Xinhua Sofia, Feb 29 (Xinhua) The explosion of a fluorescent light bulb has been blamed for the fire that swept through an overnight train's sleeping compartment in Bulgaria, killing eight people and injuring ...

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Anxious parents and nervous children were making last-minute preparations Friday as over 1.3 million students are set to appear for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) ...

Chennai, Feb 29 (IANS) Though the union budget has announced a number of initiatives favouring farmers, including the loan waiver of Rs.600 billion ($15 billion), the fertiliser industry, one of the links ...

Xinhua Islamabad, Feb 29 (Xinhua) A blast took place in northwest Pakistan Friday and casualties were feared, local TV channel DAWN NEWS reported. The blast ripped through a gathering at Haji Baba Chowk ...

(Match in Statistics) Melbourne, Feb 29 (IANS) Although Adam Gilchrist's fine 83 went waste as Australia lost to Sri Lanka in an inconsequential match here Friday, the left-hander became the first Australian to ...

(Lead) DPA Ankara, Feb 29 (DPA) The Turkish military Friday confirmed that its ground incursion into northern Iraq targeting Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) fighters has come to an end. The general staff said the ...

Noida, Feb 29 (IANS) Two buses, taken on hire by a multinational company here, crushed to death one person Friday while trying to overtake each other. According to the police, two buses ...

Ghaziabad, Feb 29 (IANS) A 30-year-old housewife died here after she was brutally beaten up by her husband and in-laws demanding more dowry and then given acid to drink instead of water. ...

Chennai, Feb 29 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu business community has expressed its satisfaction at the national budget 2008-09 Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presented in parliament Friday. According to P.K. Mohapatra, chairman, Confederation ...

(Lead) Mumbai/New Delhi, Feb 29(IANS) Even as the tourism and hospitality sector said it has been largely ignored by the national budget for 2008-09 that Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presented Friday, it welcomed ...

Melbourne, Feb 29 (IANS) Following is the final scorecard of the last group match of the Commonwealth Bank triangular series between Australia and Sri Lanka here Friday. SCOREBOARD: Sri Lanka: Mahawaduge Perera lbw b ...

Islamabad, Feb 29 (IANS) President Pervez Musharraf has emphasized that no suggestions for restoration of the judges were under consideration as the judges currently performing their responsibilities "are respectable". A close aide ...

London, Feb 29 (IANS) Lord Swraj Paul, founder chairman of the Caparo Group of Industries, praised Friday's budget as "very good" but said the need to deliver to the farmer was even ...

Guwahati, Feb 29 (IANS) The mega tea industry in Assam Friday expressed satisfaction over the allocations in the union budget for tea research and boosting production. "We are happy that the central ...

Sydney, Feb 29 (IANS) Despite the unending barrage of heated words exchanged between India and Australia this series, former Australian Test legend Mark Taylor believes that the antagonism between the two camps ...

Chittagong, Feb 29 (IANS) South African openers Niel McKenzie (169 not out) and skipper Graeme Smith (229 not out) are on the cusp of breaking the 51-year-old highest opening stand in Tests ...

(Lead) Hyderabad, Feb 29 (IANS) Small and medium IT enterprises Friday were disappointed with the 2008-09 budget, saying it has not extended the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) scheme that offers them ...

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) India's economic growth has slipped to 8.4 percent for the third quarter of this fiscal, official figures showed Friday - the day Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presented ...

Mumbai, Feb 29 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh Friday said the union budget was a "historic and revolutionary pro-rural budget", hailing the loan waiver to farmers and increased allocation to educational ...

Hyderabad, Feb 29 (IANS) The healthcare industry has welcomed the union budget presented Friday, saying it provides an incentive to take quality healthcare to semi-urban and rural areas. "Tax holiday for hospitals ...

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Leader of Opposition and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani has criticised the union budget presented Friday for its "heavy communal overtones". "It is a throw-back ...

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The Union government Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking its permission to expeditiously complete a shorter navigational sea route around India's southern tip. In an affidavit filed ...

New Delhi, Feb 29 (ANI): The Centre on Friday filed a fresh affidavit in the Supreme Court on the controversial Sethu samudram project seeking vacation of its interim orders putting on hold ...

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Petroleum Minister Murli Deora has welcomed the proposal in the union budget to replace six percent of ad valorem excise duty on unbranded petrol and diesel with ...

Ahmedabad, Feb 29 (IANS) The Gujarat Chambers of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Friday said the state was "missing" from the 2008-09 union budget, although it has outlined many good proposals. Commenting on ...

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) The Indian real estate sector has welcomed the overall impact of budget while saying that it could have done more for the industry. "The budget will boost ...

Chennai, Feb 29 (IANS) Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan, who was close to late Tamil writer Sujatha, says the author considered writing "a continuing love affair". Born in 1935 as S. Rangarajan, the ...

New Delhi, Feb 29 (IANS) Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's announcement in his budget speech Friday that the government would soon set up a "permanent institutional mechanism" to coordinate the fight against climate ...

Gaya, Feb 29 (ANI): A dreaded naxal leader belonging to the CPI (Maoist) surrendered before district magistrate Jitendra Srivastava with weapons and cartridges at the district collectorate in Gaya today afternoon. Basudeo ...

Melbourne, Feb 29 (IANS) A spirited display by Sri Lankan bowlers helped them claim a consolation win by 13-runs against Australia in the Commonwealth Bank one-day triangular series here Friday. Sri Lanka ...