RBI files complaint against State Bank of India for depositing 'fake notes'

The Reserve Bank of India has lodged a complaint against an SBI branch here for allegedly depositing fake currency notes with it, police said.
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 3:32 am

Two Railway Protection Force personnel arrested for demanding bribe

Two Railway Protection Force personnel have been arrested by the CBI in Hardoi district for allegedly demanding a bribe.
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 3:22 am

Worry for Indians in Oz not hysteria: Krishna - IBNLive.com


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Worry for Indians in Oz not hysteria: Krishna
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KRISHNA TUTORIALS: Foreign Minister Krishna not impressed with what Indians choose to study in Australia. ibnlive.com is on mobile now. Read news, watch videos be a Citizen Journalist. Log on to m.ibnlive.com NOW! Bangalore: External Affairs Minister ...
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Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jan 2010 | 3:12 am

PM Manmohan Singh offers to arrange doctors for Jyoti Basu's treatment

The PM assured doctors attending Jyoti Basu that arrangements would be made to bring experts from other parts of the country if required
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 3:08 am

18 kids born blind in three months in Bihar district

Patna, Jan 7 (IANS) As many as 18 children were born blind in the last three months in Bihar's Bhojpur district, an eye specialist said Thursday. Local and outside doctors have failed to understand the reason.
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:50 am

Manchester United captain Gary Neville set to quit football

Right-back Neville, 34, has been hit by a series of injuries over the last two years, which have prevented the right back from making regular first-team appearances.
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:46 am

Fish became land walkers 20 million years earlier than previously thought

Dozens of the 395-million-year-old fossil footprints were recently discovered on a former marine tidal flat or lagoon in southeastern Poland.
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:43 am

Govt to look into non-delivery of flats by Maytas Properties

Ruling out any bailout package for Maytas Properties, the government today assured the NRIs of working a solution to non-delivery of flats sold by the firm promoted by kins of disgraced Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju.
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:40 am

Basu remains critical, PM, Pranab visit hospital - Hindustan Times


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Basu remains critical, PM, Pranab visit hospital
Hindustan Times
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday paid a visit to 95-year-old Marxist veteran and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, who is in a critical condition at a hospital in Kolkata following a pneumonia attack. Manmohan Singh reached the ...
Basu still on ventilator, blood pressure fluctuatingEconomic Times
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Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:40 am

Govt to sell stakes in 60 state-run firms: Finance ministry

In November, the Indian cabinet approved a proposal to sell at least 10 percent government holding in state-run firms and use the proceeds for social schemes until March 2012, to cut its fiscal deficit.
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:40 am

Mobile network being improved along Bangla border: BSNL

Rubbishing claims of private mobile service providers that the state-run company was unable to serve the North-East region properly, the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has said that efforts were being made to improve their network along the Bangladesh border.
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:40 am

Natalie Portman dating a co-worker?

Portman reportedly showed off her new boyfriend at a New Year's Eve party in New York City.
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:38 am

Thermax bags order worth Rs 240 cr

Engineering company, Thermax Ltd today said it has bagged an order worth Rs 240 crore from a leading business house for supplying four boilers.
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:37 am

China jails Tibetan film-maker for six years

The film,Leaving Fear Behind features a series of interviews with Tibetans who talk about how they still love their exiled spiritual leader and think the Beijing Olympics did little to improve their lives.
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:36 am

Jimmy Page launches set of stamps featuring classic album covers

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has launched a new set of stamps featuring classic album covers from the last 40 years.
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:36 am

Mann and Hummel Filter to invest Rs 100 cr in India

Auto components maker Mann and Hummel Filter, a subsidiary of German Mann and Hummel Group, today said it will invest Rs 100 crore in its Indian operations in the next 3-5 years.
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:34 am

India to add security features on entry tickets to heritage sites

New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which protects and conserves heritage sites, has roped in the state-run agency that prints currency notes to supply tamper proof entry tickets for various sites.
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:30 am

Centre to decide on new SEZs on Feb 8

The Centre will take up fresh applications for special economic zones (SEZs) on February 8 even as more and more developers are seeking extra time to execute their projects due to slackening demand for commercial space.
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:30 am

Securities and Exchange Board of India clarifies asset cover norms for debt

This was to discourage issuers who were classifying as 'secured' debt instruments where just a fraction of the principal was covered. Secured debt attracts lower coupon rates than unsecured debt.
Source: Daily News & Analysis | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:28 am

Lal Chowk gunbattle ends, two terrorists killed - Hindustan Times


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Lal Chowk gunbattle ends, two terrorists killed
Hindustan Times
In a surgical operation that lasted for more than 22 hours, security forces on Thursday claimed they have killed two Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) militants holed up inside a hotel in Srinagar after they fired at a CRPF picket at commercial hub Lal Chowk on ...
22 hours of terror ends in the ValleyTimes Now.tv
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Fidayeen terror returns to Srinagar after two yearsIndian Express
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Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:28 am

Bangladesh off to a good start

Tamim Iqbal smashed a quickfire half-century to give Bangladesh a flying start after captain Shakib Al Hasan had won the toss and surprisingly elected to bat first against India [
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:27 am

How India can get the best researchers

Images ] said something that India's leading scientists have been saying for long: The time has come to liberate Indian science from red tape and cronyism. Singh's comments came barely a week after...
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:27 am

Court reserves judgment on Rathore's bail plea

A court in Panchkula on Thursday reserved till Friday an order on the anticipatory bail plea filed by disgraced former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore, in connection with the two fresh...
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:27 am

Bangladesh may ink six deals with India

Senior government officials familiar with the talks said Dhaka expected the Memorandums of Understanding to be inked during the premier's upcoming tour, her first official visit to India since coming ...
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:27 am

Indian-American receives excellence award from Obama

Images ] on Thursday for excellence in mentoring. Kenneth Sajwan, professor in the Department of Natural Science and Mathematics at the Savannah State University in Georgia, was the only Indian Americ...
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:27 am

How China views India's new defence doctrine

China experts feel Indian defence strategy treats China, not Pakistan, as priority target, which they also believe provides for a partial border war, writes D S Rajan.
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:27 am

Rising clout of Dawood and Ilyas is a worry for India

Images ] and Ilyas Kashmiri are perhaps the biggest threats to world peace today. Even as the United States called upon Pakistan to keep a tab on the activities of the duo in the country, India [
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:27 am

SAIL may cut steel prices soon

The only hurdle that remains for the markets is the recent highs, which have forced them to consolidate for the last three months. The charts suggest that once these resistances are broken then the pr...
Source: India News latest RSS headlines - India's News.Net | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:25 am

Overnight gunbattle ends in Kashmir, four dead

SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Soldiers shot dead two separatist militants holed up in a hotel in Kashmir on Thursday after an almost two-day gunbattle that forced a mass rescue operation of residents, police said.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:24 am

Toyota launches hybrid car Prius

Toyota-Kirloskar Motor today launched its hybrid car Prius in India priced between Rs 26.55 lakh and Rs 27.86 lakh (ex-showroom New Delhi).
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:22 am

Basu remains critical, PM, Pranab visit hospital

The condition of 95-year-old marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu, who is suffering from acute pneumonia, today continued to be critical and he is being given ventilatory support, doctors attending on him said.
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:11 am

Ashok Leyland unveils bus with wireless connectivity

Commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland today showcased a bus with wireless connectivity --iBUS2 -- useful for disaster management, mobile education and medical emergency response targeted at the government and the defence sectors.
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:11 am

India Infoline assigned top grading by Crisil

Financial services provider, India Infoline has been assigned highest broker grading by leading rating agency Crisil.
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:07 am

HSCI's Rajasthan plant may start prodn in 2012

The company, last year, had partially opened the facility at Tapukara in Rajasthan to produce few components and indefinitely put on hold manufacturing of vehicles due to slowdown in the domestic market.
Source: Business Standard | News Now | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:02 am

INTERVIEW - Govt to sell stakes in 60 state-run firms - official

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The finance ministry is in talks with other ministries for selling stakes in around 60 state-run firms in coming years, including miner Hindustan Copper Ltd., a senior official told Reuters on Thursday.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jan 2010 | 2:00 am

Maruti Suzuki to sell new van at 259,000 rupees

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Maruti Suzuki, the country's top carmaker, said on Thursday it had priced newly launched five-seater multipurpose car Eeco at 259,000 rupees ($5,640), as competition for low-cost vehicles heats up.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jan 2010 | 1:51 am

Nepal envoy to discuss Neetu Singh case with MEA - Times of India


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Nepal envoy to discuss Neetu Singh case with MEA
Times of India
KATHMANDU: More than a month after Film and Television Training Institute student Neetu Singh was unceremoniously deported to Nepal by Pune police, the incident has begun to generate official heat in Nepal with Nepal's ambassador to India Rukma ...
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Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jan 2010 | 1:47 am

Bangla, India to sign six deals during Hasina's visit - Business Standard


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Bangla, India to sign six deals during Hasina's visit
Business Standard
India and Bangladesh are expected to sign at least six deals during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to New Delhi from January 10, including on cooperation on cross-border terrorism and exchange of convicted criminals, officials said here today. ...
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Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jan 2010 | 1:39 am

Food inflation eases, fuel prices rise

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The food price inflation eased slightly in late December, but analysts said a rise in fuel prices may elevate headline inflation, maintaining pressure on the central bank to tighten monetary policy.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jan 2010 | 1:37 am

Just A Minute With: Priyanka Chopra

MUMBAI (Reuters) -- She is the girl with the golden touch. In the past few years, Priyanka Chopra has cemented her place as one of the most bankable heroines in Bollywood.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 7 Jan 2010 | 1:29 am

Things to know about Google's Nexus One phone

8 Things to know about Google phone
Source: The Times of India | 7 Jan 2010 | 1:25 am

Ruchika molestation case: Rathore launches smear campaign

A Panchkula court has adjourned SPS Rathore's bail hearing in the Ruchika Girhotra case till Friday. Rathore's lawyer alleged that the Girhotras are corrupt and media has been used to harass the petitioner.
Source: The Times of India | 7 Jan 2010 | 1:18 am

Shibu Soren to take vote of confidence in Assembly today - Economic Times


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Shibu Soren to take vote of confidence in Assembly today
Economic Times
RANCHI: Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren will seek a vote of confidence in the Assembly on Thursday. The JMM chief heads a coalition government that includes the NDA and other small parties and claims to have the support of 46 MLAs. ...
Fissure in BJP over Soren's court summonsTimes of India
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CM Soren feels trustworthyCalcutta Telegraph
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Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jan 2010 | 1:01 am

Richard Gere leads candlelight march in Bodh Gaya - Daily News & Analysis


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Richard Gere leads candlelight march in Bodh Gaya
Daily News & Analysis
Bodh Gaya (Bihar): Hollywood actor Richard Gere on Wednesday led a candlelight march in Bodh Gaya, during a five-day teaching session by the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Gere, a close follower of the Dalai Lama and chairman of the ...
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Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:53 am

Notice to Centre, CBI & Rathore on PIL seeking fresh probe - Hindustan Times


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Notice to Centre, CBI & Rathore on PIL seeking fresh probe
Hindustan Times
Additional District and Sessions judge Sanjeev Jindal today reserved his decision on former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore's anticipatory bail plea on two fresh first information reports (FIRS), which were registered on Dec 29. ...
Panchkula court reserves order on Rathore's bail pleaPress Trust of India
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Source: Nation - Google News | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:28 am

Wealth case: Jayalalithaa moves Karnataka High Court

BANGALORE: Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary, Jayalalithaa, has petitioned the Karnataka High Court urging it to quash the proceedings initiated by the Special Court hearing the ...
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

Effluents floating in River Noyyal

Tirupur: Despite the ban on discharge of industrial effluents into River Noyyal imposed by the Supreme Court, which came into force on Tuesday (January 6), large quantities of coloured effluents were seen passing along its stretch in the city ...
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

Police are clueless about cyber crime: Guruprasad

307 cases registered in State, not one conviction yet
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

India looking to re-energise links with Zambia, says Hamid Ansari

LUSAKA: Acknowledging that it cannot afford to rest on the goodwill earned because of the support extended to the decolonisation of Southern Africa, particularly Zambia, India this week embarked on a fresh attempt to re-energise its linkages ...
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

Rape accused surrenders

PANAJI: After absconding for one month, Goa politician John Fernandes accused of raping a Russian girl, surrendered to the police on Wednesday, two days after the Supreme Court refused to restore his anticipatory ...
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

Bus strike: government told to act

High Court says bus operators cannot be allowed to hold the public to ransom
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

Jyoti Basu’s condition critical

KOLKATA: The condition of veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu turned critical early on Wednesday morning and he was put on ventilator support. It showed “some positive changes” later in the day. According to a medical bulletin ...
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

Pakistan Mission withdraws invitation to separatists

NEW DELHI: The Pakistan High Commission on Wednesday withdrew the invitation it extended to Jammu and Kashmir separatist leaders for a dinner in honour of a visiting delegation. The Pakistan Mission had invited government functionaries ...
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

Amar Singh quits all party posts

NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Wednesday resigned from all the posts he held in the party but retained his primary membership. Citing health reasons, he quit as party general secretary, as national spokesman and from the ...
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

Most attacks opportunistic: Australian envoy

‘We are doing our best to stop them’
Source: The Hindu - Front Page | 7 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

2 terrorists killed as 22-hour Srinagar gunbattle ends

Security forces on Thursday stormed the hotel in the heart of Srinagar killing two LeT terrorists, including a Pakistani, in the 22-hour operation that has left a policeman and a civilian dead.
Source: The Times of India | 6 Jan 2010 | 11:52 pm

Nithari killing: SC stays Surinder Koli's death sentence

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the death sentence of Surinder Koli, convicted in February last year for raping and killing 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar in Nithari in Noida near the national capital.
Source: The Times of India | 6 Jan 2010 | 11:48 pm

Is infidelity in?

Is infidelity in?
Source: The Times of India | 6 Jan 2010 | 11:28 pm

Katrina tops Most Desirable Women list!

It was the toughest cat-fight ever. No clawing over men, movies or more moolah, yet, this was the most sexed-up 'war-of-the-beauty-brigade' ever witnessed.
Source: The Times of India | 6 Jan 2010 | 10:50 pm

46% drop in Indian students' applications: Australia

Hit by the the international student attack crisis, Australia has experienced a huge decline by 46% of Indians applying for student visas in the country last year, country's immigration department has said.
Source: The Times of India | 6 Jan 2010 | 10:43 pm

India seen rising as key small-car production base

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - As global automakers boost their presence in the thriving Indian market, they will turn the country into a stage for novel experiments in lowering production costs to levels not seen before.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Jan 2010 | 10:35 pm

Auto Expo: A BMW smaller than Nano

At this vintage car pavilion at the Auto Expo, a trip down memory lane can be as exciting as gawking at the new models the car majors are planning to launch.
Source: The Times of India | 6 Jan 2010 | 10:07 pm

Sonam Kapoor plays Cavalli's muse

Sonam plays Cavalli's muse
Source: The Times of India | 6 Jan 2010 | 9:55 pm

TV makers bet big on 3D but payoff uncertain

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Television manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets capable of adding that extra visual dimension expected to hit U.S. store shelves in force by the middle of 2010.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Jan 2010 | 9:35 pm

Polanski asks LA judge to sentence him in absentia

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fugitive film director Roman Polanski asked a Los Angeles judge on Wednesday to sentence him in his absence on a 1977 charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Jan 2010 | 9:07 pm

Wireless industry in flux as Google steps in

SAN FRANCISCO/LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The smoke has finally cleared on Google Inc's highly anticipated Nexus One smartphone, but the ramifications of the Internet company's new role as a mobile phone vendor are still hazy.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Jan 2010 | 8:29 pm

Obama presses security overhaul, Nigerian indicted

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is "not patient" and is demanding immediate changes in airline security, the top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday, as a grand jury indicted a Nigerian man for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day.

Source: Reuters: Top News | 6 Jan 2010 | 7:43 pm

Congress just loving it, ridicules Amar - Economic Times


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Congress just loving it, ridicules Amar
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's recent praises for Ms Sonia Gandhi appear to have fallen on deaf ears in the Congress. It had nothing more than ridicule to offer to Mr Singh on a day when the SP leader stepped down from all party posts ...
Party old guard had marginalized AmarTimes of India
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Amar's detractors happy over resignationHindustan Times
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Source: Nation - Google News | 6 Jan 2010 | 4:02 pm

Aman ki Asha: People-to-people initiatives on track

There may be little measure of people-to-people initiatives, but many of the confidence-building measures were first mooted by civil society. A number of CBMs initially discussed in Track II diplomacy forums have slowly become part of Track I moves.
Source: The Times of India | 6 Jan 2010 | 1:54 pm

India rejects World Bank aid for tiger conservation - The Hindu


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India rejects World Bank aid for tiger conservation
The Hindu
NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on Wednesday decided not to accept the World Bank's aid for the tiger conservation programme. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, chaired by Minister ...
Crisis meet as 2 tigers die in 6 days of 2010Asian Age
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Source: Nation - Google News | 6 Jan 2010 | 12:48 pm