The actual expenditure will only be marginally higher and hence, the multiplier effect will be muted.
Emirates and Etihad Airways have over the past year continued to lobby India to allow them more flight slots, which won't be possible until the 2007 pact is revised.
'If you delay the diagnosis even by 24 hours, in that 24 hours individuals would have affected more people.' 'So, contact tracing, testing, isolation, quarantine needs to continue.'
Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran said in Coimbatore on Tuesday that the government would try to achieve a 7-8 per cent growth in the industry in fiscal year April 2009-March'10.
Protests were held across Tamil Nadu with raising of slogans-- "Vendum Vendum Kudineer Vendum" (we want water) and "Edappadi Arasai Kandikirom" (we condemn chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswamy's government).
Tarun Shah, the CEO of share broking house Sharekhan, sees great potential for investment in power and pharmaceutical sectors.\n\n\n\n
The carrier has debt of Rs 43,000 crore.
This sadly is expected to be the future of sex!
Rajinikanth said he stood by his comments made on Periyar, maintaining that they were factual and refused to apologise as demanded by fringe Dravidian outfits. DMK chief advised him to exercise caution while expressing views on Periyar.
More than 750 constituencies spread across four states and one union territory will go to the polls on Tuesday
It earlier took 19 months to build a Tejas, now it takes 11 months, says HAL chief.
In Tamil Nadu, Divya Nair encounters jallikattu, a ban on colas and a water shortage.
Though the trucks have not been opened yet, it is reported that the cash belonged to State Bank of India and is being transported to Vijayawada.
'Why should farmers who give us food be vacated to hand over their property to a private company held by one individual,' asks green activist S P Udaykumar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the nation on the holy occasion.
Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, Tapan Sen, on Friday termed as a 'drama' the Central Vigilance Commission referring a complaint to the Central Bureau of Investigation on alleged irregularities in use of coal blocks by some private firms.
The SBI said its officials were ferrying Rs 570 crore after the Reserve Bank of India asked them to, to address a temporary cash shortage in Andhra Pradesh.
Of the 20 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, eight were from Maharashtra, three each from Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, two from Jammu and Kashmir and one each from Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
Coimbatore's Menaga Murugan is the daughter of a rickshaw driver who struggles to make ends meet -- but that did not deter this 18-year-old from pursuing her dream of becoming a top lawyer. Successfully securing an undergraduate seat at the city's Government Law College, she's set an example for underprivileged youth across the country.
Retail, logistic, educational services and fast moving consumer goods and durables alone will add around 1.66 lakh, 1.49 lakh, 1.17 lakh and 1.10 lakh jobs respectively.
About 40 bull tamers were injured, they said.
Kolkata excels in business performance with employee headcount and number of engineering students doubling in the last five years.
Strategy or confusion? The Tamil Nadu BJP has many reasons to feel let down by Prime Minister Modi's whistlestop tour to the state on Tuesday, says R Ramasubramanian.
The sub-quota scheme may now lead to a ganging up of non-Vanniyars in individual constituencies against the Vanniyars just as in the past, such ganging up against SC-ST candidates was seen in the non-quota constituencies, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
On Day 2 of the summit, Modi and Xi held a fresh round of one-on-one discussion at the Taj Fisherman's Cove Hotel.
A textile shop worker was arrested in Coimbatore on Sunday for allegedly forwarding SMSes on the Assam violence to many persons in the city, the police said.
'If people use the mask properly, we can confidently say that this is as protective as the best mask in the market.'<
In the continuing crackdown by All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam government on land grabbing, former Transport Minister and senior Dravida Munetra Kazhagam leader K N Nehru and two others were arrested in Tiruchirappalli on Thursday, while another functionary was taken into custody in Coimbatore.
Maruti Suzuki India had rolled out its first car -- an M800 -- in December 1983 and attained five million domestic sales in February 2006.
Communist Party of India - Marxist veteran Prakash Karat was on Monday re-elected general secretary for the third consecutive term at the party's 20th Congress, which concluded in Kozhikode, Kerala. Karat, 64, was elected as general secretary in 2005 at the New Delhi Congress and reelected at Coimbatore for the second term. Attended by over 700 delegates from all states, the meet, which had deliberated on the poll debacle the CPI-M suffered in West Bengal and Kerala.
As fliers find themselves spoilt for choice, airlines are looking at ways in which to position themselves distinctively.
Rediff reader Maneesh Menon has shared some stunning pictures of India. You can share yours too at #India-Photos!
The loss of a few states for Congress in the assembly elections does not warrant mid-term polls to the Lok Sabha, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah said in Coimbatore on Friday.
This time round, even 'petrol coupons' were reportedly distributed for those attending campaign rallies, especially those addressed by top leaders, cutting across party lines. If this owed to the rising cost of petrol and diesel -- which is a poll issue this time -- there were the customary coupons for 'quarter' (liquor bottle size) and non-vegetarian biryani. Some media reports claimed that some of these 'crowds' attended more than one political rally on the same day in the last week, and at times for rival political parties in adjoining constituencies or districts, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Tamil Nadu unit Bharatiya Janata Party president Tamilisai Soundarajan on Monday said the list of those joining the party was growing as it was the "last hope" for the nation's development and a corruption-free administration.
Divya Nair talks to Harshvardhan Shah who recently finished third at the Brain Triathlon Challenge 2011 in Singapore.
'Our network somehow saves 3,000 lives every year, but there's so much more to do, as every death due to shortage of blood is easily avoidable.'
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