Finance Minister Vajubhai Vala today tabled a Rupees 47.76 crore surplus budget for 2009-10 in the Gujarat Assembly. Earlier, during the brief assembly session held in February, the state government had sought vote on account for only four months up

Finance Minister Vajubhai Vala today tabled a Rupees 47.76 crore surplus budget for 2009-10 in the Gujarat Assembly. Earlier, during the brief assembly session held in February, the state government had sought vote on account for only four months up to July this year, as the political and administrative machinery was on election mode due [...]

Islamabad: At least four people have been killed and three others injured when a blast occurred at a petrol pump in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Tuesday. The blast occurred in a car parked at a petrol pump near the Quetta-Karachi Highway,.
Four people were killed on the spot and three others injured in the [...]

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Ms Nirupama Rao as the next Foreign Secretary and Mr M N Prasad as the Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office.
Ms Rao, an IFS officer of 1973 batch, is presently Ambassador of India to China and posted in Beijing. She would take over as [...]

On the sets of “Run Bhola Run”, Celina Jaitley thundered her good friend actor Tushar Kapoor and now Tushar is apologizing to her.
A song was scheduled to b shot and Tushar had to hug Celina in the shot. Suddenly during the scene, when Tushar hugged Celina, she shouted and scolded Tushar saying he was not [...]

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has on Tuesday inaugurated Bandra-Worli sea link. This is India’s first cable-stayed bridge in the open sea, which reduces the 40-minute journey to just 7-minutes.
The Rs 1634 crore 8-lane freeway opened after almost five years of delay and disputes on Tuesday. This sea-link will be a relief to the commuters between [...]

French police have detained Dutch supermodel Karen Mulder as they investigated a complaint she had harassed a cosmetic surgeon friend.
The model was being held in a police station in the chic 8th arrondissement, or district, of Paris. She was suspected of harassing the doctor by telephone after the surgeon refused to carry out an operation.