In the midst of the migrants`
issue being raked up by certain political parties in
Maharashtra, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has said people
from across the country are welcome to live in Mumbai but
should not construct illegal encroachments which deprive
citizens of public amenities. Source: Zee News : States | 14 Apr 2008 | 1:55 pm
Two persons were killed and 20
others, including eight Pakistani nationals, injured when the
bus they were travelling in fell into a river in Gujarat`s
Mehsana district today. Source: Zee News : States | 14 Apr 2008 | 1:55 pm
The Orrissa Police is suspecting the involvement of mafia in the sensational murder of Biranchi Das in Bhubnaeswar on Sunday. Source: Zee News : States | 14 Apr 2008 | 1:55 pm
Five persons, including four
security personnel were killed and four others grievously
injured in a daring assault by armed Maoist ultras at Jhajha
railway station in Bihar`s Jamui district this evening here
on Sunday. Source: Zee News : States | 14 Apr 2008 | 1:55 pm
Marathon wonder kid Budhia
Singh, whose trainer Biranchi Das was killed in a driveby
shooting here this evening, says his dreams of winning an
Olympic medal for the country are "shattered". Source: Zee News : States | 14 Apr 2008 | 1:55 pm
External Affairs Minister
Pranab Mukherjee has hailed the victory of Moists in Nepal,
calling it a "positive development". Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Apr 2008 | 11:46 am
Senior Congress leader Arjun
Singh said on Monday he didn`t see anything wrong in projecting Rahul Gandhi as the
Prime Ministerial candidate in the next Lok Sabha, saying that
the young leader has all the qualities of his father. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Apr 2008 | 11:46 am
The Kolkata-Dhaka Moitree Express flagged off on Monday was stopped briefly on its tracks by a citizens group called `Amra Bengal`, demanding the scrapping of Indo-Bangladesh friendship treaty. The train however resumed the historic journey within 10 minutes as the police swung into action. The train was flagged off by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, resuming passenger train services between the two neighbouring countries after 43 years. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Apr 2008 | 11:46 am
India and Brazil have many things in common, including folk traditions, intellectual traditions and most importantly cows, President Pratibha Patil said on her arrival here as part of a three-nation Latin America swing. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Apr 2008 | 11:46 am
Indian doctor Muhammad Haneef was innocent all along, according to evidence emerging at the Old Bailey court in London, but the Australian Federal Police and the Commonwealth Director of Prosecutions ignored the evidence to continue his incarceration. Source: Zee News : India National | 14 Apr 2008 | 11:46 am
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - For more than a decade, the chief of Nepal's Maoists led a bloody civil war in the rugged Himalayan foothills and carried a price on his head.
DHAKA (Reuters) - Passenger trains began rolling between Bangladesh and India on Monday, resuming a service suspended more than four decades ago due to a war between India and Pakistan.
Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL) has urged the Union Finance Ministry to withdraw the 5 per cent import duty on naphtha levied in the Budget this year.HPL was the only petrochemicals firm in Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
At a time when the ruling UPA government is grappling with rising inflation, the new Minister of State for Coal Santosh Bagrodia has said that there will be no hike in the price of coal used for Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 8:14 am
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's former Maoist rebels have widened their lead in crucial elections meant to map the country's political future and create a new Himalayan republic, the latest tally showed on Monday.
Tata Communications Ltd has announced the expansion of its Global VPN service to Egypt through a partnership agreement with TE Data SAE, a subsidiary of Telecom Egypt SAE and Egypt's largest P-based Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 7:32 am
Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps, navigation and location-based services (LBS), has signed a definitive agreement with the Kalyani Group to acquire substantial equity stake in the Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 7:32 am
IT consulting and services provider Satyam Computer Services Ltd today said that it will set up a new campus at the Geelong Technology Precint, Victoria, Australia. The new 25-acre campus will Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 7:24 am
Reliance Industries is in talks with global energy majors, including British Gas of the UK, Chevron Corp of the US, Exxon and Shell for a possible stake sale in its Krishna-Godavari basin gas Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 7:18 am
New-generation lender Yes Bank plans to raise $300 million (about Rs 1,200 crore) by December as a part of its expansion plans."We will be raising around $150 million each in our Tier-I and Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 7:14 am
SEATTLE (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama said on Sunday he would resign as leader of Tibet's exiled government if violence in his homeland spreads out of control.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese forces found firearms hidden throughout a Tibetan temple in an ethnic Tibetan area of southwestern China which has been the scene of anti-Chinese riots in recent weeks, state television said.
Kirloskar Brothers, manufacturer and exporter of pumps and pumping systems, has bagged an order worth Rs 166.77 crore from the Damodar Valley Corporation - Kolkata. The project is in respect of Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:29 am
Grasim Industries, the Aditya Birla group flagship company, has increased its stake in AV Cell, a joint venture company in Canada, from 25% to 45%. The total consideration of the development is pegged Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:27 am
Daryn Kagan , it came in January 2006.She was brought into an office and told that CNN would not renew her contract when it expired at the end of the year. Kagan was lucky in one sense - she wasn't es... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:24 am
Asian markets are significantly weak today following a sharp drop in the US indices on Friday.The Hang Seng has plunged 813 points to 23,855. The Nikkei dropped 406 points at 12,918 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:19 am
HYDERABAD : The Union minister and N.T Rama Rao's daughter, Daggubati Purandareswari, launched a stinging attack on the Telugu Desam president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, after his luncheon meeting with th... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:01 am
HYDERABAD : The State council of the Communist Party of India has threatened to take up "de-hoarding" drive to unearth essential commodities "illegally" stocked in godowns if the Government fails to c... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:01 am
HYDERABAD : Former APSRTC chairman Gone Prakash Rao on Sunday launched indefinite fast unto death demanding action against Nizamabad MP and AICC secretary Madhu Yaskhi for allegedly sending his relati... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:01 am
HYDERABAD : "Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy is the biggest hero for the Congress and there is no need for us to rope in film stars to boost the prospects of the ruling party," said the Government Chief Whip,... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:01 am
Releasing his '100th open letter' to Dr. Reddy at a press conference here on Sunday, he criticised the Government's publicity campaign when people were facing hardship due to price rise. He... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:01 am
HYDERABAD : Expansion of the National Highway No.9 would figure in the Bharatiya Janata Party's election manifesto, the party national secretary Nallu Indrasena Reddy has said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:01 am
HYDERABAD : The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, sought the help of the Telugu Desam president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, in implementing the Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme successfully. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:01 am
HYDERABAD : A customs inspector at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad was allegedly beaten up by the chief security officer after he failed to produce his entry pass. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:01 am
HYDERABAD : The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to expedite construction of the controversial dam on the river Palar near Kuppam despite objections raised by Tamil Nadu. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 14 Apr 2008 | 6:01 am
CARSON, Calif. (Reuters) - David Beckham could not hide his disappointment after the Los Angeles Galaxy slipped to a 3-2 home defeat against Toronto FC on Sunday.
After bagging the best feature film award at the South Asian Film Festival in New York, Tanuja Chandra's first English language movie 'Hope And A Little Sugar' will hit Indian screens Friday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Apr 2008 | 3:30 am
India's inability to correctly predict the outcome of the Nepal elections indicates its mindset as well as its failure to keep pace with the changing ground reality in the neighbouring country. It is hardly a consolation that like New Delhi, many key international players were also wrong in their assessment of identifying the Maoists as the winner of the Nepalese polls. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Apr 2008 | 2:30 am
BOAO, China (Reuters) - China and other big developing countries such as India need to take steps to avoid being over-reliant on private cars, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning U.N. climate panel said.
Singapore is set to meet its target of recycling 60 percent of its rubbish by 2012, environmental officials said in a published report Monday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Apr 2008 | 1:30 am
Dusky and doe-eyed glamour girl Bipasha Basu, who got a makeover in Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Corporate', is trying to create a balance between commercial and art house cinema by doing unusual films like 'Pankh'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 14 Apr 2008 | 1:30 am
Bangalore: The Bangalore police are likely to question Sabeel Ahmed, who will be deported to India from the United Kingdom after he pleaded guilty to withholding information about his brother Kafeel’s plot to blow up the Glasgow airport. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
Udhagamandalam: The Thamizhagam garden here has joined the list of public gardens in the Nilgiris where the focus is now on value addition. While the hitherto unutilised areas of the Government Botanical Garden in Udhagamandalam and the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: Demolition notices have been served with respect to about 50 unauthorisedly built multi-storied and special buildings within the Chennai Metropolitan Area. Stop-work notices have been issued in the case of about 60 per cent of ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
BHUBANESWAR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that copy of the National Mineral Policy, 2008 be supplied to the mineral-bearing States before the same was introduced in Parliament. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
BHUBANESWAR: Biranchi Das, the former coach of child marathoner Buddhia Singh, was shot dead by three unidentified persons in front of his judo training centre here on Sunday evening. Mr. Das, who was believed to have received two ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 14 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
Sreesanth and Ishant Sharma defied all that South African bowlers had to throw at them. Theirs was the kind of partnership that brings a smile on the faces Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:39 pm
India, with around 260 million wireless subscribers, is set to adopt the international compliance norms to prevent health hazards linked to use of mobile phones. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:36 pm
The Rs 1,800 crore Varroc group, which manufactures a host of key auto components, is looking at a big-ticket acquisition in Europe this fiscal. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:35 pm
The idea is to own the latest technology in industrial systems the missing link in the company's product portfolio today. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:35 pm
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), may not have to participate in the auction process for getting 3G (third generation) spectrum Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:33 pm
With just three trading days this week (truncated by the birthdays of Babasaheb Ambedkar and Lord Mahavir on either end), the prognosis is one of weakness. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:32 pm
Supply of government paper hit the market in full force last week and the market found no place to hide. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:31 pm
Price action in the local currency market was pretty placid last week. Rupee's movements against the US dollar were confined to a narrower range Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:30 pm
The Nifty started last week with short covering, with April futures shedding around 1.5 million units. The Nifty rose over 2.5% on Monday to close at 4761. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:29 pm
With the Indian economy expected to grow at around 8.5%, the logistics sector, which forms an integral part of this growth story, is expected to grow at 15%-20% Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 Apr 2008 | 9:28 pm
Delhi's Food and Civil Supplies Minister Haroon Yusuf Sunday alleged that some, including the ruling Congress' political 'rivals', were trying to create artificial crisis of essential goods in the city. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Apr 2008 | 6:02 pm
Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will be in Miami for their first wedding anniversary next week. Not that they planned so. 'It just happened,' says Amitabh Bachchan. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Apr 2008 | 6:02 pm
Wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the eighth Indian to lead the team to victory on debut as Test captain after the hosts defeated South Africa by eight wickets here Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Apr 2008 | 6:02 pm
Unidentified gunmen Sunday shot dead Biranchi Das, the controversial former coach of six-year-old marathon sensation Budhia Singh, in Orissa. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Apr 2008 | 6:01 pm
Even as Japan succumbed to a 3-2 defeat against India in the Asia-Oceania Group 1 Davis Cup tie, veteran Takao Suzuki is nursing dreams of playing in India again. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Apr 2008 | 6:01 pm
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - The former coach of Budhia Singh, a six-year-old child prodigy dubbed India’s ‘marathon boy’, was shot dead on Sunday evening, police said.
KANPUR, India (Reuters) - India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni credited his side's disciplined bowling on a turning pitch after they defeated South Africa by eight wickets in the third and final test on Sunday to square the series.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni Sunday termed India's eight-wicket win over South Africa in the third Test as 'very crucial' as it came without two important members --Anil Kumble and Sachin Tendulkar -- in the side. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 Apr 2008 | 3:31 pm
KANPUR, India (Reuters) - India romped to an eight-wicket win over South Africa with two days to spare in the third and final test on Sunday to square the series 1-1 after routing the tourists for 121 in their second innings.
