India

  • Dishonour to Sikhs a national insult: Govt
    New Delhi, March 23 (PTI): India on Wednesday said dishonour to the Sikhs is a national insult and the government takes serious note of the incident in which golfer Jeev Milkha Singh’s coach Amritinder Si
  • No question of arresting or harassing Mamata: Buddhadeb
    Kolkata, March 23 (Agencies): West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today ruled out the arrest or harassment of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjeee before the upcoming Assembly elections in c
  • Committee to inquire into alleged police rampage
    “We harvest only one crop a year in January and that feeds us for the whole year,” said Kowasi Joga, who says his granary held about 70 quintals of grain. “Everything is burnt, what will I eat
  • DMK minister’s assets rose 780 times in 5 yrs
    CHENNAI, March 23 (Agencies): In five years of DMK rule, a state minister has multiplied his assets 780 times. At least that’s what the official figures show. Tamil Nadu food minister EV Velu, contesting
  • Mary Kay helping people through community services
    New Delhi, March 23 (AGENCIES): Thousands of Mary Kay family members in more than 35 countries helped their fellow neighbors by volunteering more than 430,510 hours of community service or more than 49 years of
  • Car-makers face challenges from Japan crisis, rate hikes
    Mumbai, March 23 (PTI): Faced with surging raw material costs, Indian car-makers now face three additional serious challenges, including a shortage of key components, which could impact their performance this y
  • Govt withdraws unhealthy misery tax
    New Delhi, March 22 (Agencies): There is some relief for the common man as Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday announced in Parliament the withdrawal of the newly levied service tax on healthcare. R
  • Cyber crooks offer refund on online tax refund: report
    NEW Delhi, March 22 (PTI): Cyber crooks are on the prowl this financial year closing and are using phishing attacks and hoax-alerts to gain access to account details of individuals who have filed their Income T
  • Controversy over another Tata Telecom deal
    New Delhi,  March 22 (Agencies): Telecom deals continue to haunt governments, past and present. The 2G spectrum scam, which led DMK leader and former Telecom Minister A Raja to jail, has embarrassed the go
  • Uproar in Parliament over WikiLeaks exposé
    New Delhi, March 22 (PTI): The BJP and the Congress created pandemonium in Parliament today over WikiLeaks expose and alleged irregularities in VSNL disinvestment during NDA regime but in the din, the governmen
  • Bhopal tragedy: CBI moves Delhi court for Warren Anderson’s extradition
    NEW Delhi, March 22 (PTI): The CBI today moved a Delhi court to obtain a Letter Rogatory to the US authorities for extradition of former Union Carbide Corporation Chairman Warren Anderson to stand trial for his
  • No external powers should interfere in Libya affairs: India
    New Delhi, March 22 (Agencies): Members of the Lok Sabha on Tuesday made a strong pitch for a unanimous resolution in the House condemning air strikes on Libya by the allied forces while the government said it
  • Info on corruption can’t be withheld under RTI Act: CIC
    New Delhi, March 22 (Agencies): Information on allegations of corruption is not excluded from disclosure under the Right to Information Act, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has held. The information co
  • Five-year-old Indian boy becomes millionaire
    DUBAI, March 22 (PTI): A five-year-old Indian boy has become a millionaire overnight after winning a lottery at a national bond draw here. Ebrahim Fahimuddin Shaikh became the second millionaire in the year whe
  • Unaware of pending case against Thomas: Chavan
    Mumbai, March 22 (Agencies): Maharastra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday told Assembly that he as a union Minister of state for Personnel and Training was not aware of any negative vigilance report o
  • Nation Building: GenNext assisting MPs in policy making
    NEW Delhi, March 21 (Agencies): Uthara Ganesh, 22, always thought being an MP in India was all about making speeches and winning electoral battles. Until she decided to work with one. Her mindset underwent a st
  • WikiLeaks expose set to rock Parliament
    NEW Delhi, March 21 (PTI): The cash-for-vote scam is expected to cast its shadow on Parliament on Tuesday with the BJP planning to move a privilege motion against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for allegedly mis
  • Six little-known email tricks for greater productivity
    Mumbai, March 21 (Agencies): For most of us, attending to e-mail is not just an optional part of our daily routine. It’s a requirement - and sometimes not a pleasant one. That’s why it makes sense t
  • Carmakers to increase prices
    New Delhi, March 19 (PTI): The beginning of the next financial year (2011-12) will see top carmakers increasing their prices due to growing input cost which is affecting their bottomlines. While Tata Motors has
  • 15 Dmr NIITians short-listed in reputed orgs
    Dimapur, March 19 (MExN): Fifiteen NIITians of NIIT Dimapur Centre were short-listed in reputed organizations in the recently held NIIT’s Mega North-East IT Job Fair at Handique College, Guwahati. A press
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