400 people died due to rains in Pak

Nearly 400 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains in different parts of Pakistan, with most of the deaths reported in the country’s northwest that has seen the worst flooding in eight decades. The Edhi Foundation, an NGO that operates rescue services across Pakistan, said 291 people had died in […]

MP passes bill to provide public services in time-bound manner

In a landmark development, the Madhya Pradesh Assembly unanimously passed Public Service Guarantee Bill, 2010 that seeks to provide various services to the people in a time-bound manner and penalises officers in case of delay. As per the Bill, different public services like providing birth and caste certificates, copy of land records among several others […]

Indefinite curfew imposed in major towns of Kashmir Valley

Indefinite curfew was clamped in all major towns of the Kashmir Valley Saturday in the wake of protests, even as the death toll in the violent clashes between locals and security forces rose to four. There were also reports of sporadic protests in some parts of the Valley. Two of the 70 people injured during […]

Blast in Assam, 4 CRPF troopers killed

At least four paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and 15 injured, four of them critically, in a powerful landmine explosion on Friday in Holmari in Assam’s Goalpara district. Militants, suspected to be from the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB),

Toyota Recalls 373,000 Cars in U.S.

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc.,  has announced announced that it intends to conduct a voluntary safety recall involving approximately 373,000 2000-2004 Model Year Toyota Avalons sold in the United States to address the possibility that the vehicle’s steering lock bar could break under certain conditions. No other Toyota or Lexus vehicles are involved in […]

Food inflation down to single digit at 9.67 pc

Food inflation fell to single digit at 9.67 percent for the first time this year at a time when the government is facing a concerted Opposition attack on rising food and fuel prices. Inflation fell by 2.80 percentage points for the week ended 17th July from 12.47 percent in the previous week, as prices of […]

Cameron warns Pak against any export of terror

  Sending a “very clear message” to Pakistan,  has warned that country against promoting any “export of terror”, whether to India or elsewhere, and said it must not be allowed to “look both ways”. Cameron also said that it is not right for Pakistan to have any relationship with groups that are promoting terror, in […]

British PM Cameron warns Pakistan to stop promoting terror

China Orders Curbs on Grain Price Speculation

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planner, Wednesday ordered local authorities to take actions to prevent hoarding and price speculation in grain markets and work to maintain market order. The NDRC accused some businesses of blindly buying large amounts of grain, then bidding up grain prices following adverse weather in some […]

Business Confidence Continues to Drop in New Zealand

Business confidence in New Zealand fell for a third consecutive month, according to the latest National Bank business outlook report released on Wednesday. There was now a clear change in direction and weakness in confidence was broad-based, the report’s authors said. Overall, a net 28 percent of respondents expect an improvement in business conditions in […]