In a bid to tide over the problem of non-availability of major materials like PSC (prestressed cement concrete) poles which has been responsible for slow progress of rural electrification schemes like Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) in Orissa, the state government has appealed to the Central PSUs to take up manufacturing of PSC poles either through captive plants or through tie-ups with the implementing contractors. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 11:49 am
15-year-old girl, studying in DPS Noida, was found murdered in her house here and the domestic help hired eight months ago is suspected to be behind the crime. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 May 2008 | 11:48 am
Maintaining that prospects of operationalising the Nuclear Deal as per the American deadline were fading away, the CPI(M) today said a "desperate" attempt was being made to urge the government to go ahead with it, ignoring the objections by the Left and the opposition. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 11:44 am
A Chennai-bound Air India Airbus A-320 aircraft started moving towards the runway for take-off even before its door could be closed and with the aerobridge still attached but there was no mishap. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 11:36 am
After getting a one month suspension of his five-year ban , maverick pacer Shoaib Akhtar may be handed lesser punishment by the appellate tribunal. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 May 2008 | 11:33 am
Tata Steel plans to start the construction work for its proposed Rs.15,400 crore 6 million tonne per annum integrated greenfield steel plant in Kalinganagar within a month. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 11:31 am
The Planning Commission has promised necessary assistance to GMR Group for easing the problems being faced by passengers at the Delhi international airport. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 11:30 am
Flamboyant bollywood actor John Abraham was today roped in as brand ambassador for the UEFA European Football Championship 2008, to be held next month in Switzerland and Austria. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 May 2008 | 11:29 am
Pharmaceutical company Aventis Pharma Limited toady launched a new prefilled disposable insulin pen diabetic patients and aims at increasing its market share to 9 per cent with this launch. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 11:20 am
The serial blasts in Jaipur may have left Shane Warne and Shane Watson in absolute panic but fellow Australian Adam Gilchrist refrains from any knee-jerk reaction Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 May 2008 | 11:17 am
Two people were arrested here for allegedly sending a "fake SMS" that threatened to blow up Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's Lucknow office, police officials said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 May 2008 | 11:16 am
Differences between AMU VC, Council members reach HRD Ministry Hindu - 58 minutes ago New Delhi (PTI): The differences between the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice Chancellor and some members of the varsity's Executive Council (EC) on Friday landed in the Union HRD Ministry.
A self-styled godman has surrendered to police following a complaint from a newspaper alleging that he had threatened their journalists after they published a news report about him. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 May 2008 | 11:09 am
The Supreme Court today made the way clear for the implementation of the 27 per cent quota for the "socially and educationally backward" communities in post graduate courses, including IIMs. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 11:03 am
Ten years after it suspended air operations to India, Garuda airlines is all set to resume its operations with a flight between Chennai and Jakarta. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 10:59 am
UTV motion pictures has begun work on its first solo Hollywood film "Ex-Terminators" last month. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 10:59 am
At least nine people were killed and over 90 others injured on Friday when a motorcycle-borne LTTE suicide bomber rammed into a bus carrying police personnel in Sri Lankan capital. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 May 2008 | 10:58 am
The Uttar Pradesh government has announced a new transfer policy for its employees under which the transfers after June 30 will be done only with chief minister's consent. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 May 2008 | 10:55 am
Construction chemicals maker Pidilite Industries today said it is exploring possibilities to acquire majority stake in some companies in Europe and the US. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 May 2008 | 10:53 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's annual inflation rate headed towards 8 percent in early May, clocking a 3-1/2-year high, but analysts said it was unlikely to provoke more monetary tightening for now as economic growth appeared to be slowing.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber rammed his motorbike into a police bus in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, killing 10 people, the military and hospital authorities said.
Shop owners in Jharkhand who have coin-operated telephone boxes installed are facing a new menace of fake coins being used to make calls. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 May 2008 | 10:43 am
Bangalore, May 16 (ANI/Business Wire India): Outsource Partners International, Inc. (OPI), a leading provider of finance, accounting, and tax business process outsourcing (BPO) as well as related services, announced the opening of its new, 280,000 square feet Shared Service Center in Bangalore. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
New Delhi, May 16 : Four days after the devastating earthquake which shattered Sichuan province of China, claiming over 20,000 lives, the place is likely to become home to many diseases as the victims' bodies are still trapped in debris and not buried. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
The Supreme Court Friday confirmed the death sentence of a man from Satara, Maharashtra, for the 1999 rape and murder of two minor girls. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
New Delhi, May 16 : The annual inflation rose to 7.83 percent for the week ended May 3 from 7.61 percent for the previous week. The data for the week ended March 8 has been revised to 7.78 percent versus 5.92 percent (provisional). Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
Twelve Naga separatists were killed in a gang war in Nagaland Friday, the police said, heightening tensions sparked by stepped up factional feuds over the past month. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
Two people were arrested here for allegedly sending a 'fake SMS' that threatened to blow up Hindustan Aeronautics Limited's Lucknow office, police officials said Friday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
Former Kerala chief minister K. Karunakaran, who rejoined the Congress last year, Friday aired his resentment against the party because his supporters were not being allotted posts. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper Friday fled from his camp and shot himself dead hours later with his service rifle in his home in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
The profit after tax (PAT) of public sector giant Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) was Rs.23.77 billion in the last quarter of fiscal 2007-08, a rise of 24.97 percent from the corresponding quarter in the previous fiscal. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
'Arre aa rahi hoon. Itni der tak baitthaye rakha (I am coming! I've been made to sit for so long),' actress Zohra Sehgal said loudly during a programme here to felicitate her as the 'Laadli of the century' in recognition of her contribution to films and theatre. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 May 2008 | 10:00 am
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - Maoist rebels have shot and killed two men in Karnataka, hours before the second phase of polling began in state election, police said on Friday.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Residents of Indian Kashmir, the country's only state with a Muslim majority, are drinking more and more alcohol, excise officials said, after years of intimidation by Islamist militants.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Research in Motion has said it expects to resolve in a month Indian security concerns about its BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, India's telecoms minister said on Friday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Global trade talks will not have much chance of success if they fail to deliver on a development promise and get converted into a market access round for rich nations, Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath said on Friday.
JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Police probing bombings in Jaipur that killed 61 people said on Friday that new evidence pointed increasingly towards Indian Islamists backed by a Bangladeshi militant group as being behind the blasts.
BALLA, India (Reuters) - Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel.
Searching the net might become quite a different experience thanks to an experiment from Yahoo! India called Glue that yields results with visual information. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 May 2008 | 4:02 am
Debutant director Rajkumar Gupta is all praise for Rajiv Khandelwal who stars in his upcoming thriller 'Aamir', but says he wasn't aware of the TV actor's star status when they met for the first time. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 May 2008 | 4:02 am
It's more bad news for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government on the economic front, even as it looks forward to the general election in 2009. Industrial growth has dipped to a six-year-low of three percent in March this year. Coupled with raging inflation, the economic outlook is far from satisfactory at a time when both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram were expecting to pat themselves on the back for a great five-year performance. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 May 2008 | 4:01 am
Top-end hotels in Chandigarh just love the new T20 format of cricket. Be it the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) or the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL), it has meant a windfall for these hotels. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 May 2008 | 4:01 am
Kannada actor-director Ramesh Arvind, who forayed into the thriller genre with 'Accident' after making two successful comedies, says it was a conscious decision to move into a different zone. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 May 2008 | 4:00 am
One minute this way or that, and it could've been fatal for Neil Nitin Mukesh of 'Johnny Gaddar' fame. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 May 2008 | 2:30 am
Voting began Friday morning in 66 constituencies in 10 districts of central, coastal and parts of north Karnataka in the second phase of elections for the 224-member state assembly. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 May 2008 | 2:00 am
'Om Shanti Om' girl Deepika Padukone is annoyed with the press for publishing stories about her romantic link-ups, saying they will dent her reputation and cause future embarrassment. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 May 2008 | 2:00 am
India on Thursday insisted it considered Tibet as an integral part of China and said it will ensure security and sanctity of Chinese nationals and diplomatic premises in the country. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
The Centre on Thursday approached the
Supreme Court seeking vacation of the Calcutta High Court
order staying the implementation of a government memorandum
relating to 27 per cent quota for OBCs in post graduate
courses in IIMs. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
National Security Advisor MK Narayanan on Thursday said that intelligence agencies are looking into all possible angles to solve the Jaipur serial bombing case; however there are no credible leads as of now. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he understood the frustration of British teenaged girl Scarlett Kealing`s mother Fiona Mackeown with police probe into her daughter`s death and offered all possible help to her in her fight for justice. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday sought a "zero-tolerance" approach against terror and underscored the nodal role of the UN in combating international terrorism. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
Government on Thursday asserted that
it will do everything to provide reservation for OBC students in institutions of higher learning, including IITs and IIMs. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
Four Indian oil workers have been abducted in the oil-rich south of Sudan by disaffected locals, diplomatic sources said on Thursday. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
Pakistan on Thursday said terrorism and
the "core issue" of Jammu and Kashmir will be high on the
agenda when External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his
counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi meet here next week to review
the composite dialogue. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
Ahead of the UPA-Left meet on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPI has renewed its threat to withdraw support if the government moved ahead on the issue. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
External Affairs
Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday briefed his Russian
counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the Indo-US nuclear deal and
hoped for a further movement on it after his talks with the
Left parties later this month. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:23 am
New Delhi: Senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet was admitted to a hospital in Noida with respiratory problems. His condition was “serious but stable” on ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 May 2008 | 12:00 am
KOLKATA: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu said here on Thursday that there was need for the ruling Left Front in West Bengal to make renewed efforts to regroup and there were lessons to be learnt from its failure to reach consensus on seat ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: An e-mail sent to the media on Wednesday, claiming responsibility for the Jaipur blasts, has been traced to a cyber cafe at Sahibabad in Ghaziabad. The mail sender has threatened to carry out more such strikes in different parts of ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: India will send relief assistance to China and a team of armed forces medical personnel to Myanmar, said Ministry of Defence sources here. While China’s Sichuan province was hit by an earthquake on May 12, Myanmar was ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Centre has extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an unlawful association by two years. The notification to this effect was issued on Wednesday, according to a Home Ministry release here. The ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Leg-spinner Amit Mishra took a hat-trick as Delhi Daredevils ended their losing streak with a 12-run victory over Deccan Chargers in a thrilling Twenty20 match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) here Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 15 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
Deccan Chargers skipper Adam Gilchrist minced no words in criticising Delhi Daredevils' ploy of bringing an unfit Mohammad Asif for bowling and replacing him with a substitute for fielding in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Thursday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 15 May 2008 | 9:00 pm
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has introduced a software development tool that lets outside parties create customized views of Yahoo Web search results, the company said on Thursday.
Supreme Court will on Thursday hear a petition filed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati seeking the dismissal of CBI investigations against her in a disproportionate case registered five years ago. Source: Zee News : States | 15 May 2008 | 1:08 pm
An estimated 1.10 crore electorate are expected to decide the fate of 589 candidates, including BJP`s chief ministerial candidate B S Yeddyurappa, in the second phase of elections to Karnataka Assembly on Friday. Source: Zee News : States | 15 May 2008 | 1:08 pm
Suspended IPS officers D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh M N, accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, will now be questioned
in connection with another encounter case of 2006. Source: Zee News : States | 15 May 2008 | 1:08 pm
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Test cricket needs a radical overhaul to ensure its continued existence in the face of the Twenty20 revolution, India coach Gary Kirsten said.
