India

  • 8 million children still out of school: RTE status
    New Delhi, April 1 (THE HINDU): Even as India celebrates an impressive jump in the literacy figures in the past decade, a staggering eight million children are still out of school. Worse, 21 per cent of the tea
  • Samsung firm innocent of laptop bugging, insecurity firm apologises
    Mumbai, April 1 (Agencies): Korean hardware giant Samsung didn't put keylogging software on its laptops, and the company partly responsible for causing the fuss has made a grovelling apology.A report accused Sa
  • Chennai to generate 4.40 lakh more jobs
    CHENNAI, April 1 (TNN): Chennai, along with Mumbai and Delhi-NCR, ranks among the top three in the list of cities that will generate maximum number of jobs in 2011, a survey said. The Employment Trends Survey b
  • Govt may roll back excise duty on branded garments
    New Delhi, March 30 (PTI): The government is considering rolling back 10 per cent excise duty on branded garments, due to large scale protest by industry bodies in many parts of the country, including West Beng
  • State’s deficit budget cannot be termed as ‘bad’: AG
    KOHIMA, March 30 (NEPS): Accountant General (AG) of Nagaland Rajesh Singh, IAAS, has described as “positive” the Nagaland’s deficit budget of Rs 602.30 crore which was passed on Tuesday in the
  • Delhi-Manila direct flight launched
    New Delhi, March 30 (PTI): Aiming to attract more Indians to that country, Philippines Airlines on Wednesday launched its first direct flight from India. Philippines Airlines would be operating six flights a we
  • Apollo Tyres to hike prices by up to 6 % from April
    NEW Delhi, March 30 (PTI): Apollo Tyres today said it will hike prices of its products by up to 6 per cent from April to offset spiralling raw material costs. The market leader also cautioned that the tyre indu
  • Hindu temple attacked in Oz
    Mebourne, March 30 (PTI): Australia’s oldest Hindu temple in New South Wales was attacked by unidentified masked gunmen who fired several shots at it, triggering panic among the community members. Sri Man
  • Thackeray objects to players’ ‘namaaz’ at Mohali stadium
    Mumbai, March 30 (Agencies): After attacking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for inviting his Pakistani counterpart to the Cricket World Cup semi-final match between India and Pakistan, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thacke
  • Leading girls from hell to humane society
    MUMBAI, March 29 (Agencies): In a western Mumbai suburb stands a six-storey building housing 100 girls, mostly minors, who are being educated, given vocational training and psychological counselling. One thing
  • Actor Shiney Ahuja gets seven years RI
    Mumbai, March 30 (PTI): Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja was on Wednesday sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment by a fast track sessions court here for raping his maid despite the victim turning hos
  • 2G scam: Raja to be charged with cheating, forgery & corruption, CBI tells Supreme Court
    New Delhi, March 29 (Agencies): The CBI today informed the Supreme Court that telecom companies Swan Telecom and Loop Telecom were used as front companies by established telecom players to get 2G spectrum illeg
  • No apology for Guj riots: Advani
    Mumbai, March 29 (Agencies): Senior BJP leader L K Advani has ruled out an apology over the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat. “You are talking of regret and apologies. I understand there have been many r
  • Pak allows India to question 26/11 suspects
    Pakistani Interior Secretary Qamar Zaman (right) with Home Secretary G.K. Pillai in New Delhi. During their meeting which ended today, Pakistan has agreed to allow Indian team to visit Islamabad to probe Mumbai
  • Outrage over reviews of new Gandhi book
    Lovers? Gandhi and Kallenbach sit alongside a female companion. A new book has controversially said that the pair had a two-year relationship between 1908 and 1910. NEW Delhi, march 29 (Agencies): Thousand
  • India among the most corrupt nations: survey
    SINGAPORE, March 29 (PTI): India finds itself bracketed with countries like Philippines and Cambodia, rated as the fourth most corrupt nation among 16 countries of the Asia Pacific region surveyed by leading Ho
  • Aircel launch 3G in Dimapur
    The DC Maong Aier and the operations head of Aircel (NE) Kathirvellu makes the first video call through Aircel’s 3G service during the launch in Dimapur, Tuesday, March 29.  DIMAPUR, MARCH 29 (MExN):
  • World’s highest hotel opens in Hong Kong
    HONG KONG, March 29 (AFP): The world’s highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city’s tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Vic
  • Workshop on HDBR & Air virtual Studio held
    Kohima, March 28 (DIPR): With an aim to equipped the staff of All India Radio, AIR and Doordarshan with the latest and state of the art broadcasting technology, a Workshop on Hard Disc Band Recording, HDBR syst
  • Pfutsero Congress questions food grain supply
    Dimapur, March 28 (MExN): The ACCC of Pfutsero assembly constituency is raising serious questions over reasons rations cards not being reviewed and over food grain supply going to unknown interests.  The A
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