Country's largest lender State Bank of India might continue with eight per cent concessional home loan rate even after September, a top official of the bank said.
Activists of Ramdas Athavale-led Republican Party of India on Friday attacked the Mumbai Congress' newly refurbished office after Athavale's belongings were "thrown out" from his official residence in Delhi, which was allotted to him when he had been a Member of the Parliament.
Pre-tournament favourites Ivory Coast were held to a goalless draw by neighbours Burkina Faso in Monday's only African Nations Cup Group B game.
Force India driver Adrian Sutil is confident of picking up points in the remaining seven races of the Formula 1 season and finish 2010 on a high.
Even as IPL franchise owners continue to face the heat from income tax authorities amid allegations of financial irregularities, netizens are making quick bucks after buying their favourite teams in the virtual world.
The winners of the Ramon Magsaysay 2009 awards applaud during the awarding ceremony at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines in Manila on August 31.
The US, which witnessed one of the worst economic crisis in recent times, is coming out of recession faster and stronger than many countries of the world, a top Obama Administration official has said.
A relieved Hockey India (HI) on Friday said the Supreme Court's green signal to its elections is a slap in the face of those who are constantly creating problems in the conduct of its much-awaited polls.
A section of Air India employees have deferred its proposed strike from December 22 following an assurance from the NACIL management to look into their grievances. The employees owing allegiance to the Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU), which is one of the unions of the erstwhile Indian Airlines, had on December 7 threatened to go on strike from December 22 alleging that the management had violated a conciliation pact signed with its representatives.
Criticised by his party colleague Digvijay Singh on the anti-Naxal strategy, Home Minister P Chidambaram said if someone can do the job better he would be the happiest person.
While we may not be able to stop it completely, every individual can make a difference by adopting simple measures at home or office.
Senior Congress leader and convener of the Opposition United Democratic Front P P Thankachan has accused Kerala's ruling Communist Party of India-led Left Democratic Front of trying to shield Thadiyantavida Naseer, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative from the state, who was arrested along the India-Bangladesh border recently. Thankachan, former speaker of Kerala assembly, has alleged that the state government is trying to protect the interests of some senior political figures.
Kavita Karkare, the wife of former Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, on Wednesday has questioned the state government as to why her husband and two other senior police officials, who were killed on November 26 last year, did not get reinforcements on time.
The government of Pakistan's Punjab province has decided to disassociate itself from the case against Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief and Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the suspected mastermind behind the terror attack on Mumbai, and filed a plea for its withdrawal.On Monday, the provincial government informed Pakistan's Supreme Court that it has challenged the release of Saeed due to certain 'confidential evidence' against him.
Justice B N Srikrishna, the head of five member consultative committee on the Telangana state issue, has said that the committee was keen to understand the ground reality and take the opinions of the ordinary people on the Telangana issue.
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There was no possibility of holding talks with Maoists or tribal group PCPA, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee said on Sunday even as he maintained that law and order in Naxal-infested Lalgarh and adjacent areas has improved but more work needs to be done.
A development that may result in tightening of immigration rules for them.
At least 24 Indians were taken hostage by Somali pirates, who hjacked an Indian-managed and Panamanian-flagged ship near Seychelles on Thursday, officials said.
Four-time world champion M C Mary Kom got a walkover after her semi-final opponent failed to turn up, while two others notched up contrasting wins to make the finals on a mixed day for Indian boxers in the Asian Women's Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan.
The Pakistani Taliban confirmed on Tuesday, that its chief Hakimullah Mehsud had died of injuries sustained in a US drone strike, ending weeks of speculation over his fate.Taliban sources based in the Aurakzai tribal region told TV news channels that 28-year-old Mehsud was severely injured in a drone attack in Shaktoi area of North Waziristan Agency on January 14.
Three Harkat-ul-Jehadi militants were killed in a gunbattle with troops in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir early on Thursday.
The Andhra Pradesh government, on Sunday, asked the villagers living on the banks of river Krishna to vacate their villages as the area is expected to face critical flood situation following the release of water in the river.
India has already purchased 16 MiG-29K aircraft from Russia for $536 million. The total deal, including the warship, was for $1.5 billion in 2004.
Maria Sharapova's eagerly-awaited return to the Australian Open ended swiftly on Monday when she was sensationally knocked out of the first grand slam of 2010 just hours after it began.
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Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Maneka Gandhi created a stir on Saturday when she first came out openly in support of expelled party leader Jaswant Singh, but hastily backtracked from her stance later.Maneka, who was visiting Budaun in Uttar Pradesh, to oversee the party's preparedness ahead of the by-election to two state assembly segments which fall under her Aonla Lok Sabha constituency, told reporters that the BJP had been unfair to Jaswant.
Father of Ruchika Girihotra, who was molested by former Haryana Director General of Police S P S Rathore in 1990 and later committed suicide, on Thursday accused former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala of providing wholehearted support to the convict during his tenure. "We have been moving here and there for the last 19 years. He (Rathore) has been following us and harassing us. He was the DGP. Whom do we complain to? Chief minister was backing him wholeheartedly," he said.
Shown the door by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and having been cold-shouldered by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a rudderless Kalyan Singh is now toying with the idea of launching a political party.
Three large property deals have already been finalised this year in Mumbai.
Infosys, for long, had been trying to strengthen its consulting practice as clients are now asking for more advisory-related work. Consulting and enterprise solution business together constitutes about 25 per cent Infosys' business today.
Family members of the slain cops who fell prey to the bullets of Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Kasab and his cohorts feel the court should expedite the trial and punish Kasab.
Congress MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday expressed confidence that he would become the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh "sometime in future".
None of the nine persons killed in the Pune blast is a foreigner and the three bodies identified so far are of Indians, Union Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai said in New Delhi on Sunday. Pillai said among the injured, four are Iranians, two Sudanese, one Taiwanese, one German and two Nepalese.
A Manchester-based Indian-origin delivery van driver has been convicted of assaulting his police officer-wife, who later died of cancer, and is likely to face a jail sentence.
In a major success, the Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday afternoon arrested the chief operational commander of the Hizbul Mujaheedin outfit in the Hazratbal locality of Srinagar. Talking to media persons in Srinagar on Monday evening, the inspector general of police Kashmir zone, B.Srinivas said that Muzaffar Ahmad Dar alias Gaznavi alias Mohammad Ali, was currently functioning as the chief operational commander of the HM outfit.
Zaheer Khan was more relieved than happy after his match-winning performance against Ireland in Trent Bridge on Wednesday.
Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro has already met with anti-doping officials following his positive drugs test and a decision on his case could come later in the day, local media reported on Friday.
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