The government on Friday banned short message service (SMS) for post-paid subscribers in Jammu and Kashmir while restricting the facility for pre-paid users from midnight tonight due to security concerns. The Department of Telecom has
Following is the full statement made by Minister of state for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor In Lok Sabha : “Madam Speaker, I am grateful to you for the opportunity to set the record straight on
Commonwealth Games gold medallist shooter Pemba Tamang was stopped by immigration officials in Mumbai from boarding a flight to Beijing as his passport had the "invalid" stapled visa, which China issues to the Indians from
The Kudko murder case in which Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren is the lone accused has been transferred to another court, a day before its judgement was to be delivered. The First Additional District Sessions
Flying ash from Iceland's erupting volcano has forced Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special aircraft to change its planned route and now he will return to home via Johannesburg in South Africa. Singh, who is currently
Embattled minister of state Shashi Tharoor on Friday rejected Opposition demands for his resignation by asserting that the allegations against him on the IPL issue were "baseless, ill-founded and ill-motivated". "The real motive behind the
All long-haul flights between India and Britain, the US, Canada as well as some other European cities were cancelled or indefinitely delayed today as airspace remained closed over several North European airports due to drifting
Union Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's partner, Sunanda Pushkar, has a deal with the Kochi IPL team which is the mother of all sweetheart deals — arguably unprecedented in corporate India, says
The Mayapuri radiation scare refuses to die down. Even as experts from BARC claimed that no "new sources" of radioactive cobalt-60 were found in the market on Thursday, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) sent
After an overnight operation at the BCCI headquarters and the offices of IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, the Income Tax department may now call him for further questioning with regard to the bidding process for the
"I wasn't marrying a Pakistani. I was marrying a person I liked and he was marrying a person." This was how Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza responded in her media interaction four days after she
Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways on Thursday cancelled their flights to London as airspace was closed over several North European airports due to drifting ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland. However, Air India operated
In the face of insurance regulator IRDA's decision of moving court to challenge a ban on Unit Linked Insurance Products imposed by it, market watchdog SEBI today moved the Supreme Court and some High Courts
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday met Chinese President Hu Jintao and discussed the entire gamut of bilateral issues, particularly trade and investments. Singh met Hu in the Brazilian capital on the sidelines of the
A special team of the Income Tax Department on Thursday visited the headquarters of the cash-rich T20 Indian Premiere League(IPL) in connection with an inquiry into financial details and share holding patterns of all the
Shashi Tharoor, the man at the centre of a political storm over the IPL Kochi franchise, may get some reprieve from the Congress party but the Opposition gunning for his removal is in no mood
Indian space engineers lost contact with a rocket showcasing new indigenously built booster technology on Thursday soon after launch, in a major blow to the country's space ambitions.The launch of the first India-made rocket powered
The IPL Kochi controversy deepened on Thursday amid allegations that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and IPL Commisioner Lalit Modi had come together to get a new team for Ahmedabad. Bringing Narendra Modi in the
Former Union law minister Ram Jethmalani on Thursday demanded setting up of a special investigation team to probe unaccounted money of Indians, estimated to the tune of 1500 billion dollars, lying in Swiss and other
After the government came under opposition attack on the handling of Naxal violence, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said the state governments have the primary responsibility to fight the Maoist menace and the Centre
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