Yahoo has sent a letter to stockholders defending its alliance with Google and criticising Carl Icahn's campaign to install a Microsoft- friendly board of directors. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:35 pm
Essar group withdrew its 1.2-billion-dollar bid on Thursday for acquiring US-based steel company Esmark following a higher bid Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:34 pm
A 13-year old boy, who pulled out a two-and-half year-old Indian girl from a narrow fissure in a deep gorge, has become a hero in Nepal Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:25 pm
Commerce Minister Kamal Nath today said that inspite of the monetary measures announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to control headline inflation, economic growth will continue to remain buoyant. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:24 pm
Telecom regulator TRAI today said network congestion in the mobile space has declined and expressed its inability to punish the defaulters. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:20 pm
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved a new concession scheme for phosphatic and potassic (P&K) fertilisers that would reduce subsidy bill by Rs 1,163 crore, besides providing incentives to the industry to increase production. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:19 pm
Axis Bank has picked up 2.5 per cent stake in the in Lavasa Corporation, a subsidiary of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), engaged in the development of a township in Lavasa near Pune, for Rs 250 crore. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:15 pm
The Reserve Bank's decision to hike the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) and Repo rates by 0.50 per cent would help in reining in inflation now above 11 per cent, a senior banker said. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:14 pm
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian inflation, which hit a 13-year high of 11.05 percent in early June, will stay in double digits for "some weeks" and is expected to start moderating after three months, the finance minister told a news channel.
After establishing its presece in Yemen, Turkey, the middle east and Europe, Yash Birla Group company Birla Cotsyn (India) is now looking at newer export markets. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:11 pm
UTI-Opportunities Fund has declared a tax-free dividend of 18 per cent (Rs 1.80 per unit on face value of Rs 10). Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:10 pm
United Bank of India (UBI) has entered into an agreement with Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank, Myanmar Investment & Commercial Bank and Myanmar Economic Bank for routing border trade transactions. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:08 pm
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch a dedicated satellite for scientific experiments pursued by the undergraduate and post-graduate students from various universities in India. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:08 pm
ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), along with steel baron Lakshmi N Mittal, will invest $155 million in a gas block in Trinidad and Tobago and another $282 million in two exploration blocks in Brazil. Source: Business Standard | News Now | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:06 pm
Tata Steel said on Thursday that its consolidated net profit rose nearly three-fold to Rs 12,349.98 crore for the year ending March 31, 2008 Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:04 pm
The Hong Kong players were made to wait outside a special enclosure at the national stadium as no one in authority knew them Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 1:01 pm
Zeeshan Bashir Dar (19) was hit by a bullet in the abdomen when CRPF personnel opened fire to chase away protesters at Kawdara this evening, official sources said. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:47 pm
SAD President and Member Parliament Sukhbir Singh Badal said that no party leaders will be allowed to take the help of Congress party. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:43 pm
Now an all-Muslim cast of 32 slum children is set to stage a play on the revolutionary - an effort that has changed their own lives in so many ways. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:41 pm
Shattered Serb Novak Djokovic may have to hunt for his rackets in a few weeks as he heads off for a pause after exiting against Russian Marat Safin Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:39 pm
A new fatwa or Islamic edict has been issued in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) which states that smoking in public is forbidden under Islam as it causes harm to others. Source: Daily News & Analysis | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:38 pm
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian police battled thousands of stone-throwing Muslim protesters across Kashmir on Thursday as demonstrations over the transfer of forest land to a Hindu shrine trust spread in the region, police said.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resigned on Thursday, clearing the way for former Maoist rebels to form a new government after their surprise election win two months ago.
Mumbai, June 25: A B Corp, the home banner of Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, has entered a joint venture with industrialist friend Mr Anil Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment for film production... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 26 Jun 2008 | 11:10 am
New Delhi, June 26 : The Union Cabinet today gave its approval for the setting up of two Schools of Planning and Architecture (SPAs) at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 26 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
Mumbai, June 26 : Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways Thiru. T.R. Baalu reviewed the performance of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), the premium container hub port on the West Coast of India, here today. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 26 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
Other banks are also likely to follow suit, following the Reserve Bank of India's move to hike key rates by 50 bps. The increase in SBI's rate hike gives an indication of the extent of hike that the o... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 26 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
The Union fertiliser minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Thursday said that the Cabinet has approved the fertiliser policy for phosphorus and potash. The existing fertiliser policy is likely to be renewed wi... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 26 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
Growing interest in Bollywood films in Britain and elsewhere has driven profits of film distribution major Eros to a record high, according to latest company figures. Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 26 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
Sources in Jammu and Kashmir have said that the trouble over Amarnath land has been fomented by separatists with elections in mind.They also said that efforts to stop the Yatra had been on for some ti... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 26 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
Now that the government has virtually decided to part ways with the Left and go ahead with the nuclear deal, getting the Samajwadi Party on board has become critical.If the government takes the first ... Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 26 Jun 2008 | 11:02 am
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A large number of gaps still remain in global trade talks, trade minister said on Thursday, adding he hoped trading partners would have moved closer to each other by next month.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's largest lender, State Bank of India, said on Thursday it was raising its benchmark prime lending rate by 50 basis points to 12.75 percent with effect from Friday.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Standard and Poor's on Thursday cut India's economic growth forecast for the fiscal year that began in April to 7.8 percent from 8.1 percent, citing high inflation and rising interest rates.
BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of tribal people armed with bows and arrows stormed a proposed factory site in Orissa of one of the country's biggest steel companies, Tata Steel Ltd, police said on Thursday.
RANCHI, India (Reuters Life!) - Forget mice -- villagers in Jharkhand have recruited camels to protect their farmlands and homes from marauding elephants, saying the beasts' stink was enough to keep the pachyderms at bay.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - After more than four years of alliance, the Indian government and its communist allies appear closer than ever to a split over a civilian nuclear deal with the United States, which could spark early general elections.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's annual inflation rate is expected to have jumped to a fresh 13-year high in mid-June as the effect of higher fuel prices spread to the broader economy, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday.
Frowning on real estate developers who refuse to pay compensation for delayed deliveries, a court here has fined leading builders Ansal Properties and Infrastructure (API) Rs.2.73 million (Rs. 27.3 lakhs) for not handing over an apartment on time. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Jun 2008 | 5:01 am
Everybody has been wondering why Ekta Kapoor allowed her favourite actress Prachi Desai to work opposite Farhan Akhtar in 'Rock On' when she has been openly opposed to the idea of others leaving her to pursue the big screen. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Jun 2008 | 5:01 am
Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty, who's also turned producer now, has signed on filmmaker Manish Jha of 'Matrubhoomi' fame to direct her first home production that will go on the floor in November. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Jun 2008 | 3:31 am
Film: 'Love Story 2050'; Music Composer: Anu Malik; Lyricist: Javed Akhtar; Singers: Shaan, KK, Alka Yagnik, Alisha Chinoy and Kunal Ganjawala; Ratings: **1/2 Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Jun 2008 | 3:31 am
In a way, Indian cricket captain Mahinder Singh Dhoni only flattered to deceive - in the process, leaving students and teachers at a college here hugely disappointed. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Jun 2008 | 3:30 am
Actress Diya Mirza, known for her prim and proper image in films, is currently enjoying being bad in Suparn Verma's 'Acid Factory'. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Jun 2008 | 3:30 am
Talented newcomer Neil Nitin Mukesh's next film 'Freeze' is a science fiction about a guy with a camera that has supernatural powers. And apart from taking photographs, the actor performed some breathtaking stunts too. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Jun 2008 | 3:30 am
Former Indian Army chief Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw is in critical condition in a military hospital in Wellington in Tamil Nadu and doctors fear the worst, sources here said early Thursday. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:11 am
PERAMBALUR: A new District Institute of Educational Training (DIET) is expected to get functional in a year’s time in Perambalur district, according to informed sources. A site in Chettikulam area has been proposed, it is learnt. ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Nupur, wife of dentist Rajesh Talwar, was subjected to a second lie-detector test by the Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday. The test lasted over four hours during which Nupur was queried about events before and ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Sahara India Commercial Corporation (SICC) to erect a temporary fence again at Sahara Shahar in Lucknow. It was removed by the Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) after the apex court ordered ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
Mumbai/Thiruvananthapuram: The death of Indian Union Muslim League president G.M. Banatwala (74) in Mumbai on Wednesday plunged party circles in Kerala into gloom as he was part and parcel of the State politics. Mr. Banatwala was the ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
BEIJING: Although missing the world’s most extensive rankings for the best supercomputers, a Chinese-made high-performance server rivals the seventh fastest for computing speed. Dawning 5000A, with a capability of 160 trillions of ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) on Wednesday urged the government to allow it to impose one hour’s load-shedding across the State to help it face the crisis caused by poor rainfall during this ... Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 26 Jun 2008 | 12:00 am
The UPA government got support from unexpected quarters when the Shiv Sena today hit out at the Left parties for its opposition to the Indo-US deal and said barring the Left everybody knows that it would benefit India. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
Uncertainty looms over uranium
mining in Meghalaya with the state government facing
opposition from members of the ruling coalition amid a
central move to set up a nuclear plant here. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
Tamil Nadu would become the first state in India to take up linking of intra-state rivers, with construction of a barrage across the Cauvery at Mayyanur to divert surplus water when the river is in spate, according to Chief Minister M Karunanidhi. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
Pilot Arjun Menon of Indigo Airlines, who was arrested for abetment to suicide of his airhostess friend Sucheta Anand, has been given bail on a personal bond of Rs 25000. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
The West Bengal capital, a Tier I city, has been placed at the bottom of 10 cities having maximum employment potential, according to a study conducted by Assocham. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
A senior citizen has filed a petition before the Bombay High Court seeking that Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray be named as accused in an assault case. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
Top officials involved in the demolition at Sahara Saher, the commercial complex of Subroto Roy`s Sahara group, were summarily removed from their positions after Supreme Court came down heavily on the role of the state government and the Lucknow Development Authority. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
There has not been much headway
in the investigations into the May 13 serial blasts here due
to the Gujjar agitation that followed the bombings in which 68
people were killed, Rajasthan police have said. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
A senior Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) leader Devendra Sahni alias Ratnakar has been arrested from a naxalite hideout in Bihar`s Sheohar district, police said on Wednesday. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
With the issue of transfer of
forest land to Amarnath Shrine Board threatening to snowball,
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday
ordered against construction activity on the land and called
an all-party meet even as two more youths were killed in
firing by security forces on violent protestors. Source: Zee News : States | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:55 pm
Describing those detained under the now-defunct Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) as true sentinels of democracy, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Wednesday said that an inquiry would be held into false criminal cases registered against people during Emergency. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:38 pm
Over 600,000 flood victims were still awaiting to be rescued in West Bengal's East Midnapore district, state's Relief Minister Mortaja Hossain said Wednesday evening. Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 25 Jun 2008 | 11:34 pm
Prime Minister-appointed B K Chaturvedi committee will hear ONGC, GAIL and Oil India Ltd on Wednesday on sharing of fuel subsidies, sources said. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:37 pm
Sikh protestors on Wednesday brought rail traffic to a halt in Punjab. SSP Amritsar revealed that all trains coming to the state have been cancelled after some 150 Sikhs protesting against Dera Sachcha Sauda chief Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh blocked the main rail line near Walla village in Amritsar and also at some places near Jalandhar. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:37 pm
Ahead of the crucial meeting of the Left-UPA committee on the Indo-US nuclear deal on Wednesday, the US on Tuesday said that it would like to see progress in the matter. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:37 pm
The stalemate between the UPA and the Left over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal continued on Wednesday, with both sides refusing to budge from their stated stands despite CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat meeting External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Defence Minister A K Antony to solve the imbroglio. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:37 pm
The government`s ambitious project of E-passports, which will carry biometric information of the holder in a chip, will become a reality on Wednesday when President Pratibha Patil launches the scheme. Source: Zee News : India National | 25 Jun 2008 | 12:37 pm
