World number four Jelena Jankovic of Serbia is disappointed that home challenger Sania Mirza is not playing in the WTA Bangalore Open here. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:35 pm
Renowned industrialist and Rajya Sabha Member Rahul Bajaj on Monday asked the government to go in for early polls so that uncertainties could end. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:30 pm
A 22-year-old paralysed Pakistani has hosted a website -- keying in its contents with his nose -- to encourage people with disabilities never to give up. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:25 pm
Indian one-day skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has landed in an advertising contoversy after he failed to keep dates with a company. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:22 pm
GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL), the developers of the greenfield Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad, has decided not to charge user development fee (UDF) from domestic Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
Anil Ambani group's financial services arm Reliance Capital on Monday launched its microfinance initiative here with tie-ups for two states. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
Adam Gilchrist is awaiting his stint for the Indian Premier League to enhance relationships with international players. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:57 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government is offering to pay poor families nearly $3,000 to bring up their girl children, and discourage the widespread practice of aborting the female foetus which has led to a skewed gender balance in parts of the country.
SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Bikram Choudhury, the yoga guru who stirred controversy by copyrighting his "hot yoga" style, is known as much for his love of diamond-studded wrist watches and Hollywood clientele as for his supple poses.
Global banking giant HSBC said Indian IT major Infosys' Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy will join its board in May with an annual renumeration of 65,000 pounds. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 11:12 am
Global banking giant HSBC today said N R Narayana Murthy, chief mentor, Infosys Technologies, will join its board in May with an annual renumeration of 65,000 pounds (about Rs 52 lakh) Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:44 am
The Sensex opened with a huge negative gap of 351 points at 17,228 on weak cues from the global markets. Selling gained momentum after the benchmark index slipped below the 17,000-mark. The Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:38 am
Merchandise exports in January increased 20.47% to $13.14 billion from $10.9 billion in January 2007. In rupee terms, the rise in exports during the month was only 7% at Rs 51,739 crore when compared Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:31 am
The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on an appeal challenging the grant of licence to supply country liquor and Indian-made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) to a private company Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:26 am
BJP has said it was contemplating to explore the option of seeking legal remedy by approaching Supreme Court if elections to the state assembly in Karnataka was delayed. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:26 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said on Monday it was still looking for political support at home for a controversial nuclear deal with the United States, even as Washington says time is running out.
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Indian shares provisionally fell 5.34 percent on Monday, led by losses in Reliance Industries, with sentiment weighed down by a sell-off in global markets on growing fears of a recession in the United States.
The Sensex opened with a huge negative gap of 351 points at 17,228 on weak cues from the global markets. Selling gained momentum after the benchmark index slipped below the 17,000-mark. The Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 10:06 am
Tim Nielsen admitted that his team's star-studded batting line-up is low on confidence before the second final of the cricket tri-series against India here on Tuesday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 9:54 am
The Sensex is now down 922 points at 16,656.The NSE Nifty is down 280 points at 4,944.HDFC, DLF and SBI have slumped around 8.5% each to Rs 2,562, Rs 715 and Rs 1,933, respectively Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
Rahul Bajaj, chairman, Bajaj Auto, today said the excise duty on two-wheelers and three-wheelers should be brought down to 8%.Bajaj was speaking at the post-budget meeting of industry Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 9:40 am
Pakistan Peoples Party is likely to announce the name of the new Prime Minister after a party meeting on March 6. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Mar 2008 | 9:29 am
The Sensex is now down 810 points at 16,768.The NSE Nifty is down 260 points at 4,964.HDFC has slumped 9% to Rs 2,550, and BHEL has plunged over 8% to Rs 2,095.SBI, DLF and Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 9:19 am
The Sensex is now down 657 points at 16,922.The NSE Nifty is down 205 points at 5,018.HDFC has slumped 7.5% to Rs 2,591, and BHEL has tumbled over 7% to Rs 2,120.SBI, DLF and Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Mar 2008 | 9:04 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Inflation in India is still a threat because of high food prices, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said on Monday, as he promised to consider policy intervention if growth slowed in any industrial sector of the $1 trillion economy.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - India's management backed controversial spinner Harbhajan Singh on Monday following reports that he made monkey gestures to the crowd during the first tri-series final against Australia.
For decades, employment exchanges in West Bengal were farcical bleak houses where the state's unemployed registered in millions without expecting an interview call. This year, the government wants to change all that through job training. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Mar 2008 | 5:01 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Former champions India and Britain recorded their second straight victories in the men's hockey Olympic qualifying tournament in Santiago, Chile.
India's steel industry has started a big headhunt for skilled workers and professionals to increase production and meet the mounting demand for steel to fuel the country's growth. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Mar 2008 | 4:30 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.
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - The Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, have been drawn in the same half of the WTA Bangalore Open which begins on Monday.
In what will decidedly qualify as a first ever experiment in cinema, Nikhil Advani's segmented love saga 'Salaam-e-Ishq' will now be divided into six separate stories, with each plot treated as an individual, self-contained film. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Mar 2008 | 3:31 am
History is the flavour of the season and after the much-hyped 'Jodhaa Akbar', one more historical from Bollywood - on Alexander the Great - is ready to hit the marquee. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Mar 2008 | 3:30 am
After years as a director, Vikram Bhatt has finally become a producer and says he is carrying forward his grandfather's legacy. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Mar 2008 | 3:00 am
New Delhi, March 3 (AINS) Bollywood showman Subhash Ghai is back to filmmaking after a long break with a movie on terrorism, 'Black and White'. His period romance, 'Kisna: The Warrior Poet' had bombed at the box office in 2005. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Mar 2008 | 2:00 am
London: The FBI has revealed a plot to assassinate rock icon Sir Mick Jagger by a motorcycle gang called the Hells Angels, an attempt which was thwarted as the boat of the would-be killers got swamped in a storm. According to former FBI ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Sydney: Sachin Tendulkar said India would take a lot of confidence from Sunday’s win going into the second final in Brisbane on Tuesday. He also stressed on team effort. Queried whether the shuffling of the younger batsmen in the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Araria: About 100 people have fallen ill, five of them critically, after having food at a wedding at Forbesganj in Araria district of Bihar, police said on Sunday. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: The CBI, probing allegations of kickbacks received by arms dealer Suresh Nanda, is preparing to send a request to the U.K. to find out whether he had acquired British nationality, official sources said here on Sunday. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
An apex church organisation in Nagaland on Sunday called for exercising restraint by candidates and their supporters who sought to win the March five assembly election through unfair means. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:12 pm
The change in work atmosphere and
perception of people will soon lead Bihar to become one of the
developed states in the country, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
said on Sunday. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:12 pm
Stepping up pressure for carving out a separate Telangana state, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MPs have decided to resign from the Lok Sabha on Monday. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:12 pm
Car drivers and motorcyclists seem to have the least regard for traffic rules in the national capital, with new statistics showing that they are the most penalised group for unauthorised parking. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:12 pm
Terming total prohibition as a "national issue", the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu on Sunday asked its ally, PMK, to convince the Centre on imposing liquor ban across the country. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:12 pm
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday said that her government would provide sewerage facilities in about 200 villages of the Capital soon to ensure better sewage system at par with the other approved colonies. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:12 pm
Mathematics makes students struggle at school level with around 32% of the children studying in Class V scoring less than 30% marks in the subject, according to a survey by the NCERT. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 pm
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: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 pm
With attacks on North Indians in Mumbai creating a major row, Congress has deplored the "parochial and narrow minded regionalism" represented by leaders like Raj Thackeray, dubbing it as "anti-national to the core". Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 pm
The Central Information Commission (CIC), which normally denies undertrials access to details related to their pending trials under the transparency law, has asked the CBI to provide documents related to an accused in a corruption case. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 pm
Muslim clerics on Sunday demanded the ouster of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen from India and called for preservation of the personal law while opposing the proposal to compulsorily register marriages. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 pm
George Fernandes, the former Defence Minister, writing in the recently revived second issue of the journal, the Other Side, says that there is a danger of Bharat Ratna Award being available at a price. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 pm
As part of efforts to utilise technology to increase efficiency, the Railways is planning to instruct its drivers and guards through SMS. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 pm
The elite Special Protection Group (SPG), guarding the Prime Minister and certain other VVIPs, will soon have an aircraft of its own to meet professional requirements. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 pm
Around 140 Indian companies will be in the spotlight when they showcase their products at the international trade fair being organised in St Petersburg March 11-14. Source: Zee News : India National | 2 Mar 2008 | 11:02 pm
Gurusai Dutt Sunday reached the final of the Dutch Junior International badminton tournament by defeating Matevz Bajuk of Slovakia 21-12, 21-13 in the semi-finals in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 6:30 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.
A great day, indeed, for Indian sport. Rarely has it been so exciting for the channel surfers who kept switching from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur and back to kept track of the fortunes of India and Indian colts. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 5:31 pm
President Pratibha Patil congratulated the Indian team that won the Under-19 cricket World Cup in Kuala Lumpur Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 5:31 pm
A few months from now, children from this city may land at a soccer academy run by English Premier League club Arsenal. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Mar 2008 | 5:30 pm
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
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
