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Jade Goody to spend wedding night aloneJade Goody is heartbroken after a prison governor refused to waive her groom's curfew so they could spend their wedding night together.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 2:06 pm 'Leaked' Oscar winners list is 'complete fraud', says repA leaked document purportedly listing the 'winners' of this weekend's Academy Awards is nothing more than a hoax.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 2:02 pm Maha Govt seeks MPT help for infra to develop water transportThe Maharashtra Government has sought Mumbai Port Trust's help for providing infrastructure like jetties and terminals for development of water transport.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 2:01 pm Dollar facility agreement of HOEC failsThe dollar facility agreement (DFA) of Hindustan Oil Exploration Company (HOEC), which it had signed for availing dollar denominated term loans, has failed and the company is making alternate arrangements for required funds.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:59 pm IDBI Bank plans to add 200 more branches in 9 monthsThe state owned IDBI Bank plans to add 200 more branches across the country over next 6 to 9 months. This will take the total branches of the bank in the country to more than 700 by November 2008 from 507 at present.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:58 pm Bharti Airtel hikes stake in Bharti Hexacom to 70%GSM service provider Bharti Airtel has hiked its stake in Bharti Hexacom, the operator of GSM services in Rajasthan, to 70 per cent by acquiring 1.11 per cent from a Kuwaiti firm. However, the financial details of the acquisitions were not disclosed.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:56 pm Pattan to host Twenty20 cricket tournamentEight teams including one army side and six civilian squads will participate in a week-long T20 cricket tournament to be held at Pattan from February 23.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:56 pm Karnataka's fiscal deficit soars on revenue shortfallKarnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has presented his third deficit budget (for 2009-10), albeit a small one of Rs 85.9 crore, after three surplus budgets presented by himself, S M Krishna and Siddaramaiah.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:54 pm Prince Charles and Camilla steam upWhen it comes to getting steamed up with his better half Camilla, it seems that age is abound for Britain's Prince Charles.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:54 pm CORRECTED - U.N. climate panel chief sees "strong deal" aheadNEW DELHI (Reuters) - A deal placing a strict emissions regime on rich nations is likely in Copenhagen despite pressures to dilute the climate fight in times of a global financial slowdown, the U.N. climate panel chief said.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:48 pm DoT suffers Rs 2,500 cr loss due to pvt operatorsThe violation of the terms and conditions of the telecom licenses held by private mobile operators may have caused the government exchequer a loss of Rs 2,500 crore says Ramesh Dube, a Lok Sabha MP who has shot off a letter to the Prime Minister in this regard. Dube is also a member of the Standing Committee on Information Technology.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:47 pm Pak will not be rusty against Lanka, says YounisPakistan might not have played Test cricket for over a year, but skipper Younis Khan has brushed aside concerns about their ability to do well.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:47 pm SC notice to Ramadoss on closure of vaccine producing PSUsThe closed PSUs -- Central Research Institute, Kasauli, Pasteur Institute of India, and BCG Vaccines Lab were manufacturing several vaccinesSource: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:46 pm Lobbyist's lawsuit against New York Times settledA lobbyist's lawsuit against The New York Times over the newspaper's account of her ties to Senator John McCain has been settled, the paper said on Friday.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:44 pm Waugh supports Ponting's IPL 2009 opt outSteve Waugh has backed Ricky Ponting's decision to pull out of the IPL 2009, describing it as "a smart move and a good decision".Source: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:43 pm Bajaj Auto aims to double pro biking outlets by 2011The second largest two wheeler major in the country by sales, Bajaj Auto, plans to double the number of its Bajaj Probiking showrooms which currently number at 21 to 42 outlets in the next two years.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:41 pm Satyam suitors to get basic financial information: KarnikSatyam Computer on Friday, said they will get preliminary financial information from the company to take a call on bidding for a strategic stake.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:41 pm Electrical equipment production falls 1.76%Production of electrical equipments - cables, switchgears, transformers and other power conductor equipment -- contracted in the October-December quarter mainly due to inventory pile-up, credit squeeze and uncertainity over future demand in a recessionary business environment.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:38 pm "Slumdog" is no cliche, says author Vikas SwarupPRETORIA (Reuters) - There's an irony behind complaints that Oscar contender "Slumdog Millionaire" recycles cliches about impoverished India: it's based on a book by not only an Indian, but a high-level ambassador for the country.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:37 pm Icfai to invest Rs 150 crore in Orissa university projectHyderabad-based Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (Icfai) would invest Rs 150 crore in setting up a university in Orissa. The university would have strength of about 1,500 students and offer courses in various disciplines like engineering, management, law, science and humanities.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:34 pm Steps to revive 1,262 sick units in MSME sectorThe government today said that 1,262 sick micro and small enterprises are being revived.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:31 pm Parliament passes Interim Rail Budget - Hindu
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:29 pm Rupee falls by 11 paise to 49.72/74 a dollarDecline in stock markets weighed against the Indian rupee which lost 11 paise to close within the vicinity of 50-mark at 49.72/74 today.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:28 pm Nice bag, but don't keep it on table: Speaker to woman MP - Hindu
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:28 pm Martin Luther King III may visit India again - Business Standard
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:12 pm Kerala nun alleges sexual harassment in convents - Times of India
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:06 pm Dutt’s like a good boy! - Times of India
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:04 pm Naidu trains guns on YSR's son - NDTV.com
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:55 pm British reality TV star is dying in the spotlightLONDON (Reuters) - Jade Goody, a young British woman who won fame on a reality television show, is playing out her final days in the glare of a celebrity-obsessed nation before she dies of cancer.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:53 pm CPI(M) fires salvo at Cong. over judge impeachment issue - Hindu
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:48 pm Four Manipuri militants arrested by BSF!Four Manipuri militants, including two female cadres were arrested by BSF along the Indo-Bangla border last night.Source: Zee News : States | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:31 pm Govt to decide soon on lifting ban on wheat products export!Faced with the problem of surplus wheat stocks, the Government will in the next 10 days decide on lifting ban on export of wheat products and increasing stock limits.Source: Zee News : States | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:31 pm `Kashmir not on my plate`!US special envoy Richard Holbrooke has confirmed that Kashmir is not part of his mission, but hoped India and Pakistan would find common cause to reduce the threat of terrorism by taking it on head on.Source: Zee News : India National | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:29 pm Former Prime Minister Vajpayee`s health improving gradually: AIIMS !Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who is being treated for chest infection at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here, is showing signs of "gradual improvement", doctors at AIIMS said here Friday.Source: Zee News : India National | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:29 pm Fmr union minister Sukhram convicted in DA case !Former Union Communications Minister Sukhram was on Friday convicted by a Delhi Court for amassing Rs 4.25 crore of disproportionate assets that included seizure of Rs 2.45 crore from his residence here.Source: Zee News : India National | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:29 pm Taliban have to be confronted and defeated: India !India on Thursday underlined the danger posed by the Taliban to the region and the world and stressed on the need for confronting and defeating the hardline militia, which "propagates the cult of violence".Source: Zee News : India National | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:29 pm UNSC reforms: India presses for `actual negotiations`!India has asked the General Assembly for discussions to be held in an interactive format, as representatives of the world body met here to launch parleys on reforms.Source: Zee News : India National | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:29 pm 26/11 masterminds had 320 targets on their hit list!Pakistan based banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, which plotted and executed the Mumbai carnage, had placed India`s financial hub among 320 potential targets around the world to carry out commando-style terror attacks.Source: Zee News : India National | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:29 pm India tops list of countries with most endangered languages: UNESCO!Of the 6,900 languages spoken in the world including those spoken in India, some 2,500 are endangered, the UN`s cultural agency UNESCO said on Thursday as it released its latest atlas of world languages.Source: Zee News : India National | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:29 pm Brahmos field test fire postponed!The field test fire of supersonic Brahmos cruise missile has been postponed.Source: Zee News : India National | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:29 pm Sukhram's conviction an issue against Congress: BJP - NDTV.com
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:11 pm Kasab moved to Arthur Road jail, given high security - IBNLive.com
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:51 am Advani kickstarts poll campaign from Gandhinagar] on Friday kickstarted the poll campaign from his Gandhinagar constituency, from where he has won four times. "You have assessed it right. I am kickstarting my election campaign from today from my Ga...Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:50 am New York Post apologises forapologised on Friday over its controversial political cartoon, depicting the drafter of the US economic stimulus package as a chimpanzee, which many believe was a caricature of President Barack ObamaSource: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:50 am LeT plans terror strikes across the world] , which is planning to unleash a global wave of terror. Investigations into the November attack, conducted by he Mumbai police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Intelligence Bureau, hav...Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:50 am Mulayam refutes alliance with BJP] said on Friday that his party was against BJP and there was not even a remote chance of an alliance."There is no question of an alliance between SP and BJP. We even did not want to see the BJP...SP...Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:50 am ABB India Revenue up by 16.1 per centBangalore, Feb 20 : ABB India, a leader in power and automation technologies, has registered a 16.1 per cent growth with revenue earned at Rupees 6967.5 crore for the year 2008 against Rupees 6001.4 c...Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:48 am India hits out at protectionist tendency of USIndia today opposed protectionist measures built into the US government's multi-billion corporate bailout package, saying these were "worrying signs" from the world's biggest economy.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:48 am Prime Electronics lands additional STB orders from India firm, says paperTaiwan-based STB (set-top box) maker Prime Electronics & Satellitics (PESI) has landed a follow-up large-volume order for its STBs from one of its clients in India with shipments to be fulfilled d...Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:38 am 58 MPs seek removal of Calcutta HC judgeNEW DELHI: 58 members of Rajya Sabha, cutting across party lines, on Friday petitioned the house chairman for impeachment of Calcutta High Court Judge Soumitra Sen on grounds of financial misconduc...Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:34 am Govt rules out compensation for victims of Satyam fraudNEW DELHI: The government has ruled out compensation for investors or companies hit by the Satyam financial fraud, estimated to be of the order of Rs 7,800 crore. "The government has no plan to ...Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:32 am Malaysian-Indian leader receives bullets with death threatKUALA LUMPUR: A prominent ethnic Indian lawmaker in Malaysia has claimed to have received an envelope containing two live bullets, accompanied by a death threat, warning him against showing disresp...Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:32 am Kerala Budget promises "anti slowdown" packages - Economic Times
Source: Google News India - India | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:17 am India to fight protectionism, wants Doha deadlineNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is worried at growing signs of protectionism in the United States and will oppose such moves, and wants to close global trade talks by December, top officials said on Friday.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 11:12 am Govt mulling foreign carriers to buy stakesMUMBAI (Reuters) - The government is studying a proposal to allow foreign carriers to buy stakes in domestic airlines, the civil aviation minister said on Friday, to help companies facing a cash crunch.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 9:53 am India must stimulate demand and credit, protect jobsNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday that workers may have to accept pay cuts if necessary to protect their jobs as senior officials called for more action to support the economy during the global downturn.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 9:11 am India gold buyers put off by firm pricesMUMBAI (Reuters) - Gold buyers in India stayed on the sidelines on Friday as prices firmed above 15,500 rupees in the middle of the wedding season, with scrap meeting most of the little demand, traders said.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 8:58 am Lockheed eyes share of India defence upgradeNEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S.-based Lockheed Martin Corp, one of the world's largest defence companies, says it is aiming for deals with India worth $15 billion in the next five years.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 7:51 am Bhanu Athaiya - India's first Oscar winner walks down memory laneTwenty-seven years ago, she made history when she became the first Indian to win an Oscar. Now, as two other Indians are again within kissing distance of that prized statuette, Bhanu Athaiya walks down nostalgia lane to remember that 1982 day when she won the Oscar for best costume design for 'Gandhi'.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Feb 2009 | 7:31 am L&T says studying Satyam decisionMUMBAI (Reuters) - Larsen & Toubro, the largest shareholder in Satyam Computer Services, said it will review a decision to allow the fraud-hit outsourcer to increase shares on issue and sell a stake before making its next move.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 6:07 am My relationship with Shah Rukh too deep to need formalities: Viveck VaswaniBollywood producer Viveck Vaswani didn't visit Shah Rukh Khan in the hospital though it was an accident on the sets of his 'Dulha Mil Gaya' after which the star's shoulder condition necessitated a surgery. Vaswani says their friendship is too deep to need such formalities.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Feb 2009 | 6:02 am Lawyers torch police station in ChennaiCHENNAI, India (Reuters) - Lawyers set fire to a police station in Chennai and 20 police were injured in clashes on Thursday after the arrest of legal counsel sympathetic to Sri Lankan rebels, police said.Source: Reuters: Top News | 20 Feb 2009 | 5:51 am Women on Sadiya's framesFine art photographer Sadiya Kocher is an unconventional photographer, whose strong women- oriented subjects will be on display Feb 26 at the Polka Art Gallery in the capital under the heads 'Symbols... forms and stereotypes'.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Feb 2009 | 5:00 am They've started calling Indians 'slumdogs': Composer Aadesh SrivastavaBollywood composer Aadesh Srivastava says he is embarrassed to walk on the streets of the US after Oscar-nominated 'Slumdog Millionaire' because 'they have started calling Indians slumdogs'.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Feb 2009 | 3:00 am Abhishek Bachchan brings women on knees in DelhiThe carpet was set, the barricades grounded, and the security tight. But nothing deterred girls to hoot with the highest tempo to shake hands, express their love and catch a glimpse of their bodyguard-clouded-star Abhishek Bachchan at the red-carpet premiere of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's 'Delhi-6' releasing Friday.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:32 am Congress reshuffles team before parliamentary pollsIn a major reshuffle in the key committee of the ruling Congress party Thursday night ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, senior leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was recalled as party general secretary.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 20 Feb 2009 | 1:32 am Unprecedented violence has taken place: KarunanidhiCHENNAI: “Unprecedented violence has taken place,” said Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in a letter to Acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court S.J. Mukhopadhaya on Thursday. Mr. Karunanidhi said that he had sent Chief ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am 16 die as van rams tree near Bellary cityFive hurt; the passengers were on their way to a marriageSource: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Guilty will be punished: PranabNew Delhi: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said investigation would be conducted into the Satyam scam and the guilty punished. — ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am No wrongdoer will get away with it: Pranab“CM has assured me there is no interference in Satyam probe”Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Reliance to begin gas production by mid-MarchGADIMOGA (E. Godavari District): All is set for commencement of natural gas production from the KG-D6 block of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), India’s biggest offshore gas reserve located in the Krishna Godavari basin, by ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Jayalalithaa asks Congress to snap ties with DMKCHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Thursday “advised” the Congress to snap its ties with the DMK, saying that the political parties aligning with the DMK would also be defeated by the people of Tamil Nadu in the Lok ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Supreme Court hurt at unruly behaviourNew Delhi: Incidents of hooliganism involving lawyers, like the recent attack on Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy in the Madras High Court, has angered the Supreme Court which on Thursday appeared searching for answers to protect courts ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Pranab: more steps to boost economyRules out going slow on trade talksSource: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am Lawyers, police fight pitched battles in Madras High CourtPolice station set ablaze, vehicles smashed, many lawyers and policemen injuredSource: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am “Media can help in preventing conflict”CHENNAI: The media can be as much a force in preventing conflicts as in promoting conflicts, said N.Ravi, Editor, The Hindu . Inaugurating a two-day national seminar on “Media and the public sphere for a culture ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 20 Feb 2009 | 12:00 am UN wants $155 million for Sri Lanka's war-hit regionsThe United Nations Thursday appealed to its donors worldwide for a $155 million aid to help people in Sri Lanka's embattled northern and eastern provinces.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 19 Feb 2009 | 6:32 pm India seeks Taliban defeat, asks Pakistan for 'sincere' probeIndia Thursday called for 'confronting and defeating' the Taliban that poses a threat to the region and the world, and asked Pakistan to conduct a 'sincere probe' into the Mumbai attacks to bring the perpetrators of the carnage to justice.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 19 Feb 2009 | 6:31 pm HAL to deliver 350 combat jets, choppers by 2012state-owned aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has sharply ramped up its manufacturing capacities and is set to deliver 350 combat jets, trainers and helicopters worth Rs.500 billion ($10 billion) to the Indian armed forces by 2012, its chairman Ashok Baweja said here Thursday.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 19 Feb 2009 | 6:31 pm US delays payment to Pakistan for fighting TalibanThe US has not paid Pakistan a penny for the last nine months for rendering its military services to fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the restive tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, a Pakistani official said Thursday.Source: India eNews: Top Headlines | 19 Feb 2009 | 6:31 pm
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