NEW DELHI: Strongly favouring nuclear power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said there would be no compromise on safety of atomic plants and it would be harmful to close the additional source of energy. “It would be harmful for the country to pass an ordinance on denial of nuclear power,” Singh said replying to [...]
NEW DELHI: A grounded fleet, ticket cancellations and unused labour have cost Air India Rs1 billion in the seven days since the pilots went on strike, an official said on Monday. The airline scrapped 14 international flights on the seventh day of the agitation Monday while its low-cost international wing, Air India Express, cancelled four [...]
The deception of Indian intelligence agencies was exposed on Wednesday after Indian media reported that five suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants had sneaked into Mumbai through a sea route and were planning to target vital installations in the country’s commercial hub. The Indian media also released photographs of the suspected militants only to be embarrassed by the [...]
Air India canceled four international flights Tuesday after about 150 pilots failed to turn up for work in a protest against unpaid salaries and work conditions. The airline has sacked 10 pilots and has ordered the striking pilots to return to work by Tuesday evening, said K. Swaminathan, an Air India official.Passengers who boarded an [...]
NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged India to further cut its imports of Iranian oil, saying that the Islamic republic posed a major threat if it developed nuclear weapons. Clinton commended India for lowering its purchases but called for more as a deadline looms for the United States to slap [...]
MUMBAI: BCCI chief N Srinivasan’s son Ashwin got into a brawl after he was refused a drink during curfew hours in a Mumbai pub early Tuesday. He was arrested for punching and kicking a police constable. Later, he was produced in court and released on bail.Ashwin, 40, and his friend, Avi Mukharjee, 35, went to [...]
GUWAHATI, India: Rescue workers fought heavy wind and rain to search for survivors after at least 103 people drowned on an overloaded ferry carrying about 300 people that sank at night on one of India’s largest rivers on Monday, police said. About 100 people were rescued, said Jayanta Narayan Choudhury, police chief of the state [...]
It didn’t go unnoticed that the best news for the beleaguered Indian economy last week came not from the markets but the Gods via the weatherman.As India’s once ‘miraculous growth’ story took a dark twist – Standard & Poors downgraded its outlook to ‘negative’ while Moody’s blamed the ruling Gandhi family for the political paralysis [...]
NEW DELHI: As Parliament reopened for Budget session, strong buzz about a restructuring encompassing the party and the government swept Congress circles on Tuesday afternoon. There were reports that key Union ministers had offered to resign and take up organizational assignment, a buzz dismissed by top insiders as baseless.Excited speculation about restructuring of the government [...]
NEW DELHI: India has proposed to the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up a framework for control of alcohol consumption on the lines of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). FCTC was the first international treaty negotiated under the auspices of WHO that was developed in response to the globalization of [...]
