India

  • WikiLeaks expose set to rock Parliament
    NEW Delhi, March 21 (PTI): The cash-for-vote scam is expected to cast its shadow on Parliament on Tuesday with the BJP planning to move a privilege motion against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for allegedly mis
  • Six little-known email tricks for greater productivity
    Mumbai, March 21 (Agencies): For most of us, attending to e-mail is not just an optional part of our daily routine. It’s a requirement - and sometimes not a pleasant one. That’s why it makes sense t
  • Carmakers to increase prices
    New Delhi, March 19 (PTI): The beginning of the next financial year (2011-12) will see top carmakers increasing their prices due to growing input cost which is affecting their bottomlines. While Tata Motors has
  • 15 Dmr NIITians short-listed in reputed orgs
    Dimapur, March 19 (MExN): Fifiteen NIITians of NIIT Dimapur Centre were short-listed in reputed organizations in the recently held NIIT’s Mega North-East IT Job Fair at Handique College, Guwahati. A press
  • After Congress, BJP hit by WikiLeaks disclosure
    New Delhi, march 19 (PTI): BJP was on Saturday hit by the Wikileaks expose with US diplomatic cables stating that the party leadership had told them that its criticism of the US in public was to score “ea
  • Corruption, land-grab among 16 charges slapped on Justice Dinakaran
    New Delhi, March 20 (Agencies): Corruption, land-grab and abuse of judicial office are among the 16 charges framed against Justice P.D. Dinakaran, facing removal proceedings in Parliament. A three-member commit
  • AIADMK seals seat-sharing deals with Left
    CHENNAI, March 19 (PTI): Seeking to mollify allies miffed over its “unilateral” announcement of candidates for 160 constituencies, AIADMK today concluded seat sharing arrangements with the Left part
  • Karmapa’s office hands over $150,000 to ED
    Dharamsala, March 19 (Agencies): Over a month after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out raids at the monastery where the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje is residing and recovered huge amounts of unacc
  • Sonia calls Maya symbol of women’s empowerment
    NEW Delhi, March 19 (Agencies): Congress chief Sonia Gandhi elevated arch-rival Mayawati to a pedestal by identifying to a global audience the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh as a big symbol of women’s em
  • Cong seeks more time from TMC
    New Delhi, March 19 (PTI): Taken by surprise, Congress today said it has sought more time to resolve the differences with its ally Trinamool Congress which has made a unilateral decision to announce a list of c
  • JD-S levels another allegation against CM Yeddyurappa
    Bangalore, March 19 (PTI): In a further jolt to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, the JD-S on Saturday accused him of receiving Rs 13 crore “kickback” through two private firms owned by his family, fr
  • PM rejects WikiLeaks exposé
    NEW Delhi, March 18 (PTI): Strongly rejecting allegations of bribery during the 2008 Trust Vote, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said nobody from the Congress or the government engaged in any “unl
  • Women’s voices should be heard in climate change debate: Sonia
    London, March 18 (PTI): Women’s voices should be heard in the ongoing global climate change debate as they have played a stellar role in raising environmental consciousness, Congress President Sonia Gandh
  • Talwars to face trial for Aarushi’s murder
    New Delhi, March 18 (Agencies): In a big setback for Aarushi’s parents, the Allahabad High Court, Friday, rejected two spate petitions filed by Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, thereby paving way for the starting
  • Mamata goes ahead with her list, leaves only 64 seats for Cong
    Kolkata, March 18 (Agencies): Trinamool Congress on Friday unilaterally announced candidates for 228 constituencies for the Assembly elections in West Bengal, leaving 64 seats to Congress and remaining two to a
  • NPPA revises prices of drugs: 62 medicines to cost more
    NEW Delhi, March 17 (PTI): The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) today said it has increased prices of 62 drugs, which are mainly based on indigenously manufactured insulin, giving a filip to dom
  • Home, auto loans to cost more as RBI hikes rates
    Mumbai, March 17 (Agencies): Home, auto and corporate loans are likely to become expensive in the next fiscal following the RBI’s move to raise key policy rates by 25 basis points, bankers said today. 
  • CNET’s list of 10 popular smart phones with highest radiation
    New Delhi, March 17 (Agencies): Cellphones cause brain cancer, dementia and have other side effects, these are the results of some umpteen studies. However, most of such studies have remained largely inconclusi
  • Have 5m to spare? You can now settle in UK in no time
    LONDON, March 17 (TNN): The British Conservative party pro-rich bias appears intact if its latest immigration policy is any indication. Under a fast track scheme,any foreigner willing to park 5 million pounds i
  • US should stop looking at J-K through security prism: Omar Abdullah
    Jammu, March 17 (Agencies): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said the US should stop looking at the state only through the “prism of security” and should identify ways for extend