BJP Dares Sonia Gandhi on Farmers Issue

Taking note of the Congress attacks on the NDA holding its six-year regime as responsible for the plight of the farmers, the BJP on Monday dared the Congress president Sonia Gandhi to agree for a detailed debate so that people could decide as to who was responsible for the sad state of affairs.

Agriculture flourished and the interest rates were brought down from 13 per cent level to nine per cent during the Vajpayee regime and the government took several measures to improve rural infrastructure like Grameen Sadak Yojana, cleaning up of irrigation tanks, all of which had come to a halt during the UPA regime, senior BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu said.

Sensex recovers after Sun Outage

It was 534 points down when trading was halted for sun outage.When trading resumed fresh support were seen coming and market responded well by recovering its entire Intra-day Loss to close down 5 points.From an alarming 615 points down in the early trade market recovered much to the cheers of Traders, sowing them some hope that market may see some upside in the days to come.Hoping to be so..

Prabhakaran Makes Public Appearance

Making his first public appearance after claims of injuries he sustained surfaced over three months ago, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader V Prabhakaran paid homage to a slain pro-LTTE lawmaker in the rebel-held Wanni area in northern Sri Lanka.

Market in deep Red

Markets are trading weak in the early deals of Monday with the benchmark index Sensex shedding 2.6 percent or 417 points. The index is trading at 15,557 levels.

In broader markets, Nifty is in red by 95 points or two per cent. The index is trading at 4,675 levels. Selling is evident in all the counters.

The other Asian markets are also trading weak on Monday with Hong Kong's Hang Seng, Japan's Nikkei and South Korea's Kospi slipping into red territory by 1.5 over per cent each.

Indian Hockey Hits Nadir

Eight-time gold medallists India failed to make it to the Olympics for the first time since their debut in 1928.
Scoring twice in the first-half, Britain ended India's Olympic dreams with a 2-0 win in the final of the World Hockey qualifying tournament at the Prince of Wales Country Club, here.

Barry Middleton (4th minute) and Richard Mantell (10th) struck for Britain who then showed the discipline and character to withstand intense pressure in the late night match to emerge deserving winners while qualifying for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

While the Britain players celebrated to the accompaniment of the song "We are the Champions", the Indian, heads bowed, shoulders slumped, could only watch the jubilant scenes of a team that played smarter if not better hockey.

On the day, it was Britain who showed a lot of steel in dealing with the massive pressure they were subjected to by the Indian forwards. The difference was that Britain, who had beaten India 3-2 in the league, capitalized on the two early chances that came their way, while the Indians did not.

A man Arrested in Keeling Rape and Murder case

The Goa police have picked up a man named Samson D'souza for his alleged role in the rape and murder of Scarlette Keeling, the 15-year-old British tourist whose body was found at the Anjuna beach on February 18.

The Goa police, who have registered a case of murder, arrested D'souza, a local resident of Anjuna, and are questioning him to find out whether he had a role to play in the alleged rape and murder of the British tourist.

Inspector General of Police, Kishen Kumar said that D'Souza could have been involved as he was last seen with the girl. Apart from this, three others - Julio, Shanapai and Lui - have also been detained by the police for questioning.

Sensex enters Danger Zone

2008 has not been a healthy year so far for the Indian Stock market.After climbing 21000 Bse index touched 6 months low on 7th March dropping very sharply below 16000.Will indian markets recover or it is in the path of shedding all its rally from 2004,it remains to be seen.This the break situation for the Index,further downside from here can only see the sexsex in the 15200 range.All the sectors faired very poorly in the friday closing.The sentiments is very poor no volumme coming.Budget has not spurned the sentiment but on the other hand it has sulken further.US economic apathy continues to haunt Indian market.How long???can FM?? CAN Domestic Investors(Mutual funds)lend a hand in bringing this market up or they wait for the 4rth quarter results???Anyway the situation is very alarming SOS IS NEEDED.

Action sought against Harbajan

Cricket Australia has demanded action against Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh for allegedly calling Matthew Hayden "a liar" and Adam Gilchrist "no saint".

Cricket Australia Chief Executive James Sutherland wrote a letter to BCCI sectetary Niranjan Shah and urged the board to take nescessary actions to stop Harbhajan from making public comments about Australian cricketers.