Lucknow, Sep 25 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh government today setup a high powered committee headed by Principal Secretary (Home) for solve the problems of soldiers on time.
Addressing the Civil-Military Liaison conference at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Bhawan here, Ms Mayawati said all the problems of the soldiers would be solved in a [...]

TOKYO, Sep 26 (Reuters) Japan’s Nikkei share average is likely to gain on Friday, led higher by exporters on a softer yen and after Wall Street jumped as Congress neared approval of a $700 billion financial-sector bailout.
”It’s positive that the U.S. reached a ‘fundamental agreement’ on the bailout plan,” said Hiroichi Nishi, general manager of [...]

New York, Sep 25 (UNI) Pakistan and China have decided to strengthen their ‘all-weather friendship’ with trade and people-to-people contacts.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao yesterday met in New York on the sidelines of the ongoing UN General Assembly session and discussed a range of issues, focusing on [...]

Nashik, Sep 25 (UNI) Maharashtra PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal today said the government with the help of many NGOs and political parties will build 10 x 10 and 10 x 12 sq ft houses for the people, who were rendered homeless by the recent floods.
Speaking after performing the ‘bhumipujan’ of the shelter project, Mr Bhujbal, [...]

London(AFP) :Barclays announced today that it had reached an agreement to acquire Lehman Brothers North American investment banking and capital markets businesses. ‘The board of Barclays announces that Barclays has agreed, subject to US Court and relevant regulatory approvals, to acquire Lehman Brothers North American investment banking and capital markets operations and supporting infrastructure,’ said [...]

Kannur, Sep 17 (PTI) Indian Union Muslim League (IUML)
today came in support of Second Administrative Reforms
Commission’s views favouring enactment of tougher laws to deal
with terrorism and did not agree with the idea of targeting
a minister for failing to check terror strikes in New Delhi.
‘We favour tougher and comprehensive rules to tackle
terror attacks. Targeting a minister [...]

New York: US stocks fell sharply amid fears that more major bank failures could be around the corner, despite the government rescue of struggling insurance giant American International Group Inc (AIG).
Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 Index tumbled more than four percent, led by [...]

Kingfisher Airlines, the merged airline operations of Kingfisher Airlines and Deccan Aviation, is looking to raise $400 million through equity, possibly by March 2009. The announcement comes nearly eight months after UB Holdings-owned Kingfisher Airlines announced that it will raise $300 million, a move which has not yet fructified.
planned to raise $400 million and the [...]

New Delhi: Dr R K Pachauri, Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has been elected to a second term as Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won last year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
The IPCC won the coveted Prize soon after the panel, working under the Chairmanship of Dr Pachauri, [...]

New Delhi: With six more patients testing positive for dengue, the cases of the dreaded disease in the national capital this season rose to 92 on Wednesday.
West Delhi remained the worst-affected with Najafgarh municipal zone and West zone reporting 15 cases each, followed by Karol Bagh and city zones (seven each), Shahdara North and South [...]