A majority of the agitating medicos have called off their agitation against extension of MBBS course by one year, while students of six colleges in Tamil Nadu were continuing their protests.
Seeded 26th, the Indian Davis Cupper was beaten 0-6, 1-6 by third seed Marcos Daniel of Brazil in the final round of qualifiers, in Paris, on Friday.
Radhika Rajamani talks about meeting the Telugu megastar and how she was bowled over by his simplicity and humility.
"We certainly believe it's still possible for this deal to move forward and for our Congress to have an opportunity to consider it," State Department Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey said. "It ain't over until it's over. And Congress will be in session for quite a ways more this year and we would certainly hope to have an opportunity to present them with this agreement and give them a chance to vote on it," he added.
Party leaders have been flocking Advani's residence since morning to garland him and present bouquets.
"The homeopathy compound screened in vitro at NARI against HIV has been found to have a lot of potential in effectively killing the virus," Dr Ganguly told UNI. However, he refused to name the compound as there were Intellectual Property Rights issues involved. Moreover, there was a memorandum of understanding with the company which had given the compound, which is already being used in treatment of some other disease.
Two years after the then JD(S)-BJP government announced the cart-and-bullock scheme for the farming community, the State Executive Committee headed by Governor Rameshwar Thakur gave a silent burial to the scheme last week after stopping short of branding it a 'complete failure'.
Jelena Jankovic will replace fellow Serb Ana Ivanovic as world number one on August 11, the WTA said on Saturday. With no tournaments taking place next week ahead of the Beijing Olympics, Jankovic will end Ivanovic's nine-week reign when the WTA governing body's computer drops the points from the events played in the same week one year ago.
Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal 6-1, 7-5 on Saturday to reach the final of the Cincinnati Masters and bring the Spaniard's 32-match unbeaten streak to a halt. Serb Djokovic will meet Andy Murray in the final after the 21-year-old Briton overcame giant Croatian Ivo Karlovic in the day's other semi-final.
More than a decade after the iconic race car brand Jaguar was forced to pull out from the gruelling 24-hour Le Mans race, the new owner, the Rs 16,400-crore Tata Motors, is considering a plan to put the brand back on the racing track.
Bhupender Singh Patel, Arvind Vijay Mohan and Rajat Prasad, who played pivotal role for carrying out the sting operation, have also been charged under various provisions of Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act.
A Hajipur court has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against the 10 persons accused of lynching 10 suspected thieves in Bihar's Vaishali district, police sources said on Saturday.
The 39-year-old German will test Ferrari's 2008 car in Spain next week along with reigning F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen.
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, for the second successive day at a Washington, DC, news conference said that if she returns to power she would make available Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to the IAEA.
Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu turned 95 on Tuesday, with a wish to see the Left Front government in West Bengal on its eight consecutive term.
The large Sikh community in the west Midlands town of Coventry is outraged after a memorial in honour of Sikh soldiers was desecrated by miscreants who tied a pig's head to the structure. The war memorial was put up near a central roundabout by the community in 2005 to honour the 83,000 Sikh soldiers who fought in the British army during the two World Wars.
The joint venture of Ashok Leyland and Nissan for manufacturing light commercial vehicles would become operational during the current financial year, executive vice-chairman of Hinduja Group India Subir Raha said.
Australia leg-spinner Stuart MacGill will retire from international cricket at the end of the second Test against West Indies.
Former coach Roberto Mancini said on Friday he had asked his lawyer to protect his interests and defend his reputation over the reasons given by Inter Milan for sacking him.
Master batsman Sachin Tendulkar says playing the Kiwis at home is going to be a challenge because of the conditions there.
She had addressed a series of public meetings in both Kumaon and Garhwal regions yesterday. Gandi condemned the blasts stating that such incidents will not be tolerated in the country.
Patil added that India is not satisfied with Pakistan's action against terrorists.
So far police have not been able to identify the suspects.
While the national population explosion places nearly intolerable strains on India's physical and social infrastructure, the country's democracy is so dysfunctional that it is reasonable to ask whether it can rise to the looming economic and demographic challenges.
Two persons, including a child, died and another person was injured in a bomb blast at Mahabbatpur village near India-Bangladesh border, the police said on Wednesday.
Pereira, whose car mowed down 15 labourers sleeping on the pavement in suburban Bandra, killing seven of them late last year, was acquitted under Section 304 (II) - committing homicide with knowledge that the act would result in death.
Chetankumar Meshram from Northampton has been awarded a compensation of 5,000 pounds after his employer Talk Talk was found guilty of racial discrimination for sending him back to Britain just three weeks into a two-month post at the telecoms firm's India office, The Times reported in London on Wednesday.
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who was granted bail by the Supreme Court on Monday in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, will be released from Yerawada jail in Pune only after the jail authorities receive the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court order.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation mulls investing $3 billion in the initial public offering of Russia's Rosneft, the Moscow-based firm has warned potential investors that they face numerous risks, including uncertain tax laws and economic instability.
In September 2006, the German version of the game -- known as LastExitFlucht (LastExitFlight) -- was awarded the Austrian Multimedia and E-Business State Prize in the category for 'Knowledge and Learning,' after beating off stiff competition from a CD-Rom about the life of Mozart. While there have been many educational tools created for raising awareness about refugees over the years, Against All Odds offers a chance to experience what it is like to be a refugee.
Mulford said very little about the meeting except that it was regarding the civil nuclear deal during which he explained his country's position to Sinha, a key person in the BJP.
The digging work was conducted largely in and around an abandoned well that is in a farm behind Vanzara's massive bungalow and is owned by him and located in Sabarkatha district, about 100 km from Ahmedabad.
Yeltsin was widely hailed as an effective reformer but his era was a traumatic period in Russian history.
Andrew Flintoff's lingering ankle injury has ruled him out of England's one-day series in Sri Lanka.
Kaestner said the US visa policy clearly defined that there would be no queries about race and religion of the people who wanted to visit the US
Mahendra Singh Dhoni engineered six dismissals to equal the world record for most dismissals by a wicketkeeper in an ODI.
The company said on Tuesday it would release its first scooters in India in 2010
Charles Prince, chief executive officer, Citigroup has vehemently denied reports that the banking major is planning to shed thousands of jobs and focus outside North America for growth and termed it as 'press voyeurism'.
Iraqi Sunnis have been outraged by the executions and international human rights groups have also expressed concern.
The MGF Metropolitan Mall and DT City Centre Mall were completely evacuated by the district police in Gurgaon as part of the mock drill, which began on Friday afternoon.
