British business secretary for a liberal immigration policy
London, July 28: Even as British Prime Minister David Cameron begins his first official visit to India, his Business Secretary Vince Cable created a stir by saying he preferred a more liberal immigrat
Court notice to centre on Cinemax plea
Gandhinagar, July 28: The Gujarat High Court has issued notices to the finance ministry and others on a suit by multiplex chain Cinemax India against the levy of service tax on the renting of its prem
Himachal accident: Search on for passengers missing in rivulet
Shimla, July 28 (IANS) Police and rescue workers Wednesday morning again began to search for four people who were missing a day after their bus skidded off the road into a rivulet in Himachal Pradesh'
Arrest Goa home minister's son for drug links: Pacheco
Panaji, July 28: Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik's son should be arrested and his alleged links to drug trade in the state should be probed thoroughly, former tourism minister Mickky Pacheco demanded Wedn
India, UAE discuss bilateral trade
Abu Dhabi, July 27: India's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) M.K. Lokesh and the director general of UAE's ministry of foreign trade, Abdullah Ahmed Al Saleh, met here to discuss issues re
JSW Steel to start Salboni project by fiscal-end
Kolkata, July 27: JSW Steel would start construction of its 10-million-tonne Salboni plant in West Bengal before the end of the current fiscal (2010-11), a top company official said Tuesday.
The comp
RBI will now review monetary policy mid-quarter
Mumbai, July 27: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Tuesday said it would update the monetary policy about 45 days after the quarterly review to respond faster to changing domestic and international econ
Rate hike will hurt: Industry
New Delhi, July 27: India Inc Tuesday said the Reserve Bank of India's decision to raise the reverse repo rates by 50 basis points (bps) would hurt the manufacturing sector.
The Federation of Indian
Meteorite interrupts match
London, July 26: A county cricket match in Britain had an unexpected visitor. A 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite hurtled down from the sky landing just inches away from the boundary ropes and hit one ma
Larsen and Toubro post Rs.666 crore Q1 profit
New Delhi, July 27: Engineering and constructions giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) Tuesday registered a profit Rs.666 crore in the first quarter of this fiscal as compared to Rs.578 crore in the like qua