Rajnikanth's latest Tamil movie "Sivaji" created a mania in the country. It touched the big screen on Friday with 700 prints. The type of publicity and hype the movie received is incredible. It is most expensive Indian film ever made. The total budget of the film is 80 crore.
A few months before America and Britain invaded Iraq, my colleague Aditya Sinha had an idea. In those days, Aditya was editor of the Sunday HT ΓΆβ;¬" he has since moved up in the world and become Editor-in-chief of the New Indian Express ΓΆβ;¬" and he was keen to commission an opinion
Indian Civil Services Examination is notable for its competitiveness.India's young aspirants spend years preparing for the exams.The 2006 examinations for India's civil services had a number of young people from non privileged backgrounds, featured in the merit list. For the first time, none from India's elite metros feature in the top ten.
If you are single, but ready to mingle, Web is the best place for you. Working professionals and others who have a busy schedule in life, hardly find time to make a search for the life partner. It often becomes tough for them to go all out and find a partner of their choice.
In the most conspicuous sign yet of India's unprecedented prosperity, the country's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is building a new home in the financial hub of Mumbai: a 60-storey palace with helipad, health club and six floors of car parking.
India and the United States failed to resolve differences over an American offer to share nuclear know-how and fuel, ending three days of negotiations Saturday that were intended to seal a deal seen as the cornerstone of an emerging partnership.
Five persons were killed and eight others, including two children, were injured when a powerful bomb exploded during Friday prayers at the historic Mecca mosque in the Charminar area of the old city here.
India's most powerful low-caste politician swept into power Friday in the country's largest state, dealing a political blow to the powerful Gandhi clan. "I thank people of all castes and communities who supported my party to achieve this victory," Mayawati, an "untouchable," at the bottom of India's complex social ladder, said.
India's Supreme Court is to hear a petition which says the country's landmark civilian nuclear deal with the United States could threaten national security, a report said Saturday. The suit says there is an "immediate need to examine" the national security and sovereignty implications of the deal, the Press Trust of India reported.
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RANCHI, India, May 12 (Reuters) - Indian street vendors armed with iron rods and sticks attacked three stores owned by Reliance Industries Ltd. on Saturday, injuring around a dozen people in a protest against the large food retailer.
Having rejected Nicholas Negroponte's offer of $100 laptops for schoolchildren, HRD ministry's idea to make laptops at $10 is firmly taking shape with two designs already in and public sector undertaking Semiconductor Complex evincing interest to be a part of the project.
Life for an estimated 100,000 people in poverty-stricken rural India has been improved dramatically by several hours of reliable solar-powered lighting every night, made available by a UN-led pilot project to facilitate household financing for solar home systems.
From the article: "The Indian government says it will review new appraisal forms requiring female civil servants to reveal details of their menstrual cycles. The ministry of personnel says it has written to the health ministry following complaints from staff that the form was grossly insensitive. The questions are said to have been inserted on health ministry advice."
India test fired a new missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads across much of Asia and the Middle East, a state government official said Thursday.
The first danger of the meltdown could be widespread flooding. In a few decades, it could be followed by irreversible droughts, threatening the livelihood of millions of people. This would not only mean unprecedented food shortages but also a massive water crisis. The Gangetic basin alone is home to more than 500 million people.
The Justice Department has charged that agencies of the Indian government participated in a conspiracy to sidestep U.S. export regulations and obtain secret weapons technology from American companies over several years.
As big cities blossom, rural India finds itself in the grip of deprivation and despair.
Exiled in India, he is Tibet's most successful international spokesperson. The Dalai Lama receives pilgrims from all over the world -- but the future of Tibet remains bleak. And Beijing is calculating that international interest in Tibet will dwindle once he dies.
Poachers have killed three Asiatic lions in the rare animal's only natural habitat, an Indian official said on Friday, less than a month after killing another three of the big cats.
India plans to press ahead with developing a natural gas pipeline from Iran, despite Washington's objections.
A newly identified deadly snake in India is one of several now challenging the long-held concept that there are only four dangerous snakes in the country, sometimes known as the land of snakes.
Genetically modified crops have helped cause a "complete breakdown" in farming systems in India, an authoritative new study suggests. The study threatens to deal a fatal blow to probably the most powerful argument left in the biotech industry's armoury, that it can help to bring prosperity to the Third World.
A landmark national survey of thousands of children in India has found that almost half of them have suffered some form of physical, sexual or economic abuse.
bus carrying a wedding party plunged into a gorge in mountainous northern India, killing at least 18 people and injuring another 28, a news report said Tuesday.
Longtime rivals Pakistan and India pledged Wednesday to share information and help each other prevent terrorism as part of their three-year-old peace process.
Poachers killed three highly endangered Asiatic lions in their only remaining sanctuary in western India, removing their claws and bones and raising fears for the future of these rare cats, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
A new study says sending jobs overseas hits some areas of the U.S. much harder than others
India's two main state-owned airlines are set to merge in an effort to compete more effectively with private carriers, officials say.
India has banned the export to Iran of all material, equipment and technology which could contribute to Tehran's nuclear program, the government said Wednesday.
The bodies of five more children were pulled from a river in southern India on Wednesday, bringing to 18 the number of dead from a school picnic that turned into tragedy.









