With the Union Health Ministry
planning to review the National Polio Eradication Programme,
experts have made a strong case for introducing injectable
vaccination apart from the oral one to help curb the spread of
the deadly disease. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has rubbished Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray`s claims that he was doing more for Uttar Pradesh than Maharashtra. Speaking during an interview to a Mumbai newspaper, Bachchan said the allegations made by Raj do not deserve attention. “Random charges are random; they do not deserve the kind of attention you wish me to give,” he said. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
India on Sunday successfully
test-fired its nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-I
missile from the Wheelers` Island, a defence base in the Bay
of Bengal on Orissa coast. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
The strategies to build a third alternative through "common struggles" and critical review of the UPA government`s policies covering political, economic and international affairs are set to dominate the proceedings at the 20th National Congress of CPI opening here on Sunday. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
Concerned over growing left-wing
extremism in various states, the Centre has decided to
allocate Rs 500 crore during the 11th Plan for development of
infrastructure in Naxal-hit areas. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
The late President K R Narayanan,
who had a strained relationship with the A B Vajpayee
government, has come in for criticism from BJP leader L K
Advani for procedures adopted by him during government
formation in 1998 and during its fall a year later. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
To guard against loss of key
scientists engaged in strategic projects like development of
5,000 km-range Agni missile, underwater launched missiles and
anti-missile systems, the Defence Ministry has proposed to
raise the service age limit of select DRDO scientists to 65
years. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
The new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad, about 30 km from the city centre, began its commercial operations with the landing of a Lufthansa aircraft early Sunday. Source: Zee News : States | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
Leading NRI industrialist Lord Swraj
Paul will head a high-level British Parliamentary delegation
to West Bengal next month to discuss various issues like
terrorism and ways and means of enhancing the Indo-UK trade. Source: Zee News : States | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
The Congress has brushed aside
reports that it is coming closer to actor-politician
Vijayakant in Tamil Nadu and made it clear that its alliance
with DMK is "strong and intact". Source: Zee News : States | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:12 pm
Without naming the Left parties, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has criticised "some 60 members of parliament" for trying to hinder India's economic progress. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:47 am
Former South African captain and administrator Ali Bacher has lashed out at the prevailing quota system in the country's cricket team selection. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:31 am
Julio Lobo, boyfriend of the slain British teenager, has launched an attack on the teenager's mother Fiona MacKeown, saying she was aware of Scarlett's heavy drinking habit. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:28 am
PPP's prime ministerial candidate Yousuf Raza Gillani said he was nominated for the post after party leader Asif Ali Zardari's consultations with his son Bilawal. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:24 am
Actor Amitabh Bachchan has played down remarks against him by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray that he had done more for UP than for Mumbai. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:20 am
Declaring that an era of "real democracy" has begun, President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday said Pakistan's new government should usher in political stability. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:18 am
The late President K R Narayanan, who had a strained relationship with the A B Vajpayee government, has come in for criticism from BJP leader L K Advani. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:13 am
Coca Cola has said that rival Pepsi is slightly ahead but the Atlanta-based company is determined to push India among its top five markets on the strength of its "advantage portfolio" here. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:04 am
In another global recognition of India's haute-couture, world-renowned Italian fashion brand Armani has included sherwani in its latest collections. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Mar 2008 | 11:00 am
Maharashtra State Agri-produce Marketing Board (MSAMB) has promoted MahaOrange - an apex body of the state's orange growers' co-operative societies to boost production, processing, marketing and Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 10:39 am
India today successfully test-fired its all solid-fuel 700-900 km range nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-I missile.The missile was launched from a mobile launcher at the integrated test Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 10:33 am
SEPANG, Malaysia (Reuters) - Kimi Raikkonen cruised to victory in Malaysia on Sunday to put Ferrari back on the winning track and slash Lewis Hamilton's lead to three points.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf assured his full support on Sunday for an incoming government that will almost certainly be led by a prime minister he had jailed for over four years.
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - England and Australia cannot come to terms with India's growing importance in world cricket, according to Sunil Gavaskar, the International Cricket Council's cricket committee chief.
Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has accused Chinese companies of grabbing equipment supply contracts for mega power projects by dumping, but the navratna PSU has declined to move the government on the Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 9:14 am
Concerned over growing Left wing extremism in various states, the central government has decided to allocate Rs 500 crore during the 11th Plan for the development of infrastructure in naxal-hit areas Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 9:03 am
If stock market be considered a game of snakes and ladders, there has been almost one snake for every ladder in the current fiscal, which is about to end after six days of trading. This means that an Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 9:02 am
The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Shamshabad began commercial operations this morning. A Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt, Germany landed at the airport at around 12:24 a.m.The Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 7:06 am
As Congress and the Bush administration struggle to contain the housing and credit crises and prevent more Wall Street firms from collapsing as Bear Stearns did, a split is forming over how to Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:55 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has accused the Dalai Lama of plotting "terror" in Tibet and colluding with Uighur separatists in Xinjiang as it escalates a security and propaganda drive to stifle anti-Chinese unrest ahead of the Olympics.
Election Commission (EC) has written to the union finance ministry seeking Rs 55 crore for conducting the assembly elections in Karnataka.EC officials, who did not want to be identified, told Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:44 am
YANGON (Reuters) - An unidentified man apparently suffering from economic hardship in military-ruled Myanmar has set himself ablaze in the country's historic Shwedagon Pagoda, witnesses said on Sunday.
PUNAKHA, Bhutan (Reuters) - The people of Bhutan face some subtle choices in their first parliamentary elections on Monday, choices that underline the changes democracy is bringing to this traditional Himalayan kingdom.
New Delhi, Mar 23 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee left for the United States last night to hold bilateral talks with American leaders. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:00 am
Hyderabad, Mar 23: The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of India (CPI) to be held here from Sunday, is likely to discuss all thorny issues responsible for the Left's growing tensions with the Congress-led UPA Government. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:00 am
Islamabad, Mar.23 : Pakistan will take part in the qualifying round of the Asian Junior Men's Basketball Championship in Bangalore in July this year. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:00 am
It was banned by the Maharashtra government more than four decades ago as it was thought to cause a kind of paralysis. But now a nutritionist is waging a lonely battle to get the ban lifted on lakhodi dal, a pulse variety, that is consumed by millions daily in the state. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:00 am
Killing Maoist guerrillas will not help end their insurgency unless the benefits of economic development reach the poorest of the poor, says former Madhya Pradesh home minister Mahendra Boddh. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Mar 2008 | 6:00 am
The Federal Reserve and Bank of England (BoE) denied a report on Saturday that they were in talks over possibly using public funds to make mass purchases of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to ease Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:30 am
A staggering two thousand people have been fined in the capital for various traffic violations on the occasion of Holi.Policemen with breath analysers were out in large numbers across the city during ... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:29 am
The Met department has forecast more rain today in Tamil Nadu.Nine people have lost their lives in the state due to heavy rain in the last few days following a depression in the Arabian Sea.While the ... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:29 am
India Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has extended warm greetings and felicitations to President Pervez Musharraf and the people of Pakistan on her own behalf on the occasion of Pakistan's P... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:23 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's leaders have long feared the impact of the country's yawning wealth gap on social stability. When protests in Tibet, its poorest region, flared into riots, their nightmare looked very real.
Panaji: Almost winding up her fight against the flourishing drug trade in the coastal State, Fiona Mackeown, mother of slain British girl Scarlette Eden Keeling, has moved to an undisclosed destinatio... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:20 am
The Nifty almost revisited its January lows of 4,450 before bouncing back a wee bit. The index slumped to a low of 4,469, recovered to a high of 4,718 and eventually ended with a loss of 172 points at Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Mar 2008 | 5:19 am
Bipasha Basu may be the epitome of today's woman but in her heart she wants to transport into another era and work in a costume drama. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 4:32 am
Australia-based Farnow Technologies has tied up with Gujarat's FieldMarshal group to invest nearly Rs.10 billion ($250 million) for assembling battery-powered three-wheel rickshaws and cars in India. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 4:31 am
Comrades in the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) have started feeling the heat of global warming. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 4:30 am
With its expertise and entrepreneurship, India can help Ethiopia develop that country's bamboo industry, a visiting Ethiopian official has said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 3:30 am
There really is no such thing as art, there are only artists, said Gombrich in his seminal work, 'The Story of Art'. Artists 'are favoured with the wonderful gift of balancing shapes and colours till they are 'right', and rarer still, who possess that integrity of character which never rests content with half-solutions but is ready to forgo all easy effects, all superficial success for the toil and agony of sincere work,' he wrote. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 3:00 am
Niharika Singh is no stranger to fame. At the age of 21 she won the Ponds Femina Miss India Earth pageant. She is now debuting opposite Himesh Reshammiya in John Matthew Mathan's 'A Love Iiisshtory'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 3:00 am
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict led the world's Catholics into Easter on Saturday at a Vatican service where he baptised a Muslim-born convert who is one of Italy's most famous and controversial journalists.
Final exams are mercifully over and it is time for merry-making - going to see films, to restaurants or even out of the city. But for the younger siblings of those taking the board examinations, holiday time is full of 'Shh, don't make noise' because 'bhaiya' or 'didi' is studying. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 2:00 am
The new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad, about 30 km from the city centre, began its commercial operations with the landing of a Lufthansa aircraft early Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:01 am
An Italian journalist who is under police protection in the wake of threats from Muslim extremists is set to be baptized late Saturday by Pope Benedict XVI, according to news reports citing the Vatican's spokesman. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Mar 2008 | 1:01 am
BANGALORE: Putting the fiasco of Arkavathy Layout behind it, the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) is all set to form a new layout at Kengeri. But the 20,000-odd people who have been allotted sites in the layout, mired in litigation, have ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Bangalore: The Bangalore police on Saturday arrested a Bangladeshi, said to be an associate of the two suspected militants gunned down by the Mumbai police on March 11, and seized fake Indian currency notes printed abroad from him. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: He speaks of innovative methods to generate and conserve energy with great conviction. Climate change worries him immensely. “I want to make India the best, and I’ll go to any extent to achieve that,” he says. He is ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has to recover over Rs. 4,000 crore from its subscribers and private operators and this is having an adverse impact on its financial health, according to a report of the Comptroller and ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
ANANTAPUR: Former Minister G. Nagi Reddy on Saturday alleged that Superintendent of Police M.S. Raveendra had manhandled and used filthy language against him in the name of counselling. Talking to mediapersons here, Mr. Nagi Reddy, who is now ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
JAIPUR: Over 35 people were injured in clashes between two communities at Chittaurgarh, Rajasthan, on Saturday during Holi celebration. Curfew was clamped following the clashes and arson at 20 places in the town. Communal violence broke ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Amid continuing uncertainty about the fate of the India-US nuclear deal, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee goes to Washington Sunday on a two-day visit that will focus on India's pact with the IAEA and the next steps necessary to conclude the deal. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Mar 2008 | 6:00 pm
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The man set to become Pakistan's next prime minister is a staunch loyalist of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto who might be asked to step aside for her widower.
