Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were net buyers of Rs 247.98 crore (provisional) today, according to data released by BSE. While FIIs made gross purchases of Rs 4,806.56 crore, gross Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:44 pm
CHENNAI (Reuters) - Hashim Amla recorded his second-highest test score of 159 to put South Africa in command on the second day of the first test against India on Thursday.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Tibetan monks disrupted an official news briefing at a temple in Lhasa on Thursday, shouting that Chinese authorities were lying about unrest in the Himalayan region, foreign reporters said.
The United Spirits winery in Baramati is ready to take up its first ever harvest of the 2008 vintage. The company will be launching six varieties of wines this year with a target of 5 million Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:14 pm
Reliance Money, a financial products distribution firm, said it has got approval for setting up a branch and offering investment advice in Oman. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:05 pm
Three-year-old Vandana, who fell into a 50-foot deep bore well shaft in a village and was rescued by army soldiers late Wednesday night, is recovering well at a hospital here. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
The Chinese security forces have seized portraits and recorded CDs of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan government-in-exile here said Thursday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
The Indian government has set aside Rs.37.8 billion in the Eleventh Five year Plan for the development of 90 districts where religious minorities are concentrated. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
The cabinet Thursday approved a debt relief fund with an initial corpus of Rs.100 billion ($2.5 billion) to reimburse commercial banks for waiving off Rs.600 billion of loans of an estimated 40 million farmers. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
India, which has the highest incidence of polio in the world, has teamed up with neighbouring Nepal and Bangladesh to control the spread of the disease across their porous borders. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
The Maharashtra government Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bharat Forge Ltd (BFL) to set up a centre for advanced manufacturing at Baramati. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
The five Indian boxers who have made their way into the Beijing Olympic Games, have done it with a new wonder technique - simply landing a power-packed punch straight to the opponents' face. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:01 pm
Aggressive Phatlum Pornanong of Thailand flew on the wings of a stunning eagle to keep her top spot intact with one more round to go in the second round of the DLF Women's Indian Open Thursday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
As the current financial year draws to a close, Indian stock markets Thursday remained subdued with the key market index, Sensex, closing in the red, in tune with mixed global cues. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs Thursday approved an allocation of Rs.2.57 billion put by the ministry of youth affairs and sports for the development and renovation of competition venues for the 2010 Commonwealth Games to be held here. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 pm
Reliance Industries and BG Group of the UK have refused to sign contracts for allocating natural gas produced from Panna/Mukta and Tapti fields to GAIL. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:56 am
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has phased out Access Deficit Charges (ADC) on domestic calls and slashed ADC on international calls to 50 paise from the present Re 1, effective April Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:53 am
A letter threatening to kill Yoga guru Ramdev was received by police who said it was the handiwork of a youth who wanted to falsely implicate his relative. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:52 am
Thane seems to be the worst hit by the Bombay High Court ruling that has termed many housing societies to be on forest land Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:47 am
The Democratic Front government may be able to find a solution to the forest land problem in its 'human face'. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:46 am
The impact of Monday's order of the Bombay High Court, deeming several plots of land in Thane, Mulund, Bhandup, Borivli, and Kandivli as private forest land, has begun manifesting itself Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:45 am
On the other, 3,300 trees will be cut for what is being touted as the Asia's largest water-treatment plant and sludge-removal project in the city. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:43 am
Despite fears of slowdown, investments in the Indian properties continue unabated. The Euronext-listed real estate investment company Yatra Capital has invested nearly Rs 175 crore in Bangalore-based Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:42 am
One of the four special courts assigned to hear 1992-1993 riot cases delivered its first judgment on Tuesday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:42 am
Adi Ichhaporia's "fledgling health" didn't stop him from "enjoying sex" even at 62. But it forced Matunga Police to grant him bail on Wednesday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:41 am
Sushma Nath, a 1974 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Madhya Pradesh cadre, has been appointed as secretary, department of expenditure in the ministry of finance. Nath was secretary, the Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:37 am
The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex ended lower by 71 points at close on Thursday on profit selling by funds in heavyweight stocks led by Tata Motors. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:24 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Parts of Asia are losing more than 28,000 square kilometres of forest every year, a trend that must to be reversed immediately to fight climate change, a United Nations report said on Thursday.
Bharat Forge, the leading global manufacturer of forged and machined components, today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Maharashtra government for its centre for advanced Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 11:15 am
Private telecom operators will not have to pay any levy to BSNL to compensate it for carrying out rural operations, sector regulator Trai announced today, a move that may hit BSNL's expansion plans in Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 10:32 am
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 137 points at 15,950 on the back of weak cues from the global markets. Weakness in the first half of the day saw the index slip to a low of 15,869.The Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 10:29 am
Government today gave approval to a Rs 1,650 crore investment by Germany's Dailmer AG on its proposed joint venture with India's Hero Group for manufacturing commercial vehicles.Daimler's Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 10:22 am
The Deccan brand, once synonymous with low cost flying in India, will cease to exist after its merger with the Vijay Mallya promoted Kingfisher Airlines, which will takeoff for international Source: Business Standard | News Now | 27 Mar 2008 | 10:21 am
Ram Mohan, the doyen of the Indian animation industry, has received a Special Recognition Award from the British High Commission at the Ficci Best Animated Frames (BAF) Awards 2008. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Mar 2008 | 9:00 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - "Jaguar is now an Indian beast" roared one Indian newspaper on Thursday as it lauded Tata Motors' long-awaited $2.3 billion deal to bag the sleek British car brand and its chunkier Land Rover counterpart.
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - India's cricket board hopes to keep offensive language and rude gestures out of the Indian Premier League by having the eight team captains take a pledge to abide by the "spirit of cricket".
With the acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover, does the Tata group have the two big cats of the British automobile industry by the tail? Analysts are posing this question given the implications of the future emission norms in Europe. But Tata Motors are confident of addressing the challenge. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Mar 2008 | 6:30 am
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tata Motors Ltd said on Thursday it was confident its $2.3 billion deal to buy Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford should improve its balance sheet in the long term.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's economy could grow 8.5-9.5 percent over the medium term but price pressures may persist due to high global oil and food prices, a United Nations panel said in a report released on Thursday.
BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - At least eight people were trampled to death and 10 seriously injured in a stampede at a Hindu temple in Madhya Pradesh, officials said.
Popular TV star Rajiv Khandelwal, who became a household name as the intense Sujal Grewal in 'Kahiin Toh Hoga', feels it is important to stay away from the safe zone to be successful in life. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Mar 2008 | 5:32 am
A British actor called Richard Burton is playing murdered cricket coach Bob Woolmer in Mahesh Bhatt's movie on cricket and match-fixing called 'Jannat'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Mar 2008 | 5:31 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan has had the main entry road to Force India's Silverstone factory blocked off in a dispute over access across land he owns.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani's comments favouring Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as a possible successor are causing heartburn in the party - and concern among its allies. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Mar 2008 | 5:03 am
Actor Pavan Malhotra lost the coveted role of a boorish Bangladeshi immigrant - protagonist Nazneen's husband in Sarah Gavron's much-acclaimed movie 'Brick Lane' - at the eleventh hour because he was not fat enough. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Mar 2008 | 2:00 am
The celluloid world merged with the real world when senior police officer R.K. Sharma was sentenced for the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Mar 2008 | 2:00 am
Nine people were killed and seven injured in a stampede late Wednesday at a religious fair in Madhya Pradesh, media reports said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Mar 2008 | 1:00 am
Kohima: A senior official of the Nagaland government-run cement plant was shot dead by unidentified gunmen near Chizami in Phek district, the police said on Wednesday. Roland Sangtam, an assistant engineer of the geology and mining ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
GULBARGA: At least seven persons were injured, three of three seriously, in a clash between supporters of the former MLAs Raja Venkatappa Naik and Raju Gowda of the Congress, near Naikal in Shahpur taluk in Gulbarga district on ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday impounded arms dealer Suresh Nanda’s passport for allegedly receiving kickbacks in defence deals, including in the purchase of Barak missiles from Israel. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
MUMBAI: The former chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Jagmohan Dalmiya, was arrested here on Wednesday for allegedly misappropriating Rs. 2.90 crore of BCCI money. However, he was immediately released on bail on his executing ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
London: Trade unions representing the 16,000 Ford workforce in the U.K. have in principle selected Tata Motors as their “preferential choice” as a buyer in the background of “fair, sustained and smooth” relationship ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Vadodara: The body of fisherman Laxman Kanji was flown to Mumbai from Karachi on Wednesday. It will be taken to Savar Kundla in Gujarat, H.B. Dave, Deputy Director of the Fisheries Department, Gujarat, said. Kanji died of cardiac arrest in ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Washington: The India-United States civilian nuclear deal has not reached the point of “now or never,” the White House said after External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s talks with President George Bush here. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: India has promised foolproof security for the passage of the Olympic torch through the country. “We will provide all possible arrangements to ensure that the Olympic torch travels through India peacefully,” National ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan said on Wednesday that the civilian nuclear agreement with the United States had “nothing to do with the strategic weapons programme.” Delivering the Air Chief Marshal P.C. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 27 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
: A city court hearing the Nitish
Katara murder case today set April 15 as a deadline for the
defence to conclude its final arguments. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:33 pm
Stung by Congress tirade against its senior leader L K Advani, BJP on Wednesday raked up insurgency in Punjab and North-East, terrorism in Kashmir and the LTTE issues in a bid to push the ruling party to the backfoot. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:33 pm
The controversial Indo-US civil
nuclear deal has not reached the point of "now or never", the
White House has said after External Affairs Minister Pranab
Mukherjee`s talks with President George W Bush here. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:33 pm
The Indo-UK ties and other issues of common interest figured during a meeting between External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his British counterpart David Miliband here on Wednesday. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:33 pm
The forensic expert who conducted the first autopsy on slain British girl Scarlett Keeling has been suspended, with Goa government on Wednesday claiming to have found prima facie `mistake` on the expert`s part. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:33 pm
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said a
court should be considered as the last resort by petitioners
to raise issues, like illegal constructions, which can be
resolved at other levels. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:33 pm
As Bhutan becomes the newest democracy in India`s neighbourhood after over 100 years of absolute monarchy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is readying to go to Thimphu in May - the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to that country in more than a decade. Source: Zee News : India National | 26 Mar 2008 | 11:33 pm
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The number of people in Asia infected with HIV could jump by more than 150 percent, or 8 million, by 2020 unless more is done to combat the spread of the virus that causes AIDS, a report presented to the U.N. secretary-general said on Wednesday.
