New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Exotic food and cocktails, foreign DJs, party packages - five-star hotels are big on Christmas and New Year celebrations this time, with the Mumbai terror attacks having brought the previous year to a grim end. Security, of course, will be high.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:50:03 -0500

Ranchi, Dec 23 (IANS) The Congress-led alliance was Wednesday emerging as the largest political grouping in the 81-member Jharkhand assembly but a hung house seemed inevitable with indications that no political party or combine would get a majority.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:50:03 -0500

Lucknow, Dec 23 (IANS) A 300-year-old ancestral 'Golden Quran', with its pages in the shape of gold leaves, the most prized possession of a Muslim family, may soon become the centrepiece of a national museum. But the family is not complaining about 'losing' the valuable document.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:20:07 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) 'I am sure she is alive and will be back home one day. I am waiting to see her,' Sergeant Ravi Shankar says in a choked voice. The hope of meeting his 13-year-old daughter who went missing from the Car Nicobar Islands in the 2004 tsunami keeps this Indian Air Force (IAF) airman going.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:20:07 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) Nikhil Advani is in a fix. The shooting of his new film 'Patiala House' has started but he hasn't been able to find the right face to play the junior Akshay Kumar. The director may launch a talent hunt to find the suitable teenager.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:00:05 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) Director Abbas Tyrewala has bought the house belonging to Ayesha Takia's mom, but he cannot move into his new home in Versova here as she has yet to move out.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:00:03 -0500

Lucknow, Dec 23 (IANS) A 300-year-old ancestral 'Sunheri Quran' (Golden Quran), with its pages in the shape of golden leaves, the most prized possession of an Uttar Pradesh Muslim family, may soon become the centre of attraction at a museum.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:30:02 -0500

Ranchi, Dec 23 (IANS) The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) - leading in 19 of 81 constituencies of the state assembly - was Wednesday jockeying for power and said it would support the political combine that would prop its head Shibu Soren as chief minister.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:30:01 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) With the festive season nearing, the chill in the air persisted in the capital Wednesday as the minimum temperature was recorded at 6.4 degrees Celsius for the second consecutive day.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:20:03 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) A key Indian equities index rose sharply at opening bell Wednesday and moved up 100 points within minutes of trade.
IANS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:10:02 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) Showering love and gifts, Kolkatans accorded a grand felicitation to batting genius Sachin Tendulkar for completing 20 years in international cricket.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:50:02 -0500

Mumbai, Dec. 23 : India's only aircraft carrier-the INS Viraat-will have a special guest today-President Pratibha Devisingh Patil.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:50:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The little-known towns in the heart of India that teem with life outside the big railway junctions have stories of their own over steaming cups of 'chai' - the Indian milk tea.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:50:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Taking a cue from the continuing demand for short novels like John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' and Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' more than five decades after their publication, the Tranquebar Press has launched a new short fiction - novella - series.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:40:03 -0500

Panaji, Dec 23 (IANS) The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) has taken objection to gross violation of smoking laws at the recently concluded Bacardi blast, a music festival held in Goa over the last weekend.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:40:03 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil will experience her first 'day at sea' when she steps aboard India's lone aircraft carrier INS Viraat Wednesday, an Indian Navy official said.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:40:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Singing carols in the capital this week will be victims of last year's violence in Kandhamal, Orissa. Even as they put the past behind and spread Christmas cheer, celebrations have begun in right earnest at Rashtrapati Bhavan!...
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:40:02 -0500

Chandigarh, Dec 23 (IANS) They were top police officers in Punjab and Haryana and both were found guilty. While one was caught molesting a teenaged girl, another slapped the posterior of a senior woman civil servant. The two cases are separated by several years, but the similarities - both cops were in the rank of director general of police (DGP) - are lost on none.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:00:02 -0500

Ranchi, Dec 23 (IANS) Counting of votes polled in the five-phased Jharkhand assembly elections began Wednesday morning amid heavy security.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:50:02 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 24 (IANS) A five-year-old boy, who had gone missing since Tuesday afternoon, was found dead in a manhole in northeast Mumbai's Mankhurd suburb. Police said a team had been sent to the site.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:00:01 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Sixth seed Rohan Gide of Services was shown the door by Maharashtra's Ronak Manuja 6-2,6-2 at the Vishwarupa Tubes National Grass Court Tennis Championship 2009 on the lawns of Calcutta South Club here Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:20:06 -0500

Shimla, Dec 22 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court Tuesday took serious note of the burning of garbage on the outskirts of Shimla town since Sunday and appointed a one-member committee to probe into the causes of fire.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:20:06 -0500

Lucknow, Dec 22 (IANS) Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Tuesday asked students in Uttar Pradesh to emulate a development model he had successfully implemented in Tamil Nadu years ago to bring urban amenities to rural areas.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:20:06 -0500

Gandhinagar, Dec 22 (IANS) Hundred of the over 600 Indian fishermen held in Pakistani jails will be released soon, a fishermen's forum official said here Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:40:02 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday appealed to insurgent outfits active in the northeastern region to abjure violence and give up their demand for a sovereign state. He also asked them to sit across the table for talks with the government so that their problems could be redressed.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:40:01 -0500

Chandigarh, Dec 22 (IANS) After shying away earlier Tuesday from commenting on former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore's conviction for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra, former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala did a turnaround later and welcomed the court verdict.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:20:02 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Amidst stringent security, the Indian and Sri Lankan teams arrived in the city Tuesday evening by a chartered flight from Bhubaneswar to play the fourth one-dayer at the Eden Gardens on the Christmas eve.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:20:02 -0500

Chandigarh, Dec 22 (IANS) Aradhana Gupta, a close friend of Ruchika Girhotra who was molested by former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore 19 years ago, Tuesday demanded the case be re-opened for better justice.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:10:04 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Top seeds India A teams won by the narrowest margin of 2.5-1.5 against their less fancied opponents Bangladesh and Indonesia in both the Men's and women's section on the opening day of the Tata Steel Asian team chess championship here Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:10:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) India and Bhutan Tuesday inked a dozen agreements, including four on hydropower generation, after Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck held extensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The other agreements were in civil aviation, health and IT fields.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:10:03 -0500

Chandigarh, Dec 22 (IANS) Chandigarh will host the first edition of trade show 'Made in Pakistan' Dec 23-27.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:10:03 -0500

Chennai, Dec 22 (IANS) It rained centuries in the VIP Matrix All-India Invitational snooker tournament here Tuesday with five breaks over the 100-mark being made.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:10:03 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Having partnered each other for years on the 22-yard strip to give flying starts to the Indian batting, cricketing icon Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly Tuesday expressed their mutual admiration and respect at a function here Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:10:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Delhi government Tuesday announced that monthly pension of Rs.1,000 would be given to divorced, separated, abandoned, deserted and destitute women in the capital.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:10:02 -0500

Srinagar, Dec 22 (IANS) Three policemen were injured Tuesday evening when separatist guerrillas ambushed a police patrol in Kashmir's Pampore town, a police official said. Two of them succumbed to their injuries in hospital.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:10:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22: Union Railways Ministry on Tuesday said that it will soon introduce the first ever 'Yuva Trains' which are targeted mainly for the unemployed youths of the country.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:40:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22: Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday called on U.K. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson in the national capital and underlined India's intent to expand education sector without compromising the quality.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:40:01 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Three swine flu deaths, including one in the national capital, were reported Tuesday, taking the country's total toll from the HIN1 virus to 792, health officials said here.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:10:01 -0500

Srinagar, Dec 22 (IANS) Three policemen were injured Tuesday evening when separatist guerrillas ambushed a police patrol in Kashmir's Pampore town, a police official said.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:10:01 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) India has asked the international community to give full support to the Hamid Karzai-led Afghan government.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:00:02 -0500

Shimla, Dec 22 (IANS) One patient died of influenza A (H1N1) in Himachal Pradesh, taking the state's toll to 11, officials said Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:00:01 -0500

Bangalore, Dec 22: Sixteen enthusiastic bikers, all cadets of the National Cadet Corps, embarked on a bike rally in Bangalore on Tuesday to spread awareness about historical monuments and the need to protect heritage.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:50:05 -0500

Srinagar, Dec. 22 : Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested three militants of Hizbul Mujahideen from Srinagar.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:50:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec.22 : British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Tuesday invited External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna to attend the Conference on Afghanistan to be held in London on January 28, 2010.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:50:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Delhi Metro Tuesday unveiled 'smart key chains', a new smart card that is half the size of the present one and more friendly for thousands of commuters who wish to travel ticket-less.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:40:02 -0500

New Delhi/Bangalore, Dec 22 (IANS) Noted Indian scientist C.N.R. Rao, who is chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council to the prime minister, has become the first Indian scientist to win the prestigious August-Wilhelm-von-Hoffmann medal for his outstanding contributions in chemistry, a science ministry official said Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:40:02 -0500

Bhubaneswar, Dec 22 (IANS) Former union minister Jual Oram was Tuesday elected the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Orissa unit, without any contest.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:40:02 -0500

Chandigarh, Dec 22 (IANS) The Punjab cabinet Tuesday refused to grant permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute state assembly speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon in a corruption case.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:40:01 -0500

New Delhi, Dec.22 : Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said that the climate change accord presented in Copenhagen was not legally binding.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:20:06 -0500

Samba, Dec.22 : Alert Border Security Force (BSF) personnel successfully foiled an infiltration bid by militants at the International Border (IB) in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:20:06 -0500

London, Dec 22: Britain has lodged a diplomatic protest against the tightening of India's visa rules, which prohibits travellers from returning to the country within two months of any visit.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:20:04 -0500

Aligarh, Dec 22 (IANS) The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Tuesday announced that it will confer an honorary doctorate degree on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi among other distinguished personalities.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:06 -0500

Patna, Dec 22 (IANS) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Tuesday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into an alleged Rs.4,000-crore scam in the Bihar State Electricity Board.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:06 -0500

Chandigarh, Dec 22 (IANS) Auto-rickshaws in Chandigarh will go green from March 31 next year.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:05 -0500

Shimla, Dec 22 (IANS) Keylong was the coldest place in Himachal Pradesh Tuesday at minus 8.3 degrees Celsius as high altitudes of the state remained under the grip of a harsh cold wave.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:05 -0500

Hyderabad, Dec 22 (IANS) Stepping up pressure on the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao Tuesday claimed that over 100 legislators from Telangana, cutting across party lines, were ready to resign if the central government backtracked on separate statehood to the region.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:05 -0500

Chandigarh/New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The six-month jail term awarded to former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore for molesting a 14-year-old girl almost two decades ago that led her to commit suicide caused outrage among activists and figured in parliament Tuesday with everyone saying the sentence was too light.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:05 -0500

Hyderabad, Dec 22 (IANS) Natural gas will be available to the common man in two years across the country, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) chairman L. Mansingh said here Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:04 -0500

Gurgaon, Dec 22 (IANS) Jharkhand won the National Under-16 Football Championships for the Coca Cola Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy football with a 1-0 win over Karnataka in the final at the packed Devi Lal Stadium here Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS)The delay in construction of submarines has raised concerns for the Indian Navy which Tuesday said that its underwater capability would be reduced by 50 percent by 2015.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:03 -0500

Chandigarh, Dec 22 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Tuesday approved the investment plan of Brattle Foods Limited, giving them a green signal to set up three mega units in the state with an investment of Rs.8 billion (Rs.800 crore) in various sectors, officials said.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Terming it as a shocking incident, a city court Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to a mother for strangling her daughter to death within hours of her birth two years ago.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Election Commission Tuesday announced bye-elections to fill the vacancies in the legislative assemblies of Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:03 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) A finger injury has ruled out India's middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh from the remaining two matches of the one-day series against Sri Lanka.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Yash Raj Films (YRF) have released their 11 films on Blue-ray disc to give consumers an experience of high definition viewing through the cutting edge technology format.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:02 -0500

Ghaziabad, Dec 22 (IANS) A worker was Tuesday blown to death and four sustained critical injuries in an explosion at a Ghaziabad factory, police said.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:10:02 -0500

Lucknow, Dec 22 (IANS) A jailed gangster who audaciously checked into a government guest house with the connivance of policemen and was having a good time has been caught in the act. Gangster Ateeq Khan is headed back to prison while four guilty policemen have been suspended.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:06 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Delhi government ministers will soon get spacious bungalows near the Delhi assembly and secretariat, Delhi Finance Minister A.K. Walia said Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:06 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Metallurgy coke producer, Gujarat NRE Coke expects coking coal prices to go up from January following indications that there will be upward revision of steel prices, a senior company official said here Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:05 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) A teenaged leader of a juvenile gang and his 20-year-old accomplice have been arrested here for ransacking houses in government colonies of south Delhi and then lighting fires inside them, police said Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:05 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) India and Bhutan Tuesday inked a dozen agreements on hydropower, civil aviation, health and IT after Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck held extensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Aamir Khan can't stop praising Kareena Kapoor's acting skills and her looks. The actor says he couldn't have asked for a better co-star than her for his forthcoming film '3 Idiots'.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:04 -0500

Bhubaneswar, Dec 22 (IANS) A fast track court Tuesday acquitted five people in a Kandhamal riot case, an official said.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Parliament passed 17 bills into law during its month-long winter session that concluded Tuesday with the Rajya Sabha adjourning sine die, but the session will be more remembered for the disruptions, particularly in the Lok Sabha, on the Telangana issue.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said Tuesday that the government was striving to increase the number sittings of parliament.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:03 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) Leading private carrier Jet Airways Tuesday announced direct flight from Dhaka to Mumbai starting Wednesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:40:03 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) 'I had gone to Copenhagen not to save the world but to protect India's right to development,' Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh declared Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:40:02 -0500

Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) For the first time, Indian and Sri Lankan players would be driven straight to the Eden Gardens dressing room during practice and Thursday's One-day International match as part of heightened security following reports of Taliban-trained terrorists sneaking into the city.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:40:02 -0500

Bangalore, Dec 22 (IANS) In the wake of abduction of 12 bar girls by armed thugs for ransom in Bangalore last weekend, the city police are seeking a ban on employing women in such jobs.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:40:02 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) Pakistan terror accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab carried on with his denials for the third day Tuesday by claiming that he worked as a cook and had never sailed in the fishing trawler 'Kuber' or a rubber dingy to reach Mumbai as said by the prosecution.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:40:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expressing discontent over India's stand on the Copenhagen Climate Accord, on Tuesday said the documents clearly betrayed the developing nations, and the interests of the country had not been protected.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:01:48 -0500

New York, Dec 22 (ANI/Business Wire India): Connectiva Systems, Inc., a leading provider of revenue and risk management solutions for the telecommunications industry, announced it has expanded its global innovation and delivery center in Kolkata, India and opened a new office for worldwide headquarters in Manhattan, New York.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:01:36 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 : Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh called on President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan today.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:01:27 -0500

Islamabad, Dec. 22 : Relatives of Pakistani prisoners, who have completed their terms in Indian jails, have urged Islamabad to ask New Delhi to release them.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:01:21 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 : India's second largest IT firm Infosys is all set for a change in its leadership with Infosys chief NR Narayana Murthy most likely to retire in 2011.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:01:12 -0500

Islamabad, Dec. 22 : Internal strife between Pakistan's Water and Power Ministry and the administration of occupied Kashmir is hampering development work of the region.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:57 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 22 : Various artists and technicians from the Indian film industry were felicitated with the prestigious V. Shantaram award here on Monday.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:38 -0500

Nagpur, Dec 22 : Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Gadkari has said he would hold internal consultations before deciding on re-inducting estranged leaders.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:26 -0500

Poonch (J-K), Dec 22 : Two bombs dropped during India's war with Pakistan in the 1960s and 1970s were recovered in Jammu and Kasmir's Poonch district on Monday.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:25 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 : Russian Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin has asked the Indian government to investigate and punish the rapists of his country's national in Goa. n this context, the Russian envoy visited Ministry of External Affair and met the concerned officials.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:23 -0500

New Delhi, Dec. 22 : Former Australian High Commissioner to India John McCarthy has been appointed as the new Chair of the Australia-India Council (AIC).
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:09 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 : Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh will on Tuesday make a statement in the Rajya Sabha on the Copenhagen Accord.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:07 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 : The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh is at present holding a discussion on the Telangana issue with his cabinet colleagues, and the Central Government is most likely to issue a statement on Tuesday on the same.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:05 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 22 : Activists of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) brutally beat up 'sadhus' here on Monday, who allegedly passed remarks against MNS chief Raj Thackeray.
ANI Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:30:11 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) Counter-terrorism and intelligence sharing, delivery of weapons and enhancement of cooperation in research and development were high on the agenda as a joint working group on defence between India and Israel met here Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:00:05 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) When Kulvinder Kaur, 22, underwent past life regression recently, she found out she was burnt alive in her past birth - just like actress Deepika Padukone's character was in Farah Khan's hit movie 'Om Shanti Om'.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:00:05 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court has held that an illegal or irregular act of the government extending certain benefits to one person cannot become a precedent entitling someone else to claim similar benefits.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:00:04 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) India 'does not require' international aid to fight climate change and is capable of standing 'on our feet', Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:00:02 -0500

New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS) India stands by the Copenhagen Accord which will not open up the country's emission reduction efforts to international scrutiny or affect the country's national interests, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:40:03 -0500

Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets ended 91 points up Tuesday bringing an end to a rather dull day of trading. Metals, state-run firms and realty stocks rose the most.
IANS Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:40:03 -0500