India

  • BJP to launch nationwide campaign against corruption
    Patna, March 12 (PTI): BJP on Saturday announced a nationwide campaign after the assembly polls in five states to expose ‘failure’ of the Congress-led UPA government in tackling issues like corrupti
  • Jaganmohan formally launches party
    HYDERABAD, March 12 (Agencies): Former Congress parliamentarian Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy on Saturday formally launched YSR Congress Party and unveiled its flag at Idupulapaya in his home district of Kadapa in Andh
  • Government to come out with a law to tackle piracy
    New Delhi, March 12 (PTI): With Somali pirates striking at will in the Gulf of Eden, the government is working on a tough law to deal with the problem of sea brigands who still have 53 Indians in their custody
  • Judges should not lecture the society: CJI Kapadia
    Ahmedabad, march 12 (PTI): Chief Justice of India, S H Kapadia, on Saturday said judges must not “give lectures” to the society while doing their job and should not “judge the wisdom of legisl
  • Current level of food inflation ‘unacceptable’
    New Delhi, March 11 (PTI): Terming the current level of food inflation of 9.5 per cent as “unacceptable”, the Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, on Friday said the government has taken several step
  • ‘Pesticides banned abroad used in India’
    NEW Delhi, March 11 (PTI): As many as 67 pesticides that have either been banned or severely restricted by some countries, have been allowed for use on crops in India, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar admitted
  • Law will take its course on black money: Pranab
    NEW Delhi, March 11 (Agencies): Assuring that India has started a process to trace black money stashed away in foreign banks, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Friday the government would work under the
  • We are cooperating with CBI: Kanimozhi
    Chennai, March 11 (PTI): Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi, who was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the 2G
  • Prithvi-II, Dhanush test-fired successfully
    Dhanush, the Naval variant of the Prithvi missile, takes off during its successful launch from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, Orissa on Friday. CHENNAI, March 11 (Agencies): India’s Strategi
  • Shreyans Group official Ferrari importer for India
    NEW Delhi, March 10 (Agencies): The Shreyans Group has officially been appointed as importer for Ferrari in India. The first Ferrari dealership will open its doors in New Delhi in the upcoming spring, and a sec
  • Water Hyacinth Craft Gallery at NEDFi Haat
    Guwahati, March 9 (Agencies): The eco-friendly handicraft products made from water hyacinth (Pani Meteka) will now be available at the NEDFi Haat, Ambari, Guwahati. A press release issued by CABSFORD PR on beha
  • NIIT to host NE mega job fair 2011
    Dimapur, March 9 (MExN): It has always been a continuous effort of NIIT, the global talent development corporation to design various Placement EVENTS exclusively for Graduates and final year of graduation stude
  • Delhi’s Airport Metro makes you fly, marvel passengers
    NEW Delhi, March 9 (Agencies): Mohammad Kamil , a 42-year-old non-resident Indian returning from Saudi Arabia, is in complete awe of the Metro Express that takes one from the New Delhi railway station to the in
  • Akhilesh Yadav arrested in Lucknow
    Lucknow, March 9 (PTI): On the last day of Samajwadi Party’s State-wide agitation against the Mayawati government, party State president Akhilesh Yadav was on Wednesday arrested at the Amausi airport as s
  • BJP walks out of LS over pirates issue
    New Delhi, March 9 (PTI): Unsatisfied over the response of External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna over the plight of 79 Indian sailors held hostage by Somali pirates, the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party on We
  • Police release sketch of DU girl’s shooter
    NEW Delhi, March 9 (PTI): Delhi Police on Wednesday released the sketch of a suspect in the murder of a young girl outside her college but expressed dismay that no one who was present at the scene has come forw
  • Hyderabad braces for Telangana million march
    Hyderabad, March 9 (Agencies): The stage is set for a possible showdown between police and Telangana protesters in Hyderabad on Thursday as the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) has vowed to go ahead with
  • 2G scam: Sibal urges telecom operators to iron out differences
    New delhi, March 8 (PTI): Worried over differences amongst the service providers, particularly, on the issue of spectrum allocation, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday asked them to soon sink their differe
  • Congress aims to shore up govt after ally quits
    New delhi, March 6 (Reuters) - The Congress party moved to shore up its ruling coalition on Sunday after a key partner said its ministers will formally quit the cabinet on Monday, the latest setback for a gover
  • Delhi slum children to study in Australia
    NEW DELHI, March 6 (PTI): If Mumbai’s slum children could walk the red carpet at the prestigious Academy Awards ceremony in 2009 for Danny Boyle’s ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, Delhi’s ur