New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The fourth phase of the Jharkhand assembly elections will be held Saturday. Some facts:...
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:50:01 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) In another sign of robust recovery in the Indian economy, the country's industrial output is projected to have expanded 10.3 percent in October, as per the latest official data released Friday.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:40:01 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 11 : Authorities, during a raid on Thursday rescued about 57 children, who were working in factories in New Delhi.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:19 -0500

Srinagar, Dec 11 : Renowned Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh left the locals spellbound by his soul stirring ghazals during a concert held on the banks of the scenic Dal Lake in Kashmir.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:09 -0500

Siliguri, Dec 11 : Renowned freestyle footballers from Ireland and Sweden recently attended a nation-wide hunt in India to tap players who have mastered the art of ball control and other manoeuvres here.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:07 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 11 : The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards will be held in Toronto from June 16-19, 2011.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:06 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 11 : Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi has said that Pakistan players under contract with IPL clubs need to go through the auction process, to play in the 2010 season.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:03 -0500

Srinagar, Dec 11 (IANS) Nine people, including a 14-year-old youth, were injured Friday as protesters clashed with the police in Srinagar following a shutdown call by hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:02 -0500

Raipur, Dec 11 (IANS) Six people, including two schoolchildren, have tested positive for swine flu in Chhattisgarh, a health official said Friday.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday sought a roadmap from the government on a proposal to carve out a separate Telangana state from Andhra Pradesh, saying parliament should be taken into confidence on the move.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:30:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) would start a new course on environmental law from July 2010, a varsity official said Friday.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:10:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Emraan Hashmi is all set to change his serial kisser image with his upcoming film 'Once Upon A Time In Mumbai' - he will flaunt six-pack abs and will be seen challenging an underworld don.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:10:02 -0500

Hyderabad, Dec 11 (IANS) Tension prevailed at the Andhra Pradesh High Court as lawyers Friday clashed over the formation of a separate Telangana state.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:00:02 -0500

Raipur, Dec 11 (IANS) Seven armed Maoists were killed in a fierce 10-hour long gun battle with the Special Task Force (STF) Friday in a forested stretch of Chhattisgarh's troubled Bastar region, police said.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:50:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) calls him 'Mr. Latin America'. And in Latin America, Rengaraj Viswanathan, India's ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, is hailed for boosting business ties with India.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:50:02 -0500

Srinagar, Dec 11 : Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Yaseen Malikas sought troops withdrawal from the Kashmir Valley and space for genuine political talks.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:40:13 -0500

New Delhi/Hyderabad, Dec 11 : A shutdown has been called in coastal Andhra and Rayalseema districts today in protest against the Centre's decision to give its nod for initiating the process for the formation of a Telangana State.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:40:11 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) A key benchmark index of the Indian equities markets plummeted Friday to rule 83 points in the red around noon as investors booked profits.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:30:01 -0500

Islamabad, Dec. 11 : Pakistan has expressed concern over the latest nuclear energy deal between India and Russia, saying it has a legitimate interest in ensuring that a strategic balance is maintained in the region.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:30:06 -0500

Lucknow, Dec 11 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi arrived here Friday and headed to her constituency Rae Bareli to evaluate the implementation of developmental schemes there, a party official said.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:20:04 -0500

Hyderabad, Dec 11 (IANS) Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao was discharged from the hospital Friday, a day after he broke a 11-day fast-unto-death demanding a separate Telangana state.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:20:03 -0500

London, December 11 : India will soon have its very own music awards on the lines of the Grammys.
ANI Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:00:03 -0500

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 11 (IANS) The Kerala Police hopes to arrest more suspects in the wake of revelations by Laskhar-e-Taiba's arrested south India chief T. Nazeer, a senior officer said Friday.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:50:03 -0500

Lucknow, Dec 11 (IANS) Maoists have beheaded a 25-year-old man after branding him a police informer in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district, police said Friday.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:40:02 -0500

Chennai, Dec 11 (IANS) One North East, a London-based development agency, is wooing Indian companies to set up operations in the 'cost-effective' northeastern region of England.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:30:03 -0500

Patna, Dec 11 (IANS) Here's one place where the rural jobs scheme is scripting a green success story. Around 60,000 people in Bihar's Tirhut division are busy looking after 12 million plants and are being paid for it.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:20:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) The capital woke up to a foggy morning Friday with the minimum temperature remaining above average. The met department predicts dense fog over the weekend.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:03 -0500

Shimla, Dec 11 (IANS) A thin layer of ice has formed at Shimla's 90-year-old ice skating rink, bringing the promise of fun-filled skating sessions for professionals and tourists alike - something they were unable to enjoy last year due to negligible snow.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:02 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 11 (IANS) A key Indian equities index shot up 126 points soon after opening Friday.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:02 -0500

Hyderabad, Dec 11 (IANS) As many as 102 members of the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly have submitted their resignations to the speaker to protest the proposed bifurcation of the state.
IANS Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:02 -0500

Guwahati, Dec 11 (IANS) Spurred by New Delhi's attempt at granting a separate Telengana state, several ethnic groups in Assam have raised the banner of revolt with demands for separate states to be carved out of the region.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:10:02 -0500

Bangalore, Dec 11 (IANS) Binge drinkers at Bangalore pubs can now get a safe ride home after some hectic partying, that too for free!...
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:10:01 -0500

Guwahati, Dec 11 (IANS) At least six people were killed and three injured in a group clash over road construction work in Assam, officials said Friday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:50:02 -0500

Panaji, Dec 11 (IANS) Portraying Israeli tourists as a bunch of promiscuous, stingy, drug addicts and peddlers, a new book published by a church-affiliated organisation in Goa is likely to ruffle many feathers.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:30:01 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 11 (IANS) Director Siddharth Anand is excited about shooting Christmas celebrations in a restricted area of New York City with Priyanka Chopra and Ranbir Kapoor for his film 'Anjana Anjanai'. And he hopes it will snow when he cans the scenes.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:20:03 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Police exchanged gunfire with a group of Maoists in a village in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Thursday night. While police said no one was injured, a union minister of the Trinamool Congress claimed one person was killed and six others injured in the gunbattle.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:40:01 -0500

Raipur, Dec 10 (IANS) About 165 junior doctors at Chhattisgarh's biggest hospital, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Government Medical College and Hospital, went on an indefinite strike Thursday bringing medical services to a halt.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:02 -0500

Gandhinagar, Dec 10 (IANS) The Gujarat High Court Thursday dismissed a petition by spiritual guru Asaram Bapu seeking quashing of a case of attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy against him, following the attack on an estranged ex-disciple.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:20:02 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Indian intelligence agencies were checking a Panama-registered cargo ship detained at the Haldia dock near here that was carrying combustible material that can be used as explosives. The 24 members of the vessel's crew are from Pakistan.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:10:02 -0500

Ghaziabad, Dec 10 (IANS) Police in Ghaziabad rescued over 700 endangered species of parrots from a smuggler, who was taking them to Delhi to sell.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:10:02 -0500

Hyderabad/New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The central nod for Telangana triggered varied reactions, from jubilation to disbelief to angry resignations, and led to a domino effect with another regional faction demanding carving Andhra Pradesh up into three parts. Congress president Sonia Gandhi conferred with party leaders on the issue late Thursday night.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:30:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The wife, son and nephew of a Delhi Police sub-inspector have been arrested for kidnapping and murdering a 22-year-old engineering student in west Delhi, officials said Thursday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:50:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Giving relief to a Bangladeshi woman who fled her country to marry an Indian whom she met on the internet, the government Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that they would not deport the woman.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:50:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) A discussion in the Rajya Sabha on the Liberhan Commission's report suddenly came alive at its fag end Thursday with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) objecting to a junior minister speaking on the issue as he was not a member of the house.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:50:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Two legal luminaries locked horns in the Rajya Sabha Thursday, with Home Minister P. Chidambaram cautioning against dividing the country's polity on religious lines and Leader of Opposition Arun Jaitley of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) countering that the minorities needed to be protected but not at the cost of the majority.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:50:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Thursday night called a high-level party meeting at her 10, Janpath residence to discuss the day's developments on the Telangana issue.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:50:02 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) IT services provider Wipro Technologies has accepted the West Bengal government's offer of 50 acres in Rajarhat on the outskirts of the city for setting up its second campus here.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:40:01 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Nine swine flu deaths, including five in Rajasthan, were reported in India Thursday taking the toll due to the Influenza A (H1N1) virus to 675 so far, health authorities said here.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:20:02 -0500

Raipur, Dec 10 (IANS) State-run National Mineral Development Corp (NMDC) has resumed full supply of iron ore after its dispatches were hit for a week becausde of Maoists' celebrations that affected ore supplies by 25-30 percent, officials said Thursday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:20:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Thursday said that all parliamentarians must become spokespersons for health and create awareness about the prevention of various diseases.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:20:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) A group of 27 young students from Mumbai watched proceedings both in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha Thursday and met Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar to build their understanding of the value of parliamentary democracy.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:10:02 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) State-owned diversified company Andrew Yule Thursday completed its 26 percent divestment in Phoenix Yule to Germany-based Contitech Group at Rs.63 crore, a senior company official said here Thursday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:00:03 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal Thursday rejected an appeal of automobile major Mahindra and Mahindra on payment of differential excise duty of Rs.216.03 crore and a penalty of Rs.88.08 crore for its Commander range of vehicles.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:00:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) As India and China face a tough task of tilting the climate change negotiations in favour of developing economies, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Thursday telephoned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to exchange views on the Copenhagen summit.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:00:02 -0500

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 10 (IANS) Kerala will invest about Rs.2,000 crore in two years to develop IT infrastructure to make the state India's 'most sought-after tier II destination for IT', Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said Thursday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:00:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec.10 : A workshop cum exhibition on Low Intensity Conflict (LIC)-Technologies and Products has been organized at DRDO Bhawan in the national capital on Thursday.
ANI Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:50:02 -0500

Hyderabad, Dec 10 (IANS) Politicians from Andhra Pradesh's Rayalaseema region Thursday demanded separate statehood for the backward region, saying they would agree to division of the state to create Telangana only if their demand for Greater Rayalaseema is acceded to.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:40:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Thursday resolutely stood by the Liberhan Commission report on the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, and said the judge had strictly gone by the brief assigned to him.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:40:03 -0500

Agartala, Dec 10 (IANS) State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) Thursday said workers of a private telecom company cut off its huge underground cables here, disrupting its communication network between Tripura and the rest of India.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:40:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) In a bid to spread awareness about climate change and lay stress on a 'binding deal' at the ongoing summit at Copenhagen, a group of NGOs here released 2,000 eco-friendly sky lanterns Thursday evening, lighting up the skies over the national capital.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:40:03 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has said the lines demarcating the jurisdiction of different organs of the state have got blurred due to 'judicial activism', and added that none of the arms should go beyond the role assigned to it by the constitution.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:10:04 -0500

Siliguri (West Bengal), Dec 10 (IANS) With the central nod to Telangana, the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), which has been spearheading the movement for a Gorkhaland state in northern West Bengal, Thursday said the government should also consider their demand. It said it would launch protest programmes in support of its demand from Friday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:10:02 -0500

Guwahati, Dec 10 (IANS) Two powerful explosions, including a grenade attack, in two busy markets in Assam's Sonitpur district Thurday killed four people and left wounded at least 34 others, officials said.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:00:03 -0500

Shimla, Dec 10 (IANS) The Congress has expelled from its Himachal Pradesh unit Shimla deputy mayor Harish Janartha for anti-party activities.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:00:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Sri Lanka Thursday assured India that it will resettle around 300,000 internally displaced Tamil civilians before the end of January 2010 and reiterated its commitment to a political process that can lead to 'lasting peace and reconciliation' in the island nation.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:00:02 -0500

Hyderabad, Dec 10 (IANS) With legislators and MPs from Andhra and Rayalaseema regions resigning en masse to try and stall a resolution on separate Telangana state, the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) Thursday warned against betrayal to the people of the region.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:00:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Terming the act of rape as a 'ghastly crime that ruins the victim's life', a city court Thursday sentenced a man convicted in the sensational Dhaula Kuan rape case to 14 years' rigorous imprisonment.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:40:07 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 : Union Home Minster P Chidambaram said here on Thursday that Telangana issue exposed how people felt neglected by the state government, despite having same language.
ANI Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:30:05 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 : The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the 2010 Commonwealth Games Organisers to be its official partner here on Thursday.
ANI Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:30:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) 'They make it a desolation and call it a peace' - with this line by a Kashmiri-American poet reflecting his thoughts on his state, a Delhi-based women's group sums up its report on the Shopian rape and murder of two women that triggered a massive furore in the Kashmir Valley this year.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:30:02 -0500

Srinagar, Dec.10 : Traders in Jammu and Kashmir are unhappy over the embargo imposed on certain commodities by the Pakistan authorities.
ANI Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:30:02 -0500

Gurgaon, Dec 10 (IANS) Karanjit Singh Sandhu (67, 76, 69) of the DLF Golf and Country Club led the field at the end of round three of the Aircel-PGTI's Final Qualifying Stage for the 2010 season here Thursday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:10:01 -0500

Chandigarh/New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday said it was waiting for the Punjab government's approval to prosecute state assembly Speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon in a corruption case.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:10:01 -0500

New Delhi, Dec.10 : The University of Nebraska is eager to collaborate with Indian educational institutes and universities in the field of research and institute student exchange programmes.
ANI Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:00:03 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 10 : A study team that visited the TATA steel plant in Jamshedpur recently felt that if the company continued the same pace of development the brownfield expansion plant would be completed by mid 2011.
ANI Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:00:02 -0500

Chandigarh, Dec 10 (IANS) India and Sri Lanka cricket teams arrived here Thursday evening for the second Twenty20 international scheduled for Saturday at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium at Mohali.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:50:06 -0500

Mumbai/Karachi, Dec 10 (IANS) The prospects of Pakistani cricketers playing in the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) received a boost after four players, Sohail Tanvir, Misbah-ul-Haq, Umar Gul and Kamran Akmal, were given visas by India's home ministry. They will now have to go through the auction that is slated for Jan 19 in Mumbai.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:50:06 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Thursday passed by voice vote the Essential Commodities (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2009, that seeks to replace the concept of minimum price of sugarcane with the fair and remunerative price (FRP) mechanism.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:40:05 -0500

Bangalore/New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team Thursday questioned Karnataka Tourism Minister G. Janardhana Reddy and raided the offices of his mining company in Bellary as it began a probe into allegations of illegal iron ore mining by his firm.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:40:05 -0500

Guwahati, Dec 10 (IANS) A grenade attack injured two people in Assam's Sonitpur district, hours after a powerful blast ripped through a busy market in the same district killing four people.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:40:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Ankit Bawne struck a defiant century amidst ruins as Maharashtra dug heels here Thursday only to ensure that Delhi return to bat on the fourth and final morning to win their Ranji Trophy Super League tie at the Roshanara Club ground.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:40:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) In a crackdown on sale of mobile phones not having the compulsory International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, Delhi Police Thursday seized over 3,500 such illegal sets in the capital's Karol Bagh market and arrested 23 vendors selling them.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:40:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Sex workers and civil society members Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court raising the issue of legalising prostitution, saying decriminalising the world's oldest profession would help curb the spread of HIV.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:03 -0500

Hyderabad, Dec 10 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Thursday plunged into political chaos after at least 93 legislators and many MPs, cutting across party lines, resigned to protest the central government's decision to carve out a separate Telangana state.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:03 -0500

Shimla, Dec 10 (IANS) Moderate to heavy snowfall was reported across the higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh Thursday, a weather official said. The Rohtang Pass was again closed for vehicular traffic after fresh snow in the area.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:02 -0500

Patna, Dec 10 (IANS) The Bihar government Thursday launched a rehabilitation scheme for manual scavengers by giving them financial assistance to take up new vocations, an official said.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The government's nod to a separate Telangana state while being a good thing democratically in meeting regional aspirations could also open a 'Pandora's box' of political problems, say experts and politicians.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:02 -0500

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 10 (IANS) The 14th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) will start here Friday and acclaimed filmmaker Mrinal Sen will inaugurate it by lighting the lamp.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:02 -0500

Hyderabad/New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) There were celebrations and protests, tears of joy and angry resignations Thursday as the government initiated the first steps towards forming India's 29th state of Telangana, triggering a massive political crisis in parent state Andhra Pradesh.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:01 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Delhi recorded three new cases of dengue Thursday, taking the total number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease to 1,143 so far, a health official said.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:01 -0500

Bhubaneswar, Dec 10 (IANS) Three members of a family were killed in Keonjhar district of Orissa on suspicion of practising witchcraft, police said Thursday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:01 -0500

Ranchi, Dec 10 (IANS) Campaigning in the 14 assembly constituencies where polling will be held Saturday in the fourth phase of polls to the 81-member Jharkhand assembly ended Thursday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:19 -0500

Lucknow, Dec 10 (IANS) Panic gripped an Uttar Pradesh hospital Thursday after a bomb was recovered from its premises, police said.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:19 -0500

Chandigarh, Dec 10 (IANS) Private insurer Bharti Axa General Insurance Thursday launched enhanced protection covers for cars to boost its premium earnings from the motor vehicle portfolio.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:18 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court is expected to conclude hearing the high-profile Krishna-Godavari gas dispute between Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL) next week, sources in the registrar's office said Thursday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:18 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) A key index of the Indian equities markets Thursday managed to end with some gains backed by capital goods and banking stocks, closing 0.37 points above its previous close.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:16 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Upset over the Congress central leadership's sudden announcement of steps to create a separate Telangana state, some Congress MPs from Andhra Pradesh are to meet party president Sonia Gandhi Thursday.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:15 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Leading industry lobbies Thursday differed over the central bank's decision to tighten foreign borrowing norms on the ground that the liquidity crunch has eased considerably and it was easier to raise capital.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:15 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Suspected Maoists shot dead three workers of West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in a village close to Jhargram town in West Midnapore district Thursday on suspicion they were police informers.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:14 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The information and broadcasting ministry Thursday announced the setting up of two panels comprising eminent film personalities to raise the profile of National Film Awards (NFA)and upgrade International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to the status enjoyed by Cannes and Berlin shows.
IANS Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:50:13 -0500