Days after a top Muslim body passed a resolution asking the community members not to recite 'Vande Mataram', a prominent Islamic organisation which had issued 'fatwa' against the national song in 2006, on Monday said the edict cannot be withdrawn.
The newly elected United Progressive Alliance government reached out to the victims of the Lahore blast today that killed at least 40 people and injured hundreds.
Terming United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's forthcoming visit to Pakistan as a 'people-to-people trip', Obama administration's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke has said that Clinton's trip to the troubled nation would be one the most important foreign visits of the top American diplomat.
Now 60 per cent of India's agriculture is rainfed and rainfed farmers and areas have the largest concentration of poorest people.
Pakistan on Wednesday said it had begun approaching global bodies like the United Nations over the 'deteriorating situation' in Jammu and Kashmir, ignoring India's warning that such statements amount to clear interference in its internal affairs and will undermine the composite dialogue process.Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq said Islamabad is 'deeply concerned over the deteriorating situation in the Indian state that is resulting in loss of life in JK'
The 32-year-old Nannes' left-hand pace fetched him 12 wickets in seven matches this season. He joins fellow Australians, NSW's David Warner and Victoria's Andrew McDonald, in the Delhi Daredevils team coached by Greg Shipperd.
Infosys Australia last week announced that it had been chosen by Telstra as a key strategic partner to support its five-year Australian $450 million application development and maintenance contracts. The company claims to have about 2,500 staff currently serving Australia and New Zealand clients with about 1,000 of them located in Australia. Infosys has offices in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.
Rinku Sinha recounts her harrowing stalker experience from when she was in college.
Singapore Education is organising the Singapore Education (SE) Admissions Fair '08-'09 in Mumbai on June 7-8, 2008 and will have participation from 12 Singapore-based institutions.
The issue is not the right to own a Nano but the right to a slice of the public subsidy so that everybody is mobile, says Sunita Narain.
Money is the new God and spending it is the closest that one gets to nirvana. These five malls together accommodate close to 1,800 showrooms and smaller kiosks that sell almost everything a consumer could want. The number of visitors at Select City Walk averages around 2,000 on weekdays, going up to 6,000 on weekends.
Though his party has two ministers in the Congress-led coalition government, Singh was present when Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat filed his nomination in the presidential election.
The tale of the creation and design of the world's cheapest car is one of innovation and ingenuity, both inside and outside Ratan Tata's organization.
Thursday's announcement partially fulfils a provision in the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, offering the private sector incentives to reserve 5 per cent of jobs for this category of people. The central scheme approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs provides for funds to pay the employers' share of the Employees Provident Fund and Employees State Insurance each year for the first three years.
In yet another accident involving a blueline bus, a motorcyclist was crushed to death in Noida on Tuesday. The incident, which came close on the heels of a blueline bus mowing down seven people in New Delhi on Sunday, triggered protests in the area.
Twelve more people, including six in Delhi, sucummbed to the deadly dengue taking the death toll in the country to 164 on Tuesday even as 352 fresh cases of the mosquito-borne disease were reported.
"Indian people have forgotten Kotnis. For years, nobody visited us out of respect for him. The people who did come are Chinese," Manaroma, another sister of Kotnis said.
Learning how China is addressing issues like poverty alleviation, education, health and infrastructure is what the leaders and future leaders of India should focus on.
It said that people did not speak in any language other than their mother tongue when they are dying.
"Only through long-term programme can India have a pool of physios of international standard," the former team physio said.
Godrej Upstream Ltd, part of the Godrej Group, needs Customer Relationship Associates at their Thane BPO centre.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Lal Kishenchand Advani on Tuesday said the BJP will hold nationwide protests on Wednesday condemning the terrorist attack on the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
The alleged underworld don, who had been deported to India in May 2002 from Dubai in a passport related case, has now been acquitted in all the nine cases against him.
Fifteen persons have succumbed to the piercing cold wave in the region so far as another person fell prey to it in Ambala Monday.
CK Narayan of ICICI Securities says that the Sensex could dip to 9,000 levels by December.
The aim, High Commissioner Michael Arthur said, is to expand bilateral ties.
At least 18 people were killed and another 14 injured on Thursday when a private bus rolled 400 feet down into a gorge in Rohtrung village in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district. Fifteen people died on the spot while three others succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital, Kinnaur Deputy Commissioner D D Sharma said.
What has really alarmed the police, and also the families of young drug abusers, is the entry of "chitta" -- a highly refined white powdery semi-synthetic substance (mainly heroine) -- into the drug scene and has spread like wildfire among the state's youth. Ashwani Sharma reports.
The state and Indian Air Force choppers on Saturday rescued 100 persons, including 16 foreigners, from Kaza and various parts of rain ravaged tribal district of Kinnaur even as the recovery of 10 bodies took the death toll to 24.
Overseas education consultant NNS Chandra shares advice on entrance examinations, admission procedures at international universities.
With Tibet to the east and home to three stunning Himalayan ranges, Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh boasts of a colourful culture and beautiful people, says Geetanjali Krishna.
Flash floods and landslips triggered by the monsoon fury left eight more persons dead, taking the number of people killed in calamity-hit Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh to 138 even as 2700 pilgrims and locals were rescued from Rudraprayag and Chamoli districts.
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