New Delhi, Aug. 29 : Activists of People for Ethical Treatment of Animal (PETA) staged a protest outside Central Zoo Authority (CZA) in the Capital on Thursday.

There were just two members representing PETA, who wanted to draw attention and express fury at the recent incidents in which a leopard died in the zoo and two bears were killed by poachers for their bile inside the Rangapahar wildlife sanctuary in Nagaland.

New Delhi  - India on Friday carried out one of the biggest evacuation operations in its history, rescuing nearly 1 million people marooned in the flood-hit eastern state of Bihar, officials said.

The floods came when heavy monsoon rains caused the Kosi River to breach its banks as it entered the state from Nepal in the north and change its course. At least 57 people have died in the floods.

More than 3.5 million people have been displaced by the floods, nearly 2 million of them in the five worst-affected districts of Madhepura, Saharsa, Supaul, Araria and Katihar.

New Delhi, Aug. 29 : The Monsoon has traditionally been a lean season for tourism in India and now it’s time to change this perception. This was the overriding thought at the National Seminar on Monsoon Tourism, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), here today.

Leena Nandan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, said that the ministry is working with States to develop promotional packages for monsoon season, and added that these packages will be announced soon.

The Indian personal computer maker, Zenith Computers has launched a new laptop with an attractive price of Rs 14, 999. Moreover, the company has also launched a new desktop, which can be brought by paying just Rs. 11, 999.

These products are launched in the collaboration of global software giant Microsoft. The new products are launched under the brand name of ‘EcoStyle’. These product are very energy efficient and do not contain any toxic materials. They consume 30 per cent less power that the existing models. The Windows OS enabled laptop would be the cheapest ever model in the market.

New Delhi - Work at the Tata Motors factory in eastern India that is producing the world's cheapest car, the Nano, came to a standstill on Friday after the company's employees were threatened by demonstrators demanding return of farmland acquired for the project.

Thousands of farmers and political activists have laid a siege around the factory in Singur near West Bengal's state capital Kolkata since Sunday.

New Delhi - Indian economic growth slipped to 7.9 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, its slowest pace in over three years as rising borrowing costs affected manufacturing and other sectors, news reports said Friday.

India's gross domestic product (GDP) was 7.9 per cent in the three months to June 30, compared to 9.2 per cent over the corresponding quarter of the previous year, data released by the government's Central Statistical Organization showed.

The moderation in GDP growth was in line with expectations of the economists as the federal Reserve Bank of India had hardened interest rates to control double-digit inflation, the PTI news agency reported.