India

  • Essar becomes first Indian co to supply plates for warships
    NEW Delhi, may 5 (PTI): Essar Steel on Thursday said it has become the first Indian producer of steel plates approved by the government for supply to the Indian Navy for building strategic war ships. “Ess
  • Baba Ramdev to do Hazare, to launch ‘Satyagraha’
    MUMBAI, May 4 (PTI): Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday said he would undertake a fast unto death in New Delhi on June 4 to demand recovery of black money deposited by Indians in Swiss banks, disclosure of acco
  • ‘Indo-Pakistan dialogue won’t change course’
    NEW Delhi, May 4 (PTI): India today said “momentous” killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan will not change the discourse of Indo-Pak dialogue but made it clear that use of terrorism
  • ‘Post Osama, Dawood is now world’s 2nd most wanted man’
    London, May 4 (PTI): India’s most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai terror attacks, has emerged as the world’s second most wanted man, next only to a Mexican drug lord, a
  • Air India pilots’ strike continues
    NEW DELHI, May 3 (PTI): Air India on Tuesday announced 'no work, no pay' principle will be implemented to counter the pilots' strike that continued to disrupt its flights for the seventh day, as the Delhi high
  • Anti-Naxal ops: Over 2000 retired Armymen to train CRPF
    New Delhi, May 3 (PTI): The government has decided to recruit more than 2000 retired Army personnel to help the CRPF gain expertise in crippling IEDs and hidden landmines while undertaking anti-Naxal operations
  • ‘Pakistan has lot to explain on Osama’
    Kuala Lumpur, May 3 (PTI): Pakistan, which had denied knowledge of Osama bin Laden's whereabouts, had a lot to explain in the aftermath of the killing of the dreaded terrorist on its soil, External Affairs Mini
  • School on ‘Naga Dal’ inaugurated
    Dimapur, May 2 (MExN): The Peren Block ATMA sponsored the programme for inauguration of the Farm School on “Naga Dal” at Lemangki Peren Kipeuzang which was graced by Khrienuo C. Metha, Deputy Commis
  • I am not a Chinese spy in India: Karmapa
    New Delhi, May 2 (PTI): Karmapa Ugyen Thinley Dorje, head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, on Monday rubbished allegations that he was a Chinese spy and expressed readiness to make clarification to any
  • End of the Fourth Afghan War: New Delhi
    A sales person stands in his shop as a TV news reports the killing of Osama bin Laden in Mumbai, May 2. Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of people,
  • Nagaland import livestock products worth Rs. 221.97 crore
    Kohima | May 1 : Nagaland produces 56% of the total requirement worth Rs. 637.71 crores leaving a shortfall of 43.44% as per the Sample Survey Report of 2009-10. Out of this shortfall, the state imported animal
  • GE to introduce 660, 800 MW steam turbines
    NEW Delhi, May 1 (PTI): Looking to strengthen its presence in the fast-growing power sector, General Electric will introduce 660 and 800 MW supercritical steam turbines in India this year. With India targeting
  • E-hospital launched
    Mumbai, May 1 (PTI):  At a time when US President Mr Barack Obama has urged his citizens not to opt for “cheap treatment” in India, two Indian doctors have made it possible for anyone in need a
  • Work without fear or favour: PM tells CBI
    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, looks on along with Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Amar Pratap Singh, right, and Home Minister P. Chidambaram, left, during the inauguration of a new CBI h
  • 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