NEW DELHI - Union Tourism Minister Kumari Selja on Saturday said that with the economy developing at a steady pace, middle class growing in number and increasingly possessing disposable incomes, which could be spent on leisure activities, India could also take on cruise shipping in a big way.
BHOPAL - Ahead of 25th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, survivors of the tragedy have launched a week-long protest to vent their ire against the inaction of the State government to remove the toxic waste from the vicinity of Union Carbide's plant where the gas leak took place.
CHENNAI - Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi on Saturday said that there will be no exodus of Indians on account of Dubai World crisis in the United Arab Emirates.
RAIPUR - Maoist guerrillas abducted a forest department officials Saturday and beat him to death in the first such killing in the Raipur district of Chhattisgarh, police said.
TINH BIEN, Vietnam - When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus.
MINA, Saudi Arabia - Millions of Muslim pilgrims, many wearing surgical masks, jostled together shoulder-to-shoulder furiously casting pebbles at stone walls representing the devil Saturday - the hajj ritual of highest concern to world health authorities watching for an outbreak of swine flu.
NEW DELHI - With seven new dengue cases, the total number of people affected by the mosquito-borne disease in the national capital has reached 1,068, a health department official said Saturday.
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Mega Challenge has announced the results for the first semi finals held and the results show that Gujarat has missed the bus for the grand finale.
PANAJI - The story of "Red Alert", a film based on Maoist violence in India, was inspired by a news report published in a leading national daily, says its director Anant Mahadevan.
PANAJI - The official website of a contest called T20, floated at the 40th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here in Goa, with the intention to rank top 20 films of Indian cinema over the last 96 years, continues to be ridden with factual errors.
If you wonder how Salman Khan and his clan manage to replicate Pindhari soldiers of the 1800s in Veer-much of the credit goes to Tinu Verma.
SEOUL, South Korea - Tech-savvy South Koreans began getting their coveted iPhones on Saturday amid fanfare and expectations the communication and entertainment device will shake up a local mobile market dominated by domestic giants Samsung and LG.
San Francisco- Cyber Monday 2009, sponsored by the National Retail Federation's shop.org is to hit the online stores in Monday, Nov.
WASHINGTON - Using filtering and blocking software can significantly lower exposure to online sexual material among youth, say researchers.
WASHINGTON - With the advent of new modes of communication, such as Facebook, language and social interaction have gone through a major change, says an expert.
WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time.
RANCHI - Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken Saturday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) may be asked to probe the alleged Rs.2,500 crore money laundering scam involving former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda.
AUSTIN, Texas - Barack Obama has erased George W.
MUMBAI - Rahul Thackeray, grandson of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, has justified his mother Smita Thackeray's interest in switching side from the party to join the Congress party.
MEXICO CITY - A street vendor-turned-politician has thrown Mexico City's most populous district into political chaos by trying to reclaim the post of borough chief he won as a stand-in candidate in July elections.
PERUGIA, Italy - The parents of American student Amanda Knox are being investigated for alleged defamation for saying Italian police abused their daughter before arresting her in the 2007 slaying of her British roommate.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that help drivers figure out where they are and where to go.
ETHETE, Wyo. - The gym is adorned with championship banners, expectations are high, and the players gasp and burn their way through sprints during the first days of basketball practice at Wyoming Indian High School.
KOLKATA - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday laid the foundation stone for an automobile transit hub in West Bengal's Howrah district and announced that nine other such complexes will be developed in other states on land belonging to the railways.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As world markets absorbed the shock of Dubai's debt crisis, the ruler of the once-booming city-state left town for an important meeting in a desert palace.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA says a piece of old space junk that it's been tracking for a few days is no threat to the International Space Station.
UGLOVKA, Russia - Russian officials opened a terrorism investigation Saturday, saying that a homemade bomb planted on the tracks of the high-speed Moscow-to-St.
LONDON - Arsenal suffered a huge blow to their hopes of winning silverware this season after Robin van Persie was ruled out for up to five months because of injury.
MELBOURNE - Germany got their Champions Trophy hockey campaign off to a winning start Saturday with a 3-2 victory over England here.
HELSINKI - India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi have entered the doubles finals of the ATP Challenger here.
NEW DELHI - The emergency committee of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) will meet in Kolkata Sunday to select a chief executive for the I-league and is also likely to appoint Carlos Nohra, the former director of competitions of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), as an advisor to the league.
KOTMI SONAR - A large natural tank has been turned into a crocodile park near Champa village in Janjgir district here.
NEW DELHI, November 28 - -- Wiring up an SME is not a choice, but only way forward -- A strong SME media is required to grow the domestic industry -- SMEs need pay-per-use models to embrace technology faster The Indian SME can only grow if he gets wired.
BOSTON - His father was a lifelong scalloper, his uncles are fishermen, and 23-year-old Chris Pinto realized as he got older that fishing is "in my blood." It just didn't look like it was in his future.
