Already buffeted by the nuclear stand off with the Left and the runaway inflation, the UPA government suffered another jolt when the BSP withdrew support to the coalition at the Centre. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:46 pm
Daughters in India are disappearing due to cultural preference for boys, according to prominent UK-based charity organisation ActionAid. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:45 pm
President Pratibha Patil on Saturday favoured education to every girl child and asked parents, teachers and community leaders to ensure that. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:44 pm
The Left would oppose US 'conspiracy' to make India its strategic partner through the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, CPI-M Politburo member Brinda Karat said today. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:30 pm
Bollywood script writer Shabd Kumar, who wrote Raj Babbar's debut film "Insaaf Ka Tarazu", died on Saturday afternoon following a cardiac arrest, a family member said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:28 pm
A group of Youth Congress volunteers reportedly forced their way into the school, where teachers were participating in a `cluster' (training programme), the sources said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:23 pm
A bank cannot impose transaction charges on a customer who never made any transaction, the Delhi Consumer Commission has held terming such a practice as "illegal and unjustified". Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:18 pm
The ICC may be satisfied with the security situation in Pakistan "as of now" but English media reports said senior England players are unwilling to go by assertions. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:15 pm
Faced with stiff resistance to its land acquisition in Nandigram and Singur, West Bental Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said his government's policy on this front for setting up industry should be made more transparent to people to remove 'misconceptions'. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:13 pm
When Kapil's Devils wrestled down the mighty West Indies for the historic World cup triumph 25 summers ago, many cricket pundits did not know which way to look. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:04 pm
The opposition Congress party in Rajasthan has demanded a CBI inquiry into the recently- concluded Gujjar agitation, which claimed 65 lives. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:02 pm
Delhi petrol pump dealers today threatened to go on agitation if the state government did not reduce VAT on diesel to bring rates at par with neighbouring states like Haryana. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:56 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to tighten monetary policy soon, after the Finance Ministry said on Saturday it expected the monetary authority to take action to cool inflation, now at a 13-year high above 11 percent.
Cancel land transfer to Amarnath board, Mufti tells J&K govt Hindu - 1 hour ago Srinagar (PTI): Former CM and PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Saturday asked the J&K government to cancel the order diverting 39.88 hectares of forest land to Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board.
The Silver Jubilee celebrations of the historic 1983 World Cup win will kick-off from Sunday with the re-union of the champion team members for a series of programmes. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:46 am
Almost 500 Sikh protestors blocked the NH-10 in Sirsa, Haryana near Dera Sacha Sauda headquarter. The protestors were demanding action against those responsible for firing on Sikhs in Mumbai on late Friday. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
A special court acquitted
13 persons accused of rioting and assault during the 1992-93
communal clash in Mumbai observing the prosecution has failed
to prove the case against them. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
A metropolitan magistrate rejected the bail application filed by Indigo airlines pilot, Arjun Menon, arrested by police for allegedly abetting the suicide of airhostess Sucheta Anand. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash
Singh Badal condemned the incident in Mumbai in which
one Sikh protester was killed in firing by the security staff
of Dera Sachcha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh. Source: Zee News : States | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
Amid threat of withdrawal of support from its Left allies, the UPA is clearly in a crisis mode to achieve the twin objectives of saving the government as well as the all-important Indo-US nuclear deal. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday morning, after the US said time was running out for the civil nuclear deal. Congress president Sonia Gandhi is also expected to meet the PM later today. Source: Zee News : India National | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is as committed to the Indo-US nuclear deal as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the party will not let him down on the issue, senior leader and Union Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi has said. Source: Zee News : India National | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
A day after the Amarnath Yatra was suspended for few hours due to bad weather, a fresh batch of 3,692 pilgrims on Saturday left for the holy cave shrine here. Source: Zee News : India National | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
The Kalka-Shimla railway and
river island of Majuli in midstream of Brahmaputra river in
Assam are among 47 sites worldwide which the United Nations
will consider for inclusion in the World Heritage List. Source: Zee News : India National | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:31 am
Bharti Foundation will open 500 primary and 50 senior secondary-cum-vocational training schools for underprivileged children across rural India under its Satya Bharti School Programme. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:20 am
Bharti Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, will open 500 primary and 50 senior secondary-cum-vocational training schools for underprivileged children across rural India under its Satya Bharti School Programme. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:19 am
Already buffeted by the nuclear stand off with the Left and the runaway inflation, the UPA government today suffered another jolt when the BSP withdrew support to the coalition at the Centre. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:13 am
India's Finance Minister P Chidambaram along with Petroleum Minister Murli Deora will participate in an international conference of world's leading oil producers and consumers in Jeddah starting tomorrow. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:06 am
Germany has been named the world's greenest country in a global energy report, days after the government passed a new round of environmental laws in its effort to meet ambitious carbon dioxide reduction targets. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:04 am
Daughters in India are disappearing due to cultural preference for boys, according to prominent UK-based charity organisation ActionAid. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
Russian Navy's new generation Gorshkov-class frigate under construction could be armed with the Indo-Russian BrahMos cruise missiles, boosting the opportunities for the global export of the jointly developed smart weapon. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 21 Jun 2008 | 10:43 am
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - One man was killed and two others were injured in clashes between supporters and opponents of South Korea's POSCO planned steel plant in a village in Orissa, police said on Saturday.
LHASA, China (Reuters) - Chinese Communist Party officials in charge of restive Tibet used the passing of the Olympic torch relay through the capital Lhasa on Saturday to defend their control and denounce the exiled Dalai Lama.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's new government paid tribute to slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and asked President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday to spare thousands of prisoners held on death row.
India's World Cup winning team member Yashpal Sharma feels that the 1983 triumph triggered an unprecedented wave of popularity among the masses that revolutionised cricket in the country. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 8:00 am
One person died and two were injured after clashes broke out in a village in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district over the setting up of a steel plant by South Korean Major Posco, police said Saturday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 7:33 am
Indian equity markets touched their lowest point in the year so far in the week gone by, due to soaring inflation and rising global crude oil price. Three out of five trading sessions in the week ended deep in the red. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 7:32 am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Mars Phoenix Lander has found ice on the surface of the Red Planet, triumphant NASA scientists said on Thursday, a key discovery for the spacecraft as it searches for water and signs of life on Earth's closet planetary neighbor.
National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan is to adjudicate on the sensitive spectrum issue that could see the defence forces vacating idle radio frequencies for civilian communications like mobile telephony, Minister of State for Defence Pallam Raju has said. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 4:31 am
Preity Zinta has put the highs and lows of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and her Mohali team behind and is busy with as many as four pending films and looks forward to the Bachchans' world tour. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 4:30 am
Barack Obama's emergence as the front-runner in the US presidential election confirmed that the much-hyped 'American dream' is not a myth after all. It is possible for a person with talent and charisma to break through the glass barrier. No walls of prejudice separate him from the rest. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 3:31 am
The Indian government will launch a nationwide survey to study the life led by some 68 million people living in slums across the country. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 3:30 am
Visiting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Friday had a first-hand view of the progress and achievements made by India's IT hub in space research, IT and management on a day-long tour of the city. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:32 am
Leading private airline Kingfisher Airlines and low-cost airline Deccan Air late Friday evening announced an increase in their minimum base fares across categories with effect from Saturday to check losses arising out of soaring aviation turbine fuel price. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:31 am
One person was killed and at least two were injured late Friday in a clash between Sikhs and members of the rival Dera Saccha Sauda sect at a mall in Mulund, a northeastern Mumbai suburb. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 21 Jun 2008 | 1:30 am
VIENNA (Reuters) - Never-say-die Turkey reached the Euro 2008 last four by snatching a penalty shootout victory against Croatia after saving themselves with an equaliser from the last kick of another nail-biting quarter-final on Friday.
Mumbai: One person was killed on Friday in firing by a bodyguard of Dera Saccha Sauda chief Ram Rahim Singh, which is at loggerheads with Sikh clergy, during clashes between Sikhs and supporters of the group at a mall in northeast suburb, ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: With crude prices once again showing volatility and climbing to $133 a barrel, Sunday’s meeting of Energy Ministers in Jeddah has assumed great significance. In a surprise development, India will be represented by ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Direct result of steep hike in fuel prices, says CPI(M); Manmohan, Chidambaram should quit: RSP Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
CHENNAI: Ruling out any rapprochement with the Pattali Makkal Katchi, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Friday termed the alliance issue a “closed chapter.” Talking to reporters at his Gopalapuram residence after inducting ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
KOTTAYAM: The action council spearheading the fight against the alignment of the Koodamkulam-Thrissur 400 kV line to bring power from the Koodamkulam Nuclear Power Station has decided to call off talks with the authorities concerned and to ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 21 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Flood victims in eastern India took refuge on treetops as monsoon rains swamped homes and continued to spread misery among millions.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Inflation shot above 11 percent in early June to a 13-year high following a rise in state-set fuel prices, rattling markets and prompting the finance minister to warn of stronger anti-inflation measures ahead.
