New Delhi: The Delhi government on Monday withdrew the Value Added Tax on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Earlier, it had imposed a five per cent VAT on CNG which led to a hike of Rs 1.65 in the CNG prices. This came just a day after Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday said that there would not be any rollback on the CNG VAT. "We will not withdraw the...
05:18 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: The new trailer of 'Kshay' is out. Directed by Karan Gour, the film deals with a woman Chhaya's obsession with an idol. 'Kshay' features Rasika Dugal and Alekh Sangal in the lead roles. Shot in black and white, the film is scheduled to hit the screens on June 15. ...
04:44 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New York: As the high-profile insider trading trial of former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta enters its third week, the Indian-American's prominent friends feel he has been portrayed in an "unfair and one-sided" manner and his philanthropic work in India should not be forgotten. 63-year-old Gupta's trial, which began in Manhattan federal court on May 21, will resume on Monday after a weekend break with his protege and former McKinsey...
03:21 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Bangalore: Jailed in a corruption case, BJP MLA Sampangi on June 4 moved to the Karnataka High Court seeking bail and also to review the Lokayukta court verdict. The matter will come up for hearing on June 5 before Justice Jagannathan. In the first-ever conviction of an elected representative of the people in Karnataka, Lokayukta court Judge NK Sudhindra Rao on June 2 has convicted and sentenced Sampangi to undergo...
02:26 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has some room to reduce policy rates following a moderate core inflation and soft global oil prices, a deputy governor said on Monday. Subir Gokarn was speaking to television channel CNBC-TV18 on the sidelines of a investor conference in Mumbai. The 10-year benchmark bond yield fell to its lowest level in two-and-half months at 8.31 per cent in early trade on expectations of...
02:19 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Hanoi: The Vietnamese government has agreed to open three previously restricted sites to help the search for and excavation of the remains of US servicemen listed as missing in action, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday. The agreement was unveiled at a meeting between visiting US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and his Vietnamese counterpart Phung Quang Thanh, spokesman George Little said. He gave no details about the sites. "The Department...
01:22 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Washington: Want to miss school? Get a good absent note. A fifth-grader in the US did just that by getting a handwritten note from Barack Obama asking the teacher to excuse his absence from school as he was with the American President. Tyler Sullivan, a fifth-grader in Rochester, went to watch his father, Ryan Sullivan, introduce Obama before the president's speech at Honeywell in Golden Valley. When he returns to...
12:23 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Here's a look at the politicians who have made it to the top 50 in CNN-IBN's search for The Greatest Indian. ...
09:17 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Dublin, Ohio: Tiger Woods overhauled a fading Spencer Levin and a charging Rory Sabbatini with a few moments of magic to win his 73rd PGA Tour title by two shots at the Memorial tournament on Sunday. He began the final day four strokes behind the pacesetting Levin and made a fast start before taking control with a spectacular finish that included a chip-in for birdie at the 16th that was...
09:06 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: As Maharashtra struggles to curb the sale of tobacco products near schools, surveys done by the NGO Salaam Bombay Foundation throw up some disturbing statistics. 1 in 4 children at Mumbai's municipal schools use some form of tobacco. Another survey of 200 schools, finds 61 per cent of them have tobacco shops within 100 yards of their premises. This is despite the BMC banning such sales two months ago...
08:50 AM, Jun 04, 2012
London: Scientists say they may be able to prove by the end of the year that the elusive Higgs Boson, or the particle that is responsible for giving mass to the universe, really exists. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, will be switched off at the end of this year for some major upgrades, but Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director of European Organisation for Nuclear Research...
08:40 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama seems to think that the world of politics would be better if someone like John McCain were running for the White House. The Democratic incumbent and his re-election advisers are waxing nostalgic about the Republican senator from Arizona who lost to Obama in the 2008 presidential race. They're embracing McCain as a reasonable voice on climate change and immigration, someone who took on extremism in his...
08:20 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Lagos: A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighbourhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation. The cause of the Dana Air crash remained unknown on Sunday night, as firefighters and police struggled to put out the flames around the wreckage of the Boeing MD83 aircraft....
07:04 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Mangalore: Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for terming BJP-ruled Karnataka as the "most corrupt" state, Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Sunday said the UPA government was steeped in scams and asked the Congress General Secretary to keep his house clean before criticising others. Rahul has no right to criticise the BJP when Congress- led UPA government is steeped in corruption and scams, he said. "The Congress leader must first...
04:33 AM, Jun 04, 2012
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