PARIS (Reuters) - Rafael Nadal produced a flawless exhibition of claycourt tennis to demolish world number one Roger Federer 6-1 6-3 6-0 on Sunday and win his fourth straight French Open title.
Activists of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on Sunday rushed into a massage parlour in city's Vinay Nagar and ransacked it suspecting that prostitution is going on. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 2:12 pm
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his Team India teammates wasted precious little time after their arrival here as the entire squad sweated it out for about three hours Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 2:09 pm
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) heavyweight and former human resource development (HRD) minister Murli Manohar Joshi Sunday demanded that the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) should clear its stand on the Indo-Chinese relationship. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
The Noida police registered a case of burglary and poisoning Sunday, a day after a family here was found drugged and a woman died of the overdose of intoxicants, their home was ransacked, and their domestic help went missing. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
The Kerala government has prepared a Rs.10 billion ($238 million) project to improve basic tourism infrastructure and is trying to mobilise funds for it, Home and Tourism Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
Two youngsters were detained and let off after questioning for driving their car parallel to the convoy of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra here early Sunday, the police said. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
New Delhi, June 8 : India is all set to send a team to the United States to get extradited Narendra Rastogi, who has been accused by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of defrauding the exchequer of over Rs 43 crore. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 2:00 pm
Modi group, the promoter of telco Spice Communications that was mulling a stake sale from a long time, is likely to ink a deal with AV Birla group company Idea Cellular Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:47 pm
'Bhoomi Puja' - the traditional foundation laying ceremony - of Britain's first-ever state-funded Hindu School was performed here to mark the beginning of its construction. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:44 pm
A male hoolock gibbon wandered from the wild into a national park in Assam in search of a mate - and has now returned with her to his natural habitat. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:41 pm
Late filmmaker Satyajit Ray's films will be showcased at a heritage centre to be set up here, an official said on Sunday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:20 pm
West Indies captain Chris Gayle feels that his team is no longer in awe of World Champions Australia after giving them a tough fight in the first two Tests of the ongoing series. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:15 pm
Disgraced Pakistani scientist A Q Khan, who is accused of nuclear proliferation activities, has been told to stop his rant against Pervez Musharraf by the President's aides. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:06 pm
At least three Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel were killed and two injured Sunday when their patrol jeep hit a landmine laid by Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Sunday sacked Minister of State for Fisheries Jamuna Nishad following the shooting of a constable during a ruckus he and his supporters created at a Maharajganj district police station over the alleged rape of two Dalit girls. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
As Afzal Guru, facing death sentence for terrorist attack on parliament, called for a swift decision on his mercy petition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sunday reiterated its demand to hang him at the earliest while the Congress said his plea was being processed. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
Four police officials sustained serious injuries when a group of villagers clashed with cops over a land dispute in this Uttar Pradesh city, officials said Sunday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
Kerala legislator P.C. Thomas will move a privilege notice against central Finance Minister P. Chidambaram for the changes made in the farm loan waiver scheme after it was announced in the budget. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 8 Jun 2008 | 1:00 pm
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's annual monsoon rains, crucial to its economy, advanced to Maharashtra and looks set to move up to Gujarat, the weather department said in a statement.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's ruling party has said it is determined to curtail the powers of the presidency in favour of parliament, whether President Pervez Musharraf likes it or not.
A 26-year-old woman from Himachal Pradesh was allegedly gangraped by a railway attendant and an accomplice at the railway station here, police. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:35 pm
Uncertainty over detained Pakistani pacer Mohammad Asif's fate lingers as the Dubai court, before which he appeared, adjourned soon after hearing recommendations of the prosecutors. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:32 pm
Sarath Kumar, president of the South Indian Artistes' Association (SIAA), has asked all non-member Tamil movie performers to either enrol before June 30 or face total non-cooperation from the film industry. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
The Confederation of All-India Traders (CAIT) today requested the government to draft a National Trade Policy for retail and small enterprises. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:10 pm
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that the central assistance to the state is neglible as compared to the revenue it contributes in form of taxes. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:08 pm
China is gearing itself to meet the power demand during the summer peak season, as its efforts comes under severe pressure put by the mammoth reconstruction work in the quake devastated areas and the fast approaching Olympics. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:05 pm
The "hyper-sensitive" Delhi airport is set to go hi-tech with the introduction of an array of new technologies which promises to make your journey less time consuming and more secure. A four-layer `perimeter intrusion system`, Internet Protocol-based cameras, in-line baggage clearing system and explosive vapour detectors among other such measures are being put in place to counter growing terror threat to the airport and make it less congested. Source: Zee News : States | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:48 am
The sacred laddu `prasadam`, popularly known as `Tirupati Laddu` at the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near here, would soon get patent rights under Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, temple sources said. Source: Zee News : States | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:48 am
Is Kashmir`s most used militant ingress route and the border district perched beside the Line of Control with the most pronounced pro-separatist sentiments witnessing a change? Source: Zee News : India National | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:48 am
With drug carriers increasingly adopting new methods for trafficking through airports, Customs officials want more teeth in law allowing them to offload a passenger from a plane and subject him to search even on suspicion. With incidents of traffickers concealing contrabands in their body increasing, the officials pointed out that the new methods adopted by the carriers have made their job more difficult. Source: Zee News : India National | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:48 am
While the Centre is focusing on Left-wing extremism, Northeast continues to simmer with violence especially in Manipur, which continued to be the one of the most disturbed states. Source: Zee News : India National | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:48 am
Call it the equaliser effect or a result of changing priorities, but more and more cadets from rural backgrounds are entering the National Defence Academy, marking a big demographic shift in the institution. Source: Zee News : India National | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:48 am
In a case that has baffled Thai police, a 40-year-old man was found dead Sunday with a badly bitten cobra carcass in his hands and a condom on his member, news reports said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:30 am
Two railway employees, both graduates of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), have proved that hard work pays -- both cleared the Indian Administrative Services (IAS) exam this year achieving commendable ranks. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:30 am
Petrol pump owners in Himachal Pradesh have been badly hit after the state government did not reduce sales tax on petrol and diesel in view of recent hike in oil prices while neighbouring Haryana made the fuel cheaper. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:25 am
Leading diamond jewellery exporter, Fine Jewellery India Ltd (FJIL), has drawn up a Rs 115 crore capital expenditure plan over the next three years to set up retail outlets as well as increasing manufacturing capacity, a top company official said. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:21 am
AIADMK has sought the intervention of the Union Home Ministry to prevent "economic offences taking place" in the Union Territory making use of lesser sales tax for various commodities including petrol, diesel and LPG cylinder here. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:18 am
Intensifying the anti-begging campaign in Delhi, authorities have picked around 100 beggars, including women and children, in the last three days and sent them to the homes meant for their rehabilitation. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:11 am
Due to high input costs and inflation, the growth rate in consumer products is likely to slow down in the next six months, Godrej & Boyce Mfg Co's Chairman and Managing Director, Jamshyd N Godrej, said. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:08 am
India's largest e-governance project ? MCA-21, which enables e-filing of corproate information with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, is set to be revamped shortly, sources said. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:04 am
Scenting an immense potential in the country's rapidly-growing small and medium enterprises segment, Corporation Bank plans to set up dedicated SME development centres pan-India, beginning with Pune this week. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:01 am
The Assam Congress party Sunday decided not to allot tickets to fight elections to those against whom charge sheets have been filed in a criminal or corruption case. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
Veteran Malayalam superstar Mammootty, who is on a roll with all his releases this year becoming super hits, is upbeat about his latest film 'Kutti Srank' with award winning director Shaji N. Karun, shooting for which will begin June 15. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 10:31 am
Even as the entire Hindi film industry has gone into its ritualistic self-congratulatory mode at the much-hyped International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards gala, back home the six-month box-office report is not too rosy but all signs suggest things can only get better from here on. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 10:30 am
Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda has issued an advisory to ministers to use the helicopter once a month to save fuel. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 10:01 am
Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has allotted portfolios to his ministers nine days after assuming office and kept with him 10 departments, including finance and the intelligence wing of the home ministry. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 10:00 am
Hundreds of asthma patients from different parts of India took the traditional fish herbal drug but the numbers have drastically come down this year. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 8:30 am
An Assam minister's arrest on charges of trying to bribe a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official to hush up a murder case has brought into spotlight the assassination or disappearance of some important political functionaries in the northeastern state - with the opposition out to corner the ruling Congress here. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 8:30 am
VIENNA (Reuters) - Portugal served notice that they will be again be among the title challengers when they turned on the style to outclass Turkey 2-0 on an entertaining first day of Euro 2008 on Saturday.
AOMORI, Japan (Reuters) - Group of Eight energy ministers on Sunday looked inward for solutions to oil's unrelenting rally, touting the need for domestic efficiency rather than piling pressure on a resistant OPEC to pump more crude.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Prakash Kajuri is asset rich but cash poor. The Mumbai courier earns about $6 a day delivering packages in India's most populous city but his home is sitting on land worth about $2 million dollars.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton ended her presidential bid and endorsed Barack Obama on Saturday, urging her supporters to unite behind his candidacy and help recapture the White House for Democrats in November.
HYDERABAD: The State government has decided to ensure that banks provide loans up to Rs. 5 crore without collateral security to interested entrepreneurs from the under-privileged communities for their ventures. The government, through ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NOIDA: A young woman was killed and her husband along with their two children was taken seriously ill here on Saturday after their domestic help allegedly drugged the family and decamped with jewellery, cash and other valuables from the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Ranchi: A dawn-to-dusk Jharkhand bandh called by the CPI (ML-Liberation) on Saturday against price rise had no impact on normal life except in Giridih. — PTI ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
PHOENIX: The Phoenix lander has made its first attempt to dump a sample of Martian soil into its tiny testing oven, but scientists say an unknown glitch kept any of the dirt from reaching the instrument. — ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Chengdu: In a special gesture, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday flew to quake-shattered Sichuan province of China and handed over a consignment of relief supplies to the local administration. The supplies, part ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
TENERO (Switzerland): Germany hopes the advice of three “insiders” will help it snap a 12-year winless streak at the European football Championship when it opens against Poland on Sunday. Three German players were born in ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
PARIS (Reuters) - A new French Open era dawned on Saturday as Serbia's Ana Ivanovic mesmerised Russian Dinara Safina 6-4 6-3 to win her maiden grand slam title.
