To checking human trafficking, the government plans to introduce biometric passport system that will include finger-printing, by 2010, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday. Stating that there was a nexus of recruiting agencies and employers in human trafficking, Mukherjee added that Indian workers fall for the lure of more money and resort to illegal migration and end up being harassed and exploited.
Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi on Friday said that IT officials went back satisfied after the 8-hour questioning.
In a relief to the family of late stock broker late Harshad Mehta, the Supreme Court has stayed the sale of the nine residential flats owned by him at Worli in Mumbai.
Breaking his silence for the first time since getting embroiled in a controversy related to the inauguration of the Bandra Worli sea link, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan in an interview to CNN-IBN has hit out at all his critics for his alleged support to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The Ambani brothers are locked in a bitter battle over the supply and price of the gas from KG basin.
The successes of Clinton's trip have helped to expand the President's vision for a multi-polar world, says the Christian Science Monitor.
The USIBC said that this was 'a significant step that puts decades of Cold War baggage behind the world's two largest democracy', and that in achieving 'consensus' on this 'key bilateral agreement', it held out the promise 'to bolster the US and India as reliable partners for the long future in the sensitive areas of defence and security trade'.
'The Mumbai-Pune expressway took shape during the BJP rule in Maharashtra and I had declared that time that it would be named after popular Marathi litterateur P L Deshpande, the most versatile and loved personality of the state famously known for his creative and artistic genius,' Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray said in the editorial of party mouthpiece Saamana on Thursday.
Saina Nehwal and Chetan Anand led the charge as India got off to a flying start in the Thomas and Uber Cup Asian Zone qualifiers, with both the men's and women's teams notching contrasting victories over Sri Lanka and Hong Kong respectively, in NakhonRatchasima, Thailand, on Monday.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Wednesday defended the proposal to name Mumbai's Bandra-Worli sealink after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The agency conducted a day long search at various offices of the businessman across the national capital, including Karol Bagh and Chandini Chowk areas recently and seized a large number of documents showing foreign bank accounts, unaccounted investments and receipts and payments showing hawala transactions worth several hundred crore rupees, officials said on Thursday. The accused is one of the leading importers of the Chinese mobiles.
They have identified two common types of human papillomavirus virus (HPV) responsible for causing cervical cancer, a vaccination for which could eliminate 75 per cent of the disease in the region.
In the overcrowded local trains, auto-rickshaw stands, BEST buses and long queues at the Bandra-Worli sea link toll plaza, the staple language of Mumbai is Hindi, unlike most of the other cities of Maharashtra, where Marathi still dominates the public conversation domain.
'Given the first-time healthcare emergency of this nature and scale, we don't have enough experienced hands to deal with the situation.' 'The models, policies and protocols keep changing everyday depending upon the evolving situation.' 'We are all in trial-and-error mode where we do some right things as well as wrong things.' 'We cannot have an ideal environment to fight this pandemic.'
With real estate prices moving southwards, several banks and financial institutions are buying their own properties and shifting from rented and leased premises.
'It is time to give back to this city that has given me so much.'
The last Auto Expo in January 2008 in New Delhi drew 1.8 million visitors. The 2010 edition scheduled at Pragati Maidan here, from January 5-11, is expected to draw close to 2 million visitors, which would make it the largest auto show in the world.
A lookout notice has been issued against industrialist Yash Birla in connection with a cheating case registered against his firm Birla Power Solutions, police said.
'Mumbai is at a peak, from here it can only be a downward trend.'
China is the world's worst polluting nation with the highest overall annual emission of greenhouse gases.
A selection of tributes that flooded in on Friday for former England manager Bobby Robson, who died peacefully at home from cancer aged 76.
From full moon parties in Thailand to adrenaline-filled activities in New Zealand, here are the best places around the world to get the endorphins positively zinging.
Drug major Wockhardt has challenged the US patent of Stalevo, a new generation combination drug for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, originated by Finland-based Orion Corporation and marketed by Novartis.
Mussadiq, a software engineering student, says that unemployment is India's number one problem, and that this Budget doesn't do enough to address it.
Constructing the Bandra-Worli Sea Link has put the publicity-shy Ajit Gulabchand squarely in the spotlight.
A non-governmental organisation (NGO) has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the charges levied by the authorities for using the Bandra-Worli sea link being inaugurated by Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday.
Reliance was the highest bidder at Rs 63 cr for the 5 airports project.
Ace woman shuttler Saina Nehwal scripted history on Sunday, becoming the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament after clinching the Indonesian Open with a stunning victory over higher-ranked Chinese Lin Wang in Jakarta.
Former Formula One ace David Coulthard wants to go flat out when he drives Red Bull car on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link on Sunday, but is constrained by the speed limit the authorities have fixed.
He had suffered from a paralytic stroke twice and had a third stroke, which paralysed his right side.
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"Both the number of new patients and that of deaths are highest for a single day so far," an official said. 79 persons tested positive for COVID-19 during the day, taking the number of such cases in the country's financial capital to 775, the civic body said.
Haile Gebrselassie won the Berlin marathon for the fourth straight year on Sunday but the Ethiopian failed to break his own world record after fading in the warm weather.
The Indian elections in no way precluded the United States from working jointly with India to try to alleviate the lot of the affected Tamil civilians caught up in the crossfire between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lankan troops, the outgoing point man on South Asia for the Obama Administration has said.
With companies facing severe credit crunch, a top body of British employers on Monday asked for freezing of the national minimum wage until the economy recovers from the financial downturn.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday said the state government will not intervene in the Campa Cola building issue as the Supreme Court has not given any relief to residents of the society against demolition of their illegal flats.
If Usain Bolt plans to break his 100 metres world record at this weekend's world championships, he is going to have company, confident American rival Tyson Gay said in Berlin on Thursday. Pronouncing himself fit despite a nagging groin injury, the American said Sunday's 100 metres final may just prove who is the greatest sprinter of all-time.
The body of Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde, who died in a road accident in Delhi, reached Mumbai on Tuesday evening.
"The credit turmoil that the world is seeing now is clearly the worst in history," says Habil Khorakiwala, executive chairman, Wockhardt. He should know, as his company finds itself in trouble over a Rs 3,400 crore debt burden.
Funny People, a comedic drama with Sandler leading the cast had a disappointing opening at the US box office.
