Mumbai: Lenders to cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, which has been grounding planes and cutting routes to stay aloft, are awaiting a report on the airline's viability before they approve a $133 million loan, banking sources said on Monday. SBI Capital Markets Ltd, a unit of State Bank of India, has been hired by the banking consortium to draft a report on the carrier's financial outlook. That report has yet to be...
01:12:02 AM Dec 20, 2011
Jaipur: A 25-year-old government clerk was arrested on Monday in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar district on charges of spying for Pakistan, police said. Pawan Sharma, was employed as a lower divisional clerk in the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) office at Suratgarh town in the border district, some 600 km from Jaipur. Pawan was under surveillance of state police's special operations group for a few days. He was booked under sections of the...
12:53:47 AM Dec 20, 2011
Moscow: In the wake of an uproar over a move to ban Bhagavad Gita in Siberia, Russia on Monday night expressed sadness over the development, saying it is "inadmissible" that a holy scripture is taken to court. "It is strange that such events are unfolding in the beautiful university city in Siberia, as Tomsk which is famous for its secularism and religious tolerance," Alexander M Kadakin, Russian Ambassador in India...
12:32:04 AM Dec 20, 2011
Mumbai: President Pratibha Patil on Monday urged the Navy to strengthen itself and ensure regional peace as it is essential for India's increasing power and expanding interests. "India's growing national power and its expanding vital interests not only present an opportunity for us to strengthen our 'Blue Water' Navy but make it imperative to do so," she said during a banquet hosted in her honour by the Navy. "India's growing...
12:13:54 AM Dec 20, 2011
The Food Security Bill seeks to guarantee the right to food to over 60 per cent of India's population. ...
11:55:43 PM Dec 19, 2011
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11:55:11 PM Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: Team Anna on Monday night demanded that Lokpal Bill be passed by Parliament before the legislation on Food Security to ensure that the money spent on ensuring food for all reaches the deserved without any diversion of funds. "Lokpal Bill should be passed before Food Security Bill. Then only the money meant for ensuring food security reaches the deserved or else this money will go into the pockets...
10:28:15 PM Dec 19, 2011
Bangalore: Software icon and Infosys' founder NR Narayana Murthy on Monday said he was hopeful that the draft of Lokpal bill, expected to be tabled in the Parliament in a day or two, would satisfy all well meaning citizens. "Mr Anna Hazare, his team and the government have been in talks and they are discussing. I am positive that they will come out with something that will satisfy all the...
09:38:49 PM Dec 19, 2011
Dow Chemicals on Monday clarified that it was never branding the 2012 Games with its logo in the first place. ...
08:53:12 PM Dec 19, 2011
Lucknow: Two more persons succumbed to the harsh cold waves in Uttar Pradesh, pushing the state-wide death toll to 28. Dense fog and below normal temperature continued to throw normal life out of gear adversely affecting movement of road and railway traffic in the state. Two persons lost their lives in Pratapgarh district and about 12 were injured in different accidents due to heavy fog in Fatehpur district. According to...
07:40:10 PM Dec 19, 2011
Since India gained Independence in 1947, there have been six pay commissions to review and fix Government officials' pay and allowances. Retired Majors and their ...
06:05:17 PM Dec 19, 2011
In 1947 when India became independent, Portugal had control of a handful of enclaves on the subcontinent. Lisbons Estado da India consisted of Goa, Daman, Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. It covered an area of around 4,000 square km. The population inhabiting the area was 637,591 in 1947. Religious distribution was 61 per cent Hindu, 36.7 per cent Christian and 2.2 per cent Muslim. Resistance to Portuguese rule in...
05:07:18 PM Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Monday questioned former Rajasthan Minister Mahipal Maderna's wife Leela and two sons, daughter-in-law of MLA Malkhan Singh in connection with the Bhanwari Devi missing case. They are all being quizzed at the circuit house in Jodhpur, CBI sources said. The CBI has also called Bhanwari Devi's son for questioning. Osian MLA Maderna is under judicial custody, while Luni MLA Singh is skipping questioning for the...
04:36:42 PM Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: The move to ban Bhagwad Gita by a Siberian court led to a storm in the Lok Sabha on Monday, with several members denouncing it and demanding that the government take it up strongly with Russia. "We will not tolerate any move to insult Lord Krishna," chanted RJD chief Lalu Prasad, who was supported by several members, angry over reports that a court in Tomsk was due to...
02:25:25 PM Dec 19, 2011
New Delhi: Social networking sites such as Facebook have emerged as the new "honey trap" set by enemy spies prompting the government to ask senior officials of paramilitary and armed forces to stop flaunting their career information or at best stay away from such web sites. Cases of such cyber espionage have come to light where officials of paramilitary forces posted in sensitive areas were found chatting with spies from...
11:21:03 AM Dec 19, 2011