New Delhi: A military intelligence unit of the Army is under the scanner after a soldier was caught in April allegedly trying to sell top secret operational information to Pakistan's spy agency ISI. The Army headquarters is awaiting the completion of inquiry and full report which names a clerk level official. The data recovered likely contains detailed operational plans, information on troop deployments and even conversations between top officers at...
09:33 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Strongly opposing the new format for admission to IITs and other central institutes from 2013, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni association have decided to take the Union Human Resource Development(HRD) ministry to court. The association will be moving the Delhi High Court on Monday. In a meeting on Friday, the alumni and faculty members of institutions like the IIT, NIT and IIIT have decided to file...
08:59 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Chief Economic Advisor Dr C Rangarajan has admitted that a hike in diesel and LPG prices is imminent despite a steep hike in petrol prices last week. While speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's advocate, Dr Rangarajan said the government can soften the blow but fuel price hike is the need of the hour to contain the fiscal deficit. Here's an excerpt of the interview:...
07:17 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: A sharp slowdown in India's foreign trade added to the woes of Asia's third-largest economy and piled more pressure on the weak coalition government to take steps to boost economic growth. Indian exports inched up 3.23 per cent to $24.5 billion in April from a year earlier after falling in March, data released on Friday confirmed, a far cry from the more than 20 per cent growth recorded...
05:22 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: Five global financial services majors, including Morgan Stanley, Stanchart and Citi, have lowered India's growth prospects to 5.7-6.4 per cent for the current fiscal, a day after markets received a "shock" from nine-year low GDP growth of 6.5 per cent for 2011-12. In their reports to clients worldwide, most of them blamed policy inaction by the government as a major roadblock to the Indian economy, which had expanded...
12:39 AM, Jun 02, 2012
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11:43 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: It's summers in most parts of India and demand for power is at a peak of 2,17,000 megawatt (MW). But the power generation is much less at 1,99,877 MW and poor transmission and distribution is making it worse. Many cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai are facing long power cuts and 40 per cent of the country does not get electricity at all. About 6 lakh villages do not...
11:06 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Prime Minister Economic Advisory Council chairman C Rangarajan has admitted that the economic situation is critical. ...
10:55 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran actor AK Hangal finally made his much awaited appearance in the TV serial 'Madhubala: Ek Ishq Ek Junoon' on June 1. The actor played himself only where he in a way started the real story of the serial. Hangal, 97, put the name of a new born baby in the serial who is going to be the lead heroine of the show in the coming weeks. A...
09:41 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: India's one of the most popular singing reality show 'Indian Idol' is back with its sixth season. As evident from the promos, 'Indian Idol 6' aims at striking an emotional connect with the audiences. Anu Malik, Salim Merchant, Sunidhi Chauhan and Asha Bhosle will be judging the 'Indian Idol 6' participants. During the launch of the show, Anu Malik claimed that this year 'Indian Idol' viewers will be...
08:29 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: The cash-rich Hockey India League (HIL) will be held from January 1 to 30 next year and will have all the top international stars and Indian players battling it out for six-city based franchises. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has already Okayed a 30-day window at the beginning of next year so that all the top players can participate in the meet. The players will also have an...
05:45 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: India's exports grew by a mere 3.2 per cent year-on-year to $24.4 billion in April 2012 mainly due to the slow demand in western markets like Europe. Exports stood at $23.6 billion in April 2011, according to data released by the Commerce Ministry in New Delhi on June 1. Imports during the first month of the current fiscal grew 3.8 per cent to $37.9 billion, leaving a trade...
03:31 PM, Jun 01, 2012
That '3', Aishwarya Dhanush's debut venture as director, was selected for screening at the New York Indian Film Festival and the Superstar's elder daughter went to the US to take part in it is no more news. The latest is that Aishwarya was honored with the Pride of Tamil Nadu award by the New York Tamil Sangham at a glittering event at Queens Museum of Art in the Big Apple....
03:15 PM, Jun 01, 2012
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