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Despite all its problems, Delhi offers the best quality of life to its residents among all cities in the country, according to a 'Livability Index' released by CII. In the index, based on surveys.
The Samajwadi Party and Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal on Monday decided to withdraw support to the UPA government after earlier disrupting the proceedings in both House of Parliament demanding job quotas for Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims within the Women’s Reservation Bill.
Indian judiciary would take 320 years to clear the backlog of 31.28 million cases pending in various courts including High courts in the country, Andhra Pradesh High Court judge Justice V V Rao said.
In a major experiment with technical education, the Tamil Nadu government has decided to introduce Bachelors of Engineering (BE) course in the civil and mechanical disciplines in the Tamil medium also in 15 constituent colleges of the four Anna Universities.
Not much is expected from the foreign secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan slated to be held on Thursday. In fact, home minister P Chidambaram himself said on Wednesday that he was not very optimistic about a breakthrough.
For lovers, the ultimate ode is the Taj Mahal. The Barbara Mori and Hrithik Roshan romance has been written about, but so far it has done nothing but create trouble for the Kites co-stars.
In what comes as a blow to the efforts of city parents' associations which have been campaigning for reining in school fees, Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal said on Friday that the fees of private schools cannot be regulated and that each school had the right to fix the salaries of its teachers.
After assessing the security measures put in place for the forthcoming sporting events in India Australian Foreign Ministry, on Friday, said that it is satisfied with the security arrangements put in place for the athletes in India.
WASHINGTON: American president Barack Obama has once again targeted American companies having their operations in India to save taxes back home and called such businesses tax evaders.
It's a myth that the global financial crisis left India virtually unscathed. In fact, India is the biggest victim of financial crisis-induced poverty, according to data obtained by TOI from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs' (UNDESA).
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, who is convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, was suddenly attacked on Monday with a sharp-edged knife by a youth as he came out of the district court complex here in Sector 17
Investigators are zeroing in on politicians who helped Indian Mujahideen terrorist Shahzad alias Pappu after his escape from the Batla House encounter, with the role of a former MLA from Uttar Pradesh, currently based in Noida, coming under close scrutiny.
In a new audiotape, al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the US dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialised countries for global warming.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has attacked industrialist Mukesh Ambani over his recent statement that Mumbai belongs to all Indians.
India and China rank 123rd and 121st in pollution control respectively, reflecting the strain rapid economic growth imposes on the environment, according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI).
Sania Mirza's father Imran, who coaches Sania and manages her career, called off his daughter's engagement to Mohammed Sohrab Mirza. Sania was formally engaged to the fellow Hyderabadi and longtime friend, now studying business in the United Kingdom, at a luxury hotel near her home last July.
Cholesterol level is a key indicator of heart-attack risk, which they say, should be rechecked at least once every five years.
A four-year-old statement of south-Indian film actress Khusboo on pre-marital sex and virginity came under adverse light in the
Supreme Court, which on Tuesday questioned her on the necessity for such an "extensive wise comment".
Coded references to passages about Jesus Christ in the New Testament have been inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the American military by a Michigan company for years, a media report said on Tuesday.
NSA Narayanan said his office and other government departments were targeted on Dec 15, the same date that US defence, finance and technology firms, including Google, reported cyber attacks from China.
Eight months after India reported its last case of bird flu in poultry and two months after India declared itself free of the deadly
H5N1 virus, avian influenza has returned to haunt the country.
Wholesale prices-based inflation leaped to 7.31% in December, shooting past RBI's forecast of 6.5%-level by this fiscal end, as food items such as sugar, potatoes and pulses turned costlier.
Even as questions are being raised about whether the swine flu scare was exaggerated to benefit pharma companies, evidence has surfaced that several members of the World Health Organisation?s (WHO) vaccine board which pushed countries to buy the H1N1 vaccine have had significant ties with pharma companies.
BCom student Ganesh Sanap is now busy applying for jobs. The latest job the 21-year-old third year student ? who has also finished a
course in computer hardware ? has applied for is that of the post of a licensed porter in Central Railway.
In yet another sordid tale of marital discord spanning thousands of miles away from home, the body of Amandeep Kaur (21), a Punjab
girl, was fished out of a canal near Brisbane, Australia, on December 21. She was kept on ventilator support for two days, but she could not survive.
Politics in Karnataka sank to a new low on Sunday when former prime minister H D Deve Gowda forgot the high office he had once held
and, in an outburst that he may rue for years, called chief minister B S Yeddyurappa a "bloody bastard".
The cause of Michael Jackson?s death has been ruled as homicide in the star?s death certificate, according to reports.
Drawing up any kind of list is fraught with danger, especially a list of the country's ten top lawyers! We will almost certainly be accused of acts of omission and commission.
Bollywood Films to watch in 2010
The South Central Railway has cancelled about 70 passenger/short-distance express trains scheduled
for Saturday.
A Nigerian man with reported links to al-Qaida tried to blow up a US airliner with a new type of explosive device before being tackled by passengers in what officials said was an attempted Christmas Day terror attack.
Andhra Pradesh HC prohibited a private TV channel from showing explicit clippings purportedly of the 85-year-old state governor, N D Tiwari, in bed with three young women. By the time the court order reached the Telugu channel, the images had been on air for about an hour.
The Joint House Committee (JHC) probing the construction of the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) has indicted Infosys chief
mentor N R Narayana Murthy, MP Rajeev Chandrashekar, bureaucrats V P Baligar, K Jairaj and other officials for "faulty" design and construction.
A nasty shock could await you after the New Year in the shape of slimmer salary cheques after deductions on perks. What's worse, deductions for the entire fiscal year will be carried out over just three months.
Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with a study published on Wednesday in the science journal Nature.
The industrialized countries are cheating the world. A confidential document of the UN Frame Convention on
prepared on December 15 shows, contrary to what the rich nations might claim.
The plight of a 61-year-old women, who suffered a brutal sexual assault 36 years ago and has been lying in a vegetative state in a
Mumbai hospital ever since, has moved the Supreme Court into setting aside its pro-life stance and examining the woman’s plea that her life be ended.
Watch: Kingfisher swimsuit calendar 2010 shoot : Video
Drinking more than three cups of tea
or coffee (regular or decaffeinated) a day appears to lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, says a new study.
By the start of the New Year, India will have breached a previously unthinkable landmark — half a billion wireless connections - making it the second largest group of mobile phone users after China.
It's really strange how strongly people react these days to a person who happens to live in South Mumbai. First, the eyebrows wiggle, next the expression becomes quizzical, and finally conversation freezes. But why?
If you happen to have a globe made before 1990 you can safely junk it, in case you haven't already. The last two decades have made globes and atlases from the 1980s and earlier redundant.
Major accident at Mumbai sea link : Video
Minister of state in the PMO Prithviraj Chavan, while responding to clarifications in Rajya Sabha over the incident, admitted that there was a lapse in the drinking water cooler area as there was no video cameras there.
For a town of a thousand temples, a sex scandal, that too one involving a priest, has come as a shocker.
India had reassuring news on the HIV/AIDS front on World AIDS Day Tuesday. The number of HIV positive people in the country had declined by 400,000 over the last five years and new infections were down by at least 100,000 per year.
When 7-year-old Shiva Ayyadurai left Mumbai with his family nearly 40 years ago, he promised himself he would return to India someday to help his country.
Clinical trials for phase one of the HIV/AIDS vaccine being developed in India enter the final stage this month with scientists from the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), Chennai, and the National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), Pune, giving the last round of shots to 32 candidates enrolled in trials.
In an attempt to check the monetary exploitation of students and parents, the Directorate of Matriculation Schools has prohibited private schools from completing admissions for 2010-11 until results of the annual/board examinations are declared.
"Shiv Sena is being unfair to Maharashtrians with its divisive politics. I cannot stand the suffocation any more. I've become a big admirer of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi," Bal Thackeray's daughter-in-law said.
Developers in the city are looking at building such units — 1-BHK ranging between 500 sqft and 800 sqft with a price tag of around Rs 10 lakh to Rs 15 lakh.
David Coleman Headley, the Pakistan-origin US national who is suspected of plotting another version of 26/11, showed his feelings towards India in emails to his old schoolmates.
Shiv Sena on Sunday unleashed another attack on Sachin Tendulkar and compared him with Sunil Gavaskar who it hailed as a "true Maharashtrian".
Three serial explosions went off in Nalbari district of Assam on Sunday, killing five people and leaving more than 50 injured.
cientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher on Friday night for the first time since the $10bn machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.
After Bollywood actress Kangna Ranaut's name surfaced in connection with the probe into David Coleman Headley -- a man suspected of involvement in the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai -- Kangna's father on Thursday strongly denied any link.
ey American officials went into damage control mode on Wednesday after New Delhi reacted sharply to Washington's endorsement of a Chinese role in South Asia, saying US relationship with China would not be at India's expense.
India is still perceived to be one of the most corrupt countries by the transparency international in its annual corruption perceptions.
India's ties with China may have been affected by border disputes, but Beijing is not helping matters by pushing its agenda blatantly.
Top Muslim body Jamait-e-Ulema Hind on Tuesday said that Muslims should not sing 'Vande Mataram' as some verses of the song are against the tenets of Islam.
Rukhsana Kausar, who shot into limelight by killing a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, has been appointed special police officer (SPO) along with her brother and uncle in J&K police, a police officer said.
Death came suddenly and swiftly, without giving any notice to former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. The YSR chopper crash transcripts of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), exclusively accessed by TOI, show there was absolutely no panic inside the chopper in its final moments.
The new-age Indian woman has arrived. A bride from Ambala Cantt on Monday walked out on her groom the moment she set eyes on him after the jai mala (garlanding) ceremony, as if, in instant realisation that he wasn’t the man of her dreams.
Students in a CBSE school can forget about failing in classes IX or X. Besides altering several evaluation methods, the CBSE board will now allow students who do not clear classes IX and X three more attempts to make the grade. And if they fail to do so, the board is considering taking into account their performance in extracurricular activities and sports.
Interest rates are likely to start rising soon. This was clearly indicated by the second quarter review of the monetary policy, 2009-10, unveiled by RBI governor D Subbarao on Tuesday.
Among the newly elected MLAs in the three states, where assembly polls concluded recently, Maharastra leads the list of largest number of legislators with criminal cases pending against them followed by Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh.
Nearly four lakh children below five years of age die every year in the country due to pneumonia, a lung infection which can be prevented by taking proper care, according to World Health Organisation and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Mahatma Gandhi, the Taj Mahal or Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan drawn by schoolchildren may soon feature in specialised homepage logos in popular search engine Google on festive occasions in India.
Unknown to most outside Patiala, a diktat by Alaa Singh (1695-1765) is cast in stone by villagers, and is followed till this day and dogs get to eat before worshippers at the temple — all three meals of the day.
The state police have started a probe to trace the person who had sent a letter to a television news channel offfice, threatening terror strikes at several prominent locations in the city.
Companies in Asia are set to offer bigger pay rises next year as the region continues to rebound from global recession, notably in India where base salary levels are poised to jump nearly 10 percent, a survey showed on Wednesday.
Only 7 out of every 100 adult Indians are diabetic. This may appear to be a blessing, given that we do almost everything possible -- from sedentary lifestyle, faulty diet to high stress -- to attract such an affliction.
In the wee hours of Monday, a commander on Air India's Mumbai-New York flight failed the breathalyzer test, delaying the departure of the 'zero-delay' flight by 45 minutes.
The Goa police on Sunday said the two men arrested by the Mumbai crime branch in connection with the serial murders that rocked the state early this month admitted to killing for money.
Iran has received information that "some security agents" in Pakistan were cooperating with elements behind Sunday's attack on the Revolutionary Guards, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
A recently concluded Synod of the Syro-Malabar Church has decided to incorporate in its rules a 2003 decision on Christian
burials in cases of ‘scandalous suicides’. The body in such cases would not even be allowed inside the church, but the priests were free to "bless the grave sometime outside the funeral service".
This is largely unfamiliar territory for India. For much of its 62-year independent existence, it has prided itself on being on the morally
The heat is on India correct side of international debates and battles. Today, India finds itself in danger of being cast as a bit of a villain on the international stage.
Diwali was celebrated for the first time at the 10 Downing Street here amid chanting of Vedic prayers for world peace, with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown terming it a "historic event".
At least 32 people were killed and ten others injured when fire swept through a cracker godown at Pallipat, 90km from Chennai, tonight on the eve of Diwali.
The brazen simultaneous suicide attacks at separate places in Pakistan on Thursday accompanied by guerrilla-style operations clearly demonstrate that the Taliban retain the might to take on the state at several fronts despite setbacks in Swat in Pakistan’s northwest.
Gold prices on Wednesday breached the Rs 16,000-mark for the first time in the bullion market here on persistent festive demand amid rise in the overseas markets, while silver continued to hit new highs.
Railway minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged a conspiracy to kill her, claiming that a car with a press sticker on it tried to hit her vehicle in Kolkata's satellite township of Salt Lake in the early hours of Wednesday.
Liquor baron and former Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Mallya may have thought he was doing nothing more than raising a cheer for the festive season when he presented a bottle of whisky to all MPs.
Pakistan's Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed the FIRs lodged under anti-terrorism act against JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed, who is the main accused in the 26/11 terror attacks.
The Naxalites, who have become the gravest internal security threat forcing the Centre to plan an all-out offensive against them, have killed more than 2,600 people, including civilians, in the last three years.
The world's tallest tower Burj Dubai will open this year on December 2, which is the UAE National Day.
Rs 50,000 crore is a lot of money, even for a deity. But many say this is just a rough estimate of the offerings devotees have bestowed at Lord Venkateswara's feet.
A Pakistani military official said on Saturday gunmen have opened fire near the army's headquarters outside the capital of Islamabad.
Twenty-four hours before Red guerrillas ambushed a group of 40-odd police personnel killing 17 of them, Congress candidate Dharmaraobaba Atram had landed on a helicopter to address an election rally.
Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor refuse to shoot together for two newly recorded songs by Himesh for Milenge Milenge
Hear their cry, Facebook. A slight to India in FarmVille, a game in which users play farmer and mark their territory with national flags, has stirred a patriotic crusade on the networking portal.
Software major Infosys Technologies on Friday reported 7.54 per cent rise in consolidated net profit after tax at Rs 1,540 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2009.
Pilots of the erstwhile Indian Airlines have blown the lid off the UPA's ongoing austerity drive which has seen ministers and MPs making a proud show of flying economy
18 policemen were killed and many injured in a gunfight with Naxalites in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district on Thursday, barely hours after Maoists set ablaze a gram panchayat office in the area.
A large explosion rocked the center of Afghanistan's capital early on Thursday, near the Indian Embassy. At least 7 people are feared dead.
Maniram Sharma has won a 15-year-old battle for justice. On Thursday, this deaf IAS candidate learnt he has made it to the service.
The body of Indian businessman Pardeep Kumar, who went missing two weeks back, has been found in Australia's Victoria state even as a man of "Indian or Asian appearance" was stabbed on Wednesday here after a brawl.
Barely weeks after scientists unearthed a Jurassic age treasure in the form of hundreds of dinosaur eggs in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu, local villagers and students are looting and damaging the precious fossils.
Nature is a great leveller. Industrialist and Congress MLA T G Venkatesh is arguably the richest man of Rayalaseema, but today he is homeless.
In a new shift in tactics, Pakistan is planning to push as many as 60 "surrendered" Taliban into Jammu and Kashmir to become part of the "jihad" against India.
Two persons were feared killed and several injured in a blast at Cholavandan Railway station near Madurai Tuesday, police sources here
said.
State-run Air India on Tuesday suspended a pilot and a flight purser who were involved in a midair scuffle on
international flight from Sharjah to Delhi, and put off duty the co-pilot and air hostess concerned.
Jharkhand police inspector Francis Induwar, who was abducted by Maoists demanding the release of three of their arrested leaders, including Kobad Ghandy, was found dead today.
Taking a step closer towards a wonder pill that could extend people’s lifespan by up to 25 years, scientists have claimed that over half of babies born in the new future in the UK and other wealthy nations will live to 100 years.
Devastating floods that killed more than 230 people in southern India have left close to 1.5 million others homeless, officials said on Monday.
Panic spread in Avadh Express train late on Saturday night when a trigger-happy passenger pulled out his gun and shot dead a co-passenger while injuring another
They've often been called the "me-first" generation and stereotyped as the lot that doesn't give a damn about the rest of the world so long as their lives are one long picnic.
The Maharaja witnessed his first in-flight Mughal-e-Azam at 30,000 feet above sea level on Saturday, as two members of the cabin crew—one male and one female—slugged it out with the pilot and co-pilot.
More than 100 persons form part of President Pratibha Patil's ongoing entourage during her visit to Saurashtra.
Torrential rains continued to wreak havoc in North Karnataka with 35 more deaths being reported from the region since last night, pushing up the rain-related toll in the state to 86.
People living in blue houses are more successful than those living in homes of any other colour, a new UK survey has found.
Children who eat sweets and chocolate every day are more likely to grow into aggressive adults, according to a new study.
China displayed a relatively less suspected aspect of its military strength on National Day, which is the ability to use internet technology to drive weapons including nuclear missiles.
Shailendra Singh, producer of the National Award-winning Kanchivaram, tears into starry hype and starry fees.
The toll in the Thekkady boat mishap climbed to 39 with eight more bodies being fished out today even as the Kerala government ordered a judicial inquiry into the tragedy.
Ten months after the devastating attacks in Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants, the group behind the assault, Lashkar-e-Taiba,remains largely intact and determined to strike India again, according to current and former members of the group, and intelligence officials.
Typhoon Ketsana extended its destructive rampage through Southeast Asia on Wednesday, blowing away whole villages in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos as the regional death toll rose to 331.
Bharti Airtel today called off the much-hyped $23 billion deal for amalgamation with South Africa's MTN after nearly four month-long intense discussions.
As Pakistan take on Australia in a Champions Trophy match at Centurion today, cricket will finally achieve what years of diplomacy and peace processes have not been able to.
Sensex today surged past the 17,000-points level for the first time in 16 months, in early morning trading, on the back of sustained buying by foreign funds.
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