Haryana, India News Archives

After the successful example of Chandigarh - so far the only city to have officially declared itself as smoke-free, major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmedabad are gearing up to ban puffing in public ...

NEW DELHI : The U.S. copper mining company Asarco LLC will sell virtually all its operating assets to Sterlite Industries Limited for $2.6 billion in cash, Sterlite said Saturday.

New Delhi, May 31: South Korea's top automaker, Hyundai Motor Co, hopes to launch its small car in India by 2011 or 2012.

JAMMU: The Indian Air Force on Saturday made operational an old air base in mountainous Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir that was closed 43 years ago.

South East Asia News.Net Saturday 31st May, 2008 New Delhi, MAY31 : A school friend from Pakistan met Prime Minister Dr.

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday announced that the decision on fuel price hike would be taken on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: Leading Pakistani human rights activist, who fought for the release of Indian death row prisoners Kashmir Singh and Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan, was on Friday night deported from here back to Dubai, ...

The Indian Rotavirus Vaccine Development Project announced encouraging results from a recent Phase I/II clinical trial of a live, natural reassortant, Oral Rotavirus Vaccine 116E , conducted in New Delhi, ...

Tehran hopes to finalise a gas pipeline deal with India and Pakistan by the middle of this year, Iran's ambassador to New Delhi said in a magazine interview.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram is confident that the government will soon control inflation.

NEW DELHI: Opposing any move to hike petrol prices, the Communist Party of India on Wednesday asked the government to impose a 'windfall profit tax' on private and joint venture oil firms as well as private ...

New Delhi, May 29 : After a long wait, victims of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, got some relief on Thursday, when the Central government decided to grant their demand of setting up a special commission that would take ...

Gujjars on Thursday blocked road and rail traffic in the capital and adjoining areas as part of their 'NCR rasta roko' agitation even as over 35,000 policemen fanned out across the National Capital Region to ...

Strongly backing the stalled civilian nuclear deal with India, presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain has said it would strengthen the US' ties with the world's largest democracy and further ...

Members of one of India's lower castes blocked major roads, burned car tires, and threw stones at police in several areas around New Delhi on Thursday in a continuation of protests in the country's north and ...

NEW DELHI - BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion will again meet Indian officials on Thursday to find a solution to concerns raised by security agencies, a telecoms ministry official said.India's security ...

By Arun Kumar, Washington, May 28 : The United States has imposed financial sanctions against four leaders of Lashkar-e-Toiba , a Pakistan-based terror group, accused of carrying out numerous attacks against ...

Posted online: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 04:25:00 Updated: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 04:25:00 New Delhi, May 28: The Union Home Ministry issued fresh advisories on Wednesday to Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and the ...

Posted online: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 06:13:28 Updated: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 07:42:38 Bayana/Jaipur, May 28: Securitymen were deployed on Wednesday in strength in and around the National Capital ...

New Delhi, May 28 : Biofuels Markets Asia is organising a three-day Pan-Asian Meeting in New Delhi from June 9. he conference will bring together key players from across the globe to focus on the development of ...

Noida * Twelve days after teenager Aarushi Talwar and her family's domestic help were brutally murdered, the mystery behind the killings seems far from being unravelled with even a cabinet minister questioning ...

NEW DELHI: Determined to protect interest of its farmers and nascent industries, India will press for changes in the latest WTO proposals on agriculture and industrial goods as hard negotiations begin on Monday ...

New Delhi : Close on the heels of Petroleum Ministry suggesting a duty rejig on petro products, the Centre of Indian Trade Unions has sought the imposition of a "windfall tax" on "super-profits" being earned by ...

A PARALYSED Australian man claims a controversial embryonic stem cell treatment has allowed him to breathe on his own for the first time in 14 years.

New Delhi, May 26 : Four days after meeting Pakistan's new civilian leadership, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday said here that the two sides had discussed "new ideas" for building confidence ...

New Delhi, May 27: The verdict in the six-year-old sensational Nitish Katara murder case, allegedly involving Vikas Yadav, the son of Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, and his cousin Vishal Yadav, is likely ...

New Delhi, May 27: The meeting of UPA-Left Committee on nuclear issue, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed, putting back further a decision on whether India should sign the safeguards agreement with ...

New Delhi, May 26: If the negotiations are successful, the combination of MTN and Reliance Communications would create a global wireless juggernaut, larger even than developed-market giants such as AT&T. Anil ...

RIM not to hand over BlackBerry 'master key' to govt Agencies New Delhi, May 26: BlackBerry vendor Research-In- Motion on Monday said it cannot hand over the message encryption key to the government as its ...

More than 300 Tibetan exiles have been stopped by authorities in northern India from marching to Tibet, an official said Monday.

The demonstrators, including Buddhist monks and nuns carrying pictures of the Dalai Lama and 'Free Tibet' banners, planned to arrive in their homeland to coincide with the Beijing Olympics Games.

'They've been stopped and we are trying to persuade them to return to Dharmsala. They will not be allowed to march ahead,' said Amit Chandola, a senior Uttarakhand state official.

Protests by one of India's lower castes spread to new areas Monday as government forces were ordered to evict demonstrators who had blocked highways and railroad tracks, government officials said.

New Delhi-based Subodh Gupta was the sole non-Chinese artist to break into the top ten Asian contemporary works sold, with his 'Saat Samundar Paar ' fetching $1.2 million at the Christie's Asian Contemporary ...

New Delhi: A relief package for the public sector oil marketing companies that are facing financial crunch due to continued surge in global crude oil prices is expected sometime soon.

By M.R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi, May 25: After decades of waiting, the Bharatiya Janata Party Sunday scripted history as it dramatically bagged top honours in the Karnataka election to rule a state in south ...

SRINAGAR, Indian Kashmir: Thousands of mourners shouting "We want freedom" packed a cemetery in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir on Wednesday to commemorate two separatist leaders slain on the same day a dozen years ...

Posted online: Sunday , May 25, 2008 at 12:00:00 Updated: Sunday , May 25, 2008 at 01:28:48 New Delhi, May 25: Set to form the next government in Karnataka, the BJP on Sunday said the party's good showing in ...

Chandigarh : Former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal wins the Adampur assembly seat in the by-election by a margin of 26,188 votes over his nearest rival of ruling Congress Ranjit Singh.

New Delhi: Feeling the pinch because of the rising costs of fuel, Americans long used to gas guzzling vehicles with power and speed are steadily moving to smaller and energy efficient cars, says an Indian ...

Oslo, May 24 : DiaGenic ASA and SRL Ranbaxy Ltd. have announced that they have signed a commercial agreement to commence marketing DiaGenic's breast cancer test in India.

From correspondents in India, 06:32 PM IST The Indian Army Friday successfully test fired a surface-to-surface nuclear-capable Prithvi missile, achieving 'close to zero circular error probability accuracy', an ...

At his instance, the police recovered 3.1 kg of RDX on Thursday. NEW DELHI: Abdur Rehman, the alleged Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami militant who was arrested outside the New Delhi railway station on Wednesday, ...

New Delhi, May 23 : The National Tiger Conservation Authority, in its third meeting here, has assured that four new tiger reserves will be created in the country.

Updated at: 1300 PST, Thursday, May 22, 2008 NEW DELHI: The Delhi Daredevils would face Kolkata Knight Riders in the only match of the Indian Premier League at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground on Thursday.

New Delhi, May 23: India's cabinet Friday raised the net amount available for the ambitious farm loan waiver scheme to Rs.716.8 billion from the Rs.600 billion set aside when the announcement was made ...

Bizarre Parallel: 'How can one say hang one, save the other?' says Home Minister New Delhi, May 21: In highly controversial remarks that could embarrass the UPA Government, Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil has ...

Posted online: Friday , May 23, 2008 at 11:14:32 Updated: Friday , May 23, 2008 at 11:14:32 New Delhi, May 23: The Central Board of Secondary Education on Friday announced the results for Class XII examinations ...

New Delhi : The National Geographic Channel Network will expand its brand presence in India with the introduction of four new National Geographic channels, along with a "comprehensive bouquet of credible and ...

NEW DELHI: Indian police detained 62 protesters calling for a cleanup of the 1984 Bhopal industrial disaster as they demonstrated near the prime minister's official residence Wednesday, an organizer said.

Thu May 22, 2008 12:01pm IST By Bappa Majumdar NEW DELHI - India's Maoist rebels are on a drive to recruit thousands of child soldiers in the country's poor rural heartlands, police and human rights agencies ...

New Delhi, May 22: As the UPA marked four years in office; BJP today dubbed Manmohan Singh as a "lame duck" Prime Minister and dared Congress to project him as its PM candidate if it was confident that his ...

New Delhi : Essar Oil Ltd, India's newest refiner, has offered to wipe out most of the fuel deficit in the country by supplying the entire output from its Vadinar refinery, where production has been raised to ...

Pakistan and India will start the fifth round of composite dialogue in July in the Indian capital of New Delhi, said a statement issued here Wednesday.

New Delhi, May 21 Business group Videocon on Wednesday said it would start rolling out telecom network from mid August and was eyeing to garner about 10% of the Indian telecom market in five years.

Corporate Bureau Posted online: Thursday , May 22, 2008 at 2351 hrs IST New Delhi, May 21 Motorola Inc on Wednesday said that it has bagged a $90 million contract to supply GSM network equipment to state-owned ...

NEW DELHI: Asking people to be patient, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday said that inflation, which is at a 44-month high, will moderate significantly by August-September. ...

He was rescued along with Nepalese citizen in overnight raid - Photo: AFP FREEDOM AT LAST: Indian national Muhammad Naeem and Nepalese national Gurong Karna Bahudur after being released on Sunday.

Indian police detained dozens of protesters in New Delhi Wednesday who were calling for the cleanup of the site of the 1984 Bhopal industrial disaster, activists say.

India to seek humane treatment and release of all its prisoners in Pakistan - Photo: PTI Moving ahead: Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon accompanied by his Pakistani counterpart, Salman Bashir, and Pakistan ...

Corporate Bureau Posted online: Saturday , May 17, 2008 at 2134 hrs IST New Delhi, May 16 Communications and IT minister A Raja on Friday said that he would meet the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discuss ...

South East Asia News.Net Tuesday 20th May, 2008 New Delhi, May 20 : Ruler of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'Lzzaddin Waddaulah will arrive here this evening on a four-day visit.

Economy Bureau Posted online: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 2241 hrs IST New Delhi, May 20 The Indian government and industry on Tuesday expressed disappointment over the revised texts released by the World Trade ...

NEW DELHI: Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance group is looking to rope in more international partners in its retail business, on top of the joint ventures already announced for various store formats.

NEW DELHI: Riding on cost cutting measures and improved production of value-added steel, Steel Authority of India Ltd.

SRINAGAR, India : The Indian army said Monday it lost one soldier in a shooting from the Pakistani side of Kashmir along the heavily guarded frontier.

In the last few weeks since the start of exam season, there have been a string of suicides in India's capital by students as young as 12 IT'S exam season in India - and it's also suicide season when students ...

Locally brewed liquor apparently tainted with lethal chemicals killed 36 people in southern India over the weekend, police said Monday.

Bootleggers began selling the deadly brew on Saturday after police shut authorized liquor shops in parts of the Karnataka state because of voting for the state government, said Sri Kumar, the state police chief.

In India, liquor stores and bars are routinely closed during elections to prevent politicians from handing out free alcohol in a bid to win votes.

Agencies Posted online: Monday , May 19, 2008 at 1458 hrs IST New Delhi, May 19: State-run oil firms have begun selling only the costlier branded petrol and diesel at most of their petrol stations in big ...

“As part of our strategy to boost our exports, we have now plans to open our sales depot in one of the African countries soon”

Agencies Posted online: Monday , May 19, 2008 at 1116 hrs IST Chandigarh, May 19: Even after increasing the prices of bicycles by 20 to 25 per cent in the past three months, leading cycle maker Atlas Cycles is ... via Express India

“Border trade was earlier scheduled to open on May 1 but was postponed after Beijing requested New Delhi to delay the start following landslides in the Tibet Autonomous Region”

Nathu La: Bilateral trade between India and China opened on Monday through the fabled Silk Road amid a fresh border row, with Beijing claiming a strip of land in Sikkim. via The Times of India

“The dialogue process has contributed so meaningfully to the improvement of relations over last four years. India is ready to carry the process forward”

NEW DELHI: In the first high level contact with the new democratic dispensation in Islamabad later this week, India will press for concrete action by Pakistan to end cross-border terrorism in the backdrop of ... via The Times of India

“Tata has acquired the Korean technology... Now the Indian group plans to have the know-how necessary to complete its development plans”

NEW DELHI: Italian truck maker Iveco, a company owned by Fiat, has said it will resume talks with India's Tata Motors for a commercial vehicle joint venture in Latin America, South Africa and southeast Asia. via The Times of India

“It is ironical that after being in prime ministerial office for four years the Prime Minister has finally woken up to the harsh and cruel reality that prevention and investigation of terrorism in India is on the verge of collapse”

New Delhi : A day after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pitched for a federal crime agency, the BJP on Sunday questioned his commitment to fight terror and said a new agency would be of no use unless it is armed ... via The Hindu

“The initial information was there would be strikes in Jodhpur, Jaipur and Udaipur. Later, this was refined and Jaipur was zeroed in on as the most likely target”

NEW DELHI: The blasts in Jaipur have turned the terrorism tables on the BJP that has been blaming appeasement by Congress governments for the recurrence of attacks in the country. via South Asian Media Net

Gurgaon, May 18 At least 17 labourers were killed and nearly 30 others injured when a wall of an warehouse under construction collapsed in a locality on the outskirts of this Haryana city adjoining Delhi. via Sulekha.com

“In today's world, radio waves are an indispensable means of communicating information 'without wires' from one place to another, be it for radio broadcasts or cell phones, television transmissions or airport radars”

WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin scientist at the University of Leicester has made a breakthrough discovery in mobile signals, which according to him, may have implications for countries with long coastlines such ... via The Times of India

New Delhi, May 15 The Indian infrastructure sector comprising six core industries grew at 9.6 percent in 2008 fiscal, according to data released by the ministry of commerce and industry here Thursday. via Sulekha.com

“The Myanmar government will decide where to station the medical teams and provide transport for them”

New Delhi, May 17: Responding to a request by the Myanmar authorities, India on Saturday sent a team of 50 Army medical personnel and a fresh planeload of medicines to the cyclone-battered country. via Daily India

“The UPA government's weak approach to fighting terrorism is guided solely by vote-bank considerations. For its short-term electoral gains, the Congress is making India pay a very heavy price in the form of blood of innocent citizens”

Hyderabad, May 17: There is "formidable basis" for Pakistan to extradite underworld don Dawood Ibrahim to India for trial, senior BJP leader L K Advani said on Saturday. via Central Chronicle

Saturday, 17 May , 2008, 16:41 Last Updated: Saturday, 17 May , 2008, 17:22 New Delhi: Airports at major metros are becoming operational 24 hours with more daylight flights being introduced by global carriers ... via Sify

“China appears to be building/ upgrading launch pads in the area, but that is to escape US and Russian counter-force targeting. India is still many years away from a counter-force capability, if it ever plans to develop one”

New Delhi, May 16: Less than a month after China's new nuclear submarine base came to light, latest satellite images show that Beijing is upgrading and extending its nuclear missile deployment site that is ... via Express India

“It is with this objective that we look towards working further with Bhutan, in both the bilateral and regional context. A Bhutan that is sovereign, prosperous and secure is central to our vision for the future”

India premier Manmohan Singh has told Bhutan's Parliament that New Delhi was ready to assist in making South Asia more secure and properous. via News Today

“We would not have had a face to show if we had not done this. It was the act of 'real men'.”

Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel. via Free Republic

NEW DELHI: The Centre has extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as an unlawful association by two years. via The Hindu

Washington, May 16: A profit-boosting business practice can be used to help turn companies green by reducing their energy use, says a team led by mechanical engineer Prabhakar Kaushik of NC College of ... via Daily India

“One hopes that the bureaucratic bottlenecks will be removed, and the mechanism will turn itself into an effective tool in the fight against terrorism”

From correspondents in Islamabad, Pakistan, 06:30 PM IST Leading Pakistani newspapers have lauded India for showing restraint and not indulging in 'finger pointing' in the aftermath of the bomb attacks in ... via India eNews

Beijing: India on Thursday said like China, inflation was its biggest concern too, but New Delhi was confident of beating back prices in the next two to three months. via Express India

“This achievement is a testimony of our ability to offer innovative and affordable services like Super Lifetime, Re 1 Local tariff, reduced STD and Roaming tariffs etc”

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Bharti Airtel Ltd. today said that it has crossed the 4 million customer mark in Delhi. via CIOL

“Bharti still wants majority control (a 51 per cent stake) but MTN prefers a full takeover which in South Africa can be portrayed as a merger of equals. Talks this week are focused on this (full takeover) and ways it could be done”

Agencies Posted online: Thursday , May 15, 2008 at 1319 hrs IST New Delhi, May 15: India's number one mobile operator Bharti Airtel's negotiations with South African telecom major MTN is now headed towards ... via Express India

New Delhi, May 15 India will offer five million dollars to China as assistance in relief activities in its Sichuan province devastated by a temblor which claimed nearly 15,000 lives. via Indo-American News

“All issues which have a bearing on our relations will come up at the meeting”

New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday rejected BJP's demand for re-enactment of POTA in the aftermath of the Jaipur blasts and said India would raise the issue of terrorism at the forthcoming ... via The Hindu