NEW Delhi, January 31 (PTI): The Selection Committee meeting to chose Central Vigilance Commissioner in September last year did discuss the issue of Palmolein case against P J Thomas, Home Minister P Chidambara

New Delhi, January 31 (Agencies): The US on Monday sought to justify the use of ankle monitors on students, duped by now closed Tri-Valley University, saying it was widespread across America as a standard proce

New Delhi, January 31 (Agencies): Posco, the world’s third-largest steelmaker, received approval for its $12 bn factory complex in India, paving the way for the nation’s single-biggest foreign inves

New Delhi, January 31 (Agencies): Passengers travelling on tatkal tickets must now carry their identity proof in original or face the prospect of being treated as ticket-less travellers and penalised. Dogged wi

New Delhi, January 30 (PTI): To prevent a repeat of last month situation when exorbitant onion prices troubled the common man, the government on Sunday said it is open to importing more of this vegetable to ens

NEW Delhi, January 30 (PTI): The first time car buyers may have been driving the growth of Indian car market, but it is the repeat customers who are increasingly adding to the sales numbers, according to Maruti

MUMBAI, January 30 (PTI): To tap the growing hospitality business in India, the Hilton Worldwide is planning to develop 19 hotels in the next five years, of which six will begin operations in 2011, a top compan

NEW Delhi, January 30 (PTI): Two of the world’s richest people Warren Buffett and software czar Bill Gates will visit India this year to seek support of wealthy Indians for philanthropic activities. Legen

MUMBAI, January 28 (PTI): The Mahindra Group, which launched its 1.2 tonne pick-up--Genio--in the domestic market today, plans to launch a series of vehicles from the Genio platform this year, a senior company

NEW Delhi, January 28 (PTI): In a move that is being seen as fresh arm-twisting, the Oil Ministry wants Vedanta Resources to surrender all its rights in past and future disputes and agree to several other strin

New Delhi, January 28 (PTI): Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will travel to Colombo on Saturday to discuss with the Sri Lankan government the killing of Indian fishermen in the past one month allegedly by its na

New Delhi, January 28 (PTI): The government is bracing itself up for the budget session of Parliament beginning next month and is finalising its strategy on handling issues arising out of “recent occurren

New Delhi, January 28 (PTI): In remarks that could stir a fresh political controversy, senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Friday accused BJP state governments of sheltering people affiliated to RSS, alleg

Bangalore, January 28 (PTI): In a relief to ruling BJP, a one-man judicial commission has given a clean chit to the B S Yeddyurappa government and Sangh Parivar groups in the series of attacks on churches in Ka

Gandhinagar, January 28 (Agencies): In a dramatic development in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, Ahmedabad Joint Commissioner Satish Verma and member of the Special Investigating (SIT) team probing the case cl

WASHINGTON, January 28 (PTI): Duped by an American university, a harassed group of Indian students has met the Consul General in San Francisco seeking help to complete their studies and claimed that they have n

New Delhi, January 27 (Reuters): BlackBerry maker Research In Motion on Thursday said there was no possibility of providing India access to corporate emails on BlackBerry devices. India has demanded access to a

AHMEDABAD, January 27 (PTI): Targeting youngsters who want to be connected to social networking sites, Nokia today launched its affordable mobile phone with QWERTY device in Gujarat. “The Nokia X2-01 is c

GADCHIROLI (MAHARASHTRA), January 27 (PTI): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday indicated major changes in the organisational set up of the Youth Congress and party’s frontal students̵

Delhi University students perform a dance during a flash mob protest against corruption in the country, in New Delhi, January 27. (AP Photo) NEW Delhi, January 27 (PTI): The government today told the Supre