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Now, 1 paisa per sec STD calls

While mobile service providers were following Tata-DoCoMo in 1 paisa per second tariff, latest entrant Videocon has pulled one over the rest in the ...

Scotland Yard interrogates Pak cricketers

The Scotland Yard on Tuesday summoned the Pakistani cricketers accused of indulging in match fixing back to London from Taunton for interrogation. ...

Indian-origin Archie Panjabi wins Emmy

Indian-origin British actress Archie Panjabi (Bend it like Beckham, East is East, A Good Year, The Constant Gardener) bagged the best supporting a ...

Shocker: Pak players Caught in Match Fixing Scandal

In what seems to be the biggest, most sensational sporting scandal ever, several top Pakistani players have been caught red handed taking bribes fo ...

Listen to the CWG theme song by A R Rahman

Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman's Commonwealth Games theme song, titled 'Jiyo Utho Badho Jeeto' was finally unveiled at a glittering function in ...

No tax on incomes below Rs 2 lakh

Soon there will be no tax on incomes below Rs 2 lakh as the Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared the new Direct Tax Code Bill that proposes to raise t ...

Mayawati may be charged for Illegal Wealth

Mayawati's encounter with the CBI has come full circle, with the investigative agency telling the Supreme Court that there was a fit case for prose ...

UK Tabloid reports another colossal CWG scandal

In yet another damaging revelation, a British company reportedly charged the Delhi Commonwealth Games Organising Committee more than double of what ...

Indian MPs to get another Salary Hike of Rs 10,000

MPs will now an additional Rs 10,000 over and above what was agreed upon last week - a 300% raise. That amounts to Rs 1.6 lakh a month for legislat ...

10 top officials to salvage CWG

Suresh Kalmadi's role in the Commonwealth Games has been further constricted as the Center has appointed 10 top babus to oversee critical aspects o ...

Will flood-hit Pak accept Indian aid?

It has been reported that over one-fifth's of Pakistan is now under water owing to the escalating problems caused by the floods. India has offered ...

Now NTPC to pull out of CWG sponsorship

With less than 50 days to go, the New Delhi Commonwealth Games seems to be a disaster in the making as a new controversy looms - in light of the a ...

CAG finds fault in CWG contract

Already under attack from various quarters, the CWG Organising Committee has come in for criticism from government auditor CAG over appointment of ...

India rubbishes superbug link

India on Thursday described linking a new superbug resistant to antibiotics to this country as “malicious propaganda” and blaming global MNCs f ...

Blackberry gets Aug 31 deadline

Stepping up the pressure on BlackBerry mobile phone services, government on Thursday asked the phone-makers Research In Motion as well as telecom o ...

KBC-like quiz show on rural India

To sensitise those living in villages about welfare programmes meant for them, the government is planning to launch a television quiz programme on ...

Mumbai oil spill plugged

The Mumbai Coast Guard claimed Monday that the Operation Chitra has been successful and oil slick from the ship has been stopped.

"Oil slick ...

Doubts cast over Darbari's 'innocent' claim

Tribhuvan Darbari, the man who is being blamed as the fall guy of the Commonwealth corruption scandal, was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate ...

Taliban flogs, executes Afghan pregnant woman

The Taliban executed a pregnant woman on charges of adultery in western Afghanistan, an official said on Monday.

A Taliban court in Qadis, a ...

Shocker: Scores killed in Leh flash floods

Over a 100 people are dead and more than 350 people were injured after a cloudburst followed by massive flash floods in Leh on early Friday morning ...

Kalmadi refuses to Quit

Suresh Kalmadi, the Chairman of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, on Friday refused to resign over allegations of corruption in the preparat ...

Kalmadi's aides sacked

The Commonwealth Games Organising Committee on Thursday suspended T S Darbari and Sanjay Mahendroo following the report of the three-member panel w ...

India and Iran to bolster ties

Amid escalating Western pressure on the Iranian nuclear programme, India and Iran Thursday held talks to explore ways to counter the threat of Tali ...

CWG corruption scandal veers out of control

The fate of the Commonwealth Games hangs by a thread as Organising Committee's credibility took a few more knocks on Tuesday - an e-mail was made p ...

PM blames Pak foreign minister for talks failure

PM Manmohan Singh on Thursday blamed Pakistan's pugnacious foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi for the failure of the Islamabad talks. "There was ...

US Congressman slams Pak for harbouring Terrorism

Congressman Ed Royce, a leading US lawmaker slammed Pakistan for its obsession with India and knowingly fostering terrorism and allowing terrorists ...

Wikileaks exposes Pak's hand in US Afghan War

In a startling development on Sunday, the website Wikileaks.org released over 75,000 secret US military reports covering the war in Afghanistan. Th ...

Is the CBI a Congress mouthpiece?

In light of the Amit Shah fiasco, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for the smooth functioning of parliament and said that it was ready for all ...

Migrants bring malaria to Mumbai

Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has officially joined the likes of Bal and Raj Thackeray in spewing hatred amongst Indian communitie ...

Mamata accuses CPI-M of Sabotaging Railways

A day after the Gyaneshwari Express disaster, Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has blamed Communist Party of India-Mar ...

63 dead as trains collide in West Bengal

63 died and a further 150 were injured as the Uttar Banga Express roared in at 90kmph and crashed into the rear of the Ranchi-bound Vananchal Expre ...

New type of Credit Card prevents Online Fraud

In light of the rampant credit cards frauds throughout the world, US global payments technology company Visa's European arm has designed a new ultr ...

Now Qureshi claims not to have ridiculed SM Krishna

Just a few days after the ridiculing Indian foreign minister SM Krishna post their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qur ...

Pak to take action against 26/11 suspects

Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan on Thursday discussed ways to hasten trial process in Pakistan on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks apart from not a ...

Indian rupee now has a symbol

Joining the elite currencies like the US dollar and Euro, the Indian rupee now has a unique symbol — a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' ...

Will India see action on Headley's revelations?

External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi are to have a meeting in Oslamabad today - the former has ...

Pak continues to deny Headley's claims

Pakistan on Tuesday continued to deny David Coleman Headley's recent claims that the ISI was directly responsible for the Mumbai Attacks in Novembe ...

Headley confesses to Pak's hand in 26/11

Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley aka Dawood Gilani, who is under FBI custody in Washington during his interrogation with India's NIA offici ...

India to grow by 9.5% in 2010

As per the The International Monetary Fund, India is expected to grow by 9.5% in the year 2010 owing to the country's robust corporate profits, a f ...

Naxals storm Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand & Odisha

Naxals launched as many as five attacks in the last twelve hours during the 2-day bandh called by the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI ...

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