Around 41 freedom fighters will
be honoured on the occasion of Goa Revolution Day to be held
here on June 18. Source: Zee News : States | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:01 pm
Karnataka Home Minister on Monday ruled out foul play in the death of BJP MLA B Raghupathy Bhat`s wife Padmapriya, calling it a case of suicide. Padmapriya who had been missing for the last five days, was found dead in an apartment in a south-west Delhi locality late on Sunday in a suspected case of suicide, a senior Delhi Police official said. Source: Zee News : States | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:01 pm
The army was called Monday to rescue marooned villagers as flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in the northeast displaced 200,000 people and left 25 dead, officials said. Source: Zee News : States | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:01 pm
Two persons have been arrested in connection with the thane auditorium blast earlier this month that left seven people injured. Source: Zee News : States | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:01 pm
A routine marital dispute took a bloody turn in a Chhattisgarh village when a 70-year-old decapitated his wife while she was sleeping and then walked with the head to the police station. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:46 am
Capacity constraints may hinder India's move to overtake China as the leading manufacturer and exporter of footwears in the world. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:36 am
LONDON (Reuters) - Brazil, India and China need to make more concessions in their manufacturing and services sectors for a successful conclusion to the Doha round of global trade talks, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday.
Soaring food prices could become a highly sensitive economic and political issue in Asia despite its robust growth, the president of the Asian Development Bank warned today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:30 am
In the backdrop of young generation paying more attention towards low cost multimedia handsets, Akasaki Technology Private Ltd launched its range of mobile handsets in Lucknow. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:27 am
Card-holders have something to cheer -- their lost cards will now be insured against any misuse. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:18 am
Noting that India is among the under-insured countries, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said insurance products should be simple and need to reach the rural population where penetration is low. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:15 am
Australian opener Phil Jaques has attributed his recent finesse in batting and fielding to a laser eye surgery he underwent before the start of Caribbean tour. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:13 am
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday said state-run banks would waive farm loans by June 30, as outlined in his budget speech Feb 29. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:13 am
People rushed to stock up on supplies and trucks snaked up the hills to carry essentials on Monday in readiness for the indefinite shutdown in the Darjeeling Hills Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:11 am
32 kg. ganja seized Hindu - 47 minutes ago Perinthalmanna (Kerala) (PTI): About 32 kg. of ganja was seized from a person, who was picked up from the state-owned bus stand here in Malappuram district, police said on Monday.
Shell-MRPL Aviation Fuels & Services Pvt Ltd, and joint venture between Shell India and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), last week signed a two-year contract to supply aviation turbine fuel (ATF) to Jet Airways, the country's largest airline by passenger traffic, at the new Bangalore and Hyderabad airports. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 10:07 am
Soccer fans held in Kashmir over pro-Pakistan slogans Reuters India - 53 minutes ago SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - About a dozen spectators were detained in Indian Kashmir for shouting pro-Pakistan slogans at a soccer match aimed at generating goodwill and ending alienation among locals, police said on Monday.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Shares in Reliance Communications Ltd, India's No.2 mobile operator, fell more than 2 percent on Monday amid fears that a family feud could delay a multi-billion dollar tie-up with South Africa's MTN.
Foreign lender Standard Chartered Bank has joined hands with general insurer Tata AIG to launch a product which would provide lost card insurance to bank's customers. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:45 am
KSEB reimposes duty Newindpress - 1 hour ago T’PURAM: The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has reimposed the duty on power tariff. For a middle class family that uses around 100 units a month, the increase in duty amount will be around Rs 4, a KSEB spokesperson cited as an example. Marginal rise in power tariffHindu No power cuts in PunjabDaily News & Analysis all 3 news articles
Delhi Police said that they were conducting an autopsy on the body of Padmapriya, wife of Karnataka's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Raghupathi Bhat. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:45 am
European countries have of late been wooing Bollywood filmmakers to come and shoot their movies there in order to give a boost to their tourism. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:42 am
Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company Ltd, a partnership between two nationalised banks -- Canara Bank and Oriental Bank of Commerce and HSBC Insurance (Asia Pacific) Holdings Ltd, the Asian insurance arm of HSBC, today commernced operations. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:39 am
A 68-year-old cardiologist was allegedly stabbed to death by unknown assailants here on Monday, police said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:39 am
Domestic steel giant Tata Steel on Monday said it will set up a coal based power plant in Orissa jointly with Jasper Industries. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:37 am
Technology focused networking company Gemini Communication Ltd (GCL) has acquired a 51 per cent stake in privately-held Veeras Infotek for around Rs 7 crore. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:34 am
Leading Hindi daily 'Dainik Bhaskar' signed India's one day and Twenty20 captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni as its brand ambassador. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:31 am
Directing banking institutions to shed their conservative approach in funding young entrepreneurs, Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday hinted at fine-tuning the credit guarantee scheme of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) to increase its coverage. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:28 am
Italian auto major Fiat Group company Magneti Marelli and Aurangabad-based Endurance Technologies today signed a joint venture agreement to produce shock absorbers for motor vehicles in India and Thailand. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:27 am
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Jet Airways, India's top private airline, plans to put its international expansion on hold until the end of next year because of soaring oil prices, its chief commercial officer said on Monday.
(Newser) – Monsoon rains pelted India two weeks early for the first time in over a century yesterday, killing at least 23 people, AP reports. Villagers died in floods, landslides and building coll... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:20 am
A Bethesda company devoted to assembling infrastructure in India has won a $103 million contract to build rural roads in the country.India Globalization Capital Inc. received the contract from Hindust... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:10 am
Agra, June 16 (IANS) Noted Urdu poet Wasim Bareilwi, a regular feature at poetry soirees since the 1960S, has been given the first Firaq Gorakhpuri International Award here. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:01 am
Kuala Lumpur, June 16 :India's High Commissioner to Malaysia Ashok Kantha said that the Indian government had agreed to the signing of a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) with Malaysia to guard the interests of its citizens working here. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:01 am
Having faced racial prejudice at one time or another, many Indians across the globe have expressed support for Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for US president. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
The Indian equity markets maintained its lead in early afternoon trade Monday. Sustained buying was witnessed in banking, realty and metal stocks. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
Lahore, June 16 : A four-member Pakistan Railways' delegation has reached India to hold three-day talks, beginning tomorrow, with the Indian Railways authorities to increase frequency of freight trains to boost bilateral trade. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 9:00 am
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - About a dozen spectators were detained in Indian Kashmir for shouting pro-Pakistan slogans at a soccer match aimed at generating goodwill and ending alienation among locals, police said on Monday.
desi version has the same format as the rest of the Chicken Soup series -- it contains 101 real-life experiences based on various themes like love, parenting, learning and death.An exclusive story fro... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:23 am
] , would be one of the world's happiest executives. His state-controlled company, with $59 billion in revenues, is India's largest refiner of oil into such products as gasoline and diesel, which are ... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:23 am
O ver the last year or so, several articles, research reports and a few books have been published, all of which essentially reach the same conclusion. The India growth story is real and here to stay.T... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 16 Jun 2008 | 8:23 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Tiger Woods, who has nursed a painful knee all week, rolled in a 15-foot birdie putt at the last on Sunday to join fellow American Rocco Mediate in an 18-hole playoff for the 108th U.S. Open.
TENERO, Switzerland (Reuters) - Turkey pulled off an extraordinary rescue to book a place in the Euro 2008 quarter-finals with a 3-2 win over the Czech Republic on Sunday after trailing by two goals with 15 minutes to go.
The Indian equity markets, which opened on the upswing Monday, maintained their momentum in early trade. There was buying interest in metal, realty and banking stocks. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 5:00 am
The army was called Monday to rescue marooned villagers as flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in the northeast displaced 200,000 people and left 25 dead, officials said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 4:00 am
After her super hits 'Kajra re' and 'It's rocking', playback singer Alisha Chinai is going places or so you'd like to believe. But she has another story to tell. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 3:01 am
At a time Asian business tycoons are eyeing to take over foreign soccer clubs, the English Premier League clubs are looking towards Indian football. Some are on a talent hunt here these days. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 3:00 am
A suicide explosion has taken place opposite the office of the senior superintendent of police (SSP) in the tightly-guarded Vavuniya town in northern Sri Lanka Monday morning, military sources here said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 3:00 am
We all know that Aamir Khan is meticulous in his planning and work. For his next film 'Delhi Belly', the actor is neck deep in casting and has zeroed in on three actors for every part. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 3:00 am
As talks between the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (RADAG) and South Africa-based telecom major MTN continued, the controversy over the control of shares of the Indian entity held by the promoters surfaced once again. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:32 am
Ahead of Wednesday`s UPA-Left meet on Indo-US nuclear deal issue, there were little signs of a forward movement with top leaders of the ruling alliance, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, having made a strong pitch for the agreement while Left parties making clear their continued opposition to it. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
Raking up a sensitive issue ahead
of the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir,
BJP on Sunday demanded scrapping of Article 370, holding it
responsible for many ills afflicting the state including
militancy and unemployment. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha,
spearheading the movement for a separate Gorkhaland state,
on Sunday said it was ready for tripartite talks with the centre
and west Bengal Government even as it braced to enforce an
indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling hill from Monday after a
60-hour break. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
The South-West Monsoon on Sunday
drenched the capital with its first showers of this season,
breaking an 108-year-old by their arrival nearly two weeks
ahead of the normal onset date of June 29. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
Ahead of the UPA-Left meeting on
the Indo-US nuclear deal, CPI(M) on Sunday said India cannot go by
the timetable set by the Bush administration to conclude the
pact. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
Taking forward its probe into the month-old Noida double murders of teenaged Aarushi Talwar and her family`s domestic help, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday said her mother Nupur Talwar too could be arrested even as a team intensified searches at their home. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
The CBI on Sunday revealed that it had put Nupur Talwar through lie-detector test twice two to three days back, in connection with the twin murders of her daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. CBI sources said while Nupur was still not a suspect in the case, she underwent the tests as she was an important person present at the crime scene. However, they did say that the statements made by Nupur during the lie-detector tests were different from those made by her husband Dr Rajesh Talwar. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
The central information
commission has asked the Defence Ministry to inquire into the
delay in replying to an RTI application of an army officer
seeking details relating to his pending allowance. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
Main accused in the multi-crore kidney scam Dr Amit Kumar and his brother Jeevan were on Sunday taken to Mumbai by Maharashtra Police in connection with a case registered against the duo in the metropolis. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
The 1,500 mw Nathpa Jhakri
Hydro-Electric Power Project remained shut for the fifth
consecutive day on account of high silt level, hampering power
supply to seven northern states. Source: Zee News : India National | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
NEW DELHI: Thirty-two-year-old Padmapriya Bhat, wife of Udupi MLA K. Raghupati Bhat, was found hanging in a flat at Dwarka here on Sunday. Ms. Bhat had been missing since this past Wednesday. A Karnataka police team arrived in the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
SHANGHAI: Jet Airways on Saturday became the first Indian private airline to launch flights to China, starting a service that will connect the thriving financial hubs of Mumbai, Shanghai and San Francisco. With trade between India and ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
KOLKATA: The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) leadership said on Sunday that the indefinite bandh demanding a separate State that was relaxed during the past few days would resume in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal on Monday ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Durban: A local Indian lifestyle programme has been pulled off the air from a popular television channel in South Africa for not meeting broadcasting standards. The SABC television group said the programme was withdrawn from its SABC3 ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
JAIPUR: Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla said his participation in the talks with the Rajasthan government was subject to the latter’s response to the changes suggested by him to the draft ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: It’s official. The monsoon has hit the Capital and that too a fortnight ahead of its scheduled normal date of June 29, breaking a 108-year-old record. Delhiites woke up to cloudy weather on Sunday morning and soon the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: Hitting back at the Anil Ambani group for “twisting facts” on the de-merger agreements signed by the group companies of Ambani siblings, elder brother Mukesh’s side accused it of “double standard and ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
DINDIGUL: Gandhigram Trust, joining hands with M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, plans to modernise rural economic and farm activities by introducing information technology to the community and through knowledge transfer. It would ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 16 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
India has been drawn into the strategic designs of the US, and the Indian government's flourishing defence relations with Israel are a direct result of the paradigm shift pushed by Washington and Tel Aviv, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Prakash Karat said here Sunday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:30 pm
Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Sunday ordered a judicial probe into police firing on agitating farmers at Haveri June 10, in which a farmer was killed and four were injured. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:30 pm
Sixteen people, including five women, were killed and five injured when a bus they were travelling in fell into a 150-metre deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla district Sunday morning. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 15 Jun 2008 | 6:30 pm
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A car gifted by Adolf Hitler to a Nepali king is likely to be displayed in a palace museum after the Himalayan nation abolished the 239-year-old monarchy and the ousted King Gyanendra quit the palace.
