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•	Chaos rules Indian hockey team in Malaysia
	Chaos continued to prevail in Indian hockey with assistant coach Ramesh Parameswaran Saturday becoming the latest to return home even as the team stumbled from one defeat to another in the Azlan Shah tournament in Malaysia.

•	British high commissioner meets Kashmir governor
	India-Pakistan relations had taken a favourable turn during the past couple of years and the situation was now conducive for resolving all unsettled problems, Jammu and Kashmir Governor lieutenant general (retired) S.K. Sinha told the British high Commissioner to India, Sir Richard Stagg, here Saturday.

•	Badrinath, Dhoni take Super Kings to 181
	Subramaniam Badrinath and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni added 91 runs in 64 balls for the fourth wicket as Chennai Super Kings shrugged off a disastrous start to post 181 for four against Kings XI Punjab in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here Saturday night.

•	India hands over Pakistani prisoner
	Amritsar/The body of Mohammed Akram, a Pakistani undergoing trial in an Amritsar court for illegally crossing over into Indian territory, was Saturday handed over to Pakistani authorities at the Attari-Wagah joint border check post.

•	Jalandhar train derailment affects rail traffic
	Passengers of the Darbhanga-Amritsar Jannayak Express had a narrow escape Saturday when the engine and two bogies of the train derailed near Jalandhar in Punjab.

•	Bangalore, Mysore record low turnout in Karnataka poll
	India's silicon hub and its sister city Mysore recorded low voter turnouts Saturday in the first phase of the Karnataka assembly poll, taking political parties by surprise in view of the high stakes involved in forming the next government.

•	Nearly 60 percent voting in first phase of Karnataka polls
	Around 60 percent of 17.3 million eligible voters including those in Bangalore Saturday voted in 89 constituencies across 11 southern districts of Karnataka in the first phase of assembly elections considered crucial for the Congress' hope of recapturing power in the state.

•	Coal shortage to worsen power outages in Madhya Pradesh
	The gap of over 1,200 MW between demand and supply of power in Madhya Pradesh is set to widen with its three thermal power stations facing severe shortage of coal.

•	Man shot in Noida over property dispute
	A man was in a critical condition after he was shot in Noida Saturday evening over a family property dispute, police said.

•	Maharashtra offers rehabilitation to Khairlanji case witnesses
	In an unprecedented action, the Maharashtra government has offered a tidy rehabilitation package to two prosecution witnesses in the sensational Khairlanji Dalit massacre case wherein four members of a family were brutally murdered by a mob of upper caste people.

•	Efforts underway to get bodies of two Indians killed in Iraq
	Efforts are underway to get the bodies of two youths from Tamil Nadu - S. Ramesh Kumar, 30, and R. Senthil, 28 - who were killed in Iraq, government officials said Saturday.

•	Woman accuses Delhi cop of molestation
	A woman Saturday alleged a Delhi traffic police constable had manhandled her and tried to tear off her clothes after an argument over a traffic violation. A senior official denied the allegation.

•	Techies log on to EVMs for a change
	Hundreds of techies in India's silicon hub took a break from writing codes and logged on to electronic voting machines (EVMs) Saturday to cast their votes in the first phase of the Karnataka assembly election.

•	Kings XI elect to field against Super Kings
	Kings XI Punjab won the toss and elected to field first against Chennai Super Kings at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here Saturday.

•	Low-key countdown to Rajnikant movie release
	A low-key countdown for the ensuing release of Tamil 'superstar' Rajnikant-starrer 'Kuselan' began with distribution of cool drinks to motorists, the film's distributors said Saturday.

•	Blueline injures man on BRT corridor
	A pedestrian suffered grave injuries when a speeding Blueline bus knocked him down while he was crossing the road on the controversial bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor in south Delhi, police said Saturday.

•	Rajnikanth 3D movie costs touch Rs.600 million
	The cost of Ocher Studios-Adlabs-Warner Bros venture 'Sultan, The Warrior' featuring an animated Rajnikanth in a full length 3D movie touched Rs.600 million, said sources from its financier Exim Bank Saturday.

•	Special dispensation in teaching jobs for Jharkhand tribes
	The Jharkhand government has decided to appoint candidates from primitive tribes as school teachers as long as they have completed school themselves.

•	Quresh community to hold rally in Delhi
	The All-India Jamiatul Quresh (AIJQ), a Muslim community mainly engaged in the dairy, meat and leather industry, will organise a nationwide rally here Sunday to address problems faced by its members.

•	Archer Reena gets nod ahead of Swuro for Olympics
	Archery Association of India (AAI) Saturday decided to select Reena Kumari in place of Chekrovolu Swuro in the women's team for the Beijing Olympics.

•	Overcast sky brings relief
	People Saturday heaved a sigh of relief from the sizzling sun as thunderstorms and an overcast sky in most parts of the country have brought the temperatures down.

•	Knight Riders, Deccan Chargers both eager for win
	Both Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers are sailing in the same boat and can't afford to lose any more matches as they face each other in an important Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Sunday.

•	Woman throws son from building, boy dies
	A four-year-old boy died Saturday morning after he was thrown by his mother from the fourth floor of a building under construction in Worli in south Mumbai two days ago.

•	Fear grips Nandigram villagers on poll eve
	Sheikh Mote of Nandigram's Gokulnagar says he had to pay the price for not rooting for West Bengal's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist in local body elections to be held Sunday. He was allegedly beaten unconscious by the (CPI-M) cadres.

•	Pranab invites Rice, shares
	New Delhi/With the Left parties refusing to relent in their opposition to the India-US civil nuclear deal, the Manmohan Singh government has conveyed to Washington its 'difficulties' but indicated that efforts were still under way to forge political consensus on the deal.

•	Man held for kidnapping three-year-old girl
	A man has been arrested for allegedly abducting a three-year-old girl to settle a dispute with the victim's uncles, the police said Saturday.

•	Congress alleges foul play in proposed titanium sponge plant
	The Congress in Kerala has levelled corruption charges against the Left Front government over a proposed titanium sponge plant, the contract for which is reportedly being given to Russia-based Rosoboron Exporters.

•	Intellectuals not allowed to go to Nandigram
	A team of city-based intellectuals under the banner of NGO Swajan, who Saturday afternoon set out for Nandigram in East Midnapore district to monitor Sunday's panchayat polls, was forced by the police to return to Kolkata.

•	Four-year-old girl raped in Mumbai
	A four-year-old girl was raped by a goldsmith in Kurla in Central Mumbai late Friday night.

•	Flights disrupted as rain floods Port Blair airport
	Nearly 207 millimetres of rainfall in the early hours of Saturday flooded the Port Blair airport in Andaman and Nicober Islands, disrupting flights in and out of the terminal.

•	Deshmukh stops speech, listens to a farm labourer
	Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh Saturday stopped his speech at a public rally here to listen to a woman farm labourer and answered her grievance.

•	Indians have tough draw in SAIL Open challenger
	Indian tennis players face a tough draw in the $50,000 SAIL Open ATP Challenger, starting at the DLTA complex here Monday.

•	Food festival held in remote Himachal valley
	The first ever two-day food festival that ended Saturday in Himachal Pradesh's scenic Sangla valley bordering Tibet attracted hundreds of tribals and tourists.

•	Sonia praises PM, Arjun Singh sidelined
	A day after Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Arjun Singh criticised the decision making process in the Congress, party president Sonia Gandhi Saturday praised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but ignored Arjun Singh at a public function here.

•	Family of student charged with murder in Britain seeks probe
	The family of V.S. Jyothirmayee, who was allegedly murdered by her roommate in Birmingham, has denied that she had an affair with him while the suspect's father has demanded a probe into the killing.

•	Actor Ajith Kumar heads for Cannes
	Tamil actor Ajith Kumar is headed for Cannes where his movie 'Billa' will be screened.

•	Delhi Daredevils to face in-form Royals Sunday
	Delhi Daredevils will have to pull up their socks and check their downslide when they face Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League Sunday.

•	Chhattisgarh cops surprised by home minister
	The Chhattisgarh police is surprised by central Home Minister Shivraj Patil's sudden plan to visit the state's Maoist heartland - Dantewada and Bijapur districts - Sunday.

•	Sonia for greater access to modern education for minorities
	Congress president Sonia Gandhi said Saturday that minorities needed to get greater access to modern education and technical knowledge.

•	A marriage according to the CPI-M rule book
	It was a marriage which was devoid of any pomp or show. Communist Party of India-Marxist state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan went according to the party rule book by having a simple ceremony for his daughter's marriage held here Saturday.

•	14 IPS officers shifted in Uttar Pradesh
	The Uttar Pradesh government has shifted 14 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers including a senior officer in Varanasi where three sportspersons were beaten up for violating traffic rules.

•	12 killed as truck overturns in Gujarat
	At least 12 people were killed and four injured when a truck carrying them overturned at Gambira near Anand city at 4 a.m. Saturday, said the police.

•	Bomb explodes in Karnataka court, none injured
	A bomb exploded in the premises of the judicial magistrate's court in Hubli in north Karnataka Saturday as the state held its first phase of assembly polls. There was no one present as it was a government holiday, police said.

•	Mild quake rocks Jammu and Kashmir
	A low intensity earthquake rocked Doda and its adjoining areas including Bhaderwah town in Jammu and Kashmir Saturday.

•	Venugopal successfully operates on Pakistani boy
	Soon after resuming charge as director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), P. Venugopal Saturday successfully led a team of doctors to operate upon a one-and-a-half year old Pakistani boy, who was suffering from congenital heart disease.

•	Akhilesh Das joins Bahujan Samaj Party
	Akhilesh Das, former central government minister and Congress Rajya Sabha MP who recently resigned from the upper house of parliament, was formally inducted into the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) here Saturday.

•	Eight killed in Kashmir accidents
	Srinagar/Eight people were killed and 22 injured in two separate accidents in Jammu and Kashmir Saturday.

•	Meet Brothers launch music company
	Pop singers Manmeet and Harmeet Singh, popularly known as 'Meet Brothers', launched their music company Meet Bros Music Co with an album against dowry.

•	Xenitis forecasts Rs.13 bn turnover for 2008-09
	Kolkata-based Xenitis Group, which rocked the market in 2005 with its desktop computers Aamchi PC and Apna PC, has projected a turnover of Rs.13 billion for 2008-09. It now plans to enter the mobile handset market also.

•	Cynicism, casteism haunt women
	Since electoral considerations rather than a genuine desire for women's empowerment were behind the latest move to revive the 12-year-old legislation for reserving parliamentary and assembly seats for women, its fate may be no different from what happened earlier.

•	Meghalaya rejects N-plant, oppose uranium mining
	Meghalaya Saturday rejected the Indian government's idea of setting up a nuclear power plant in the region and also opposed any move to allow uranium mining in the state.

•	10 kg RDX recovered in Kashmir
	The Indian Army Saturday seized a huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including 10 kg of RDX explosives, in Jammu and Kashmir.

•	Market hit by rising crude price, inflation
	The Indian equities market plunged by more than 800 points this week due to rising crude oil prices and inflation, dampening the sentiments of investors. All the five trading session of the week ended in negative.

•	From Pokhran-II to nuclear deal, it
	'I have an announcement to make: today at 3.45 p.m. India conducted three underground nuclear tests at the Pokhran range,' said Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his undertone on the sizzling afternoon of May 11, 1998.

•	IPL and uncivil behaviour
	Never in the history of cricket, now fighting a desperate battle to retain its reputation as a gentleman's game, have players made so much money in so short a span of time.

•	Actress Celina is shocked over public apathy
	Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley is in a state of shock after her brother had a near-fatal accident in an army cantonment town in Madhya Pradesh.

•	Bhimani to lend voice to Nobel laureate
	Harish Bhimani, the voiceover talent of India, has been signed on by a US-based company to narrate the audio book, 'Siddhartha', penned by German Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse.

•	Nana Patekar to play Lord Krishna in
	Prakash Jha has accumulated a formidable cast of actors for his next directorial venture 'Rajniti' that blends contemporary Indian politics with chapters from the 'Mahabharata'.

•	Voting begins in 89 constituencies in Karnataka
	Voting began Saturday in 89 constituencies in 11 southern districts of Karnataka in the first of the three-phase elections to the 224-member state assembly whose outcome has assumed national importance as it could be a pointer to the timing of parliamentary polls.

•	Haryana family kills lovers for honour
	A family in a village in Karnal district of Haryana is being interrogated by the police for strangulating a young couple, including a pregnant woman, in love to punish them for staying together.

•	Sports schedule for May 10, 2008
	Following is the sports schedule for May 10, 2008:

•	Jiah Khan matches Aamir kick for kick in
	While Deepika Padukone is busy matching Akshay Kumar's kicks and somersaults in Bangkok for 'Chandni Chowk To China', Jiah Khan has in Hyderabad done stunts to equal none other than Aamir Khan.

•	Farmers flay UPA government for dragging its feet on farm loan waiver issue
	New Delhi, May 10 : Farmers took out a rally in New Delhi on Saturday and threaten to court arrest. They also voiced their anguish over the government's inability to adhere to its promise of loan waiver.

•	Four people killed as bus plunges into gorge in Kashmir
	Doda (Jammu and Kashmir), May 10 : At least four died in IKashmir on Saturday when a bus fell into a deep gorge in Doda district.

•	Sonia Gandhi promises fillip for higher education infrastructure to benefit minorities
	New Delhi, May 10 : UPA Chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday promised infrastructure for higher education in the backward areas.

•	Lalu Yadav to tell Railways
	New Delhi, May 10 : Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is all set to rewrite his Railways' success story, but this it would be in Singapore and Malaysia.

•	Livestock painkiller smuggled from Bangladesh decimating vulture population in India
	Guwahati, May 10 : The population of Asian vultures in India is dwindling fast at the Rani Vulture breeding and conservation site in Guwahati.

•	Adventure tourism to gain fillip in Kashmir
	Srinagar, May 10 : A five-member team of International Mountaineering Federation (IMF) in association with the tourism department of Kashmir promotes trekking destinations in the state.

•	Women MPs may find place in key Parliamentary panel
	New Delhi, May 10 : Some women MPs are likely to be included in a key Parliamentary Committee which will take up the Women's Reservation Bill on May 27.

•	Manmohan Singh calls on President Patil
	New Delhi, May 10 : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday called on President Pratibha Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

•	US tells India to take Bush
	Washington, May 10 : The United States State Department has asked India to take comments made by President George Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice that calorie intake of Indians is contributing to higher food prices positively.

•	Mumbai celebrates mango festival
	Mumbai, May 10 : Come summer and Mango season dawns in India with many people bracing up to demonstrate their prowess at eating mangoes, known as the king of fruits.

•	Indian Navy will have nuclear capability in future says Admiral Sureesh Mehta
	Mumbai, May 10 : Chief of the naval staff admiral Sureesh Mehta has said that the growth path of the Indian Navy is pretty strong and developing rapidly as the country's economic growth is also increasing.

•	Closing ceremony of 150th anniversary of India
	New Delhi, May 10 : The year-long celebration of 150 years of India's first War of Independence will come to an end here today.

•	India sends more relief to Myanmar
	New Delhi, May 10 : India dispatched its second transport plane IL-76 with necessary relief material to Myanmar today for people affected by Cyclone Nargis.

•	Shahid Afridi plans charity hospital in Karachi
	Karachi, May 10 : Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has reportedly decided to establish a charity hospital in Karachi. Before laving for India to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Afridi is learnt to have discussed his plan with his close friends.

•	60% turnout in phase 1
	An estimated 60 per cent of the nearly 1.73 crore voters on Saturday exercised their franchise in the crucial first phase of Assembly elections in 89 of the 224 constituencies of Karnataka.Karnataka i...

•	Indian-origin man trapped in sting jailed
	LONDON: An Indian-origin man, who was secretly filmed trying to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife and her lover, was given a five and a half years imprisonment by a British court. Birming...

•	Pak Radio says Punjabi losing its ground in East Punjab
	Given this surprising fact, it causes amazement when a propagandist entity like Radio Pakistan blatantly suggests that the language is losing its ground in East or the Indian side of Punjab. In Pakist...

•	One more policeman sent to judicial custody
	AHMEDABAD: Another accused in the Soharabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case was sent to judicial custody by a metropolitan court in Ahmedabad on Saturday. The fourteenth accused policeman in the ...

•	Manipur villagers provided arms on request
	Shillong, May 10 (ANI): The residents of two villages in militancy -prone Thoubal District now feel more secure as the Government of Manipur has provided them with five hundred rifles for self-defence...

•	Tiger dies after being injured by poachers
	A tiger which was seriously injured by poachers, died at Valmikinagar Tiger Reserve in Bihar's East Champaran district, official sources said on Saturday."The seriously injured tiger died on Saturday,...

•	New Carter book tells life of
	News ) - Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn't until he started researching a new book about her life that he le...

•	Rice, Mukherjee discuss Indo-US N-deal, Myanmar
	The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee discussed the current situation in Myanmar and the civil nuclear deal.''On Burma, she yesterday spoke with Chines...

•	TC, BUPC supporters caned
	In yet another incidence of violence ahead of Sunday's Panchayat polls, some Trinamool Congress and Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee supporters were cane-charged by the Rapid Action Force as they trie...

•	Du Invests in $700m Europe India Gateway Undersea Cable System
	Posted on: Saturday, 10 May 2008, 03:00 CDT du, the integrated telecom operator in the UAE announced that it has signed a construction and maintenance agreement (C&MA) to build the first direct, high...

•	Bird flu in Darjeeling, culling begins
	Culling of birds began in 42 villages on Saturday in the mountain foothill areas of Darjeeling district where avian flu has been detected. District Magistrate Rajesh Pandey said 283 birds were reporte...

•	Tigers sink Lankan naval vessel
	The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Saturday sunk a Sri Lankan naval logistic ship at the Trincomalee harbour with the Tiger rebels claiming it was the handiwork of their commandos from 'Kangkai A...

•	Explosion in Hubli court, no casualty
	They said a minor explosion took place in the judicial first class magistrate court which was closed as it was a holiday due to second Saturday.

•	Terror act or poll gimmick
	A blast went off at the district court in Hubli, Karnataka, on Saturday afternoon.According to police, there are no casualties. But the blast has caused extensive damage to court property.Intelligence...

•	How CEOs stay on top of their game
	Best-performing CEOs Along with 80 other CEOs of small- to mid-size businesses, Hogg was attending an executive retreat sponsored by the Virginia Council of CEOs. With the lush Williamsburg landscape ...

•	Turning bad water into good
	A lchemy refers to a medieval science that turns metals into gold. As our planet depletes natural resources at a frantic pace, one brand of alchemy that will become critical to humanity's survival is ...

•	Heavy rains submerge Port Blair airport, air travel hit
	PORT BLAIR: Torrential rains through Friday night cut off air services from the airport on Saturday, stranding passengers and virtually snapping travel links between Andaman and Nicobar Islands and...

•	Peaceful polling in Karnataka
	BANGALORE: About 15 per cent of an estimated 1.73 crore electorate exercised their franchise till 10 am on Saturday in the 89 constituencies where polling is underway for the first phase of Assembl...

•	Forced abortion lands three in jail
	A district court for the first time has sentenced three members of a family to 10 years in jail after a woman complained that her in-laws forced her to get her baby aborted. It took Muskan five years ...

•	Dresdner Bank opens in Mumbai
	Dresdner Bank, a subsidiary of Allianz Group, will open its first branch in Mumbai this year after being granted ... ... Subscribers' Area &gt;&gt; Trade Finance Deals of the Year 2007: Please note th...

•	India inflation surges to three-year high of 7.6pc
	NEW DELHI: Indian annual inflation rose to a three-year high of 7.61 per cent late last month, prompting Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram to pledge that the government would take more action t...

•	India s software state votes in high-stakes election
	BANGALORE: The southern Indian state of Karnataka goes to the polls Saturday in a crucial election testing the ruling Congress party's popularity amid surging food prices.Home to 60 million people, it...

•	21 Indian cos among top 100 BPOs
	Twenty-one Indian firms, including Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, are among the top 100 outsourcing companies in the world. According to the study - '2008 Global Outsourcing 100' - compiled b...

•	India protests border shooting
	SRINAGAR: India will lodge a protest with Pakistan after soldiers came under heavy cross-border fire while trying to stop a group of armed men from sneaking into its part of Kashmir, a security offici...

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