New Delhi, Sept 3 – Shahsi Tharoor may have lost his ministerial job, but he has not fallen out of favor with the prime minister. Gursharan Kaur, Manmohan Singh’s spouse, was among those who came to wish Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar good luck on their marriage, the third for both, at a power-packed [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh could not make it but his wife Gursharan Kaur was among those who attended Shashi Tharoor and his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s reception here Friday evening after their marriage last month and wished the couple all the best. All roads seemed to lead to the India Habitat [...]
Bangalore, Sep 3 – Indian IT bellwether Wipro has teamed up with global enterprise software products firm Oracle to offer a warranty management and analytics solution for industrial manufacturing, automotive and high-tech industries, the company said late Friday. ‘By leveraging our industry expertise with Oracle’s Siebel customer relationship management (CRM) applications, we will help streamline [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Delhi Metro’s Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar link, which connects the city’s north with its satellite town of Gurgaon in Haryana, was a huge hit among the public Friday with over 32,000 footfalls within a few hours of its opening. According to a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) spokesperson, about 32,000 people [...]
Raipur, Sep 3 – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari said Friday that foodgrain worth Rs.58,000 crore was rotting in India every year because of the Congress party’s bad governance. ‘Poor people are becoming poorer and the rich are becoming richer during the Congress regime as it has adopted a wrong economic policy and [...]
Raipur, Sep 3 – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Friday taunted Sonia Gandhi over her re-election as Congress president for a fourth successive term and said the post seems to be reserved for the Gandhi family. ‘I congratulate Sonia Gandhi for getting re-elected the Congress chief for a record fourth time but she [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 3 – The Haryana assembly was adjourned for the day Friday – the first day of its monsoon session – following an uproar in the house by opposition parties who were seeking a discussion on the recent floods in the state. Opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators [...]
Panaji, Sep 3 – In an indirect criticism of the state government, a top official of Sesa Goa (SG) – a Vedanta Resources-owned mining company based in Goa – Friday said it was virtually impossible to fight illegal mining in Goa because of ‘issues faced in pursuing such matters’. Speaking at a function on ‘Mining [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – It was a day of desires being fulfilled for residents of south Delhi with the opening of the Metro’s Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar section, connecting north Delhi to the satellite town of Gurgaon. As the 12.53 km Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar link was thrown open to the public Friday afternoon, thousands of [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – With Delhi Metro now reaching the capital’s south, its managing director E. Sreedharan Friday took the opportunity to ride a train on the newly-opened Central Secretariat-Qutub Minar corridor while going back home. Sreedharan, who resides in Metro Enclave of south Delhi’s Pushp Vihar locality, boarded the train at Barakhamba metro [...]
Bangalore, Sep 3 – Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Friday said his government had issued two mining licences only for value addition and renewed leases to eight companies in accordance with its new mining policy. ‘We have recommended to the central government, issue of licences to state-run Hutti Gold Mines Ltd in Raichur district for [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Ratan Tata, chairman of India’s multinational company, Tata Group has said he has an ‘affinity’ to South Africa and the firm is expected to increase its focus on Africa with a slew of new business launches being drawn up. ‘In India, we believe in destiny. I find that I have [...]
Mumbai, Sep 3 – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday assured a delegation of top Congress leaders that he would personally look into the issue of the proposed new international airport in Navi Mumbai which is entangled in a controversy over environmental issues. The assurance was given to a delegation led by Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, [...]
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 3 – A cabin crew shortage has forced Air India Express to cancel a number of its flights from three airports in Kerala to various destinations in the Middle East from next week. An Air India spokesperson here told IANS that the cancellations would begin from next week and would be there till [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – In a step to reiterate the government’s commitment to tribal welfare, an apex National Council for Tribal Welfare (NCTW), to be headed by the prime minister, was constituted Friday. The formation of the NCTW was initiated by Minister of Tribal Affairs Kanti Lal Bhuria, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs said [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – The Election Commission Friday announced by-election to the Bhatgaon assembly seat in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district on Oct 1. Polls are being held following the death of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Tripathi in a car accident in April this year. While the notification will be issued Sep 6, [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 3 – A leading US-based cattle genetics marketing organisation Friday announced it will be working closely with Punjab farmers to promote dairy farming and help the state in achieving success with the ‘white revolution’. World Wide Sires (WWS) Ltd, which represents the Artificial Insemination Cooperatives (AIC), Accelerated Genetics, a farmers-owned largest cooperative in [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Sonia Gandhi was Friday elected Congress president unopposed for the fourth successive time, becoming the longest serving Congress chief. Thanking party workers for their support, Gandhi termed the job as a ‘great responsibility’. ‘Congress workers have all elected me unopposed as head of this great, historical organisation. For this, I [...]
New Delhi, Sep 3 – Czech automobile major SkodaAuto Friday said its monthly sales in August grew by 24 percent to 1,511 vehicles and that it intends to launch its Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) YETI later this year. The growth in sales was due to the success of its brands, Superb and Laura, the company [...]
Mumbai, Sep 3 – A benchmark index for Indian equities closed almost flat Friday in volatile but range-bound trade. Broader markets, however, continued to see robust buys. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 18,238.03 points, closed at 18,221.43 points, 16.88 points or 0.09 percent down from its [...]
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