Sports Minister M.S. Gill Tuesday said he would take action against corruption in the hockey federation as the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) called an emergency meeting Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Apr 2008 | 9:17 am
When India's first woman president Pratibha Patil met her Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet, the chemistry was instant Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Apr 2008 | 9:14 am
Lok Sabha members from all parties Tuesday sought criminal proceedings against those responsible for corruption in the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF). Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Apr 2008 | 9:08 am
Auto-rickshaws across the city largely stayed off the roads on Tuesday as part of the three-day strike to protest against the introduction of electronic meters. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:56 am
Gas may take a while to flow between Iran and India through a tri-nation pipeline, but there is no stopping music and ideas that will mingle at a festival here next week. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:54 am
The Government today said that no mergers and acquisitions of telecom licenses would take place if the number of service providers reduce below four in a circle consequent upon the M&A Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:48 am
A Delhi court would decide on May 14 as the date for pronouncement of verdict in the six-year-old Nitish Katara murder case. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:48 am
In order to meet the shortage of pilots, Air India is now looking to the Indian Air Force (IAF) to bridge the gap.?? Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:47 am
The IITs - respected globally as institutions of excellence - had opposed the opening of three more IITs this year, but the government went ahead anyway. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:47 am
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) that has political parties like BJP, JD (U) and Shiv Sena under its fold has decided to call a nationwide strike on May 2 to protest the rising prices of Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:45 am
The Indian market was hovering between positive and negative in afternoon trade. The market, which opened in the red, bounced back in early afternoon trade and again slipped into red. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:45 am
Beware of browsing social networking sites for long as your PC or laptop could easily fall prey to cyber attacks from hackers. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:43 am
Deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia today suggested a modest increase in the surcharges on income tax as a revenue neutral alternative measure for replacing the transactions Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:41 am
The banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has links with terrorist groups, including Lashker-e-Toiba, the government said today.?? Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:40 am
The two domestic pharma giants, Gurgaon-based Ranbaxy Laboratories and Chennai-based Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals have entered into a business alliance agreement which involes multipile Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:37 am
Private Equity investments (PE) in India have grown to about twice the value to $4 billion in the first quarter ended March 31 of the calendar year 2008, when compared to the corresponding period last Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:32 am
ndia's Petroleum Minister Murli Deora will hold talks to resolve differences with Pakistan over the transit fee and transportation tariff for a trans-national gas pipeline from oil-rich Iran. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:32 am
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Authorities in Tripura prepared to cull thousands of chickens after a fresh outbreak of bird flu in poultry was detected on Tuesday, officials said.
The total approximate earnings of Indian Railways on originating basis during the period April 1-10, 2008, were Rs 2,106.62 crore, registering a growth of 17.35 per cent compared with Rs 1,795.15 Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:19 am
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today arrived in Jharkhand to a black flag protest by BJP activists over price rise as police arrested nearly 100 of them in Ranchi and Bokaro Source: Business Standard | News Now | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:16 am
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of villagers have flocked to a remote Indian village to see a baby girl who was saved by stray dogs after she was abandoned in a mound of mud by her mother, officials said on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will take more fiscal steps to tackle rising inflation if necessary, the finance minister said on Tuesday, as the government battles to turn round rocketing prices that threaten to hurt it at the ballot box.
New Delhi, Apr.22 : A Chinese expert has said that his country's human rights' development differs distinctly from those in Western countries. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
Leander Paes and Australian Paul Hanley have cruised into the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters tennis tournament in Monaco. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
The Indian equities market opened in red Tuesday, tracking weak Asian market cues. The IT stocks were under selling pressure in the early trade. The leading blue chips IT stocks registered decline at the initial trade. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
New York, Apr 22 (ANI/Business Wire India): Trikona Capital Ltd., the leading fund management firm for institutional investment in Indian real estate and infrastructure, has announced that Dr. P S Rana, former chairman of India's Housing and Urban Development Corp. (HUDCO) has joined to head the development of real estate and infrastructure projects throughout the country. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
Proceedings in the Lok Sabha were disrupted Tuesday when Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) members launched a veiled attack on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi for 'politicising' issues related to farmers in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
Lahore, Apr 22 : The Hindi edition of the book Samjhota Express will be held at the Islamic Cultural Centre in New Delhi on April 26 amid the presence of film and literary personalities both from India and Pakistan. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
New Delhi, Apr 22 : Bhopal gas tragedy victims have demanded the setting up of an empowered commission to look into their grievances, and also called for the extradition of Union Carbide Corporation representatives who they hold responsible for the tragedy. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
Mumbai, Apr 22 : Autos and taxis drives plying across Maharashtra have gone on a three-day strike from Monday midnight to protest the introduction of electronic meters. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 22 Apr 2008 | 8:00 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian hockey plunged into a fresh crisis on Tuesday after a television programme made allegations of corruption against a top official from the national governing body.
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two employees of a U.S. security company have gone missing in Afghanistan's western province of Herat, a company official said on Tuesday.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's former Maoist rebels have won half the directly elected seats in a crucial election meant to cement a shaky peace deal, but are only likely to head a minority government at the end of a complex election.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police dispersed about 100 anti-China protestors and detained a foreign activist on Tuesday as the Olympic torch makes another restricted relay in Jakarta, the latest stop on its fraught journey around the world.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Communist Party casts the Dalai Lama as a murderous foe in a struggle over Tibet, but once courted him as a key ally in controlling the region, China's latest official history of the region details.
Rubbishing rumours that Sony TV's 'Amber Dhara' series about the life and tears of conjoined twins is borrowed from Jaya Bachchan's play 'Laali-Leela', its creative director Siddharth Tiwari says the inspiration was a pair of Canadian twins. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 2:30 am
Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, who worked with Arjun Rampal in his English language film 'Last Lear', has discovered that the actor is an amazing photographer. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 2:30 am
A lot has been written about Hrithik Roshan's item song in his home production 'Krazzy 4', but very few know that the FX in the track has been done at Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 2:00 am
PARIS (Reuters) - Paris city hall made Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen on Monday, exacerbating tensions between France and China in the build up to the Beijing Olympics.
MUMBAI: BJP national general secretary Gopinath Munde has ignored a summons to visit party higher-ups in New Delhi on Monday, insisting that he is only an ordinary worker now and he could not meet top leaders. However, later in the evening, ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: With China threatening to virtually replace India in the $7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) peace pipeline, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora will leave on a three-day crucial visit to Pakistan on Tuesday evening. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
Islamabad: The former PakistanHuman Rights Minister Ansar Burney on Monday petitioned President Pervez Musharraf, seeking clemency for the death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, saying his “biggest crime may have been his Indian ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
Lucknow: Bharatiya Janshakti Party chief Uma Bharti on Monday ruled out her return to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying it did not have a clear-cut stand on Hindutva and Tibet. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
Mumbai: Gangster-turned MLA Arun Gawli was on Monday arrested for his alleged involvement in an extortion case in which his younger brother, Vijay Ahir, was earlier nabbed. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 22 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
Delhi Daredevils captain Virender Sehwag feels that the pressure would be on Deccan Chargers when the two teams clash in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Tuesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Apr 2008 | 7:33 pm
Despite fears of a global meltdown in the IT sector, India's leading software service provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reported a 19.3 percent growth in net profit at Rs.50.26 billion ($1.25 billion) in 2007-08 fiscal. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Apr 2008 | 7:32 pm
Madhya Pradesh Transport Minister Himmat Kothari here Monday warned the state Road Transport Corp (MPRTC) employees to be prepared to face legal action if they did not opt for voluntary retirement scheme (VRS). Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Apr 2008 | 7:32 pm
Indian hockey courted a fresh controversy Monday night with a television channel claiming to have caught Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) secretary general K. Jothikumaran taking bribe to fix selection of players in the national team. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
Rajasthan Royals beat Kings XI Punjab by six wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Monday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
Mingle 2.0 raises the bar on global collaboration and program management and introduces Card Trees to visually simplify project complexity Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Apr 2008 | 5:49 pm
India's leading software services provider Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) clocked a net profit of Rs.12.45 billion ($311 million) for the fourth quarter (January-March) of 2007-08, registering a 4.15 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth. However, this represents a 6.17 percent drop in sequential growth. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Apr 2008 | 5:02 pm
A bus veered off a mountainous road in Indian Kashmir on Monday and crashed into a gorge, killing at least 14 people and injuring 27 others, police said. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Apr 2008 | 12:29 pm
Sixteen BJP corporators of Pune
civic body have sent their resignations to party president
Rajnath Singh to express solidarity with party general
secretary Gopinath Munde, who resigned from all organisational
posts. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Apr 2008 | 12:29 pm
With an eye on increasing
south-south cooperation, India and Chile will be signing four
agreements including an air services pact as President
Pratibha Patil arrived here on the last leg of her
three-nation visit to Latin America. Source: Zee News : India National | 21 Apr 2008 | 12:29 pm
The 12-hour state-wide bandh
jointly called by the Trinamool Congress and Left opposition
Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) began at 6 am Monday. The bandh call was initially given to protest against
the spiralling prices of food items but later issues like
alleged terror by CPI(M) cadres ahead of next month`s
panchayat election and the alleged attack on Trinamool chief
Mamata Banerjee`s convoy were added. Source: Zee News : India National | 21 Apr 2008 | 12:29 pm
Allaying apprehensions among
government servants over the Pay Commission recommendations,
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday said he favoured proper
remuneration for the civil and defence services. Source: Zee News : India National | 21 Apr 2008 | 12:29 pm
While foreign office mandarins were a little apprehensive about the meeting between APJ Abdul Kalam and Pervez Musharraf, the scientist President turned out to be an astute diplomat giving no opportunity to the Pakistani military ruler to rake up the Kashmir issue. Source: Zee News : India National | 21 Apr 2008 | 12:29 pm
The third annual Indo-British naval exercise will be organised on the western seaboard in Goa from April 21 to May 2. Source: Zee News : India National | 21 Apr 2008 | 12:29 pm
