India
Govt optimistic of double-digit GDP growth in 2013-14
SM Krishna said that country's GDP grew by 8-9 per cent in the last decade but in recent years it slowed down to 7.2-7.5 per cent.
Pak: Blasts on rail tracks disrupt train services
No one was hurt as no trains were near the sites of the blasts, railway officials said.
Chandy takes Pinarayi challenge head-on
KOCHI: Taking up the challenge of CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in its full spirit, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday ..
Dowry death: Siblings get life
BHUBANESWAR: A fast-track court here on Friday sentenced two brothers to life for killing a woman for dowry three years ago. Two o..
Production at Birla Tyres comes to a halt
BALASORE: Production has come to a halt in Birla Tyres for the last two days over the issue of wage settlement. Hundreds workers a..
Rs 505 crore for SSA, MDM gets Rs 160 crore
BHUBANESWAR: Eyeing to rope in private sector investment for infrastructure development, the State Government has proposed to inve..
Four killed in car-lorry smash
SRIVILLIPUTHUR: Four persons were killed and three injured when a car collided head-on with a lorry near here in the wee hours of ..
An illiterate in a land of literates
Why cant you read the sign yourself? said the silver-haired man in a rude voice. It was valid point. I had asked him in Malayal..
High Court seeks report on privatisation of lake
BANGALORE: The High Court on Friday asked the state government to file a report on the privatisation of lakes in Bangalore. The or..
Jayalalithaa gets clean chit
BANGALORE: Sasikala Natarajan, the estranged friend of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, told a Bangalore court that vario..
Kobayashi sets fastest lap to close F1 test
Barcelona hosts the final test event next week before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on March 18.
VHR seeks CBI probe into land allocation
VISAKHAPATNAM: Senior Congress leader and member of the Rajya Sabha V Hanumantha Rao on Friday urged chief minister N Kiran Kumar ..
VRO, VRA prelims exam key released
HYDERABAD: Minister for revenue N Raghuveera Reddy on Friday released the preliminary key to the recently- held written examinatio..
TN State Rights Panel too orders probe
CHENNAI: TN State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has ordered a probe into the death of five youth in an encounter by the police at..
Gulbarga University lands in controversy
GULBARGA: Gulbarga University (GU) landed in controversy for deciding to confer honorary doctorates to 10 personalities in the con..
Remembering rukmini athai through dance
CHENNAI: Ananda Shankar Jayant was so lost in dance that she hardly had the time to think about cancer. For the Andhra-based Bhara..
