India

    Bihar chief minister to camp in villages

    Patna, Jan 2 (IANS) In a bid to get first hand information about development work in rural areas and hear people’s grievances personally, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar plans to camp overnight in villages across the state.


    Bihar chief minister to camp in villages

    Patna, Jan 2 (IANS) In a bid to get first hand information about development work in rural areas and hear people’s grievances personally, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar plans to camp overnight in villages across the state.

Cheaper liquor from Chandigarh flooding other states

Jan 1st, 2009 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Shimla, Jan 2 (IANS) Low levies on spirits in Chandigarh seem to be leading to increased smuggling of cheap liquor from there to neighbouring Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.



Hasina may pick young ministers, sideline veterans

Jan 1st, 2009 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Dhaka, Jan 2 (IANS) Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina may choose younger and more educated leaders for her cabinet to fulfil her vision of a prosperous Bangladesh, in the process sidelining veterans who were part of the freedom movement that her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led in 1971.



Bangladesh Inc backs Hasina’s ‘charter of change’

Jan 1st, 2009 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Dhaka, Jan 2 (IANS) Captains of Bangladesh’s trade and industry have hailed Sheikh Hasina’s poll victory this week and want her to promote private sector for more jobs and higher exports.



Equity markets open in the green

Jan 1st, 2009 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Mumbai, Jan 2 (IANS) Indian equities markets opened in the green Friday, with a key index at 0.57 percent over its previous close, about 15 minutes into trading.



Equity markets open in the green

Jan 1st, 2009 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Mumbai, Jan 2 (IANS) Indian equities markets opened in the green Friday, with a key index at 0.57 percent over its previous close, about 15 minutes into trading.



Coral reefs on way to recovery after tsunami

Jan 1st, 2009 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Washington, Jan 2 (IANS) Coral reefs are on the way to recovery in areas of Indonesia, following the tsunami that devastated coastal regions throughout the Indian Ocean on Dec 26, 2004.



Delhi records coldest day of the season at four degrees

Jan 1st, 2009 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) A day after the new year began, Delhiites woke up to the coldest day of the season with the mercury plummeting to four degree Celsius Friday.



They almost drowned, but Bangalore youths head for Bihar again

Jan 1st, 2009 | By Sindh Today | Category: India

Bangalore, Jan 2 (IANS) It was a near-death experience for five youths from Bangalore when they first went to Bihar to rescue flood victims last year - they almost drowned. But that hasn’t stopped these college students from going right back.