The special riots court on late Wednesday acquitted five persons in two different cases of rioting following a communal clash in 1992-1993, post-demolition of Babri Masjid, thus taking the total acquitted persons to 16 in seven cases. Source: Zee News : States | 1 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
In a move that could give scare
to the BJP in Karnataka, Congress has decided to withdraw its
candidate against the saffron party`s Chief Ministerial
nominee BS Yeddyurappa to ensure a direct contest with former
Chief Minister S Bangarappa. Source: Zee News : States | 1 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
Stud farm owner Hasan Ali, allegedly
involved in a multi-crore tax evasion racket, was on Wednesday
declared a proclaimed offender in fake passports case by a
court here. Source: Zee News : States | 1 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
City sessions court Thursday issued notice to the state government on an application by Rababuddin Sheikh seeking further investigations in the his brother Sohrabuddin Sheikh`s fake-encounter case. Source: Zee News : States | 1 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
Gearing up her party for Lok Sabha
elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is likely to undertake a reshuffle of her ministry on Thursday inducting three to four new faces replacing the incumbents whom she wanted to contest the polls. Source: Zee News : States | 1 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
The high-flying Chennai Super Kings will meet their toughest rivals yet when they face Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:41 am
Bangalore Royal Challengers captain Rahul Dravid is still searching for the winning formula and pinning his hopes on the return of Anil Kumble Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:40 am
Shiv-Vani Oil & Gas Exploration Services posted a 109 per cent rise in net profit to Rs 19.23 crore in the quarter ended March 2008 compared with Rs 9.19 crore in the quarter ended March 2007. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 11:35 am
If children who are likely to commit crime are identified early enough, preventive measures can improve their future prospects. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:34 am
Aptech reported standalone net porfit was up 149 per cent at Rs 5.69 crore for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008 from Rs 2.28 crore registered during the corresponding quarter last financial year. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 11:32 am
Mark Boucher said the ICC should look into the 'burn out' issue of players and hold a discussion with the board and players of different nations to solve the problem. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:30 am
The last time Nirmala Deshpande was in the eye of a media buzz was when her name did the rounds for the highest post of the land. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:27 am
A British AIDS patient, serving a 10 year term in the Tihar jail, was to fly back to his country. However, his journey has been delayed by a month. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:26 am
Labour Day, once an occasion to bring most of India's organised workers together, was a relatively insipid affair around the country, with trade unions organising a few rallies. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:25 am
A court here has begun a four-day trial of physician and rights activist Binayak Sen, who has been charged by police on several counts, including conspiracy and treason. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:24 am
Banned Harbhajan Singh got support from an unexpected quarter with his Australian rival Matthew Hayden making light of the bowler slapping S Sreesanth after an IPL match. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:24 am
Air travel is going to be dearer as major airlines have decided to raise the fares by at least 10 per cent, besides increasing the fuel surcharge. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 11:22 am
Nirmala Deshpande, one of India's last Gandhians whose life was devoted to the cause of the poor and downtrodden, died in her sleep. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 1 May 2008 | 11:22 am
Stock Holding Corporation of India Ltd (SHCIL) today has posted profit after tax (PAT) at Rs 69 crore in financial year 2008 against Rs 45 crore in the year-ago period, a jump of 54 per cent. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 11:17 am
EVEREST BASE CAMP, China (Reuters) - Climbers taking a special Olympic torch up Mount Everest were held up at advanced base camp on Thursday, awaiting better weather before heading to the world's highest peak, a Beijing official said.
Heading the world's largest bank does not guarantee fat paycheck to Citigroup's India-born CEO Vikram Pandit, who finds himself at the bottom of the Forbe's CEO salary list for America's 500 biggest firms. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 10:44 am
??Tiruchy-based Grama Vidiyal Microfinance (GVM), a non-banking finance company (NBFC) which started its operations a year back plans to increase its branches from the current 100 to 225. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 10:36 am
Kansai Nerolac Paints has posted net sales of Rs 308 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 08, up 8 per cent, compared to Rs 285 crore during the corresponding period last year. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 10:29 am
Corporation Bank plans a robust scaling-up of its branch network and expand its footprint pan-India, with a special focus on the north and west of the country, a top bank official said. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 10:20 am
The World Bank (WB) today appreciated the progress made by Haryana in all spheres of development within a short period and discussed with the state government its proposals for infrastructure upgradation with the WB assistance of about Rs 12,350 crore for their expeditious approval. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 10:20 am
Auto giant Bajaj Auto has landed in trouble for its ?misleading and deceptive' ads as a consumer court has asked it to compensate a scooter owner who was lured into buying the vehicle due to the company's allegedly false claims on its mileage. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 1 May 2008 | 10:06 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's state-run banks are unlikely to raise rates after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) tightened bank reserve requirements this week, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve lowered U.S. interest rates by a modest quarter percentage point on Wednesday, as expected, and hinted the move could be the last in a series meant to buffer the economy from a credit crunch and housing downturn.
The high-flying Chennai Super Kings will meet their toughest rivals yet when they face Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 tournament here Friday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 9:00 am
A Nepalese woman gave birth to a baby girl in a cave along the snow-covered and inhospitable Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh in what officials said Thursday was the first instance of its kind. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 9:00 am
Culture seemed to forge a stronger pact between India and Iran than energy pipelines and uncertain political partnerships, with the three-day 'Days of Iranian Culture in India' kicking off here. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 9:00 am
New Delhi, May 1 : A Chinese health official has warned that the intestinal virus Enterovirus 71 (EV71), which has claimed the lives of 20 children and infected more than 1,800 others in Fuyang, Anhui province, will "probably continue spreading" in the coming months. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 9:00 am
The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has accused telecom service provider Vodafone of indulging in cruelty to animals and issued a legal notice to the company and to Bangalore-based Nirvana Films, makers of an advertisement that shows a pug running after a school bus. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 9:00 am
President Pratibha Patil, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday condoled the death of veteran Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande. The prime minister called her a leader of the people who led by example. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 9:00 am
A 32-year-old property dealer was Thursday gunned down by unidentified motorcycle-borne men outside his son's school in Gurgaon, a suburban town of the national capital, police said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Chelsea will play Manchester United in the final of the Champions League after they beat Liverpool 3-2 after extra time in a thrilling semi-final of the second leg. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Appreciation of the Chinese yuan and a drop in China's cotton output have helped the Indian textile industry emerge as a major exporter once again, overcoming one of its worst phases, says a top official of an industry lobby. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 8:00 am
An organisation of those Kashmiri Pandits who did not migrate from the valley despite turmoil has decided to boycott the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir due in October to protest lack of government help. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 1 May 2008 | 8:00 am
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and his celebrity family members have all tentatively agreed to take part in a film based on the life of Bangladesh's founding leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, local media said on Thursday.
One of India's last Gandhians and Rajya Sabha MP Nirmala Deshpande died here Thursday. She was 79. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 4:30 am
With 30 months to go for the Commonwealth Games in October 2010, the government is working towards completing all its projects, including the Games village and the various venues, by June 2010 - three months before D-Day. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 3:30 am
Everyone is talking about actor Upen Patel's daredevil act at the Zee awards function in London, but the actor says it was originally designed for Bollywood star Salman Khan. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 2:30 am
Veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher enjoyed working in the amateur-detective movie 'Mr Bhatti On Chutti' so much that he is now making a series of films on the same theme. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 2:30 am
'The Secret', a motivational book by Australian author Rhonda Byrne, has come back to occupy the top slot in this week's non-fiction list while Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Unaccustomed Earth' continues to be the favourite in the fiction category. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 May 2008 | 2:30 am
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Wednesday described Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha as `torture hour for the Chair`. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
Amid growing instances ofmisconduct by parliamentarians, a Lok Sabha committee hasrecommended a broad framework of code of conduct for membersbut has ruled against codification of parliamentaryprivileges. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
The Supreme Court has ruled
that speedy trial is a fundamental right of an accused who
cannot be subjected to hardships by delay in proceedings. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
President Pratibha Patil`s son Rajendra Singh Shekhawat, who accompanied his mother on her recent trip to Latin America, "disappeared" for a day to conduct personal business in the US, keeping his Mexican hosts in the dark. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
Nailini Sriharan, who is serving a life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, moved the Madras High Court on Wednesday seeking an early release. Incidentally, the fresh plea comes weeks after her emotional meeting with Priyanka Gandhi. Nalini`s lawyer Duraimurugan submitted the plea on her behalf. He maintained that it`s a pure coincidence that the plea comes after the highly publicised meeting with Priyanka. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
Rajya Sabha members, belonging to the Samajwadi Party, on Tuesday demanded a privilege motion against Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss for his statement that transmission of polio virus was taking place because of migration of people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
Petroleum Minister Murli Deora admitted in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday
that Shipping Minister T R Baalu met him and briefed him about
"great injustice" done to workers and investors of his
family-owned company. He said the PMO didn`t send any instruction to help the company, but made "certain references" in a "routine manner." Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
With the budget session coming
to a close, women mps of the Congress on Wednesday met Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh to demand that the Women`s Reservation Bill be
tabled in Parliament during the current session concluding on
May nine. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
India`s first national report on
nuclear power plants safety was very well received and
appreciated at the fourth review meeting of the Convention on
Nuclear Safety (CNS) in Vienna, chairman of Atomic Energy
Regulatory Board (AERB) S K Sharma said on Wednesday. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
India was among the countries
worst affected by terror with militant attacks in Jammu and
Kashmir and in the North East, strikes by Naxalites and attacks
elsewhere in the country taking a toll of more than 2,300
lives in 2007, the US state department said. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 May 2008 | 12:22 am
Mumbai: India got a pat on its back at a key IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) convention for steps taken to ensure foolproof safety of its 17 operating nuclear plants and six under construction with probability of any untoward ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 1 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said there was no wrong from which he should distance himself from the action of his office in forwarding a representation made by the company in which the family of Union Shipping Minister ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 1 May 2008 | 12:00 am
MELBOURNE: Even as an Indian taxi driver, victim of stabbing, battles for his life, an Australian was arrested on Wednesday for the attack. His lawyer claimed that his client had no memory of Tuesday’s incident. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 1 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Udaipur: A 32-year-old hotel manager was sentenced on Wednesday to life imprisonment by a court here for raping a British journalist in December last year. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 1 May 2008 | 12:00 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Chelsea reached the Champions League final for the first time on Wednesday, beating Liverpool 3-2 after extra time at rain-lashed Stamford Bridge to set up a meeting with Manchester United in Moscow next month.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - It took about 40 years to find it, but scientists at Hewlett-Packard said on Wednesday they discovered a fourth basic type of electrical circuit that could lead to a computer you never have to boot up.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - England's Manchester United is the world's most valuable soccer club for the fourth consecutive year, with a value of $1.8 billion, topping Spain's Real Madrid, according to Forbes magazine.
Move over cheer girls. Here come our own bhangra boys to add a desi flavour to the Indian Premier League (IPL). Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 6:31 pm
Impressed with the quality of spinners in India, Shane Warne is contemplating opening an academy for spinners in India. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 6:31 pm
The Madras High Court Wednesday said that the inspection of an estate in Kodanadu said to be partly owned by AIADMK leader J. Jayalalitha's was 'illegal'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 6:30 pm
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Wednesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to issue detailed guidelines for the Rs.600 billion farm loan waiver package announced in the budget. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 6:30 pm
India will play two Tests and seven One-Day Internationals in a home series against England in November-December. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 30 Apr 2008 | 6:30 pm
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India is relying on cash management tools rather than interest rates to fight inflation, leaving the government to find ways to hold down prices as raising rates becomes politically tricky.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Delhi Daredevils, a team of the Indian Premier League, has withdrawn cheerleaders from matches while others are being told to cover up, after protests that their dances and skimpy outfits were offensive to conservative Indians.
KOLKATA (Reuters Life!) - Bharati Dey, a former prostitute, has been granted a life insurance cover which she says is a step forward in her campaign to legalise the profession in India.
