Thursday, December 6, 2012

Walmart faces investigation for alleged FEMA violation

Walmart faces investigation for alleged FEMA violation


Walmart faces investigation for alleged FEMA violation

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 02:57 AM PST

Trinamool opposes FDI, says Government selling India 'wholesale'

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 02:56 AM PST

The country was not ready for foreign investment in retail, the Trinamool Congress said on Thursday while blaming the government for keeping "international opinion" above national interest.


Indian woman in UK kills son for failing to memorise Quran

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 02:53 AM PST

An Indian-origin mother who beat her son "like a dog" for not being able to memorise passages of the Quran, has been found guilty by a British court of murdering him and setting his body on fire to hi...


2013 brings two lunar eclipses in India

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 02:26 AM PST

Mayawati to vote for FDI, Govt likely to win in Rajya Sabha too

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 02:05 AM PST

The Bahujan Samaj Party's 15 Rajya Sabha MPs will vote in favour of the government's decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail. This could help the government scrape through by...


FDI in retail will make our children sales boys and girls: Arun Jaitley

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 01:49 AM PST

Strongly opposing foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the policy will make India a country of "sales boys and sales girls".


Norway child abuse case: Indian couple file appeal

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 01:38 AM PST

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik's visit deferred; may come on December 14

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:57 AM PST

The visit of Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik to India, for operationalisation of liberalised visa agreement between the two countries, has been deferred and he is likely to arrive in New Del...


Babri mosque demolition anniversary: Tight security in Ayodhya

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:55 AM PST

Amid tight security, the 20th anniversary of Babri Mosque demolition is being observed today in the twin towns of Ayodhya and Faizabad as 'black day' and 'shaurya diwas' by Muslim and Hindu outfits re...


Indian denied return home jumps under Dubai train: report

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:53 AM PST

Kudankulam row: Supreme Court reserves verdict on petitions seeking to stop fuel loading at the plant

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:30 AM PST

The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on petitions seeking stringent safety measures for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu.


Elephant's tusks, trunk, tail chopped off in Assam

Posted: 06 Dec 2012 12:19 AM PST

The elephant is lying in a paddy field in Kharmauza village, five kilometres from Goalpara town on national highway 37. Eyewitnesses say its tusks have been uprooted and trunk chopped off. The tail is...


Govt wants to experience kolaveri first hand: AIADMK during FDI debate

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 11:57 PM PST

Tributes paid to BR Ambedkar; followers throng ' Chaitya Bhoomi'

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 11:37 PM PST

Rich tributes were on Thursday paid to the architect of Constitution Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar on his death anniversary, observed as 'Mahaparinirvan Din', by lakhs of followers who converged at his memori...


FDI debate in Rajya Sabha: Trinamool Congress says FDI is foreign direct instruction

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 10:53 PM PST

The debate on whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail should be allowed began in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The debate was initiated by V Maitreyan of the AIADMK. Yesterday, th...


Babri demolition conspiracy case: Supreme Court slams CBI for delay

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 10:47 PM PST

The Supreme Court today pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) during a hearing of the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition conspiracy case and asked why the Additional Solicitor General was not ...


Lok Sabha adjourned following uproar over Babri mosque issue

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 10:45 PM PST

FDI debate in Rajya Sabha: BSP will vote in favour of government, says Mayawati

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 10:19 PM PST

After the government's FDI-in-retail win in the Lok Sabha, the focus is on the Rajya Sabha, which, at noon today, begun debating the decision to allow big foreign supermarkets to set up shop in India....


Four Indian Americans named 2013 Marshall Scholars

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 09:39 PM PST

Educating girls is mantra for development: Shashi Tharoor

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 09:06 PM PST

If you educate a girl, you educate an entire community, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor said while stressing that one of every three women in the country wa...


20 days on, Jharkhand's Panem mine remains locked by protest

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 08:40 PM PST

An ongoing agitation at one of Jharkhand's largest mines run by Panem Coal Mines Limited has put a full-stop on all work at the site for the last 20 days. Uncertainty hangs over the project, with loca...


Congress, National Conference win Jammu and Kashmir legislative council polls

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 08:39 PM PST

Gujarat elections: Blow to Congress as Narhari Amin joins BJP

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 08:13 PM PST

In a blow to the Congress party with barely few days left for the first phase of Gujarat elections, senior congress leader and former deputy chief minister Narhari Amin joined the BJP today. Chief Min...


NCP hesitant to implement FDI in Maharashtra

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 08:05 PM PST

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), a key ally in the UPA government, stoutly defended the government on its decision to allow investment in multi-brand retail during the Lok Sabha debate and voted ...


NASA releases map of India on Diwali night

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 07:53 PM PST

NASA, the national space agency of the US, on Thursday released a black and white satellite imagery of India this Diwali night, cautioning people against the fake image in circulation on the social me...


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