The shareholders of Maytas Infrastructure are all set to vote on increasing the company’s share capital and on a debt restructuring on July 19, when it convenes for an extraordinary general meeting.

Vibrant Gujarat is not ahead in human development index. the state government has decided to start online monitoring of every rural family in order to find out existing lacunae obstructing in controlling high levels of infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate.

Michael Bobby-trained Bold Success was brilliantly ridden by Deep Shanker to claim the Grey Gaston Trophy, the feature event of the races on Wednesday, in a blanket finish beating the fancied duo Aspiring Seven and Mystic Enchantress.

The first day of the two-day shutdown called by the Maoists in five states passed off without any violent incidents in Bihar and Jharkhand on Wednesday, but there was palpable fear in both the states as normal life was badly hit due to severe restrictions of public transport systems.

Uruguay have been the biggest villains of the 2010 Fifa World Cup. They sent home team Bafana Bafana packing in the Group Stages. If that wasn’t enough, they followed it by ending the hopes, in most controversial circumstances one might add, of the continent’s last team — whom the fans here had cheered as their own even naming them Baf-Ghana Baf-Ghana.

Swami Agnivesh, who was mediating the peace talks between the government and the Maoists, claimed that the Maoists were on the verge of declaring a date for a 72-hour ceasefire as the government had demanded, just before the death of the CPI(Maoist) country spokesperson Cherukuri Rajkumar, alias Azad. During his visit to

Indian-origin Tory peer Lord Raj Bagri has given up his seat in the House of Lords in order to keep his non-domiciled tax status.

In the wake of a Maoist threat to its trains and the Union home ministry issuing an alert to it, the Railways has decided to increase the security measures for its trains, particularly those that run through Naxal-affected states.

The CBI has recommended the defence ministry to blacklist six firms, including four foreign companies dealing in arms supply, following its probe into the graft charges involving former director-general of Ordnance Factories, Kolkata.

The Congress has decided to contest all the 403 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, sending a clear message to the ruling BSP, SP and the BJP that it is prepared to face them singly or collectively.