The domestic servant who was suspected to have murdered teenage girl Aarushi, a resident of Noida, was found killed on Saturday by the nearby residents. Source: Zee News : States | 17 May 2008 | 2:03 pm
Thane Police Commissioner D
Sivanandan was on Friday appointed State Intelligence Department
(SID) Chief, replacing A P Dhere, in a reshuffle of police
officers in Maharashtra. Source: Zee News : States | 17 May 2008 | 2:03 pm
Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party (GCDP) withdrew its indefinite hunger strike plan which was supposed to start on Saturday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 11:45 am
The Orissa government targets to collect about Rs 6,100 crore as commercial taxes during the current fiscal. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 11:38 am
Unfazed by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's vitriolic remarks, Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi visited a dalit basti. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 11:38 am
Car maker Honda Siel Cars India on Saturday announced the launch of its premium eighth generation Honda Accord here, priced at Rs 16.52 lakhs. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 11:36 am
The Uttar Pradesh government ordered a probe Saturday after a woman in the final stages of labour was denied entry into a hospital here and gave birth outside. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 11:32 am
Rafael Nadal meets Novak Djokovic in the Hamburg Masters tennis tournament semi-finals on Saturday where the winner earns the number two ranking in men's tennis. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 11:30 am
Reliance BIG Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group has finalised a slate of 69 films for production and distribution over the next two years. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 11:26 am
The toll in Monday's China earthquake rose to 28,881 Saturday, while 198,347 people were injured, the information office of the State Council said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 11:10 am
Tata Teleservices announced unlimited free local calls on its network on all new prepaid connections for the first two months. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 11:04 am
A man named in Cherie Blair's memoirs 'Speaking For Myself' as one of her former lovers has denied the relationship she was referring to. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 10:59 am
Congress today demanded re-poll in four polling booths in Bellary alleging rigging during the second phase of Karnataka assembly elections. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 10:55 am
In a sensational twist to the brutal killing of a 14-year-old school student here, police found the body of "suspect" Hemraj, the domestic help, from the terrace of the house. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 May 2008 | 10:50 am
Thomson Asia Ltd, a subsidiary of France-based Thomson Group, a technology provider to the media, communications and entertainment industries, will set up a research and development centre in Bangalore, which will be operational by the end of July this year, company officials said today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 10:47 am
BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - A Chinese county near the epicentre of a 7.9 magnitude earthquake was ordered to evacuate on Saturday amid fears a lake would burst its banks, prompting thousands to flee to the hills.
14 Pak fishermen repatriated by India Times of India - 1 hour ago ATTARI (PUNJAB): In a goodwill gesture, 14 Pakistani fishermen were repatriated by India through the land transit route in Attari border check-post on Saturday.
The sketches of three more men suspected to be involved in the Jaipur serial blasts were released by the police. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 10:40 am
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta took diplomats on a tour of the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Saturday as the toll of dead and missing from Cyclone Nargis soared above 133,000 people, making it one of the most devastating ever to hit Asia.
The United States will provide an assistance of $50,000 to the Mizoram government to tide over the food crisis caused due to large-scale crop destruction by an infestation of rats during cyclical flowering of a special species of bamboo every 48 years. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 10:29 am
The ministry of coal is currently preparing plans for new projects, which will be submitted to the Cabinet in a month's time, according to the Union Minister of State for coal, Santosh Bagrodia. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 10:26 am
Faced with a shortage of staff and officers, the Indian Air Force (IAF), is hiring professional publicists to gain an edge over corporate entities in attracting young people. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 10:19 am
With the needle of suspicion in Jaipur blasts pointing towards Bangladesh-based HuJI, lawyers here today demanded that steps be taken to prevent purchase of houses and plots by Bangladeshis "fraudulently" posing as residents of West Bengal. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 10:11 am
There are "formidable cases" for Pakistan to extradite underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to India for trial, senior BJP leader L K Advani said today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 10:05 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Taliban militants freed Pakistan's envoy to Afghanistan on Saturday, following the release of more than 40 of their own men by Pakistani authorities over the past few days, according to a senior security official.
Renewing attack on BSP supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Lok Janshakti Party chief Ramvilas Paswan has said that her formula of social engineering "is just an old method of deceiving people". Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 May 2008 | 9:56 am
Behind the glitz and glamour of the Cannes film festival, it is hard business for the Indian filmmakers and entertainment houses camping there. Deals are being inked and announcements of tie ups made during the prestigious festival that began Wednesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 May 2008 | 5:31 am
GRUH Finance Limited, a housing finance company and a subsidiary of HDFC Ltd, has expanded its reach to two more states and is aiming to achieve disbursement of Rs.10 billion by 2009-2010. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 May 2008 | 5:30 am
The Indian equities market shrugged off high inflation and rising crude oil prices and surged ahead this week. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 May 2008 | 5:30 am
A special filtration technique to enhance the shelf life of Neera, a sweet juice tapped from the palm tree, could help make it available to people all over the country. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 May 2008 | 4:00 am
'Before the Rains', director Santosh Sivan's English language debut drama set in 1937 India, has hit Washington to mixed reviews with one calling it a 'beautiful film' and another branding it 'a hodgepodge in the Raj'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 May 2008 | 4:00 am
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt says his just released 'Jannat', which is about match-fixing, will change his blue-eyed boy Emraan Hashmi's image the way 'Naam' did Sanjay Dutt's. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 May 2008 | 3:01 am
After wowing Paris, celebrated Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's opera 'Padmavati' now goes to Italy and the director is nervous. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 May 2008 | 3:01 am
Karpaka and Revathi, who are transgenders in real life, will rewrite cinema history by playing 'female' leads in the forthcoming Tamil films 'Paal' and 'Thenavattu'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 May 2008 | 3:01 am
Bollywood corporate houses are venturing into co-production in association with American and European studios. But UTV has gone a step further by producing its first Hollywood film, which is being shot in Texas. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 May 2008 | 3:00 am
Bangalore: Polling in the second phase of elections for 66 seats of the Karnataka Assembly held in 10 districts on Friday was by and large peaceful. In the first phase on May 10, elections were conducted for 89 seats. The third phase, ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 May 2008 | 12:00 am
YEKATERINBURG: China blocked Russia’s proposal to express support for India and Brazil’s U.N. Security Council bids in the joint communiqué adopted by the BRIC Foreign Ministers here on Friday. Chinese Foreign Minister ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 May 2008 | 12:00 am
BANGALORE: The Bharatiya Janata Party has modified its strategy for the campaign in the final phase of polling by making “political stability” its main poll plank. Though political stability was one of the key issues in the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Lucknow: Members of the Muslim community staged a demonstration here to protest Tuesday’s serial blasts in Jaipur. Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 May 2008 | 12:00 am
LONDON: A letter in which Albert Einstein termed God as the product of human weakness sold at an auction here on Thursday for more than £200,000. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil shot to a record high near $128 a barrel on Friday as a bullish price forecast from investment bank Goldman Sachs drowned out an offer of more supply from OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - A suicide bomber crashed his motorbike into a police bus in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, killing 10 people, and authorities said Tamil Tiger rebels were to blame.
MILAN (Reuters) - Double amputee Oscar Pistorius can try to qualify for the Beijing Olympics after winning his appeal against a ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the South African said on Friday.
JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Police probing bombings in Jaipur that killed 63 people said on Friday that new evidence pointed increasingly towards Indian Islamists backed by a Bangladeshi militant group as being behind the blasts.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Driver Narain Karthikeyan said on Friday that he will stay with the A1 Grand Prix series next year but had not given up on a Formula One comeback.
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.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi`s scheduled visit to his parliamentary constituency has been deferred by a
day. He would now arrive here on May 16, Congress sources said. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday arrived on a two-day visit to Bhutan, becoming the first international leader to visit the Himalayan country since it entered the club of democratic nations in March. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
Australian Police orchestrated to have Mohamed Haneef, wrongly accused of involvement in the
failed UK car bombings, indefinitely detained in the country despite their own intelligence revealing the case was weak. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
United States hopes that the 123
agreement can be implemented by the end of the year, political
and economic chief of US Consulate in Mumbai, Michael Newbill
said on Thursday. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
