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Price rise key to national polls schedule: Advani

Sat, 03 May 2008 07:03:00 -0400

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani has said the price rise would be the key to the scheduling of the national polls.

India global leader in polio eradication say Experts

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:37:00 -0400

India leads the world in the progress towards the target of polio eradication in 2008 - the most dangerous type 1 polio virus and appears closest to its goal

Cabinet nod for full membership of international migration body

Fri, 02 May 2008 02:37:00 -0400

India will soon be a full member of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

Govt takes steps on Labour Day for unorganized sector workers

Thu, 01 May 2008 08:13:00 -0400

The government has taken several measures on the occasion of Labour Day for unorganised sector workers for improving social security

Howrah , an inhuman city - man left to die on road

Thu, 01 May 2008 03:30:00 -0400

Citizens of Howrah show criminal indifference; man left to die on road

Indian doctors win historic legal battle against UK govt

Thu, 01 May 2008 03:21:00 -0400

Indian doctors fighting for job parity with European Union medicos won a landmark verdict against the British government on Wednesday

India willing to review 1950 treaty with Nepal

Thu, 01 May 2008 03:20:00 -0400

Foreign Affairs Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on Wednesday said that India was willing to review the 1950 Indo-Nepal peace and friendship treaty under the present circumstances

'Indians will eat what they need'

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:04:00 -0400

Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma, told reporters today that Indians will eat what they need.

PMO did not issue any order to help Baalu: Deora

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:03:00 -0400

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) had not issued any orders to help a firm owned by Shipping and Road Transport Minister T R Baalu's son

'Do not visit Darjeeling this summer'

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:00:00 -0400

Tourists should not visit Darjeeling - the popular hill station of West Bengal - this summer due to unrest, the state's Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Ashok Bhattacharya said today.

IPI pipeline to be finalized soon, says Ahmadinejad

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:10:00 -0400

India and Iran have put their negotiation on fast track and agreed that oil ministers of the three countries (India,Pakistan and Iran) will submit their final reports within 45 days

N-deal likely under new US president: expert

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:55:00 -0400

An American expert on South Asia, Bruce Riedel, who has served in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), says the stalled US-India nuclear agreement is likely to be approved next year under a new US president.

Kidney Racket: CBI files charge sheets against 9 people

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:22:00 -0400

In the infamous kidney transplant case, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday filed a charge sheet against nine persons in the court of Special Judicial Magistrate for CBI cases in Ambala.

India imposes tax on some exports to calm prices

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:49:00 -0400

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday announced several measures to calm prices, imposing export duties on steel, cement and basmati rice and lowering tariff on some raw materials, even as he extended the fiscal sops for software firms by a year more.

No complacency on Chinese border, Antony tells army

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:44:00 -0400

Defence Minister A K Antony today said that there was "no room for complacency" on the Sino-Indian Border while maintaining that India would abide by the bilateral confidence building measures with China.

India takes first steps to define 'refugee'

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:40:00 -0400

After giving asylum to hundreds of thousands of people through the years, India has finally begun the process of defining the term "refugee".

I will urge Musharraf to pardon Sarabjit: Burney

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:33:00 -0400

Ansar Burney, a former caretaker human rights minister who has taken up the cause of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national sentenced to death for staging terrorist acts in Pakistan, is to meet President Pervez Musharraf this week to plead his case.

Advani demands PM's statement on Baalu issue

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:19:00 -0400

Senior BJP leader L K Advani today demanded a statement from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Parliament to clear his position after accusing his Office of being involved in the "scandal" over Shipping Minister T R Baalu allegedly misusing his position.

India must go ahead with n-deal: Brajesh Mishra

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:02:00 -0400

In a strong endorsement of the nuclear deal with the US, former national security advisor Brajesh Mishra has said not signing it would be a "severe loss of face" for India.

India is largest source of CFCs: UN

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:58:00 -0400

India is now the world's largest producer and smuggling source of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), the gas that has created holes in the earth's ozone layer

Harbhajan temporarily suspended from IPL for slapping Sreesanth

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:00:00 -0400

Mumbai Indians stand-in captain Harbhajan Singh was Saturday temporarily suspended from playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) for allegedly slapping Kings XI Punjab paceman Sreesanth.

Banned Kashmiri militant outfits re-emerging in Pak

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:18:00 -0400

Various militant organisations, including the Hizbul Mujahideen, are re-emerging in Pakistan, especially in Karachi, after they remained underground for past several years.

Villagers in bird-flu hit Tripura lament paltry compensation

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:16:00 -0400

Villagers in bird-flu hit Tripura have complained about the lack of adequate compensation from the government, even as culling of poultry continues to stave off avian influenza.

More cross-border routes will be opened: Prime Minister

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:32:00 -0400

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today favoured opening more cross-border routes and said he would take forward the India-Pakistan dialogue process to a level where the two countries could work jointly to end their economic and other problems.

Be patient, inflation will take time to moderate: FM

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:14:00 -0400

As inflation registered an increase again, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said that the measures initiated to control prices would take time to show results and promised more steps to check the price rise

India, Pakistan hope IPI pipeline will begin in 2009

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:08:00 -0400

Ahead of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit here next week, India and Pakistan today gave a much-needed push to the stalled tri-nation pipeline project by reaching consensus

India's inflation up at 7.33 per cent

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:51:00 -0400

India's annual rate of inflation shot up to 7.33 per cent for the week ended April 12 after easing a bit to 7.14 per cent for previous week, official data showed on Thursday.

India not 'client state' of US: CPI

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:14:00 -0400

Sharply reacting to statements by American officials on Iran-India relations, the CPI on Thursday asked the government to make it clear to the US that India is not its "client state"

India to ink deals with Britain, Bangladesh

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:53:00 -0400

India will sign an accord on rules regarding film cooperation with Britain, aimed at promoting co-production of movies, and also an investment promotion pact with Bangladesh.

US hopeful of concluding N-deal under Bush administration

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:52:00 -0400

As uncertainty looms large over the fate of the civil nuclear deal, the US on Thursday said its relations with India would "not rise or fall" on a single issue even as it remained hopeful of wrapping up the agreement under the Bush Administration.