Nearly 8 lakh cases of cancer are reported in India every year and 70 per cent of the cancer patients come for treatment only at advanced stages, said KA Dinshaw, director of Mumbai-based Tata Memorial Hospital. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:45 pm
Hillary Clinton has registered a thumping win over frontrunner Barack Obama in Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:43 pm
The biggest buy-out in the automobile space by an Indian company, Tata Motors, was completed today as it bought the ownership of luxury brands - Jaguar and Land Rover, its manufacturing plants, design centers and worldwide sales network from US car maker Ford Motors Company (FMC). Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:43 pm
Country's largest private sector air carrier announced to increase fuel surcharge by Rs 300 to Rs 550 following an increase in the Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF). Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:37 pm
The Orissa government is considering a proposal to allow the telecom operators for setting up mobile towers in some police stations. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:34 pm
The trade unions active in the coal mines of Mahanadi Coalfield Ltd (MCL) have opposed the outsourcing of over burden removal work in Lingaraj mine, which is linked to supply of coal to NTPC, Kaniha units. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:32 pm
Videocon promoted Datacom will invite bids next week for rolling out 70 million GSM mobile lines across the country. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:31 pm
Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group and the Burman family, promoters of the Dabur Group today disclosed their plans to form a non-life insurance joint venture (JV) company in India. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:27 pm
High on spirit, over 30,000 students today purchased admission forms for under-graduate courses in Delhi University which started its 15-day admission process. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:26 pm
The merger of State Bank of Saurashtra into State Bank of India (SBI) will be completed after addressing important legal issues at the earliest and thereafter the process of amalgamation of other associates would begin, SBI Chairman OP Bhatt has said. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:26 pm
The Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO), the state owned infrastructure promoting company, is facing serious law and order problem in its developmental work at Kalinganagar Industrial Complex (KIC) in Jajpur district. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:25 pm
Videocon promoted Datacom will invite bids next week for rolling out 70 million GSM mobile lines across the country, envisaging an investment of over Rs 12,000 crore in the next four years. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:24 pm
Shares of Blue Dart Express today surged over 10 per cent on the BSE, amid reports that global express and logistics company DHL would make an open offer to the firm. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:21 pm
Travelling in Air India and Jet Airways will be costlier from tomorrow with both the airlines hiking fuel surcharge by Rs 300-550 Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:20 pm
Adrian Sutil has no illusion about the unfancied car he drives but the Force India driver reckons he stands good chances of scoring points in some of the wet tracks Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:17 pm
Orissa has demanded immediate amendment of Rule 6 and 7 of SC-ST (Prevention of Atrocity) Act, 1989. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:14 pm
Soft drinks major Coca Cola India, German airline Lufthansa and seven other companies have been slapped notices by authorities demanding service tax amounting to Rs 77 crore. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:05 pm
A 24-year old woman in Orissa's Jajpur district has given birth to identical triplets, a rarity that occurs once in three million births, a health official said here on Monday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:02 pm
Homegrown auto major Tata Motors said it has completed the $2.3 billion acquisition of British luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover in an all cash transaction. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's political leaders are divided over the extent to which fuel prices should be raised, delaying the government's decision on compensating state firms selling fuels below cost, a top oil ministry official said.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber blew up a car outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing six people and wounding 25, government officials said.
A female elephant and her one-year-old calf were electrocuted near Dimna lake near here on Monday, a senior Forest officer said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:52 pm
The banned CPI (Maoist) rebels on Monday blew up a railway track in Jamui district, blasted a portion of the SDO`s office and looted foodgrains from an FCI godown in adjoining Munger district during the 24-hour bandh called in five east Bihar districts. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:15 pm
Post mortem on the bodies of police firing victims here was on Monday held up with the Gujjar leadership making a fresh demand that corpses of their community members in a Jaipur hospital be first sent to Dausa district. Source: Zee News : States | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:15 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A small communist ally of India's ruling alliance withdrew from a coalition forum that decides policies, holding the government responsible for rising prices and unemployment, a party leader said on Monday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India must not further subsidise soaring prices of oil and other commodities to protect consumers, but will be able to sustain high economic growth despite global challenges, the prime minister said on Monday.
Three die in separate incidents Hindu - 4 hours ago Srinagar (PTI): Two children of a family were found dead while their parents and another child were discovered in an unconscious state inside a hotel room here early on Monday, official sources said.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra is eager to live as a common citizen, the government said on Monday, after their first meeting since the monarchy was abolished last week.
KOLKATA, India, (Reuters Life!) - When 10-year-old Sahiful Mondal from a children's shelter in eastern India won an international film award three years ago, many thought it was just a flash in the pan. Now he is 14 and with four accolades.
PARIS (Reuters) - French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent has died at the age of 71, hailed as a 20th century cultural innovator who revolutionised the way women dressed.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's leading political parties were locked in a power struggle on Monday as celebrations of the end of the monarchy and the dawn of the world's newest republic ebbed.
One of filmdom's most enduring friendships that went kaput has resumed again. After almost two years' cold war, former best buddies Anupam Kher and Anil Kapoor made up in full public view at the premiere of the former's son Sikandar's debut film 'Woodstock Villa'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Jun 2008 | 2:48 am
Television tycoon Ekta Kapoor is known for her contempt for actors who leave Balaji to pursue a career in films. However, the truth is otherwise. She has promised to pray for the success of her protege Rajiv Khandelwal's debut film 'Aamir' when she visits Tirupati. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Jun 2008 | 2:48 am
Rubbish is not rubbish, it's just money being thrown away, says Colin Drummond, an entrepreneur from Britain who made his millions managing waste and generating electricity out of it. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Jun 2008 | 2:48 am
Govinda is all set to shoot for his first English-language film in London. To be made by Jagmohan Mundhra, it is a remake of the 2005 Hollywood comedy 'The 40 Year Old Virgin' and the actor is confident of evoking laughs with his own brand of desi English. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 2 Jun 2008 | 2:35 am
Istanbul: Airlines bid farewell on Sunday to the paper ticket on the eve of the industry’s conversion to 100 per cent electronic ticketing, director general and CEO Giovanni Bisignani announced at the annual general meeting of the IATA ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
THENI: Water has been released from both Periyar and Vaigai dams on the same day for irrigation of the first crop of double crop area in Cumbum valley and for irrigation of lands in Madurai and Dindigul districts. This is the 12th ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan may not find anything wrong in smoking on screen but experts feel their behaviour inspires teens and adolescents to take up the habit. Supporting Union Health Minister Anbumani ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday began a probe into the murder of 14-year-old school girl Aarushi and the family’s domestic help Hemraj in Noida about a fortnight ago. The Noida police had earlier arrested ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Coimbatore: The 82-km-long National Highway-47 from Chengapalli to Walayar will be widened into six lane. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is in the process of receiving public opinion on issues relating to land acquisition ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 2 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The Union Government has said that Constitutional functionaries do not come within the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act and the Information Commission cannot direct the Government to reveal information pertaining to their functioning. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
The multi-crore fake stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi was brought here Sunday from Yerawada Jail in Pune to be produced before a special court. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
Former external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh is writing a tell-all book on the Iraqi oil-for-food scam in which he was named a beneficiary and which cost him his job. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
Buoyed by a series of election victories including those in Karnataka and Gujarat, the BJP on Sunday took out its contentious demands for scrapping Article 370 and bringing in a Uniform Civil Code from the closet ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
Taking a cue from the Lord Venkateswara Temple in Tirupati, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi shrine board has decided to charge for special-priority darshan at the cave shrine. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
Generally known for minority-bashing, the BJP on Sunday went the extra mile to compliment leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom at Deoband for its fatwa declaring terrorism as the "most inhuman crime". Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
The Centre and various state governments have been the biggest gainers from the liquor business in the country, industry representatives said. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
Hours after the Central Bureau of Investigation began its probe into the Aarushi and Hemraj murder case on Sunday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati announced that top state police officials involved in the investigation have been transferred. Mayawati told a press conference that in order to conduct an impartial probe into the sensational murders, Noida SSP A Satish Ganesh, DIG (Meerut Range) P C Meena and IG (Meerut Zone) Gurdarshan Singh have all been transferred from their posts. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
The Centre has introduced an online network to effectively monitor the implementation of its flagship programme National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Official sources in the Ministry for Rural Development said that as NREGA is demand based, where minimum 100 days of employment is given to one member of a family living below poverty line (BPL). Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has said she would return to India by July or August. Source: Zee News : India National | 1 Jun 2008 | 11:46 pm
Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said he was not disappointed with his team's performance against Rajasthan Royals despite losing the Indian Premier League (IPL) final by a whisker here Sunday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Jun 2008 | 8:30 pm
Rajasthan Royals are the champions of the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL). In a tense, last-ball finish they beat Chennai Super Kings by three wickets at the D.Y. Patil Stadium at Nerul in Navi Mumbai Sunday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Jun 2008 | 8:30 pm
Rajasthan Royals skipper Shane Warne was ecstatic after clinching the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) title in a nail-biting finish against Chennai Super Kings here Sunday night. He said the script in the final could not have been any better. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Jun 2008 | 8:30 pm
Rajasthan Royals won the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) title, defeating Chennai Super Kings by three wickets in a last-ball finish in the final at the D.Y. Patil Sports Academy here Sunday night. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
Following is the full scoreboard of the final match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in which Rajasthan Royals defeated Chennai Super Kings by three wickets at the D.Y. Patil Sports Academy in Nerul here Sunday night: Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
Two students of journalism were killed in a train accident on the outskirts of the capital, the police said Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 1 Jun 2008 | 6:30 pm
