Allaying fears of travel agents, IATA said that interline e-ticketing agreements would cover about 90% of interline travel by May 31. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 2:23 pm
Coach Geoff Lawson may not return to Pakistan to resume his coaching assignment with the national cricket team, local media reported. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 2:19 pm
Jyoti Randhawa turned on the magic with his putter after recovering from an early bogey as he found three birdies over last six holes to come in with a four-under 68. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 2:07 pm
With terrorists using bicycles to place bombs or to pack timer-triggered explosives in, the buyers of the common man's vehicle have come under the police scanner. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 2:02 pm
Lawyers of dentist Rajesh Talwar, accused of killing Arushi and family help, filed bail applications, claiming he was totally innocent and that he suffered from asthma. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 1:54 pm
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The head of the party leading Pakistan's ruling coalition unveiled proposed constitutional changes on Saturday that would take away President Pervez Musharraf's powers.
France's star striker Thierry Henry is considering ending his international career after next month's Euro, media reports said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 1:50 pm
Train services on the suburban rail routes of the Western Railway will be affected due to the yard remodelling work being undertaken. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 1:43 pm
The results of the Karnataka assembly elections that could alter the political equations at the national level will be out on Sunday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 1:42 pm
The number of dead and missing in China's worst earthquake in recent decades on Saturday neared 90,000. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 1:38 pm
Anita Durrani, a doctor whom Noida police said had an extra-marital affair with Rajesh Talwar that led to the murder of his daughter and domestic help last week, rejected the allegations. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 24 May 2008 | 1:30 pm
Shares of Bharti Airtel may rebound on expectations that the country's largest private sector telecom company may be able to use cash for ongoing expansion plans and stay ahead of its rivals, after it called off talks with South Africa's largest telecom company MTN. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 1:21 pm
MUMBAI/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - India's Bharti Airtel Ltd said on Saturday it had ended takeover talks with South Africa's MTN Group after failing to agree on which company will control a combined entity.
Aman Resorts, the internationally acclaimed chain of luxury hotels has decided to invest in Orissa. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 1:00 pm
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Indian police have begun arresting Tibetan protesters trying to cross a restricted military zone that stretches to the Chinese border.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Police fired teargas at stone-throwing protesters in Srinagar on Saturday while shops stayed shut after separatists called a strike to protest against a visit by President Pratibha Patil.
Bangalore-based Kristal Infrastructure group today said it has earmarked Rs 3,000 crore for its proposed projects in southern states. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 12:40 pm
The United States needs to explore more for oil at home and tap nuclear power as part of a comprehensive energy policy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview aired. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 12:26 pm
Bharti has decided to disengage from it's ongoing talks with South African telecom major MTN for a merger which would have combined the strengths of the two leading emerging market players in over 25 countries . Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
In a bid to provide livelihood support to more than a million fisherman depending on fishing in Chilika, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Chilika Development Authority (CDA) has started a joint survey on fishes, crabs and prawn in Chilika. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 12:06 pm
The Centre has put emphasis on education and skill development and absorption of skilled manpower in the 11th five-year plan. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 11:50 am
YANGON (Reuters) - There was "no time to lose" to help Myanmar's cyclone survivors after the secretive military government promised it would allow in more aid workers, disaster relief officials said on Saturday.
A court here on Saturday framed charges against former Delhi High Court judge Shameet Mukherjee and four others, including ex-DDA Vice Chairman Subhash Sharma, in a DDA land scam case. Source: Zee News : States | 24 May 2008 | 11:27 am
The Karnataka electorate that voted in three phases to elect a new state assembly would not have imagined that its decision, perhaps for the first time in the state`s history, could have a national impact. Source: Zee News : States | 24 May 2008 | 11:27 am
A judicial probe has been ordered into Friday`s police firing on protestors during Gujjars` agitation at Bayana in Bharatpur district in Rajasthan. Source: Zee News : States | 24 May 2008 | 11:27 am
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) activists disrupted traffic and set up road blockages with the help of burnt tyres and water containers in protest against the Bihar Government`s inability to end the shortage of water and electricity across the state. Source: Zee News : States | 24 May 2008 | 11:27 am
A day after Noida police claimed that Dr Anita Durrani had an extra-marital affair with Dr Rajesh Talwar who killed his daughter Arushi and domestic help Hemraj last week, the doctor on Saturday morning dismissed the allegations as "wrong" and "baseless", saying both the families had good relations. Speaking to reporters, Anita and her husband Praful Durrani said that what the police was claiming was "very, very shocking”. Source: Zee News : India National | 24 May 2008 | 11:26 am
A day after 15 people were killed in
clashes between Gujjars and police in Bharatpur, the community
has threatened to indefinitely continue the stir till its
demand for Scheduled Caste status is met. Source: Zee News : India National | 24 May 2008 | 11:26 am
Steel Authority of India has agreed to pay the revised coal price to Bharat Coking Coal for its supply of coal. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 11:20 am
The seventeen-year-old wait by Bangaloreans finally ended on Friday night - The swanky new Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) at Devanahalli became operational when the Indian carrier IC 609 from Mumbai made a touch down at 22:37 pm. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 10:43 am
French parachutist Michel Fournier, 64, will try Monday to break a skydiving world record by plunging from a balloon into thin air 40 kilometres above Canada's vast western plains. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 24 May 2008 | 10:22 am
It may be all over for Kolkata Knight Riders in the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), but their Australian coach John Buchanan has vowed to make them the 'best team' in the coming seasons. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 May 2008 | 9:02 am
Rising price of crude oil and spiralling inflation weighed heavily on the Indian equities market, which slumped more than 750 points this week. Of the four trading sessions, three ended in negative. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 May 2008 | 7:31 am
The talks between India's leading telecom company Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN to create the world's sixth-largest mobile phone company in a deal said to be worth $45 billion has been called off, it was announced Saturday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 May 2008 | 7:30 am
An Indian company, Technology Frontiers, is entering European football stadiums with giant and small screens, breaking the hold of European and American digital screen solution outfits on the market. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 May 2008 | 7:02 am
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan and director Priyadarshan have hit it off big time, be it cinema or cricket. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 May 2008 | 5:01 am
Many moons ago, the entrepreneur in Suniel Shetty successfully entered the garment business by launching a series of boutiques across Mumbai called Mischief. Now he is expanding it in a big by tying up with a Canadian company. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 May 2008 | 5:01 am
Life India Corporation (LIC) has launched its Unit Linked Endowment Plan, Money Plus 1, which offers both investment and insurance benefits. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 May 2008 | 5:00 am
A Mauritian civil servant has discovered that his great great grandfather was an Indian - in all likelihood from Orissa - and was brought to Mauritius as indentured worker over 135 years ago. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 24 May 2008 | 4:00 am
HYDERABAD: The EAMCET-2008 results would be released on Saturday at 12 noon at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU). The results would be available on the following websites - ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: With the global crude prices maintaining a sharp uptrend, the government is talking of a “mixed package” in form of a hike in prices of petrol and diesel and re-adjustment of duties to protect oil marketing companies ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Dibrugarh: Seventeen militants on Friday surrendered before the Army here. Led by the self-styled captain Pradeep Bora of the United Liberation Front of Asom’s 27 Battalion, the militants surrendered before Major General Jatinder ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 May 2008 | 12:00 am
MADURAI: Lorry owners, engaged in sand transportation, have threatened to go on strike if the State Government did not withdraw its proposal to privatise sand quarrying activities. “If the Government is not able to control ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Bharatpur: The Army was deployed at Bayana in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district on Friday, after a dozen people were killed in Gujjar-police clashes. — PTI ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Kathmandu: Nepal’s embattled King Gyanendra has moved to a palace on the outskirts of the capital, days ahead of a Maoist ultimatum to him to quit the Narayanhity royal palace in central Kathmandu. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 May 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: The Delimitation Commission on Friday recommended to the Centre that the next census in 2011 should be conducted panchayatwise based on their boundaries. Addressing a press conference, Commission chairman Justice Kuldip ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 May 2008 | 12:00 am
BANGALORE: For 1,14,357 students across the State, the wait will finally be over on Saturday. The Common Entrance Test (CET) 2008 results will be announced at all the 218 examination centres after 1 p.m.. Results will be available ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 24 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil rose on Friday on the weak U.S. dollar and ongoing long-term supply concerns that briefly pushed oil to a peak over $135 this week.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's communist parties that shore up the ruling coalition said on Friday they oppose any move to raise petrol and diesel prices to ease losses at state oil firms hit by surging crude rates.
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.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - Employees counting donations at a popular Hindu shrine in Kerala will no longer have to take off their underpants at work after the local human rights commission intervened.
