India`s triumph in the cricket World Cup and Anna Hazare`s crusade against corruption - two things that could make an epoch of the first half of this year. But where is the Bengali bhadrolok (BB) in all this? Is the absence of the BB accid
Karnataka today witnessed protests and rallies statewide with the ruling BJP demanding immediate recall of Governor H R Bhardwaj and Opposition Congress seeking dismissal of B S Yeddyurappa-led government. BJP activists burnt effigi
With uncertainty over South Korean major Posco`s USD 12-billion steel project in Orissa ending, there could be good news in store for the much-delayed global steel giant ArcelorMittal`s 12 MTPA project in the state. The Luxembourg-b
Lufthansa, a founding member of the Star Alliance, has said Air India needs to complete all formalities to join the global airline grouping before the final deadline of July 31. "The Star Alliance has set the time limit for Air
Republican Party of India (RPI) workers today staged a rasta roko at Zilla Parishad office to protest hike in petrol price. RPI leader Hanumant Sathe, who spearheaded the agitation, said, "The government is not obliging their p
Accepting the civic body`s policy to set up english medium schools in the city, the Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition filed by Balak Vidya Vihar Trust which challenged the decision of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to allot a pl
Erode municipal corporation health officials said today that they had destroyed four tonnes of artificially ripened mangoes that was kept in a godown. Corporation officials said they had conducted a raid yesterday in a fruit godown
Jammu and Kashmir government will consider issuing no objection certificate to hotels in the civil lines area of the Valley for four years if the Housing and Urban Development Department assures it to connect all the building for this purpose with
About 400 contract workers, engaged by the city corporation through NGOs to carry out duties such as street light maintenance, sanitation and computer operation, began an indefinite boycott of their work in protest against non-payment of wages for
Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik flagged off the Bhubaneswar-Cuttack city bus service here in the satellite township Markat Nagar and new solid waste management facility in the city. Patnaik expressed hope that the services alre
China has outperformed India in tackling the "double-burden" of diseases that includes infectious diseases affecting the poor on the one hand and chronic lifestyle ailments typical of fast urbanisation on the other, a WHO report has said
A railway route electrification project on Ujjain-Indore line is likely to be completed by the end of September next, a railway official said today. "The Rs 70 crore project through Maksi railway route was initiated in year 200
Serious threats posed by terrorism and piracy will be high on the agenda of prime minister Manmohan Singh during talks with African leaders on his six-day visit to Ethiopia and Tanzania next week. Singh, who leaves on May 23 for Add
The Mumbai police has sought to wash their hands off the goof-up in the list of India`s 50 `most wanted` fugitives given to Pakistan after a terror accused, figuring in the document, was found living in neighbouring Thane. Wazhul Ka
The hallowed portals of an IIM will be more accessible to aspiring business students of this city when (IIM-T) opens on June 15 this year. All infrastructure is in place, 12 faculty members have been chosen after stringent selection
Concerned over the growing incidence of female infanticide in state`s Marathwada region and Beed district in particular, the Maharashtra government has convened a meeting on May 20 of all concerned officials in Beed to discuss crackdown on irregul
VHP today claimed the Ram mandir will be built at Ayodhya despite the legal hurdles involved. "A time will come when Muslim fraternity will itself ask Hindus to construct Ram mandir at Ayodhya," VHP international president
IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt today told Nanavati Commission, probing post-Godhra communal riots, he could help in "uncovering" the truth behind the incident of violence at Godhra railway station on February 27, 2002. Bhatt, w
If cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth, the struggle of Greater Noida’s farmers against land acquisition is a violent expression of that truth. Behind the killing of four farmers of Bhatta-Parsaul villages lies the story of loo
At the peak of campaigning in recent assembly polls in West Bengal, the Times Now aired an interview of Purulia arms drop accused Kim Davy. Davy, who had escaped arrest, pointed out that the large cache of arms was meant for the Anand Margis to su
