”Calcutta” News

India gays seek turning point on rights

SUMMARY: Gays and allies hold the first Prides in Calcutta , Bangalore, and New Delhi as the Delhi High Court prepares to consider overturning India 's gay ban.
07 2 2008 6:04PM (...more)

Coaches scrapping for survival in Anglo-Irish rugby finale

LONDON (AFP) - England and Ireland both had high hopes at the start of this Six Nations yet when they face one another at Twickenham here Saturday on the final day of the 2008 Championship neither will have a shot at the title.
03 16 2008 2:52AM (...more)

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation Agrees to Pay $300,000 Penalty to Resolve Foreign Bribery Violations in India

To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-514-2007, TDD: +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice has entered into an agreement with 02 15 2008 10:07AM (...more)

Bird flu continues march 4 years later

HANOI, Vietnam - Fears of a global bird flu pandemic that once dominated headlines have largely vanished in the West, but four years after the virus began ravaging Asian poultry, it continues to quietly spread.
02 2 2008 12:01AM (...more)

15 dead, 161 hurt in train derailment in India

BHUBNESHWAR, India – At least 15 people were killed and more than 160 injured when a train derailed in eastern India, a railroad official said Saturday. Forty people were hospitalized in serious condition, but their injuries were not life threatening, J.P. Mishra, spokesman
02 18 2009 3:43AM (...more)

Indian rail official: 15 dead in train derailment

BHUBNESHWAR, India – At least 15 people were killed Friday when 14 coaches derailed on a train traveling through eastern India, a railway official said. J.P. Mishra, the chief spokesman of the East Coast Railway ,
02 16 2009 3:26PM (...more)

Quiet Here, Busy Near Japan

In the Western Hemisphere , the tropics are quiet this morning, with no areas of potential development. Keep in mind that even though it is quiet now, historically there is still about 40% of the activity in the season remaining.In the
09 17 2008 11:16PM (...more)

Gay activists march in India's gay pride parade

NEW DELHI - Men wore sparkling saris, women wore rainbow boas and hundreds of people chanted for gay rights in three Indian cities Sunday in the largest display of gay pride in the deeply conservative country where homosexual acts are illegal.
06 30 2008 8:38AM (...more)

Court clears Tata Motors 'Nano' factory

KOLKATA (Reuters) - The Calcutta High Court threw out on Friday a slew of complaints against a factory to build the world's cheapest car, saying there was no anomaly in the acquisition of land for the project by Tata Motors.
01 18 2008 11:49PM (...more)

Indian court gives green light to world's cheapest car plant

KOLKATA, India (AFP) - An Indian court gave the green light Friday to the controversial acquisition of land for a Tata Motor plant to build the world's cheapest car, the Nano.
01 18 2008 9:56PM (...more)