India News

Straightaway rejecting any possibility of his surrender, controversial RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin on Thursday accused the Bihar Chief Secretary of being prejudiced against him and said that he would petition the Election Commission over "illegal" deletion of his name from the voters' list.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/014A to read the complete article.

It was celebration at one end and separation at the other as a section of the Capital's Bengali community ended their Durga Puja celebrations with the traditional immersion of the goddess's idols into the Yamuna .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0145 to read the complete article.

INDIAN cricket selectors will meet on Thursday to decide whether to retain Saurav Ganguly as captain for this month`s one-day home series against Sri Lanka.The 33-year-old batsman, India`s most successful Test captain, has a mild tennis elbow injury and will undergo a fitness review next Monday.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0141 to read the complete article.

INDIAN tennis sensation Sania Mirza, teaming with Sahar Peer of Israel, reached the second round in the doubles section of the $200,000 Thailand Open tennis tournament, after quashing the challenge of America`s .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0140 to read the complete article.

THE US embassy and consulates in India will carry on business as usual, despite warning American citizens of possible suicide car bombings against US interests in India, a US official has said.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013Z to read the complete article.

The print and electronic media were not allowed to cover Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase's visit to the Coconut Board and Spices Board offices this morning.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013X to read the complete article.

 After a quarter’s lull, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are once again queuing up at the information technology counter.The FIIs had reduced their stakes in frontline IT companies in the first quarter of this financial year.  

 Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013V to read the complete article.

Former Test cricketers and umpires all got together to honour one of India's greatest openers, Vijay Merchant, on his 94th birth anniversary.Organised by the Legends Club.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013R to read the complete article.

IT sector sees delivery volume of 495.12cr in H1FY06.IT, banks, pharmaceuticals, steel and textiles, textile machinery, power, automobile, cement, metals and auto ancillary sectors were high on delivery volumes charts in the first quarter of 2005-06 with a quantum jump in delivery volumes. 

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013M to read the complete article.

Communications and IT ministry scales down target by a third from 3 mn set a year ago.Despite a steep fall in telecom tariffs and the entry of new players like Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013L to read the complete article.

Hyderabad Police are trying to find out whether the youngster who was blown to pieces in an explosion in an upscale neighbourhood that also killed a home guard and injured a constable was a suicide bomber.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013K to read the complete article.

The vice-chairman of Amul has been arrested on charges of cheating the Petlad Mahila Utkarsh Credit Society (PMUCS) of Rs 83 lakhs, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Gordhan Patel was arrested on Sunday .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013J to read the complete article.

Mumbai airport authorities on Tuesday sought the railway's help to slide an Air Sahara plane back on the runway after skidding off on Sunday.Air Sahara's stranded Kolkata-Mumbai Boeing 737 missed touchdown .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013I to read the complete article.

Themis Medicare Ltd on Thursday said it has signed an agreement with Iran-based pharmaceutical manufacturing company, Darou Pakhsh Pharma Chem. As per the agreement, the company will supply DPPC with the technology for producing various biotechnological products.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013G to read the complete article.

The textile ministry in collaboration with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and UK-based Department for International Development would implement a five-year programme for chalking out plans for meeting challenges in world trade.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013F to read the complete article.

Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Tuesday made out a strong case against war and armed conflict while addressing a British Parliamentary delegation, now on a visit to India.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013E to read the complete article.

The Central Bureau of Investigation will take up the extradition of the prime suspects in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and Mumbai serial blasts through Interpol, according to U. S. Misra, its director.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013D to read the complete article.

Defence scientists will test-fire next year India's most sophisticated ballistic missile, Agni, with a power plant made of composite materials that would considerably reduce the weight of this IRBM class missile.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013C to read the complete article.

The Left parties today decided to resume their participation in the Coordination Committee following UPA Government's decision not to sell shares of public sector BHEL and other navratna companies.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013B to read the complete article.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday appealed to the nation to donate generously in order to ensure quick and maximum help to the earthquake victims in Jammu and Kashmir. He also assured all help and support to Pakistan in providing relief and rebuilding its quake-ravaged areas.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/013A to read the complete article.

Winter is round the corner and it brings along the fear of influenza or flu. Characterized by fever, cold, cough, a runny nose and body ache, it lasts between 7 to 10 days.Though the flu can hit anybody, it is the young children and the elderly who are most at risk.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0139 to read the complete article.

A Bihar-based gangster, who had allegedly murdered an engineer and a contractor of the Reliance group in Patna, was shot dead in an encounter in the Capital today.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0138 to read the complete article.

Hyderabad was jolted out of the festival spirit by a powerful bomb blast at the office of the Task Force of the city's police commissioner on Wednesday. A home guard, Satyanarayan was killed in the blast.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0137 to read the complete article.

Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh today underwent a minor surgical procedure on his right hand at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)."The operation was performed to relieve pressure on a nerve near the wrist," PM's Media Adviser Sanjaya Baru said in a statement.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0135 to read the complete article.

A woman was killed when an improvised explosive device, she was suspected to be carrying, exploded in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir today.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0133 to read the complete article.

Downplaying the recent dissidence activity within the Gujarat unit of the party, BJP president L K Advani today asserted it would have no impact on the local elections being held here.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0132 to read the complete article.

Tetley US Holdings, a subsidiary of Tata Tea, has signed an agreement to acquire FMALI Herb Inc and Good Earth Corporation.According to a release issued by Tata Tea to the BSE today, Good Earth Corporation owns the Good Earth brand, which is licensed to FMALI Herb.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012X to read the complete article.

Twenty feature films, including Bollywood movies Paheli, Iqbal and Page3, and 15 non-feature films were recommended on Tuesday for inclusion in the Indian Panorama.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012V to read the complete article.

Last week the company off-loaded 12% stake in favour of Japan-based Yanmar.International Tractors Ltd (ITL) is in talks with three investors in the US and Europe to divest 10 per cent of its equity. The deal is expected to be finalised in a few weeks. 

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012U to read the complete article.

Sterling Biotech, the country’s largest gelatin maker, is building a war chest of over Rs 3,850 crore, to fund its expansion plan. It has recently issued Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCBs) worth $140 million.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012T to read the complete article.

In the first incident of its kind, Indian Army troops on Thursday crossed the Line of Control near Amman Setu to help reconstruct a bunker of Pakistani soldiers at their request, Defence sources said.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012S to read the complete article.

Government said on Wednesday night that "some headway" has been made in the crucial peace talks with major Naga insurgent outfit NSCN (I-M) in Bangkok and the two sides have agreed to hold further parleys in the second half of November.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012Q to read the complete article.

Forward Deepak Thakur and goalkeeper Devesh Chauhan are the notable omissions in the list of 46 players announced by the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) on Tuesday for the camp in preparation .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012P to read the complete article.

V.V.S. Laxman and Suresh Raina lent quality to the ongoing Kingfisher Challenger Series with innings of pristine composition. It was unfortunate for India `B' bowlers to have encountered two batsmen of strikingly .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012O to read the complete article.

Former Miss Jammu Anara Gupta,who was embroiled in a controversy around pornographic films, will now feature in a hindi movie being made by a prominent Bollywood director.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012N to read the complete article.

Widespread rains occurred across the State on Wednesday as the North-East monsoon set in over Kerala.Several low-lying areas in the city have been flooded in the heavy rains that began on Tuesday night. However, no casualties were reported so far.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012M to read the complete article.

Buoyed by the continuous rainfall in the catchment areas and in the ayacut during the last three days, the Public Works Department has decided to save `bounded-water' by stopping the release of water from the Vaigai dam for irrigation.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012L to read the complete article.

Indian contemporary art has been seeing a range of innovations on the Durga theme. Tyeb Mehta’s Mahisasura, which recently created a splash at the Christie’s New York sale with a $1.6m price tag, is a glorious .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012K to read the complete article.

Recently, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) proposed a Rs 8,000-crore subsidy for creating necessary infrastructure in rural areas to raise the teledensity there from the current sub-2% to 15% by ‘07.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012J to read the complete article.

A perplexing ambience prevailed throughout the day as the festive zeal of pandal-hoppers mingled with the gloom of bidding adieu to goddess Durga as Mahanabami gave way to Bijoya Dashami.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012I to read the complete article.

BJP leaders have finally begun to speak their mind on the attempt to whip up a debate on ties with RSS, with party general secretary, Pramod Mahajan, publicly setting his face against it.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012H to read the complete article.

After playing havoc with flight schedules for 60 hours, forcing 30 diversions and countless delays, the Air Sahara plane that overshot the runway on Sunday night in Mumbai was dragged back by 40 feet this evening and it is expected to clear the runway by tonight.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012G to read the complete article.

Two security personnel, including a police head constable, were killed when some gelatine sticks caught fire and exploded at Police Commissioner's Task Force office in Hyderabad's Begumpet area today.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012F to read the complete article.

Referring to the ongoing spat between Shiv Sainiks and supporters of expelled Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra Revenue minister, Narayan Rane, the party supremo Bal Thackeray today warned that Sena workers would retaliate if they were attacked.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012E to read the complete article.

India's pace spearhead Irfan Pathan's elevation as opener in the opening match of the NKP Salve Trophy Challenger series on eve of the seven-match limited-overs series against Sri Lanka was a calculated move.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012D to read the complete article.

The Supreme Court verdict declaring the dissolution of Bihar assembly 'unconstitutional'is no guarantee that such midnight deliberations on dismissal of elected state governments won’t take place in future.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012C to read the complete article.

Army troops on Wednesday reached hitherto inaccessible areas in quake-battered Jammu and Kashmir and volunteers and NGOs chipped in to help the state government in providing succors to the victims even as deaths .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012B to read the complete article.

A 25-year-old woman has been gangraped in the parking lot of the Delhi Metro near the walled city area of the Capital.The woman was reportedly dragged inside a car near Jama Masjid but then taken to the parking lot of the Shastri Park metro station and gangraped.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/012A to read the complete article.

With less than a week to go before the first phase of polls in Bihar, there seems to be a last spurt in what has been a singularly lacklustre campaign. The UPA in the state is bringing in their Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to address a series of meetings on October 15.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0123 to read the complete article.

All four left parties will meet in the capital today to decide on whether to join back the UPA-Left coordination committee. The meeting comes a week after Congress President Sonia Gandhi gave the Left a written .

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0122 to read the complete article.

Fresh tremors were felt at about 1:50 am (IST) in Jammu and Kashmir today, especially in Uri and Tangdhar, causing panic among survivors of the Saturday's earthquake.

Click the following link http://ww4.6URL.com/0121 to read the complete article.