The CPI(M) was leading in five
seats while the Congress and its ally the Indigenous
Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) was leading in one seat
each in Tripura as per trends available this morning. Source: Zee News : States | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
Two years after the terrorist
attack on the famous Sankatmochan temple, the people in the
city of religious confluence are ever ready to cope with any
threat to communal harmony. Source: Zee News : States | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
Union Minister of State for Railways R Velu will flag off the Bhubaneswar-Ranchi Garib Rath here on Friday. Source: Zee News : States | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
The Congress was leading in 12
seats while the United Democratic Party in six seats in
Meghalaya as per trends available on Friday morning. Source: Zee News : States | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - India's Tata Motors is expected to sign a memorandum of understanding to buy Ford Motor Co's luxury UK brands Jaguar and Land Rover in the next two weeks, a labour union negotiator said on Friday.
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - World number seven Venus Williams was back on form as she beat Vera Zvonareva in straight sets to reach the semi-finals of the Bangalore Open on Friday.
Kashmir Singh, who was freed from Pakistani jail after 35 years, admitted he was an Indian spy and did his best to serve the country. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:41 am
Foreign exchange reserves moved above the $300-billion mark to touch $301.235 billion for the week ended February 29 - an increase of $6.625 billion from the previous week, according to data released Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:36 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's coalition government has virtually ruled out signing a controversial nuclear deal with the United States without the support of its communist allies, sparking fresh uncertainty about the fate of the pact.
The Sensex opened with a huge negative gap of 330 points at 16,212 on weak global cues. Unabated selling saw the index slip below the 16,000-mark to a low of 15,690 - down 852 points from the previous Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:23 am
A day after Finance Minister P Chidambaram pitched for lower interest rates on home loans up to Rs 20 lakh, private sector housing lender Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) today said it Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:20 am
Eredene Capital, a real estate company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), will invest Rs 131 crore in a special purpose vehicle (SPV) Matheran Realty (MRPL), which is developing Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:15 am
Government has laid down the minimum standards for proficiency skills of personnel, including pilots and air traffic controllers, and made it effective from this week. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:13 am
A day after P Chidambaram pitched for lower interest rates on home loans up to Rs 20 lakh, HDFC said it was not possible for now to further slash lending rates. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:11 am
"Australia were number one in the world for the last 10 to 15 years, but that has been changed now. It is a beginning for India," Sreesanth said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Mar 2008 | 11:07 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's $15 billion debt relief plan for farmers will create a public finance headache for whichever government takes power after the next national elections, an opposition economic policy maker said on Friday.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Separatist militants lobbed a grenade at a house in southern Kashmir killing three members of a family, police said on Friday, the second such attack this week.
Mirroring weak trend in the global markets, the Sensex opened with a significant negative gap of 330 points at 16,212. Unabted selling, thereafter, saw the index slip below the 16,000-mark to a low of Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:48 am
India's limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni returned home here to a rousing welcome after winning the cricket tri-series in Australia. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:43 am
The Sensex has recovered partially and is now down 570 points at 15,972.The NSE Nifty is down 149 points at 4,772.Reliance Energy has tumbled 12.7% to Rs 1,274, and Bajaj Auto has Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:26 am
Bank of Baroda (BoB) is aiming at doubling business in the next three years to Rs 5,00,000 crore."We are expected to cross Rs 2,50,000 crore business by the end of this fiscal. Credit growth Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:23 am
Construction and engineering company Punj Lloyd has bagged a project for $500 million from Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Petronas - the oil and gas major in Malaysia.According to Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:10 am
The company is targeting revenues in excess of Rs600 crore from the retail initiative by 2010, by when the network is expected to be 50-outlet strong. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:09 am
Hexaware Technologies Ltd, the Rs1,039 crore IT and BPO service provider, is close to finalising a mid-size overseas acquisition. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:08 am
The Sensex is now down 652 points at 15,890.The NSE Nifty is down 180 points at 4,741.Reliance Energy has tumbled over 11% to Rs 1,293. Bajaj Auto has slumped 9.5% to Rs 1,928, and Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:07 am
Glory Polyfilms (GPL), a leading player in the multi-layer and laminated films used by the packaging industry, is close to diluting 20% stake. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:07 am
Finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday sought to allay concerns that banks would have to shoulder the cost of the government's Rs 60,000-crore debt-waiver package. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:06 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday he would support an incoming coalition government that could potentially seek his resignation, so long as peace was maintained.
India's Left leaders feel betrayed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who they say is trying to isolate them on the India-US nuclear deal by seeking the opposition's help in taking the contentious pact ahead. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Following a six-hour power outage in India's capital and surrounding areas of northern India early Friday, it took another six hours for electricity supply to be restored for trains to get back on schedule. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
As a tribute to unsung women artists on International Women's Day March 8 and the 60th year of India's independence, Art Mall, Asia's biggest one-stop art shop, is hosting 60 women artists Friday in a show titled 'Ms-60'. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
India blew away an early lead and failed to perform to the expected levels, allowing Great Britain to pull off a 3-2 win to virtually assure themselves a final berth in the World Hockey Olympic Qualif... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:43 am
The Sensex is now down 688 points at 15,854.The NSE Nifty is down 189 points at 4,732.Reliance Energy has slumped 11.6% to Rs 1,290. Bajaj Auto has tumbled nearly 10% to Rs 1,920, and Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:36 am
New Delhi, Mar 7 : Minister of State, for Environment and Forests, Namo Narayin Meena, today said that the introducing Forest Management (JFM) in India could increase the productivity of forests, improve the stocking of forests and increase carbon stocks. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:00 am
Software solutions major Infosys Technologies Ltd Friday unveiled of its Islamic Banking Solution (IBS) for European, West Asian and Far Eastern markets. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:00 am
Tension persisted here Friday with a body being recovered, taking to five the toll in the violence that broke out between cadres of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) two days ago. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:00 am
Anita Kuswaha, a teenage role model and Unicef poster girl from a poverty-stricken family in a Bihar village, is fighting for survival. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:00 am
The Indian equities markets maintained their downward plunge in afternoon trades Friday as data showing a surge in inflation further dampened sentiments of already weak markets. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:00 am
History was created in the Kannada film industry when the audio cassette and CD of 'Meghave Meghave', starring Sudeep and 'Laagan' girl Gracy Singh, was released onboard an Air Deccan aircraft during a flight. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Mar 2008 | 9:00 am
The Indian equities market opened deep in the red Friday in line with its Asian peers. The sharp fall was led by the selling of scrips in key sectors. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 7 Mar 2008 | 6:02 am
In a rare example of action pre-empting intention, mobile rail ticketing had already been in use for several months before Railway Minister Lalu Prasad announced it as one of the highlights in his budget to modernize train reservations. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 7 Mar 2008 | 6:01 am
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Test captain Anil Kumble wants India to quickly get over the euphoria of a rare one-day success in Australia and focus on becoming the world's top test playing nation by the end of the year.
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday announced that the Rs. 60,000-crore farm loan waiver scheme, as proposed in the budget, would be implemented in consultation with Reserve Bank of India in such a way that the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: The Pattali Makkal Katchi founder leader S. Ramadoss’ demand for a Rajya Sabha seat is “unreasonable,” said State secretary of the Communist Party of India D. Pandian. Talking to newsmen here on Thursday, he ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
London: Citizens of India and other non-European Union countries will be issued compulsory identity cards from later this year as part of the British government’s plans to improve security and prevent identity fraud. Home ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Sheer pressure to do well in examinations purportedly drove two young girls to claim their own lives in different parts of the Capital during the past 24 hours. Twenty-year-old Dolly, a Bachelor of Arts student of Shyama ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A goal one minute from the end gave Britain a 3-2 victory over India at a men's hockey qualifying tournament for the Beijing Olympics on Thursday.
Scotching speculation about early polls, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has made it clear that the survival of the government was more important than the Indo-US nuclear deal and Left Parties will have to be taken on board. Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
Nearly one and half
years after he was absolved by a Delhi court in the murder of
is private secrertary, a Jharkhand court on Thursday acquitted JMM
supremo Sibu Soren in a 33-year-old massacre case citing lack
of evidence. Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
The resignation of Maharashtra Governor S M Krishna was on Thursday accepted by President Pratibha Patil. Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
The general secretary of the CPI-M Prakash Karat on Thursday said that the future of the UPA government depended on the fate of the Indo-US nuclear deal. Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
With uncertainty persisting in India on the civilian nuclear initiative with the US, leading critics of the proposal here are calling on the Bush administration to make public its responses to congressional questions aimed at sorting out "ambiguous and contradictory" statements about the deal. Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
Citizens of India and other non-European Union countries will be issued compulsory identity cards from later this year as part of the British government`s plans to improve security and prevent identity fraud. Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
Talking tough against agitating doctors who put patients to inconvenience, the Delhi High Court has sought details from the Centre on action taken
against AIIMS` doctors who allegedly struck work thrice in the last two years despite a court ban. Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
Unfazed by Left parties` threat to withdraw support to the UPA government, Congress today asserted that the Indo-US nuclear deal "will have to happen in the interest of the nation". Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), country`s external intelligence gathering wing, has come in for a sharp criticism for allegedly mishandling the espionage case involving Rabindra Singh, a Joint Secretary level officer, who fled to the United States. Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
In a rare honour of distinction, Dr Janice Darbari, a Delhi-based author has been selected for the position of Honorary Consul General for Republic of Montenegro in New Delhi. Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
Top seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia made short work of Sanda Mamic of Croatia, while second seed Venus Williams was stretched to the wire by unseeded Chinese Shuai Peng en route to the quarterfinals of the $600,000 Canara Bank Bangalore Open here Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:00 pm
Political clashes claimed one more life in this northern district of Kerala, taking the death toll to four in two days of violence. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:01 pm
Bosch Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of the euro 46 billion Bosch group that manufacturers automotive and industrial products, posted a net profit of Rs.6.1 billion ($152 million) in calendar year 2007, posting a 14 percent growth, the company said here Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:01 pm
Harbhajan Singh, who faced the ire of the Australian team and their fans through the summer, did not mince words as he revealed that the Indians won because they were 'able to match' the aggression of the home side. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:00 pm
The Madhya Pradesh police Thursday registered a case against Sandeep Patel, son of Revenue Minister Kamal Patel, and few others for firing shots at an opposition party leader. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:00 pm
A class 11 student of a state-run school and a 21-year old college student, both girls, have committed suicide in Delhi reportedly due to depression over poor performance in examinations, the police said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:00 pm
Second seed Venus Williams was taken to three sets by unseeded Chinese Shuai Peng, while seventh seed Vera Zvonareva of Russia overcame early hiccups against Romanian Agnes Szatmari Thursday, to set up a quarterfinal clash in the $600,000 Canara Bank Bangalore Open here. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 3:31 pm
The Maharashtra government will link all 9,000 villages in the state with the State Data Centre through wireless connectivity. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Mar 2008 | 3:31 pm
