Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted
furlough (temporary bail) to Bashir Ahmed Gani Khairulla,
sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1993 serial blasts, but
rejected a similar application by a Best bakery case convict. Source: Zee News : States | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:06 pm
Pradeep Sharma, who along with
IPS officer R K Sharma and two others was held guilty for
journalist Shivani Bhatnagar`s murder, on Tuesday moved Delhi High
court challenging his conviction by the trial court. Source: Zee News : States | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:06 pm
The first witness in the Abu Salem and Riyaz Siddiqui trial in the 1993 serial bomb blasts case has deposed before special TADA judge P D Kode. Source: Zee News : States | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:06 pm
A delegation of BJP MLAs from
Bihar on Tuesday met party chief Rajnath Singh to apprise him about
the alleged one-upmanship of Deputy Chief Minister Sushil
Kumar Modi in the state unit. Source: Zee News : States | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:06 pm
Hours after the arrest of a
co-accused in the case relating to murder of child marathon
runner Budhia`s coach Biranchi Das in Bhopal, another close
associate of gangster Sandeep Acharya alias Raja, prime
suspect in the killing, was detained today in Cuttack. Source: Zee News : States | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:06 pm
Facing heat for the traffic
chaos triggered by the new bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor,
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday did not rule out
scrapping the controversial project if things do not improve
in the coming days. Source: Zee News : States | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:06 pm
State-run trading firm Projects Equipment Corporation (PEC) has invited bids for import of 12,000 tonne of edible oil and 9,000 tonne of pulses to boost domestic supplies. ?? Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 9:14 am
Hopes have spread like wild fire in recent days for elimination of the "white card" amid a wave of reform under new Cuban President Raul Castro. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:59 am
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has appointed a former member of a banned pro-Khalistan organisation to his transport board. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:56 am
Malaysia has got its first non-Malay speaker and its first woman deputy speaker in the opposition-ruled Selangor state. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:55 am
The training of army doctor Faiz Khaleed to become an astronaut will continue while Malaysia reviews its ambitious space programme. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:54 am
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said that high food prices threaten to plunge more than 100 million people into hunger Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:53 am
British and US special forces are engaged in operations in Basra in southern Iraq against Shia militiamen. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:51 am
Uganda's representative in India, Nimisha Madhvani, is the first woman envoy of Indian origin from an African country. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:44 am
Pakistan's ruling coalition has moved a step closer to restoring Supreme Court and High Court judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:43 am
No one knows exactly how life on Earth will end. But scientists claim that a collision with Mercury or Mars could destroy our planet long before the Sun bakes it to a crisp in five billion years' time Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:42 am
The United States has asked Sri Lanka to ensure free and fair elections to the crucial Eastern Provincial Council next month as government liberalised the dates for postal voting for larger Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:36 am
British IT services firm Logica has decided to cut about 1,300 jobs, including nearly 500 in the UK, and move many of them to India, the Philippines and Morocco. ?? Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:34 am
Concerned over officers leaving armed forces for lucrative employment in private sector, the government is looking at delinking pay scales of defence forces with those of central government employees Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:28 am
Iffco Kisan Sanchar Limited (IKSL), a fully owned subsidiary of fertilizer major Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (Iffco), will cover Tamil Nadu before September through Primary Agriculture Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:27 am
Mahindra & Mahindra has launched Scorpio in Chile in partnership with Fortaleza of the Automotores Gildemeister group. This is the company's second entry in the Chile market, following the launch Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:22 am
Around 800 agitated workers of two factories blocked road at Barjora area in Bankura district after the management of two units declared work suspension citing financial reasons.?? Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:17 am
E-learning solutions provider Educomp Solutions today announced a stand-alone net profit of Rs 31.46 crore for the quarter ended March 31, over 2.39 fold increase compared to the corresponding period Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:12 am
The radar blip that led to a mid-air scare as the special aircraft carrying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh prepared to land at Delhi airport last night was caused by an IAF Dornier aircraft, which was Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 Apr 2008 | 8:10 am
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Actor Daniel Radcliffe's search for a mystery Australian girl he met at an awards party has taken a twist worthy of his alter-ego Harry Potter.
New Delhi, Apr.23 : Congress General Secretary and Member of Parliament representing the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, Rahul Gandhi, will take his "Discover India" tour forward later this week by undertaking a four-day tour of the tribal pockets in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Mumbai, Apr 23 : In the wake of the rising popularity of the Twenty20 format of cricket, some major changes were required in the One-day International version so as to let it survive, said former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
India's most decorated and successful cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar, turns 35 Thursday. Age has not diminished his hunger for runs. But a spate of injuries and now Twenty20 are testing his body. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Coach Joel Santana - the apparent substitute of Carlos Alberto Parreira at the helm of 2010 World Cup host South Africa - has left Brazilian club Flamengo with a deep sense of loss. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
New Delhi, Apr 23 (ANI/Business Wire India): Cincom Systems will sponsor the SAP Configuration European Workgroup Conference, which is scheduled to be held in Berlin, Germany on May 5. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
New Delhi, Apr 23 : Sarabjit Singh, the Indian national on death row in Pakistan for the last 17 years, will meet his family inside Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail today. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
Mumbai, Apr 23 (ANI/Business Wire India): Sterlite Industries, India's leading diversified mining and metal company with interests and operations in aluminium, copper, zinc and lead and commercial power, will announce its results for the fourth quarter and year ended March 31 on April 26. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
She may be the queen of Dalit politics. But Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati appears rattled by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's determined attempts to woo back Dalits who once voted en masse for the country's oldest party. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 7:00 am
An Indian state reported new bird flu cases Tuesday, little more than a week after it finished culling thousands of chickens to contain an outbreak of the disease. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 6:29 am
NEW DELHI: The Parliamentary Forum of Other Backward Class MPs on Tuesday unanimously rejected the concept of creamy layer as ruled by the Supreme Court. This rejection of the creamy layer concept th... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 Apr 2008 | 6:12 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - For many fellow Tibetans, Sitar is a Chinese government puppet, but for the Communist Party, the former serf is a model of loyalty and rising political star.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has begun testing technology that brings together a person's pictures, documents and other data scattered across a growing number of machines with the goal of allowing people to access their information from anywhere and at any time.
The new ultra-svelte Kareena Kapoor is hogging the limelight for her dramatic weight loss for 'Tashan', and the actress says she is enjoying her toned physique. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Apr 2008 | 4:01 am
Indian One-Day cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's performance on the pitch and his good looks have earned him a huge female fan following, among them a bevy of Bollywood actresses. Here's what they say: Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Apr 2008 | 4:01 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - With one of Asia's largest slums, congested streets and sometimes startling whiffs of human waste, Mumbai may not be everyone's first choice for a world-class financial centre.
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan in his blog has lashed out against Shatrughan Sinha's insinuations that the nominations list of the International Indian Film Academy awards were fixed. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 Apr 2008 | 1:31 am
KOCHI: Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said that the export processing zones in the special economic zones (SEZs) have created islands of ‘no-labour law implementation’ in the country. But the Kerala government has made ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: India has rejected the United States’ advice on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s brief visit to New Delhi on April 29. Reacting strongly to State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey’s observations ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: K.P.S. Gill, who has headed the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) for the last 15 consecutive years, on Tuesday came under pressure to resign following a television sting operation. His close aide K. Jothikumaran was shown in ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
An Indian national has been kidnapped by some armed men in Afghanistan, in yet another incident involving targeting of nationals from this country in the trouble-torn nation. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
Chile came out in open support for India`s candidature for permanent membership to the United Nations Security Council which it said should be "more transparent" with larger participation. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
on Tuesday pitched for India becoming not only a member of an
expanded UN Security Council but also the G-8, a powerful club
of rich countries. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
Sukhoi director general Mikhail Pogosyan and the leadership of India`s Air Force discussed the joint project to develop and produce fifth
generation fighter. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
The unbearable heat wave
continued unabated with many states recording maximum
temperatures above 40 degrees celsius on Tuesday even as a traffic
policeman perished in the torrid sun in Kolkata while on duty. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
Amid a demand for raising funds under MPLAD to Rs five crore, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Tuesday said he felt that the scheme should be "abolished immediately". Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
Lok Sabha members from all parties on Tuesday sought criminal proceedings against those responsible for corruption in the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF). Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
The hand of Pakistan-based
outfits has been observed in most of the terror attacks in
India as groups from across the border continue to sponsor
terrorist and subversive activities in the country, a
government report said on Tuesday. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
The banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has links with terrorist groups, including Lashker-e-Toiba, the government said Tuesday. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
Concerned over the "sharp decline" in India`s air and naval assets, members in Lok Sabha on Tuesday demanded a hike in defence spending to match the military build up by China and Pakistan. Source: Zee News : India National | 22 Apr 2008 | 11:54 pm
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two Indian road workers have been abducted in Afghanistan's western province of Herat, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
The following is the final scoreboard of the seventh match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament between Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here Tuesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 7:31 pm
Two of the world's leading real estate retail management services - New York-based Jones LangSalle Incorporated (JLI) and Australia's Colonial First State Property Management - have formed a new company, Sandalwood Asia. The joint venture (JV) will concentrate on retail development and management services in Asia. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
A flashy captain's knock by Virender Sehwag helped Delhi Daredevils register their second consecutive win in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament when they beat hosts Deccan Chargers by nine wickets at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here Tuesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
The following are the standings in the Indian Premier League (IPL) after the seventh match, which Delhi Daredevils won convincingly by nine wickets against Deccan Chargers in Hyderabad Tuesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
Jammu, April 22 ( IANS) The sluggish pace of work at Baglihar power project has irritated the Jammu and Kashmir government and it has constituted a panel to suggest measures to penalise the contractors who have allegedly shifted completion date for over three years now. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - A "silent tsunami" unleashed by costlier food threatens 100 million people, the United Nations said on Tuesday, and aid groups said producers would make things worse if they curbed exports.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Climate change is aggravating the global food crisis and many poor countries could be facing the start of major hunger disasters, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday.
India's Reliance Retail Ltd (RRL) has entered a joint venture (JV) with US-based Office Depot, a global provider of office products and services . Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 5:32 pm
Rohit Sharma made a breezy 66 off 35 balls to guide Deccan Chargers to 142 for the loss of eight wickets against Delhi Daredevils in the seventh match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here Tuesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 Apr 2008 | 5:01 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Sports minister urged national hockey chiefs to quit on Tuesday, a day after a television programme made allegations of corruption against the federation secretary.
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.
