‘Teens were outsourced census work’
In an attempt to complete the census work as early as possible, the state government has deputed thousands of government and civic employees to conduct the survey on time.
Mulund couple kills self, 2 kids
In a suicide pact, a couple hanged their two children and later themselves from an iron pipe in their terrace at Mulund on early Wednesday.
Still no result in Pune blast case
Forty days after Maharashtra home minister R.R. Patil announced that the perpetrators of the German Bakery blast in Pune would be arrested soon, the case has seen no headway whatsoever.
BARC gets new director
Dr Ratan Kumar Sinha took over as the new director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on Wednesday and made a strong case for India to take up a global leadership role in the peaceful use of nucl
Docs fume over inflated voluntary donor figures
A year after the National Blood Transfusion Centre (NBTC) redefined the term “voluntary donors”, ground level doctors are finding it difficult to put it into practice and want the definition to be res
‘BJP not going soft on Bagwe issue’
The BJP is firm on its demand for the removal of minister of state for home Ramesh Bagwe.
‘Centre’s cowardly stand is emboldening the Naxals’
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday, criticised Union home minister P.
Tough task ahead for 3G winners
The 3G auction may spell good news for the government, but the successful players now have a tough job at hand. They need to visibly show that the money spent on acquiring the new licenses was well spent. Even before the auction had started, several analysts tracking the sector had raised the prospect of over-bidding – or winner’s
German tremors send Sensex into a tailspin
With Wednesday’s blood bath on Dalal Street that saw the Sensex swoon 467 points on the German blitzkreig, the Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark index has fallen 1,639 points from its high of 18,047 on April 7, a drop of 10 per cent.
PC stand cowardly: Thackeray
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday, criticised Union home minister P. Chidambaram for taking a cowardly stand against the Naxals and demanded that they should be dealt with like enemies of the state.