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• Restaurants demand 'Curry College'
• Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
• Restaurateurs and ministers are gathering to discuss a staffing crisis in curry kitchens, following a tightening of immigration rules last year. Alongside the G20 summit and only slightly overshadowed by it, the government is holding an "ethnic chef...

• Multilingual service for schools
• Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
• A new multilingual service to help primary school children learn English is to be introduced in a town in Essex. The English Schools Induction Service (ESIS) includes a collection of 21 short films about school life. The films are aimed at helping four ...

• Mamata Banerjee's Bengal comeback
• Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
• Thousands of billboards and posters of West Bengal's opposition leader, Mamata Banerjee, line the streets of Calcutta. The poster blitzkrieg by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its leader could represent the waning powers of West Bengal's leftist governm...

• Cynicism among Pakistani refugees
• Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
• The tent cities are growing in the district of Swabi, in north-west Pakistan: swelled with the thousands fleeing the fighting in nearby Buner district. Last month, Taleban from the troubled district of Swat moved south into Buner and overran it, occupyin...

• Bollywood stars hit the high road
• Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
• Scenes for a new Bollywood thriller have been shot in the Highlands. Director Vishal Pandya filmed part of his Purple Lake movie, which features Indian star Nausheen Ali Sardar, in Urquhart Castle and Inverness. He had headed for Scotland in search of a...

• Father denies Slumdog child sale
• Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
• The father of a Slumdog Millionaire child actress has denied trying to sell her in what he called a "dirty" undercover operation by a UK newspaper. Rafiq Qureshi said he had not accepted a deal to sell nine-year-old Rubina Ali into adoption. T...

• Festival cancelled due to funding
• Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
• An annual multi-cultural event has been cancelled by council chiefs this year because of a lack of funding. Oxford City Council said it could not afford to put £8,000 towards the Oxford Mela because it needed to make savings of £5.3m this yea...

• Studio sues over Bollywood 'copy'
• Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
• A Hollywood film studio has taken legal action against Bollywood movie-makers who it claims copied 1992 comedy hit My Cousin Vinny. 20th Century Fox has sued BR Films for 70m rupees (£940,000) at Mumbai's High Court, saying Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai is...

• Coming of age of Rahul Gandhi
• Date: Monday, May 11, 2009
• One of the more significant developments of the ongoing Indian elections is the coming of age of Rahul Gandhi - the governing Congress party's heir apparent and the fourth generation scion of the famous Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. As campaigning for the Indian...

• Bollywood goes Hollywood!
• Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
• And even those who weren’t felicitated were present to cheer their colleagues on... now that’s the spirit of apna Bollywood! Kajol made one of her rare appearances and was seated next to Manyaata Dutt, who was still glowing post her first wedd...

• Bollywood no cakewalk for starry-eyed youngsters
• Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
• New Delhi (IANS): Waiting to be noticed, searching for the right contacts, looking for a shelter - thousands of starry-eyed youngters instantly identify with Konkona Sen Sharma's character in "Luck By Chance" as they go through the grind in Boll...

• Garment workers, Urdu-speakers a force in Mirpur
• Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
• Local voters in Mirpur see garment workers and Urdu-speaking voters being a major force in the upcoming polls. Of some 300, 000 voters in Dhaka-16 constituency, 89,000 are garment workers, 15,000 transport labourers and 40,000 are 'non-Bengalis' or Urd...

• Gateway Rail opens Punjab’s Pvt Rail Linked Logistics Park
• Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
• Gateway Rail Freight Ltd – GatewayRail (a subsidiary of Gateway Distriparks Ltd – GDL), opened Punjab’s first private rail linked Logistics Park at Sanehwal near Dhandari Kalan in Ludhiana. This Rail Linked Logistics Park is spread ov...

• US officials stress need to work with Pakistan
• Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
• The situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan is urgent and is of “very immediate concern” to the United States, says US Vice President-elect Joseph Biden. Mr Biden’s description of the situation in a television interview on Sunday is bac...

• Pakistan militants 'world threat'
• Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
• Militant groups in Pakistan are "the greatest danger to peace and security in the entire world", India's foreign minister has said. Pranab Mukherjee accused Islamabad of "denial" and "shifting the blame" for last month's d...

• ICC to recce Pakistan before giving match officials for series
• Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
• The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday said it would carry out an independent security assessment before allowing match officials to travel to a trouble-torn Pakistan for their home series against Sri Lanka. . ICC chief executive officer Haro...

• 2008: Bollywood's tryst with brain-dead flicks
• Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
• It's been the season of silliness in mainstream Bollywood this year. The top grossers of the year have been two films which, by and large, had nothing much to offer. Neither in terms of message, content, innovation nor characterisations. All they offered ...

• Antulay issue forces adjournment in both Houses of Parliament
• Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
• The Antulay issue once again caused uproar in Parliament on Monday as agitated BJP and Shiv Sena members stormed the well in both the Houses demanding sacking of the Union Minister, forcing their brief adjournments. While Rajya Sabha was adjourned twic...

• Believe it or not, there is a smugglers' tunnel under the border
• Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
• In a shocking breach of security, the existence of a cross-border tunnel underneath the fencing along the international border (IB) in Rajasthan has come to light through which drugs and fake currency were smuggled into Indian territory. The sensationa...

• Punjab: 5-day Inter Zonal Youth Festival begins at GNDU
• Date: Monday, December 1, 2008
• The 5-day Inter Zonal Youth Festival of the Guru Nanak Dev University was inaugurated here Sunday. The competitions started with Punjabi Folk Dance Bhangra in the Dasmesh Auditorium. More than 1500 student artists from 54 Affiliated Colleges of the Uni...

• Pakistan, India deny troops build-up
• Date: Monday, December 1, 2008
• Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director-General and Pakistan Army spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas said on Sunday that the Army had not found any solid evidence of unusual military movement by India on the international border. Talking to newsmen,...

• Wasim urges India not to sever cricket ties with Pakistan
• Date: Monday, December 1, 2008
• Former great Wasim Akram on Monday called on India not to break cricketing ties with Pakistan, suggesting both countries should instead play a Test match in terrorist-hit Mumbai to show solidarity. The former Pakistan cricket captain made his remarks ...

• U.S. film deals still in place for shaken Bollywood
• Date: Monday, December 1, 2008
• Terrorism has cast a shadow over Bollywood, India's Mumbai-based film industry, but as the smoke clears from Wednesday's attacks on Mumbai, Hollywood studios with Indian interests remain committed to the region. After a gang of as few as 10 men stormed...

• EPR convicts' poll hopes over
• Date: Monday, December 1, 2008
• The High Court (HC) yesterday upheld the constitutional provision for disqualifying a person from contesting parliamentary elections if they are sentenced to not less than a two-year term under the Emergency Power Rules (EPR). This would imply that som...

• CJ daughter’s case
• Date: Friday, November 28, 2008
• The PPP government on Thursday aggressively blocked the parliamentary probe into the chief justice’s daughter case amid an uproar in the National Assembly committee meeting that witnessed a walkout by the government members, including the minister o...

• British media lambasts Modi for 'insensitivity'
• Date: Friday, November 28, 2008
• BCCI vice-president Lalit Modi was today chastised by the British media for suggesting that England's cricketers should return to India for next month's Test series despite their heightened security fears in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks. England a...

• Yet another loss for Bollywood
• Date: Friday, November 28, 2008
• Already facing bad times, Bollywood has recieved another jolt in the form of the latest terror attacks on Mumbai that have shocked the entire nation. In face of further threats, the government Of Maharashtra ordered the closure of all Mumbai theatres for ...

• BNP list finalised, yet aspirants interviewed
• Date: Friday, November 28, 2008
• Interviewing BNP ticket aspirants yesterday was merely a formality as the party had already chosen its candidates for the next parliamentary election ignoring the traditional system of interviewing nomination hopefuls. Insiders said the party last nigh...

• Punjab State Electricity Board will miss the deadline to file ARR this year
• Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008
• Punjab State electricity Board (PSEB) will seek more time to file Annual Revenue Requirement (ARR) and Tariff Petitions with Punjab state electricity regulatory commission (PSERC) as only one day has left to file it according to Electricity Act, 2003. ...

• UK backs Pakistan’s anti-terror strategy, says Miliband
• Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008
• British Foreign Secretary David Miliband while supporting Pakistan’s latest strategy to fight terrorism has said that world attention is increasingly focused on the country which has also emerged as an important player in the fields of economy and s...

• India-England ODI series called off, decision on Test later
• Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008
• The last two matches of the India-England One-day series have been called off because of security fears following Wednesday's militant attacks in Mumbai, an Indian board spokesman said on Thursday. "The final two One-Day Internationals are off,&qu...

• I've proved all my critics wrong: Katrina Kaif
• Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008
• New Delhi, Five years into Bollywood, Britain-born actress Katrina Kaif is proud that she could prove wrong all those people who wrote her off during her initial days in the industry. She is one of the few actresses who can boast of giving six hits in a r...

• Relatives of convicts too vie for BNP ticket
• Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008
• The two-day time for collecting and submitting nomination papers to get BNP ticket for the December 29 parliamentary election ended yesterday amid huge enthusiasm of aspirant leaders and their supporters. Around 3,186 forms were sold from the party hea...

• Punjab textile units in the red
• Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
• Businesses of most of the textile firms in Punjab that cater to domestic and international markets have been affected in the past two months in the wake of the global financial crisis. Kamal Oswal, managing director of Nahar Industrial Enterprises Ltd,...

• IMF bailout requires belt-tightening and hard decisions: Pakistan wins fina
• Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
• Pakistan is required to tighten its belt and take potentially unpopular decisions by cutting subsidies and slashing government expenditure as part of the 23-month stand-by loan of $7.6 billion approved by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday. ...

• No place for Asif in ICL: More
• Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
• The Indian Cricket League has rubbished Mohammad Asif's claim that he was approached by the 'rebel' league with a mouth-watering offer and said the disgraced Pakistani pacer first has to come out clean from all doping charges. ICL executive board membe...

• Bollywood Trawls London for Talent as Students Balk at Banking
• Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
• Anu Singh, once an aspiring business- school student, found a new calling when London’s financial- services industry started to shrivel: Bollywood. As India’s film industry, which produces about 1,000 movies a year -- or double Hollywood&rs...

• AL gambles on seven new faces in Dhaka
• Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
• Awami League (AL) has picked seven new faces for constituencies in the capital mainly on grassroots recommendations backed by its President Sheikh Hasina. Of its 15 nominees for as many Dhaka city seats, four are graft suspects or accused of patronisin...

• Punjab contributes record 90% rice to national pool
• Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
• Though Punjab has not been included among the states that are allocated funds under the National Food Security Mission for transplantation of paddy, but the state has contributed record 90% of rice to the Central pool during the current paddy season. W...

• Pakistan, UAE to boost ties
• Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
• President Asif Ali Zardari and UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan on Monday expressed their resolve to upgrade and further strengthen their existing bilateral ties, particularly in the trade and economic fields. Zardari arrived here on a ...

• CA, players feel Symonds is too loud and arrogant
• Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
• Some officials of Cricket Australia and Australian rugby league and cricket players believe that beleaguered cricket star Andrew Symonds is too loud and arrogant, and therefore, prefer to keep their distance from him. According to The Courier Mail, i...

• My son teaches me how to be an idiot: Zayed Khan
• Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
• Bollywood actor Zayed Khan is enjoying fatherhood to the hilt. Apart from learning how to baby talk with his less than a year old son Zidaan, he says he is learning how to be an idiot. “Zidaan is growing up and he's teaching me a lot more than I ...

• AL’s yes to JS polls, no to upazila schedule
• Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
• The Awami League (AL) last night demanded scrapping of the upazila election schedule but formally accepted the fresh parliamentary polls schedule. “The upazila polls schedule has to be cancelled and the Election Commission must set a date after t...

• Punjab Police: Encashing The ‘Khaki’ From Terrorism Days Till Today
• Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
• Drive by any deserted street of Punjab late night and a fear for safety is always at the back of your mind, but strange enough, the sight of a police gypsy or a couple of policemen on the round, is more worrisome if not fear evoking to many. Somehow, Punj...

• Pakistan Scraps Spy Arm Accused of Political Meddling
• Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
• Pakistan’s government abolished a department of the military intelligence agency that politicians say was responsible for destabilizing civilian governments. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced the decision at a news conference in the...

• Tendulkar at his best is better than Lara: Ponting
• Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
• Australia captain Ricky Ponting may not have much love for Team India but he was liberal in his praise of individuals like Sachin Tendulkar whom he placed ahead of West Indian batting great Brian Lara. "I have always maintained that he (Tendulkar)...

• Konkona Sen Sharma plays the lesbian act
• Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
• Seems homosexuality is the code of the season! After ‘Dostana’, it is Rohan Sippy’s ‘The Preisdent is Coming’ which brings forth this subject with Konkona Sen Sharma playing the lesbian in the film. The film is directed b...

• JS elections on Dec 29, upazila on Jan 22
• Date: Monday, November 24, 2008
• CEC announces fresh schedules after hectic 3-day parley with AL, BNP; downplays fear of misusing EC’s power to cancel candidature Sakhawat Liton The long-awaited parliamentary election will now be held on December 29 and upazila on January 22, an...

• Ban on corporal punishment by State government
• Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
• Despite Complete ban on Corporal punishment by the state government,the practice was still continued in several parts of the state including rural localities till now. In such a incident, One Villager Student of matric class Rajwinder Kaur was allegedl...

• UN Security Council Facus on Afghanistan Metter
• Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
• The UN Security Council on Saturday will go on a fact-finding mission in Afghanistan to evaluate the ongoing situation in a country wracked by 30 years of war and violence and considered a major global security threat. Headed by Italy’s UN Ambass...

• BCCI wants Lloyd's ouster from ICC panel
• Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
• The Board of Control for Cricket in India has reportedly asked the ICC to remove former West Indian captain Clive Lloyd from the chairman's post of the governing council's cricketing committee following his remarks over the Indian Premier League and India...

• What do our Bollywood body beautifuls eat?
• Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
• Mumbai, Avoid fried food and carbs, don't miss your workout and don't deprive yourself. Just some of the suggestions by Bollywood's svelte and superfit stars who tell all about their daily regimen. Shilpa Shetty: I don't avoid any food. My calorie inta...

• 97pc feel polls to be free, fair
• Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
• An overwhelming 96 percent of people want to vote in the next parliamentary election and 86 percent feel that holding the polls on December 18 is very important for the nation, The Daily Star-Nielsen Election Opinion Poll 2008 revealed. A large number ...

• District Police nabbs inter state kidnappers gang
• Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
• Amritsar City police claimed to have busted an Inter State Gang of kidnappers with the arrest of four alleged accused who were indulging in kidnapping for ransom. Police said alleged arrested accused were identified as Salim (38) resident of village R...

• Again Us Drone Attack in Pakistan
• Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
• In what is being described as the first drone attack outside the tribal areas, six persons, including a major Arab Al Qaeda operative, in an overnight missile strike by a suspected US drone in Bannu district of NWFP. A senior security official reported...

• IPL and ICL can co-exist, says Lloyd
• Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
• Here's some news that should bring joy to the Indian Cricket League (ICL) organizers. While the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is turning a deaf ear to their pleas of giving the league official status, the chairman, cricket committee of Inte...

• Kareena to visit Saif's ancestral Pataudi village
• Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
• Mumbai, Bollywood beauty Kareena Kapoor seems set to take her relationship with beau Saif Ali Khan to another level. She'll soon be visiting his ancestral village Pataudi in Haryana. "Yes, Kareena has been invited to Pataudi. It'd have been earlie...

• JS elections on Dec 18
• Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
• The caretaker government last night declared again that the ninth parliamentary election will be held on the original scheduled date of December 18, after its frantic two-day negotiations with BNP-led 4-party alliance on the question of poll deferment had...

• Punjab govt.appoints Chairman of Pb.SC Land Development & Finance Corporati
• Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
• Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Wednesday appointed Pawan Kumar Teenu as Chairman Punjab Scheduled Caste Land development & Finance Corporation. Disclosing this here today a spokesman of the Punjab government said that the Chief Minis...

• NA passes Industrial Relations Bill 2008
• Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
• National Assembly has approved the Industrial Relations Bill 2008, while PML-N staged a walkout against the bill here on Tuesday. Congratulating the house on passing of the bill, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said that removal of anti-laborer ...

• India need to phase out the retirement of seniors: Akram
• Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
• The retirement of India's senior cricketers should be done in a phased manner, according to Pakistan's pace legend Wasim Akram who said it was imperative for India to maintain the ideal blend of youth and experience in the Test team. Akram said it was ...

• Indian navy foils another attack by Somali pirates
• Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
• Even as the world's largest supertanker the Saudi Sirius Star continues to be in the grip of pirates of the coast of Somalia, the Indian navy appears to have taken the lead in the fight against pirates. An Indian warship deployed in the Gulf of Aden fo...

• Bollywood coming up with all merry n gay attitudes!
• Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
• The latest movies like Dostana and Fashion have again tickled the long subdued topic of homosexuality to the forefront and into the mainstream cinema. Although every producer- director teams up to bring a ‘hat ke’ project, for long homosexu...

• Govt talks in vain as BNP, AL won't budge
• Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
• The government's renewed scramble for reaching an all party consensus about the parliamentary poll date failed to produce any result yesterday as BNP stuck to its demand for postponing the poll at least until mid-January next year while Awami League-led a...

• Cut prices: FM's message to auto, realty, airlines
• Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
• Calling upon the automobile manufacturers, realty firms and airlines to reduce prices, finance minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday promised to consider excise duty cut for the sectors which are facing the heat of global financial meltdown. "Hotels m...

• PUNJAB BJP KEEN TO CONTEST 4 LS SEATS
• Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
• Punjab BJP is still keen to contest four Parliament seats in Punjab despite the fact that senior BJP leader LK Advani during his recent visit to Ludhiana has declared that the party would contest on the three seats offered by its alliance partner Shiroman...

• Pak army aided Isaf in operation against militants
• Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
• The Pakistan military helped the western forces based in Afghanistan attack a position in Pakistan used by militants after an Isaf post was hit by two rockets fired allegedly by militants from inside Pakistan. According to a spokesman for the Internati...

• Singh is King
• Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
• Yuvraj Singh clobbered his second successive century and then scalped four key wickets as India maintained their stranglehold over England by winning the second ODI on Monday by 54 runs. The Indians rode on Yuvraj's scintillating 118 to post a competit...

• Rakhi Sawant breaks up with long-time boyfriend
• Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
• As with everything in her life, Rakhi Sawant has no qualms about admitting that she has broken up with her boyfriend Abhishek Awasthi, with whom she shared a relationship for three years. In fact, Rakhi helped bring fame to Abhishek by bringing him on rea...

• BNP and its alliance decide to contest polls subject to fulfillment of 4 de
• Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
• BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has given a declaration to participate in the upcoming parliamentary election subject to fulfillment of four-point demands including full-fledged withdrawal of emergency, cancellation of section 91 E of RPO, deferment of ...

• Lala Lajpatrai remembered on his martydom day
• Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
• Veteren freedom fighter lala lajpatrai was remembered at Dhudike in Moga district, birth place of Lalaji on his 80th martyrdom day on Monday lala Lajpat Rai birth place memorial committee organised a special function to mark the occasion. Lakshmi Kanta...

• GEO’s channels blocked in Sindh
• Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
• Geo Network’s transmission has been stopped on cable in a number of cities across Sindh including Karachi. Cable operators blocked the transmission of Geo Network in a number of areas across the city Monday morning, without assigning any reason f...

• Sourav Ganguly to play Bengal's last Ranji tie
• Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
• Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who has retired from international cricket, will play Bengal's last Plate Division Ranji Trophy match against Vidarbha in Nagpur next month. Ganguly, who retired from international cricket after the Test series agai...

• I want to clear misconceptions with autobiography: Monica Bedi
• Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
• Mumbai, Bollywood starlet and gangster Abu Salem's former girlfriend Monica Bedi reveals she is writing her autobiography through which she wants to clear many misconceptions about her past. "I'm working on my autobiography with the help of a ghos...

• Maritime Boundary-Bangladesh
• Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
• Experts of Bangladesh and Myanmar began talks in Dhaka Sunday on the critical issue of drawing their maritime boundary through the Bay of Bengal, but to no breakthrough so far, as the two sides stuck to their guns on methodology of the delimitation(The Ne...

• Indian probe touches down on Moon
• Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008
• India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan 1, has placed a probe on the surface of the Moon. The probe, painted with the Indian flag, touched down at 2034 (1504 GMT), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. It will perform vari...

• Kidnap attempt foiled, but assailants snatch bike to flee
• Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
• It was one chase straight out of a Bollywood flick. And just like in our Hindi movies, the high-tension drama ended with criminals giving the police the slip. According to sources, an Afghani refugee and his 11-year-old nephew were abducted on Thursda...

• Barclays Launches Hindi Website
• Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Barclays, a leading global financial services providers, has launched its global retail and commercial bank's India website in Hindi. With this launch, Barclays has become the first ever foreign bank in India to have a website in the Hindi language. &q...

• Obama sought Indian votes through Hindi, Malayalam leaflets
• Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008
• Barack Obama, who scripted history by becoming the first black President of America, had projected himself as a "powerful" spokesman for rights of minorities and a crusader against discrimination as he wooed the Indian- Americans in their vernac...

• Thousands in Kashmir enjoy train ride
• Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
• Over 74,000 people took joy rides in less than three weeks after inauguration of the train service in Kashmir valley which has earned about Rs 7.5 lakhs for Indian Railways. "In just 19 days after inauguration of the train service in Kashmir valle...

• High cotton price hits Punjab ginning mills
• Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
• The revision of minimum support price (MSP) of cotton has affected not only the textile mills, the ginning mills in Punjab are also in a soup. About a dozen ginning mills in Abohar and Malot in the cotton-growing belt of Punjab have been shut down due ...

• Senators warn against IMF loan
• Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
• Not only the opposition but also some sympathisers of the PPP-led government in the Senate on Thursday opposed loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). They said that if at all such a step was unavoidable, the matter should be debated threadbar...

• Shabina Khan designs a new look for Sanjay Dutt and Kunal Kapoor
• Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
• Designer Shabina Khan has designed a special new look for Sanjay Dutt and Kunal Kapoor who play the lead strars of Rahul Dholakia’s (Parzania) next, Lamha. The film is reportedly a mature love story and is being extensively shot in Kashmir and deals...

• Demarcation ruling on Nov 2 EC appeals for lift of stay
• Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
• The Election Commission has appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn a stay on the redrawing of parliamentary constituencies, while the High Court on Thursday concluded hearing of petitions challenging the EC's gazette on the demarcations. Appellate Div...

• 2004 tsunami was not the first one in Indian Ocean!
• Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
• Scientists have found evidence which indicates that the 2004 tsunami that inundated Indian Ocean coastlines, leaving behind a trail of destruction, was not a first-time occurrence, as the mega waves have repeatedly washed over a Thai island during the las...

• Country needs $5 bn immediately: Tareen
• Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
• Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance Shaukat Tareen informed the Senate during a briefing on Wednesday on the economic situation that the country immediately needs $5 billion to sustain at its present position. “We need this amount within next 15...

• Aishwarya Rai - most bankable Bollywood star in at 35
• Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
• At 35, Bollywood's blue-eyed-girl Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who celebrates her birthday Saturday, continues to woo Indian filmmakers with her international appeal, making her one of the most bankable stars in the Indian film industry. Says popular film c...

• Aug 21 case goes to trial
• Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
• A Dhaka court yesterday finally framed charges against detained former BNP lawmaker Abdus Salam Pintu, Harkatul Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and 20 others in two cases filed for grenade attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally in August 2004. Jud...

• India cannot remain silent spectator: TN BJP
• Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
• The BJP in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday said India had the "moral right and responsibility" to intervene in Sri Lankan Tamils issue and should not remain a "silent spectator" to the sufferings of the civilian Tamils in the island. New De...

• What happened on route 332: A reconstruction
• Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
• At around 9.25 am, the bus crossed the Sakinaka signal. I was issuing tickets to passengers on the upper deck when a youth came up the stairs and sat on the backseat, which is meant for women. There were only around 15 passengers in the bus and seats were...

• Advice from young Sikh millionaire; Gurbaksh Chahal
• Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
• At 17, Gurbaksh Chahal was clueless about kissing girls and holding hands, but he was savvy enough to make $300,000 a month with an Internet advertising company he founded in his bedroom at his family's home in San Jose. When he flew to Los Angeles on ...

• Pakistan goes extra mile for $ 300m WB loan
• Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
• Pakistan has initiated gigantic efforts to restore the $ 300 million loan from the World Bank (WB) that has been reportedly stalled on the intervention of the International Monitory Fund (IMF). (Online, quoting the BBC, said Adviser on Finance Shaukat ...

• Harbhajan doubtful starter
• Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
• The big Test at Ferozeshah Kotla is almost upon us and the indicative contours of what is going to be a fascinating cricket match are firming up, after India and Australia had full-fledged practice for the second consecutive day on Monday. The third Te...

• Accused benefits if eyewitness statement inconsistent: SC
• Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
• The Supreme Court has held that inconsistencies in statements of the so-called eyewitnesses can be a ground for acquittal of the accused in murder and other cases. "In the instant case not only there is discrepancy as regards the place of occurren...

• Cabinet committee sits today as admin limps
• Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
• The cabinet committee on administrative reforms and good governance affairs sits today to discuss the findings and recommendations of a government committee formed to review the functioning of bureaucracy.( The New Age BD) Chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahme...

• Punjab's lady drug smuggler, three others sent to judicial custody
• Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
• All four drugs smugglers including their lady kingpin Jeewan Lata who were arrested alongwith 5.17kg of heroin near Phagwara on friday by a team of DRI were produced produced before Judicial Magistrate Phagwara who sent them in judicial custody for 14 da...

• Floor to remain on KSE
• Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
• The KSE board of directors on Sunday decided against removing the ‘floor’ on Monday and said the bourse would continue to function under the existing parameters till the market support fund and put-option were made functional. KSE Managing-...

• Promoting India-Arab cultural ties through film festival
• Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
• Abu Dhabi, (IANS) As part of a series of events to promote India-Arab cultural ties, the Indian embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is organising an Indian film festival here next month that will showcase some of the best works from Bollywood and re...

• Fuel prices slashed by 10-13pc
• Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
• The government has slashed petroleum prices by 10 to 13 percent following the recent drastic price fall in the global market. In an announcement yesterday, chief adviser's special assistant for energy M Tamim said prices of per litre diesel and kerosen...

• Bitter fruits of IMF bailout
• Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
• Pakistan will have to cut its defence budget by 30 per cent in the next four years if it agrees to the IMF conditions for a bailout package now being discussed in Dubai between the two sides, a document containing the IMF conditions seen by this correspon...

• soften stance on joining polls
• Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
• The major political parties have apparently softened their positions on joining the December 18 polls though some disagreements remained unresolved in the latest dialogues between the parties and the military-backed government.( The New Age BD ) Comple...

• Cash-for-judge scam: Supreme Court panel summons CBI officer
• Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
• A senior Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer from Delhi was Friday summoned by the three-member Supreme Court committee probing the cash-for-judge scam that rocked the city in August. The Deputy Inspector General (DIG) rank CBI officer was qu...

• McCain wants India to be part of extended G-8
• Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
• US Republican presidential nominee John McCain wants India to be a member of the expanded G-8 format but feels its claim to a permanent membership of the UN Security Council was difficult due to complicated equations, says McCain's adviser. "Senat...

• France woos Indian tourists
• Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
• France is hard-selling itself to India as a viable tourist destination with new locales and two new campaigns specifically for the Indian holiday crowd. The campaigns are "France with Family" for families and "Romantic France" for h...

• Toxic ship being scrapped despite ban and case in High Court
• Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
• The toxic ship blacklisted by Green Peace, the global environment watchdog, is being broken up for scrap metal on the Sitakundu coast before the end of the legal battleand in complete disregard of the danger to the health and lives of the breakers and loc...

• Chandrayaan-I launched successfully
• Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
• Carrying over a billion hopes, India's maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-I began its historic journey to the moon today when an indigenously developed rocket placed the spacecraft into the Transfer Orbit "perfectly". India becomes the sixth na...

• India romp to historic win over Australia
• Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
• India completed a crushing victory over Australia by a record margin of 320 runs in the second Test on Tuesday to seize a 1-0 lead in the four-match series. Scorecard Left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan grabbed three wickets in four balls and Australia, ch...

• MNS chief Raj Thackeray arrested
• Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
• Mumbai police have issued a gag order under section 144 against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray banning him from addressing a press or public gathering, or carrying out any procession for the next two months. Police today resorted ...

• I stick to colours like black and white
• Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
• After a bollywood-deprived first day at the Delhi fashion week, the second day saw Raima Sen walking the ramp for Small Shop by Jason and Anshu. Dressed in a simple black tee and jeans, we asked the Sen girl, how glamorous is her style statement? &ldqu...

• Symonds back in form but CA rules out India ticket
• Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
• Andrew Symonds returned to form with a 73-run knock for his state side Queensland but Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland ruled out a hasty national comeback for the troubled all-rounder despite the batting woes of Ricky Ponting's men in the Test serie...

• Protests, boycott call may mar J&K polls
• Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
• As Jammu and Kashmir prepares for a long poll process, the Election Commission faces an unusual but difficult challenge this time - peaceful public protests in response to the boycott call, especially in view of the current separatist groundswell across t...

• Hindu seers demand security for Orissa temples, priests
• Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
• A group of Hindu seers has demanded increased security at temples and for priests in Orissa as they fear more attacks against the community, especially after the killing of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader that led to widespread communal violence in t...

• Countdown to moon mission begins
• Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned moon mission, with the beginning of 49-hour countdown early on Monday. "The countdown for the launch of Chandrayaan-1, which began this morn...

• Hired, fired, and hired again
• Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
• "I am so happy. I still can't believe it has happened. My entire family is dancing and celebrating right now," said 20-year-old Shruti Bhardwaj. She was reacting to a late-night press conference in Mumbai where Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goy...

• India dominate opening session in Mohali
• Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
• India scored at more than four runs an over in the opening session to reach 1 for 104 at lunch on day one of the second Test against Australia. After regular captain Anil Kumble ruled himself out of the game with a shoulder injury, stand-in skipper MS ...

• Priyanka’s tryst with Hollywood stars Melanie, Antonio
• Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
• Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra bonded well with Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas at the Middle East International Film Festival in Dubai and apparently Spanish star Banderas expressed a wish to work with her. The ongoing festival started Oct 10 an...

• Karzzzz only Hindi film to premiere at Abu Dhabi Fest
• Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
• Bhushan Kumar's Karzzzz premieres in grandeur and style at the 'Emirates Palace' in Abu Dhabi. The only Indian Film to have been selected for screening at the Middle East International Film Festival, Bhushan Kumar's Karzzzz premieres in grandeur and st...

• Bollywood to bring credit crisis to big screen
• Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
• The global credit crisis has found echoes in an unlikely quarter, India's Bollywood, known more for its love of lavish musicals and racy thrillers. The crisis, that has inspired "credit crunch" chocolate bars and "meltdown" parties ...

• Choose jobs or lawlessness, Tata to West Bengal
• Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
• Two weeks after he moved out the Nano plant from West Bengal, Tata Motors chairman Ratan Tata has warned the state of the consequences of letting history repeat itself and asked a series of searing questions in an open letter explaining why he was compell...

• Dream girl Hema Malini turns 60
• Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
• Bollywood dream girl Hema Malini, who heads way over Hindi film industry with her beauty and dancing skills, celebrated her 60th birthday on Thursday. The actor, who is also an MP, visited Tirupati temple along with her daughter Esha and Ahana to seek ...

• Sourav did his job, says Brett Lee
• Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
• The Australian media may have dubbed Sourav Ganguly a “serial offender”, but Brett Lee insists his teammates have no issues with the former India captain. He added that they have not lost their respect for Anil Kumble either despite the India ...

• AI mulls leave without pay to 15,000 staff for 3-5 yrs
• Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
• State-owned Air India on Thursday many as 15,000 workers go on leave without pay for 3-5 years, but it would be voluntary action on the employees part. "We are planning to offer leave without pay for three to five years. We can consider it for abo...

• Come to Bihar for Nano project, says Lalu
• Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
• Railway minister Lalu Prasad on Thursday offered land for Tata Motors Nano project in Bihar saying that farmers in Gujarat's Sanand where the car is slated to roll out from were being "harassed". "Sanand farmers are being harassed. If at...

• PIL in HC seeking security for those who work night shifts
• Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
• Television producer Soumya Vishwanathan's killing in the wee hours while returning home from office has prompted a petitioner to approach the Delhi High Court seeking better security for people working late into night in the Capital and adjoining areas. ...

• I have learnt to enjoy controversies: Nisha Kothari
• Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
• Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma's discovery Nisha aka Priyanka Kothari says she has learnt to enjoy the controversies that surround her because they are an intrinsic part of an actor's career. "I don't feel bad when my name figures in controversies. I d...

• Camaraderie missing: Bopanna
• Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
• Axed from the Davis Cup squad, Rohan Bopanna was not privy to what transpired in the locker room but the lanky player believes camaraderie was missing in the team which lost the World Group play-off tie against Romania. Former Davis Cup captain Leander...

• MAN VS MACHINE MUMBAI TRAFFIC CHALLENGE
• Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
• The time you spend stuck in traffic in this city is not funny. But you can always trust some dry wit to see you through. And one of the oft heard lines is: I could reach faster if I were to walk. You know they say that if a lie is repeated ad nauseam, peo...

• Priyaranjan Dasmunsi's health improves
• Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
• The condition of information and broadcasting minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, who was admitted to the AIIMS here following a severe heart attack, has improved considerably, doctors said on Wednesday. "He has shown considerable improvement. He is no...

• Indian author Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008
• Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
• India's first time novelist Aravind Adiga on Wednesday won the 50,000 pounds ($87,000) Man Booker Prize 2008 for his novel, The White Tiger. Young Indian writer Aravind Adiga is one of the two first-time novelists on the 2008 Man Booker's shortlist o...

• Shah Rukh's Datuk title kicks up row in Malaysia
• Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
• Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan may be hugely popular in Malaysia but his being conferred the title of 'Datuk', akin to the British knighthood, has stirred up a controversy with many questioning whether he really deserves it. "Politicians, prof...

• Australian media slam Ganguly for delaying tactics in 'farcical draw'
• Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
• Intentionally or inadvertently, Sourav Ganguly continues to rub Australians the wrong way and the media here poured vitriol on the former India skipper, accusing him of indulging in delaying tactics to ensure the Bangalore Test ended in a draw. The pop...

• Bengal lacks work culture for Nano-like project: Modi
• Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
• Two letters written by Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, one to West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and another to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, have added fuel to the ongoing controversy over Tata Motors' exit from Singur. The lette...

• EC announces assembly poll dates for five states
• Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
• Skipping a decision on assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission on Tuesday announced one-day poll in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Mizoram while Naxalite-infested Chhattisgarh will have two-phased elections between November 14 a...

• Rights activists assaulted in Panaji restaurant
• Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
• Two rights activists, including one who was instrumental in the sexual harassment complaint against a Goa minister's son, were seriously injured when an armed group of men attacked them while they were having dinner at a Panaji hotel. Aires Rodrigues, ...

• Now get your passport in three days
• Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
• Applying for and getting passports will be as easy as 1-2-3, with the government on Monday awarding a Rs 1,000 crore e-project to software company TCS for issuing the travel document to citizens in just three days. Passports applied for under the 'tatk...

• India improves on hunger list, but still worse than Nepal, Pak
• Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
• India appears to have made some progress in tackling the hunger and malnutrition issue, but the situation remains "alarming" in the country on this front, according to the Global Hunger Index released on Tuesday. India ranks 66th on the 2008 ...

• Bollywood's modern makeover
• Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
• From Islamic extremism to the life of call centre workers, Bollywood is branching out from its traditional song-and-dance based genre to tackle contemporary issues that reflect the modern India. The concept has been taking hold steadily since the succe...

• Waqar to be bowling coach of ECB academy for India tour
• Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
• Former Pakistan pacer Waqar Younis has accepted an offer from the England and Wales Cricket Board to tour India with their academy team as a bowling consultant. "They asked me if I could accompany their academy team which is going to tour a work w...

• Cisco makes push to become a truly global company
• Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
• When Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers dispatched top lieutenant Wim Elfrink to India nearly two years ago, the executive vice president's mother-in-law drew the only logical conclusion. "What did you do to deserve this?" she asked ...

• India's Car Sales Gain for First Time in Three Months
• Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
• India's passenger-car sales rose for the first time in three months in September, led by Hyundai Motor Co. and Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., as dealers stocked up before religious festivals that are peak demand periods. Sales to dealers rose 2.8 percent to...

• Samsung Innov8 launched in India
• Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
• Samsung Mobile has strengthened its foothold in the multimedia phone segment by launching the Samsung INNOV8 - an 8 MP camera phone, in the Indian market. Focusing on mobile handset photography and a richer multimedia experience, Samsung INNOV8 offers hig...

• From Budgam to Islamabad
• Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
• As the first ever train in Kashmir with 75 onboard passengers honked its departure whistle at 7.25 am Sunday and started chugging towards south Kashmir’s Islamabad district joy filled central Kashmir’s Budgam railway station. Chief Area Manag...

• LG Launches Two New Camera Phones in India
• Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
• Strengthening its camera phone portfolio in India, LG Electronics has announced the launch of its two new phones - LG KC550 and LG Secret (KF750). Both 5 megapixel handsets, they are available in the Indian market for Rs. 14,990 and Rs. 18,990 respectivel...

• Airlines take luxury to new highs in tough times
• Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
• Invigorate yourself with a shower and spa at 40,000 feet. Socialise in a lounge while indulging in the finest drinks and appetisers onboard. And unwind yourself in the spacious private suites complete with Givenchy-designed beds and Ferragamo toiletry kit...

• Fresh violence in Orissa over Dussehra celebrations, 10 injured
• Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
• In fresh violence in Orissa, 10 people were injured, two critically, as groups of Hindus and Christians clashed over the celebrationof Dussehra in Malkangiri district, police said on Friday. The clash took place late Thursday in Podia village of Malkan...

• Costly festivities, but who's complaining?
• Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
• As the Navaratri and Puja celebrations in Bangalore get bigger, brighter and better, so have the logistics that go behind organizing nine nights of non-stop music and masti. From costumes to cultural events, it calls for elaborate planning, coordinatio...

• I follow Akshay into projects: Katrina Kaif
• Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
• Britain-born Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif, who has given many hits with Akshay Kumar, says she trusts the star's script sense and often follows him into projects. Katrina's last hit with Akshay was "Singh is Kinng". "He has a fantas...

• Preity, Ness had rocking time at Singapore Grand Prix
• Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
• Preity Zinta, who is gearing up for her next release "Heroes", has become a sports fan and says she had the time of her life at the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Singapore. "Ness (Wadia) and I had the best evening of our life - all right, one ...

• Special playing alongside Ganguly: Tendulkar, Dravid
• Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
• Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, the two most celebrated peers of Sourav Ganguly, on Wednesday paid tributes to the retiring member of the 'fab four', saying the Bengal stalwart had been a fount of inspiration for his teammates during his 16-year-long g...

• New PCB chief vows to revive Pakistan cricket
• Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
• Pakistan's new cricket chief Ejaz Butt on Thursday vowed to restore the health of the sport in the nation, plagued by security concerns and disciplinary problems. Butt, a former secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan was appointed as...

• Bomb rocks Islamabad hotel, at least 60 dead
• Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
• At least 60 people were killed and 200 wounded in the bombing of a five-star hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday, a security official said. "The death toll is 60 and it may go up," the official said. He said many people died ...

• Pakistani air strike inflicts heavy casualties on militants: Official
• Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
• Pakistani fighter jets and helicopter gunships on Thursday destroyed a militant facility in the restive northwest, inflicting heavy casualties, security officials said. The air strike targeted a militant stronghold in Piochar, a village in the Swat val...

• Car bomber blows up Pak anti-terror squad building, 7 hurt
• Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
• A suicide car bomber blew up an anti-terrorist squad building at Islamabad's police headquarters on Thursday, partly demolishing the structure and wounding at least seven people, officials said. The blast was so powerful that it ripped off the facade o...

• Making Hay in India
• Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
• There’s something about India that fires Matthew Hayden up. It could be the food, the wickets, or even Harbhajan Singh. Hayden has already hinted at the fact that the Indian bowlers always fire him up to perform at his best. “As you know, o...

• BADAL CALLS FOR INCREASING FOREST COVER IN PUNJAB
• Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
• Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today exhorted the Forest Department to chalk out a strategy to make tree plantation 'a mass movement' in the state so as to save the environment. The department should involve the general public in this scheme...

• What made Hindus angry in Karnataka
• Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
• WAS born in a Catholic family. My uncle was a priest, a wonderful man of warmth and compassion and I spent most my early years in Catholic boarding schools. When I was young I wanted to become a missionary and to ‘convert’ pagans in Asia. What...

• Tata Motors to make cheap Nano in Gujarat
• Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
• Tata Motors Ltd will make its ultra low-cost Nano car in Gujarat, Chairman Ratan Tata said on Tuesday, days after India's top vehicle maker pulled out of West Bengal because of violent protests. The plant to be built at Sanand, near Ahmedabad, will be ...

• Global meltdown hits hiring in India
• Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
• The global financial meltdown claimed its first casualty in Los Angeles on Tuesday with a 45-year-old NRI killing five members of his family before taking his own life. That’s an indicator of the turmoil that families are going through owing to e...

• Indian Air Force turns 76 today
• Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008
• The Indian Air Force (IAF) is celebrating its 76th anniversary today. An air display by 52 aircraft will form part of the Air Force Day Parade-cum- investiture ceremony at Air Force Station, Hindon. Aircraft will fly at heights from 60 metres to 300...

• Shah Rukh launches $2.2-bn real estate project in UAE
• Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
• Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has announced the launch of his signature real estate development, Shah Rukh Khan Boulevard, to be located in the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The 8-billion dirham ($2.2-billion) develo...

• Dhaka to press for road up to China, sea boundary
• Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
• Dhaka would focus on linking Bangladesh to China through Myanmar and settling the maritime delimitation during bilateral talks with Myanmar's Vice Senior General Maung Aye, who arrives today on a three-day visit. However, the longstanding issue of repatri...

• Pak players face visa problem: Sources
• Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
• The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is facing problems in acquiring visas for its players for a four-nation twenty20 tournament in Toronto after Canadian embassy officials raised certain questions over the inclusion of star batsman Mohammad Yousuf and two ot...

• Indian immigrants in Australia celebrate Durga Puja with gusto
• Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
• Thousands of Bengali immigrants and other members of the Indian diaspora ushered in the Durga Puja celebrations with much fanfare and gusto here. Colourful pandals (marquees) adorned with spring flowers and intricately carved deities, women draped in d...

• Death of the American Dream: Indian kills family of five, self in LA
• Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
• Multiple gunshots echoed in the upscale home of an Indian family in a quiet, gated, suburban Los Angeles community last weekend, echoing the troubled times in America. When police turned up Monday morning after calls from a concerned neighbour waiting ...

• Gujarat cabinet approves land for Nano plant
• Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
• Tatas have decided to roll out the Nano from Gujarat, according to TV reports. The Gujarat cabinet has approved allotment of land for Nano project. Decks have been cleared for transfer of 1,000 acres of land to the Tatas. Modi's council of ministers me...

• Faith makes you better, with a rider
• Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
• Religion makes people helpful and honest, but mainly when it bolsters their reputation or when religious thoughts get freshly activated in their minds, new research suggests. Two psychologists in Canada, who reviewed decades of research from anthropolo...

• Cash-for-vote: No clinching evidence against Amar Singh, says Parliamentary
• Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
• In a reprieve for Amar Singh, the Parliamentary Committee investigating the cash-for-votes scam has in its report said there is no clinching evidence against the Samajwadi Party leader. The committee has recommended a CBI probe into the case and has s...

• Fab four burdened by own expectations: Dhoni
• Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
• More than the expectations of fans and scrutiny by the experts of the game, Indian cricket's 'Fab Four' are burdened by their own high expectations which puts them under pressure every time they step on the field, feels India One-day skipper Mahendra Sing...

• Report on armed forces grievances expected in two weeks: Navy Chief
• Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
• Rubbishing reports that he was censured by Defence Minister A K Antony for his "defiance" over the Pay Commission report, Navy chief Sureesh Mehta on Monday said he expected the ministerial committee looking into the "core issues" rais...

• Pak to review Sarabjit's case
• Date: Monday, October 6, 2008
• Pakistani Law Minister Farooq Naek on Monday met Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh at the Lahore's Kot Lakhpath Jail to review him. Naek said that he has asked for Sarabjit's file from the jail superintendent and added that he would study his ca...

• 'Rock On' my biggest success so far: Arjun Rampal
• Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
• He learnt to play the guitar, grew his hair really long and genuinely gelled with his co-stars. The effort has paid off for model-turned-actor Arjun Rampal who says "Rock On" is his biggest hit so far. He has been showered with praise for his...

• Hope for Singur project as Tata meets Bengal CM today
• Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
• Will he or won’t he? None other than Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata has the answer to this month-long guessing game that has kept the government and ancillary units on tenterhooks since Tata Motors suspended operations at the Nano factory in Singur ...

• Pace, not spin, will be Aussie trumpcard in India
• Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
• Banish the thought that Australia's untested spin attack would hand India a major advantage ahead of the highly-anticipated Test series starting next week. Contrary to popular belief, it's pace, rather than spin, that has clinched wins for touring team...

• Health insurance cover for poor spreads to 11 states
• Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
• A national health insurance programme, under which people below the poverty line (BPL) pay only Rs 30 and become entitled to treatment of up to Rs 30,000, has just become operational in 11 states. Launched in the Capital in April this year, the health ins...

• I'm not insecure about my career: Kunal Kapoor
• Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
• After cameos in two back-to-back movies - "Bachna Ae Haseeno" and "Welcome To Sajjanpur"- Kunal Kapoor is not afraid of being typecast as a cameo king and says he isn't insecure about his career. "They (filmmakers) can come to ...

• Amol Gupte enjoys playing Priyanka Chopra's tormentor
• Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
• After weaving together the beautiful story of a dyslexic child in "Taare Zameen Par", writer-actor Amol Gupte is now having a ball tormenting Priyanka Chopra in forthcoming film "Kaminey". "It's nice to be on another director's...

• Kumble slams media speculation on seniors
• Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
• India's cricket captain Anil Kumble on Thursday lashed out at the media for their speculation about an 'honourable exit' being worked out for the seniors and said such "rubbish" reports are bound to hurt the players. Kumble bluntly told the m...

• NCC cadets can fill armed forces' officer shortage: Raju
• Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
• With the three armed forces of the country facing a shortage of nearly 15,000 officers, Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju today said the National Cadets Corps (NCC) will be able to fill up the vacancies. "NCC cadets are joining the Indi...

• Four killed in suicide blast in northwest Pakistan: Police
• Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
• At least four people were killed on Thursday in a suicide blast in the town of Charsadda in northwest Pakistan, a police official said. "Many wounded are lying on the ground. We have two policemen and two civilians killed," said a police offi...

• Finally, it's done: India back on the nuclear train
• Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008
• Three decades of nuclear apartheid that New Delhi had been subjected to, ended, appropriately enough, on Gandhi Jayanti (day) in India. Ejected from the train of nuclear elites and their submissive groupies following its experimental 1974 nuclear test, an...

• Om Shanti Om nominated for Asia Pacific awards
• Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
• Om Shanti Om, Jodha Akbar and Taare Zameen Par are amongst five Indian films nominated on Wednesday for the 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), the highest accolade for film in the region. The smash hit Om Shanti Om has been nominated for Best Feat...

• BCCI selects Ganguly with retirement rider
• Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
• Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly will be a part of the team for the first two Tests against Australia but with a rider. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the series will be Ganguly's last who is likely to announce that he will retire after the series. ...

• Turbans are an issue: Singh tells Sarkozy
• Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said French President Nicolas Sarkozy had told him that he had an "open mind" on the issue of Sikhs wearing turbans in France and would have a relook at it. Dr Singh, who the was speaking to mediaper...

• In a major shuffle, new chief for ISI
• Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
• The new chief of Pakistan’s main intelligence service will surely be scrutinized by American officials who have questioned the powerful spy agency’s loyalties in the war on terror. The appointment of Lt Gen Ahmed Shujaa Pasha as head of Int...

• Suspected US missile strike kills 8 militants in Pak tribal region
• Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008
• A missile fired by a suspected US drone hit a house in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, killing at least eight Islamist militants, mainly Arabs, officials said on Wednesday. The overnight attack was the latest in a string of incidents on ...

• Those who work for an image are not actors: Kay Kay Menon
• Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
• Versatile Kay Kay Menon, who will be seen as a villain in forthcoming fantasy film "Drona", doesn't believe in image and says those who stick to certain kinds of screen image are not good actors. "I'm playing a negative character in the ...

• Smoking scenes in movies has Bollywood divided
• Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
• From Oct 2, the government will introduce its new no-smoking policy. Most Bollywood personalities like Saif Ali Khan, Shabana Azmi and Akhshaye Khanna welcome this move, but some feel it would be unfair to ban smoking in movies. Saif Ali Khan: Smoking ...

• UP cops put cyber cafes, PCOs under surveillance
• Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
• The recent spurt in terrorist activities and links connecting many of the suspects to Uttar Pradesh have brought cyber cafes and telephone booths across the state under police surveillance with the former asked to install CCTVs. "Police officials ...

• India can’t remain untouched by global financial crisis: PM
• Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
• Hinting that India cannot remain untouched by the financial turmoil in the US, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the nation's capacity to finance development will be affected and exports compromised if major economies go into recession. In an inte...

• 177 feared dead in temple stampede in Jodhpur
• Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008
• In one of worst tragedies in Rajasthan, 177 people are feared dead, mostly men, and several injured in a stampede that took place when thousands of devotees gathered at a 15th century temple in Jodhpur on the occasion of Navaratri festival on Tuesday. ...

• I`m single, Riteish is just a friend: Genelia
• Date: Monday, September 29, 2008
• Genelia D'Souza, Imran Khan's petite and perky co-star in "Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na", brushes off rumours of any relationship with Riteish Deshmukh with a "we're just friends." Genelia teamed up with Riteish for her first Hindi film ...

• I`m single, Riteish is just a friend: Genelia
• Date: Monday, September 29, 2008
• Genelia D'Souza, Imran Khan's petite and perky co-star in "Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na", brushes off rumours of any relationship with Riteish Deshmukh with a "we're just friends." Genelia teamed up with Riteish for her first Hindi film ...

• Petrol, diesel shortage looms large
• Date: Monday, September 29, 2008
• If you thought petrol and diesel were going to get cheaper thanks to falling crude prices, think again. In fact, thank your lucky stars if there is no shortage in the next 2-3 months. The three companies supplying these fuels — IndianOil, Hindust...

• 37 arrested in raid on 'rave party' in Pushkar
• Date: Monday, September 29, 2008
• Ajmer police on Saturday night arrested 37 people, including 25 foreigners, during a raid at a 'trance party' (a party where trance music is played and drugs are anintegral part) at a farmhouse, about 8 km from here. Police seized 300gm of brown sugar, ca...

• Dasmunshi urges Singur resolution
• Date: Monday, September 29, 2008
• Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunshi on Sunday called for fresh efforts to solve the tangle around the Tata Motors small car project at Singur. He said an all-party meeting should be called to discuss the impasse where attempt should be ...

• Vin Diesel talks about Bollywood
• Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008
• What’s your perception of India — a nuclear power, a land of snake charmers or a spiritual destination? I am fascinated by its magical quality. I’ve heard that almost all places and rituals in India have a story or a legend attached ...

• Mahendra Kapoor disappeared from Bollywood music scene too early
• Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008
• Mumbai, Sep 28 (IANS) A voice that rendered many immortal songs will be heard no more, as Bollywood bade farewell Sunday to singer Mahendra Kapoor, who passed away at the age of 74, following cardiac arrest in Mumbai. The voice, a friend of Kapoor said...

• Bollywood titans to clash this festive season
• Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008
• NEW DELHI: Tinsel-town denizens have been dishing out entertainment both on and off screen for the last three quarters of year 2008, but the heavy-weights who have been saving the best for the traditional festive season include Salman Khan starrer "Y...

• Don't leave West Bengal: Buddha urges Tata
• Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
• West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has written to Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata urging him not to shift the Nano car project from Singur. The chief minister in his letter to Ratan Tata said no more disruptions will occur. “We ass...

• Love sans borders
• Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
• Former Miss India Sayali Bhagat and Pakistan cricket team captain Shoaib Malik will play the lead actors in director Wilson Louis's next film. Although Sayali and Shoaib have been romantically involved for almost six months, they have always denied their ...

• Police told to end open defiance
• Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
• Even while Maharashtra is on tenterhooks fearing where the next blast might take place and the state police force is trying to thwart terrorists, the 1.75 lakh policemen have been told to take up another responsibility, that of booking people who defecate...

• PM dissatisfied with drinking water project
• Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
• Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday expressed his dissatisfaction over the clean drinking water programme initiated by the previous government in 2004 and constituted a committee to thoroughly examine the progress of the programme and submi...

• Falling global commodity prices fail to benefit local consumers
• Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
• Consumers have not been benefited by the falling commodity prices as the retailers have not made adjustments with the wholesale rates, said a government report released Thursday.(The Financial Express ) The quarterly 'Food situation report' (April-June...

• Probe report on Pak Olympic debacle in a month
• Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
• The committee constituted by the government to probe the Pakistan hockey team's disastrous performance at the Beijing Olympics held its first meeting on Thursday and will submit its report in a month's time. The three-member committee is headed by spor...

• India to open consulates in Seattle, Atlanta
• Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
• India will open two new consulates in the United States in Seattle and Atlanta, foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon announced on Thursday. Briefing journalists on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with US President Bush at the White House, Menon ...

• Sidhu hails Rahul visit to Golden Temple
• Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
• Popular for his jibes on political opponents, former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu of the Bharatiya Janta Party on Wednesday hailed Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's visit to the Golden Temple in Amritsar. "Rahul Gandhi is a leader of the C...

• To 'Taare Zameen Par', with best wishes from Bollywood
• Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
• Aamir Khan's acclaimed directorial debut "Taare Zameen Par" is India's official entry to the Oscars this year and many in Bollywood, including Naseeruddin Shah and Amitabh Bachchan, have sent their best wishes that it may be up there with the be...

• Sanjay Dutt getting two new tattoos
• Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
• After having had a lion tattoo on his forearm for some time, Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt is getting two new tattoos - another lion on his chest and the word "honour" in Japanese on his arm. "The actor wanted another lion tattoo, but since...

• India A beat Australia A by 3 wickets
• Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
• India A registered a brilliant three wicket victory over Australia A in the last league match of the tri-series at the M Chidambaram stadium in Chennai today. Batting first, Australia A set a target of 273 runs for the host in the limited fifty over, whic...

• Cricketer Kapil Dev now an honorary army officer
• Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
• Cricketer Kapil Dev, who scripted history by leading the Indian team to victory the 1983 World Cup, was Wednesday commissioned into the Territorial Army (TA) as an honorary lieutenant colonel. Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor piped the badges of...

• Special Task Force to implement smoking rules in Goa
• Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
• Goa government will form a special task force to ensure implementation of new amendments in the Smoking in public places Rules 2008, that are being enforced from October 2. State Health Minister Rane said that the Goa cabinet would resolve to give more...

• Five Indian Mujahideen men arrested from Mumbai
• Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
• In yet another pointer to suspected SIMI-Indian Mujaheedin involvement in terror attacks in Delhi and other parts of the country, Mumbai Police claimed to have arrested five people, including the man who made bomb circuits used to carry out blasts in the ...

• Warner Bros lose Hari Puttar case
• Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
• A court in the Indian capital Delhi has rejected a lawsuit filed by Hollywood company Warner Bros against the makers of a Bollywood film Hari Puttar. The makers of the blockbuster Harry Potter films said the title of the Indian movie was too similar. ...

• Sandeep drives AI to Guru Tegh Bahadur Gold Cup hockey title
• Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
• Drag-flicker Sandeep Singh scored four goals, including a second-half hat-trick, powering Air India to a spectacular 5-4 victory over star-studded Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) in the final of the 8th Guru Tegh Bahadur Gold Cup hockey tournament on Monday....

• Marriott bombing: Al Qaeda, affiliate suspected
• Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
• A suicide bomb attack that killed 53 people at the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital bore the hallmarks of an operation by al Qaeda or an affiliate, Pakistani and US intelligence officials said on Sunday. Searchers combing the burnt shell of the hot...

• India lose to Romania in Davis Cup
• Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
• Romania retained their place in the Davis Cup World Group after forging to an unassailable 3-1 lead in the play-off with Inida here on Sunday. With a 2-1 overnight advantage victory was assured when Romania's Victor Hanescu defeated Prakash Amritraj, ...

• Phoren students learn to make films in 'sexy' Bollywood
• Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
• There must be something about Bollywood's masala movies. Attracted by the desi formula, film students from the West are taking up cinematography, direction and acting, among other specialities, at institutes in India or run by cine experts from India. ...

• Yamuna level rises, Delhi on alert
• Date: Monday, September 22, 2008
• With the water level in Yamuna rising alarmingly, the Delhi Government has asked people living on the river bed to evacuate their homes. The water-level in the river on Sunday touched 204.60 metres, just 23 cm away from the danger mark, as Haryana rele...

• Indian sailors onboard ship hijacked by Somalian pirates safe
• Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
• Eighteen Indian sailors on board a cargo vessel that has been hijacked by pirates off the Yemen coast are safe, an official here said Wednesday. 'As per the information received, all crew on board are safe and the vessel is being taken to Somalia,' the...

• Pakistanis demand ICC tour action
• Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
• Leading lights in Pakistan cricket have called on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to change its rules so countries cannot pick and choose tours. The call comes after Australia decided to tour India despite recent bombings there, having repeated...

• India mulls rules for kids on TV
• Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
• The Indian government has proposed new guidelines to regulate children's participation in reality TV shows. Among them is a suggestion to fix the minimum age limit of contestants to 12 years. Once approved, all broadcasters will have to follow the guid...

• American pop star Fergie to croon for Bollywood?
• Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
• The buzz in Bollywood is that Fergie, solo artist and singer of the band ‘Black Eyed Peas’, will croon for a Hindi movie. The East-West twain have begun meeting more often than not. Only recently we saw the American rapper Snoop Dogg in a S...

• Election arrangements reviewed in Kashmir Valley
• Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
• Jammu and Kashmir Chief Electoral Officer B.R. Sharma Thursday reviewed with the district election officers of the Valley the arrangements for the forthcoming elections to the 87-member state assembly. There would be 9,113 polling stations for 6.54 mil...

• Pakistan troop fire turns back US helicopters
• Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
• Firing by Pakistani troops forced US military helicopters to turn back to Afghanistan after they crossed into Pakistani territory in the early hours of Monday, Pakistani security officials said. The incident took place near Angor Adda, a village in the...

• Bikini babe Sherlyn Chopra makes fans go berserk
• Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
• Sherlyn Chopra in her diamond studded bikini and hot pants is setting the temperature soaring on the promotional tour of her latest music album. Sherlyn, being Sherlyn, is not shying away from donning the same eye-popping bikini at the promotional even...

• Air India beat IOCL to lift Murugappa Cup hockey title
• Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
• Air India survived a nerve-wracking tie-breaker to beat Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) by an aggregate 6-5 scoreline in the final of the 84th All-India MCC Murugappa Gold Cup hockey tournament here on Sunday. Penalty corner specialist Ramachandra Ra...

• Britain's first Hindu school to begin term
• Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
• Britain's first Hindu school, which receives its spiritual guidance from the Hare Krishna movement, opens in London on Monday with a batch of 30 students. The 'bhumi puja' (ground breaking ceremony) of the Krishna Avanti Voluntary Aided Primary School ...

• Panjab University teachers' association president resigns
• Date: Monday, September 15, 2008
• Chandigarh, Sep 15 : Panjab University Teachers' Association (PUTA) president Ronki Ram has resigned from the post just 25 days after his election following a difference in opinion with other members of the group. Faculty members have accused Ronki Ram...

• India's Bollywood Reaping Benefits of New Investment
• Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
• By Anjana Pasricha In India, some of the country's biggest companies are making huge investments in the Hindi film industry, popularly known as Bollywood. Anjana Pasricha has a report from New Delhi, on India's booming film industry. The latest vent...

• Bollywood stars in their eyes
• Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
• By Shenaz Kermali Hassan Khan has stars in his eyes. The 22-year-old British Pakistani has just enrolled into the United Kingdom's first Indian cinema acting school. "I've always been mad on Bollywood - always watching, singing and dancing ...

• As in Bangladesh, so in Georgia
• Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
• By Premen Addy Bangladesh 1971, Georgia 2008: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (The more things change, the more they remain the same). The US postured that the territorial integrity of its clients -- Yahya Khan's Pakistan and Mikh...

• The Face: Azhar Abidi
• Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
• By Annabel McGilvray MIDDLE Eastern medieval fables are awash with dashing adventure heroes. It's an Arabian Nights cast of philosopher kings and princes travelling the world, outsmarting genies for the sake of love, family and the occasional treasu...

• Cornellians Discuss New Pakistani President
• Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
• By Therese Lahlouh Last Tuesday, Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as president of Pakistan, just nine months following his wife's assassination. Amidst a growing economic crisis and the ris...

• Pakistani fury as suspected US drone attack kills 12
• Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008
• By Aislinn Simpson A missile from a suspected US drone has killed 12 people in the lawless Pakistani tribal area linked to al-Qaeda, fuelling angry protests and threats of a withdraw from George W Bush's 'war on terror'. The missile hit a house on ...

• Hindi-Chini, hai-hai
• Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
• The Indian elephant has a deep-seated and chronic inferiority complex vis-a-vis the Chinese dragon. Way back in 1950, after the Chinese communist revolution, the US offered China's UN Security Council seat to India. Jawaharlal Nehru turned down the offer,...

• Cyber Sutra: India's online eroticism
• Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
• Now known for strict conservatism, India was the birthplace of erotica, famed for its sensual literature and carvings. Andrew Buncombe looks at a modern expression of an ancient urge India's cultural gifts to the world include the Kama Sutra and the se...

• Top Bollywood stars swept up in nativist politics
• Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008
• By Tony Tharakan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A surge of nativism in India's most cosmopolitan city, Mumbai, is leading to an uneasy relationship with one of its best-known institutions -- Bollywood. Some of its top stars have been caught up in the anti-im...

• Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poet
• Date: Monday, September 8, 2008
• By Haresh Pandya The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77. The cause was kidney failure, said his son, Shibli Faraz. He was earlier reported...

• Urdu-speaking people 'forced' to be voters
• Date: Monday, September 8, 2008
• Urdu-speaking people in the country have accused some BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders of using threats and violence to force them to enrol their names in the Election Commission's voter list. They have sent a letter to Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed in...

• Shahrukh falls in love with a Punjabi girl
• Date: Monday, September 8, 2008
• Just two days in Amritsar and King Khan is in love. As all must have already guessed, we are talking about Shahrukh Khan, who is in Amritsar for the past few days, shooting for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. Since it's a Yash Raj project, there is a lot of secrecy ...

• Ex-Bangladesh PM Khaleda Zia might step out of prison soon
• Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
• Dhaka, September 5:: Detained former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, languishing in prison for over a year on graft charges, may be freed on bail by next week, her lawyers have claimed. However, she will have to go through legal procedures for h...

• Aussies sweep Bangladesh
• Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
• Australia completed a 3-0 clean sweep of its one-day series against Bangladesh, winning the third and final match by 73 runs at Marrara Stadium in Darwin this afternoon. The home side, having won the toss and chosen to bat, managed a modest 5 for 198 f...

• Delhi University gets ABVP president after 8 years
• Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
• NEW DELHI: Nupur Sharma of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) - the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - was elected the president of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) for 2008-09 here on Saturday. Sharma, who is a stu...

• UPDATE 1-India says nuclear suppliers' approval "momentous"
• Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
• By Krittivas Mukherjee NEW DELHI, Sept 6 (Reuters) - India hailed as "momentous" a global atomic cartel's decision on Saturday to lift a 34-year-old ban on nuclear trade with New Delhi, a crucial step to sealing a controversial U.S.-India civ...

• US-India nuclear accord approved
• Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008
• The group of nations which regulates the global nuclear trade has approved a US proposal to lift restrictions on selling nuclear technology to India. The controversial deal now needs to be ratified by the US Congress before it can be implemented. In...

• Warner 'sues over Puttar movie'
• Date: Friday, September 5, 2008
• Harry Potter maker Warner Bros is suing an Indian film company over the title of upcoming film Hari Puttar - A Comedy Of Terrors, according to reports. Warner Bros feels the name is too similar to that of its world famous young wizard, according to tr...

• Making Hindi interesting for students
• Date: Friday, September 5, 2008
• Our national language has been neglected for long or so believes Srijan Publishers, a Delhi-based publishing house. They today organised a workshop on 'Hindi shikshan ki chunautiya' (Challenges in Hindi education) for the teachers of the steel city an...

• Grandmother Gives Birth to Twins in India
• Date: Monday, July 7, 2008
• Omkari Panwar, 70, has become the oldest mother in the world after giving birth to twins. The twins, a boy and a girl, were born a month premature and weighed just 2lb each, but are thought to be healthy. Mrs Panwar, along with her husband Charan Sing...

• Primark Fires Indian Child Labour Firms
• Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008
• The UK-based discount clothing store Primark has sacked three of its Indian suppliers after discovering that they used child labour to finish their goods. Primark has proven to be a big hit on the high street thanks to its mixture of low prices and cuttin...

• Gujjar Tribespeople Cause Chaos in New Dehli
• Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008
• Thousands of members of the Gujjar tribe brought New Delhi to a standstill today after blocking major roads, squatting on train tracks and burning car tires in order to protest for better treatment. They have also threatened to halt essential milk and veg...

• Guilty Verdict in High-Profile Delhi Murder Case
• Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008
• A court in Delhi has found Vikas Yadav guilty in a high-profile murder case. Yadav, who is the son of the influential Uttar Pradesh politician DP Yadav, was found guilty of abducting and killing Nitish Katara after a wedding six years ago. It is believed ...

• Bayern Munich Arrive in Calcutta
• Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
• German football team Bayern Munich have arrived in Calcutta, where they will become the first big European club to play in India. The team’s visit signifies the increasing popularity of football in a country that is generally known for its love of c...

• Douglas and Zeta-Jones Make Film in India
• Date: Friday, May 23, 2008
• Over two decades after the original, Michael Douglas is making a sequel to his 1984 film Romancing the Stone, along with his Welsh actress wife Catherine Zeta-Jones. The couple will be relocating their whole family to Mumbai, Kolkata and Jaisalmer in orde...

• Bollywood Boss Makes Hollywood Movie Deal
• Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008
• Reliance Big Entertainment, which is owned by Anil Ambani - the world's sixth richest man – has announced that it will be making 10 Hollywood movies at a cost of one billion dollars. Reliance has signed deals with the production firms of Nicolas...

• India Shows its First Pakistani Film in 40 Years
• Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
• Not content with being one of the most successful Pakistani films of all time, Khuda Kay Liye has just become the first Pakistani film to be given a wide release in India for over 40 years. The film was very well received at its Indian premiere in Mumbai ...

• Two British Holidaymakers Drown in Goa
• Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
• A Foreign Office spokesperson has confirmed that a British man and woman drowned off the coast of Goa on Sunday. The spokesperson said: “We can confirm that two British nationals drowned at Morjim beach in Goa on April 6. We have informed their next...

• Landmark Judgement for Highly Skilled Indian Migrant Workers in the UK
• Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
• The High Court has ruled that the UK government’s new, tougher rules on immigration for skilled workers are unfair. The hearing ruled that it was “not open to the government to alter the terms and conditions” of their Highly Skilled...

• India Pledge Money to Africa
• Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
• Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that he will invest heavily in Africa to boost India’s economic ties with the country. He pledged more than $500m for African projects while speaking at the India-Africa Forum Summit, which was arranged&...

• Baby with Two Faces is a ‘Gift from God’
• Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
• The family of a baby girl in India who was born with two faces have said that the child is a gift from god, despite her disability. The child’s father, Vinod Kumar, told the press that he was happy with his baby the way she was. He said: &ldquo...

• Bird Flu Returns to India
• Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
• According to reports, a new outbreak of bird flu has been found in poultry in Tripura, India. Around 3,000 birds were reportedly found dead of the illness and the authorities are struggling to contain the virus. The outbreak was discovered after samples o...

• Will Madonna Adopt an Indian Baby?
• Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
• According to reports, pop star Madonna, 49, is to adopt a baby from India. The star is thought to have decided to adopt an Indian child after taking a New Year holiday in the country with her film director husband Guy Ritchie, 39. While in the country, t...

• Actors Fast to Protest Against Film Ban
• Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
• Actors have gone on a one-day fast in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to protest against the ban on screening Tamil films in the neighbouring state, Karnataka. The top Tamil actor Rajnikanth is thought to be among the film stars who has decided to fast. T...

• Indian Prime Minister Inducts Seven New Ministers
• Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
• The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, expanded his cabinet on Sunday by making seven new ministers take oath of office. President Pratibha Patil administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new Ministers at Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Prime Min...

• India to Face Food Crisis?
• Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
• According to economists, India could soon be facing a major food crisis. Rising inflation in the country - currently around 7% - is thought to be the result of a rise in food prices and it’s causing economists to worry. In Delhi, the cost of ...

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