India

  • India, US to begin internal security dialogue, talk terror
    New Delhi, may 25 (Agencies): Terror will top the agenda when US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Home Minister P Chidambaram meet on Friday for the first formal dialogue on internal security be
  • Low-intensity explosion outside Delhi HC
    Police and forensic experts surround the site of a blast outside the Delhi High Court in New Delhi, May 25. Police say a minor explosion has taken place near the parking lot of the court, but there are no casua
  • Pregnant women to get free medicines, diet in govt hospitals
    New Delhi, May 25 (Agencies): In new initiatives to tackle maternal and infant mortality, the Union Health Ministry plans to ensure free medicines and diet for pregnant women in government hospitals from next m
  • 26/11: Headley’s diary provides contact details of Pak handlers
    Chicago, May 24 (Agencies): Clinching evidence of key Mumbai attack accused David Headley’s links with ISI and Jamaat-ud Dawa is provided by his diary which contains telephone numbers of two Major-rank of
  • Assets of corrupt babus may be seized & liquidated
    NEW Delhi, May 24(Agencies): Activists against graft have often pointed out that even the threat of jail hardly serves as a deterrent for a corrupt person, as he can enjoy his ill-gotten gains after he complete
  • Airtel digital TV customers can now watch all channels in HD like quality
    Dimapur, May 23 (MExN): Airtel digital TV has enabled all its High Definition (HD) and HD Recorder Set Top Boxes (STBs) to upscale its complete array of Standard Definition (SD) channels to HD like quality (res
  • Sachin Pilot arrested on his way to Greater Noida, released
    GREATER NOIDA, may 22 (PTI): Reviving the Bhatta-Parsaul farmers’ issue, Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Sunday visited protestors lodged in Dasna jail and was arrested on way to the violence-hit areas to
  • ONGC, SBI biggest losers in market cap past week
    Mumbai, may 22 (PTI): Hit by huge losses in the market capitalisation (m-cap) of state-owned ONGC and SBI, the combined market worth of eight of the country’s top-10 firms diminished by Rs 78,553.96 crore
  • Tata’s ‘remarks’ on Mukesh’s home sparks controversy
    LONDON/MUMBAI, may 22 (PTI): Ratan Tata’s purported remarks expressing surprise at fellow industrialist Mukesh Ambani living in a billion-dollar mansion in Mumbai has sparked off a controversy today. The
  • Mamata sworn in as W Bengal CM
    Onlookers crowd a street to greet the new Chief Minister of West Bengal state Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata, May 20. Banerjee is the first woman chief minister of the state. Congress and its ally Trinamool Congres
  • Indian teenager creates world record atop Mount Lhotse
    NEW Delhi, may 20 (agencies): A 17-year-old schoolboy from a New Delhi suburb, who became a climbing sensation last year by becoming the youngest Indian to conquer Mt Everest, created a new record Friday by bec
  • Probe money laundering charges against Amar Singh: HC
    Allahabad, May 20 (agencies): The Allahabad High Court today directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to investigate charges of money laundering against Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, saying the probe should comme
  • ‘My kids asked me if I loved Infosys more than them’
    BANGALORE, may 20 (Agencies): N R Narayana Murthy has three children: Rohan, Akshata and Infosys. He will be retiring as chairman of the enterprise he co-founded in 1981 in August this year. In a detailed goodb
  • Rs 30,000 crore blackmoney recovered in last two years: CBDT
    New Delhi, May 18 (Agencies): Taxmen have seized blackmoney to the tune of a whopping Rs 30,000 crore in the country in the last two years, said the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) which is set to get inve
  • Rahul dares Maya; pledges to fight for farmers
    VARANASI, May 18 (PTI): Unfazed by the attack on his claims on the alleged police brutality in the villages of Greater Noida, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday appeared to justify those remarks saying people there had
  • MPs go back to school with JPC on 2G scam
    New Delhi, May 18 (agencies): It was back to school for many MPs in the Joint Parliamentary Committee which on Wednesday began examining the alleged irregularities in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The second
  • Cong will be part of ministry: Mamata
    KOLKATA, may 15 (PTI): Mamata Banerjee was today formally elected Trinamool Congress Legislature Party leader and said pre-poll ally Congress would be part of her “small” ministry. Two days after he
  • Rahul meets farmers in Greater Noida
    Greater Noida, May 11 (PTI): Giving the police a slip, Rahul Gandhi rode pillion on a motorcyle in dark just before dawn on Wednesday to the epicentre of violent clashes in this district and met farmers protest
  • Bhopal tragedy: SC refuses to re-open case
    NEW Delhi, may 11 (Agencies): The Supreme Court turned down on Wednesday a government demand to re-open the case into the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and hand harsher sentences to seven men convicted of negligence.
  • Campus @NIIT Dimapur for GenPact
    DIMAPUR, MAY 11 (MExN): NIIT Dimapur Center is pleased to organize Campus recruitments for NIITians for Multi-National Company Genpact on Thursday the12th May’11 from 11.00 a.m. onwards. This was informed