India

  • 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
  • ‘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