India

  • Airfare to rise along with fuel price: Praful Patel
    NEW Delhi, January 18 (ET): Aviation Minister Praful Patel has clearly stated that if the fuel price rises, then the airfare would also rise and the government would not allow exorbitant fares to be charged at
  • IIPM creates the magic again
    Dimapur, January 18 (MExN): The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) had received placement offers for the students, 2009-11 batches from top recruiters which included international offers as well
  • Trial to begin in Mattel-MGA case over Bratz dolls
    SANTA ANA, Calif, January 18 (AP): It's a fight over toys, but the involved parties aren't kids. Attorneys for toy giant Mattel Inc. and bitter rival MGA Entertainment Inc. are set to present opening statements
  • Rahul’s call to fight against BSP govt
    Lucknow, January 18 (Agencies): The Congress general secretary and MP from Amethi, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday called upon the party workers to wage relentless battle against BSP government in UP. Rahul Gandhi said
  • Trinamool MPs protest hike
    Activists of India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party resist a police water canon during a protest against rise in fuel prices, in New Delhi on January 18.  (AP Photo) Kolkata, January 18
  • ‘Pak using terror as instrument of state policy’
    New Delhi, January 18 (PTI): India has hit out at Pakistan for pursuing terrorism as an “instrument of state policy”, saying such a strategy was “flawed and self-defeating”. Foreign Secr
  • Bihar to get its own anthem
    Patna, January 18 (agencies): The people of Bihar will soon have an anthem they could call their own. The state’s remarkable turnaround in the past five years has spurred the Nitish Kumar government to pr
  • $104 billion black money taken out of country
    Washington, January 18 (Agencies): India with a total illegal capital flight of $104 billion during 2000-08 ranked fifth in Asia with the largest portion of global outflows at almost a half-trillion dollars in
  • Teenagers in rural Rajasthan under unsafe sex shadow
    Jaipur |  January 18 : The increasing trend of teenagers indulging in sex is not just an urban phenomenon. A recent survey in rural Rajasthan shows pre-marital sex is rampant among youngsters in the 13-19
  • Girl raped by schoolmates in moving car
    GHAZIABAD, January 18 (TNN): Three teenagers abducted an 18-year-old girl of their college, raped her for two hours in a moving car and dropper her off, threatening to kill her if she told anyone. Police arrest
  • Waive off immunity for ‘Wife-beater’ diplomat Anil Verma, UK tells India
    LONDON, January 17 (PTI): Britain on Monday asked India to waive off the diplomatic immunity for Anil Verma, a senior Indian diplomat accused of assaulting his wife, saying it does not tolerate envoys working i
  • HC pulls up state govt over Sabarimala stampede
    Thiruvananthapuram, January 17 (Agencies): The Kerala high court on Monday expressed anguish over neglecting its warning on Sabarimala and directed the state government to submit a report on Friday’s stam
  • Congress never cared for poor, says Gadkari
    Bhubaneswar, January 17 (Agencies): The Congress party was never serious about the problems of the poor and peasants in the country, Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari said here on Monday. After rul
  • UPA in Mamata’s line of fire over petro price hike
    Kolkata, January 17 (HT): Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, the Congress’s biggest partner in the ruling UPA government, on Sunday slammed the decision to hike petroleum prices, saying her party h
  • HC reserves order on Kasab’s appeal against death sentence
    MUMBAI, January 17 (PTI) : After hearing arguments for three months, the Bombay High Court on Monday reserved till February 7 its order on the appeal filed by Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab against the death s
  • PM meets Prez, fuels reshuffle speculation
    NEW DELHI, January 17 (PTI): A reshuffle of the Union council of ministers with a few inductions is likely to take place later this week. An indication of this came after a meeting between Prime Minister Manmoh
  • Abolish crude oil customs duty to avoid price hikes: Oil cos
    New Delhi, January 16 (PTI): Finding a Rs 5.50 per litre hike in petrol prices over the past one month insufficient to cover their under-recoveries on fuel sales, oil marketing companies have demanded the aboli
  • Mitsubishi Motors to raise output in India, Brazil
    New Delhi, January 16 (Agencies): Mitsubishi Motors will streamline production in Japan, the United States and Europe while increasing output in emerging markets including Brazil and India, a report said Saturd
  • No SEBI ban on me or my firms: Ambani
    Mumbai, January 16 (PTI): Anil Ambani on Sunday claimed that his two group firms - Reliance Infra and RNRL - settled the SEBI probe voluntarily and the regulator has not imposed any ban on the companies or thei
  • DoT moots up to Rs. 2 crore penalty on unlawful phone tapping
    New Delhi, January 16 (PTI): Amid a debate over phone-tapping and making conversations public without authorisation, the Telecom Ministry has proposed a penalty of up to Rs. 2 crore on unlawfully tapping, as ag