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Ailing Kingfisher Airlines tonight extended its partial lockout by a week till October 12 as talks between its management and employees failed to break the deadlock over non-payment of salaries for the last seven months. The beleaguered airline, meanwhile, got some reprieve as bankers agreed...
22:59
The operator of a troubled US nuclear power plant today proposed to restart one of the plant's twin reactors, months after a break in a tube carrying radioactive water. The San Onofre nuclear power plant is a major source of power in the stretch of Southern California between Los Angeles and...
22:42
Pakistani politician Imran Khan today insisted a planned peace march to the country's restive tribal areas would go ahead despite security fears and doubts over whether the authorities would allow it. Khan, the cricketing legend who now heads his own party, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf --...
22:33
Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said the rupee is stabilising. The local currency today bounced back to 51-level after five-and-a-half months by gaining 42 paise to close at 51.74 against the US dollar stocks amid hopes that the Cabinet will clear the next wave of big-ticket reforms which is...
21:50
About 100 Kingfisher employees, including engineers and pilots, today took out a candle light march from domestic airport to Kingfisher house in Mumbai to protest against the death of a technician's wife, who allegedly committed suicide due to financial stress in Delhi. We have taken out this to...
21:37
The government today approved the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17) document that aims to achieve annual average economic growth rate of 8.2 per cent, down from 9 per cent envisaged earlier, in view of fragile global recovery. The Union Cabinet discussed and approved the draft 12th Plan document,...
21:28
The Bharatiya Janata Party said today that it will support the no trust motion against the government.Earlier in the day, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee pushed for moving a no-confidence motion to oust the Manmohan Singh government and asked all United Progressive Alliance partners to...
21:09
The government on Thursday decided to upgrade five airports -- Tiruchirapalli, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Lucknow and Varanasi -- to the international level.The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, at its meeting in New Delhi, approved a proposal for the upgradation of the five airports which...
20:41
After the Cabinet nod for FDI in insurance and pension, Finance Minister P Chidambaram addressed the media. Here are the highlights of the briefing: Cabinet approved the declaration of 5 international airports: Lucknow, Varanasi, Tiruchirapalli, Mangalore, Coimbatore.Cabinet has reviewed rates of...
20:26
Cabinet has approved the amendments to Competition Act, Chidambaram said on Thursday. All sectors are now under Competition Commission of India, said Chidambaram.Cabinet has also approved the 12th Five Year Plan draft document, said the finance minister. It has also approved the payment...
20:26
Ailing Kingfisher Airlines today extended its partial lockout by another three days till Sunday as talks between its management and employees failed to end the deadlock over non-payment of salaries for the last seven months. The situation was further marred with the wife of one of its...
20:10
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said the UPA government will engage all other political parties to pass the Pension Bill and Insurance Bill in Parliament.
19:38
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday threatened to oust the ruling UPA government, stating that she will meet President Pranab Mukherjee and leaders of other major parties to oust the minority government.Banerjee also said she will move a No Confidence Motion in Parliament against...
19:34
Cabinet has cleared 26 per cent FDI in pension. It has also approved terming five airports as international ones.
19:32
Facebook has exceeded one billion active users.This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month, said Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of the social media giant. If you are reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honour of...
19:31
The Cabinet has approved the Forward Contract Regulation Amendment Bill, Food Minister K V Thomas has said.
19:05
With 18 more patients testing positive for dengue in the capital today, the number of cases has crossed the century-mark to touch 116. All the 12 zones, except West zone, in the jurisdiction of South, North and East Delhi Municipalities recorded dengue cases, statements issued by civic bodies...
19:04
An alligator crawling across the parking lot of a supermarket in New York's Long Island was captured after an alert shopper saw it and called the police, a day after another reptile was spotted in the same area. Officers captured the alligator yesterday. They controlled the alligator...
19:03
Members of civil society including former CEC N Gopalaswami, ex-Navy chief L Ramdas and former Cabinet Secretary TSR Subramanian today approached the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the coal block allocation scam. They have filed a joint PIL along with other retired...
19:03
While India Inc welcomed the government's second wave of reforms, Opposition parties slammed them.CPI said that the government was shamelessly biased in favour of corporates, while the BJP vowed to oppose the Pension Bill.
19:01
Hectic legal and administrative preparations are on in Delhi for the submission against Jagan Reddy's bail plea in the apex court on Friday. It all began with the clearance from Enforcement Directorate on Thursday to attach Jagan Reddy's properties. Secret meetings were held by Income Tax...
18:57
Buzz doing the rounds in Delhi has it that the Central Bureau of Investigation may summon Congress MP Vijay Darda and his son Devendra for interrogation in the coal blocks allotted to the company with their help. What this space!
18:56
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi may field some Muslim candidates in the coming assembly elections for the first time to present his secular face -- with an eye on the prime ministerial chair., goes the buzz. Incidentally, not a single Muslim was fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the...
18:35
Trinamool Congress has vowed to oppose the amended bills that the UPA government will bring to Parliament. TMC's comments came in the wake of the recent reforms announced by the government. The government, alleged TMC, wanted to give pension only to foreigners.
18:25
Just In: Cabinet clears foreign investment in pension sector, approves changes in Companies Bill, gives nod for hiking FDI cap in insurance. Details awaited.
18:13
Following directions from the Uttarakhand high court to maintain sanitation on the pedestrian route to Kedarnath from Gaurikund, the movement of horses and mules has been temporarily suspended. The decision came in the wake of the high court expressing dissatisfaction over sanitation on the...
18:12
Just In: Enforcement Directorate attaches properties worth Rs 51crore in connection with money-laundering probe against YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy. Further details awaited.
18:09
The world's largest social network, Facebook has finally reached the one billion active user mark, eight years after launch, writes Zack Whittaker in cnet.com.'If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world, behind China with 1.34 billion and India with 1.2 billion,' he...
17:56
AP reports: An aide to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey has no intention of declaring war on Syria.The aide says today that Turkey's shelling of Syria following a mortar attack that killed five civilians in Turkey and the proposed bill to authorise military actions...
17:42
The Union Cabinet meet in New Delhi has ended, and an announcement on whether FDI will be permitted in the two sectors are expected soon.More details are awaited.
17:13
Wife of an engineer employed with Kingfisher committed suicide in Palam, Delhi today. The suicide note said that she took the drastic step owing to 'financial stress'.The engineer has not received salary for seven months, say sources.More details are awaited
16:35
Owner of Uphaar Cinema Sushil Ansal apologised to victims in the Supreme Court today.I will set up a trauma centre,' he said.The Uphaar Cinema fire occurred on Friday, June 13, 1997 during the premiere screening of the movie, Border. Trapped inside, 59 people died, mostly due to suffocation, and...
16:18
Dr Abdul Haq Ansari, former president of the Jama'at-e-Islami Hind, a leading Islamic organisation in the country, has died of a heart attack in Alighar. He was 81. The noted Islamic scholar, who was president of Jama'at-e-Islami Hind from 2003 to 2007, breathed his last...
16:04
Amid protests by farmers in Karnataka over sharing of Cauvery river water, a Central team today held discussions with the Tamil Nadu government and said it would submit a report to the Centre in four days. A team led by Union Water Resources Secretary DV Singhheld...
15:58
Sensitive documents related to delicate information about US operations in Libya are laying unguarded at the American consulate in Benghazi, more than three weeks after the attack on the compound which killed ambassador Christopher Stevens and three...
15:34
President Pranab Mukherjee today hoped the Indian economy would come back to the path of steady growth shortly. Inaugurating an international conference and exhibition of chemicals and petrochemicals industry in Mumbai, he said the event was...
15:27
Maruti Suzuki India today said production at its Manesar plant, which faced labour troubles recently, will return to normal by the middle of this month. The company has been gradually ramping up production at the plant, which had been locked out for a month following...
15:23
A Correspondent in New Delhi: UPA ally DMK is likely to skip the Union Cabinet meeting which will resolve controversial issue of FDI in various sectors. The lone DMK minister MK Alagiri is in Mumbai with President Pranab Mukherjee attending an international seminar on...
15:15
Describing the special status demand for Bihar as Nitish Kumar's pet political agenda to boost his career, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad today said that the chief minister was nursing an ambition to become the prime minister of the country. The special status demand is...
14:46
The UK government will announce details this month of a controversial national identity scheme which will allow people to use their mobile phones and social media profiles as official identification documents for accessing public services. Read more on Independent
14:38
The writer came to L.A. to accept the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' literary award and to talk about his new memoir of his underground years, Joseph Anton. He and the book have arrived just as the blowback from Innocence of Muslims has caused us all to confront the questions that...
14:24
ANI: Over 2.38 million people in Pakistan belonging to the wealthy class are tax evaders, revealed statistics compiled by the National Database and Registration Authority. Nearly three million people possess a National Tax Number, but only 1.4 million of them filed income tax returns...
13:23
Accusing the central government of not thinking about students while policy making, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders will badly hit the mid-day meal scheme. This is a very...
12:58
A hardcore ULFA militant was killed in an encounter with police in Tarani forest of upper Assam's Tinsukia district today. The militant identified as Wangli Moran alias Diganta Bora exchanged fire with police in the dense forest during a police...
12:32
Nineteen people, including 18 students, were buried today when a huge landslide destroyed a school in China's southwest Yunnan Province.The accident took place at Zhenhe village located in Yiliang County of Zhaotong City, the county government said.The landslide, estimated to be around 10,000...
12:32
Developers in Dubai are reportedly planning to construct a replica of the famous Taj Mahal, which would be over four times bigger than the original monument. Developers said that Taj Arabia, an imitation of the 360-year-old marble mausoleum that took Mughal emperor Shah Jahan almost 22 years...
12:31
Influential BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said the party would announce its prime ministerial candidate at an appropriate time as he ruled out any differences in the party on the issue.Responding to questions, Chouhan said that the name of prime...
12:31
British television network, BBC was forced to apologise to its viewers after TV presenters were caught swearing off-screen during the channel's live breakfast show. BBC viewers reportedly heard a disembodied voice exclaim What the f*** is that? at the start of an item during the TV...
12:03
A farmers' body spearheading the stir against release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu began a relay hunger strike here in protest against Karnataka's action and warned that people would stop paying taxes if government did not heed their demand to stop the flow by this evening....
10:50
The SC has refused to grant interim bail to ex-army officer Shrikant Purohit and other accused in the 2006 Malegaon blast case.
10:14
India today test-fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile with a strike range of 350 km from a test range near Balasore as part of a user trial by the army. The flight test of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted at...
09:37
The UPA government is set for a second push for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's reform measures. The Cabinet is expected to clear 26 per cent FDI in pensions and 46 per cent in insurance on Thursday. Currently, no foreign investment is allowed in the pension sector and only 26 per cent FDI is...
08:44
AFP: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday on Sudan to conduct a full investigation into an attack that killed four peacekeepers in Darfur, his spokesman said. Martin Nesirky said Ban was appalled and deeply saddened by the ambush Tuesday of a patrol by UN-African Union...
08:42
AFP: The winners of the 2012 Nobel Prizes are to be announced next week, with no clear frontrunners yet seen for the much-talked about Peace and Literature prizes and suspense and speculation mount. Betting sites have become a...
08:24
US President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney met in Denver for a contentious but largely unmemorable debate in which each man accused the other of lying about his plans for taxes, health care and other key domestic issues. Romney went on the offensive early,...
03:58
The Defence Ministry in its reply submitted to the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, maintained its stated stance that there was no political cell in the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). This was stated before a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry which has...
03:57
NATO has condemned Syrian shelling of a border village that left five Turkish people dead, and sparked Ankara to order retaliatory fire.The meeting of the 28 member states was convened at NATO headquarters in Brussels as the alliance strongly condemned the Syrian action.Turkey shelled Syria in...
03:03
Praising Kazakhstan's non-proliferation record, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today said only a few countries can match its experience and credibility on this front. We view Kazakhstan as not just a regional presence but a global leader. Certainly when it comes to nonproliferation,...
02:58
After opening up the multi-brand retail sector toforeign direct investment, the UPA seems set to take another shy at reforms by pushing for an increase in the FDI cap forinsurance and opening up the pension sector, besides expanding the scope of futures trading in...
02:31
Turkey shelled Syria in retaliation for deadly cross-border fire today as NATO convened an emergency meeting on the attack that threatened to inflame tensions in the volatile region. Earlier today Syrian shells crashed into a Turkish border town, killing five people, the first time Turkey's...
01:52
After turning out for Assam in domestic cricket, Mumbai star batsman Amol Muzumdar can't find his way back to his home side. One of the most prolific scorers around, Amol will now wield his bat for the Andhra side. Read the ESPN report here:...
01:44
Polls indicate President Obama is extending his lead in battleground states such as Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, which is bad news for Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Since one of the former Massachusetts governor's strongest selling points is his successful career in business, he...
01:43
President Obama told Vanity Fair magazine that had Osama bin Laden surrendered to the US Navy Seals that May night last year, he had been prepared to put the Al Qaeda leader on trial:...
01:38
... And never will... fighting words from Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on a day the Rial plunged to scary lows....this report from the Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?R=R1&ID=286502
01:25
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today vowed that the US would not rest until it probes the attack on its consulate in Benghazi and tracks down those who killed our people, but cautioned against jumping to any conclusion. Four Americans including the US Ambassador to Libya were killed...
01:06
After months of talking about each other and their policies, the world finally gets to see Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney go toe-to-toe on the same stage in a series of three televised debates ahead of the U.S. election.Unlike other countries, such as the United Kingdom, where...
00:32
The United States today said there is no change in its stated policy that Kashmir is a bilateral issue that needs to be resolved between India and Pakistan, and would like to see the recent economic warming between the two sides translate into a better conversation on that issue. With regard...
00:30
Turkey has contacted the United Nations and the Nato military alliance after Syrian shells killed five people in a Turkish town near the border between the two countries.The shells exploded after being fired into Akcakale from Tall al-Abyad in Syria, where forces loyal to President Bashar...
00:21
Obama ahead before make or break presidential debateModi's travel cost during 2007 mahila sammelans was ZERO!The threat to life is always there: Lt Gen Brar's wifeSonia's Rajkot rally statement full of half-truths: BJPIn Gujarat, Sonia Gandhi has nothing new to sayYeddyurappa hints at floating...
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