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Indian held for hosting football gambling: ReportAn Indian businessman has been arrested by Thai police on charges of hosting football gambling, a part of an international online gambling organisation.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 2:00 pm H P Singhania to take charge as Ficci PresidentSinghania who is currently Senior Vice President of the chamber would succeed Rajeev Chandrashekhar.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:57 pm Phoolan Devi murder trial begins in fast track courtThe trial in the Phoolan Devi murder case began in a fast track court with the recording of testimony of a forensic expert who had examined the revolvers used for the killing.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:57 pm JuD regroups after ban; takes out rally in LahoreThe outlawed JuD, the front organisation of the LeT blamed for the Mumbai attack, has resumed its activities with thousands of its supporters taking part in a rally in Lahore.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:56 pm Cong wants celebrities to join its bandwagon for LS pollsThe Congress in Maharashtra is trying to rope in celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan, Dilip Vengsarkar and Ravi Kisen for the Lok Sabha polls.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:52 pm India says ban on Chinese toys for public safetyNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's trade minister said on Friday the government's decision to ban imports of Chinese toys was taken on the grounds of public safety and the move was compatible with World Trade Organisation rules.Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:51 pm NCW rejects member's report on Mangalore pub attack - Hindu
Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:46 pm Kiran Karnik appointed chairman of SatyamA day after Satyam veteran A S Murty was named the company's CEO, the government today announced the appointment of Nasscom past-president Kiran Karnik as chairman of its six-member board.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:45 pm PwC dragged into Satyam class action suitsIn a new class action lawsuit over the Satyam scandal, PwC, along with its Indian and international units, has been charged with having "recklessly disregarded" the fraud.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:39 pm Chidambaram to review security situation in Maharashtra,KeralaHome minister P Chidambaram will visit Maharashtra and Kerala on Monday to review the security situation in the two coastal states.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:38 pm Big Entertainment heads Hollywood,inks deal with Julia RobertsReliance Big Entertainment said it has signed two deals with actress Julia Roberts' Red Om Films and Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:34 pm Effects of colours: 'Blue boosts creativity, red attention'What colour most improves brain performance and receptivity to advertising, red or blue? This has been a subject of debate for long.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:34 pm AR Rahman hopes to win at least one OscarAR Rahman, who has bagged three Academy Award nominations in two categories for his compositions in Slumdog Millionaire, believes he will win at least one Oscar.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:32 pm Two days after writing to PM:Irshad Ali claims being beaten upA person, has claimed that he was beaten by inmates inside the high security Tihar jail after he appealed to the PM for relief.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:30 pm Pakistan to issue Mumbai findings; U.S. envoy comingISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will publish findings of its investigation into November's militant attacks in Mumbai early next week, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday.Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:26 pm Reduce excise duty on textile machinery to 8%: AssochamIndustry body Assocham has urged the government to reduce excise duty on textile machinery to 8 per cent from 14 per cent in order to boost the sector.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:18 pm BJP meet to thrash out winning strategies for LS poll - Business Standard
Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:16 pm Kiran Karnik appointed chairman of Satyam - minNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Kiran Karnik has been appointed chairman of the board of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services, a day after the firm appointed its new chief executive, Corporate Affairs Minister Prem Chand Gupta said on Friday.Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:15 pm India's first fast-breeder reactor to be ready this yearIndia would develop the first fast breeder reactor this year, makingit the only nation in Asia to develop such a technology.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:10 pm Vijayan condemns Mangalore pub attack - Hindu
Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:06 pm Obama appoints Indian-American to his inter faith councilUS President Barack Obama has appointed an Indian-American to his new advisory council on inter faith relationships.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:02 pm BJP meet to thrash out winning strategies for LS pollThe three-day conclave of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) that began today at Nagpur with president Rajnath Singhs clarion call to the party to get the L K Advani-led government elected in the Lok Sabha election, will fine-tune partys strategies for realising this.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:57 pm GAIL to mop up Rs 800cr via KG-D6 gas transportationState-run gas monopoly GAIL India today said it will earn Rs 800 crore in additional revenues from transporting Reliance Industries' (RIL) Krishna-Godavari basin field gas to consumers next fiscal.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:54 pm Seven directors move out from RBS boardThe Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which has been propped up with taxpayers' money, has restructured its board, with seven directors moving out today itself.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:50 pm Asim Ghosh steps down as Vodafone-Essar MDVodafone-Essar Managing Director Asim Ghosh will step down after his term ends on March 31, 2009. He, however, will continue to be director on the companys board.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:45 pm SC rejects plea to cancel Satyam stocks transactionsThe Supreme Court today dismissed a petition seeking a direction to market regulator Sebi and the Bombay Stock Exchange to cancel transactions in shares of scam-tainted Satyam Computer and Chennai-based entertainment firm Pyramid Saimira.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:43 pm AP budget resemble Satyam Computers balance sheet: Chandrababu!The budget presented in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly on Thursday by Finance Minister K Rosaiah resembled the balance sheet of defamed Satyam Computers, TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu alleged here today.Source: Zee News : States | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:33 pm Bangalore police identify mastermind behind serial bomb blasts!Police have identified the mastermind behind the July 25 serial bomb blasts last year in the city and the investigation has reached "final stage," Karnataka Home Minister V S Acharya said on Thursday.Source: Zee News : States | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:33 pm Remove Roy within 24 hours, Sena asks Maha Govt!Shiv Sena on Thursday gave a 24-hour `ultimatum` to Maharashtra Government to remove DGP A N Roy from the post, after the Bombay High Court set aside the senior IPS officer`s appontment terming it as contrary to law.Source: Zee News : States | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:33 pm Sena says it won`t pay for damages during stir!Maharashtra Home Minister Jayant Patil`s diktat that parties like Shiv Sena and MNS would have to pay for damages to property in course of their recent violent agitations, has fallen flat on Sena leader`s ears.Source: Zee News : States | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:33 pm Three killed in steel plant accident in Orissa`s Jharsuguda district!At least three people were killed after inhaling poisonous carbon monoxide gas in a sponge iron factory in Orissa`s Jharsuguda district, police said Friday.Source: Zee News : States | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:33 pm Still scope for faculty quota in national institutes: Arjun!The HRD Ministry today hinted that there is still scope for faculty quota in institutions of excellence, including IITs, even as DoPT has sought exemption of such institutes from having reservation in teaching posts.Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:31 pm India to stockpile N-fuel: Kakodkar!India will now develop its own stockpile of nuclear fuel to fulfil its energy needs, taking advantage of the guarantees given in the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said Thursday.Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:31 pm University of Oxford to honour 1971 Indo-Pak war refugee activist!A poverty campaigner, Fazle Hasan Abed, who founded the Bangladesh rural advancement committee (BRAC) in 1972, will be given an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Oxford.Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:31 pm BJP national executive meets!The three-day National Executive and National Council meeting of BJP will begin in Nagpur today.Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:31 pm Congress to decide on alliance with SP in UP by Feb 11!The Congress will decide by February 11 whether it would contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh alone or in alliance with Samajwadi Party, the party`s state unit has said.Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:31 pm Advani informs govt of death threat issued on website!Leader of the Opposition L K Advani on Thursday informed the government that he has received a death threat which was posted on his website reportedly by a Pakistan-based terror organisation.Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:31 pm VP Hamid Ansari meets head of Myanmar`s military junta!VP Hamid Ansari Friday met the head of the country`s military junta Gen Than She here.Source: Zee News : India National | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:31 pm BJP tries to regain momentumNEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Bhartiya Janata Party meets from Friday to try to revitalise itself amid signs that internal squabbles and state poll losses have dented their momentum ahead of a general election.Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:26 pm Hundreds more flee Sri Lanka war zoneCOLOMBO (Reuters) - More than 2,200 people have fled Sri Lanka's war zone in the last two days as the military on Friday vowed a rapid finish to the 25-year-old war while protecting thousands of trapped civilians.Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:13 pm Pakistani court declares nuclear scientist freeISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court declared disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan free on Friday, ending five years of house arrest for the man at the centre of the world's most serious proliferation scandal.Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 pm New Satyam CEO seen as stand-in before saleBANGALORE (Reuters) - The professional mission of the new chief executive of Satyam Computer Services is -- to enable ordinary people to perform extraordinary tasks -- and this is the exact quality he requires to ensure the survival of the fraud-tainted outsourcer.Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Feb 2009 | 11:31 am No revolt in SP, says Amar Singh - 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Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 10:45 am Watchdog asks mobile operators to curb call dropsIndia's telecom watchdog has asked mobile telephony operators to prevent network congestion and ensure calls by subscribers do not get disconnected abruptly.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 10:02 am Bandh paralyses life in Dooars in West Bengal - Hindu
Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 10:01 am Jharkhand man writes lost loveA man in Jharkhand has written the name of his lost love 1.4 million times since 1997 and wants to continue till he reaches the figure of 10 million as penance for not having had the courage to ask for her hand in marriage as well as to inspire other lovers.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 10:01 am Uttar Pradesh plans public-private model for power distributionThe public-private partnership model will first be implemented in the power sector in Uttar Pradesh, with an input-based franchisee system being proposed to be put in place in nine cities by March-end.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 10:01 am Markets extend gains in afternoonIndian equities markets moved further up into green territory in the afternoon trade Friday.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 10:01 am Cricket, barons and Bollywood stars - its all happening in GoaConsidering the monies at stake, Goa's famed five star facility, the Fort Aguada resort, could well be called Fort Knox for a day with millions of dollars at stake as film stars and industrialists outbid each other at the Indian Premier League's (IPL) second players auction here Friday.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 10:01 am Vijayan calls Somnath ChatterjeeCommunist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Kerala state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan Friday called Lok Sabha Speaker and former party member Somnath Chatterjee as the 'biggest traitor of the party'.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 10:00 am JMM proposes fresh name as CM candidate - NDTV.com
Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 9:40 am Wanted for Gujarat riots, minister-in-hiding speaks - IBNLive.com
Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 9:08 am Foreign Secy says ISI responsible for 26/11 - IBNLive.com
Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 9:08 am Kashmir valley receives fresh snowfallSrinagar, Feb 6 : People in Kashmir valley rejoiced fresh snowfall despite disruption in normal life.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 9:02 am Drew Barrymore considers herselfNew Delhi, Feb 6 : Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore believes that all people are" fields of energy", and while it is up to them to be negative or positive, she believes in emitting positive energy and vibes.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 9:01 am ReIndia Expo to be held in Mumbai on March 5Las Vegas, Feb 6 (ANI/Business Wire India): Businesses from around the world will converge at ReIndia Expo at the Bombay Exhibition Center in Mumbai on March 5.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 9:01 am Anil Ambani group forays into movie marketingAfter successfully dabbling in movie production and distribution, the Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) has now forayed into the movie marketing arena through their new division BIG Boom.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 6 Feb 2009 | 9:00 am Jammu Kashmir weather turns colder, snow covers state - IBNLive.com
Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 8:51 am India, Lanka release detained fishermen - Hindustan Times
Source: Google News India - India | 6 Feb 2009 | 8:24 am Pakistan arrests 50 Indian fishermen, seizes boatsKARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have arrested 50 Indian fishermen and impounded nine boats for illegally entering Pakistan's territorial waters, a Pakistani security official said on Friday.Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Feb 2009 | 7:28 am Flintoff, Pietersen sold for sky rocketing pricesStar England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff and his teammate Kevin Pietersen were sold for a whopping $1.5 million each to Chennai Super Kings and Bangalore Royal Challengers, respectively, at the second Indian Premier League (IPL) auction here Friday.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Feb 2009 | 6:01 am PM working more than what we recommend, says his personal physicianPrime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is recuperating after a coronary bypass surgery, has now started working from his home - in fact, working more than what the doctors would recommend, the PM's personal physician said.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Feb 2009 | 5:00 am Gigantic carpet bags him fresh orders from ChinaCall it Jabeer Babu Ansari's magic carpet. Having shot into the limelight by weaving a 160-foot-long carpet for a hotel in China, the Indian manfufacturer is now flooded with fresh orders from that country.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Feb 2009 | 4:30 am It's taken me 25 years to direct a film: Deepa SahiAfter waiting for 25 years, Deepa Sahi is finally set to wield the megaphone for a lighthearted no-holds-barred romantic movie 'Na Na Karte Pyaar'. And the actress has no less than Hema Malini and Nana Patekar as the leads in her directorial debut.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Feb 2009 | 4:30 am Phelps handed three-month ban by USA SwimmingWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Record-setting Olympic champion Michael Phelps has been banned for three months by USA Swimming amid controversy over a photograph published in a British newspaper purportedly showing him smoking marijuana.Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Feb 2009 | 3:56 am By hiring cousin, I'm not starting family empire: BhandarkarDirector Madhur Bhandarkar has hired his cousin Kalpesh as a cinematographer for 'Jail' and says he is giving him a chance in the film only because 'he's talented'.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Feb 2009 | 3:00 am Rekha says yes to small screen, but no to bloggingAgeless actress Rekha, who has often refused to do television in the past and is still against blogging, says the need to connect with fans has finally prompted her to step on to the small screen.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Feb 2009 | 3:00 am UN chief phones Rajapaksa over plight of civilians in war zoneUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday telephoned Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa amid growing international concern over the plight of thousands of civilians trapped in the island's northern war zone.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 6 Feb 2009 | 1:32 am We’ll not spare dating couples on Valentine’s Day: MuthalikBANGALORE: After their recent attack on young women at a Mangalore pub, the Sri Ram Sene has now announced an action plan to target couples found dating on February 14, Valentine’s Day. At a press conference here on Thursday, Sri ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Rosaiah presents ‘poll-oriented’ budgetHYDERABAD: Finance Minister K. Rosaiah presented in the Assembly on Thursday what the Opposition parties described as an ‘election-oriented budget’ for 2009-10 that leaned heavily on welfare while cutting the expenditure on ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Election Commission directs shifting of officersDiscusses poll preparedness with Chief Secretaries and police chiefs of StatesSource: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Sanjay can stay abroad for 2 more weeks: apex courtNew Delhi: The Supreme Court has allowed actor Sanjay Dutt, now on bail, to extend his stay abroad by two weeks, from February 20 till the first week of March, to attend a United Nations function on malnutrition in his capacity as a brand ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Building approval powers devolvedLocal Planning Authorities to give approval to building and layout plansSource: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am No response from Pakistan, asserts IndiaNEW DELHI: India on Thursday reiterated that it had not yet received any response to the dossier given to Pakistan on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. “There is no confusion. Both External Affairs Minister Pranab ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Stimulus-like package by month endNEW DELHI: The positive impact of the two stimulus packages would be seen from June and a third stimulus-like package would most likely be announced by this month end, to help various sectors tide over the impact of the current global slowdown ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Potable water from airJalimudi village in East Godavari district will get 1,000 litres of potable water every day, produced from air. The water station, the first of its kind set up in any village in India, has begun trial runs. “The water… has ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Civilians won’t be harassed, Rajapaksa assures BanCOLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa told United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday that the ongoing “military operations to defeat terrorism in Sri Lanka would be carried out without harassment to the civilian ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Suspected LTTE operative heldHYDERABAD: A man in his late 20s, suspected to be an operative of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was taken into custody late on Thursday night at the Rajiv Gandhi International airport, Shamshabad here. Police sources said ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 6 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Married Punjab woman kills lover by setting him on fireA married woman, who has a two-year-old daughter, Thursday allegedly set on fire her old lover, who later died in a hospital here, the police said.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 Feb 2009 | 6:32 pm NCW member gets notice over Mangalore pub probeThe ministry of women and child development, headed by Renuka Chowdhury, Thursday evening issued a show-cause notice to National Commission for Women (NCW) member Nirmala Venkatesh, who probed the pub attack on women in Mangalore, for her 'unbecoming' action and 'dereliction of duty'.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 Feb 2009 | 6:32 pm Two Indian TV journalists attacked in PakistanTwo Indian journalists were Thursday thrashed by some men in the Pakistani city of Lahore and their camera, tapes and belongings snatched, inviting a sharp reaction from the external affairs ministry here.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 5 Feb 2009 | 6:31 pm India links Pakistan ISI to Mumbai raid plannersNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has for the first time directly accused Pakistan's ISI spy agency of links to the planners of last year's deadly militant attacks on Mumbai.Source: Reuters: Top News | 5 Feb 2009 | 5:44 pm
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