Another dream final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, big crowds and more sunshine are what local organisers hope for at the Hamburg Masters Series tennis tournament. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 12:18 pm
Orissa may soon be spelt as 'Odisha' with the government's decision to correct the "mistake" in the spellings of the state's name and language getting the nod of opposition. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 12:13 pm
Presidential daughter Jenna Bush is retreating to the family home in Crawford, Texas, to get married on Saturday, ducking the demand for publicity Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 12:13 pm
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, plans to double its fee for the next academic year now that the government has given a nod for fee hikes in India's premier technology institutes. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 12:11 pm
Bangalore-based Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) labs has bagged a major portion of DRDO Technology Awards for 2007 for its outstanding contribution during the year. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 12:06 pm
Just days after he was criticized for 'misusing' military choppers, Prince William has defended his flights, saying it's part of his training. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 12:05 pm
South America's expertise in bio-fuel could come to the aid of India in meeting its growing energy requirements, with the Indian industry working out investment avenues in the area in the continent. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 12:03 pm
The special riots court acquitted six persons charged of instigating violence during the 1992-93 Mumbai riots, including Shiv Sena MLA Gajanand Kirtikar and Corporator Ravindra Waikar. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Fourteen Congress corporators of Lucknow Nagar Nigam owing allegiance to former Union Minister Akhilesh Das today resigned from primary membership of the party. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 11:59 am
Industrialists of Leather Complex today demanded status of Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Deemed Exporter Status for Indirect Exports and setting up of Footweat Design and Development Centre for the leather industry of Jalandhar. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 11:58 am
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta impounded two U.N. food aid shipments at Yangon airport on Friday, officials said, triggering more outrage at the military government's refusal to accept a major international relief operation.
Taking a serious view of
tainted officers continuing in plum posts, the Punjab and
Haryana High Court has said that propriety demands they be
transferred and posted to places where there is no public
dealing. Source: Zee News : States | 9 May 2008 | 11:52 am
Faced with stigma and discrimination, HIV/AIDS infected orphans in Nagaland have been denied education and healthcare besides being exploited as child labourers. Source: Zee News : States | 9 May 2008 | 11:52 am
With uncertainty persisting in
India on the civilian nuclear initiative with the US, Commerce
and Industry Minister Kamal Nath has said that a broad
political consensus was necessary on the deal. Source: Zee News : India National | 9 May 2008 | 11:51 am
A 24-year-old Indian national charged with the sensational murder of Samrajyo Jyothirmai Vempala, a student from Andhra Pradesh at the Wolverhampton University, will be produced in the Birmingham Magistrates Court on Friday. Source: Zee News : India National | 9 May 2008 | 11:51 am
Australian authorities have refused to release the documents related to the bungled case of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef who was wrongly accused of having terror links in 2007 failed Glasgow airport attack. Source: Zee News : India National | 9 May 2008 | 11:51 am
BSF has foiled an infiltration bid
along the international border in samba sector, an official
spokesman said on Friday. Source: Zee News : India National | 9 May 2008 | 11:51 am
Former President APJ Abdul Kalam, one of the principal figures behind the May 1998 nuclear tests that shook the world, has said that India should `go ahead` with the civil nuclear deal with the United States as it does not compromise the country`s sovereignty. Source: Zee News : India National | 9 May 2008 | 11:51 am
More and more teenagers in Europe are turning to alcohol and drugs to improve their sex lives, a new study has revealed. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 11:50 am
Gold prices today regained the psychological Rs 12,000 level on the bullion market here today by gaining Rs 205 to Rs 12,060 per 10 gram on emergence of buying by funds and general investors. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 11:45 am
The Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), the government body responsible for implementing foreign trade policy, will soon put all the ad hoc rules for new export products online. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 11:45 am
As Myanmar copes with the devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis, meteorologists from South and Southeast Asia are ready with the name of the next cyclone to hit the region - Abe. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 11:45 am
Rival Barack Obama is not yet ready to declare himself "the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party". Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 11:44 am
Some call him a passionate activist, crusading against health hazards, while others allege he is publicity hungry and wastes time on trivial matters Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 11:42 am
Leading steel producers have told the government that ensuring price discipline by secondary producers is a difficult exercise and an appropriate mechanism needs to be set up to ensure that the benefit of lower prices is passed on to consumers. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 11:40 am
Australian authorities have refused to release the documents related to the bungled case of Mohamed Haneef who was wrongly accused of having terror links in 2007. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 May 2008 | 11:36 am
The total wheat production in Haryana this year might cross the mark of 102 lakh metric tonnes which would be the highest ever wheat production in the history of the state. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 11:34 am
The ban on futures trading of rubber has been welcomed by the All India Rubber Association (AIRA). Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 May 2008 | 11:27 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The International Cricket Council (ICC) issued an official warning to the Indian board on Friday over the sub-standard pitch used for last month's final test against South Africa in Kanpur.
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil raced to a new record high above $125 a barrel on Friday, as a strong performance over the last week and a surge in heating oil futures saw investment funds trooping into the market.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Miles of trees stripped of their leaves, heaps of rubble, twisted electricity poles and swarms of hungry people -- the first sights to greet Indian pilot Prashant Karde as he flew in aid for storm-wrecked Myanmar this week.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The annual inflation rose to a 3-½ year high of 7.61 percent in late April, prompting the finance minister to pledge that the government would take more action to tame prices if needed.
KOLKATA (Reuters) - Veterinary workers were getting ready to cull thousands of backyard poultry to contain an outbreak of bird flu in West Bengal which has struggled to control the virus since January.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - India will lodge a protest with Pakistan after soldiers came under heavy cross-border fire while trying to stop a group of armed men from sneaking into its part of Kashmir, a security official said on Friday.
Model Anushka Sharma will play Shah Rukh Khan's leading lady in 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi', which is being directed by Aditya Chopra. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 7:00 am
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Tibetan exiles in India and Nepal reacted with pain and anger at the Olympic torch reaching the Everest peak on Thursday, saying it was a clever ploy by China to reinforce its claim over Tibet.
Everyone agrees that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has produced a fine spectacle but disagrees on whether it is good or bad for cricket. Film star brand ambassadors like Akshay Kumar and owners like Shah Rukh Khan and Preeti Zinta, the Washington Redskin cheerleaders and others provide the glamour and glitz to the three-hour cricket spectacle staged in the arena. Will the IPL produce a Roman spectacle, a fierce locally held identity that could spark hooliganism of the European football league variety, or a more diffuse community that spurs qualities of good citizenship? Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 4:32 am
Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL), which operates mines in Jharkhand and West Bengal, will invest Rs.12 billion in equipment by 2011-12 as part of its revival strategy, says a top company official. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 4:31 am
A Jaipur-based mechanical engineer and an architect from Ahmedabad have jointly developed a fuel free passive cooling system for buildings. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 4:30 am
On a recent visit to Punjab for a concert, music composer Pritam Chakraborty was taken aback to see posters calling him 'Pritam Singh'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 2:31 am
Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, one of the principal figures behind the May 1998 nuclear tests that shook the world, has said that India should 'go ahead' with the civil nuclear deal with the United States as it does not compromise the country's sovereignty. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 2:30 am
He directed 'Asoka' with Shah Rukh Khan in the title role, but Santosh Sivan describes his new Hindi film, 'Tahan', as his first Bollywood entertainer. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 2:30 am
'Taare Zameen Par' (TZP) writer Amol Gupte has moved on from painting and Aamir Khan to do a film on roller-skating and wants Salman Khan to play the lead. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 2:30 am
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by five runs in a rain-curtailed thrilling encounter of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Eden Gardens here Thursday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 12:31 am
Kolkata Knight Riders came back to winning ways, defeating Bangalore Royal Challengers by five runs in a pulsating rain-curtailed encounter of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Eden Gardens here Thursday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 May 2008 | 12:30 am
GURGAON: Actor Soha Ali Khan lost her gun licence after a magistrate found that she was not yet 21, the legal age, when she applied for it in 1996. Her weapon was allegedly used by her father Pataudi to kill a ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 May 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: France was looking forward to “large-scale nuclear co-operation” with India in the civilian arena once India reached a satisfactory agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Nuclear Suppliers ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Dibrugarh (Assam): Two hardcore ULFA militants were killed, seven cadres of the group surrendered and a camp was busted by the security forces in Assam on Thursday. Tarun Sonowal and Janak Bora, both identified as ‘lance ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 May 2008 | 12:00 am
DHAKA: The Bangladesh Supreme Court has allowed the government to try the former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, in a graft case under Emergency Power Rules, overturning a High Court verdict. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against eminent painter M.F. Husain for allegedly hurting public sentiment by depicting Hindu goddesses in an obscene manner. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul called the charge ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 May 2008 | 12:00 am
TUTICORIN: The Fisheries College and Research Institute (FCRI) here has made a breakthrough by standardising a research protocol for production of bio-fuel from marine micro algae. A team of scientists at the Fisheries Biotechnology ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Bangalore: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday promised that the United Progressive Alliance government led by the Congress would tame inflation in the coming months and roll back the inflation rate to reasonable levels. Dr. Singh ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 May 2008 | 12:00 am
They were under the scanner for languishing at the bottom of the table, tagged IPL's Test team, and reeling under pressure following the sacking of CEO Charu Sharma.
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - A powerful rebel group in revolt-racked northeast accused New Delhi on Thursday of encouraging rival groups to attack them and sabotage a decade-old peace process aimed to end the long-running insurgency.
