A list of 30 witnesses has been prepared by the police to depose against Marrayya Monica Susayraj and her boyfriend M L Jerome Mathew in the sensational Neeraj Grover murder case. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:39 pm
There were several "deficiencies" relating to seafaring safety on 'M V Rezzak', the cargo ship that dissapeared off the Turkish coast, a preliminary probe has found. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:35 pm
A 30-year-old Indian man was fatally shot by three robbers in his liquor store in the New Zealand capital, sending shockwaves in the immigrant community. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:24 pm
The 13th Finance Commission will ask Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) to evolve a mechanism to check environmental degradation without compromising on development. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:18 pm
The government will soon introduce biometric permanent account numbers (PAN) for income tax payers, though initially only new applicants would be brought under its net, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:16 pm
An illegal bomb-making factory was unearthed and a 10-kg IED was recovered with two persons arrested in separate incidents in Assam's Dhubri district. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:16 pm
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has castigated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for taking a stand that an information relating to the Defence Ministry was not a public activity, and asked it to reveal the details to an RTI applicant. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:14 pm
The Punjab Congress Committee (PPCC) today demanded reduction in Sales Tax on Petroleum products in the State on the pattern of Haryana and Union Territory of Chandigarh. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:11 pm
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today appealed the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene and to find a solution for the 15-day old strike by the contract workers in Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC). Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:09 pm
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy overcame Marcos Baghdatis and Olivier Rochus in straight sets to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of men's doubles event of Gerry Weber Open. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 1:07 pm
Thousands of lawyers and activists set off for Lahore to join a "long march" aimed at pressurising the government to reinstate dozens of judges sacked by President Musharraf. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:51 pm
TCS said it has hedged funds of about 1.5 billion dollars to create a safeguard against the fluctuations in the rupee movement. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:45 pm
Country's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today said it has hedged funds of about $1.5 billion to create a safeguard against the fluctuations in the rupee movement. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:36 pm
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) were net sellers of Rs 1,344.67 crore (provisional) today, according to data released by BSE. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:34 pm
Educomp Solutions, Gurgaon based leading provider of information technology driven solutions for learning at school, said that it has secured contracts from 395 schools in the states of Rajasthan and Jharkhand under its Instructional and Computing Technologies (ICT) programme. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:33 pm
The Kerala based Dhanalakshmi Bank has increased its net profit to Rs 28.46 crore for the fiscal ending march 31 this year from the previous year's Rs 16.14 crore, thus registering a growth of 76.33 per cent, a top bank official today said. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:31 pm
Nupur Talwar, the mother of murdered teenager Aarushi, on Monday moved the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) against Balaji Telefilms' plans. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:28 pm
A 12-hour shutdown called by the Asom Gana Parishad and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) separately against the hike in fuel prices began on Monday. Source: Zee News : States | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:25 pm
Anil Sharma has picked up five victims in the last four months "because I just cannot leave them on the road to die". Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:25 pm
BJP President Rajnath Singh on Sunday blamed "faulty" policies of the UPA Government for rising inflation and expressed confidence that the party-led NDA would come to power in the next Lok Sabha election. Source: Zee News : India National | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:24 pm
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will on Monday inaugurate here a two-day international conference on nuclear disarmament that will - without hindering wider use of nuclear energy - focus on insulating the world from the danger of the atomic bomb falling into the hands of terrorists. Source: Zee News : India National | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:24 pm
The Rajasthan government and agitating Gujjar leaders are due to hold preliminary talks in Bayana on Monday, a day after finally agreeing on the talks` venue. The scheduled talks have raised prospects of an early end to the 17-day-old stir. Sources said that two representatives of the Vasundhara Raje government will take part in the talks with Gujjar Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti led by retired Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla (70) at the community stronghold in Bharatpur district. Source: Zee News : India National | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:24 pm
Will Democrat Barack Obama, who once proposed a "killer" amendment to a legislation on Indo-US civil nuclear deal placing limits on the amount of atomic fuel to be sold to India, back the landmark agreement if he wins the White House race? Source: Zee News : India National | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:24 pm
Twelve Indians, working in a construction company in Bhutan, were killed and six others injured when a boulder hit the rear end of the truck they were travelling in, police said. Source: Zee News : India National | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:24 pm
The Department of Posts has today announced an enhancement in the bonus paid to its Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) subscribers which will be Rs five more than the existing Rs 50. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:24 pm
Outspoken and sometimes controversial South African coach Ray Jennings may be tasked with turning around the fortunes of the Bangalore Royal Challengers. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:24 pm
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian shares fell 3.25 percent on Monday to their lowest close in nearly three months as spiralling oil prices crippled markets worldwide, but Reliance Communications rose on reports of progress in merger talks with South Africa's MTN Group.
JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Members of the Gujjar community will begin talks with local authorities on Monday about ending their sometimes violent protests over job quotas which have disrupted train services, both parties said.
Delhi golfers Aditya Singh and Kapil Kumar will compete with some of the top amateurs of the golfing world when they tee off at the Swiss Amateur Golf Championship at the prestigious Crans Sur Sierre GC in Geneva Thursday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 9 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
An engineer of the public works department (PWD) has been booked for felling 71 trees allegedly without permission during the construction of a road in Himachal Pradesh. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 9 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
Journalists and human rights activists are set to hold a silent demonstration here Tuesday to protest the attack on Marathi daily Loksatta's editor Kumar Ketkar's house and the sedition charges filed against three Ahmedabad scribes. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 9 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
The continuing contract workers' strike at the Rs.36.38 billion lignite mining and power generation public sector Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd (NLC) threatens to force the four southern states and the Union Territory of Puducherry sweat it out. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 9 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
Mahesh Bhupathi dropped four places in the latest ATP tour doubles rankings Monday, following his first round exit from the French Open. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 9 Jun 2008 | 11:00 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's main stock index may fall to a 10-month low of around 13,000 points by end-2008, as the central bank may raise interest rates to check inflation due to record oil prices, Cr... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 9 Jun 2008 | 10:46 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The first monsoon rains of the year pounded Mumbai over the weekend, killing at least five people, submerging roads, toppling trees and flooding the offices of city leaders who had said Mumbai was prepared for the weather.
Indian scientists have discovered 67 new animal species, including fishes, spiders and crop eating insects, and 29 plant species, including grass and flower varieties, last year. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 9 Jun 2008 | 10:23 am
A multi-party delegation of Indian Parliamentarians is in New York to participate in a leadership programme, under which they will discuss pressing global issues, including climate change and sustaina... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 9 Jun 2008 | 9:59 am
Sahara group's para-banking arm had got a stay from the Allahabad High Court, which suspended the central bank's order. Later the central bank had moved the Supreme Court seeking enforcement of its or... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 9 Jun 2008 | 9:55 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's main stock index may fall to a 10-month low of around 13,000 points by end-2008, as the Reserve Bank of India may raise interest rates to check inflation due to record oil prices, Credit Suisse said on Monday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - A new Bollywood film puts the spotlight on the sensitive issue of suicide in rural India, where some 150,000 farmers have taken their own lives in the past decade.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's economy is expected to grow 8.5 percent in the fiscal year ending March 2009, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said on Monday.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Police used water cannon and batons in Kashmir on Monday to disperse hundreds of government employees protesting over fuel price rises, while a general strike also shut down Assam.
Veteran Marathi film and television actor Vihang Nayak died when his car overturned after hitting a divider on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway Monday. He was 58. His driver was killed as well. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 Jun 2008 | 8:30 am
Promoters of ongoing real estate projects, worth over Rs.40 billion, are reworking their pricing strategies as rising inflation and the fuel price hike have pushed up input costs. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 Jun 2008 | 6:30 am
Does India have too many 'cyber law experts'? What's wrong with the Blackberry service in India? How is BSNL's IPO shaping up? These and several such issues routinely crop up on India-GII. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 Jun 2008 | 6:01 am
Later this month, the capital of Tripura will become the second state capital in the northeast after Guwahati to find a place on the country's railway map. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 Jun 2008 | 4:31 am
A dawn-to-dusk shutdown enforced by opposition parties in Assam Monday to protest the central government's fuel price hikes brought normal life to a grinding halt, with shops and businesses remaining closed and few people venturing out on to the streets. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 Jun 2008 | 4:30 am
A Bollywood film on social issues sans the usual song and dance routine can be difficult to promote. But the producer of 'Summer 2007', a film based on farmer suicides in Maharashtra, has taken an offbeat approach. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 Jun 2008 | 3:30 am
The newly formed civic body of this booming IT and corporate hub abutting Delhi hopes to earn millions in taxes from commercial properties like malls and office complexes that will be channelled into creating a truly world class city, its chief says. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 Jun 2008 | 3:00 am
TV star Rajeev Khandelwal is on a high these days. His first film 'Aamir', which released Friday, is earning rave reviews and he maintains that in the film he has got a dream debut. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 9 Jun 2008 | 2:30 am
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Minister of State (independent charge) for Fisheries Jamuna Prashad Nishad was sacked by Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday for his alleged involvement in the ransacking of the Maharajganj police station by his supporters ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday decided that Sushil Kumar Modi would continue as legislative party leader and Deputy Chief Minister in Bihar. At a “secret ballot” held at the party headquarters here, Mr. Modi got 35 ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
DUBAI: The fate of Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif, who was found in possession of a banned substance, now rests with the Dubai Attorney-General. He is expected to take a decision on the case on Monday. Mr. Asif was produced before ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Bangalore: Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa has decided to follow the example of the late Ramakrishna Hegde in taking a day’s rest every week. However, it will not be a “mauna vratha” as observed by Mr. Hegde but a day to rest ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Kochi: The Kerala Self-Financing Engineering College Managements Association has decided not to have any discussion with the State government until the grading system is removed, association sources have said The decision was taken by ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Tiruchi: Sakunthala Srinivasan, daughter of Kasturi Gopalan, former publisher of The Hindu , died on Sunday evening at her daughter’s residence in Srirangam. She was 89. She is survived by her sons S.R. Rathnam and S. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 9 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
One person was killed and eight people were injured when a pillar of an under-construction bridge collapsed Sunday in Amroli area on the outskirts of this Gujarat city, the police said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 6:00 pm
New Facility of Vertex Software at Aundh Was Inaugurated By Shinichi Yamada, Cto, NTT Data, Earlier This Week; Plans to Raise Headcount from 250 to 1000 In The Next 3 Years Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 8 Jun 2008 | 5:23 pm
