She also castigated Chief Minister Mayawati for her remark that the government is using the case to score political gains. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:55 am
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said the increase in oil prices was not unexpected as prices of commodities have increased world over. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:51 am
Coaching was important to groom future cricketers from Asian countries but experience and instinctive learning also played a major role, former India skipper Rahul Dravid said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:50 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Railways will not raise passenger and freight rates despite a 10 percent hike in retail fuel prices, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav said on Thursday.
IBM today announced the expansion of Innovation Centre here for start-up companies, software developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), IT professionals, and academics. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:43 am
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Strikes shut down transport, businesses and schools in three communist-run states on Thursday after a rise in fuel prices, but there was as much anger at the shutdowns as over the price hikes.
Hafed has surpassed its wheat procurement target of 35 per cent by procuring 19.30 lakh metric tonne of wheat which accounts for 37 per cent of the total of 59.19 lakh metric tonne of wheat procured by the government agencies in the state during rabi-2008. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:41 am
The Centre will help them grow their IT skills, create new software and hardware applications and services, and deliver them to the global marketplace, it said in a release. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:39 am
Subroto Roy-led Sahara Group's para-banking company today obtained a stay on Reserve Bank's (RBI) ban on accepting fresh deposits from investors. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:37 am
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and Finance Minister Jayant Patil have convened a cabinet meeting this evening to discuss the possibility of reducing sales tax on petroleum products in Maharashtra. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:34 am
Young cricketers should realise that tournaments like the IPL are only for entertainment and should focus on the longer version of the game to develop themselves. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:34 am
IT-based security solutions developer, manufacturer and marketer, Micro Technologies,launched its new product, Micro Buddy Tracking System (BTS). Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:32 am
Diversified Indian conglomerate Tata group has emerged as the world's sixth most reputed company, but the country's most valued firm Reliance Industries failed to make the grade. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
"There is no question of a roll-back on fuel surcharge," budget airline SpiceJet's Chief Operating Officer, Samyukth Sridharan, said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has signed a Euro 80 million ($123 million) deal with a Swiss company for manufacturing a new generation of Dornier-228 aircraft giving a boost to its efforts to break into the international market. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:24 am
It may turn out to be a boon for women who want to become mother as scientists in the UK have developed a skin patch that predicts the moment when a woman is most likely to conceive. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:23 am
South Korean financial major Mirae Asset Financial Group, which recently started mutual fund business in India, is looking for a partner to set up securities business in the South Asian country, Chairman Park Hyeon Joo said here today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:21 am
The case of Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif, who is being held here on charges of possessing drugs, will be presented before a Dubai court. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:20 am
The Indian cabinet gave its approval for enhancing the retirement age of teaching specialists among Central Health Service (CHS) doctors from 62 years to 65 years. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:19 am
The investment management industry in the Asia-Pacific is set to witness exponential growth driven by strong demographic and economic fundamentals despite short term challenges, says a report by global consultancy firm KPMG. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:18 am
After the hike in fuel prices in the wake of government's resource crunch, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked his ministers to go in for an austerity drive, especially curtailing expenditure on foreign travel. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:15 am
Reliance Industries, BG Group of UK and Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) have shut oil and gas production from Panna-Mukta fields, off the Mumbai coast, after an explosion at a field facility killed one person. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 5 Jun 2008 | 11:12 am
Sex racket: Kingpin's wife suspended NDTV.com - 1 hour ago PTI A clerk with the North Eastern Railway has been suspended for her alleged involvement in a sex racket unearthed recently. Shobha Rani Srivastava, wife of alleged kingpin of the sex racket GP Srivastava, has been placed under suspension since ...
A letter addressed to the police, warning that bomb attacks will be carried out here, was found in a flowerpot in front of a branch of an international bank Thursday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
The Jharkhand government has sacked 129 doctors who have been on strike for 11 days as they wanted their contracts to be changed to regular job appointments. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
In an attempt to check public anger sparked by the hike in fuel prices, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked Congress-ruled states to cut the sales tax and Value Added Tax (VAT) on petroleum products. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
There are not many people here who are thankful to political parties for the four-day weekend, thanks to the shutdown called Thursday by the state's ruling Left Front and Friday by the opposition Trinamool Congress, both to protest the central government's decision to hike fuel prices. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
Thanks to former students, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) will set up a corpus fund of Rs.100 crore to raise its academic standards. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
The government Thursday gave its approval to renaming the Fulbright Scholarship as the Fulbright-Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarships and Grants. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
Kolkata Knight Riders may not have made the semi-finals of the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) season, but the market grapevine is abuzz that they are, perhaps, the only franchise to make a substantial profit. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have explained at some length why the fuel prices needed to be hiked, but most people in the Indian capital are not buying his logic. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
The latest fuel price hikes will result in a Rs.18.45 billion burden on Gujarat, apart from taking inflation to double digits, the Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry has said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 5 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
WELLINGTON (Reuters Life!) - The United Nations urged the world on Thursday to kick an all-consuming addiction to carbon dioxide and said everyone must take steps to fight climate change.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - An Indian oil worker escaped from his Sudanese kidnappers and was rescued after three days walking through open scrubland, his employer said on Thursday.
BURARI, India (Reuters Life!) - In colourful saris, five housewives staged a street play in the outskirts of New Delhi about tuberculosis, an age-old disease that India can't seem to shake off and which kills 370,000 people a year.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - "Sarkar Raj", a new Bollywood film on a shrewd businesswoman's plan to build a power plant caught up in development politics, is drawing comparisons with the controversy behind the failed Indian project of U.S. utilities giant Enron.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - West Bengal, ruled by the central government’s communist allies, has cut sales tax on auto fuels by about 5 percent, in an effort to reduce the impact of Wednesday's fuel price increase.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will release her third album next month, her U.S. label said on Wednesday, a signal that the pop singer is not letting official duties interfere with career goals.
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - Crafting a novel can be a painstaking process but two Indians are hoping to avoid writer's block by getting more than 1,000 people to work on their book.
The steep hike in petrol and diesel prices has made the precious fuel dearer in India's IT hub, with retail prices being the costliest in the country. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 5:32 am
Budding actor Mashhoor Amrohi, who is the grandson of legendary filmmaker Kamal Amrohi, feels he is getting free publicity from a defamation case filed by his aunt against poet-lyricist Nida Fazli. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 3:32 am
Songs became an integral part of Indian movies ever since the talkies era started with 'Alam Ara' in 1931. Released on March 14 that year, it had seven songs. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 3:30 am
How about a marker pen with red chilly or turmeric ink? Or a mosquito repellent produced from papaya leaves? Budding scientists from Maharashtra and Gujarat have come up with these products, receiving recognition at an international science fair. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 Jun 2008 | 3:30 am
Yangon: The U.S. military on Wednesday ordered Navy ships carrying relief aid off Myanmar’s coast to leave after the country’s junta refused to allow them to help cyclone survivors. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has upheld air carrier Indian’s policy to ground five air hostesses for crossing the weight limit. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday sought to defend the increase in petrol, diesel and domestic LPG prices, saying that the step, though unpopular, was “inevitable” to ensure uninterrupted supply of petroleum ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: A court here on Wednesday remanded sacked Assam Education Minister Ripon Bora and his associate Ramesh Maheshwari to three-day custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation. The two were arrested at a guesthouse in South ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: On representations from discontented landowners in Jammu and Kashmir, the Defence Ministry on Wednesday directed that requisition for land and buildings for operational purposes be made only after drawing up regular contracts. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State government has expressed its readiness to conduct a separate entrance test for admission to management seats in private self-financing medical colleges that sign a fee-seat agreement with it this year. This ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 5 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The gun license of Madhu Srivastava, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Vadodara city who had fired in the air during Holi revelries, was cancelled Wednesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
Despite political opposition and the average citizen's anger, India Wednesday allowed a 9.5-11 percent increase in prices of cooking and transport fuels but cut customs and excise duties on crude and petroleum products to ease the financial burden on state-run oil firms, reeling under high global oil prices. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 Jun 2008 | 6:33 pm
The government may reschedule the new ground-handling policy, as operators of the new Bangalore airport have said that no airline with a market share below 25 percent would be allowed to do its own ground-handling. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 Jun 2008 | 6:32 pm
The government Wednesday approved proposals for 23 special economic zones (SEZs) that would come up in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 Jun 2008 | 6:32 pm
Five women and a man have been arrested here for allegedly cheating a number of men by taking money from them on the pretext of giving them membership in an exclusive 'friendship club', police said Wednesday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 4 Jun 2008 | 6:31 pm
Thousands of schools under the Bihar education board will follow the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum in Classes 11 and 12 from the new academic session as a step to improve education standards in the state. Source: Zee News : States | 4 Jun 2008 | 12:07 pm
CBI sleuths on Tuesday raided property dealer Vijay Bhardwaj`s office where the realtor allegedly killed Delhi Police ACP Rajbir Singh on the night of March 24 this year. Source: Zee News : States | 4 Jun 2008 | 12:07 pm
On the eve of his visit to China, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today made it clear that Arunachal Pradesh is not disputed and that India will not give up its "right" over it. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 Jun 2008 | 12:06 pm
President George Bush would veto climate change legislation to be considered by the US Senate this week because it does not seek action in concert with all major economies, including India and China, even if the Senate passes the bill. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 Jun 2008 | 12:06 pm
The Election Commission has decided to hold bypolls to eight Rajya Sabha seats, including four in Karnataka, on June 26. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 Jun 2008 | 12:06 pm
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee will begin his four-day visit to China from Wednesday. Source: Zee News : India National | 4 Jun 2008 | 12:06 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government finally showed the guts on Wednesday to raise fuel prices against the wishes of its own communist allies, but may struggle to sell the decision to an increasingly unhappy electorate.
