India

  • Government to pump in Rs 6 bn to fight Maoists
    NEW Delhi, January 13 (Agencies): The government is pumping in Rs 580 crore (Rs 5.8 billion) under a special security scheme which would include strengthening road connectivity and recruiting 12,000 more specia
  • Lalgarh massacre: W Bengal government opposes CBI probe
    Kolkata, January 13 (PTI): The West Bengal government on Thursday opposed a CBI probe into the Lalgarh massacre that claimed seven lives as also compensation and told the Calcutta High Court that the CID be all
  • Mumbai boy kills India’s most wanted
    Mumbai, January 13 (Agencies): Sources reveal how a small-time convict from Kandivli went to Pakistan and pumped bullets into IM mastermind Riyaz Bhatkal. Even as the daring shootout that killed India’s m
  • Bollywood biggies to help Shabana Azmi with her girl child project in UP
    Mumbai, January 13 (Agencies): Girls in a small village in Uttar Pradesh have found unlikely allies in Bollywood. Industry biggies, including Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor, Karan Johar and Farhan Akhtar, will w
  • ‘India, Pak can’t live in perpetual tension’
    NEW Delhi, January 12 (PTI): Citing the collapse of the Berlin Wall that unified Germany, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said that differences between India and Pakistan may be resolved one day since the
  • Cracks in UPA: NCP calls Rahul arrogant for price rise
    New Delhi, January 12 (Agencies): The Nationalist Congress Party, a major constituent of the UPA, today hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for blaming coalition compulsions for price rise, saying his state
  • ‘Sibal’s remarks on CAG report improper’
    New Delhi, January 12 (PTI): Hitting out at Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday said his “improper” remarks against the Comptroller and Audi
  • Army Chief VK Singh appears before PAC
    NEW Delhi, January 12 (PTI): In a first instance of its kind, Army Chief V. K. Singh on Wednesday appeared before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in connection with alleged irregularities in
  • NATION Briefs
    Buddhadeb-Chidambaram meeting between Jan 17-19 Kolkata, January 12 (Agencies): The long-awaited meeting between Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in
  • Winds of change in Kashmir as ‘stone-pelting’ youth eye police job
    An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as a Kashmiri youth, whose face covered with a scarf, waits to submit his documents during a police recruitment rally in Srinagar, January 12. Anti-India sentiment ru
  • SBI & Airtel form joint venture
    New Delhi, January 12 (Agencies): India’s largest public sector bank State Bank of India (SBI) Wednesday entered into a joint venture with telecom giant Bharti Airtel to deliver banking services to those
  • GM to launch 6 new cars in 2 yrs
    Ahmedabad, January 12 (PTI): General Motors India today said it will launch six new cars in India in the next two years, while also stating that it will invest $ 100 million (about Rs. 450 crore) to increase pr
  • ‘Tuk Tuk meter’ app to calculate auto fares launched
    Kochi, January 12 (PTI): Kerala-based based MindHelix Technologies, today launched ‘Tuk Tuk meter’, claimed to be India’s first GPS based multi-platform Auto fare calculator that runs through
  • IndiGo orders 180 airplanes; sets a record in commercial aviation history
    MUMBAI, January 12 (Agencies): Low-cost carrier IndiGo has placed firm orders for 180 Airbus 320 aircraft at an estimated cost of $ 15.6 billion. The order is the single largest for jets, in terms of volume, to
  • Ratan Tata slams goverment’s stand on leakage of Radia tapes
    New Delhi, January 11 (PTI): Tata group chairman Ratan Tatahas criticised in the Supreme Court the government’’s”lackadaisical attitude” on the leakage of his tappedtelephonic conversati
  • PM-led meeting on price rise ends inconclusively
    PM Manmohan Singh during a high level meeting on food inflation in New Delhi on Tuesday.  NEW Delhi, January 11 (Agencies): A high level meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss ways to
  • Indians growing richer and less healthy: Study
    NEW Delhi, January 11 (AFP): Indians are growing richer, but they are also adopting unhealthy lifestyles that could take years off their lives and threaten economic growth, a major study said Tuesday. In a wide
  • Indian-American charged in US’ biggest insider trading case
    Washington, January 11 (PTI): An Indian-American is among four persons charged by US authorities as part of a wide-ranging investigation involving the multi-billion-dollar Galleon Group hedge fund scam, the big
  • NABARD ties up with Reuters for providing market information to farmers
    Madurai, January 11 (Agencies): The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has entered into a tie-up with the international news agency Thompson Reuters’ Indian subsidiary to provide
  • Barack Obama says nation is grieving
    Washington, DC, January 11 (PTI): US President Barack Obama has said that the nation is grieving and in shock after the Saturday's shootout incident that critically injured Democrat Congresswoman Gabrielle Giff
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