New York Stock Exchange-listed General Electric Company is planning to manufacture windmills and gas turbines in India. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 10:26 am
Mobile Service Provider Aircel, which is 74 per cent owned by Malaysia's Maxis Communications, is aiming to invest an amount of $4-5 billion in beefing up the existing network and also in rolling out its service in mobile operations in the remaining circles by 2010. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 10:22 am
Mysore-based Automotive Axles Ltd, a joint venture of Arvin Motors Inc, USA and the Kalyani Group, is planning to expand axles capacity at an investment of Rs 112 crore from the present 168,000 units to 240,000 units per annum. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 10:18 am
The consumer durable company LG Electronics recorded a turnover of Rs 1,150 crore, an all-time high for the company according to a company release announcing its Q1 result ending April 2008. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 10:14 am
Granting temporary relief to over one lakh flat owners in suburban Mumbai, the Supreme Court today ordered status quo in the appeals of developers who had built apartments in about 1,000 acres of private forest lands. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 10:07 am
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd (IRCTC) has been accorded mini ratna Category 1 status by the Ministry of Railways. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 9:33 am
Rourkela Steel Plant's (RSP) performance during April 2008 was the best as compared to any April since inception of the plant in the production of sinter, hot metal, crude steel and saleable steel. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 9:28 am
Teeming with a young breed of high salaried professionals, Chennai is fast emerging as a hub of modern art as young artists from across the country are making a beeline to cash in on the new wave of interest in paintings. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 9:26 am
BRISBANE (Reuters) - Australia opener Matthew Hayden believes the India Premier League (IPL) has helped ease simmering tensions between the Australian and Indian cricket teams.
Can Fin Homes Ltd, a housing finance company sponsored by Canara Bank has registered 73 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 9.86 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2008 compared to the corresponding quarter last fiscal. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 9:15 am
After business, knowledge and legal process outsourcing, the Indian industries are now eyeing 'diagnostics jobs' outsourcing from other countries. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 May 2008 | 9:15 am
PATNA, India (Reuters) - At least 64 district politicians in one of the country’s poorest states have resigned en masse, citing threats from Maoist insurgents, officials said on Monday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - What looks set to be one of India's longest and hardest fought election seasons ever threatens to further erode the powerbase of its two political heavyweights and deepen a crisis in policy making.
the media reported that BG India, a part of British Gas Group plans to infuse Rs.4, 000 crores in the exploration business in the next couple of years to three years according to a top company executi... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 May 2008 | 8:22 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A remark by President George W. Bush saying India was partly responsible for rising global food prices has sparked a nationalistic storm across the political spectrum, with the defence minister calling it a "cruel joke".
New Delhi, May 5 : A nationwide alert has been issued by China in a bid to control a virus that has caused 22 deaths in one city and shows signs of spreading to other parts of the country. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 May 2008 | 8:00 am
New Delhi, May 5 : China has doused any hopes of a compromise with the Dalai Lama on the Tibet autonomy issue by releasing a series of statements denouncing the Tibetan spiritual leader. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 May 2008 | 8:00 am
New Delhi, May 5 : After the landmark success of putting ten satellites into orbit from a single space platform, a panel of scientists from Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) met Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here today. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 May 2008 | 8:00 am
With four consecutive defeats, the 'Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo' motto may be losing tempo, but fans of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are unperturbed with some even looking to the gods above. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Woollens were being pulled out again as thundershowers brought down temperatures in most parts of Himachal Pradesh Monday, a day after this state capital experienced its hottest day this summer. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 May 2008 | 8:00 am
A silent protest by MPs of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) against the speaker's decision to refer some fellow members to the house privileges committee for disorderly conduct led to the adjournment of the Lok Sabha Monday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore, is set to become its chairman for a second term, official sources said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 May 2008 | 8:00 am
Bangalore, May 2 (IANS) Global IT service firm MindTree Ltd is acquiring around 33 percent equity (1.5 million shares) in Aztecsoft Ltd for Rs.1.72 billion ($43 million) for a majority stake in the Ba... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 May 2008 | 7:58 am
YANGON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people have been left without shelter and drinking water in military-ruled Myanmar after a devastating cyclone tore through the Irrawaddy delta, a United Nations official said on Monday.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian striker Ronaldo fears his reputation has been ruined forever after his "shameful" run-in with transvestites in Rio de Janeiro last week.
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed when the bus they were traveling collided head-on with a truck early on Monday in Assam, police said.
Although Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty dotes on his son Mimoh, he is getting apprehensive of being overshadowed by him. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 May 2008 | 4:00 am
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Envoys of the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials have agreed to further contact after a day of talks aimed at mending fences amid a wave of unrest pushed Tibet to centre stage ahead of the 2008 Olympics.
The Bihar government has received more than a dozen requests from people in Mauritius to help trace their roots in the rural areas of the state ever since it launched its programme to foster closer cultural ties with the Indian Ocean country. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 May 2008 | 3:00 am
VIENNA (Reuters) - The lawyer of the Austrian man who held his daughter captive and fathered her seven children said on Sunday his client was "emotionally a broken man".
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft Corp's $47.5 billion takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on price.
Sohail Tanvir created a bowling record in Twenty20 cricket and inspired Rajasthan Royals to an eight-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL) here Sunday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 May 2008 | 2:01 am
Rajasthan Royals moved to the top spot in the Indian Premier League (IPL) after beating Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets in Jaipur Sunday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 May 2008 | 2:01 am
Zayed Khan, the son of actor-director Sanjay Khan, says he could have ended up becoming a spoilt star son if it hadn't been for Abhishek Bachchan. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 May 2008 | 2:00 am
NEW DELHI: Three Dalit siblings living as tenants in Mukherjee Nagar here were allegedly beaten up and abused by their landlord’s family on Saturday apparently after they learnt of their Scheduled Caste status. Two sisters and a ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 May 2008 | 12:00 am
TIRUCHI: The Tiruchi Corporation has decided to build pedestrian foot bridges with escalators on some of the arterial roads, as part of the private-public partnership initiatives to beautify the city. A consultant is to be appointed ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Islamabad: India has agreed to repatriate at least 29 Pakistanis held in jails this month, leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney said on Sunday. Mr. Burney said they were among a total of 169 Pakistanis, including 29 women, currently ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 May 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: Four persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of 57-year-old Shanti Devi, a resident of Raghunaikalu Street in Sowcarpet, on Saturday evening. According to the police, she was murdered in her apartment by her ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Dilli Rao , driver, Port Blair: “We are a large joint family — I live with my parents, brother and sister-in-law and their children. Though we have two incomes, it still is difficult to run the family. Every month, we have to ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 May 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: The debilitating heat claimed five lives in Orissa, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, with the mercury climbing further as Delhi, Shimla and Churu recorded the season’s highest temperature and dust storms buffeted parts of the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Leftist extremist groups are "very active" in wide areas of impoverished rural eastern and central India, the US State Department has said. The Maoists also operate in parts of southern India, the State Department said in its latest annual report on terrorism. "The Government of India is very concerned over the threat from leftist extremist groups to internal stability and democratic culture," it said. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
Ahead of the joint meeting on the India-US civil nuclear deal next week, the Left has said that the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline`s fate will prove how independent India`s foreign policy is under the present dispensation. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
A Parliamentary committee has
raised questions over the manner the deemed university status
is being conferred on institutions and said the concept needs
to be revised. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
Even as the Indian Army is grappling with acute shortage of middle rung officers due to their mass exodus to the corporate sector, the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadagvasla in Maharashtra has fallen short of 108 quality cadets for its latest batch. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
Amid the struggle to improve the
declining male-female sex ratio in the country, a close
scrutiny of available data easily pins the cause of the social
evil to the low rate of conviction in cases of pre-natal sex
determination. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
India has agreed to repatriate
this month at least 29 Pakistanis held in Indian jails,
leading Pakistani rights activist Ansar Burney said on Sunday. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef,
wrongly accused of terror links, will be under 24-hour police
surveillance if he returns to Australia. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
IIT-Mumbai, which will be implementing
27% quota for OBCs, in three phases following a Supreme
Court order last month, has already begun processing the 9% OBC quota for post-graduation and doctoral courses. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
Keen to take the peace process
with Pakistan forward, India is expected to press for launch
of more cross-LoC bus services and propose some other
confidence building measures during the upcoming visit of
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Islamabad. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
India on Sunday sought structural reforms
in the working of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for
Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC), including amending its charter
to ensure that the body could "actively" move forward. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 May 2008 | 10:53 pm
How much do you set aside in your annual budget for electrical repairs and maintenance? Rs5k? Rs10k? Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 May 2008 | 10:46 pm
After the US Federal Reserve started cutting interest rates in September last year, the greenback fell sharply. The euro and the yen in particular gained as a result. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 May 2008 | 10:43 pm
Intelligence officials say the practice may lead to unwarranted disclosure of classified information. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 May 2008 | 10:42 pm
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) surprised the market on the positive side by maintaining status quo on benchmark rates in its annual monetary policy for 2008-09 on Tuesday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 May 2008 | 10:42 pm
The overuse of the word 'life' in product baselines is the testimony to brands' evolving relevance and clichés in advertising. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 May 2008 | 10:41 pm
Challenging its global rival Samsung LG officials announced that it intends to become the number one player in the LCD and plasma segments in India by 2009. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 May 2008 | 10:39 pm
Closed-door talks between the Dalai Lama's envoys and Chinese officials on the situation in Tibet following the riots against Chinese rule in March opened in Shenzhen on Sunday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 May 2008 | 10:37 pm
Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has got his heart set on picking up another in the same street - this time it is for son Aditya. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 May 2008 | 10:36 pm
Have you ever been denied a bank loan or credit card on the pretext that you have a bad credit record? Source: Daily News & Analysis | 4 May 2008 | 10:20 pm
Sohail Tanvir picked up six wickets as Rajasthan Royals bundled out Chennai Super Kings for 109 in 19 overs in an Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 May 2008 | 6:32 pm
Though he was there to release a book on management, well-known Hindi film lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar gave in to the request of the audience and recited some of his poems here Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 May 2008 | 6:31 pm
Following is the scoreboard of Chennai Super Kings' innings against Rajasthan Royals in an Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match here Sunday: Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 May 2008 | 6:31 pm
Film lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar says he has not heard of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's comments against north Indians who have settled in Maharashtra. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 May 2008 | 6:31 pm
India's Narain Karthikeyan piped local hero Robbie Kerr to give Team India its second A1GP win here Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 May 2008 | 6:31 pm
