Sensex lacklustre in noon trade
A benchmark index for Indian equities was ruling lacklustre around noon Tuesday, with traders taking a breather after a 471 point rally in the previous session.
Team Anna unhappy over final Lokpal Bill draft
Expressing unhappiness over the draft Lokpal Bill prepared by the parliamentary panel, Team Anna members said on Tuesday it was useless if the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the lower bureaucracy was kept out of its ambit.
Air India board to meet Tuesday
Cash-strapped national carrier Air India's board is to hold discussions Tuesday on the airlines' performance and a revival plan.
"The board is scheduled to meet today (Tuesday) to review the airlines
Apex court notice to SEBI on Sahara companies' plea
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the securities and exchange regulator on a plea of two Sahara group companies which challenged a Securities Appellate Tribunal's (SAT) award directing them
British police using 'ghost trains' to catch thieves
To catch the surging number of scrap metal thieves red-handed, undercover British policemen have now started travelling at night by special locomotives, dubbed ‘ghost trains’.
The locomotives travel
Stomach that! 421 coins, bolts found in man's belly
It took S.N. Yadav a few seconds to make sense of what he saw in the operation theatre.
After all, it isn't every day a doctor sees a patient carrying six kg of iron, 121 coins, dozens of nuts and bo
Crisis for UPA, allies join opposition anti-FDI clamour
Both houses of parliament were adjourned for the day on Monday as a united opposition and some key allies of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) cornered the government on its decision to all
United Naga Council temporarily lifts Manipur blockade
The indefinite economic blockade in Manipur that entered its 121st day on Monday has been temporarily withdrawn, said a leader of the United Naga Council (UNC) spearheading the agitation.
"We have de
NATO knew it was Pakistani checkpost: Islamabad
Pakistan on Monday said NATO was aware that it was their army checkpost that was attacked a day earlier and it refused to accept the coalition force's regret over the airstrike that killed 25 soldiers
Want Poojapura Chapatis - straight from jail?
'Poojapura chappathi', wheat chapattis made by the inmates of the Poojapura Central Prison will hit the market on Monday. The chappathis will be launched by filmmaker Cheran at a function to be held a