Industry body Ficci today said knowledge and education centres should be set up in patent offices across the country to educate the public with the role of Intellectual Property in emerging economies. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 11:28 am
Just months after putting his 40-million-pound house at Bishops Avenue on sale, Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal is said to have splurged 117 million pounds to buy a new mansion here - making it possibly the world's costliest home. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 11:23 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's annual inflation rate remained at 7.8 percent in early May, data showed on Friday, but analysts were more interested in a revision that took the figure above 8 percent in March for the first time in 3-½ years.
The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)Pascal Lamy said in an interview today that the conditions were at last in place for a possible global trade agreement under the Doha round by the end of the year. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 11:19 am
Health experts have sought setting up of a surveillance and monitoring system under a newly-enacted law which regulates food safety norms. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 11:11 am
Automobile Component Manufacturers Association (ACMA) has made representation to the Ministry of Steel and Ministry of Heavy Industries asking for the removal of 5 per cent import duty on alloy steel so that the domestic suppliers of these auto-grade steel would start bench-marking their own price at a lower level. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 11:01 am
Reasearch and development firm ProSim, Bangalore and UK-based Safe Technology have introduced the popular durability estimation and fatigue life prediction tool FeSafe to India. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 10:56 am
United India Insurance Co Ltd today unveiled a new health product called "Family Medicare Policy". Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 10:50 am
Crompton Greaves announced its fourth quarter results today. Its net profit went up by 47.4 per cent from Rs 69.92 crore to Rs 103.07 crore. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 10:46 am
Malaysia has finalised a Memorandum of Understanding with India on employment of Indian workers in the country and will sign it once the cabinet gives its approval, a top Malaysian minister has said here. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 10:36 am
At least five people were killed and scores injured when police opened fire in Rajasthan's Bharatpur district on Friday to disperse a violent mob of Gujjars Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 10:29 am
Government today allocated start-up spectrum to new telecom players in Andhra Pradesh, a move that would further increase competition in mobile telephony. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 23 May 2008 | 10:20 am
The father of murdered teenaged girl Arushi, dentist Rajesh Talwar, was on Friday believed to have been arrested in connection with the twin murder Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 10:14 am
Pope John Paul II could achieve sainthood by spring next year, possibly in time for the fourth anniversary of his death, according to a cardinal at Vatican. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 9:59 am
Tamil Nadu Governor S S Barnala on Friday reappointed D Chandrasekaran as the State Election Commissioner. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 9:43 am
The toll in the lightning strikes in Orissa's Sundergarh district rose to six with reports of two casualties received, official sources said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 9:43 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India on Friday expanded the scope and scale of an ambitious scheme to write off the debts of small farmers, saying it would now cost an additional 60 billion rupees ($1.4 billion) and cover three million more poor cultivators.
With the rain playing killjoy, threats of a downpour -- and not the blazing blades of Sachin Tendulkar or Sanath Jayasuriya -- remain the cloud on the horizon for Delhi Daredevils. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 9:01 am
New Delhi May 23 : In a move to further appease the farmers, the Central Government has added about 20 per cent to its already announced debt waiver of Rs 60,000 crore in the Union Budget, bringing it to Rs 71,680 crore. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 May 2008 | 9:00 am
Kantipur (Kathmandu), May 23 : Six districts of Nepal bordering India are at risk of bird flu according to the Avian Influenza Control Project. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 May 2008 | 9:00 am
London, May 23 : The BPO or call centre boom in India might just receive a setback due to a decline in customer service levels, with people having to wait two-thirds longer on the telephone today as compared to ten years ago, according to a new study. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 May 2008 | 9:00 am
Nearly 200 people have been evacuated from Santa Cruz Mountains, south of Silicon Valley after a wildfire broke out here forcing the authorities to declare a state of emergency. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 8:50 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India aims to issue guidelines for third-generation mobile (3G) and WiMAX networks by June and will allow foreign participation in them, telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja said on Friday.
Crude oil prices on the country's leading commodity bourse Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) fell sharply by 1.91 per cent taking cues from international market. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 8:36 am
Former president Bill Clinton does not rule out the possibility of a third member of his family running for president one day. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 8:35 am
New York, May 22 (IANS) Denying that increasing consumption by the middle class in developing countries has led to the current food crisis, India has blamed it on the developed countries' excessive an... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 May 2008 | 8:32 am
Thiruvananthapuram, May 22 (IANS) The Kerala government plans to hold a detailed inter-departmental inquiry into the wealth of the godmen from all religious communities in Kerala. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 May 2008 | 8:32 am
Rather than guess what properties a star should have to enable life, the researchers decided to compare the sun - which already hosts a life-bearing planet - to other stars. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 May 2008 | 8:32 am
A MiG-21 aircraft of the Indian Air Force caught fire while landing at West Bengal's Bagdogra airport but the pilot managed to get out unharmed, officials here said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 23 May 2008 | 8:31 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is set to raise petrol and diesel prices to keep pace with crude oil's record run but the move will fuel inflation, heaping more pressure on a government struggling to calm prices ahead of elections.
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday cleared an outlay of Rs. 10,328.20 crore for infrastructure development in central educational institutions to facilitate an inc... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 May 2008 | 8:24 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil stood near $132 a barrel on Friday, recovering a little from a strong bout of profit-taking in the previous session that pulled prices back more than 3 percent from the record high above $135 a barrel.
Chandipur (Orissa), May 23 : India on Friday successfully test fired the indigenous surface-to-surface 'Prithvi' missile, from the integrated test range (ITR) here, 15 km from Balasore. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 May 2008 | 8:00 am
New Delhi, May 23 : The four Left parties are meeting here this afternoon to finalise their strategy on issues such as price rise, runaway inflation and agrarian crisis and the US-India civilian nuclear deal. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 23 May 2008 | 8:00 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Companies are struggling to grow India's nascent online games market by collecting content and building distribution channels, as they wait for higher broadband penetration for sizeable returns, company officials say.
SRINAGAR (Reuters Life!) - Strife-torn Indian Kashmir is set to rock to the beat of music, not bombs, on Sunday as Pakistan's renowned band Junoon holds the biggest musical event in the region in nearly two decades in a bid for peace.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A political party in Mumbai best known for its anti-immigrant rhetoric, the Shiv Sena, has decided to launch its own chain of fast food stands, but with an ideological flavour that could stick in some throats.
Being a part of reality game show 'Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Se Tez Hain' with Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is the best thing to have happened to her, says 11-year-old child actor Shriya Sharma. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 May 2008 | 2:31 am
The new Indian consumer doing the rounds of the markets this season is a savvy shopper. He is educated, knows his brand and is ready to spend more on premium lifestyle products and entertainment. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 May 2008 | 2:31 am
For Dilip Patel of Anand town in Gujarat, tension had been building up for over a year. And when he saw his sealed electricity meter lying open with broken seals at a meter-testing laboratory in January this year, his worst fears came true. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 23 May 2008 | 2:31 am
Sixteen people were injured in bomb explosions and clashes between CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress supporters with counting for the panchayat polls in progress here since last night. Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
A suspected militant of
Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI) arrested
on Wednesday along with three kg RDX was remanded to 11 days`
Delhi police custody by a court here on Thursday. Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
Former Delhi High Court judge
Shameet Mukherjee is likely to face trial as a court here
on Thursday ordered framing of charges against him and four others
in a DDA land scam case. Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
The prosecution in the Nitish
Katara murder case on Thursday opposed prime accused Vikas Yadav`s
plea to bring on a city court`s record a sting CD and
re-examine some witnesses. Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
After four days of intense search,
City Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths on Thursday succeeded in arresting
Sounder Rajan, the prime suspect in the Hooch tragedy in the
city which claimed more than 60 lives. Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
About 35 per cent of 3.92 lakh voters cast their votes in first four hours of polling in by-election to three assembly constituencies of Haryana. Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
Voting for Hamirpur Lok Sabha by-election in Himachal Pradesh began in the morning on Thursday amid tight security. Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
The condition of veteran Marxist leader Harkishan Singh Surjeet, who came out of coma, was "slightly better", a senior doctor attending on him said on Thursday while maintaining that he continues to be "critical". Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
To facilitate free movement of
thousands of divided families across the Line of Control, the
former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and patron of National
Conference Farooq Abdullah has urged India and Pakistan to
ease travel restrictions. Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
Six days after the twin murder,
Noida police on Thursday said that the teenaged school girl Arushi
could have been a victim of extreme passionate killing or an
honour killing, throwing open various possibilities behind her
mysterious death along with domestic help Hemraj. Source: Zee News : States | 23 May 2008 | 12:08 am
China on Thursday said its talks with
India on the long-festering boundary problem were "making
progress" but "it takes time" to resolve such issues as it
insisted on maintaining border tranquility to ensure that
there were "no minor clashes." Source: Zee News : India National | 23 May 2008 | 12:05 am
Even as resentment persists in
the armed forces over pay commission proposals, a bonanza is
in the offing for senior ranks as the Defence Ministry has
cleared proposals for creating more than 110 posts of
Generals. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 May 2008 | 12:05 am
In a significant decision, the Centre on Thursday announced an over Rs 330 crore relief package for the victims of the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 May 2008 | 12:05 am
Ahead of the UPA-Left meeting on
the Indo-US nuclear deal, government on Thursday said it was still
hopeful of finding a way out of the deadlock but refused to
"speculate" on when to approach the Nuclear Suppliers` Group
(NSG) to take the pact forward. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 May 2008 | 12:05 am
Hinting towards a possible political alliance with Samajwadi Party, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that, "no one is untouchable in politics" and "people of same ideology can come together". Source: Zee News : India National | 23 May 2008 | 12:05 am
The US Secretary of State and her Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee discussed the current situation in Myanmar and the civil nuclear deal. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 May 2008 | 12:05 am
The recent firing by Pakistani troops on a forward post in Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir might have been "due to some misunderstanding", a senior IAF officer said on Thursday. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 May 2008 | 12:05 am
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is independently studying the validity of the death penalty in India, says its chief, Justice (Retd) S Rajendra Babu. Source: Zee News : India National | 23 May 2008 | 12:05 am
Srinagar: Two militants were arrested by the security forces in separate incidents in Pulwama district on Thursday. Bilal Ahmad Chopan of Jaish-e-Mohammad was arrested by a joint search team of police, the CRPF and Rashtriya Rifles at ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 May 2008 | 12:00 am
HYDERABAD: The State committee of Communist Party of India (Maoist) has as usual given a call for boycott of the coming byelections but police feel that it is in no position to enforce it. On the other hand, senior police officers ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 May 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Thursday heaped praise on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and expressed confidence over the alliance getting a fresh mandate in the next elections. She said this at a function to celebrate four years in ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 May 2008 | 12:00 am
ISLAMABAD: Following up on Pakistan’s commitment of working for a “grand reconciliation” with India, the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Thursday made two proposals — reduction of the Army’s presence ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Steps taken so far will enable the country to return to a regime of moderate inflation in eight to ten weeks Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NOIDA: Exactly a week after 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and the family’s domestic help Hemraj were found murdered in Sector 25 here, the Noida police on Thursday gave a new twist to the case by stating that the teenager could have been a ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: “Thank God it’s not Friday,” Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Thursday. He was asked to comment on the impact of rising crude oil prices on inflation. Fridays see the release of inflation ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 23 May 2008 | 12:00 am
A bilateral treaty on investment will further enhance business ties between India and the US and give a positive signal to the world, a visiting US official said here Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 May 2008 | 7:31 pm
Unseasonal rain played spoilsport for Kolkata Knight Riders, dashing their hopes of a semifinal berth in the Indian Premier League (IPL) after their match against Delhi Daredevils was washed out without a ball being bowled at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium here Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 May 2008 | 7:31 pm
Exit polls conducted by two leading TV channels Thursday gave differing pictures of the possible outcome of the Karnataka assembly elections, which concluded earlier in the day. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 May 2008 | 7:30 pm
Delhi Daredevils moved up to fourth place on the Indian Premier League (IPL) tally after pocketing one point from Thursday's abandoned match against Kolkata Knight Riders here. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 May 2008 | 7:30 pm
After a string of successes, a confident Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is ready to offer its capacities on a commercial basis and ring in its cash registers, after meeting the domestic requirement that calls for four to five launches a year. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 May 2008 | 6:00 pm
As crude oil prices crossed $135 a barrel, the Indian government looked likely to take up Friday the issue of revising domestic petrol and diesel prices even as it dismissed reports of fuel 'rationing' and assured 'uninterrupted supply' to the nation. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 May 2008 | 6:00 pm
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - better known internationally for its famous Oscar awards - has sued a premier film company in Tamil Nadu for using the name 'Oscar'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 22 May 2008 | 5:33 pm
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - A handful of exiled Tibetans in India began competing on Thursday in what they said were the "Tibetan Olympics", an event high on symbolism meant to mock China, the host of the real Summer Games in August.
