Nimesh Kampani-promoted JM Financial will increase its equity stake in JM Financial ASK Securities from the current 60% to 100%, subject to necessary regulatory approvals. The total consideration JM Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 9:09 am
The Sensex is now down 682 points at 15,689.The NSE Nifty is down 189 points at 4,753.HDFC has slumped 7.8% to Rs 2,413, and HDFC Bank has tumbled nearly 7% to Rs 1,305.ICICI Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:57 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A panel of leading ministers will meet on Monday to debate ways to curb rising prices in Asia's third-largest economy after inflation hit a 14-month high, but analysts say policymakers' options are limited.
Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL), has won a Rs 550 crore order to supply two 135 Mw boilers to Koniambo Nickel SAS, a company based in New Caledonia, an island in the south-west Pacific Ocean, east of Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:40 am
The Sensex is now down 631 points at 15,740.The NSE Nifty is down 176 points at 4,766.HDFC and HDFC Bank have plunged over 7% each to Rs 2,425 and Rs 1,300, respectively.ICICI Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:26 am
NTPC and Hyderabad-based National Geo-physical Research Institute (NGRI) have signed an agreement for co-operating and sharing knowledge to identify potential sites for setting up geo-thermal power Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:20 am
The Bush administration is proposing the broadest overhaul of Wall Street regulation since the Great Depression, according to a report on the website of The New York Times Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:11 am
DAMAC Properties, a leading real estate developer and luxury lifestyle provider in the Middle East, has signed up 60 agents in India to market properties to local investors.The company Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:05 am
Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), which was headquartered in Lahore before Independence, may apply to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for opening a branch in Lahore."We will take a view soon on Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 8:01 am
The Sensex is now down 616 points at 15,755.The NSE Nifty is down 170 points at 4,772.HDFC Bank has tumbled over 7% to Rs 1,300. ICICI Bank and Infosys have plunged 6.7% each to Rs 779 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:58 am
The Sensex is now down 593 points at 15,778.The NSE Nifty is down 166 points at 4,776.Infosys has slumped 7.7% to Rs 1,410. HDFC Bank has tumbled 7% to Rs 1,302, and TCS has shed 6.7% Source: Business Standard | News Now | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:21 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China stepped up its attacks on the Dalai Lama on Monday, blasting him for abusing religion, stirring protests in Tibet and preparing for independence as the Olympic flame arrived in Beijing under tight security.
Worried about its fading popularity among the youth and educated, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has asked its activists to focus on inducting more youngsters, women, Scheduled Castes and Tribes, and Muslims into its cadre. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
The cashier counts the currency notes carefully, makes an entry in the passbook and hands it over to the waiting customer through a tiny window. But this is no ordinary bank - as both the cashier and consumer are actually street children. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
With not many international events coming their way in the run up to the Olympic qualifiers in Kazan, Russia, the Indian women's hockey team is relying heavily on the video analysis of their formidable opponents to ensure a berth in the Beijing Games. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
The blood spattered bodies of two young men, who had been sprayed with bullets, have been found in a forest near the Himachal Pradesh tourist town of Kufri. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
New Delhi, Mar 31 : The Olympic Torch has arrived in Chinese capital Beijing from Greece, 130 days before the Games, and on the eve of a global torch relay, which is likely to spark off protests against China's policies and human rights practices. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Making their way under the cover of darkness, unscrupulous dealers whisk away thousands of children from Rajasthan in trucks to neighbouring Gujarat to make them work in the state's booming cotton fields. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
Graffiti has become an art in its own right in India. From being a tool of vandalism and political propaganda to striking psychedelic images that have aesthetic value, it has come a long way. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 31 Mar 2008 | 7:00 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's president and the country's top athlete launched the Beijing Olympics torch relay on Monday amid cheering, dancing and tight security, marking the symbolic start to a Games overshadowed by activism and unrest in Tibet.
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - India's Davis Cup captain Leander Paes is to be featured as a superhero in a cartoon television series aimed at promoting an active lifestyle in children.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human purpose to defeat global warming.
MUMBAI (Reuters Life!) - Unrest in Tibet is stirring up the fashion world of neighbouring India, with a leading designer dedicating his show at one of India's premier fashion events to peace in the remote Himalayan region.
WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - Food prices are soaring, a wealthier Asia is demanding better food and farmers can't keep up. In short, the world faces a food crisis and in some places it is already boiling over.
Security forces in Jammu and
Kashmir have arrested four militants and smashed two hideouts
along with detecting an improvised explosive device, a police
spokesman said here on Sunday. Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
A day after a case of sexual
abuse was registered against Orissa Assembly Speaker Maheswar
Mohanty, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday said lawful steps
would be taken, but parried queries on the possibility of
the presiding officer`s resignation. Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
About 67 percent children
between the age of 0-5 years have been covered on the first
day of the sub-national intensified pulse polio immunisation
round of 2008-09 today in 12 districts of Haryana. Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
Sending an emphatic and strong
message to Karnataka, especially the state`s BJP unit, not to
take him for granted on the Hogenakal issue, Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister M Karunanidhi on Sunday said his patience had a limit. Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
Congress on Sunday trained its guns on the BJP and BSP while appearing soft on the Samajwadi Party, hinting that it was open to an alliance with `any one who fights the communal forces`. State in-charge Digvijai Singh appeared evasive when asked specifically whether the Congress could forge an alliance with the SP in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, but he said that the "SP has been
able to contain the communal forces in UP". Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
Opposing suggestions that the
Kashmir issue should be "deep frozen", National Conference
president Omar Abdullah on Sunday claimed that PPP chairman Asif
Ali Zardari`s stand that Indo-Pak ties should not be held
hostage to the dispute had little support in Pakistan and J-K. Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
A major convention of the
Uttar Pradesh Congress on Sunday came down heavily on the Mayawati
government accusing it of corruption, saying a transparent
administration could not be expected from the Chief Minister
given her past record. Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
The Haryana government`s
overseas placement bureau has announced employment opportunities for highly skilled trade persons and engineering professionals in
leading Multi National Companies (MNCs) in Canada. Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
The SGPC has sought government`s
intervention for preventing a piece of body armour believed to
be that of Sikh Guru Gobind Singh from going under the hammer
at Sotheby`s auction house in London next month. Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
Haryana Chief Minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday announced that Palwal would be new district of the state and a committee would be constituted to
identify the areas for including in the new district, which would
be the 21st in the state. Source: Zee News : States | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:05 am
Describing as an "error" the NDA government`s decision to recognise Tibet as a part of China, former Defence Minister George Fernandes has said the Communist nation was "potential threat number one" to India and flayed the UPA dispensation for allowing it to be "bullied". Source: Zee News : India National | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
With the Tibet issue threatening to cast a shadow on its ties with India, China today briefed New Delhi on the recent violence in Lhasa and sought its "understanding" and support for Beijing`s position. Source: Zee News : India National | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
The mother of rape and murder victim
Scarlett Keeling on Sunday said she will seek the help of
Britain`s Scotland Yard in probing the case, even as the
National Commission for Women held that Goa police
investigations were "completely misleading". Source: Zee News : India National | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
Cautioning against trial by media
which hampers the rights of the accused, Chief Justice of
India K G Balakrishnan on Sunday said the provisions on contempt
of court were meant to protect the interest of the common man
and enforce judicial orders. Source: Zee News : India National | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
The CPI(M) on Sunday set April 15 as the deadline for the UPA government to initiate steps to bring down prices of essential commodities and threatened to launch nationwide agitation along with like-minded parties, if the Centre fails to do so. Source: Zee News : India National | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
The presence of terror camps in Pakistan continues to haunt the security establishment in India, which still feels that ISI-sponsored outfits like JeM, LeT and al-Badr are responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks in different parts of the country. National Security Advisor M K Narayanan recently said one of the greatest dangers India faced was terror camps being run on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Source: Zee News : India National | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
In a new twist to the murder of
Rajbir Singh, police on Sunday claimed that the revolver used by
property agent Vijay Bhardwaj to kill the Delhi Police
`encounter specialist` belonged to an Additional
Superintendent of Police in Hisar. Source: Zee News : India National | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
The Left parties in India on Sunday got a shot in the arm in their opposition to the strategic
tie-up with the United States, with an American Communist
leader saying Washington`s plan for Asia was to "pit one
country against another" and isolate China. Source: Zee News : India National | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:03 am
Beijing: China on Sunday sought India’s “understanding” and “support” on the Tibet issue as it tightened security on the eve of receiving the Olympic torch, apprehending protests by the supporters of the Dalai ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Direct Taxes on Sunday notified eight return forms for various categories of tax-payers for the assessment year 2008-09. Electronic filing of returns for assessment year 2008-09 has been made compulsory for ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Karnal (haryana): Eleven bloated corpses, some believed to be at least two months old, were fished out of the Bhakhra canal in the district. Eight bodies were found on Saturday and three more on Sunday, police said. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
Faizabad: Angry lawyers in Ambedkar Nagar district thrashed the son and nephew of Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Ram Achal Rajbhar for allegedly assaulting a colleague and misbehaving with his wife. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Gurgaon police on Sunday said “encounter specialist” Rajbir Singh was killed with the service revolver of the ASP (Hissar) that went missing after an encounter at Dadri last year. At a press conference, ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
BAPATLA (GUNTUR DT): A massive industrial corridor being set up in the coastal belt between Nizampatnam and Vadrevu ports would transform the coastal area in the district, Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy said on Sunday. He also promised ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 31 Mar 2008 | 12:00 am
The Congress Sunday blamed Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for 'lawlessness' in the state and accused Chief Minister Mayawati doing little to rein in corruption. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 6:00 pm
The 'traditional unseen barriers' between the judiciary and media appeared crumbling Sunday, thanks to a first-ever workshop conducted by the Supreme Court at the initiative of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Bollywood actor Darsheel Safary of the 'Taare Zameen Par' fame hogged the limelight as he walked the ramp for renowned fashion designer Neeta Lulla at the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) here. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 5:00 pm
Sachin Tendulkar has been ruled out of the second cricket Test against South Africa in Ahmedabad starting April 3, and Mohammad Kaif has been named as his replacement. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 4:18 pm
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar will miss the second test against South Africa starting on Thursday due to a groin injury, the Indian board said on Sunday.
A man allegedly threw his small son from his second-floor house in west Delhi after a quarrel with his wife, the police said Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 4:00 pm
India's National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan and Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo Sunday had a telephonic conversation, discussing issues of common concern including the situation in Tibet. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 4:00 pm
It's not only business tycoons like Lakshmi Mittal ruling the richie-rich club of Britain, but people of Indian origin are also making it big among the top-earning local council officials of UK. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:38 pm
A joint team of the West Bengal and Tripura police has arrested a Bangladeshi arms trafficker here Sunday, officials said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:32 pm
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani has paid a low-key visit to the headquarters of the Punjab-based Radha Soami sect at Beas town near here. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:31 pm
An injury-time header by Gouranga Biswas helped Chirag United S.C register a 3-2 win over Hindustan Aeronautics, Bangalore in the Second Division I League football Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:31 pm
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday warned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government of a nationwide mass struggle for a radical restructuring of the 'federal concept' and urgent measures to contain the rising inflation. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:31 pm
The much-awaited night-landing facility at Visakhapatnam airport finally became operational Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:31 pm
Dith, 65, died at a New Jersey hospital Sunday morning of pancreatic cancer, according to Schanberg, his former colleague at The New York Times. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 3:25 pm
The National Commission for Women has held that Goa police investigations into the rape and murder of British teenager Scarlett Keeling were "completely misleading". Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 2:45 pm
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top foreign policy official spoke on the phone on Sunday with an Indian official to discuss unrest in Tibet whose status has been an irritant in relations between the giant neighbours.
Delhi Giants paid the price of not building partnerships as they lost their ICL encounter to Kolkata Tigers by just one run at Tau Devi lal Stadium here on Sunday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 1:30 pm
Tendulkar has aggravated his groin injury he picked up in Australia but captain Anil Kumble assured the master batsman would play in the second Test. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 1:28 pm
The Haryana police have launched an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a family of and the recovery of 11 unidentified bodies. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 1:19 pm
Ferrari's most popular sports car model 612 Sumakha reached Kolkata on Sunday for a test drive down the city streets. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 1:16 pm
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has cancelled a party to mark her 60th wedding anniversary this weekend as she felt it would be "inappropriate" Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 1:09 pm
The sand may seem dry and deserts uninspiring, but fashion designer Arjun Khanna draws his inspiration from the Thar desert. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 30 Mar 2008 | 1:05 pm
