year as last year, when its gains were "extraordinary", and the economy will grow close to 9 percent, the finance minister told Reuters on Sunday.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram today sought to allay apprehensions that the Rs 60,000 crore farmers' package will lead to collapse of the cooperative and scheduled commercial banks and weaken the Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Mar 2008 | 8:01 am
There is good news for Indian professionals seeking jobs abroad as the European Union (EU) is planning to set up a US 'Green card' style visa programme to attract highly qualified immigrant workers Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Mar 2008 | 7:48 am
The foreign direct investment limit in the defence sector needs to be increased to 49% from the current 26% to facilitate the flow of investment and technological know-how, industry body Assocham has Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Mar 2008 | 7:44 am
Global design-focused real estate development company 'Yoo by Starck' has entered India. As its first project, the European company is designing a huge residental condominial worth Rs 1,500 crore with Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Mar 2008 | 7:36 am
The Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were net sellers of Rs 523.24 crore in the futures & options segment on Friday.According to data released by the NSE, FIIs were net sellers of Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Mar 2008 | 6:36 am
The state-run Heavy Engineering Corp (HEC), set to post profit for the second successive year, will be worth Rs.40 billion in the next four years, a top official has said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 6:00 am
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.
Entrepreneur Parvez Damania shocked his friends when he went into the aviation business days after the government ended its monopoly in the sector in the mid-1990s. And once again he has surprised them by venturing into Bollywood as a producer. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 3:30 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Eight-time champions India, who have never missed an Olympic hockey tournament, began their final opportunity to qualify for Beijing with an 8-0 thrashing of Russia at a qualifying tournament in Chile on Saturday.
The arrest of actress Huma Khan, who was seen as Laxmikant Berde's love interest in 'Maine Pyar Kiya', on charges of abetting the abduction and rape of her 12-year-old maid, has sent shock waves through the Hindi film industry. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 2:00 am
Bollywood's casting pundits are busy speculating about Mani Ratnam's second hero for his new movie starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai. It is an intense love story. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 2:00 am
Ari (J&K): Softening of the Line of Control (LoC) in this belt of Jammu and Kashmir has finally paid dividends for a Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) Muslim family. It was able to meet its Hindu relatives living on this side of the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Sydney: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said his young team should be given credit for reaching the CB tri-series finals. “A lot of people had written us off before the competition. They should now look at how this young team has ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Army Chief, Sarath Fonseka, is visiting India from Monday for exchange of views with his interlocutors in New Delhi on matters of mutual interest between the two countries amid claims by the Sri Lanka military that ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Raipur: A court here on Saturday acquitted senior Congress leader and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi in the case of murder of NCP leader Ram Avatar Jaggi. There was no sufficient ground to charge Mr. Jogi under IPC ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
RAMANATHAPURAM: Balamurugan of Nagatchi, a seaside hamlet in Ramanathapuram district, is in high spirits these days. The 16-year-old youth’s exuberance has a valid reason: he is now able to use sports infrastructure normally found ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
At least 30 people including 22 policemen sustained injuries in a clash Saturday over the rape and murder of a minor in Orissa's Balasore district, police said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Mar 2008 | 7:30 pm
The Uttar Pradesh government late Saturday decided to ban Bollywood blockbuster 'Jodhaa Akbar' fearing 'breach of peace'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Mar 2008 | 7:30 pm
A woman who had gone fishing in West Bengal's Sundarban creek was injured by a tiger Saturday, a senior forest official said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Mar 2008 | 7:30 pm
Riding a hat-trick by Jose Ramirez Barreto, Mohun Bagan felled Mohammedan Sporting 3-0, while Mahindra United drubbed East Bengal 2-0 in the IFA Shield here Saturday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Mar 2008 | 7:30 pm
Tamil Nadu Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin, son of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, marked his birthday Saturday, smoking a peace pipe with media baron and relative Kalanidhi Maran, setting tongues wagging. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Mar 2008 | 7:30 pm
A day after presenting his fifth Budget in the UPA government, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said budgets did not win elections, unless they were properly marketed. In a detailed interview on Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 Mar 2008 | 6:47 pm
A call centre started functioning Saturday to provide information on the features and facilities of the new international airport at Hyderabad that is scheduled to commence commercial operations March 16. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Mar 2008 | 5:30 pm
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar advised the farming community "not to repay loans taken from people who are doing money lending business illegally," and urged state governments to protect farmers Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 Mar 2008 | 1:14 pm
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.
