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Kingfisher-Jet announce mega alliance
In the biggest consolidation in the country's airspace, Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways Monday night announced an alliance aimed at cost cutting and synergising their operations.
Realty market set to bounce back
The liberalised economy and a robust demand for real estate across sectors are key factors that will make the market more reliable for investments in future, says Prabhakar Sinha.The slowdown in the real estate sector will not last long. Cushman & Wakefield's Real Estate Investment report for 2008,The Metamorphosis, points out that in the long-term perspective, strong demand for real estate will remain intact in India. ...
Durga Puja celebrations come to an end in West Bengal
Five days of Durga Puja festivities finally ended as West Bengal bid a tearful adieu to the goddess and her children Thursday, marking another yearlong wait for her autumnal homecoming. ...Different lines of thoughts over metro funding model
With an investment to the tune of $13.5 billion required for the future metro projects in the country...
Need to refrain from communal politics in India
India is reeking under increasing communal polarisation and urgent steps to check it are warranted....
Tata announces Nano pullout from West Bengal, unfortunate says India Inc
Ending days of speculation, Tata Motors Friday announced it was pulling out its Nano small car project from West Bengal's troubled Singur and blamed the opposition Trinamool Congress....
CPI-M to launch campaign on Singur imbroglio
Fearing a political fallout of the imbroglio over land acquisition in Singur of West Bengal, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday said it will launch a campaign to clarify its stand on Tata Motor’s Nano car project there....
175 years after death, Rammohun Roy's tomb restored in Britain
After decades of neglect, the newly restored tomb of visionary thinker Raja Rammohun Roy was unveiled Sunday in his resting place in Britain....
N-deal sails through US House with 298-117 vote
The India-US civil nuclear deal cleared one more hurdle Saturday with the US House of Representatives approving implementing the 123 agreement by an overwhelming 298-117 vote....
Buddhadeb for Metro Cash & Carry licence, Forward Bloc protests
West Bengal's ruling Left Front plunged into fresh crisis Friday night with alliance member Forward Bloc saying its ministers would not attend the state secretariat...
Tatas start shifting equipment out of Nano factory
With no solution to the Singur deadlock in sight, Tata Motors has started moving key equipment from its small-car factory at Singur in what appears to signal the group's decision not to roll out the world's cheapest car Nano from West Bengal - at least for the moment....
Pervez Musharraf resigns as president
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf resigned from office Monday, nine years after he toppled the government of Nawaz Sharif in October 1999....
Bindra creates history, wins India's first individual gold in Olympics
Shooter Abhinav Bindra made history Monday, winning India's first individual gold medal in the Olympics, when he won the 10-metre Air Rifle event here....
Terror strikes India's IT hub, one killed in five blasts
A woman seated at a bus stop was killed and at least six people injured Friday in a series of five low intensity bomb blasts in Bangalore's central business district and other crowded areas, police said....
CPI-M expels Speaker Somnath Chatterjee
In a decision that was expected but left political circles stunned, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Wednesday expelled Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee after he defied the party's appeals to give up the post ahead of a trust vote the government won....
Girl paralysed after scolding during reality show
Traumatised over being scolded by a judge during a reality dance competition in Kolkata, 16-year-old Shinjini Sengupta suffered a paralytic attack...
CBI puts Talwar's compounder to lie detector test
The Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) conducted lie detector test on the compounder of dentist Rajesh Talwar, arrested for allegedly killing her teen aged daughter Aarushi...
Sensex bloodbath: Trading below 15000 points
Amid rising crude prices and inflation, the stock market today plunged by over 650 points in early trade on selling in heavy-weight stocks. ...
Preliminary talks between Raj govt and Gurjar likely tomorrow
In the first glimmer of hope for an end to the 16-day-old agitation, Rajasthan government and the Gurjar leadership today agreed to hold preliminary talks in the community stronghold of Bayana in Bharatpur district....
Let Advani hang me, Congress is dillydallying: Afzal Guru
On death row for the last three years, India's most controversial convict, Mohammed Afzal, wants a speedy conclusion to his ordeal and says Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani would act swiftly in deciding his plight one way ...
'No roll back of fuel price hike'
The government on Saturday said that it would not roll back the hike in petrol, diesel and cooking gas prices that was effected on June 5....
Shutdown in Tamil Nadu, J'khand over fuel price hike
A day-long shutdown called by Left parties in Tamil Nadu and Jharkhand against the hike in fuel prices began today. ...
Mamata attacks UPA, Left on petrol price hike
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Thursday slammed the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) for increasing the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas....
Bandh, rains cripple West Bengal
The Weather Gods seemed to be supporting the ruling Left Front government in West Bengal in the 12-hour bandh that was called by the party in the state today to protest the price hike of petroleum products by the Union government....
West Bengal shutdown calls for Thursda
Protesting the central government's decision to hike prices of petroleum products, West Bengal's ruling Left Front gave a call for statewide shutdown Thursday even as the main opposition Trinamool Congress also called for shutdown the next day....
Helpless govt had to hike fuel price: Prime Minister tells nation
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought to temper down the feeling of people after the Centre announced hike in the price of petroleum fuels this morning....
Delhi signs pact with M'bourne to spruce its amenities
In order to facilitate best of civic amenities in the Capital in respect of the Commonwealth Games, scheduled to be held in October 2010, Delhi government has entered into a strategic city alliance with Australian city of Melbourne....
Gurjars rage: Protesters block rail traffic, security beefed up
Gurjar protesters blocked rail traffic by squatting on tracks in violence-hit Dausa district as authorities today tightened security in the affected areas by deploying additional contingents of para- military forces....
Nepal's political chaos not good for India, says BJP
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) considers collapse of Monarchy and victory of democratic forces in Nepal might to be a conern for the security of India. ...