Gujjar leader Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia are due on Tuesday to hold a final round of talks on the agitating community`s demand for Scheduled Tribe status. There is hope that today`s talks in Jaipur will finally put an end to nearly a month-long agitation by Gujjars. On Monday, representatives of the state government and Bainsla met in the state capital to discuss the issue. Source: Zee News : States | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:26 pm
The week-long indefinite strike
by government employees in Goa was called off after the
Essential Services Management Act (ESMA) was invoked in the
state by Chief Minister Digamber Kamat. Source: Zee News : States | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:26 pm
Opposition parties in Karnataka
asked Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to seek CBI probe
into the death of Padmapriya, BJP MLA B Raghupathy Bhat`s
wife, in a private apartment in Delhi and demanded resignation
of State Home Minister Dr V S Acharya. Source: Zee News : States | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:26 pm
Claiming its strength and cadre
had grown considerably in the last five years, Maharashtra
unit of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will ask for equal
number of seats for next Lok Sabha elections from its ruling
alliance partner Congress. Source: Zee News : States | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:26 pm
Amid chanting of religious hymns and
tolling of bells, the annual Amarnath Yatra began on Tuesday with
the first batch of 2,837 pilgrims starting their journey from
here to the cave shrine in South Kashmir, protected by a
three-tier security ring. Source: Zee News : India National | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:18 pm
Gujjar leader Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia are due on Tuesday to hold a final round of talks on the agitating community`s demand for Scheduled Tribe status. There is hope that today`s talks in Jaipur will finally put an end to nearly a month-long agitation by Gujjars. On Monday, representatives of the state government and Bainsla met in the state capital to discuss the issue. Source: Zee News : India National | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:18 pm
Normal life in the three hill
sub-divisions of Darjeeling district was paralysed on Tuesday as
Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) enforced a second spell of
indefinite bandh in the area to press for its demand for a
separate state of Gorkhaland. Source: Zee News : India National | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:18 pm
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee met CPI-M leader Prakash Karat for half an hour Monday night and sought the Left`s support in finalising an India-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA - a crucial step in the conclusion of its nuclear deal with the United States. Source: Zee News : India National | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:18 pm
Noted Indian academic
Chandrasekhara Rao has been elected to International Tribunal
for Law of Seas for another nine-year term. Source: Zee News : India National | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:18 pm
In a development that could ease up immigration rules, the top court in the US has ruled that foreigners who overstay their visas can continue to remain in the country to seek legal status. Source: Zee News : India National | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:18 pm
An Indian-American businessman was on Monday sentenced to 35 months in prison by a US court for illegally exporting electronic components to government entities in India, involved in ballistic missile production. Source: Zee News : India National | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:18 pm
Kevin Spacey has been named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre based at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:14 pm
JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Thousands of Hindu pilgrims chanted hymns as they set off to Amarnath shrine deep in Kashmir on Tuesday, despite fears of a possible militant attack on them.
Indirect tax collections, barring service tax, grew 12.8 per cent in the first two months of the current fiscal upto May, helping the government tomop up Rs 35,216 crore of revenue as against Rs 31,217 crore during the same period last year. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:59 am
Traffic on the national highway from Mumbai to Goa was today disrupted as farmers protesting the creation of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Raigad district blocked the road. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:56 am
A well-known British doctor of Indian origin has admitted to plagiarising material from other medical experts. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:55 am
Inclusion of a new services category--Information Technology Software Services-- within the ambit of Service Tax legislation has created confusion among the software firms in India. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:54 am
Led by Jagatsi Karan Virodhi Kriti Samiti leaders Anant Patil and N.D. Patil, the agitation began at 11 a.m. at Vashi Naka in Raigad, nearly 100 km from Mumbai. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:54 am
The government may consider lifting the ban on export of non-basmati rice after November when the new crop arrives in the market, Commerce Secretary G K Pillai said today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:50 am
A convict escaped from police custody when he was being brought to a court here, police said. Lala Gurjar, who was lodged in Jodhpur jail, hoodwinked the escort police and escaped from custody on Monday. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:48 am
Sudip Bandopadhyay said the indefinite strike in the Darjeeling hills for a separate Gorkhaland state will adversely affect tea exports and badly hit tea workers. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:47 am
Finnish mobile major Nokia has announced launch of its two new e-mail-optimised models at Nokia Connection 2008 here, targeting business executives. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:47 am
An Indian-origin psychiatrist known across Britain for his television and radio appearances has admitted wholesale plagiarism of the work of other scholars. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:47 am
Continuing to play the 'Marathi manoos' card, MNS warned colleges run by the minority communities here to give preference to local Marathi students in admissions. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:44 am
Taking advantage of favourable conditions,like comfortable water storage position and satisfactory ground water level, efforts have been made to bring maximum area under cultivation in the State, S Kosalaraman, Commissioner of Agriculture of Tamil Nadu, said. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:42 am
A weak dollar against rupee and slowdown in the US have taken a toll on exports of software and IT services from Punjab, Chandigarh and Panchkula as shipments grew by just 20.50 per cent in 2007-08, its slowest in the past three years. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:38 am
As many as nine power companies, including heavyweights like Reliance Power, Tata Power and Lanco Infratech, have been declared 'qualified bidders' for Rajpura Thermal Power Project by Punjab State Electricity Board. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:36 am
The Group of Eight rich nations, torn by disputes on global warming, will not set any mid-term targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions at its upcoming summit, host Japan said today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:36 am
With investigators failing to make much headway in the Noida double murder case, a court remanded dentist Rajesh Talwar's compounder Krishna in six days of CBI custody. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:36 am
The Kubera Cross-Border Fund (KUBC), an investment company traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a significant minority interest in Essel Shyam Communication for an investment up to $22 million. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:35 am
Amidst rising diesel prices, farm and construction equipment major Escorts Group is developing a biofuel-powered tractor, which could be unveiled this year. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:34 am
The Vatican has slapped a ban on the filming of a prequel to 'The Da Vinci Code' called 'Angels and Demons' in any of its churches in Rome Source: Daily News & Analysis | 17 Jun 2008 | 11:30 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian shares rose nearly 2 percent on Tuesday, led by gains in banking and financial stocks, but Reliance Communications extended losses on worries a family feud could delay a multi-billion dollar deal.
DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - About two hundred Tibetan exiles marched through Dharamsala on Tuesday to protest against plans to take the Olympic torch through Tibet, saying the region needed justice not pageantry.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's headline inflation rate is likely to hover at 8 to 9 percent for some time and will hit double digits before declining in the last quarter of calendar 2008, its chief statistician said on Tuesday.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - After the king, it is now the turn of his cows to face removal from Nepal's royal palace, two days after it was turned into a museum, a government official said on Tuesday.
Heavy rains in northern Orissa caused by a depression in the Bay of Bengal has led to rising water levels in six rivers, triggering fears of floods, officials said Tuesday. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 8:01 am
A key highway to Sikkim was blocked and normal life in the Darjeeling Hills was paralysed Tuesday, day two of the indefinite shutdown called by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) fighting for a separate state of Gorkhaland. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 8:01 am
New Delhi, June 17 (ANI/Business Wire India): The Government of Uttarakhand is partnering with the New Delhi-based research institute and policy thinktank, TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute), in organising a major state-level event 'Uttarakhand Sustainable Development Summit' in Dehradun on June 19. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am
Leading global investment banking firm Goldman Sachs (GS) has acquired a minority stake in Sterling and Wilson Pvt. Ltd (S&W), a part of the Mumbai-based construction major Shapoorji Pallonji Group, for $50 million. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am
They may be taking decisions that affect millions, but politicians are a most unscientific lot in India, says a new study based on the opinions of 1,100 Indian scientists. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am
An Indian American businessman was sentenced to 35 months in jail and slapped a $60,000 fine by a US court for shipping restricted military technology to Indian government entities engaged in missiles... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 7:58 am
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - Monsoon rains swept across India's remote northeast, forcing hundreds of thousands of villagers from their flooded homes and killing at least 30 people, officials said on Tuesday.
HYDERABAD : Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member V Hanumantha Rao said that he had lost an opportunity to become Chief Minister of the state with the sudden death of Rajeev Gandhi. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 7:47 am
The Bench was dealing with a writ petition filed by B. Govinda Reddy general secretary, District Congress Committee, Potti Sriramulu Nellore district, Giri Yadav, president Praja Party and two Telugu ... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 7:47 am
HYDERABAD : Just two days ahead of the first ever meeting of the five-member committee constituted by TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu to consider the issue of Telangana statehood, the venue was shifted ... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 7:47 am
HYDERABAD : The auctions conducted for allotment of 6,596 retail liquor outlets in the state attracted highest ever bids on Monday and expected to earn about Rs 2,500 revenue in the form of licence fe... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 17 Jun 2008 | 7:47 am
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Protesters shut down the famous Darjeeling hills on Tuesday, threatening its tea and tourism industries, as the Gorkha community pressed its demand for autonomy with an indefinite strike.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Around 100 flights were delayed in New Delhi after monitor lizards, jackals and birds strayed onto the runway, a day after the monsoon hit, The Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.
Around 200,000 devotees are set to undertake the arduous pilgrimage to the Hindu cave shrine of Amarnath in Jammu and Kashmir that begins Wednesday, with a three-tier security arrangement in place to ward off terror strikes. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jun 2008 | 3:30 am
After proving his mettle in Bollywood, versatile actor Paresh Rawal is now getting ready to do his first international film. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jun 2008 | 3:30 am
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian energy group Reliance Industries Ltd is in talks with Jet Airways Ltd to buy a 6-7 percent stake in the private airline, the Mint daily said, citing a source familiar with the development.
Amid strong protests by women's organisations and opposition parties, tenders were opened Monday for licenses to run hundreds of wine shops across Andhra Pradesh. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jun 2008 | 2:01 am
'Tashan' was a flop, but it is still actor Saif Ali Khan's favourite film because it brought girlfriend Kareena Kapoor into his life. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jun 2008 | 2:00 am
Actress and social worker Shabana Azmi and her illustrious husband Javed Akhtar have been invited to spend a few days at the Buckingham Palace as Prince Charles' personal guests. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 17 Jun 2008 | 2:00 am
Ranchi: Maoists blew up a portion of a road bridge near Tundi in Dhanbad during their 24-hour North Chottanagpur bandh on Monday which affected life in Maoist pockets. Dhanbad Superintendent of Police Sheetal Oraon said the Maoists ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
MANGALORE:The Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order), A.R. Infant, has left for Delhi to oversee the investigation. Mr. Infant will guide the State police team camping in Delhi in connection with the crime. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
TUTICORIN: A marine police station, established at Tharuvaikulam near here to conduct surveillance of inshore waters up to five nautical miles, became functional on Monday. Built by the Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation at a cost of ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
LONDON: Crude oil rocketed to a record high of almost $140 a barrel on Monday despite news that Saudi Arabia was ready to raise the output to help cool the soaring energy costs that are threatening economic growth. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Congress and Deve Gowda’s Janata Dal (Secular) have struck a deal on Rajya Sabha nominations from Karnataka. The pact will enable the Congress to have two members from the State in the Upper House — one on its ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 17 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The second indigenously developed light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas flew at supersonic speed on its maiden test flight over Bangalore skies Monday evening. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 7:01 pm
The Uttar Pradesh government Monday ordered the police to file cases against 23 sugar mills for defaulting on their payments to the state's sugarcane farmers. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
Indian satellites will alert state agencies and the public about imminent natural disasters through direct-to-home (DTH) television broadcasts, a top space agency official said here Monday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
In a last ditch effort to push forward the India-US civil nuclear deal, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee met CPI-M leader Prakash Karat Monday evening and sought the Left's support for an India specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 16 Jun 2008 | 7:00 pm
