Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh Region, and the accompanying delegation arrived here today.
At the airport, Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz was received by Governor of Bombay Kateekal Sankaranarayanan, Saudi Consul General Abdullah (...)
The Indian cricket board has decided to introduce salaries for its national selectors months after a row erupted over chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar writing syndicated columns.
Senior national selectors will receive an annual salary of 2.5 million (...)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is investigating the wicket used in the final Test between India and South Africa in Kanpur, which was criticized following the tourists' collapse, a top official said on Wednesday.
The dry, dusty pitch at (...)
INDIAN PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH ON WEDNESDAY INAUGURATED AN AMBITIOUS BOMBAY RAIL PROJECT AIMED AT EASING TRAFFIC CONGESTION IN THE COUNTRY'S FINANCIAL CAPITAL.
THE PROJECT, ESTIMATED TO COST 195 BILLION RUPEES (US$4.3
BILLION), WILL COVER A (...)
ELECTROCUTION AND DROWNING CLAIMED SEVEN LIVES IN BOMBAY AMID HEAVY RAINS THAT HAVE FLOODED THE CITY, BRINGING IT TO A VIRTUAL STANDSTILL TUESDAY, A CITY OFFICIAL SAID.
TWO PEOPLE DIED TUESDAY, WHILE AT LEAST FIVE DEATHS WERE CAUSED MONDAY, MOSTLY (...)
A PROMINENT OPPOSITION PARTY LEADER IN INDA, PRAMOD MAHAJAN, WAS SHOT AND CRITICALLY INJURED BY HIS YOUNGER BROTHER ON SATURDAY IN AN ATTACK THAT POLICE SAID MAY HAVE STEMMED FROM A FAMILY DISPUTE.
THE 57-YEAR OLD MAHAJAN, THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF (...)
stock Sensitive Index, or Sensex, shed 25.65 points, or
0.3 percent, to 9,257.51.
JAKARTA: Indonesian shares edged up as late buying in
select bank and consumer issues outweighed losses in
telecommunication stocks. The Composite Index gained (...)
Pounding monsoon rains in Bombay and its suburbs killed at least nine people who were trapped in
cars, drowned or were crushed by falling walls, police and
a news report said Wednesday.
Two boys died in overflowing sewage lines in (...)
run All India Radio reported about 150,000
people were stranded in railway stations across Bombay.
Early Wednesday, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh,
Maharashtra's top elected official, ordered a two-day
holiday and called the army, navy and (...)
Authorities warned residents to
remain at home Sunday after heavy rains began falling again
across Bombay and the surrounding state, which were
hammered last week by devastating floods.
Cleanup efforts and the distribution of food supplies (...)
Rescuers scouring flood-ravaged
villages in western India found nearly 100 bodies Saturday,
pushing the death toll from record monsoon rains to 850, a
government official said Friday.
Soldiers, navy divers and other rescuers have been
searching (...)
About 3,000 people have been affected by cholera, gastroenteritis and dysentry in the rain-ravaged Indian state of Maharashtra, but there have been no signs of an epidemic yet, Reuters quoted an official as saying on Friday.
Residents of Bombay, (...)
a city of more than 15 million residents -- to a standstill for nearly a week, shutting suburban trains and the airport.
But as flooding eased in Bombay, Indian media reported that 110 people had died in monsoon flooding over the past week in the (...)
Two laborers were killed and up to 12
others were believed trapped Wednesday after a tunnel they
were building to bring water to a village collapsed in a
landslide triggered by heavy rain, an official said.
Two bodies have been recovered so far, (...)
Departing from India's long-held
stance of refusing outside aid, the finance minister said
Friday the government would consider international
assistance for reconstruction of the tsunami-devastated
south.
Minister P. Chidambaram said the (...)
The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday
reopened its consular office in Bombay after shutting it
for a day following a threat of a possible terrorist
attack.
The Bombay offices reopened after a thorough security
review, an embassy statement (...)
Sixteen Hindus were charged Wednesday with burning to death 14 Muslims, in a retrial seen as a test of the
government's ability to bring to justice those
responsible for religious rioting that rocked western India
in 2002.
The men were among 21 (...)
Some 120,000 workers from
municipal-run hospitals and schools, and garbage collection
and bus services, began a three-day strike in India's
financial capital Wednesday to demand pay raises.
The city employees walked out in response to a call (...)
