President of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has expressed his concern over reports about death warrants against Indian citizen Sarabjit Singh. Source: Zee News : States | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:13 pm
A landslide in Nehru Kund, which is about four kilometers from Manali, has claimed 25 lives on Tuesday. Source: Zee News : States | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:13 pm
The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) has called for a day-long Assam shutdown on Tuesday to protest against allegation to kill their association`s secretary Bigrai Basumatary. Source: Zee News : States | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:13 pm
The INLD is ready for the by-elections to the Bhiwani Lok Sabha seat of Bhiwani and for the three assembly seats, MP and party leader Ajay Chautala has said. Source: Zee News : States | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:13 pm
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Tuesday said that he would resign if the violence in his homeland went out of control. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
A former Manipur minister was arrested, but later released on bail, for allegedly trying to molest his Congress party colleague in her south Delhi home. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
Simi Mehra, for long India's lone representative on the women's professional golf circuit the world over, wants to make a strong bid for the $120,000 DLF Women's Indian Open from March 24 at the DLF Golf Club. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
The US-based Tufts University in Massachusetts will offer two-year courses in Master of Science in Engineering Management (MSEM) in Pune, Bangalore and Delhi in India. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
A major power breakdown took place in Noida and Greater Noida of the national capital region Monday night following a fire in a transformer. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
South Africa is all set to lure the BPO and IT industry from India to its backyard, as majority of the natives feel that 'Europeans and Americans are more comfortable with the South African English accent'. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
An important meeting the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) called Monday evening to discuss major issues, including conversions, turned out to be a 'damp squib' with only about dozen minority community MPs turning up. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
Nearly 1,000 doctors working in private hospitals here struck work Tuesday, protesting a mob attack on a doctor. They submitted a memorandum to the district collector to frame laws to safeguard their community. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
Foreigners visiting the Taj Mahal here Tuesday on will have to pay the entry fee in rupees and dollars will no longer be accepted, officials said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
Many more lives would have been lost in a blaze that broke out at an industrial estate here Monday evening if it had not been for the heroic zeal of two people Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:21 am
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 83 points at 14,726, and slipped to a low of 14,677 in early deals.Buying at lower levels helped the index rebound into positive zone, and the index Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 11:18 am
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama said on Tuesday he would resign as Tibetan leader if the situation veers out of control in Tibet and denied accusations from China that he was inciting riots.
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 83 points at 14,726, and slipped to a low of 14,677 in early deals.Buying at lower levels helped the index rebound into positive zone, and the index Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:47 am
Following the global trend of movie studios launching their television channels, UTV, the producer of Hindi films like Jodhaa Akbar, today announced the launch of UTV Movies Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:45 am
A day after she announced her decision to quit India, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen spoke in an email of her mental trauma of being confined to a 'safe house. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:34 am
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - The Tibetan government-in-exile has raised its confirmed death toll from clashes between Chinese authorities and Tibetan protesters to 99, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The Sensex has pared most of its gains and is now up 54 points at 14,863.The NSE Nifty is up 37 points at 4,540.DLF has surged nearly 5% to Rs 632. Hindustan Unilever has rallied 3.8% Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:32 am
Former royal butler Paul Burrell claimed to have removed an engagement ring from the body of Diana in a Paris morgue soon after the fatal car crash in 1997 Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:19 am
India Cements, which has bought the rights for the Chennai team of the Indian Premier League (IPL), plans to operate on a revenue model involving advertisements on players' helmets, sponsorship for Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:08 am
Maruti Suzuki on Tuesday unveiled a new sedan, Swift DZiRE, to be launched on March 29 priced below the company's existing car SX4. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:08 am
World's newly crowned richest person Warren Buffett may have some lessons for other billionaires and CEOs of the world. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:01 am
The Sensex is now up 300 points at 15,110.The NSE Nifty is up 93 points at 4,596.Reliance Energy has soared 7.5% to Rs 1,279. DLF has surged 5.5% to Rs 636.Hindustan Unilever Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 10:00 am
The Sensex is now up 264 points at 15,074.The NSE Nifty is up 95 points at 4,598.Reliance Energy has soared 7% to Rs 1,274. BHEL has surged nearly 5% to Rs 1,884.Reliance Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:36 am
Russel Arnold hit a fluent half-century (66 off 40balls) to guide Chennai Superstars to a thrilling four-wicket win in the last over Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:30 am
The Sports Ministry on Monday sought to put an end to the cold war between the IHF and Technical Advisor Ric Charlesworth Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:27 am
Opener Naman Ojha hit a century and RP Singh returned a five-wicket haul as Central Zone defeated Virender Sehwag-led north by 70 runs Source: Daily News & Analysis | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:26 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao accused the Dalai Lama of orchestrating riots in Tibet in which dozens may have died and said his followers were trying to "incite sabotage" of Beijing's August Olympic Games.
If advance tax payments are an indication of super profits in Q4FY08, India Inc is headed right in that direction. Banks and cement firms are expected to report good numbers in the quarter ending Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:06 am
The Sensex is now up 323 points at 15,132.The NSE Nifty is up 105 points at 4,608.Reliance Energy has soared 5.5% to Rs 1,258. BHEL and Ranbaxy have surged 4.7% each to Rs 1,881 and Rs Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 9:05 am
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Indian shares rose more than 2 percent by Tuesday afternoon, erasing losses of as much as 0.9 percent earlier, as investors picked up battered stocks after the main index plunged 6 percent in the previous session.
One test of an improvement in India-Pakistan ties will be the response of Pakistan to India's appeal for clemency for Sarabjit Singh who might be hanged on April 1 on charges of being a terrorist Source: Business Standard | News Now | 18 Mar 2008 | 8:36 am
SILIGURI (Reuters) - More than 2,000 Tibetans gathered from all over northeastern India on Tuesday for their biggest rally in the area in years, demanding the United Nations investigate reports of killings of protesters in China.
GUWAHATI (Reuters) - Unidentified militants blindfolded seven people and shot them in the volatile northeastern state of Manipur, police said on Tuesday.
DHARAMSALA (Reuters) - China says the Dalai Lama "organised, premeditated and masterminded" the violent uprising in Tibet, but exiled Tibetans of every stripe say no one outside the region is coordinating the protests.
Bollywood spells big money these days. The Western world's perception of the Hindi film industry has changed completely over the past decade. Today it recognises the worth of this Rs.100-billion ($2.5 bn) industry firmly set on fast-track growth. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 5:30 am
Pepsi will be the official beverage of the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) for five years and the deal with the soft drink giant has been struck at $12.5 million. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 4:30 am
After surrogate advertisements for alcohol and cigarettes, this could be the onset of an age of surrogate MPs in the Rajya Sabha. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 3:32 am
Anupam Kher has rubbed Bollywood the wrong way with his comment in London last week that he wants to change the 'hammy' acting style of Bollywood through the acting school that he has just set up. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 3:32 am
Hari Krishna's lilting music for Kannada film 'Gaja' continues to keep the album at the top of the charts. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 2:34 am
Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta, who has been in the news for her ugly spat with director Shona Urvashi while shooting 'Saas, Bahu, Sensex' in Pune, refuses to forget 'the experience'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 2:33 am
Priyanka Chopra's dream home is ready and the actress is delighted. But she hasn't moved in yet and will do so when she has the time to do it up herself. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 18 Mar 2008 | 2:00 am
NEW DELHI: The United Progressive Alliance-Left Committee on the India-United States civil nuclear cooperation on Monday felt that further discussions were needed on the draft India-specific safeguards agreement that was negotiated with the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
TIRUCHI: The Tiruchi Corporation Council on Monday fixed the basic value of properties, the baseline for revision of property tax scheduled to come into effect from April 1, in different locations of the City. The basic value has been ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The happenings in Tibet figured in Parliament on Monday, when members of the National Democratic Alliance walked out of the Lok Sabha protesting “violation of human rights” in that country. Raising the matter ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
ERODE: Celebration of womanhood on International Women’s Day has become an annual event, but issues concerning women are not. Especially crime against wedded women, which has come to be a day-to-day event in the district, as ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
ALAPPUZHA: The situation in Kuttanad where thousands of acres of paddy fields were submerged by summer rain over the last few days is turning out to be worse than expected. While initial estimates by the district administration pegged the loss ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 18 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Brajesh Mishra is choosing to keep mum on then deputy prime minister L.K. Advani's comments in his forthcoming autobiography that he strongly differed with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee over Mishra holding dual posts in the government. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Mar 2008 | 6:31 pm
A gurudwara worker, deposing as a witness in the gang rape of a girl in 2005, Monday turned hostile and told a city court he was not present when the girl was dropped after the incident at Dhaula Kuan here. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Mar 2008 | 6:03 pm
Mumbai students Monday created a new Guinness world record for making the world's largest Sushi mosaic. The 15.16 square metre Sushi mosaic consists of a whopping 5,814 sushi pieces. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Mar 2008 | 6:03 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government and its communist allies failed on Monday to break a deadlock over a controversial nuclear deal with the United States, but said they would meet again next month to discuss the pact.
