British police are to conduct a third post-mortem later on Thursday on the body of teenager Scarlette Keeling, who was found raped and murdered on a beach in Goa. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 10:04 am
Prakash Karat was re-elected General Secretary of the CPI(M) by the 19th party Congress which also reconstituted the politburo replacing Jyoti Basu and Harkishen Singh Surjeet. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:53 am
Petroleum Minister Murli Deroa has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cut customs duty on crude oil to avert financial bankruptcy of public sector oil companies. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:49 am
Disgraced former Pakistan captain Saleem Malik, serving a life ban for alleged match fixing, has got some reprieve after his name was removed from the exit control list. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:42 am
Hu Jia, a human rights activist and dissident, was sentenced to three and half years in jail for 'subverting' the state. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:32 am
The Sensex is moving in a narrow range, and is now up over 75 points at 15,829.Reliance is steady at Rs 2,389 - up 2%. Infosys is holding 2% gain at Rs 1,517. Satyam has gained 4% at Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:30 am
Allen solly, a brand of Madura Garments, is eyeing a turnover of Rs 500 crore by 2011, a top company official has said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:27 am
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles defeated Leander Paes and Paul Hanley in a keen contest to reach the men's doubles semifinals of the Sony Ericsson Open. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:17 am
Production of six core sector industries increased 8.7% in February 2008 when compared with 7.6% in February 2007. On a sequential basis, the infrastructure sector growth more than doubled from 4.2% Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:12 am
Chattrapal, the main accused in the kidnapping of former Adobe executive Naresh Gupta's son, who escaped from a court premises in February, has been arrested, police said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:02 am
Bollywood actress Diya Mirza, who walked the ramp after a gap of two years at the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW), says she used to be scared of sashaying down fashion runways but has become confident over a period of time. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
The Indian equity markets extended their gains Thursday and were trading in the green early afternoon. There was buying interest in metal, IT and oil and gas sectors while capital goods, power and auto were under selling pressure. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
Six main infrastructure industries in India, including crude oil, power generation and coal production, registered a 8.7 percent growth in February against 7.6 percent in the same month last fiscal. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
New Delhi, Apr 3 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has assured his Chinese counterpart that it would not tolerate any political anti-China activities by Tibetans on Indian Territory. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
Putrajaya (Malaysia), Apr.3 : Some 200 children born with congenital heart disease every year will soon be travelling to Bangalore for a new lease on life. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
Kargil, Apr 3 : Horse caravans with fresh vegetables and fruits have arrived in Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir with partial clearing of the Sonamarg-Kargil Highway by Border Roads Organisation (BRO) that remained under 60 feet of snow during winter months. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
The buzz may be that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has an eye on the prime minister's job. But the Congress is 'very happy' with incumbent Manmohan Singh, says party leader M. Veerappa Moily. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
The chief spokesperson of the Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit was arrested in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir Thursday, dealing a major blow to the guerrilla group. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
Seafood exporters in Kerala are happy with the sops announced by the central government to bail them out, especially the incentive for shrimp farmers. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex gained 97 points in early trade on Thursday on selective buying by funds. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:57 am
Describing India as a 'strong partner', a top US military officer has said that Washington has not asked New Delhi to do 'more' in the war-ravaged Afghanistan. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:54 am
The Sensex has moved up over 60 points to 15,817.Reliance has advanced 2% to Rs 2,390. Infosys has moved up 2% to Rs 1,513. While Wipro has gained 5% at Rs 435, TCS has added 4% at Rs Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:50 am
South Africa needed just 20 overs of searing pace to blast India out for 76 before lunch on the opening day of the second Test at Ahmedabad in India. Dale Steyn led a sharp pace attack to finish with... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:45 am
The cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) today approved a proposal to create Information Technology Investment Regions (ITIRs) to boost the growth of IT, IT-enabled services and electronic Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:42 am
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - They fought in the mountains for a decade, but Nepal's former Maoist rebels vowed on Thursday to respect the result of next week's historic national elections -- even if they lose.
The Sensex has dropped sharply on profit-taking, and is now down marginally (five points) at 15,745.BHEL is still down nearly 6% at Rs 1,745. Reliance Energy has declined 4% to Rs 1,180. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:33 am
Petroleum Minister Murli Deroa has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cut customs duty on crude oil to avert financial bankruptcy of public sector oil companies who face a whopping Rs 130,000 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:26 am
Prakash Karat was today re-elected general secretary of the CPI(M) by the 19th Congress, which also reconstituted the Politburo (PB) replacing veteran leaders Jyoti Basu and Harkishen Singh Surjeet Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:22 am
Gammon Infrastructure Projects, a unit of construction firm Gammon India, was listed on the National Stock Exchange at Rs 170 per share - just 1% higher than the issue price.The scrip Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:13 am
The Sensex is now up over 90 points at 15,845.Infosys is up 2% at Rs 1,511. Satyam has added nearly 4% at Rs 423. Wipro is still up nearly 5% at Rs 435.Reliance has advanced nearly 2% Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:08 am
Telecom and IT Minister A Raja today announced that the department of information technology (DIT) has received seven proposals, inculding two from Reliance Industries, under the special incentive Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
THIMPHU (Reuters) - Schoolchildren in Bhutan are warned -- one word of disrespect against their teacher, and they will be reborn as a dog, for the next 500 lives.
A new Coca-Cola advertisement featuring Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan is pegged on the theme 'Jashan Mana Le' or just have fun. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Apr 2008 | 3:52 am
TOKYO (Reuters) - Attempting to explain the finer points of a googly or silly mid-off to the Japanese would appear, at first glance, one of the most thankless tasks in sport.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Troubled by a difficult case, doctor Asfaw Atnafu decides to seek advice. He walks into a consulting room at Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa and greets a doctor at the Care Hospital in Hyderabad.
At 80, veteran actress Kamini Kaushal is delightfully agile, sprightly and girlish as she still continues her swimming and yoga. But she says acting was never above her family. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Apr 2008 | 2:30 am
Himesh Reshammiya has decided to do away with the entire music score of Subhash Ghai's 'Karz' and substitute it with swanky new compositions in his version of the film titled 'Karzzz'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Apr 2008 | 2:30 am
Upon learning that some Bollywood producers are planning films 'inspired' by her life in politics and out of it, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has advised them to err on the side of caution. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Apr 2008 | 2:30 am
BJP leader L.K. Advani and the ever popular Jeffrey Archer team up once again as bestseller authors, one topping the non-fiction list with his autobiography 'My Country, My Life' and the other the fiction list with 'A Prisoner of Birth'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 Apr 2008 | 2:00 am
Seeking "just and equitable"
resolution to the Kashmir issue, Pakistan`s new Foreign
Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said his country wants
friendly relations with India and noted that there are
"signals of reciprocity" from the other side. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
In contrast to the view taken by
the government, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek
Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday welcomed the hike in fee by the IIMs and said that easy loans should be facilitated to make education
more affordable in these institutes. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Wednesday said there are major lapses in the probe into the murder of British teenager Scarlett Eden Keeling and the Goan Police was trying to shield some people involved in the incident. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
Delhi Police will seek the custody
of Safdar Nagori, General Secretary of the outlawed Students
Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who was arrested in Indore a
week ago, in connection with a case in the national capital. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
The 21st century will belong to Asia in terms of economic growth, with China at the top spot and India or the United States coming in the second place, a top US intelligence official has said. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
A hospital in Devon, Britain, will conduct the third forensic test on murdered teenager Scarlett Keeling on Wednesday. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
A killing which is not
pre-meditated and takes place during a sudden fight should not
invite a punishment which is awarded for a murder, the Supreme
Court has said. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
Government on Wednesday assured that it would improve facilities provided for Haj pilgrims in the wake of complaints of inadequate arrangements and indifferent attitude of some state-run agencies. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
India`s approach towards tackling global warming and simultaneously managing its energy needs is of concern to the United States not just on the question of environment, but also for its national security, Speaker of House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has said. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:16 am
Bangalore: Political parties in the State, including those that had opposed immediate Assembly elections on various grounds, have welcomed the decision of the Election Commission to hold three-phase elections, beginning May 10. The ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: Following escalating protests in Tamil Nadu over Karnataka’s opposition to the Hogenakkal drinking water supply project, bus services were suspended on the Udhagamandalam-Mysore route on Wednesday. KSRTC buses were ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
CANBERRA: Australia began pumping carbon dioxide underground on Wednesday using an experimental technology that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by locking dangerous gases deep in the earth. Australia is one of only a handful of ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
LUCKNOW: Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Mahendra Singh Tikait on Wednesday “surrendered” in the Bijnor court and was later released on bail. He had been charged with making a derogatory reference to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has said that the Union government’s decision to withdraw import tariff on palm oil had come as a bolt from the blue for the farmers of Kerala. In a press release here ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh on Wednesday said the the BSP government had surrendered before Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, who has been charged with making a derogatory remark against ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
PATNA: Charges of judicial misconduct against a special CBI judge, who had acquitted Railway Minister Lalu Prasad in a disproportionate assets case, were found to be prima facie true after which 10 per cent of his pension was ordered to be ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
India and Myanmar Wednesday discussed ways to increase connectivity and opening more border points between them, even as New Delhi urged the junta to expedite political reforms and make these more broad-based to include imprisoned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Apr 2008 | 5:31 pm
India's leading IT firm Infosys Technologies has bagged the performance excellence award from global aerospace major Boeing for 2007. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Apr 2008 | 5:03 pm
Representatives of the forging and construction industries and small and medium sized units Wednesday urged steel manufacturers not to resort to steep price hikes. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Apr 2008 | 5:02 pm
The government should further clarify the vexed issue of allowing foreign investment in the retail trade, the Planning Commission said in a report Wednesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Apr 2008 | 5:02 pm
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar said on Wednesday he was offered money to under-perform in matches in South Africa and India but rejected them for the sake of his country.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bhutan's only two opposition members of the national assembly dropped plans on Wednesday to resign their seats over allegations of an unfair election, saying they would play the role of an effective opposition in the world's newest democracy.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India should consider allowing foreign investors to own a larger share in private sector insurance firms and usher in consolidation in state banks to boost service sector reforms, a report said on Wednesday.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Kashmir's main separatists urged Amnesty International on Wednesday to help identify human remains in nearly a thousand unmarked graves discovered by a local human rights group over the past year.
