Mumbai, Nov 20 (IANS) Indian equities markets opened far lower Thursday compared to last closing figures, and a key index crashed over 300 points within 10 minutes of the opening bell. The cue came largely from Wall Street, where the Dow closed at a five-year low Wednesday.
The 30-share benchmark index of the Bombay Stock […]
Kanpur, Nov 20 (IANS) England captain Kevin Pietersen won the toss and elected to bat against India in the third One-Day International of the Hero Honda Cup here Thursday.
Both the teams made one change each. Fast bowler Ishant Sharma replaced Rudra Pratap Singh in the Indian team while England brought in off-spinner Graeme Swann in […]
Bangalore, Nov 20 (IANS) Karnataka is all set to take justice and legal literacy to the doorsteps of its people across the state, particularly to the poor as they cannot pay for the expensive and time-consuming court battles.
A specially designed bus will serve as a court room to conduct the lok adalat (people's court).
Lok […]
Raipur, Nov 20 (ANI): Polling has begun in Chhattisgarh for the second and final phase of assembly elections.
Voting is taking place in 51 constituencies in this phase.
Political future of 687 candidates including 50 women will be sealed in the EVMs with 88,14,228 voters expected to exercise their franchise.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) […]
Raipur, Nov 20 (IANS) Polling for the final phase of the assembly elections in Chhattisgarh's 51 constituencies began Thursday morning with enthusiastic voters queuing up at polling stations in large numbers.
Voting started at 8 a.m. amid tight security. Poll officials said voters in urban areas queued up much before the balloting started. However, the turn-out […]
Mumbai, Nov 20 (IANS) Prakash Jha's 'Rajneeti' was to be Raveena Tandon's dream comeback but the actress quit the project once she learnt that she would have to play Ajay Devgan's mother.
'You can't blame me for saying no to playing mother to an actor with whom I co-starred in so many films. But I […]
Ghaziabad, Nov 19 (IANS) About 70 school children were hospitalised here Wednesday following food poisoning.
Doctors and officials suspect either the daily mid-day meal they were served in the school or jatropha fruits could have caused the illness.
The children belonged to Nistoli locality of Loni in Ghaziabad.
At about 5.00 p.m., 27 students of the Nistauli […]
Lucknow, Nov 19 (IANS) In yet another crude bomb blast in an Uttar Pradesh court, an explosion occured in Sultanpur district Wednesday evening, police said, adding nobody was hurt.
The explosion took place in the electricity meter device outside the chief judicial magistrate's court in Sultanpur district, 100 km from here.
?Initial investigations hint mischievous elements could […]
Kolkata, Nov 19 (IANS) The Indian challenge ended with both Sunitha Rao and Sanaa Bhambri losing in the singles pre-quarter finals and the country's other players also crashing out of the doubles at the Gujarat NRE Coke $50,000 ITF women's Challenger tennis meet here Wednesday.
Britain's Emily Webley-Smith took just 65 minutes to rout the Indian […]
Dhaka, Nov 19 (IANS) Bangladesh was on a political precipice Wednesday with prospects of a mass agitation breaking out after the caretaker government's talks with former prime minister Khaleda Zia and her Islamist allies failed. The government said the already delayed polls would be held as scheduled Dec 18.
The deadline that Zia had set for […]
