Catholic Syrian Bank is set to scale up its operations in this financial year by increasing its branch strength and acquiring more customers in the high networth and retail segments. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 May 2008 | 12:58 pm
BANGALORE (Reuters) - The Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has won state elections in Karnataka, extending a winning streak ahead of a national vote due by early 2009.
It was pure euphoria at the BJP headquarters here as the saffron party on Sunday made its southern foray in Karnataka Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 May 2008 | 12:43 pm
The Bharatiya Janata Party crushed Congress hopes of halting its march in south India by winning near majority in the Karnataka assembly. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 May 2008 | 12:43 pm
It has been debacles galore since 2004 for the Congress, which has lost electoral battles in as many as 13 states, including in some where it was ruling. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 May 2008 | 12:40 pm
Two automated ticket booking systems on the city's suburban railways are expected to be integrated soon to allow commuters to use just one smart card to travel on all public transport. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 May 2008 | 12:39 pm
With considerable improvement in the supply of coal to thermal power plants, power supply in Madhya Pradesh has shown better results and efforts were on by the government to maximise it. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 12:28 pm
In a replay of Karnataka results, the Congress tasted defeats in by-elections to three Lok Sabha constituencies in as many states even as it retained two assembly seats in Haryana. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 May 2008 | 12:28 pm
Within a day of Bharti Airtel pulling out of negotiations to acquire an estimated $50 billion MTN, Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications is understood to have started discussions for a possible tie up with the South African telecom entity. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
Islamic terrorists are recruiting mentally ill people to carry out suicide attacks, officials of British intelligence service MI5 have claimed. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 May 2008 | 12:25 pm
Reliance Communications has emerged as the favourite in global merger talks with the African mobile phone operator MTN, the Sunday Times reported. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 May 2008 | 12:18 pm
BSNL may be behind the Bharti and Vodafone in subscriber numbers but the state-run company remains the top revenue earning telecom firm Source: Daily News & Analysis | 25 May 2008 | 12:17 pm
The non-woven and technical textile sector in India is poised to grow by 13.3 per cent annually, with the country making steady strides in the segment, according to research carried out by Texas Tech University. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 12:16 pm
Not satisfied with the UPA's replies to their queries on the nuclear issue, the Left parties are likely to ask the government to finalise an India-specific safeguards agreement with IAEA only after the 123 agreement with the US lapses. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 12:12 pm
Goa government is toying with the idea of installing close circuit television (CCTV) cameras on its major highways to keep track of every vehicle passing by. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 12:08 pm
Although the Congress failed to clinch power in the crucial Karnataka polls, Rahul Gandhi's strike rate works out to 41 per cent while the party's overall success rate is 34 per cent. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 12:02 pm
BEICHUAN, China (Reuters) - A strong aftershock jolted southwest China on Sunday killing at least one person and injuring 400 others, state media said, nearly a fortnight after an earthquake killed tens of thousands in the same area.
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), one of the main constituents in the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala, has said it is not getting a fair treatment in the alliance. Source: Zee News : States | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Giving the go ahead for resumption of work on the Hogenakkal project, which he had put on hold till the completion of Karnataka Assembly polls in the face protests, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has directed state officials to complete the work as scheduled by 2011. Source: Zee News : States | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Former Prime Minister Deve Gowda-led JD(S) appeared to be keeping options open on a post-poll tie-up with either BJP or Congress in case of a hung verdict in Karanataka Assembly elections. Source: Zee News : States | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
The BJP, which constituted a committee to look into the problems and issues related to the terrorism affected families in Punjab, Saturday said that there
was a "wrong impression" that only one community had suffered due to terrorism in the state. Source: Zee News : States | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Rajasthan's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje was 'solely responsible' for the killings of Gujjars in the state, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said Sunday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Girls outshone boys by a wide overall margin in the Uttar Pradesh board exams for Class 12, results of which were declared Sunday. But no girl could find a place among the 10 toppers. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Fake cigarette packets with pictorial warnings and a public lighter which can be used only after ringing a 'bell to hell' are some of the initiatives of a week-long 'Tobacco Free Youth' campaign ahead of World No Tobacco Day May 31. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Deccan Chargers won the toss and elected to bat against Bangalore Royal Challengers in Indian Premier League at Rajiv Gandhi International stadium here Sunday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Triumphant Bharatiya Janata Party's chief minister-designate B.S. Yediyurappa Sunday promised special attention to Bangalore to make it a world-class city and to take IT and outsourcing industry to rural areas of Karnataka. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Bangalore, May 25 : The Bharatiya Janata Party was within sniffing distance of securing a simple majority in the Karnataka State Assembly, bagging 91 seats and leading in 20 with the declaration of results for 189 out of the 224 seats. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has fallen short of a majority in the Karnataka assembly by one or two seats, will meet Governor Rameshwar Thakur Monday to stake claim to form the government, chief minister-designate B.S. Yediyurappa said Sunday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
About 99 Indian prisoners, including 96 fishermen, who were freed from Pakistan jails on Saturday, were handed over to Indian authorities at the Wagha border.
Three civilians from Jammu and Kashmir also arrived here. All of them were issued emergency travel certificates by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Trying to relive their childhood memories, Raja Mohammed Ali has brought along a shawl said to be a 100-year-old family heirloom as a gift to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from his native village in Pakistan`s Punjab province. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
The statement of second witness
in the Babri Masjid demolition case, Aslam, was recorded in
the Special Rae Bareli court here Saturday. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Information pertaining to monthly
remuneration of employees of public departments, besides the
system of compensation comes under the ambit of the RTI Act,
the Central Information Commission (CIC) has said. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
In a saffron surge in Karnataka, the BJP on Sunday appeared close to forming its first government in the South after it was placed ahead in 102 seats out of the 218 constituencies for which trends were available after more than three hours of counting in the Karnataka Assembly elections. Seven results also went in BJP`s favour. Congress has won two seats and was ahead in 68, while JD(S) led in 35 and others in seven. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Accusing the UPA government at
the Centre of adopting a soft approach towards militancy,
senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi on Saturday favoured a
stringent anti-terror law to combat the menace. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje is likely to hold talks with Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla on Sunday as Gujjar protests that started as a flare-up in Bayana turned into a raging inferno on Saturday, singing new parts of Rajasthan, leaving at least 21 more protesters dead. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
A policeman can be summarily dismissed from service for misconduct during the probation period if there is a provision for it in the recruitment rules, the Supreme Court has said. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
After romping home to an unprecedented victory in Karnataka, a jubilant Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday asserted the juggernaut is going to roll on to win the next Lok Sabha polls. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 pm
14:37 IST Dutch banking major ABN Amro, acquired last year by a Royal Bank of Scotland-led consortium, is now fully geared to rebrand into Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in India, its chief Meera H Sany... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 11:59 am
Uttar Pradesh today offered marketing facilities for cocoon farmers of Kashmir to help them compete with low-price silk from China. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 11:56 am
Bharti Airtel Ltd. said late Saturday it was pulling out of talks with MTN because the latter presented a different structure than was agreed to earlier this month.Nozipho January-Bardill, an MTN spok... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 25 May 2008 | 11:55 am
Transport Corporation of India (TCI), a leading road transport company, today announced a net profit Rs 15.65 crore for Q4 in 2007-08, a rise by 66.14 per cent mainly on account of consolidation of supply chain business. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 11:53 am
Three sanctuaries and a national park in Gujarat have been identified as sites for Ecotourism development, a forest authority said today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 11:23 am
In order to check proliferating hazardous e-waste recycling units in the national capital, Delhi government is roping in private sector to regulate the process. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 25 May 2008 | 11:14 am
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani rejected on Sunday a suggestion his government was set on confronting President Pervez Musharraf, but newspapers said a destabilising showdown was looming.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - South African mobile operator MTN Group is in talks to combine with Reliance Communications after rival Bharti Airtel Ltd. called off negotiations with MTN, the Wall Street Journal said.
YANGON (Reuters) - The United Nations and Myanmar's military government put a positive spin on differences over relief and rebuilding needs for millions of cyclone survivors at a pledging conference in Yangon on Sunday.
Shiv Sena's Anand Paranjpe was racing towards victory in the Thane Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra, taking an unbeatable lead of 60,000 votes over Sanjeev Naik of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 7:01 am
Warner Bros' Mumbai office has warned that it will take legal action against those who would try to re-make 'Wedding Crashers' (2005) without taking proper permission from them because they have the India distribution rights of New Line Cinema's super hit comedy. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 7:00 am
KOBE, Japan (Reuters) - Big emerging countries urged rich nations on Sunday to set ambitious mid-term targets for reducing greenhouse gases, as both sides stressed the need for funds to help developing countries limit their emissions.
Shiv Sena's Anand Paranjpe took an early lead of 10,210 votes over Sanjeev Naik of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) at the end of the first round of counting for the Thane Lok Sabha by-election Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 4:31 am
The Indian textile industry is expected to achieve $55 billion of investments by 2010 and create employment for 65.4 million, provided reforms are initiated at quicker speed, according to The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham). Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 4:31 am
When a superstar-turned-'national figure' like Amitabh Bachchan starts toting graphs and pie charts to show that he is far ahead in television show ratings than a much younger colleague, Shah Rukh Khan, it reveals a great deal about the icon. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 4:31 am
Counting of votes of the Karnataka assembly elections, whose outcome could have a bearing on national politics, began Sunday morning in 48 centres across the state under tight security. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 3:31 am
Producer-director Shashi Ranjan is annoyed with the censor board for changing the words of item song 'Hari om' into 'Jale mome jale mome' in his just released 'Dhoom Dhadakka'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 3:30 am
Talented director Farhan Akhtar has completed 'Rock On', his first full-fledged film as an actor. He is now on to his second film, which is being directed by his sister Zoya, and says he takes her seriously on the sets of 'Luck By Chance'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 2:30 am
The incident took place some time ago, but Bollywood is still fuming over a police complaint being filed against actress Mallika Sherawat for wearing a revealing dress at the audio launch of 'Dasavatharam' in Chennai. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 2:30 am
Following is the scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) tie in which Delhi Daredevils beat Mumbai Indians by five wickets here Saturday night: Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 May 2008 | 1:01 am
NEW DELHI: On the eve of the election results to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, the mood at the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters here on Saturday was sombre. After the electoral reverses in the last four years in ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 am
LUCKNOW: A day after the dramatic arrest of Dr. Rajesh Talwar in Noida for his alleged involvement in the sensational murder of his 14-year-old daughter Aarushi and the family’s domestic help Hemraj, the “mysterious” nature ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Attari (Amritsar): About 99 Indian prisoners, including 96 fishermen, who were freed from Pakistan jails on Friday, were handed over to Indian authorities at Wagha border here. The fishermen were arrested after they strayed into ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 am
MELBOURNE: Fourteen months after Bob Woolmer’s death, Room No. 374 of the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, has turned into a hot tourist destination. The former Pakistan coach had breathed his last in that room in suspicious ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: Counselling for engineering courses will begin on July 3 and for medical courses on July 4, Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy said on Saturday. Sports quota will be the first to be filled through counselling. Talking to ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: The police have seized properties valued at Rs. 47 crore, including cars and gold coins, from multi-level marketing Quest Net. This is in addition to the over Rs.3 crore worth of properties seized sometime ago. Managing ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Melbourne: India has expressed optimism that Australia will “eventually” sell uranium to it despite the new Kevin Rudd government deciding against its supply. “We do ask the Australian government to take a practical ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 am
KATHMANDU: Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Saturday invited Maoist Chief Prachanda to form a government, Nepali Congress general secretary Bimalendra Nidhi said. — PTI ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 25 May 2008 | 12:00 am
JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - At least 31 people have been killed and scores injured in western India in two days of clashes between police and members of a farming caste demanding job quotas for their community, a state minister said on Saturday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Chelsea sacked manager Avram Grant on Saturday, three days after his team were beaten on penalties in the Champions League final by Manchester United.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's prime minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, has asked Maoist former rebels to form a new government after their election win, a minister said on Saturday, in a sign he will not impede the process.
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.
