The CPM cadres were alleged to have blocked supporters of Trinamool Congress from casting votes at three villages of trouble-torn Nandigram in East Minapore district, while polling in the first phase of civic elections was peaceful in four other districts on Sunday. Source: Zee News : States | 11 May 2008 | 12:40 pm
A man can be accused of sexual
harassment at workplace even in cases where the misconduct has
been committed outside the office premises, the Delhi High
Court has said. Source: Zee News : States | 11 May 2008 | 12:40 pm
With the completion of first phase of elections to the Karnataka Assembly covering 89 of the 224 seats, electioneering in ten districts which go to polls in the second phase on May 16 is gaining momentum. Source: Zee News : States | 11 May 2008 | 12:40 pm
Despite fears, the slowdown in the US economy would at best have a moderate impact on the global IT services and BPO industry. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 11:27 am
Kolkata Knight Riders' captain Sourav Ganguly won the toss and opted to bat against hosts Hyderabad Deccan Chargers. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 11:19 am
ArcelorMittal faces charges of environmental destruction in its plants across the globe as campaigners plan to protest the company's lack of sensitivity towards pollution control. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 11:00 am
Delegates from 21 countries in the Asia-Pacific region will meet later this month to identify ways to ensure effective social security coverage, particularly for workers in the informal sector. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 10:58 am
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's ruling alliance won crucial elections in the island's war-ravaged east and hailed the result on Sunday as an endorsement of its war to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels.
Blaming online futures trading and hoarding of essential commodities as the main reason for the spiralling inflation, Jayalalithaa demanded an immediate ban on online trading. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 10:21 am
With hackers across the borders waging a cyber war, India's security agencies are now busy protecting the country's cyberspace from these new modes of infiltration. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 10:16 am
CBI has questioned UPSC Chairman Subir Datta as part of its probe into the alleged irregularities in the Rs 1,150 crore Barak missile deal with Israel. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 10:12 am
Zoos in India will soon be able to share information online with their counterparts across the world, updating status and breeding programmes of the animals in a scientific manner. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 10:08 am
Six months after stalling distribution of imported red wheat after a certain percentage of it was found unfit for human consumption, Maharashtra government has finally decided to dispose of the grains lying unused in over 300 warehouses of the state. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 10:05 am
Jenna Bush donned an Oscar de la Renta dress of embroidered and beaded organza and married her long-time boyfriend Henry Hager under the Texas stars. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 9:58 am
The Central Information Commission has expressed its displeasure over the Delhi government's "apparent lack of commitment" towards implementing the ban on the use of plastic bags. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 9:57 am
Students would soon be able to take interest-free loans till they complete higher studies with the government planning to allocate Rs.40 billion for the purpose. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 9:51 am
"The Great Khali" says he wrestles not for himself but for the country and would be happy if more Indians join him. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 9:45 am
Under fierce attack from the party, senior Congress leader Arjun Singh today sought to buy peace with the party high command by utilising the loyalty card and dismissing as "needless and irrelevant" controversies that surrounded him recently. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 9:37 am
The Ayurveda drug industry, which is growing at an estimated15% in India is all set to establish a Rs 16-crore Ayurved Cluster in Maharashtra, which is being aided by the Central Government. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 9:33 am
With hackers across the borders wagging a cyber war, India's security agencies are now busy protecting the country's cyberspace from these new mode of infiltration, and surprise checks of government computers would be carried out to check preparedness. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 9:30 am
YANGON (Reuters) - Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands of them would die if emergency supplies do not get through soon.
High-end service from the neighbourhood grocer could soon become a reality with a German wholesaler planning to train them to face the challenge from organised retail chains. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 11 May 2008 | 9:24 am
Blaming online futures trading and hoarding of essential commodities as the main reason for the spiralling inflation, AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa today demanded an immediate ban on online trading. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 9:22 am
France, known for its expertise in high speed trains, will soon be helping India in the creation of such a network in the country. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 9:19 am
Union Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V Narayanasamy today came out strongly against Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh's criticism of the Congress High Command. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 11 May 2008 | 9:10 am
Kashmir on Sunday, leaving six people dead, including two civilians and a news photographer, the army said.A soldier and two gunmen were also killed in Sunday's fighting and in one of the gunbattles s... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:01 am
Students would soon be able to take interest-free loans till they complete higher studies with the government planning to allocate Rs.40 billion for the purpose, a government official said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:00 am
What difference does it make who signed the Pokhran files? Brajesh Mishra, the powerful former security advisor to then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, revealed a bit too late. There was a time when the Congress must have felt elated to claim making India nuclear. The first Pokhran test (in 1974) was their contribution and Indira Gandhi dared the Americans bravely. Should we be ashamed of it or try to delete that chapter from Indian history just because she happened to be another party's leader? Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:00 am
With the government saying its new coastal zone management (CZM) rules will come into effect at June-end, about two million people living in India's 3,200-odd coastal villages and hundreds of towns fear for their livelihood. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:00 am
A legislator from the opposition Congress party in Punjab has alleged he is being harassed by authorities in the Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled state. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:00 am
The purpose of reserving seats for women in legislatures will be defeated if these are not earmarked for different social strata, say supporters of reservation along caste lines. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:00 am
The government has sought public comments and objections to the draft of its new coastal zone management (CZM) rules and has said the draft will be finalised by the end of June. The new rules will replace the Coastal Regulation Zone rule 1991 that now governs India's 7,600-km-long coastline. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:00 am
In a unique initiative, a short film festival was beamed live across four continents. The city's National Centre for Performing Arts was one of the hosts of this unprecedented event. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:00 am
Ten years ago on this day he stunned the world by announcing that India has conducted a nuclear test in the desert of Rajasthan and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rode the nationalist euphoria to win the general election that followed. But Sunday, on the tenth anniversary of the Pokhran blasts, former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had no special observance to mark the historic day Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:00 am
The Jharkhand steering committee, formed by the state United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to run the Madhu Koda government smoothly, has held only one meeting since its inception. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 11 May 2008 | 9:00 am
India's manufacturing sector witnessed a decline between April 2007 and March 2008, says a survey conducted by a leading industry chamber. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 May 2008 | 4:30 am
BANGALORE (Reuters) - If the state election in Karnataka heralds things to come, then one of the key battlegrounds in the fight to govern India will be the issue that angers Meena Govindaraj, a mango seller.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - When Conde Nast launched its premium lifestyle magazine 'Vogue' in India last year, it carried a whopping 168 pages of advertisements of a total 400 pages.
Actor Ruslaan Mumtaz, who's just recovered from a leg injury, plays uncle to young Tanay Cheda in upcoming comedy 'Mastang Mama'. And he says the child actor is actually much sharper than him. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 May 2008 | 2:30 am
Nepalese police Saturday arrested scores of Tibetan protestors who had chained themselves in small groups and tried to march towards Chinese visa and consular office in Kathmandu. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 11 May 2008 | 1:30 am
Providing a boost to the relations between Indian and Saudi Arabian defence forces, the Vice Chief of Indian Army completed a two-day official visit to Riyadh, aimed at fostering defence co-operation between the two countries. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
Senior congress leader Arjun
Singh on Saturday found himself in the eye of a storm in the wake of
his potshots at the party leadership on issues of loyalty and
could face uncomfortable days in the party. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
The fate of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh and cross-border trade and travel will top the agenda of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee when he goes to Islamabad on May 21. Mukherjee will meet his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Their discussions will also cover Jammu and Kashmir. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
On the eve of the tenth
anniversary of Pokhran-II, former President Dr A P J Abdul
Kalam on Saturday said the test had given strength to the nation. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
Welcoming former President A P J Abdul Kalam`s endorsement of the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday hoped the country would listen to the voices of wisdom. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
Some women MPs are expected to
be inducted into a key Parliamentary Committee that will take
up the Women`s Reservation Bill on May 27. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
Former Union Minister of State for Steel Akhilesh Das, who resigned from Congress earlier this week, on Saturday joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
Having grabbed the headlines
back home for Railways` massive turnaround, Railway Minister
Lalu Prasad is now all set to sell his success story overseas. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillani has indicated that his government would consider if Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh could be pardoned. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
Amidst a controversy over even
bringing judiciary under the purview of the RTI Act, Chief Justice
K G Balakrishnan on Saturday said the question was "debatable." In a way the Chief Justice appeared to disagree with
the view of a Parliamentary Standing Committee that barring
the judicial decision-making, the judges are accountable
under the RTI Act. Source: Zee News : India National | 11 May 2008 | 12:27 am
With Manchester United and Chelsea tied on points, the Premier League title will be decided on Sunday on the final day of the season. United only needs to beat Wigan on Sunday to secure its 17th English title — and 10th in the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 May 2008 | 12:00 am
MADURAI: The second Vaigai water supply project, taken up under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission Scheme, stands with 50 per cent of the work completed at its second phase. The project, costing Rs.59.316 crore, has been ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Benazir Bhutto once played an active role in furthering Pakistan’s clandestine nuclear programme by personally taking CDs to and from North Korea on an official trip as Prime Minister, reveals a book by her Oxford college mate ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 May 2008 | 12:00 am
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee president Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Saturday demanded a CBI probe into the ‘illegal’ land acquisitions of the former MP Akhilesh Das in Lucknow and Noida. Dr. Joshi told a press ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 May 2008 | 12:00 am
AMRITSAR: The body of mentally ill Pakistani prisoner Mohammad Akram, who died in judicial custody here recently, was handed over to his family at Attari check post. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 11 May 2008 | 12:00 am
He has apologised to Big B and warmed up to Karan Johar. He says Aishwarya can act. And after Sarkar Raj and Contract, a sober Ram Gopal Varma is making another Sholay.
Kings XI Punjab skipper Yuvraj Singh blamed the loss of three crucial wickets in the middle overs for his team's 18-run defeat against Chennai Super Kings in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Saturday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 7:30 pm
Kamlesh Baghbel, a 25-year-old athlete from Chhattisgarh, Saturday won a contest to climb Gujarat's tallest peak, Mount Girnar. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 7:01 pm
Chennai Super Kings ended Kings XI Punjab's winning streak, beating the visitors by 18 runs in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here Saturday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
Following is the scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match in which Chennai Super Kings beat Kings XI Punjab by 18 runs at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here Saturday night: Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
Comeback man Lakshmipathy Balaji took five wickets, including a hat-trick, and spearheaded Chennai Super Kings to an 18-run victory against Kings XI Punjab in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Saturday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
Chaos continued to prevail in Indian hockey with assistant coach Ramesh Parameswaran Saturday becoming the latest to return home even as the team stumbled from one defeat to another in the Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 10 May 2008 | 5:01 pm
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Residents in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged east voted for the first time in two decades on Saturday in an election the government hopes will endorse its war to defeat Tamil Tiger rebels.
