India

  • Entire family of Karunanidhi be charge sheeted: Jayalalithaa
    Chennai, April 30 (PTI): Tearing into her arch-rival and Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s “convoluted defence” of his daughter Kanimozhi on the 2G scam issue, AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa today d
  • PAC draft report indicts Raja, slams PMO
    File Photo: DMK MP M.K. Kanimozhi addresses the media after the high level committee meeting of the party in Chennai on Wednesday. New Delhi, April 27 (PTI): The Public Accounts Committee has, in a draft r
  • Air India pilots go on strike: ICPA derecognized
    New Delhi, April 27 (PTI): About 800 pilots belonging to the erstwhile Indian Airlines went on a strike early today demanding pay parity with Air India pilots and better working conditions, leading to cancellat
  • ‘India determined to eliminate terrorism, piracy’
    Port Louis, April 26 (PTI):  India has said it is determined to fight and eliminate the menace of terrorism and piracy in cooperation with international community. In her address to the National Assembly o
  • Justice Dinakaran moves Supreme Court against impeachment
    New Delhi, April 26 (PTI): Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking stay of the impeachment proceedings initiated against him for alleged misconduct and corrupti
  • India vulnerable to hepatitis
    AGARTALA, April 26 (Agencies): India is very vulnerable to hepatitis as it is yet to initiate a mass vaccination programme to check the disease, experts say, pointing out that half the world’s children wh
  • ‘Rising prices might push millions into poverty’
    New Delhi, April 26 (PTI): Rising food prices in India might push millions of people into extreme poverty, multilateral lending agency the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned in a report released on Tuesday
  • Sathya Sai Baba: A secular spiritual leader
    Devotees mourn near the body of Hindu holy man Sathya Sai Baba during a public viewing at the Prasanthi Nilayam Ashram in Puttaparti, April 25. Thousands of devotees are thronging to the southern Indian headqua
  • Kanimozhi charged with conspiracy in 2G scam by CBI
    NEW Delhi, April 25 (Agencies): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday named five more people, including Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi, co-accused in the case i
  • Police officer implicates Modi in Guj riots
    NEW DELHI, April 23 (agencies): A senior Gujarat cadre police officer, Sanjiv Rajendra Bhatt, has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court stating that Chief Minister Narendra Modi directed top police officers o
  • Salman Khurshid rules out changes in Lokpal committee
    NEW Delhi, April 23 (PTI): Amid roiling controversy over Lokpal Bill drafting committee members, Union minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday ruled out any changes in the panel and said the government is looking
  • Highest number of political killings take place in Bengal: Pranab Mukherjee
    Katwa, April 23 (Agencies): Criticising law and order situation in West Bengal, senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee today alleged that highest number of political killings occurred in the state under the Le
  • 57 Indian firms in Forbes Global 2000 list
    WASHINGTON, April 23 (Agencies): As many as 57 Indian companies including Reliance Industries, State Bank of India and Oil & Natural Gas Corp. figure in The Forbes Global 2000 list of public companies b
  • Toyota to scale down production in India
    NEW DELHI, April 23 (Agencies): Japan’s Toyota Motor will cut production at its Indian subsidiary by up to 70% between April 25 and June 4 due to disruption of supplies following last month’s earthq
  • Sikkim CM to launch unique Sikkim Studies Prog
    Dimapur, April 21 (MExN): The Chief Minister of Sikkim, Pawan Chamling, will launch a unique Sikkim Studies Programme at the Centre for North East Studies in Jamia Millia Islamia on Monday, April 25 at 11 AM.Ch
  • VIPSEAL now in state capital
    Chris Kire, vice president , Kohima Chamber of Commerce & Industries, posing for lens along with the Proprietors of M/S. TYRE MAGIC, Authorised Dealer of VIPSEAL (a puncture-proof sealant) during the launch
  • Airtel digital TV HD set top boxes are 3D ready!
    DIMAPUR, April 21 (MExN): Airtel digital TV- the DTH service from Bharti Airtel has announced that all its High Definition (HD) set top boxes are 3D ready. The initiative reinforces Airtel digital TV’s fo
  • Cocoon Bank for Vanya Silks inaugurated
    Dimapur, April 20 (DIPR): The Department of Sericulture inaugurated Cocoon Bank for Vanya Silks at Signal Angami Village, Dimapur on April 20. While inaugurating the new building, Member Secretary, Central Silk
  • Jaitapur project: Sena bandh turns violent
    RATNAGIRI/MUMBAI, April 19 (PTI): Violence and arson marked the Shiv Sena-sponsored bandh in Ratnagiri district on Tuesday against the police firing on anti-nuclear power project demonstrators in Jaitapur. Proh
  • Indian doc’s book on cancer wins Pulitzer Prize
    File Photo: India-born Siddhartha Mukherjee who won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction for his latest book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”. BOSTON, april 19 (PTI):