| HINDRAF's divorce from Pakatan Rakyat likely to divide Malaysian Indian votes The parting of ways between the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) and Pakatan Rakyat, the allies of the 2008 general election, is set to divide the Malaysian Indian community's votes in the next general... | |
| India And Russia Ink Pacts In Defence And Strategic Spheres NEW DELHI: India and Russia on Friday sealed agreements in the defence and strategic spheres, besides taking steps to extend their partnership in new areas such as energy and fertilizers. In all,... |
| Iim-c Sees 20 Per Cent Rise In Average Offers At Placements Kolkata: Shaking off last year's pessimism with global recession painting a comparatively gloomy picture during the placement season, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) claimed to... |
| 2g: Supreme Court Will Not Interfere With Adverse Findings New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere with the Delhi High Court's adverse findings against the Telecommunication Ministry's decision to fix the September 25, 2007 cut-off date... |
| 45 Killed In Lahore Suicide Attacks Lahore: Taliban terrorists on Friday struck in this eastern Pakistani city with two near-simultaneous suicide attacks targeting the Army in the cantonment area, killing 45 people, including 10... |
| Knight Riders Begins Well — PHOTO: PTI GOOD START:Kolkata Knight Riders' Angelo Mathews was in scintillating form against Deccan Chargers in the first match in Mumbai on... |
| Ipl Iii Kicks Off With Grand Opening Ceremony Mumbai: The third edition of the Indian Premier League returned to its home environs after a one-year gap with an eye-catching opening ceremony at the D.Y. Patil Stadium here on Friday. The... |
| Nuclear Cooperation Will Cover All Areas: Putin NEW DELHI: India-Russia cooperation in civil nuclear energy will be wide ranging and cover areas such as nuclear waste and safety of reactors as well, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said,... |
| Pakistan For New Measures To Energise Indus Treaty NEW DELHI: Affirming its commitment to the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), Pakistan has sought measures to make the mechanism more effective by outlining its concerns, as well as proposing measures that... |
| One-line Question; 8,000-page Reply Bhopal: It was quite literally a bundle of a reply that left its recipient flummoxed. Choudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi, Deputy Leader of the Congress Legislature Party in Madhya Pradesh, received a... |
| Left To Launch ‘jail Bharo' On April 8 — Photo: Shanker Chakravarty CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat, CPI leaders A.B. Bardhan and Amarjeet Kaur at the Left parties' protest rally against price hike in New Delhi on... |
| Fact-finding Committee Indicts Amu For “illegal Actions” NEW DELHI: An independent fact-finding committee probing the events surrounding the recent suspension of a homosexual professor at Aligarh Muslim University has indicted the university administration... |
| Pakistan Navy Test Fires Missiles In Arabian Sea Manoeuvres — Photo: AFP In this handout picture released by the Pakistan Navy, a target ship is hit by a missile during a naval firepower test conducted by the Pakistan Navy in the north Arabian Sea... |
| 7-year-old Hero Saves His Family Washington DC: 911 Emergency Service operators are used to getting calls from terrified people. But when operator Monique Patino in Norwalk, California, received a call from a panic-stricken... |
| ‘another Proof Of Our Empowering Aam Aadmi' NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said the Women's Reservation Bill was part of the party's abiding commitment to empower the aam aadmi. Addressing Pradesh Congress Committee... |
| Bjp Hits Out At Centre's Service Tax Policy NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party on Friday attacked the government for its budget proposals, which it said would fuel inflation in food articles, health, education and housing and make the life... |
| Bill ‘slips' Through Assembly Bangalore: Two Bills to set up two private universities in the State were passed in the Legislative Assembly on Friday amid protests. While the proposal to set up Azim Premji University has been in... |
| Cpi To Contest Rajya Sabha Seats THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The fortnight-long discussion within the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) on sharing Rajya Sabha seats has ended with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) applying the... |
| Illicit Liquor Claims Man's Life? Bangalore: A 40-year-old lorry driver from Bande Bommasandra in Hoskote taluk, believed to be suffering from prolonged illness, died in a private hospital here on Thursday. His relatives and friends... |
| No Reason For Modi To Quit: Gujarat Minister GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government on Friday rejected the Congress demand for the resignation of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in the wake of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team... |
| Panel To Work Out Modalities Of Probe Against Dinakaran New Delhi: The three-member committee constituted by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari will hold its first meeting here on Sunday to begin the probe into the allegations of land-grab, encroachment... |
| Obulapuram Mines: Apex Court Asks Centre To Move Hc Bench New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to challenge before a Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court a single judge's interim order suspending operation of the Environment... |
| Restrictions On Treasury Withdrawals Thiruvananthapuram: The Finance Department has imposed curbs on the withdrawal of funds from treasuries during the end of the financial year coming to a close on March 31. The curbs have been... |
| Court Strikes Down Gender Discrimination In Army And Air Force NEW DELHI: Ruling that not granting permanent commission to Short Service Commissioned women officers in the Air Force and the Army amounts to gender discrimination, the Delhi High Court on Friday... |
| Joshi Likely To Head Pac NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi is expected to be the new chairman of the prestigious Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at the end of the short tenure of Gopinath Munde,... |
| Vedanta Flouted Forest Conservation Norms, Says Report NEW DELHI: Vedanta Aluminium has violated forest conservation guidelines and failed to follow the Forest Rights Act in letter and in spirit at a proposed bauxite mine project in the Niyamgiri Hills... |
| No Progress In Kaiga Probe, Says Police Karwar: The investigation into the incident of mixing of tritium with water at the Kaiga Atomic Power Station here has not come to any conclusion as the matter involved technical issues. The police... |
| Two Top Maoists Killed ONGOLE/WARANGAL: Continuing the onslaught on the Maoist movement in Andhra Pradesh, police managed to ‘neutralise' two top ranking naxalite leaders in separate gun battles in Prakasam and... |
| Kochi Put On High Alert KOCHI: Kochi has been put on high alert following an instruction from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. Sources in the city police said the communication, given over phone, asked to activate the... |
| Convoy Vehicles Of Naidu Smashed In Mishap KURNOOL: Four vehicles in the convoy of TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu were smashed due to a freak accident in Mahabubnagar district on Friday. However, the vehicle carrying the VIP was not... |
| “kaziranga Short-staffed To Protect Rhinos” Guwahati: Assam Forest and Environment Minister Rockybul Hussain on Friday informed the Assembly that the present strength of frontline staff of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) was not sufficient... |
| India And Russia Identify New Areas For Partnership — Photo: V.V. Krishnan Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, exchanging notes after the conclusion of delegation-level talks in New Delhi on... |
| 45 Killed, 100 Injured In Lahore Suicide Bombings Lahore: Fortyfive people, including 10 soldiers, were killed in a twin suicide attack carried out by the Taliban in the heavily-guarded cantonment area here on Friday. The blasts which came seconds... |
| Pranab Rules Out Roll-back Of Petrol Prices NEW DELHI: Stoutly defending the economic rationale of his budget proposals for 2010-11, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday ruled out a roll-back of the hike in excise duties and prices of... |
| Assembly To Return To Estate After 53 Years CHENNAI: The inauguration of the Rs.450-crore Legislative Assembly-Secretariat Complex by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday will mark the return of the Assembly complex to the Omandurar... |
| Supreme Court Won't Interfere With Adverse Findings On 2g Cut-off Date New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere with the Delhi High Court's adverse findings against the Telecommunication Ministry's decision to fix the September 25, 2007 cut-off date... |
| Twice As Clean As Male Mps NEW DELHI: Out of 59 women MPs in the current Lok Sabha, 10 per cent or 17 per cent have pending criminal cases against them. Forty of them, accounting for 68 per cent, are also crorepatis. These... |
| Nuclear Liability Bill To Be Introduced On Monday NEW DELHI: The government intends to introduce in the Lok Sabha on Monday the Nuclear Liability Bill to cap liability in the event of a nuclear accident. Although India is not yet a signatory to the... |
| First Assembly Building To Go Green CHENNAI: The new Assembly building has become the first Assembly building in the world to be designed and constructed as a green building, the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has certified. The... |
| Disappointing Finish For India New Delhi: There was precious little to portray anything in eloquent terms as India suffered a disappointing reverse to settle for the eighth place in the Hero Honda hockey World Cup on Friday. In a... |
| Cpi: Ban Futures Trading Of Essentials NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday in the Rajya Sabha demanded a ban on futures and forward trading of all agricultural and essential commodities as it asserted that it was... |
| Iim-c Sees 20 Per Cent Rise In Average Offers Kolkata: Shaking off last year's pessimism with global recession painting a comparatively gloomy picture during the placement season, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) claimed to... |
| Naxalite Units Busted, 20 Arrested Ranchi/New Delhi: Security forces have busted two Naxalite camps and arrested an ‘area commander' besides 20 militants as part of its first inter-State operations launched along the... |
| Mathews And Shah Prop Up Kolkata Knight Riders — PHOTO: PTI SENSATIONAL START:Deccan Chargers players celebrate the wicket of Knight Riders captain Sourav Ganguly off Chaminda Vaas in the IPL III opener in Mumbai on... |
| Average Domestic Salary At Iim-a Placements At Nearly 15 Lakh AHMEDABAD: The average domestic salary bagged by the prospective business management post-graduates at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, this year was Rs. 14.94 lakh per... |
| Pakistan For Steps To Energise Indus Treaty NEW DELHI: Affirming its commitment to the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), Pakistan has sought measures to make the mechanism more effective by outlining its concerns, as well as proposing measures that... |
| Left To Launch Jail Bharo On April 8 — Photo: Shanker Chakravarty CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat, CPI leaders A.B. Bardhan and Amarjeet Kaur at the Left parties' protest rally against price hike in New Delhi on... |
