Riding high on the victory in the just-concluded Presidential polls, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday dissolved the country's parliament, paving the way for conduct of general elections two months ahead of schedule.
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After a meeting of four naxal-affected states, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said it was ready to hold talks with the Maoists if they "halt" violence.
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Paddlers made a clean sweep on the final day as India ended their campaign in the 11th South Asian Games on top of the standings with 90 gold, 55 silver and 30 bronze medals in Dhaka.
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Sachin Tendulkar's defiant ton merely delayed the inevitable as India crashed to a humiliating innings and six runs defeat against South Africa in the first cricket Test in Nagpur on Tuesday.
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A fresh avalanche hit Kashmir Valley on Tuesday, killing an army jawan in Kupwara district, a day after 17 armymen met a similar fate during a winter warfare training exercise.
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Facing intense opposition from within and outside, govt on Tuesday refused to give a go-ahead to commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal, a genetically-modified version of the vegetable that is said to be more resistant to pests.
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President Pratibha Patil on Tuesday said India is a victim of international terrorism and stressed on international co-ordination amongst "like-minded" countries to fight it.
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The 13-nation Milan Exercise hosted by the Indian Navy has inched towards converting itself into a joint task force for Asia-Pacific region including Australia and New Zealand, with India having a leading role in combating maritime terror, poaching, gun and drug-running.
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India and Turkey have decided to work with like-minded countries for conclusion of the Comprehensive Convention on International terrorism (CCIT) and tasked their officials to develop an action plan with timelines and specific measures.
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Western country's including Germany and the US have described Iran's decision to start enriching uranium at a higher level as provocative, even as they asked for tightening UN sanctions on the country.
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State-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) expects to get business of Rs 22,500 crore for manufacture of electronic warfare (EW) systems for the Indian Armed Forces in the next eight to ten years, a senior company official said on Tuesday.
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The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark index Sensex on Tuesday regained the 16,000-mark by gaining 107 points on funds buying heavily in IT and PSUs stocks, coupled with firming global cues after worries about the sovereign debt crisis in Europe eased.
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Oil resumed its sell-off in Asian trade on Tuesday after slight gains overnight, with regional stoks mostly lower and sentiment weighed down by weak US demand and debt woes in the eurozone.
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The Centre will get statistical advantage as fiscal deficit will automatically come down to 6.5 percent of the gross domestic product during this fiscalfrom the earlier estimate of 6.8 per cent, after govt came out with a fresh estimate based on a new base year.
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With barely weeks to go before the presentation of the Railway Budget, the Ministry has said it has registered over 8 pc increase in earnings at Rs 70,501 crore during the ongoing financial year ending 31st Jan.
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The Finance Min could consider withdrawal of stimulus to some exporting sectors which have shown robust growth, but an across-the-board "abrupt" pullout is not desirable, Commerce and Industry Min Anand Sharma said.
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Expressing satisfaction at the 7.2 pc growth estimates for this fiscal, the Planning Comm pitched for phased withdrawal of stimulus in the forthcoming budget to be unveiled by FM Pranab Mukherjee on 26th Feb.
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The government estimated the economy to grow by 7.2 per cent in financial year 2009-10, against 6.7 per cent a year ago, despite contraction in farm production.
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Road Transport Minister Kamal Nath on Monday revised the ambitious target of achieving 20km of highway construction per day to June, from the earlier set deadline of March.
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Union Dev of North Eastern Region (DONER) Minister B K Handique has sought continuation of 50 pc excise-duty waiver for four state-run oil refineries in Assam for their long-term "sustenance" and "viability".
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As food inflation spiralled to over 17 per cent, the government said that the price situation is being reviewed regularly and surge in prices of essential items would be controlled soon.
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Despite India's reluctance to restart talks on the long-delayed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, Tehran on Tuesday hoped New Delhi will decide in favour of joining the USD 7.4 billion project.
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Russia on Tuesday ruled out sending its troops to Afghanistan but said it was ready to help train the military and police personnel of the country to develop its internal security capability.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed on the need to resume the Middle East peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, which has been stalled for more than a year, as soon as possible.
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Cold weather continued to paralyse normal life in the US capital on Tuesday and thousands of people struggled to dig themselves out of the blizzard that hit the mid-Atlantic region over the weekend.
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The UN nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday that a team of its inspectors was in place in Iran to monitor Tehran's plans to start enriching uranium to higher levels.
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Sri Lanka’s former Army Chief and Opposition presidential candidate, General Sarath Fonseka, was detained by a team of investigators late on Monday night for “certain fraudulent acts and military offences” from the ‘safe house’ he had been living in since he lost 26th January election.
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A former close ally of Philippine President Gloria Arroyo and 196 other people were on Tuesday charged with murder over an election-linked massacre, a prosecutor said.
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The UN atomic watchdog said on Tuesday that its board of governors will meet later this week to elect a new board chairman as new controversy raged over Iran's disputed nuclear drive.
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Palestinian leaders have not set specific terms on which they would accept a US offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel, and expect clarification on such talks in a week, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.
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South Korea is working to secure the return of hundreds of volumes of royal documents, including official records of the royal family, that were looted during Japan's colonial rule of Korea in 1910-1945, according to a media report on Monday, citing a South Korean official.
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Western country's including Germany and the US have described Iran's decision to start enriching uranium at a higher level as provocative, even as they asked for tightening UN sanctions on the country.
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Russia-friendly candidate Viktor Yanukovych held a narrow lead on Monday in a presidential election that seemed likely to spawn a court challenge from his opponent.
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Riding high on the victory in the just-concluded Presidential polls, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday dissolved the country's parliament, paving the way for conduct of general elections two months ahead of schedule.
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Wriddhiman Saha got the axe while the trio of S Sreesanth, Dinesh Karthik and Suresh Raina were named in the 15-member Indian squad for the second cricket Test against South Africa starting on Sunday in Kolkata.
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Paddlers made a clean sweep on the final day as India ended their campaign in the 11th South Asian Games on top of the standings with 90 gold, 55 silver and 30 bronze medals in Dhaka.
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Sachin Tendulkar's defiant ton merely delayed the inevitable as India crashed to a humiliating innings and six runs defeat against South Africa in the first cricket Test in Nagpur on Tuesday.
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Hosts Bangladesh snatched a narrow six-run victory over Sri Lanka to clinch the Twenty20 Under-21 cricket title for the gold medal in 11th South Asian Games in Dhaka on Sunday.
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A day after Union Minister Sharad Pawar met Bal Thackeray requesting him to withdraw Shiv Sena threat against Australian cricketers' participation in IPL, the party on Monday said it would take a final call on the issue in two-three days.
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Senior duo of Dharamvir Singh and Varinderjeet Singh misfired in tie-breaker as India had to content with a silver after going down to arch-rivals Pakistan 4-5 in a keenly contested hockey summit clash in 11th South Asian Games on Sunday.
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Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra missed his third gold by a whisker but Suma Shirur bagged her second yellow metal in the final of triple match competition in men's and women's 10m air rifle at the 33rd InterShoot tournament in the Hague, The Netherlands.
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Gaganjeet Bhullar of India produced a brilliant course record eight-under-par 64 to win the season-opening Asian Tour International in Bangkok by one shot on Sunday.
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Heavy snowfall and overnight showers brought back chill in the air at several places in north India even as the 300-km Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained closed due to snow with over 1,100 vehicles stranded.
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A Delhi Court on Tuesday adjourned to Thursday the hearing on the bail application of six persons charge sheeted by CBI for their alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases.
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Mobile users in Delhi can heave a sigh of relief as the MCD on Tuesday said it will not go for a sealing drive of "illegal" cellphone towers in the city but maintained that the operators who have erected such structures will have to apply for regularisation within a month.
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The Supreme Court directed the Allahabad High Court to dispose of within four months a batch of writ petitions challenging the Constitutional validity of Mayawati Government's decision to construct memorials and statues of Dalit icons at a cost of Rs 2600 crore.
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Nitin Gadkari, who was acting President of the BJP since December has been unanimously elected to the top post in the presence of the party brass, making him the youngest leader ever to occupy the chair.
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The Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh legislature will begin on 15th February with Governor E S L Narasimhan's maiden address to the joint-sitting of both Houses of the bicameral legislature.
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A policeman was killed when militants attacked Sopore police station in Baramulla district of north Kashmir on Tuesday.
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Professor parents of the 29-year-old youth arrested for attacking former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore on Tueday said their son was under treatment for depression for the last six months and he was dead against any kind of injustice.
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Facing intense opposition from within and outside, govt on Tuesday refused to give a go-ahead to commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal, a genetically-modified version of the vegetable that is said to be more resistant to pests.
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