Shillong: To attract more flight operators to the state, Meghalaya government has exempted tax on Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF). “The exemption is aimed at attracting more aircraft operators to use the port and help make the Shillong Airport as a [...]
Chennai: Setting her sights on carving out a larger role in national politics, AIADMK supremo and Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Friday asked her partymen to ‘gift’ her with all 40 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 elections. “Winning all [...]
Puducherry: Three persons, including a woman, have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 55-year-old French woman of Puducherry origin, near here, police said today. The body of Allene Amudha alias Jayamani was found at her residence with [...]
NEW DELHI: Telecom major Vodafone has appointed Max India founder Analjit Singh as the non-executive Chairman of its India operations. The appointment is effective from February 16, 2012, following formal approval from the Board of Vodafone India. Singh, a leading [...]
New Delhi: A man accused of raping a girl for seven years on false promise of marriage has been let off by a Delhi court as there was no evidence to suggest that the ‘victim’ was not a consenting party [...]
DEHRADUN/CHANDIGARH: An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale shook parts of Punjab, Haryana and Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand in the wee hours on Friday. The quake occurred at 12:47 am and was felt in some parts of the northern [...]
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday withdrew its December 30 order rejecting Army chief General V K Singh’s statutory complaint to change his date of birth. Attorney General G E Vahanvati on Friday informed the Supreme Court about government’s decision. [...]
Mumbai: Fortis Healthcare India on Friday posted 15.18 per cent drop in consolidated net profit for the third quarter ended December 31, at Rs 29.26 crore. The company had reported a net profit of Rs 34.50 crore in the same [...]
WASHINGTON: The US President, Barack Obama, has praised the economic reforms initiated by Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, noting that his measures have been able to generate enough confidence in the European market. “We appreciate the strong start that he [...]
Washington: The FBI has released decades-old file it kept on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, questioning his moral character by disclosing details on his reported drug use and ability to ‘distort reality’. The file was prepared on the Apple founder as [...]
New Delhi: Industrial production in India grew by just 1.8 per cent year-on-year in December 2011 due to contraction in mining and capital goods sectors and a lower manufacturing sector growth. Factory output growth, as measured by the Index of [...]
Balasore (Odisha): As part of its plan to deploy a two-layer ballistic missile defence system, India today successfully test-fired its indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile from the Integrated Test Range off Odisha coast. A surface-to-surface target missile – a modified [...]
Mumbai: His life has always been under intense scrutiny for his tyrst with drugs in younger days, for his failed marriages, for his infamous association with the 1993 Mumbai blasts, his jail stints and his sagging Bollywood career. The ‘Khalnayak’ [...]
NEW DELHI: Undergoing chemotherapy for a malignant lung tumour, Yuvraj Singh has gone bald and the Indian cricketer has posted his latest picture showing the after-effects of the treatment on social networking site Twitter. “Finally the hair has gone ! [...]
Mumbai: Actress Deepika Padukone has made a sudden exit from Abbas-Mustan’s much awaited thriller ‘Race 2′, leaving the filmmakers miffed with her alleged unprofessional behaviour. The action thriller film ‘Race 2′ produced under the Tips Films banner, is the sequel [...]
Varanasi: Team Anna member Kiran Bedi today said the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are the “semi-final” for Jan Lokpal Bill and the general elections of 2014 will be its final. India Against Corruption and Team Anna members began their state [...]
Mumbai: The BSE benchmark Sensex on Friday extended gains for the third straight session by adding another 44 points in early trade, on sustained buying by funds and retail investors. The 30-share index, which had gained over 208 points in [...]
Mumbai: The rupee on Friday fell by 17 paise to 49.67 against the U.S. dollar in early trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange market, following increased demand for the American currency from importers However, a higher opening in the equity [...]
Mumbai: Fag-end buying pushed up the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex, Thursday by over 123 points amid firm European markets that gained on hopes of a solution to the Greek debt crisis. After a weak opening, the Sensex moved up [...]
New Delhi: National carrier Air India has been asked to cough up over Rs 1 lakh by a consumer forum as compensation with punitive damages to make its ‘rude’ staff ‘learn a lesson’ for their ‘callous’ service towards a flier. [...]
Gorakhpur/Deoria (UP): BJP leader Kalraj Misra today said how can Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati can provide security to people when she herself was so much concerned about her own security. “Mayawati is the only chief minister who neither meets [...]
DHARAMSHALA: Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be visiting the exile Tibetan headquarters of Dharamshala tomorrow to meet his old friend His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Archbishop Tutu is currently on a five day visit to India as part [...]
Kohima: Several Naga civil society organisations have appealed to the Centre to release a senior NSCN (I-M) functionary, arrested by the National Investigation Agency in 2010, “as a goodwill gesture in the spirit of peace and understanding”. In a joint [...]
New Delhi: The Rajasthan Cricket Association and Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals together owe nearly Rs 4.5 crore to the state police towards security arrangements during cricket matches. An RTI reply from the Rajasthan Police states that dues towards [...]
LUCKNOW: Alleging large scale anomalies, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) today demanded a high-level probe into all recruitments done during the five-year-regime of the BSP government. “The manner in which director secondary education was arrested and in which irregularities have [...]
New Delhi: Online ticket sales for the forthcoming Hockey Olympic qualifiers, to be held at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium here from February 18-26, started from Thursday. The tournament is the final opportunity for both the Indian men and [...]
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda today asserted that the government did not pressurise former Advocate General B V Acharya to quit as Special Public Prosecutor in the wealth case against his Tamil Nadu counterpart Jayalalithaa which is [...]
Maunath Bhanjan (UP): As mafia-turned- politician Mukhtar Ansari seeks to retain the Maunath Bhanjan (Mau)-Sadar seat lodged in the Agra jail, his kin including his brothers campaign for him for the February 11 assembly elections. Contesting from his Quami Ekta [...]
Kolkata: There is no need to contemporarise work like those of William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, as they are still relevant, veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah has said. “I closely follow the text. I don’t feel any need to contemporarise [...]
NEW DELHI: Missing the 1 billion kg production mark by a whisker, the country’s tea output stood at 988.32 million kg in 2011, a marginal rise of 2 per cent over that in the previous year. Tea exports fell by [...]
New Delhi: Snapping a three-day rising streak, both gold and silver fell today on profit-selling by stockists at existing higher levels amid a weak global trend. While gold lost Rs 40 to Rs 28,490 per 10 grams, silver dropped by [...]
BEIRUT: At least 13 people were killed Thursday in the latest government blitz on the besieged Syrian city of Homs, activists said, adding that the toll was likely to rise. “Twelve of the victims died in shelling that began at [...]
TOKYO : The U.S. military will probably scale back plans to build key bases in Japan and Guam because of political obstacles and budget pressures, according to U.S. and Japanese officials, complicating the Obama administration’s efforts to strengthen its troop [...]
NEW DELHI: With India still overwhelmingly dependent on foreign military hardware and software, the government is all set to clear a new set of guidelines for creation of joint ventures between defence PSUs and private companies as a step towards [...]
Jammu: Coinciding with Mahashivratri, the historic three-day Shiv Khori Mela – at the famous cave shrine of Lord Shiva, will begin in Reasi hills of Jammu and Kashmir from February 19. The three-day-long Shiv Khori Mela will commence at Ramsoo, [...]
Uttar Pradesh: Congress’ star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday launched a frontal attack on the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh alleging that it was wasting money on statues and parks even as she said there was a wind of change [...]
New Delhi: Engineering and construction firm Unity Infraprojects today said it has bagged two orders worth Rs 485.42 crore from state-run firms HSCC (I) and Rites Ltd. In a statement, the company said the Rs 414.15 crore order from HSCC [...]
Bangalore: Facing the heat on porn scandal, Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadanada Gowda today accused Congress of engaging in petty politics, even as the opposition stepped up its attack demanding the resignation of the BJP government over the issue. [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Supreme Court in Thursday insisted that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani should write to Swiss authorities to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, saying no one is above the law. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said the [...]
NEW DELHI: The socio-economic caste census, which will be used to identify beneficiaries of various social welfare schemes, including the proposed food law, could only be completed by July-end, according to Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh. Last month, Food Minister [...]
Mumbai: Actor Shah Rukh Khan, who was recently named as a role model for youth, has gone candid with netizens revealing how he was “reprimanded” by his daughter for lighting up. “Big reprimand for smoking from my strict little atom [...]
Bareilly: A five year-old girl was allegedly raped and strangulated by a teenaged boy in Jogi Navada locality under Baradari police station area here, police said. Rizwan (13) allegedly lured the minor girl, playing outside her house, on Monday and [...]
Ahmedabad: A magisterial court today issued notices to Supreme Court-appointed SIT after social activists Teesta Setalvad and Mukul Sinha filed two separate applications seeking the copies of the SIT report filed in the Zakia Jaffery case. The court of metropolitan [...]
Dubai: An Indian labourer, who was in a coma for several weeks following a road accident in Saudi Arabia, has died, according to the Indian mission in Jeddah. Rajinder, 26, from Andhra Pradesh, was hit by a fast moving car [...]
Dubai: The 17 Indian men, who were spared the death penalty after being convicted of murder last year, have been sentenced to six months in prison by a UAE court on charges of selling alcohol illegally. At the final hearing [...]
New Delhi: IT giant IBM has set up a centre in Bangalore that will offer solutions to automate and accelerate the purchasing, sales and customer service functions. The new Centre of Excellence (CoE) at the India Software Lab will offer [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: Stung by the virulent attack on him at the ongoing CPI-M state meet, party stalwart and former Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has conveyed his displeasure over it to the party’s central leadership. The 87-year-old leader is learnt to [...]
New Delhi: BJP has finalised the names of six more candidates for the March 3 Goa assembly elections. With this list, the BJP has so far announced 28 candidates out of the total of 40 assembly constituencies. The finalised names [...]
NEW DELHI: Exports grew by 10.1 per cent year-on-year to $ 25.4 billion, while imports increased by 20.3 per cent in January, Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar today said. Imports stood at $ 40.1 billion in January 2012, resulting in a [...]
Beijing : Two Indian traders who were illegally detained by local merchants at the Chinese trade hub Yiwu have decided to file a criminal case against 15 local suppliers for illegally detaining them. “We have decided to file a criminal [...]
ISLAMABAD: A U.S. drone targeted a compound in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan on Thursday, killing four suspected militants, including a man who acted as a conduit between the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The unmanned spy plane fired [...]
New Delhi: A court here has refused to direct the Delhi Police to register an FIR against Anna Hazare and his team members for allegedly disrespecting the national flag during their anti-graft protest in August last year. “In the complaint, [...]
MUMBAI: Shares in Thomas Cook (India) Ltd rose as much as 16 per cent in early trade on Thursday, a day after its UK-based parent Thomas Cook Group Plc said it will look to sell its stake in the Indian [...]
Panaji: In a bind over largescale dissidence in the party ahead of March 3 Goa Assembly polls, Congress poll managers are pulling all stops to placate the dissenters who have raised the banner of revolt after being denied tickets. The [...]
HYDERABAD: With global population expected to cross 9 billion by 2050 from the current 7 billion, a daunting question plaguing experts is — whether there will be enough food to feed so many people? In his book ‘Feeding the Forgotten [...]
Azamgarh: Caste and not religion is a major player in the February 11 assembly election in this eastern Uttar Pradesh district which has been in limelight due to the alleged involvement of its youths in terror activities. But religious leaders [...]
PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy put his reputation as a stalwart friend of Israel on the line on Wednesday, warning that military action was no way to deal with nuclear-minded Iran at a dinner hosted by France’s main Jewish group [...]
Mumbai: The BSE benchmark index Sensex fell by over 78 points in early trade on Thursday on fresh selling by funds amid a weakening trend on other Asian bourses. The 30-share index, which had gained 84.87 points on Wednesday, moved [...]
MUMBAI: The rupee declined by 19 paise to Rs 49.34 per dollar in early trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange market today, weighed down by dollar’s gains against other currency rivals. Dealers said besides dollar gains against other Asian currencies, [...]
Madurai: A primary school here has barred entry to a 13-year-old student after discovering that he was HIV positive. The incident came to light recently when the boy”s mother went to Tamil Nadu AIDS Control Society Centre seeking help. She [...]
New Delhi: Faced with subdued revenue mop-up and rising fiscal deficit, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said he is “losing sleep” over mounting subsidy bill, which may cross Budget estimate by Rs 1 lakh crore in 2011-12. “As Finance Minister [...]
Dehra Dun: A total of 160 BJP leaders and workers have been expelled so far in Uttarakhand amid reports of widespread anti-party activities during the January 30 assembly elections, a top state party leader on Monday said. Bishan Singh Chufal, [...]
RANCHI: Jharkhand High Court today directed the public sector units in Jharkhand to clear encroachment on their property by May this year. Issuing the directions, the bench of Chief Justice P C Tatia and Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh observed that [...]
Kolkata: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the government would extend a helping hand to the corporate sector to fulfil the ambition of attaining high GDP and an inclusive growth. “The new Companies Bill has brought new changes in tune [...]
New Delhi: Both gold and silver recovered in the bullion market here on Monday on increased buying by stockists and jewellery makers to meet the marriage season demand amid a firming global trend. While gold recovered by Rs. 50 to [...]
Kolkata: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today praised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for intervening into the market to ease supply side constraints in tackling inflation. “Supply side constraints are a reason for high inflation. I believe state governments ought [...]
Bangalore: A day after a high-level panel report found “serious” administrative and procedural lapses on the part of former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair and three other scientists in the Antrix-Devas deal, space agency chief K Radhakrishnan today said there [...]
Mumbai: As the news of cricket icon Yuvraj Singh being diagnosed with cancer spread, several Bollywood personalities took to twitter to pray for his recovery. The 30-year-old left-hander has been in the US since last month undergoing chemotherapy for what [...]
Varanasi: Rahul Gandhi on Monday said he was not “obsessed” with becoming the Prime Minister but remained committed to transform Uttar Pradesh where people have been “fooled” for the last 22 years by successive regimes. At a rare press conference, [...]
New Delhi: New operator Uninor, a joint venture between Telenor of Norway and Unitech, on Monday said the company will participate in 2G spectrum auction but did not rule out exit option from the Indian market. “In principle we will [...]
New Delhi: Facebook India Monday filed its compliance report before the Delhi court which had ordered it and 21 other websites to removeobjectionable content from their websites. Google India also told the court that it has removed certain web pagesfrom [...]
Jerusalem: Israel on Sunday approved the construction of the first rail link between its Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts, offering a new Asia-Europe trade route to compete with the Suez Canal, a project in which India is also said to [...]
WASHINGTON : President Barack Obama said Sunday that he deserved to be re-elected because the US economy is adding jobs and recovering, in stark contrast to the bleak monthly unemployment hikes he inherited in 2009. In a pre-Super Bowl interview [...]
London: Actor Brad Pitt does not think he will have another year of professional success like the last 12 months. The 48-year-old has seen his two latest movies, “Moneyball” and “The Tree of Life”, nominated for a string of awards. [...]
PANAJI: Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has announced a list of 22 candidates for the forthcoming Goa polls. The list, which was announced on Sunday night, includes names of its prominent leaders, except its Member of Parliament Sripad Naik, who has [...]
New Delhi: Sports Minister Ajay Maken has promised government help to cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States to recover from lung cancer. “Wish Yuvraj a speedy recovery! Asking officials to find the quantum and nature [...]
Mumbai: The rupee moved up by 9 paise to trade at 48.60 against the dollar on the Interbank Foreign Exchange market in early trade on Monday, on increased foreign fund inflows. Dealers said increased foreign funds inflows and euro’s gains [...]
Mumbai: The BSE benchmark index Sensex on Monday gained 218 points in early trade today on sustained buying by funds and retailers amid a firming trend in Asian markets. The 30-share index, which had gained over 741 points in last [...]
New Delhi: The mother of the two-year-old battered baby has been traced and will undergo a DNA test to ascertain whether she is the biological mother of the child. A senior police official said they traced the mother named Munni [...]
Lucknow: Slamming the Congress manifesto as a “bundle of hollow promises”, BSP chief Mayawati today accused the party of using the dalits as a votebank and trying to divide the community under a “planned conspiracy” by promising them sub-quota. “The [...]
Lucknow: Apparently upset over the denial of party ticket for Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, a sitting BSP MLA today attempted suicide by swallowing some poisonous substance in Unnao district. Radhey Lal Rawat, BSP MLA from Hasanganj, who was declared as [...]
New Delhi: The government today allocated 16.12 lakh tonne sugar for sale in the open market and distribution through ration shops for the current month. Sugar allocated to meet the demand of this month is, however, lower than 17.16 lakh [...]
Washington: President Barack Obama Wednesday said that the countries in Asia are looking at the United States towards the development of an architecture that protects them from the rise of China. “As I travel around the world what’s striking to [...]
Kopargaon (Maha): Accusing Congress of “maligning” Anna Hazare’s image, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha today asserted that BJP would emerge victorious in all the five states since UPA at the Centre has failed on governance issues. “BJP will win elections, including Utter [...]
GONDA: Kicking off her election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday attacked chief minister Mayawati for dismissing her ministers on election eve and asked whether this has cleansed her government. “The present chief minister dismissed [...]
Thiruvananthapuram: The ISKCON is conducting a programme here to propagate the values and message of Bhagavad Gita and Mahabharata following the recent controversy surrounding the Gita in Russia. A two-day interactive event titled ‘Parivartan’ will be held at the Vyloppilli [...]
Tel Aviv: Justifying India”s vote against Iran on its nuclear programme, former union minister Shashi Tharoor has said it was in line with the principle that Tehran had agreed to the terms of NPT and hence had to abide by [...]
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank today indicated that it could go in for another cut in the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) to unlock banking funds in view of persistent pressure on the liquidity situation. “We are watching the liquidity situation… [...]
New Delhi: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy today welcomed the Supreme Court verdict on the issue of grant of sanction for prosecution of public servants, saying it has “simplified the issue” in graft cases lodged under the Prevention of Corruption [...]
New Delhi: As a controversy broke out over allegations that he was deliberately given wrong treatment in Pune, Anna Hazare today said he did not think he was given medicines with “malafide intentions” by doctors at the Sancheti hospital. His [...]
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has shot down the Planning Commission’s suggestion of freeing urea prices from government control, saying complete deregulation of the sector may impact farmers badly. The Finance Ministry instead wants to continue with the existing urea [...]
Mumbai: Rating agency Fitch today said that it is keeping a negative outlook for India’s shipping sector with slim chances of revival during the year on unfavourable demand-supply dynamics in the global scenario. “Unfavourable demand-supply dynamics in the global shipping [...]
Sitapur: Lashing out at non-Congress governments of Uttar Pradesh for selling Ram, caste and religion for the past 22 years, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday asked voters to give five years to his party for development of the [...]
Haflong: A NSCN(IM) cadre and a linkman of the outfit were apprehended and huge quantities of arms and ammunition seized from them by security forces in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, police said Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, the army and [...]
Mumbai: The country’s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank on Tuesday reported 20 per cent growth in net profit for the December quarter at Rs 1,728.10 crore. The city-based lender’s net profit for the same period last year had stood [...]
New Delhi: In a setback to the organisers of the upcoming Bangalore Fashion Week (BFW), the Delhi High Court has restrained them from playing music or videos in which the copyright rests with Phonographic Performance Ltd, a society of music [...]
New Delhi: Laying the blame on the army’s doors for the controversy over Gen VK Singh’s age issue, Defence Minister AK Antony on Tuesday said it occurred because the force kept two sets of his date of birth for 36 [...]
LONDON: Olympic organisers have some travel advice for the millions of people who work and live in London: Be patient. Have a beer. Work from home. Rejecting suggestions of possible transport chaos during the July 27-August 12 games, they unveiled [...]
New Delih: Setting aside the Delhi High Court judgement on sanction of prosecution in 2G case, the Supreme Court on Tuesday held that filing of a complaint under the Prevention of Corruption Act is a constitutional right of a citizen [...]
MUMBAI: The BSE benchmark Sensex recovered by over 183 points in early trade today on buying by funds and retail investors which took cues from firming global trends. The Sensex, which had lost 370.68 points in the previous session, recovered [...]
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