Railway Minister Lalu Prasad will be
allowed to perform Chatt Puja in Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief
Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said on Monday. Source: Zee News : States | 13 May 2008 | 12:59 pm
Jammu and Kashmir government has initiated a process to fill up 16,000 vacancies in different departments of the state administration, a senior official said. Source: Zee News : States | 13 May 2008 | 12:59 pm
The stadium in Dharamsala should be considered for hosting one-day international matches, National Cricket Academy (NCA) coach Dav Whatmore said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 12:32 pm
The ministry of power today announced that the country's power sector tied up an overall external financial assistance of Rs 8,500 crore as against Rs 3,100 crore the previous year from international agencies such as World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Japan Bank of International Co-operation and KfW (Germany) in the year 2007-08. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 12:17 pm
Africa has been the fastest-growing market worldwide for communication technology in the past three years and will emerge as an important market for the industry, according to the head of the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 12:17 pm
US-based IT major Hewlett-Packard has signed an agreement to acquire Electronic Data Systems Corporation (EDS) for $25 per share, translating into an enterprise valued of around $13.9 billion. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 12:16 pm
A lawyer was shot dead in Daltanganj district of Jharkhand on Tuesday, while returning from court, the police said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 12:15 pm
Ford India expects its new engine plant in Chennai to become the hub for markets in Asia Pacific and Africa by 2010 when its total capacity would be 2.5 lakh engines a year. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 12:09 pm
Cable & Wireless (C&W) has signed a 300 million pound contract with Aviva, the world's fifth largest insurance group, to offer a full communications suite to latter's staff in the UK and India. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 12:02 pm
In one of the last-remaining US primaries, the voters of West Virginia have started heading towards the polling booths from where Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is expected to clinch an easy win as she battles all odds for her candidacy. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 12:01 pm
The Mumbai based Unichem Laboratories Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 18.63 crore for the quarter ended 31 March, 2008, 6 per cent lower than the Rs 20.03 crore posted in the previous year corresponding quarter. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 11:57 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani called for a "last minute effort" to save his six-week-old coalition government, after refusing to accept the resignations of ministers from the party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
Mobile chipset maker company Qualcomm is in talks with vendors and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to launch Smartphones in the country at a price tag of Rs 10,000 by next year. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 11:56 am
Nokia India today said that along with its 7 vendors, it would double the workforce at SEZ plant near Chennai to 30,000 by 2009. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 11:54 am
A research in the United States has suggested that smog from traffic and factories can trigger the formation of potentially deadly blood clots. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 13 May 2008 | 11:51 am
A political biography of the late leader Benazir Bhutto reveals that she carried critical nuclear data on CDs in her overcoat to Pyongyang in 1993. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 11:49 am
A museum for modern art will be built here by one of the world's leading architecture firms Herzog & de Meuron to revive the city's heritage. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 11:37 am
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday 18,645 people were buried under debris in the city of Mianyang, neighbouring Wenchuan county, the epicentre of Monday's devastating earthquake. Some 3,629 people had been confirmed dead.
Taking advantage of the popularity of Indian Premier League T20, the SriLankan Airlines has announced attractive packages, including match tickets for its travellers. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 11:32 am
Mahindra & Mahindra, one of India's leading automobile manufacturing companies, is diversifying into the entertainment media. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 11:16 am
RAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Twenty-two Nobel laureates have appealed to the Indian government to release Binayak Sen, a jailed doctor and human rights activist accused of links with Maoist rebels.
New Delhi, May 13 : A 45-year-old woman scientist is set to head one of the country's key missile projects for the first time. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 11:00 am
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released $350,000 from its emergency fund to meet the medical needs of tens of thousands of survivors of the devastating cyclone that ravaged Myanmar May 2. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 11:00 am
In a rare incident, an eight-year-old lion ate a four-month-old cub in the Gir forest in Junagadh district of Gujarat, officials said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 11:00 am
As Mayawati Tuesday completed one year as Uttar Pradesh chief minister, activists of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) painted this state capital blue, the colour of her party's flag, and celebrated the occasion. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 11:00 am
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Tuesday offered to hire an aircraft for leaders of the opposition parties for a nation-wide tour to prove that the state was number one in development and welfare programmes. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 11:00 am
Varun Shipping has announced a profit after tax (PAT) of $56.44 million (Rs.2.2 billion) during the fiscal year 2008 compared to $35.33 million for the previous year, recording a growth of 59.73 percent. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 11:00 am
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers Tuesday damaged buses and pulled down hoardings with pictures of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Badal here to protest alleged violence against BJP workers by activists of ruling alliance partner Akali Dal during panchayat polls. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 11:00 am
John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and independents with a free-market solut... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 10:57 am
Sports Minister M S Gill has taken strong exception to the latest dope case involving Kavita Devi and has decided to call a review meeting to discuss the menace. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 10:54 am
The Assam government has proposed tough laws including a 10-year prison term to tackle the menace of rhino poaching. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 10:48 am
Sabbagh: Skills availability in India is higher, at a time when the demand is high and the supply is low, when it comes to highly skilled people Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 10:41 am
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) The Delhi High court Monday issued a notice to the central government on a petition challenging the implementation of the quota for the Other Backward Classes (OBC) students i... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 13 May 2008 | 10:35 am
All the nine PML-N ministers quit the six-week-old Pakistan government over the issue of restoration of deposed judges, pushing the country into a fresh phase of political uncertainty. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 10:32 am
YANGON (Reuters) - Heavy rains pelted homeless cyclone survivors in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Tuesday, complicating already slow delivery of aid to more than 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease.
Mayawati completed a year as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday and to celebrate the occasion, the state capital was painted blue, the colour of her party's flag. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 13 May 2008 | 10:22 am
DUJIANGYAN, China (Reuters) - The death toll from China's most devastating earthquake in three decades has jumped to at least 11,921, a top disaster official said on Tuesday, as storms hampered rescuers in the most devastated areas.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - As prices in India shoot over the roof, the value of a politically sensitive, perishable commodity has tumbled, troubling farmers whose pleas for aid have gone unheard as the government battles runaway inflation.
PATNA, India (Reuters) - Jharkhand is recruiting around 4,000 barbers to give free haircuts to poor children to improve hygiene and stop the children "looking funny", a senior government official said.
MIAMI (Reuters) - West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels has been provisionally suspended after he was been found guilty of breaching regulations after a probe into allegations of links with a bookmaker, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said on Monday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Two Indian teenagers are chasing an American dream as baseball professionals and their promoters hope they can stir up interest in the game in their cricket-mad homeland.
'Indian Idol' winner Abhijeet Sawant, who quietly tied the knot with long-time friend Shilpa Edvankar last December, gives credit to Sony TV's reality show for the marriage. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 May 2008 | 4:32 am
NDS congratulates Tata Sky on the remarkable achievement of reaching 2 million subscribers in only 20 months; At a gala dinner celebrating the event in Delhi, NDS presents Tata Sky MD & CEO Vikram Kaushik with commemorative award; NDS re-confirms commitment to protect and power Tata Sky Pay TV services with the leading conditional access and end-to-end digital solutions available anywhere in the world Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 13 May 2008 | 4:29 am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If there is one thing director M. Night Shyamalan enjoys, it is spooking audiences with his supernatural movies, and he promises his June release, "The Happening," will be the scariest ride yet.
HYDERABAD: A 21-year-old trainee pilot of the Indian Air Force Geetika was killed instantly when the HPT-32 aircraft she was flying crashed at 4.10 p.m. on Monday. The plane crashed in Kanugunta village in Medak district, some 55 km ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 13 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Bangalore: Missiles such as the Agni that was test-fired last week could receive a bigger boost to their range thanks to a technological innovation by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science. By coating the nose of the missile ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 13 May 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: The Southwest Monsoon has set in over the south Andaman Sea and southeast Bay of Bengal five days early. The conditions are favourable for its further advance in the next two days. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 13 May 2008 | 12:00 am
LONDON: Salman Rushdie heads a six-strong shortlist of some of the world’s best known writers, one of whom will be chosen by the British public for the Best of Booker award to be announced to mark the award’s 40th ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 13 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Union Home Ministry on Monday sought a detailed report from the West Bengal government on the first phase of the panchayat polls, particularly the situation in Nandigram where the Central Reserve Police Force and police were ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 13 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Industrialist Vijay Mallya said captain Rahul Dravid and sacked CEO Charu Sharma ignored his choice of players for his team, the Bangalore Royal Challengers, at the IPL auctions. DETAILED REPORT/PAGE ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 13 May 2008 | 12:00 am
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed
the execution of death sentence awarded to Abdul Ghani Isma
Turk in connection with the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
HRD Minister Arjun Singh`s statement on Emergency appears to have no takers in the Congress with the party on Monday saying that it does not recollect his opposition to the measure taken by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975. Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
HRD Minister Arjun Singh on Monday
asserted that he was a loyalist and not a sycophant and
stuck to his views that Rahul Gandhi has the capacity to be a
potential prime ministerial candidate. Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
Pakistan has not provided Consular access to an Indian prisoner whom Islamabad had agreed to set free after he spent the last 22 years in jail in that country, government on Monday informed the Supreme Court. Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
New Delhi, May 12: Muslim spiritual leader Aga Khan
on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here and discussed the
state of minorities in the country. Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
Continuing its pressure on the
Congress-led coalition to take more steps to rein in
inflation, the CPI on Monday submitted a memorandum signed by one
crore people to Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee
highlighting the government`s "failure" to check prices. Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
The Centre on Monday faced searching questions from the Delhi High Court on implementation of Sachar Committee recommendations for welfare of Muslims with a bench telling the government that "you are trying to please one community and "this is where the rot lies". Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
Here`s some good news -- a study on
the impact of atmospheric pollution on the Taj Mahal has
allayed fears of any chemical reaction of airborne particles
on the marble structure. Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
Twenty two Nobel laureates have
sought the intervention of President Pratibha Patil to allow
jailed pro-Naxal intellectual Binayak Sen to travel to
Washington later this month to receive a prestigious
international award for his work for health of tribals in
Chhattisgarh. Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
Acting On Washington`s request,
India on Monday impressed upon cyclone-hit Myanmar to accept
international relief, to which Yangon expressed readiness. Source: Zee News : India National | 12 May 2008 | 11:32 pm
Britain and India Monday signed a treaty to co-produce films and the two countries are expected to make as many as 10 movies within the first two years. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 12 May 2008 | 10:00 pm
Bangalore Royal Challengers slumped to a humiliating nine-wicket loss against Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match here Monday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 12 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
Kings XI Punjab moved up one place to the second spot after registering a sublime nine-wicket win over bottom-placed Bangalore Royal Challengers in aN Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here Monday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 12 May 2008 | 7:00 pm
The Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL), the developer of Bangalore's new greenfield airport, has told the central government that it is not feasible to operate the new airport if the existing one remains functional. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 12 May 2008 | 6:31 pm
Bahrain Air's maiden flight from Kerala will take off from Cochin International Airport to Bahrain May 26. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 12 May 2008 | 6:30 pm
In an attempt to promote chess in schools, the Gujarat government will conduct training programmes for teachers who would help spread the game in their schools. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 12 May 2008 | 6:30 pm
Kings XI Punjab registered a facile nine-wicket win over Bangalore Royal Challengers in a Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here Monday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 12 May 2008 | 6:29 pm
The following is the final scoreboard of the Twenty20 match in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in which Kings XI Punjab defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by nine wickets at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium here Monday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 12 May 2008 | 6:29 pm
