Guwahati, July 17 (IANS) Until recently, 55-year-old Biswajit Bora made a modest living growing paddy on his two- acre plot in Assam's Nagaon district and managed to feed his fami...More

Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) A 12-hour shutdown called by the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee crippled life across the state as hundreds of Congress supporters blockaded roads a...More

Hyderabad, July 16 (IANS) Tata Docomo, joint venture between Tata Teleservices and NTT Docomo of Japan, completed the rollout of its GSM operations in south India with the formal ...More

New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) The Indian and French navies have helped free a small boat with 14 Indians on board that was hijacked by Somalian pirates last week, an official said her...More

New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) Bank of China will extend a loan of $70 million to Sistema Shyam TeleServices, the telecom joint venture between Sistema of Russia and Shyam group of Ind...More

New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) As the Commonwealth Games 2010 will attract hundreds of thousands of people to the national capital, the government is all set to provide well-furnished ...More

Shimla, July 16 (IANS) Work on the multi-million-rupee Rohtang tunnel project may start next month, aiming to provide an all-weather alternative road connectivity to Ladakh region...More

Mumbai, July 16 (IANS) India's largest engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro Thursday reported a 218-percent increase in net profits for the quarter ended June 30, ...More

Mumbai, July 16 (IANS) Sterlite Industries, a leading copper producer, Thursday said it plans to raise $1.5 billion by selling shares in the US for further development of its powe...More

Chennai, July 16 (IANS) In order to become a full-fledged power plant equipment manufacturer, engineering and infrastructure firm BGR Energy Systems has approached a Japanese stea...More

Bhubaneswar, July 16 (IANS) Flash floods and heavy monsoon rains which have already killed more than a dozen people over the past four days in Orissa have also hit farming in the ...More

New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) India's annual rate of inflation rose marginally to minus 1.21 percent for the week ended July 4, from minus 1.55 percent the week before, according to ...More

Imphal, July 15 (IANS) Life in the northeastern state of Manipur is expected to come to a standstill as different organisations have called for general strikes during the next one...More

Raipur, July 15 (IANS) A 500-MW power plant near here stopped generating electrictiy merely two days after it was dedicated to the nation Sunday because of a severe shortage of ...More

New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) In what may be seen as an early sign of economic recovery, use of steel in the country rose 5.2 percent to 12.83 million tonnes in the first quarter of t...More