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Hyderabad, May 6 - The 39th annual meeting of the board of governors of the Asian Development Bank concluded here Saturday with a decision to evolve an action plan for improving governance and eradicating corruption.Reiterating its commitment on pro-poor growth, the ADB decided to focus on its prior ...

New Delhi, May 6 - The capital's Jantar Mantar road was transformed into a mini Kerala Saturday as gold caparisoned elephants carrying colourful parasols stood while artistes played the Panchavadyam - an enthralling combination of percussions and wind instruments.As a small version of Thrissur Poor ...

Chennai, May 6 - Campaigning for Monday's elections to Tamil Nadu's 234-member assembly ended Saturday with more promises from the AIADMK and DMK, even as the Election Commission pulled up the warring Dravidian parties for violating model code of conduct.On the last day of campaigning, DMK chief M. ...

Rae Bareli -, May 6 - Abiding by the Election Commision's directions, Rahul Gandhi Saturday drove out of the boundaries of the Rae Bareli constituency from where her mother, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is seeking re-election in Monday's polls.The young MP's move came in the wake of an Election ...

Hyderabad, May 6 - Asian Development Bank - president Haruhiko Kuroda Saturday said a 1997 type of financial crisis was 'extremely' unlikely to erupt in Asia, but agreed that a safety net was required to deal with any eventuality.Addressing a press conference at the end of the 39th annual meeting of ...

New Delhi, May 6 - Parts of north and central India were in the grip of heat wave conditions Saturday as the capital witnessed the hottest day of the season with the mercury soaring to 44.5 degrees Celsius. A Rajasthan town recorded 48 degrees.In the capital, the maximum temperature was 5 degrees ab ...

Bangalore, May 6 - Hindustan Latex Ltd -, the state-owned condom manufacturing firm, Saturday launched Confidom passion rings, the first female condom for practising safe sex and preventing unwanted pregnancy.Positioned as a high-end lifestyle product, the condoms are imported from the Britain-based ...

New Delhi, May 6 - Tourists coming to Delhi to witness the 2010 Commonwealth Games will be provided comforts of a homely environment, tour operators said here Saturday.'Our recommendation to allow tourists to stay in homes during the upcoming Commonwealth Games has been given the nod by the central ...

New Delhi, May 6 - The Bharatiya Janata Party - has rescheduled and truncated its national executive meeting later this month and changed its venue from Ludhiana to the capital.The meeting, earlier scheduled to be held May 25-27, will now take place here May 27-28, BJP spokesman Prakash Javadekar sa ...

Mumbai, May 6 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday called on the family of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod Mahajan, who died this week, to offer his condolences.Manmohan Singh, accompanied by wife Gursharan Kaur, visited the bereaved family in central Mumbai's Worli area. He offered his con ...

Vadodara, May 6 - A young couple in Gujarat has gone ahead and exchanged their vows over telephone as a full-fledged wedding was ruled out due to curfew in strife-torn Vadodara this week.The city-based Usman Choksi's family was preparing for his daughter Bilkis's wedding for the past two months. A g ...

New Delhi, May 6 - The commitment of the northern states to maintain grid discipline and availability of 1,600MW more electricity from Himachal Pradesh's Naptha Jakhri plant are likely to improve the situation, Power Secretary R.V. Shahi said here Saturday.'The action taken to maintain grid frequenc ...

Brussels, May 6 - Prominent Indian industrialist Lakshmi Mittal is continuing his charm offensive to win over shareholders of Arcelor, the company he is seeking to take over.Roeland Baan, the Dutch chief executive of Mittal Steel's European division, told Belgium's leading financial daily, 'l'Echo', ...

Vadodara, May 6 - Curfew was relaxed for four hours Saturday in this Gujarat city and after five days people thronged the markets, leading to frequent traffic snarls in the central areas.Vadodara police lifted the curfew in the morning in three police station areas. People rushed to the markets in R ...

Bhubaneswar, May 6 - At least nine people have died of sunstroke in Orissa in the last one month with the mercury crossing 40 degrees Celsius in some parts of the state, official said Saturday.Three people died in Angul district and two in Sambalpur in western Orissa, an official of the state revenu ...

Hyderabad, May 6 - India's Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said Saturday that the country needs more foreign investments to ensure 8-10 percent growth rate to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.Addressing the board of governors of the Asian Development Bank -, he said India would deepe ...

Hyderabad, May 6 - India and China have the potential of recording a 10-fold increase in private equity investment in the next decade but any slowdown in global economy could have an impact on this, according to speakers at a seminar at Asian Development Bank's - annual meeting here Saturday.They ho ...

Raipur, May 6 - A day after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him for allegedly insulting the national flag, Chhattisgarh Bharatiya Janata Party - chief Shiv Pratap Singh Saturday said his political rivals were trying to embarrass him.A local court in Surguja district issued the warrant agai ...

Sivaganga -, May 6 - Finally the deciding factor for 46 million Tamil Nadu voters in the May 8 assembly elections may be something no one is really talking about - jobs.The Confederation of Indian Industry - in a recent skill mapping study here has said there will be 15 million jobs going in Tamil N ...

Jammu, May 6 - Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir State Accountability Commission Justice R.P. Sethi has resigned dealing a blow to the government's anti-corruption drive.The news of Justice Sethi submitting his resignation to Governor Lt Gen - S.K. Sinha became public Saturday. When approached by re ...

Hyderabad, May 6 - India Saturday urged the Asian Development Bank - to restore its loan charges to the pre-2000 levels.Addressing the 39th Annual meeting of the ADB board of governors here, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said as the ADB's financial parameters had been robust for four consecutive y ...

Kochi -, May 6 - Communist Party of India-Marxist - legislator Mathai Chacko, who contested the just-concluded assembly polls in Kerala, has been detected with leukaemia and put on chemotherapy treatment.The 46-year-old Chacko had not been keeping well for the past few months. Chacko is a first time ...

Srinagar, May 6 - Police resorted to mild baton charge to disperse agitated students here, who tried to stage demonstrations against the sex scandal that has rocked Kashmir in the last few days.According to the police, a group of students in Kashmir University shouted slogans and tried to stage a pr ...

Bhopal, May 6 - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Saturday won the Budhni assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Raj Kumar Patel of the Congress by over 36,000 votes.Chouhan got 66,689 votes as against 30,164 votes bagged by Patel of the Congress party in the by-election held M ...

Mumbai, May 6 - Many Bollywood celebrities say they will always remember Bharatiya Janata Party - leader Pramod Mahajan as a man who walked his talk and helped them in times of need.Shabana Azmi: 'It's a huge tragedy. And my heart goes out to the family. He was a master-negotiator and that's why an ...

New Delhi, May 6 - Ayub, one of the most wanted criminals of Uttar Pradesh, and four of his accomplices who were gunned down by Delhi Police in a late night encounter were in the capital to carry out robberies in northeast Delhi, police said Saturday.'The gang had committed 10 cases of dacoity in th ...

Shimla, May 6 - The Rohtang pass in the Himalayas has been cleared of snow for traffic connecting the isolated tribal valley of Lahaul in Himachal Pradesh after being cut off for six months due to heavy snowfall.The first light vehicle crossed the 13,050-foot- high pass from the Kullu valley into th ...

Bhopal, May 6 - A case of corruption has been filed against BJP legislator and former minister Omprakash Dhurve in Madhya Pradesh by the state's Lok Ayukta, or ombudsman, for allegedly cheating the state civil supplies corporation.In his capacity as food and civil supplies minister and chairman of t ...

Television artist Anuj Saxena's much delayed film 'Lips - The Kiss Of Death' has finally got an 'A' certificate from the censor, but at the cost of major sex scenes.Director Sameer Malkan had to chop off all the sleazy sequences from the film to satisfy the board, reports Bollywood Trade. However, A ...

Guess what is driving Sushma Reddy up the wall these days? The actress is annoyed the way people are messing up with her name - while some write it as Sushhama others spell it Sushama, reports Bollywood Trade.'To keep the trend of making my name numerologically compatible, I had attempted to drop my ...