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Fans celebrate Dhoni's 28th birthday by cutting a cakePresident of the Dhoni Fans Club, Jitendra Singh, said "The club has resolved to set up a Cricket Academy to felicitate young talent from the deprived section of the society."Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 2:14 pm Emma Watson won't quit acting for collegeWatson, 19, who plays studious wizard Hermione Granger in the hit Harry Potter franchise, is preparing to move from London to begin her first term at an American university later this year.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 2:10 pm Manmohan hits the ground running - MorungExpress
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 2:07 pm General Motors to acquire Indian operationsBeleaguered General Motors today said it will acquire its strongest operations, including the Indian business, once the company steers itself out of bankruptcy.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 2:07 pm Kissing leads to sex before marriage, warns former prostitute-turned-preacherHowever, sexual health experts warned against such an extreme form of chastity, saying that it may leave young people "more vulnerable to sexual exploitation."Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:59 pm Govt proposes to restructure NIFThe Government will restructure the National Investment Fund (NIF), where money received from disinvestment is parked, according to sources.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:58 pm Cameron Diaz does Madonna-style sexy shoot for magCameron Diaz has done a fierce and sexy Madonna-style photoshoot for the cover of a magazine.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:55 pm ISRO chief to join Planning Commission: MontekPlanning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said Rajya Sabha member Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan will be appointed as a member of the commission.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:52 pm Power cos to borrow Rs 32,094 cr in FY09To give impetus to electricity generation, state-run power firms would borrow Rs 32,093.63 crore from the market during the current financial year (2009-10) to fund their expansion plans.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:49 pm Gartner predicts 6% dip in global IT spends, software to remain flatPrediction less dire than that of Forrester Research, which had said there would be a 10.6% dip for the full year.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:49 pm Need to enhance investment in agri-sector: PawarThe government today said there is a need to enhance investment in the agriculture sector to achieve 4 per cent growth during 11th Five Year Plan.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:46 pm GVK Power & Infra to raise Rs 3,000 cr via QIPGVK Power & Infrastructure today said it would raise Rs 3,000 crore through the issue of shares to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) on private placement basis.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:43 pm Lanka extends state of emergencySri Lanka's parliament extended a state of emergency on Tuesday as the government seeks to eliminate the remnants of the Tamil rebel force some two months after declaring an end to a decades-long civil war.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:38 pm Textile exporters may get more sops in FTP: MaranThe government today indicated that forthcoming Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) may grant some sops for the ailing textile sector especially exporters, who were disappointed over the Budget proposals yesterday.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:38 pm Marriage is not Nicole's ultimate dreamPussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger -- who is dating F1 champ Lewis Hamilton -- insists that getting married is the least of her priorities.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:34 pm Delhi: Soumya case accused attackedA man accused in the murder case of TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan was attacked by one of the co-accused with a blade in a packed courtroom, triggering commotion among litigants.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:33 pm Sandra Bullock's 'evil' sideSandra Bullock has a 'bottomless well of evil' in her, her Proposal co-star Ryan Reynolds jokingly says.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:31 pm Govt may tweak rules on use of stake sale fundsNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India may tweak the rules governing the use of funds obtained from stake sales in state-run firms, a senior official said on Tuesday, as the government explores various means to narrow a bloated fiscal gap.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:30 pm China ethnic unrest: Fresh protests after deadly riotsMobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of the capital of China's Xinjiang region Tuesday.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:24 pm Supreme Court to hear Reliance case on Jul 20MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it will hear a case on a gas supply dispute between Reliance Industries and Reliance Natural Resources on July 20.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:23 pm Governor wishes Basu on b'day eveWest Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi wished Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu good health on the eve of the latter's 96th birthday.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:17 pm Govt awaits Rs1.5 trillion in arrears on tax, other disputesThe arrears outstanding at the end of reporting year 2007-08 pertain to a period of up to ten years or more and also include interests from state governments and PSUs.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:16 pm Govt awaits Rs 1.5 lakh cr in arrears on tax, other disputesDisputes or otherwise, the government is yet to receive over Rs 1 lakh crore in taxes from corporate and other entities and add to it other arrears worth about Rs 47,000 crore, the total outstanding equals more than half of the total revenue deficit this year.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:12 pm MHAA condemns lawyer's actionThe controversy was triggered by Justice Reghupathy's comments in the open court last week that a Union minister had tried to influence him to grant anticipatory bail to the two accused.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 1:00 pm Shiney's bail plea hearing adjournedA local Mumbai court has adjourned the bail plea hearing of Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, who is accused of raping his maid.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:58 pm Airtel-MTN share deal gets go aheadTelecom major Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN have been allowed to go ahead with their proposal to buy each other's shares in a $25bn deal without the latter having to make an open offer in Indian equities markets.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:57 pm Music with a twistLove Aaj Kal kick-starts with a fusion of Punjabi dhol beats and the age-old 'been' sound created by Hemant Kumar in Nagin to make Twist an awesome dance floor track.Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:55 pm Rupee ends stronger against dollarThe rupee pared early gains and ended 10 paise stronger at 48.44/45 against the dollar on Tuesday, moving in tandem with local stocks as the US currency improved against major world counterparts.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:52 pm INTERVIEW - India seeks foreign funds role in roadsNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India wants foreign investors to fund as much as half of the $20 billion a year it has earmarked for road building, Transport Minister Kamal Nath said on Tuesday.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:47 pm Maytas Infra retains Karnataka airport contractsThe Karnataka government has retained Maytas Infra, a company run by the family of former Satyam chairman B. Ramalinga Raju, as the developer for two greenfield airport projects at Gulbarga and Shimoga.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm Court frames extortion charges against Abu SalemA city court Tuesday framed charges of extortion and criminal conspiracy against gangster Abu Salem for allegedly making threatening calls to a Delhi-based businessman and demanding Rs.10 million seven years ago.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm Mumbai faces acute water shortage - BBC News
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm Andhra Pradesh scraps Metro deal with MaytasThe Andhra Pradesh government Tuesday scrapped the Rs.12,230-crore Hyderabad Metro Rail contract awarded to a consortium led by Maytas Infra, the firm owned by the family of disgraced Satyam founder and former chairman B. Ramalinga Raju.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm Gangster beaten to death in Bihar temple townA gangster was beaten to death by a mob that nabbed him while he was trying to flee after killing a Hindu priest in Bihar's temple town of Gaya, police said Tuesday.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm Fate of hundreds of abducted children in Bihar unknownIn a startling admission, the Bihar government said that in the last eight years over 2,000 children had been abducted in the state and the fate of 340 children was still not known.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm A year on, India mourns Kabul mission victimsIndia Tuesday recalled the sacrifices of the 41 people, including two of its diplomats, killed in a suicide bombing outside its embassy in Kabul a year ago and underlined its commitment to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm Global crises threaten progress on MDGsProgress made in earlier years to achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs) in the fields of health, education, sanitation and women empowerment in India and South Asia was endangered by global economic and food crises, the United Nations said Tuesday.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm Dwarfs urge for quota benefitsCan dwarfs be classified as physically handicapped to allow them the benefits of reservation? While the dwarf community in Kerala is demanding job quota benefits, the state government has passed the buck to the central government to decide whether they merit reservation.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm Seven dead after drinking illicit liquor in AhmedabadSeven people died and 18 others were taken seriously ill after they were said to have drunk suspected illicitly brewd liquor at Sagrapitha locality in Ahmedabad Tuesday afternoon, police said.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm Chidambaram for negotiations with Maoist guerrillasChief ministers of states affected by Maoist violence should renew efforts at negotiating with the extremist leaders, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said in the Lok Sabha Tuesday.Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:40 pm FIIs net sell Rs 921cr, DIIs net buy Rs 790crForeign institutional investors (FIIs) were net sellers of Rs 921.39 crore (provisional) today, according to data released by BSE.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:38 pm Rise in NPAs: Bankers for extension in restructuring deadlineConcerned over rising slippages in the industry, bankers today sought an extension of loan restructuring facility and said more measures are needed to push credit demand in the economy.Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:35 pm Premiere of sixth Harry Potter filmThe stars of the sixth Harry Potter film were set to walk up the red carpet in London on Tuesday for the world premiere after one of the actors recovered from a bout of swine flu.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:32 pm Upgrade Varun's security, demands BJP - Times of India
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:13 pm Undertrial escapes from courtAn undertrial escaped from Nampally court premises where he was to be produced in connection with an attempt to murder case, police said.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:11 pm Dehradun encounter: Murder case against cops registered!A case of murder was registered against 6 cops who allegedly tortured and killed an MBA graduate from Ghaziabad in the Raipur police station on Monday night.Source: Zee News : States | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:08 pm Bal Thackeray undergoes angiography!Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray underwent an angiography Tuesday morning and is likely to operated upon, a party insider said.Source: Zee News : States | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:08 pm G8 plus G5 agree to conclude Doha in 2010 - draft(Reuters) - G8 leaders plus Brazil, India, China, Mexico and South Africa will agree at a summit on Thursday to conclude the Doha round of world trade talks successfully in 2010, according to a draft communique seen by Reuters.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 11:58 am Opposition slams Railway Budget in Rajya Sabha - Hindu
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 11:57 am Air India top brass heading for massive trimIn the next 30 days, several old time directors will be asked to leave and a global ad will be put out for a new chief operating officer for Air India.Source: The Times of India | 7 Jul 2009 | 11:55 am Han Chinese protesters seek Muslim Uighur targetsURUMQI, China (Reuters) - Han Chinese armed with iron bars and machetes spilled down side streets and into the stairwell of an apartment building on Tuesday in looking for Muslim Uighur targets two days after bloody ethnic clashes killed 156 and wounded more than 1,000.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 11:39 am ANALYSIS - India budget disappoints but more detail to comeNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's newly re-elected government may have disappointed investors with a deficit-laden budget lacking big pro-market initiatives but it does not mean the government has abandoned intentions towards reforms.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 11:24 am AP based engineer killed in South Africa - Hindu
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 11:03 am Road project on overdrive - Times of India
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 9:53 am INTERVIEW - Pele urges FIFA to bring in salary capABUJA (Reuters) - Pele has urged world soccer's governing body (FIFA) to introduce a salary cap for players and warned that the vast sums of money changing hands in the game could taint its image for future generations.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 9:06 am Australia to enact legislation to address attacks on Indian - Economic Times
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 8:09 am BJD launches rail-roko agitation in Orissa against Railway budget - Business Standard
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 8:04 am India must come back to higher growth - fin minNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India must come back to higher growth path at the earliest, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 8:00 am Huge crowd seen for star-packed Jackson memorialLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Michael Jackson fans will crowd into downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday for a star-packed memorial to the King of Pop whose sudden death nearly two weeks ago shocked the world.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 7:45 am Bal Thackeray undergoes angiography - Hindustan Times
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 7:37 am Karnataka shortchanged, says BSY - Express Buzz
Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jul 2009 | 6:20 am Ex-king "very perturbed" at turn of Nepal eventsKATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra said he was "very perturbed" at the lack of progress in establishing peace and prosperity for the people of the Himalayan nation a year after the end of the monarchy.Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jul 2009 | 4:53 am Sarabjit to appeal for mercy againLAHORE: Sarabjit Singh will file a fresh mercy petition before Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari after the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against the capital punishment. — PTI ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am Federer is the greatest of all time: SamprasMultiple champions Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg shower encomiums on the Swiss starSource: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am Committed to raising disinvestment: ManmohanBudget has been prepared with great skill with the objective of stimulating the economy, says ChidambaramSource: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am Pranab seeks to trade off higher fiscal deficit with growthSops for salaried middle class, farmers and others in rural areasSource: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am Massive rural spending to spur growthClick here for PDF VersionSource: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am 13 injured in clashes, grenade attack in SrinagarSRINAGAR: Thirteen persons, including four policemen, were injured in a grenade attack by militants on a police party and in clashes with security personnel here on Monday, official sources said. Three policemen were among the five ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am “We knew they would never lay down arms and start negotiating”One thing I never did was to underestimate the LTTE: Mahinda Rajapaksa.Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am CJI: no Union Minister spoke to ReghupathiNew Delhi: Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan on Monday made it clear that no Union Minister directly spoke to Justice R. Reghupathi of the Madras High Court according to the report sent by the judge through the Chief Justice of the ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am Fresh plea against Saeed’s releaseISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government will file on Tuesday a fresh plea against the release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohd. Saeed. The petitions, submitted on Saturday , were rejected by office of the Supreme Court registrar this ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am Sensex plunges by 869 pointsMUMBAI: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex on Monday suffered the biggest fall on any budget day and in the year too by plunging over 869 points on concerns over the high fiscal deficit set by the Union budget. The Sensex, which ...Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jul 2009 | 12:00 am
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