New Delhi, July 28 : Samajwadi Party today sought disqualification from Lok Sabha of its six MPs who had defied the whip and voted against the Manmohan Singh Government during the confidence motion
New Delhi, July 28 : A total eclipse of the sun will occur on Friday afternoon and it will be visible as a partial eclipse throughout India.
In general, the total eclipse will be visible in the region covering northern and eastern parts of North America, Greenland, northern Europe and Asia except Japan.
Considering the earth as a whole, the eclipse begins at 1:34 IST when the shadow of the moon first touches the earth at local sunrise near a point in the North Atlantic Ocean close to New Found land in Canada.
The eclipse ends at 6:08 IST when the moon’s shadow finally leaves the earth at local sunset near a point in the Bay of Bengal close to Andaman Nicobar Island.
New Delhi - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders were scheduled to visit the western city of Ahmedabad which had been rocked by synchronized bombings that claimed 49 lives, officials and news reports said Monday.
A total of 16 small bombs ripped through markets, residential areas, public transport and hospitals in the key city of the western Gujarat state Saturday. Eight similar blasts hit the southern Bangalore city a day earlier.
London - India's Tata Motors group, which owns British luxury car maker Jaguar and Land Rover, has said it plans to revive the super-luxury Daimler brand to appeal to wealthy customers from Asia, Russia and the Middle East.
Ratan Tata, head of the Indian conglomerate, has told investors of his plan to resurrect the Daimler marque in direct competition with luxury brands Bentley and Rolls-Royce, Britain's Times newspaper reported Monday.
Tata had earmarked 1 billion pounds (2 billion dollars) to develop new models at its British-based manufacturers, the report said.
British Scientists at the Oxford Brookes University are studying the hard hair strands, claimed to be taken from a Yeti like creature found in the west Garo Jungles of Meghalaya in north-east India.
The hair were given to BBC by Dipu Marak, who is a passionate Yeti believer. He retrieved the hair from a site in dense jungle after an ape like creature called Mande Barung, was seen by a forester for three days in a row in 2003.
According to Marak, the creature is about 3m (nearly 10ft) tall and around 300kg (660lbs) in weight. He believes that the creature is herbivorous.
Mumbai, July 27 : The Navi Mumbai Police today raided an apartment in Navi Mumbai after a 14-page e-mail was sent to select TV channels from that area by a terror group named as “Indian Mujahidden” just minutes before the serial blasts took place in Ahmedabad last night.
In the email the terror outfit claimed responsibility for the blasts and called it a revenge for the Gujarat riots in 2002 following the Godhra carnage killing 52 Hindus.
About the email, a senior official from Mumbai’s Anti Terrorism Squad said, “We are investigating whether the e-mail was sent from a residence. Presently, personal verifications of the persons living there are being carried out and it would be too premature to comment on it.”
New Delhi - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders were scheduled to visit the western city of Ahmedabad which had been rocked by synchronized bombings that claimed 49 lives, officials and news reports said Monday.
India's Tata Motors group, which owns British luxury car maker Jaguar and Land Rover, has said it plans to revive the super-luxury Daimler brand to appeal to wealthy customers from Asia, Russia and the Middle East.
