Despite the rise in inflation rates, markets were holding firm and trading in positive zone in afternoon trade. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 Apr 2008 | 10:24 am
The government proposes to bring a Bill in Parliament to prevent sexual harassment of women at workplace, the Lok Sabha was told today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 10:06 am
Police today said cheerleaders could perform at Navi Mumbai but action will be taken against organisers if their act is found to be "vulgar" or "indecent". Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 Apr 2008 | 10:03 am
A Russian orchestra said he enjoyed playing a rich collection of Western classical works by famous composers like Pytor Tchaikovsky since the Indian audience was "very good". Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:59 am
Two dozen women scavengers from India who have battled social odds, stepped out of their traditional vocation and are now getting ready to visit the United Nations. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:58 am
Jammu and Kashmir government has given top priority to road connectivity and agriculture in the current year's annual plan. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:55 am
Nine years after his daughter was allegedly brutally killed by her cousin in the US, justice finally seems close at hand. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:55 am
Indian national Mohammed Nayeem who was kidnapped from the Afghanistan province of Herat four days ago is safe. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:52 am
Two undertrials were killed and six inmates injured in clashes between two rival groups inside a jail in Madhya Pradesh's Balaghat town. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:51 am
Ambuja Cements today posted a 42 per cent drop in its first quarter net profit ending March 31, 2008, at Rs 326.2 crore as compared with Rs 566.25 crore in 2007 Q1. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:49 am
Hinduja Group will invest $10 billion in various power projects across India in the next ten years, starting with setting up of 2,000-Mw generation capacity in Andhra Pradesh. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:45 am
The government today said the fixed line telephony will be exempted from the license fee to encourage service providers especially in the private sector to go to rural areas. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:43 am
Schott AG and Kaisha Manufacturers,an Indian company, have formed a joint venture to manufacture primary pharmaceutical packaging made of glass for the Indian market. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:32 am
Construction and infrastructure development major, Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), has clocked a 30 per cent jump in its turnover, crossing the Rs 3,000-crore mark in FY 08. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:29 am
B K Modi-run Spice Communication today asked telecom tribunal TDSAT to expeditiously hear its petition challenging the government's decision to reject its application for pan-India GSM licence. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:26 am
In an effort to ensure early return of Kashmiris displaced due to militancy in the valley, the Centre today announced a slew of sops worth Rs 1,600 crore, including housing, job facilities and waiver of interest on loans. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:23 am
Geodesic Information Systems reported consolidated net profit of Rs 49.5 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2008, up 62 per cent from Rs 30.54 crore registered during the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:19 am
West Bengal will get Rs 100 crore sanction from the central government for the expansion of vocational education centres in the state. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 Apr 2008 | 9:13 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese officials will meet representatives of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism whom China blames for a wave of unrest, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, citing official sources.
KARACHI (Reuters) - It's a busy night at the Prince cinema in the Pakistani city of Karachi with cars parked across the pavement outside and spilling onto a main street.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's annual inflation rate remained at three-year highs above 7 percent in mid-April, data showed on Friday, leaving the Reserve Bank of India with a dilemma over how to act at a review next week amid signs of slowing growth.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India expects to reach a solution with Research in Motion over BlackBerry services in India in a couple of weeks, Telecoms Minister Andimuthu Raja said on Friday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top mobile services firm, on Friday posted a better-than-expected 37 percent rise in net profit, sending its shares up more than 6 percent to their highest in more than two months.
Noted actor Anupam Kher, who is fascinated by the idea of movie stars buying Indian Premier League (IPL) teams, says the combination of cricket and Bollywood is a welcome change. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 Apr 2008 | 2:31 am
The cheerleaders at the the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here had a heavy day Thursday as top batsmen of Deccan Chargers and Rajasthan Royals kept scorers busy though spectators could not complain. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 Apr 2008 | 2:01 am
Bollywood actor Akshaye Khanna is shooting in Bangkok for Neeraj Vora's 'Shortcut' and says he is missing home and desperately looking for a break. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 Apr 2008 | 2:00 am
LONDON (Reuters) - India, expected to account for 60 percent of the world's heart disease cases by 2010, could prevent many deaths by ensuring the poor get better access to treatment, Indian and Canadian researchers said on Friday.
Government on Thursday spoke of the
"possibility of sabotage" in winter trials of country`s
indigenous Arjun tank prompting army chief, Gen Deepak Kapoor,
and other top officials to rush to the Avadi tank factory to
carry out fresh inspections. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
The forest cover of the country has decreased marginally by 728 square kilometers between 2003 and 2005, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
India was deterred from
"punishing" Pakistan after Kargil war in 1999 and 2001 attack
on Parliament as the latter had turned nuclear by then, say US
experts. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
Acting swiftly, the Centre on Thursday
ordered a halt on the use of the measles vaccine supplied by
the Indian Immunological Limited across the country in the
wake of death of four infants in Tamil Nadu because of
immunisation. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
The BJP-led NDA on Thursday formed a human chain in Parliament complex to protest price rise while its leader L K Advani asked the government to quit and go for elections if it was unable to control inflation. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
The US has reiterated that the civilian nuclear initiative with India is bound by the 123 Agreement and not the Hyde Act. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
Pakistan`s former Human Rights minister Ansar Burney on Thursday said he would send a mercy petition on behalf of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh to President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
Reacting to a statement by Musharraf`s spokesman that no mercy petition for Sarabjit is currently pending with the presidency, Burney said he would make sure the plea for clemency is hand delivered to the President and the Prime Minister. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
India and Malaysia have finalised a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on labour which will lay down the institutional framework for protection of Indian immigrant workers, government said on Thursday.
"The two governments are completing necessary procedures for signing the MoU (on Labour and Manpower Development) at the earliest," Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi told the Rajya Sabha. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
Indian Petroleum Minister Murli
Deora on Thursday called on Pakistan People`s Party Co-Chairman Asif
Ali Zardari here and discussed matters of mutual interest. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
A Mumbai-based firm supplying
Nuclear-Grade Graphite (NGG) supplying firm, a key ingredient
of making atomic bomb, is in the dock customs authorities here
served a show cause notice to it for allegedly attempting to
ship a consignment of the material to an Iranian firm. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:19 am
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan has said that land reforms legislation which laid the foundation for Kerala’s progress is faced with grave challenges. “Vested interests say that the Kerala Land Reforms ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
LONDON: Scientists hunting an invisible form of matter that pervades the universe and holds galaxies together claim to have found it underneath a mountain in Italy. The discovery, at a laboratory built deep into the Gran Sasso mountain ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tamil Nadu Public Works Minister Durai Murugan’s criticism of Kerala asking money for providing water from the Neyyar has come as a surprise to many here. Kerala Minister for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
ISLAMABAD: The family of Sarabjit Singh on Thursday met the death row prisoner whose execution Pakistani authorities have fixed for May 1. The meeting took place at the Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore. In the capital, the government indicated ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Centre has recalled the measles vaccine, after the administration of which four children died in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district on Wednesday. Instructions have been issued to the States to stop the use of this ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
BEIJING: China’s fast-growing Internet population has risen to tie the United States for the world’s biggest, with 221 million people online, according to government data. The figure reflects China’s explosive growth ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
HYDERABAD: Police claimed to have foiled an attempt to abduct the chairman of Country Club Y. Rajeev Reddy with the arrest of five persons in the State capital on Thursday. The arrested gangsters were to demand a ransom of Rs.20 crore for the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Thursday it was actively considering an Indian plea for clemency for Sarabjit Singh, an Indian man condemned to death for spying, as his family met him for the first time in 18 years in a Pakistani jail.
The union cabinet Thursday approved the merger of Bharat Refectories Limited (BRL) in Jharkhand with the public sector Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
The following is the scoreboard of Deccan Chargers innings against Rajasthan Royals in the ninth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament here Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL), a subsidiary of Sterlite Industries Ltd, Thursday announced its Rs.36 billion ($900 million) expansion projects, which, according to the company, would make it the world's largest zinc-lead producer by 2010. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
EID Parry (India) Ltd, which is set to raise 111 million euros ($175.7 million) from a sellout deal, is planning to make huge investment in its core sugar business, seeking new opportunities in the sector. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:30 pm
Stung by a bribery scandal, Indian hockey's bad days are far from over as after the men, the women's team also failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. They were thrashed 0-4 by the US in a qualifying tournament in Russia Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:02 pm
Despite pressure from the sports ministry, Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) chief K.P.S Gill made it clear Thursday that he was in no mood to relinquish the position he has been holding for last 15 years. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:01 pm
A six off the penultimate ball of the innings by captain Shane Warne helped Rajasthan Royals clinch a thriller against Deccan Chargers by three wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 tie here Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 Apr 2008 | 7:00 pm
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's former Maoist rebels, on the verge of becoming the country's largest political party after a historic election, said on Thursday they were committed to the peace process but would not yet renounce violence completely.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Cheerleaders are taking Indian cricket by storm, but some are wondering if this conservative South Asian nation is ready for dancers with bulging breasts and gyrating bellies parading in packed stadia.
