New Delhi:  Providing some relief to consumers battling high inflation, oil companies have decided to cut petrol prices by Rs. 0.65 per litre excluding taxes from midnight today. This means, in New Delhi, petrol prices will go down by Rs. 0.78 per litre. This is the second reduction in petrol prices this month. On November  [ Read More ]

Ralegan Siddhi:  Slamming the draft of the Lokpal Bill that has been prepared by a parliamentary committee, social activist Anna Hazare today said the government is attempting to weaken the Lokpal. Here are the highlights of what the 74-year-old Gandhian said at his press conference: Government attempting to weaken Lokpal The government’s intentions are not  [ Read More ]

Imphal:  A powerful bomb exploded in a crowded market in Imphal in Manipur at around 11 am today, killing at least one person and injuring three others. The bomb exploded very close to the city’s new convention centre that is meant to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister on Saturday. The bomb was allegedly rigged  [ Read More ]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s economy grew at its weakest pace in more than two years in the quarter that ended in September, revealing the heavy toll that stubborn inflation, rising interest rates and crisis-hit global capital markets are having on Asia’s third-biggest economy. Gross domestic product growth fell to 6.9 percent in the second  [ Read More ]

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister said Wednesday he rejected a personal plea from the Afghan president to reconsider Islamabad’s decision to boycott an upcoming international conference on Afghanistan over NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s comments showed how the weekend attack not only poisoned ties between Pakistan  [ Read More ]