Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) Faced with power shortage in the state, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Saturday urged the central government to allot at least 250 MW of additional power to ...

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) The government Saturday launched a micro insurance drive in Tamil Nadu aimed at expanding the Rural Postal Life Insurance (PLI) network. Communications and Information Technology Minister A. ...

London, Nov 7 (IANS) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Saturday resurrected the idea of the international community imposing a global tax on banks as a repayment for the billions of pounds ...

Bangalore, Nov 7 (IANS) Food prices will decline after the rabi crop as production of wheat, rice, pulses, oil seeds and sugarcane during the winter is expected to be higher than in ...

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh, who is spearheading a campaign against the central government's sugarcane pricing policy, said Saturday that the Communist Party of India-Marxist ...

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Delhi Metro's Noida link may be opened to the public Nov 13, if necessary safety checks are complete, a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) official said Saturday. "The ...

Chennai, Nov 7 (IANS) Incessant rain in Tamil Nadu over the past few days has not only thrown life out of gear in the state but also sent vegetable prices soaring. Thirteen ...

New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) Discussing a report by software industry group Nasscom which says that 75 percent engineering students in India are unemployable, education experts here Saturday said that the Indian ...

Thimphu, Nov 7 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought a road to Bhutan through India for bettr trade and people-to-people contact. She told her hosts at this Bhutanese capital ...

Frankfurt, Nov 7 (DPA) The European chief of General Motors (GM), Carl-Peter Forster, may switch to Indian car manufacturer Tata, German media reported Saturday. Forster, 55, is quitting GM after strongly criticising the ...

Dhaka, Nov 7 (IANS) Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia has blamed "instigation by competitor foreign countries" for the recurring violence in the country's money-spinning garment sector. Her accusation Friday ...

New York, Nov 7 (IANS) A major US toilet tissue company is offering a $10,000 pay to five enthusiastic people willing to hang out at its Times Square restrooms for six weeks ...

By Arun Kumar Washington, Nov 7 (IANS) With new players like India and Brazil taking a seat at the table of global influence, the international system that emerged at the end of ...

Dhaka, Nov 7 (IANS) Bangladesh is set to release three flood-tolerant rice varieties to farmers that would help prevent up to a million tonnes of annual crop loss caused by flash floods ...

San Francisco, Nov 7 (DPA) E-commerce giant eBay has settled its long-running legal feud with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for a $2-billion sale of the internet telephony pioneer, the ...

Bangalore, Nov 6 (IANS) Fairfax County in Virginia state Friday invited India Inc to explore business opportunities in the US by investing in the county, especially in defence and aerospace sectors. "Proximity to ...

Abu Dhabi, Nov 6 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France have pledged to enhance cooperation in the trade sector, which grew by 25 percent to more than $4 billion in ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Friday launched a centre where functions relating to human resource, supply chain, finance and service taxes would be undertaken under one roof. ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) The European Union (EU) is not opposed to exports of generic medicine by Indian companies through its ports, European Commissioner for Trade Catherine Ashton said here ...

Chandigarh, Nov 6 (IANS) Some cheerful news for job seekers - the Haryana government's Overseas Placement Bureau, set up to facilitate employment abroad, has received inquiries from companies in Canada and the ...

Bangalore, Nov 6 (IANS) Infosys Technologies, in association with Oracle, will offer managed services platform that will help companies streamline their human resource (HR) operations and reduce costs. "The platform enables us to ...

Coimbatore, Nov 6 (IANS) The government will open a Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), a centre for agricultural training, in each of the newly created districts across the country, Agriculture Minister Sharad ...

Washington, Nov 6 (DPA) The US unemployment rate surged to 10.2 percent in October, the highest in 26 years, as another 190,000 people lost their jobs during the month, officials said Friday. The ...

Ludhiana (Punjab), Nov 6 (IANS) Rail traffic on the busy Amritsar-New Delhi section was severely hit Friday as mobs demanding justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, stopped trains at ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel Friday launched a centre where functions relating to human resource, supply chain, finance and tax would be undertaken for the entire company. ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) The second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, Justice S.H. Kapadia Friday quit hearing a lawsuit involving a business firm on the ground that he has shares ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) Smokers beware! Ticket examiners and Railway Protection Force (RPF) assistant sub-inspectors have been authorised to take action against those found smoking in trains and on railway ...

New York, Nov 6 (IANS) Four persons of Indian origin are among those charged in America's largest ever insider trading case replete with all the elements of a classic television crime drama ...

New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) Commerce Minister Anand Sharma Friday said there would be no review of present policy on foreign direct investment in the retail and aviation sectors. The statement comes ...

Ranchi, Nov 6 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Friday made its first arrest in the Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam allegedly involving Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda by nabbing an associate who ...