At least 43 people were killed and nearly 300 injured on Monday when a passenger train derailed and hit another in east China's Shandong province. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:19 pm
The Malaysian government has found that 15 employment agencies operating in the country are duping foreign job seekers. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:18 pm
Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, former prime ministers of Bangladesh, have asked their party members not to cooperate for the proposed political dialogue. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:17 pm
The smallest copy of the Koran, the Islamic holy book, on display at The Bride Show in Dubai drew huge crowds at the recently concluded exhibition. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:15 pm
The Rs 400-crore rights issue of FMCG major Godrej Consumer Products (GCP) will close for subscription on April 30 and promoters will take up any such portion that will remain undersubscribed, Chairman and Managing Director of the company, Adi Godrej said today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:58 am
Reliance Communication today said it would launch GSM based nation-wide mobile services by the end of current financial year, to become the only operator offering mobile services on both GSM and CDMA platforms. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:53 am
US-style cheerleaders at IPL matches got no respite from criticism with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:47 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Monday a slew of steps taken by the government to contain price pressures in the economy should help curb inflation but risks from high oil prices remained "incipient".
Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles were thrashed in straight sets by the Spanish pair of Nadal and in the doubles final of the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:44 am
Deccan Chargers moved up one place to the sixth spot in the Indian Premier League (IPL) standings after their 10-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in Mumbai on Saturday night. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:43 am
Mobile telecom service provider Tata Indicom has added 9.2 lakh mobile subscribers in March 2008 ? highest additions by the company. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:38 am
Highly-paid footballers and celebrities are setting a bad example, according to the survey, which listed spitting and swearing as the most offensive forms of behaviour. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:37 am
A high-level committee set up by the government to look into the problems plaguing the country's handloom sector has recommended a Rs 1,295-crore financial package to help the sector. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:30 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Spinner Harbhajan Singh has been banned for the remainder of a domestic Twenty20 league after he was found guilty on Monday of slapping compatriot Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil hit a new record near $120 a barrel on Monday, boosted by a string of bullish factors that include a UK refinery strike and disruptions to Nigeria's output that highlight the market's anxieties over threats to supply.
State-run GAIL India Ltd will be part of a consortium that will be building the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline by 2015. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:19 am
Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) today announced a stand alone net profit of Rs 68.6 crore for financial year ended March, over two-fold growth from a year ago. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:17 am
South Korea's most powerful businessman today officially stepped down as chairman of Samsung Electronics, the world's largest computer chip maker, officials said. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:09 am
New Delhi, Apr 28 : Minister for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury told the Rajya Sabha today that the Government is planning to give more powers to the National Commission for Women Act. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:01 am
New Delhi, Apr 28 : The Central Bureau of Investigation has brought into the light of the Supreme Court that the birth certificates and other details submitted by Congress Member of Parliament M K Subba are fake. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:01 am
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has signed an eight-year IT application services contract, worth 60 million pounds,with the Britain's sole public sector water utility Scottish Water, the company said in a statement here Monday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:01 am
Zoo visitors in Kolkata will now get to see white peafowls, open-billed storks and hamadryas baboons at Alipore Zoological Gardens. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:01 am
Tata Realty and Infrastructure Ltd (TRIL) Monday announced an agreement with Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) to jointly develop an IT special economic zone (SEZ) at a cost of Rs.30 billion (nearly $750 million) here. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:01 am
Bangalore, Apr 28 : Former Karnataka Chief Minister Veerappa Moily has said that the forthcoming Assembly election in the state would be path breaking and would set the trend for the coming elections in eight states this year and the Lok Sabha elections next year. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday announced candidates for two assembly constituencies in next month's by-elections, but once again postponed the decision on alliance with other parties. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
The police killed two senior commanders of the Hizbul Mujahideen guerrilla outfit in a north Kashmir gunfight Monday, senior officials said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
The discussion on the Finance Bill, 2008 in the Lok Sabha Monday came to a grinding halt for want of quorum which mandates the presence of at least 10 percent of the existing strength of the house to conduct legislative business. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
CPI(M) today took ?extremely strong objection' to the remark of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) that parties should eschew temptation of politicising the misery of the people and said the statement on price rise was "very insulting". Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 11:00 am
Allaying the fears of high prices of patented medicines, MSD Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, Indian subsidiary of global pharma major Merck and Co, today launched its patented diabetic medicine Januvia (sitagliptin), with a pricetag comparable with other diabetic treatment alternatives available in the market. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 28 Apr 2008 | 10:51 am
In a statement issued by Lalit Modi, Harbhjan Singh has been found guilty of mis-conduct on the field and hence faces a ban for the remainder of the Twenty20 season. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 28 Apr 2008 | 10:43 am
The Indian cricket board Monday appointed advocate Sudhir Nanavati of Ahmedabad as the commissioner to inquire in the case of Harbhajan Singh. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 28 Apr 2008 | 10:40 am
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Authorities in Orissa arrested at least 100 villagers and deployed a huge police force to quell a protest against a proposed deep-sea port, officials said on Monday.
Two decades after it booted them out, Sri Lanka is preparing to unveil a memorial near its parliament for Indian soldiers killed battling the Tamil Tiger guerrillas. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Apr 2008 | 9:00 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's space agency launched 10 satellites on Monday mainly belonging to Germany and Canada, the Indian Space Research Organisation said, boosting its space research capabilities..
Fight discrimination: PC Newindpress - 5 hours ago KARAIKUDI: Women must learn to swim against current, face challenges and eradicate evils that stand in the way of their development, freedom and rights, Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said here on Sunday. Out of sync poser for bawdy politicsCalcutta Telegraph all 2 news articles
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Islamabad on Monday, with hopes that a project to build a $7.6 billion gas pipeline through Pakistan to India will soon be signed.
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) - India's Olympic body should take over management of the country's hockey after a bribery scandal plunged the game into crisis, the International Hockey Federation said.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The elections have passed off peacefully, the U.N. spokesman in Nepal crowed: "bad news for foreign journalists". He could not have got it more wrong.
India, already a leader in the remote sensing data domain, is poised to become a major collaborative space power, says an international space competitiveness index study. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Apr 2008 | 4:13 am
'Julie' director Deepak Shivdasani returns to the marquee after four years with 'Mr. White, Mr. Black'. While his last venture was a sleazy movie, this Suniel Shetty and Arshad Warsi starrer releasing Friday is a comedy. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Apr 2008 | 3:47 am
SEOUL (Reuters) - The Olympic torch will be paraded through the streets of Pyongyang to fawning masses on Monday with North Korea promising its main benefactor China an "astonishing" show certain to be free of protest.
Mumbai Indians stand-in captain Shaun Pollock admitted Sunday that the score of 154 against Deccan Chargers could have been defended but in the face of Adam Gilchrist's onslaught there was nothing that could be done. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Apr 2008 | 1:01 am
Deccan Chargers moved up one place to the sixth spot in the Indian Premier League (IPL) standings after their 10-wicket win over Mumbai Indians here Saturday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 28 Apr 2008 | 1:01 am
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Sunday West Pakistani refugees in the State would be provided domicile certificates. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
Agartala: Culling began on Sunday in bird-flu hit Nadilag and its surrounding areas of West Tripura district as the State government said neighbouring Bangladesh could be the possible source of infection. As the H5N1 virus was confirmed in ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: Nepali Maoist leader Prachanda has said that the coalition government his party will lead will strive to establish a "new unity on a new basis" with India. In an exclusive interview to The Hindu , Mr. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The crisis in the Karnataka Congress has blown over with the former Railway Minister, C.K. Jaffer Sharief, withdrawing his resignation from the party following a meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 28 Apr 2008 | 12:00 am
The grinding heat wave
continued unabated with many states recording maximum
temperatures above 40 degrees celsius on Sunday even as nine
persons perished in the torrid sun in West Bengal and
Gujarat, taking the nationwide toll to 24. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday
attacked the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
governments, alleging they had failed to ensure that the
results of development schemes reach the tribals and poor. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
Daughters of a Pakistani man
killed in the 1991 bomb blast blamed on Sarabjit Singh, have
threatened to fast unto death if the Indian prisoner, who is
due to be hanged on May 1, is pardoned. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
Eyeing a record, an Indian polar rocket
is all set to launch 10 satellites including the country`s
latest remote sensing satellite in one go on Monday and the
space mission will be completed within 16 minutes of blastoff
from Sriharikota. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
Opposing the Indo-US nuclear
deal, BJP on Sunday said no country can give in writing that it
will not undertake nuclear tests in future. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
With the Jehadi groups in
Pakistan occupied Kashmir signalling plans to intensify their
attacks on the Indian soil, the upcoming army commanders
conference will focus on measures to check any upsurge in
terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
Stepping up the attack on CPI-M
over the price rise issue ahead of the Panchayat elections in
West Bengal, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday
accused the party of spreading panic to benefit hoarders. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
A top Indian ethnic leader
In Malaysia has been accused of being responsible for the
dissatisfaction of the minority community in the country. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
Terming the Left parties`
campaign against price rise as "hypocritical," senior BJP
leader L K Advani on Sunday said the Left is equally responsible
for the UPA government`s anti-people policies as the Congress. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
India on Sunday condemned the assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, describing it as an "dastardly" act and asked the international community to show zero tolerance for terrorism.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee expressed relief that Karzai was unhurt. Source: Zee News : India National | 27 Apr 2008 | 11:29 pm
Seven civilians and a special police officer (SPO) were injured late Sunday in a powerful explosion in Sopore town of north Kashmir's Baramulla district. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:01 pm
The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) Sunday night launched its campaign for by-elections in Andhra Pradesh next month with a massive public meeting to mark its formation day. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:01 pm
Adam Gilchrist scored an unbeaten 109 off 48 balls as Deccan Chargers scored a huge 10-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament here Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:00 pm
The following is the final scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match in which Deccan Chragers beat Mumbai Indians by 10 wickets here Sunday: Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 27 Apr 2008 | 7:00 pm
State governments may be vocal
in demanding more money from the Centre to tackle threats of
Naxalism and terrorism but when it comes to spending the money
allotted to it, the picture is not rosy. Source: Zee News : States | 27 Apr 2008 | 1:30 pm
Dereservation of a prime piece of
land in suburban Juhu, where a cooperative society of some IPS
officers now stands, has come under the court`s scanner. Source: Zee News : States | 27 Apr 2008 | 1:30 pm
The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM)
has decided to launch an indefinite hunger strike after being
denied permission to hold a rally at Siliguri on Sunday by the
West Bengal government. Source: Zee News : States | 27 Apr 2008 | 1:30 pm
