Sonia Gandhi in Guwahati today; ULFA calls for state-wide bandh

Sonia Gandhi in Guwahati today; ULFA calls for state-wide bandh
One killed in blast ahead of Sonia's Assam visit
Power demand breaks record in Delhi
Three get death for kidnap and murder of 4-year-old
Two killed, two injured in Ghaziabad's oil tanker blast
High Court quashes acquisition of land in another Greater Noida village
Two Doctors charged with raping a teenager for nine days
Liquor is now cheaper than petrol: Bal Thackeray
Generous fuel station owner sells petrol at pre-hike price
Season's hottest day scorches Delhi, no relief in sight
Kalam backs the concept of national river grid
Couple accuses hospital of exchanging new-born boy with girl
Suspected terrorists storm police post in Kashmir, snatch weapons
13/7 Mumbai blasts: Anti-Terrorism Squad files 4000-pages chargesheet
Delhi woman strangled to death inside her room
HSC results: Girls fare better than boys in Maharashtra
Petrol price hike: Ruling BJD calls Odisha bandh on May 31
Kerala bans 'gutka', 'paan masala'
Sheila Dikshit may consider reducing VAT on petrol
Four-laning of Nagpur-Bhandara stretch launched
Petrol prike hike: Mamata to march on Kolkata's streets in protest
Ashok Chavan to depose before Adarsh panel on June 30
Kerala readies for next round of migration study
Monsoon rains cover Nicobar, expected to reach Kerala by June 1
Four labourers killed after inhaling poisonous gas

Posted: 25 May 2012 08:33 PM PDT

Congress President Sonia Gandhi is in Guwahati today to attend celebrations marking one year of the third term of the Congress government in the state. However, security across Assam has been tightene...

One killed in blast ahead of Sonia's Assam visit

Posted: 25 May 2012 10:47 AM PDT

A day ahead of the Congress President Sonia Gandhi's visit to Assam, one person was killed in a bomb blast by anti-talk faction of ULFA in Tinsukia district tonight, police said. The bomb was planted...

Power demand breaks record in Delhi

Posted: 25 May 2012 09:33 AM PDT

The sweltering heat forced Delhiites consume so much power that its demand, shooting up to 5032 Megawatts (MW) on Friday, broke all previous years' records."The demand broke the previous record of 502...

Three get death for kidnap and murder of 4-year-old

Posted: 25 May 2012 08:33 AM PDT

A court in Bihar awarded death penalty to three men and life imprisonment to another for abducting and killing of a four-year-old boy. Additional District and Sessions Judge Arun Kumar Singh gave the ...

Two killed, two injured in Ghaziabad's oil tanker blast

Posted: 25 May 2012 08:30 AM PDT

Two people were killed and two critically injured in a blast in a scrapped oil tanker in Ghaziabad on Friday, police said. The incident occurred at about 11.00 am on Friday in an open field in Hindon ...

High Court quashes acquisition of land in another Greater Noida village

Posted: 25 May 2012 08:16 AM PDT

A Division Bench comprising justices Sunil Ambwani and Aditya Nath Mittal while asking the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) to "return the land" in Surajpur village under Dadri P...

Two Doctors charged with raping a teenager for nine days

Posted: 25 May 2012 08:08 AM PDT

Four people, including two government doctors, have been booked for gang-raping a teenage girl for nine days in Haryana's Mewat district, police said on Friday.Police in Punhana area of Mewat said tha...

Liquor is now cheaper than petrol: Bal Thackeray

Posted: 25 May 2012 08:06 AM PDT

Coming down heavily on the Congress-led UPA government for increasing petrol prices, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray claimed that liquor is now cheaper than petrol."The time has come for the people to...

Generous fuel station owner sells petrol at pre-hike price

Posted: 25 May 2012 07:43 AM PDT

Setting a rare example of empathy with the 'aam aadmi' (common man), owner of a fuel refilling station sold his stock of petrol at pre-hike price, thereby, foregoing an opportunity to make a profit of...

Season's hottest day scorches Delhi, no relief in sight

Posted: 25 May 2012 06:52 AM PDT

The maximum temperature in Delhi shot three notches above average to 44 degrees Celsius on Friday, making it the season's hottest day so far. Saturday's weather is expected to be similar. Until Friday...

Kalam backs the concept of national river grid

Posted: 25 May 2012 06:09 AM PDT

Former President APJ Abdul Kalam said that the nationwide smart waterway, based on the concept of a river grid, covering all major rivers in the country could be started from the Brahmaputra river in ...

Couple accuses hospital of exchanging new-born boy with girl

Posted: 25 May 2012 05:47 AM PDT

A woman, Alisha, who gave birth to a child in a government hospital, has accused the hospital staff of allegedly exchanging her newborn boy with a baby girl, family sources said. The woman claimed tha...

Suspected terrorists storm police post in Kashmir, snatch weapons

Posted: 25 May 2012 04:47 AM PDT

Suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants disarmed two policemen guarding a minority village in Tral area of Pulwama district and decamped with four service rifles of the cops, official sources said.Five to...

13/7 Mumbai blasts: Anti-Terrorism Squad files 4000-pages chargesheet

Posted: 25 May 2012 04:26 AM PDT

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has filed its chargesheet in the 13/7 Mumbai serial blasts of 2011.

Delhi woman strangled to death inside her room

Posted: 25 May 2012 04:11 AM PDT

A 55-year-old woman was found strangled to death with her own scarf inside her residence in the capital, police said on Friday. The incident came to light on Friday morning when the woman's family mem...

HSC results: Girls fare better than boys in Maharashtra

Posted: 25 May 2012 03:28 AM PDT

School Education Minister Rajendra Darda told reporters that 79.60 per cent girls and 70.32 per cent boys passed the examination.

Petrol price hike: Ruling BJD calls Odisha bandh on May 31

Posted: 25 May 2012 02:57 AM PDT

Strongly protesting the steep hike in petrol price, the ruling BJD in Odisha today gave a call for a state-wide bandh on May 31 to demand its immediate roll-back.

Kerala bans 'gutka', 'paan masala'

Posted: 25 May 2012 02:41 AM PDT

The Kerala government on Friday imposed a complete ban on the sale and consumption of gutka and paan masala in the state.

Sheila Dikshit may consider reducing VAT on petrol

Posted: 25 May 2012 02:29 AM PDT

Hinting at a possible reduction in petrol prices in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Friday said the Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol may be reduced by Monday.

Four-laning of Nagpur-Bhandara stretch launched

Posted: 25 May 2012 02:25 AM PDT

The four-laning of the 45-km stretch between Nagpur and Bhandara on the busy NH-6, connecting west with east, was on Thursday launched at Mouda in the district.

Petrol prike hike: Mamata to march on Kolkata's streets in protest

Posted: 25 May 2012 02:12 AM PDT

In what is likely to be a quaint sight, the West Bengal Chief Minister will march from Jadavpur to Hazra in south Kolkata. Her close aid and Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy did his bit yesterday, par...

Ashok Chavan to depose before Adarsh panel on June 30

Posted: 25 May 2012 02:05 AM PDT

In a U-turn, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today told the two-member inquiry commission probing the Adarsh housing society scam he is ready to appear before it on June 30.

Kerala readies for next round of migration study

Posted: 25 May 2012 01:40 AM PDT

The Centre for Development Studies in Thiruvananthapuram has started the ground work for the seventh round of the comprehensive study on international and internal emigration from the state, says the ...