Gandhinagar: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama in Mumbai and discussed various issues, including the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project. A large area of the DMIC passes through Gujarat. You may also want to see * Ahmedabad remembers Imam Hussain’s sacrifice * Mercury dips in Ahmedabad * NRI [...]
TAIYUAN, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) — Three government officials would be sacked after 12 people died when a gas pocket ignited in a coalmine in north China’s Shanxi Province, local authorities said Monday. The accident occurred at 11:30 p.m. Sunday when 16 miners were working in a shaft in the Donggou Colliery Co., Ltd. in Jiexiu [...]
The possibility of the Feroz Shah Kotla being disqualified from hosting the 2011 World Cup remains high after ICC match referee Alan Hurst classified the pitch as “unfit” in his official report to the ICC, which was forwarded to the BCCI. The report was submitted in the aftermath of the abandonment of the fixture between [...]
New Delhi: State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) has become the first operator in India to introduce the next level of phone-line broadband technology — the very high bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL). VDSL, the next version of the current technology, asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), will increase the data speed from 1-2 Mbps to 10-20 [...]
NEW DELHI: In line with government’s initiative of developing green technologies in the automotive sector, Maruti Suzuki will display conceptfor a hybrid on its SX4 sedan and an electric multi-purpose van at the upcoming auto expo. The company is working on clean fuel technologies as part of a public-private partnership ahead of the Commonwealth Games. [...]
Israeli soldiers walk in the street to take positions during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, on Dec. 26, 2009. Israeli forces killed 6 Palestinians, including 3 militants, in two attacks early Saturday in northern Gaza Strip and West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses and local sources said. (Xinhua/Ayman Nobani)
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Shibhu Soren has staked claim to form the government in Jharkhand. He reached the Governor’s house on Saturday to stake his claim. Soren was accompanied by Yashwant Sinha, Anant Kumar, Raghuwar Das, Arjun Munda of BJP and Sudesh Mahto of All Jharkhand Students Union. But so far there has been [...]
Actors Sushmita Sen and Fardeen Khan, along with director Muddasar Aziz, breezed into Kolkata on Wednesday evening to promote their forthcoming film Dulha Mil Gaya. They also interacted with jewellery connoisseurs of Gitanjali’s Asmi Jewels at Sirkar Hohure store, south Kolkata. “Asmi as a brand is close to my heart and it gives me immense [...]
At least 23 deaths, including 15 in Rajasthan, due to swine flu have taken the country’s toll to 815, health authorities said Wednesday. According to the union health ministry, at least five people – four from Rajasthan and one from Punjab – succumbed to the contagious virus Wednesday. The remaining 18 cases were earlier deaths [...]
HYDERABAD: Congress party MPs from the Telangana region Thursday decided to resign to protest the central government’s move to put on hold the process for forming a Telangana state. Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud from Nizamabad and his colleague Ponnam Prabhakar from Karimnagar said they had decided to quit respecting the sentiments of the people [...]
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