The Kings XI Punjab cricketers learnt that walking down the ramp and making a fashion statement is a different ball game altogether. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 12:42 pm
Desperate to play in the Indian Premier League, Shoaib Akhtar filed a fresh appeal with an appellate tribunal, praying for a temporary stay on his five-year ban. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 12:36 pm
Two British men involved in a gay sex blackmail plot against an unnamed member of the royal family were each sentenced to five years in jail by a court in London. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 12:15 pm
The Congress today criticised US President George W Bush for blaming the rising prosperity of India's middle class for the global food crisis, saying the analysis was "completely erroneous" as India is not a food importer but a food exporter. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 12:06 pm
U S President George W Bush joined U S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in blaming the rising prosperity of India's huge middle class for the spiraling global food prices. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 12:01 pm
President Musharraf has agreed to give up his powers to dissolve parliament and dismiss the prime minister, a media report said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 11:55 am
A teenage boy was allegedly beaten to death by two of his friends in Madya village of the district, police said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 11:49 am
PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has not committed himself to the May 12 deadline set by his coalition partner PML-N for reinstating judges sacked by Presiden Musharraf. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 11:46 am
A deadly intestinal virus outbreak in China has claimed another life taking the death toll to 22, prompting the health ministry to order a nation-wide alert. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 11:42 am
Central PSUs Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore (FACT) and Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd (RCF) will jointly set up a Rs 90 crore plant to manufacture value added products such as Fibre Reinforced Building panels using Gypsum. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 11:40 am
Automobile manufacturer, Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) will raise Rs 700 crore by way of issuance of unsecured fully and compulsorily convertible debentures (FCD) to Golboot Holdings an entity controlled by Goldman Sachs. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 11:37 am
Hoping that inflation could slide to 6% in the next three months, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan today said 8-8.5% economic growth is achievable. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 11:35 am
Country's largest two-wheeler maker Hero Honda Motor has been hit by workers' strike forcing the closure of its manufacturing unit at Dharuhera in Haryana. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 11:32 am
BJP leader L K Advani cautioned against the threat of what he called the 'virus of opportunism and betrayal' by Congress and JD(S) hitting Karnataka again. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 11:32 am
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - India is close to clinching a free trade deal with Southeast Asian nations, spurred on by a bleak global economic outlook and rising food prices, Trade Minister Kamal Nath said on Saturday.
The Orissa government has
decided to beef up law and order situation in the industrial
areas of the state as frequent violences over land, water and
roads are affecting the pace of industrialisation, official
sources said here. Source: Zee News : States | 3 May 2008 | 11:27 am
Two villagers were shot dead by
militants in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, police
said here on Saturday. Source: Zee News : States | 3 May 2008 | 11:27 am
Paswan said Deloitte, an International consulting agency, which had been asked to suggest ways of improving the company's efficiency including cost cutting measures, has already submitted its report which was being examined. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 11:27 am
An arbiter passed an interim order restraining Pakistani player Mohammad Yousuf from participating in the Indian Premier League, an Indian Cricket League lawyer said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 3 May 2008 | 11:27 am
Pakistan government has postponed "till further order" the execution of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian death row prisoner, his lawyer said on Friday night. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 May 2008 | 11:26 am
US President George Bush has joined his top diplomat in suggesting that the growing prosperity of India`s large middle class is contributing to rising food prices around the world. `...the more prosperous the world is, the more opportunity there is,` he said commenting on the economy during a visit Friday to World Wide Technology, Inc. in Maryland Heights, Missouri. `It also, however, increases demand.` Source: Zee News : India National | 3 May 2008 | 11:26 am
Indian American Bobby Jindal,
the Governor of Louisiana, has ruled out possibility of
becoming the running mate to the presumptive Republican
nominee John McCain, saying that his focus was on getting his
state back on its feet after the debilitating Katrina. Source: Zee News : India National | 3 May 2008 | 11:26 am
Wheat procurement in Punjab has touched 90 lakh tonne mark, even as state's contribution towards national pool has reached 85.74 lakh tonne so far during the current rabi marketing season. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 11:14 am
New Delhi, May 3 : Canadian biochemist, Joseph H. Hulse, one of the world's leading experts in biotechnology and a former Vice-President of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), will be honoured this year with a Padma Shri award, at a ceremony to be held at Rashtrapati Bhawan on May 5. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 11:00 am
A Delhi court Saturday sentenced Lt. Col. (retired) S.J. Choudhary to life inmprisonment for murdering automobile dealer Krishan Sikand in the capital's upscale Sundar Nagar locality. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 11:00 am
Private telecom operator, Tata Telecom (Maharashtra) Limited, today announced a reduction in its national long-distance (NLD) and roaming call rates on its Go One and Go Power pre-paid packs. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 10:59 am
MACAU (Reuters) - The Olympic torch was paraded through Macau on Saturday after a protest-harried overseas relay, while snowfall on Mount Everest dealt a blow to climbers hoping to take a special flame to the roof of the world.
Kesoram Industries Ltd, a B K Birla group company, has announced a 32.1 per cent rise in net profit for the last quarter of 2007-08 at Rs 105.79 crore as compared to Rs 80.08 crore in the same period last fiscal. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 10:52 am
The Himachal Pradesh government has complained to the Centre that the Satluj Jalvidyut Nigam Limited (SJVNL) has not been following the mandatory clause of giving 70 per cent employment to locals. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 3 May 2008 | 10:37 am
India 's largest chili markets, burning hundreds of thousands of pounds of chili peppers.Residents and officials say the burning chili smoke is stinging the eyes and throats of people in Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 10:36 am
News ) - The Malaysian government will delay nonessential public projects and use the money instead to build up food stockpiles amid a global food crisis, the prime minister said Saturday.If measures ... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 10:36 am
India will begin its heaviest airlifting operations Sunday to transport five mega transformers to Kabul as part of its attempt to provide electricity to the Afghan capital. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 10:00 am
Mumbai Indians face a stern test as they strive to keep their Indian Premier League (IPL) hopes alive when they clash with in-form Delhi Daredevils at the newly-built D.Y. Patil stadium Sunday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 10:00 am
A policeman who had accused a Bihar Congress legislator of sexual harassment, has been suspended, official sources said Saturday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 10:00 am
Jharkhand's suspended inspector general of police P.S. Natarajan is again facing a controversy -- now on charges of grabbing a flat in Ranchi. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 10:00 am
Officials sitting at the Jharkhand capital here can keep a virtual eye on what is happening in three jails around the state, with the setting up of a remote visual jail monitoring (RVJM) system. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 10:00 am
A former jailer in Chhattisgarh arrested for his suspected role in a jailbreak in December when 299 prisoners including 100 Maoists escaped is to face a lie detector test. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 3 May 2008 | 10:00 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing lambasted the Dalai Lama as a criminal on Saturday as representatives of the exiled Buddhist leader headed for a meeting in southern China on the most serious unrest in Tibet for nearly two decades.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani government has deferred the execution of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian man condemned to death for spying and carrying out bombings in 1990, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
Through a multi-pronged approach, five-year-old Tamil radio station Suryan FM is now reaching out to youth. Suryan FM is the first radio station of Sun TV Network Ltd, which is expanding its FM radio footprint across the country - it launched nine stations last month. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 May 2008 | 5:00 am
Gujarat is poised to become a major auto export hub in the country with several vehicle manufacturers coming to the state to invest in its ports to set up automobile-handling terminals. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 May 2008 | 5:00 am
An interim Special Task Force (STF), led by ex-militant Tamil party leader Douglas Devananda, has been appointed to handle development and resettlement related works in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged Northern Province, official sources said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 May 2008 | 4:00 am
MIAMI (Reuters) - England needs its version of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in place within two years or risks missing the boat, Texan billionaire Allen Stanford said on Thursday.
Television actor and anchor Mona Singh, who shot to fame as the nerdy, bespectacled Jassi on TV, is making a conscious effort to stay away from regular soap operas based on family dramas. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 May 2008 | 3:30 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new type of treatment that trains immune system cells to better recognize the AIDS virus may help control the deadly and incurable infection, Australian researchers reported on Friday.
It is an uphill task by all counts. Tusi Das, a 25-year-old resident of this city, wants to climb Mount Everest - and so she sells eggs. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 May 2008 | 3:00 am
Film: 'Iron Man'; Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges; Director: Jon Favreau; Rating: 3 Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 May 2008 | 2:00 am
Known for his brand of intelligent comedy, actor-producer Vinay Pathak is set to churn out another laughathon, 'Dasvidaniya', with his regular gang - Ranbir Shorey and Rajat Kapoor. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 May 2008 | 2:00 am
Delhi Daredevils moved to the top spot in the Indian Premier League (IPL) standings after they beat Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets Friday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 May 2008 | 1:00 am
Chennai Super Kings will continue their aggressive approach and their defeat to Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) was not the 'end of the tournament', skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said Friday night . Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 3 May 2008 | 1:00 am
Udhagamandalam: “Use tribals to teach tribals”. This approach is in the process of being adopted by the health authorities entrusted with the task of tackling tuberculosis (TB) in the Nilgiris district. Deputy Director of Medical ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
BHUBANESWAR: Engineers manning vital installations, including two engineers-in-chief of the Water Resource Department, went on mass leave on Friday after their talks with the State government failed to break the impasse. The Orissa ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Bangalore: Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Friday said the people “must have faith” in the United Progressive Alliance government’s ability to control prices. Speaking to the media, after addressing members of ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Bangalore: The results of the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination, held in the State between March 31 and April 9, will be announced on May 5 in schools. The results will be made available on the Internet in ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc are making last-minute efforts to seal a deal before Microsoft takes its Yahoo bid hostile or abandons it altogether, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
KINSHASA (Reuters) - United Nations investigators "ignored, minimized or shelved" allegations of serious abuses committed by Indian and Pakistani peacekeepers in Congo, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
The merger of the State Bank of India (SBI) and the State Bank of Saurashtra (SBS) is awaiting the final approval from the finance ministry, SBI chairman O.P. Bhatt has said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 May 2008 | 4:30 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - India will produce a Formula One driver like Lewis Hamilton one day but it will take time, Force India team owner Vijay Mallya said on Friday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Amnesty International said on Friday that India should abolish the death penalty after hundreds of cases examined by the human rights group revealed "fatal flaws" in the country's judicial system.
