Virat Kohli has been bought by Bangalore, as a number of members of the Indian youth team that won the title in Malaysia went under the hammer. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 11:35 am
Prince Charles' wife Camilla has expressed shock after her chief bodyguard apparently shot himself dead at his home in Britain. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 11:31 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday called for the National Assembly to convene on March 17, following the victory of his opponents in last month's parliamentary election.
Set to gather further steam in the next one year with a huge surplus of Rs 1,00,000 crore, Indian Railways will begin the much-awaited Kolkata-Dhaka service from April 14. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 11:28 am
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Two suicide car bombers struck in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing 24 people and wounding scores, most of them in an attack on a government security office, police and officials said.
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 146 points at 15,778, and dropped to a low of 15,739 in early deals. Buying at lower levels helped the index rebound into positive zone, and display Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Australian all-rounder James Hopes and Pakistan batsman Misbah-ul Haq led the list of 14 players signed up to play in a second 'auction' for the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) on Tuesday.
India has emerged as the second most optimistic nation in the world in terms of employment outlook, says a survey. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 11:13 am
Apart from the National Assembly - the lower house of Parliament, the President summoned the new provincial assemblies to meet on March 17. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 11:11 am
Amidst the launching Shah Rukh Khan's 'Kolkata Knight Riders', the pain of India's failure to qualify for the Olympic hockey championship struck a discordant note. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:52 am
The company's board of directors approved the proposal to raise additional long term resources up to Rs 4,000 crore by way of issuing securities. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:50 am
'Korbo, Lorbo, Jitbo' will be the war cry of Shah Rukh Khan-owned Knight Riders, one of the eight teams participating in the Indian Premier League. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:49 am
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 146 points at 15,778, and dropped to a low of 15,739 in early deals. Buying at lower levels helped the index rebound into positive zone soon, and Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:47 am
Arjuna Ranatunga fears that the huge amount of money offered to players by ventures like Indian Premier League and ICL can adversely affect the youngsters. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:45 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil rose to a record high for the fifth day in a row on Tuesday, boosted by investor flows into oil and other commodities partly to hedge against inflation and the weak dollar.
The Sensex is now up 195 points at 16,118.The NSE Nifty is up 62 points at 4,862.DLF has zoomed nearly 10% to Rs 747. Larsen & Toubro has soared nearly 7% to Rs 2,915.ACC Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:33 am
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's MiG aircraft corporation has signed a $1 billion contract with India to upgrade 64 MiG-29 fighters it had previously sold to the country, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.
The commerce ministry is looking at providing more relief to exporters in the annual supplement to the foreign trade policy (FTP), which is likely to be released in the first half of April Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:22 am
Zydus Nycomed Healthcare, a 50:50 joint venture company set up by Ahmedabad-based Zydus Cadila and European pharma firm Nycomed, will become the key raw material sourcing hub for Nycomed Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:19 am
Hyundai Motor India (HMIL) has received 60,000 export orders for its small car i10, which was launched in October 2007."HMIL started accepting export orders for the i10 from December 2007, and Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:13 am
A local court has permitted actor Salman Khan, who is facing charges of poaching a black buck, to go to Dubai for two stage shows this month. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:11 am
The Sensex is now up 239 points at 16,162.The NSE Nifty is up 84 points at 4,884.DLF has zoomed over 9% to Rs 743. Larsen & Toubro has soared 6.5% to Rs 2,905.ACC and Bajaj Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 10:08 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian police investigating the rape and murder of a British teenage girl in Goa last month, said they will take x-rays of her bones to determine her age, but her lawyer described it as "dilatory tactics".
Tata Motors is planning to raise Rs 4,000 crore of long-term resources by issuing securities in the domestic and overseas markets.According to a release issued by the company to the BSE today, Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 9:47 am
The Pakistan government has asked Iran to close the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project with or without India by April to help meet the country's growing requirements for gas.Iran Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
Danisco India today announced the opening of two new manufacturing units of functional systems and enzymes with an investment of Rs 32 crore.Danisco India has also set up labs for testing the Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 Mar 2008 | 9:45 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The leader of India's ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi told her party on Tuesday to prepare for elections next year "with a firm sense of self-confidence", but gave no hint of an earlier poll.
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Indian police have barred a group of around 100 Tibetans from marching towards the Chinese border to press their claims for independence and protest against the Beijing Olympics.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - In a sizzling property market, architect Manit Rastogi at MD Morphogenesis has created some of India's coolest buildings, using recycled water, wells, wind tunnels and sun screens to chill work places and slash energy costs.
Esha Deol's character of a loud, crass and talkative Tamilian cafe owner in producer Kumar Mangat's comedy 'One Two Three' was never meant to be region-specific initially. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 Mar 2008 | 4:02 am
Facing the common challenge of feeding the poor in this region of over 1.2 billion people, policymakers from Saarc nations favour a composite policy for ensuring food security in the region. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 Mar 2008 | 4:00 am
PANAJI: Expressing lack of faith in the Goa police over the probe into the mysterious death of British teenager Scarlette Keeling, her family on Monday demanded that the investigation be handed over to the Central Bureau of ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
HYDERABAD: An attack by a group of unidentified persons on Sundarayya Vignana Kendram, Baghlingampally, on Monday night, triggered clashes among activists of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Bharatiya Janata Party. Tension prevailed at ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf held a brainstorming session with his top legal aides on Monday to examine the threat to his political future from the agreement between the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Guwahati: Meghalaya Congress Legislature Party leader D.D. Lapang was sworn in Chief Minister of a new Congress-led government on Monday evening even as the newly formed Meghalaya Progressive Alliance (MPA) of the Nationalist Congress Party ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government is engaged in an exercise to revise the rules of the Cinematograph Act to make provisions for the changing demands of modern cinematography not accommodated by the 1955 Act. Among the issues that the revision ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Ahmedabad: The Narendra Modi government on Monday withdrew the Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill of 2006 that was returned by the Governor to the Assembly for reconsideration in August last year. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu has termed as “incorrect” reports in a section of press that his party had no problem if the Centre went ahead and formed separate Telangana. Mr. Naidu said all he told ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Airport operations are likely to be disrupted as the employees have threatened to start an indefinite ‘non-cooperation movement’ from March 12. — PTI ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
The Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) agreed on the framework of a governing coalition on Sunday at Murree. The agreement represented the move of the two parties, Mr. Sharif said, ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Chennai: Stormwater drains in two zones of the Chennai Corporation have been digitally mapped using the geographic information system (GIS). Just a few clicks on the digitised map will help officials find data on stormwater drains, which ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
India and Africa will launch an action plan and adopt a declaration to take their 'time-tested and historical ties' to new heights at the end of the country's first summit with 14 African countries in April. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Mar 2008 | 6:01 pm
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monday removed all charges on using the cash vending machines, except for withdrawing money for which a maximum fee of Rs.20 has been prescribed. Even the withdrawal fee will be abolished from April 1, 2009. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Mar 2008 | 6:01 pm
A legislator belonging to the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) was Monday suspended for the entire budget session of the Haryana assembly following heated arguments in the house. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Mar 2008 | 6:00 pm
The ministry of youth affairs and sports is set to launch a Rs.15 billion sport promotion programme for rural youth. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Mar 2008 | 6:00 pm
John Buchanan, former Australian cricket coach, feels the Indian national selectors are 'securing' the future of Indian cricket by picking a young side, which vindicated them by winning the Tri-series Down Under. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Mar 2008 | 5:32 pm
Maharashtra Governor S. C. Jamir, appealing to the people to make judicious use of electricity, Monday said the state government has received investment commitments worth nearly Rs 114,000 crore (Rs.1.14 trillion) for 92 mega power projects in the past couple of years. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Mar 2008 | 5:31 pm
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-Left parties committee is likely to meet March 17 to discuss the government's latest position on the contentious India-US civil nuclear deal, against which the communists have given a fresh ultimatum last week. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Mar 2008 | 5:31 pm
At least 77,000 mothers in India die every year during child birth, Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury said Monday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 Mar 2008 | 5:31 pm
Manik Sarkar will take oath as Chief Minister of Tripura for the third consecutive time here on Monday. Source: Zee News : States | 10 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
Karnataka`s 2008-09 budget to be presented in the Lok Sabha by uNion Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday, is expected to be a populist one, keeping in mind the coming assembly polls in the state. Source: Zee News : States | 10 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
How long will it take to reach the new international airport in Hyderabad? Air passengers here do not know even as the countdown for the launch of the new facility has begun. Source: Zee News : States | 10 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
More than one lakh Gujjars are expected to stage a mass sit-in here on Monday to demand Scheduled Tribe (ST) status for community that would entitle them to reservations in top educational institutions in the country. Source: Zee News : States | 10 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
All the 59 newly elected MLAs in Meghalaya will be administered the oath of office at a ceremony in Raj Bhavan on Monday. Source: Zee News : States | 10 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
The CPI(M) has moved notices for suspension of the Question Hour in both Houses of Parliament on Monday to raise the issue of the Sunday attack on their party headquarters by BJP-RSS activists. Source: Zee News : India National | 10 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
With temperatures soaring up on the Indo-US nuclear deal, Congress President Sonia Gandhi is expected to unveil the strategy on the issue for the party at a meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday. Source: Zee News : India National | 10 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
Former Indian hockey Olympians dubbed Monday the saddest day after the country failed to make it to the Olympics for the first time in 80 years and sought a thorough overhaul of the way the game is run. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
When a 40-year-old housewife from a little known Tripura village took oath as the Left Front government's lone woman minister Monday, it was a giant step forward for a homemaker catapulted into the rough and tumble of politics. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Large-scale investment in the food processing sector is increasingly becoming a challenge as global firms provide stiff competition to domestic producers, Subodh Kant Sahai, minister of state for food processing industries, said here Monday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Shilpa Shetty has denied reports that she has been booted out from the second run of her successful West End musical, 'Miss Bollywood'. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
It must surely rank as the saddest day in Indian hockey, maybe even for Indian sport. For years we have clung to the hope that hockey will one day bring us the Olympic gold as it once did for decades at a stretch. Reaching a situation where we needed to qualify to play in the Olympics was painful enough; now we have a situation where we will not even be playing at the Beijing Olympics. That was really unthinkable. Now it is true. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
Beleaguered Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) chief Subhas Ghisingh Monday resigned from the post of caretaker administrator of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council (DGHC). Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front that stormed back to power in Tripura assumed office Monday for the fourth term in a row, with the veteran Manik Sarkar at the helm as chief minister. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
They both claim they will play to win, but neither Dempo Sports Club nor Al Ansar of Lebanon will kick themselves if they grab only a point in the AFC Cup Group A opener at Goa's Nehru Stadium Tuesday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 10 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
