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CPM favours long term political alternative to Congress, BJP
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) today said it was not in favour of cobbling a "cut and paste" third front for elections, but wanted to establish a long term political alternative to the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Exchange of prisoners' list to be done on monday
India and Pakistan would exchange the lists of prisoners languishing in each other's jails on Monday. According to the Indian Government, currently 372 Indian fishermen and around 199 other Indians are in Pakistani jails....
China potential threat number one: Fernandes
Describing as an "error" the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government's decision to recognise Tibet as a part of China, former defence minister George Fernandes has said the Communist nation was "potential threat number one" to India and flayed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) dispensation for allowing it to be "bullied"....
Kashmir is central issue: Pak PM
The newly sworn in Pakistan Prime Minister Makhdoom Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the success of the confidence building measures introduced jointly by his country and India since 2004 would depend on the resolution of the Kashmir dispute....
IIM-A to hike fee by over 100 per cent for PGP programme
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has decided on Saturday more than 100 per cent hike in the fees for its post graduate programme from next academic year....Dalai Lama says China deserves to host Olympic games
According to the Tibetan spiritual leader and head of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, Dalai Lama; despite the killing of innocent Tibetans, China deserves to host the Olympic games....
Culling begins in Jalpaiguri after bird flu outbreak
Culling of affected birds began at Jalpaiguri on Friday after bird flu was confirmed in the district. A day before Holi the blood samples of dead chicken from Mondolghat, close to Jalpaiguri was sent to Bhopal for examination. The reports, which came back on Thursday afternoon, confirmed a blood flu outbreak in the district. ...
CPI-M wants to undo India-US military alliance
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is committed to opposing the India-US military alliance and the civil nuclear deal, party general secretary Prakash Karat said today while criticising the central government that his party supports from outside. The CPI-M chief's inaugural address at the party's 19th congress was marked by a strong reminder of the Left's role in Indian politics, as he asked around 700 delegates assembled at Anil Biswas Nagar in the city to "disentangle India from the strategic embrace of the US"....
Big B reacts to verbal attack
Close on the heels of repeated verbal assaults by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, Raj Thackeray, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan today said that it is his fundamental right to live anywhere in the country....
Government announces the locations of 4 IITs and 6 IIMs
Government today announced the location of four new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), six new Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and 14 Central Universities. The new IITs will come up in Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Punjab, while the IIMs will be set up in Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Haryana....
Viru follows Bradman and Lara, creates history
Flamboyant opener Virender Sehwag created history and blazed the quickest triple hundred in the 126-year-old Test cricket history in Chennai on Friday. Sehwag becomes only the third batsman and joins the elite club of Sir Donald Bradman and Brian Lara, to pass 300 twice in Test cricket. Matthew Hayden took 362 balls against Zimbabwe in 2003 and Walter Hammond an estimated 355 in New Zealand in 1933....
Lashkar-e-Toiba takes over D-Company: report
The notorious 'D-Company' is now officially part of the Lashkar-e-Toiba's terror network, with Pakistan's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) getting Dawood Ibrahim to merge his gang with the fundamentalist terror organisation as part of a gameplan to crank up its anti-India campaign, according to a report published prominently in a national daily in India on Friday....
Mithun Chakraborty unveils Royal Bengal Tigers
Actor Mithun Chakraborty on Thursday promised to take his Indian Cricket League (ICL) team, Royal Bengal Tigers, to various districts of West Bengal for charity matches and convert the side into a "winning machine". Speaking at a grand re-launch of Kolkata Tigers as Royal Bengal Tigers, which the Bollywood megastar of the 1980s has bought for a fortune, he said: “I have several plans with the side. But that would be seen in June.”...
Cabinet approves Farmers' Debt Relief Fund
The central government today has decided to set up a Farmers' Debt Relief Fund with an initial corpus of Rs 10,000 crore to implement the farm loan waiver scheme announced in the general budget to help about four crore peasants....
Top SIMI leaders held by Spl Task Force in Indore
Special Task Force (STF) of Madhya Pradesh Police today achieved a major breakthrough when they caught hold of All India General Secretary of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Safdar Nagori in the city. He was arrested along with SIMI's southern zone chief, Qibli, with ten other members of the banned student organisation....
Jalpaiguri declared bird flu-affected
Jalpaiguri became the third district to be declared bird flu-hit for the second time after Malda and Murshidabad, with death of 112 chicken reported from its Sadar sub-division, official sources said on Thursday....
Takeover tycoon Tata gets JLR for USD 2.3 billion
Creating history, India's top corporate Tatas today acquired luxury auto brands -- Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) -- from Ford Motor for USD 2.3 billion, stamping their authority as a takeover tycoon....
Maruti Suzuki launches Swift DZire
India's leading car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki, today launched its new entry level sedan Swift DZire in the national capital, with plans to consolidate its position in the big-car segment. Having a 1.3 litre engine, DZire is another edition of Maruti's other models in the series of Swift and SX4, but unlike previous models DZire is more powerful....
Tata Motors acquires Jaguar, Land Rover
Homegrown auto major Tata Motors has clinched the Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) deal estimated to be valued between 2-2.5 billion dollars....
'India keen on nuclear deal, but not at the cost of government'
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday reiterated India's desire to implement its stalled civil nuclear deal with the US, but made clear that the ruling coalition was not prepared to sacrifice the government for it. Addressing a press conference at the end of his two day visit to the US in the city, the Minister said, “At this juncture I cannot indicate any time frame by which we can complete the process of resolving problems with the government's Left supporters who are opposed to the deal.”...
SC to form Special Investigating Team for post Godhra riots cases
Giving hopes to the godhra riots victims who time and again have questioned the sincerity and intentions of Gujarat police in the investigation of the post Godhra riot cases, the Supreme Court today indicated that it will form a new special investigated team (SIT), which will further investigate the major cases of Gujarat riots....
India won't allow a separate Tamil state: Sri Lankan PM
India will never allow a separate independent state for Tamils to be carved out from Sri Lanka, the island's Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayaka said. "It should be borne in mind that India will never allow a separate independent state for Tamils in Sri Lanka because such a development will have a disastrous effect in India," Wickremanayaka, who is the first Sri Lankan Prime Minister to visit Israel, said while addressing a gathering....
Goa decides to hand over Scarlett murder case to CBI
Under pressure on the credibility of the police probe, Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat has said that the state government is willing to hand over the the case of death of British teenager, Scarlett Eden Keeling, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)...
US to continue work with India on nuclear deal
India has briefed the US about its political constraints that have stalled their landmark civil nuclear deal while assuring it that it was still "interested in implementing the agreement". "We are interested in implementing the landmark agreement reached between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W Bush" in July 2005 and March 2006, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters after a 30-minute meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the city....
CPM not against nuclear energy says Sitaram Yechury
The Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M) today said that it was never against nuclear energy per se but asked how the Indo-US nuclear deal would help India in this field....
Yousaf Raza Gilani selected as the Pakistan's new prime minister.
Pakistan's Parliament has elected former speaker and Bhutto loyalist Yousaf Raza Gilani as the nation's new prime minister. Gilani was a longtime aide to slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, whose party now dominates the legislature after last month's elections. He spent five years in prison under President Pervez Musharraf....
Shivani Bhatnagar murder case: R K Sharma and 3 others convicted
In a murder trial which saw continuous changing of judges and witnesses turning hostile, a Delhi court today convicted R K Sharma and three others in the high profile Shivani Bhatnagar murder case. Shivani Bhatnagar, a Delhi based journalist was allegedly killed by some miscreants on directions of Sharma, an IPS officer, who wanted to detain some important documents of Prime Minister Office from her (Shivani's) possession....
Govt committed to developing nuke energy: PM
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Monday said his government was committed to developing nuclear energy as part of a multi-pronged strategy for energy security as the country could not depend on just one or two sources to meet the growing demand for power....Hundreds of Tibetans gather at Sino-India border at Nathu La, Rangpo
Over four hundred Tibetans on Monday gathered at Rangpo checkpost bordering West Bengal in a bid to enter Sikkim, to take their 'peace march' upto the Sino-India border at Nathu La, to express solidarity with their counterparts in Tibet....
Red Ribbon Express , the AIDS awareness train to arrive at Howrah
Red Ribbon Express (RRE), a seven-coach train, aimed at creating AIDS awareness across the country, is scheduled to arrive at Howrah station on 24 March. ...- NYT slams Indo-US nuclear deal
- Chatwal plans mega hotel projects in Punjab
- WBJEE 2008 - West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination 2008
- 500 TCS staffers resign
- Divisive politics will lead us nowhere: PM
Perry Barber
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28 September, 2008 07:12:03
Revathi rocks! As a woman who has been umpiring baseball here in the United States and all over the world since 1981, I can appreciate ...
samaritan India
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24 September, 2008 01:59:19
MR.Moily Junior ,Inspite of being a Senior politician.
Can you elaobarate his biodata to become prime minister of this country. Can you compare his bio data ...
Verona Pinto
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15 September, 2008 08:29:46
The news was very informative & has shocked mainly Mangaloreans worldwide. The TV channels were stifled and only some news is trickling in now via ...
surfer surfer
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10 September, 2008 03:24:44
I found this interesting article on a Ladakh Website. Its worth looking at.
http://www.makephpbb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=160&mforum=lsud
Brad Peck
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09 September, 2008 01:55:10
Akbar Khalid, with the U.S.–India Business Council, gives an excellent rebuttal to this flawed NYT editorial. http://www.chamberpost.com/2008/09/a-good-deal-wit.html
