Supreme Court lifts curbs on Mundra port project
The Supreme Court Wednesday lifted its temporary curbs, imposed early this month, on development of the Rs.74 billion Mundra port project in Gujarat.
Drip irrigation sprinkles hope over farmers in Rajasthan
Amid fear and despair triggered by falling water levels and uncertain rains has come hope for farmers in Rajasthan in the form of "sprinkle and drip irrigation".
Salon settles with disabled Indian teen, two others
Two years after they were "shooed off" from a salon on grounds that their disabilities were scaring other clients, India-born Aruna Gill and two of her friends have recei...
Three sent to judicial custody for Rs.56 mn fraud
A former manager of a private bank, a dentist and a businessmen were remanded to judicial custody here Tuesday evening for allegedly defrauding seven non-resident Indians...
States not doing enough to check crooked recruiters
The state governments were not doing enough to prosecute unscrupulous recruiting agents who exploit Indian workers trying to go abroad, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister V...
ICRI to teach healthcare management
Aimed at providing qualified manpower to the booming medical tourism sector, the Institute of Clinical Research India (ICRI) Tuesday said it would start teaching healthca...
Uttar Pradesh madrassas to offer job-linked courses for poor Muslim girls
Shedding their age-old image of imparting only religious teachings, madrassas in Uttar Pradesh are all set to introduce job-oriented courses exclusively aimed at making p...
European Parliament to debate Kashmir 'mass graves'
The European Parliament during its plenary session in Strasbourg, France, Thursday will debate and vote on a resolution on the "allegation of mass graves in Indian Kashmi...
Kerala to recruit more women as police officers
Kerala will induct more women in the state police force for maintenance of the law and order situation of the state.
Chhattisgarh has Rs.93.79 Bn debt
Mineral rich Chhattisgarh state owes a debt of Rs.93.79 billion since it was carved out Madhya Pradesh in November 2000, Chief Minister Raman Singh told the state assembl...