Friday, February 29, 2008

Today's Top Headlines - IndiaeNews.com

Today's Top Headlines - IndiaeNews.com

India, Sri Lanka arrest 46 fishermen

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 03:01 AM CST

The Indian Coast Guard Friday arrested 21 Sri Lankan fishermen, off the coast of Karaikal in Puducherry.

Highlights of Indian Budget 2007-08

Posted: 28 Feb 2008 11:32 PM CST

The highlights of the Indian budget for 2008-09 presented by Finance Minister P. Chidamabaram in the Lok Sabha Friday:

Excise cuts may make cars, two-wheelers cheaper

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 05:00 AM CST

Cars and two-wheelers could become cheaper with Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Friday giving excise concessions to the Indian automotive industry in his budget for 2008-09.

Chidambaram set to present India's national budget

Posted: 28 Feb 2008 11:00 PM CST

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram was Friday all set to present his seventh national budget Friday amid concerns over economic slowdown and a push for reforms suggested by the economic survey unveiled a day earlier.

For Sujatha, writing was a love affair: Kamal Haasan

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 10:33 AM CST

Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan, who was close to late Tamil writer Sujatha, says the author considered writing 'a continuing love affair'.

More Highlights of Indian budget :

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 12:30 AM CST

National health insurance for poor introduced

'Jodhaa Akbar' screening resumes in Madhya Pradesh

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 02:02 AM CST

The screening of the Hrithik Roshan-Aishwarya Rai starrer 'Jodhaa Akbar' restarted in Madhya Pradesh Friday.

Fashion industry becoming more responsive towards aspirants

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 03:30 AM CST

The sponsor of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW), the ITC group, has joined hands with two new fashion institutes to hone budding talents and offer them jobs.

Indian sports get Rs.11 bn budget

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 07:00 AM CST

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Friday allocated Rs.1,111.81 crore (Rs.11.12 billion/$280 million) as total sports budget for 2008-09, an overall raise of Rs.254.34 crore over last year, with a special provision for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Loan waiver not in bank shareholders' interest

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 08:03 AM CST

The Rs.600 billion ($15 billion) farm loan waiver announced by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in the union budget Friday was a 'retrograde step' when it came to the corporate governance of banks, an expert with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) said.

More Highlights of Indian budget :

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST

Midday meal scheme for schoolchildren to get Rs.80 billion

Huge growth potential for animation in India: British expert

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 03:01 AM CST

Animation in India is still in the nascent stage but with huge growth potential in the domestic market the discipline has a good future in the country, British author and animation studies teacher Chris Webster has said.

Was Maran, Jayalalitha's messenger to Gandhi?

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 08:30 AM CST

Former cabinet minister Dayanidhi Maran, who is now in the bad books of uncle and mentor DMK patriarch M. Karunanidhi, reportedly met Congress president Sonia Gandhi this week. According to Congress party sources, Maran wanted Gandhi to tell the Tamil Nadu chief minister not to harass him.

Budget fails to address Maoist menace: Raman Singh

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 08:31 AM CST

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh flayed the union budget presented Friday, saying there was no provision for a joint action-plan to deal with the Maoist problem, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had identified as the biggest internal security threat.

Indian IT industry dissatisfied with budget

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 11:01 AM CST

The Indian IT and ITeS industry across all sectors Friday felt let down by the national budget for 2008-09, finding little in it to boost growth prospects.

More Highlights of Indian budget :

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 12:00 AM CST

Government to raise additional resources worth Rs.100 billion

National programme for ageing

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 02:30 AM CST

India's elderly got special mention in Finance Minister P. Chidambaram's budget speech Friday. He announced the launch of a national programme on ageing and the setting up of two national institutes of ageing in the country.

Audi for hole-in-one on Simulator

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 06:02 AM CST

Golf tournaments often offer a luxury car as a prize for an ace - a hole-in-one. This time around at the Johnnie Walker Classic, Xerox, one of the sponsors, have put up an Audi for a hole-in-one.

IT honchos slam budget for ignoring industry demands

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 12:31 PM CST

Honchos of Indian IT industry Friday slammed the union budget for not extending tax holiday and increasing excise duty on packaged software and levying service tax on customised software.

Entertainment industry unhappy with national budget

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 11:01 AM CST

Although Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said that India will through its arts and culture be projected as 'soft power' and allocated Rs.750 million ($18 million) for the purpose, the media and entertainment industry was not so happy with the budget.

Across India, they decry unruly MPs

Posted: 28 Feb 2008 11:01 PM CST

Doctors, academics, police officers, company executives, activists... There is widespread anger amomg people across the length and breadth of India over the unending disruption of parliament by unruly MPs.

More Highlights of Indian budget :

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 02:02 AM CST

No income tax on annual earnings of Rs.150,000

India, US agree on time-bound steps to expand high-tech trade

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 12:31 PM CST

Despite uncertainty over the nuclear deal, India and the US Friday agreed on 'a series of time-bound actions' that will bring the level of their high technology trade in tune with their growing strategic partnership.

More Highlights of Indian budget :

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 12:01 AM CST

Farm growth disappointing at 2.6 percent

Budget draws mixed reactions in Madhya Pradesh

Posted: 29 Feb 2008 11:01 AM CST

Lauding the union budget for 2008-09, Madhya Pradesh's main opposition Congress Friday said it would check inflation but the state's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised it saying it would only add to the common man's woes.

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