Authorities in Srinagar extended the medium avalanche warning in areas close to mountainous areas of the Kashmir valley following fresh snowfall over the past 36 hours.

Russia and China blocked a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its crackdown on protests, amid growing outrage today at a "massacre" in the protest city of Homs and a spiralling death toll.

A lackluster India opened their cricket tri-series campaign on a disappointing note as they slumped to a 65-run defeat against Australia, who yet again exposed the batting chinks of the visitors in a rain-truncated encounter, in Melbourne on Sunday.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has appealed to Tamil Nadu Government to cooperate with the Centre in ensuring early commissioning of Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project.

Noting that large parts of the country have become "water stressed", the government has warned of potential "social unrest" due to its "skewed" availability in different regions.

Former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair and three other senior scientists, who were barred from holding any government posts, have been indicted by the country's top space body-appointed committee for acts of commission in the Antrix-Devas deal.

With Uttar Pradesh going to the first phase of the Assembly polls on February 8, key players BSP, SP, Congress and BJP are leaving no stone unturned to establish their supremacy in the key state ahead of Lok Sabha polls two years later.

Ravindra Jadeja on Saturday expectedly turned out to be the biggest draw for the franchises with Chennai Super Kings buying the young Indian all-rounder for a whopping USD two million (approx. Rs 9.72 crore) in the players' auction for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League in Bangalore.

Temperatures plunged to new lows in Europe where a week-long cold snap has now claimed more than 220 lives and forecasters warned that the big freeze would tighten its grip at the weekend.

The Department of Telecom will study the legal implications of the Supreme Court order cancelling 122 2G telecom licenses before deciding on the future course of action.

Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in Kolkata Friday night that the Supreme Court's order in the 2G Spectrum case was final and no appeal could be made against it.

The Reserve Bank of India has said it has launched its Industrial Outlook Survey for the Jan-Mar, 2012, period, the survey is intended to provide useful forward-looking inputs for policymakers, analysts and businesses.

The govt has said public sector banks have a total exposure of over Rs 14,000 crore to telecom companies whose licences have been cancelled by the Supreme Court though a bulk of the amount is backed by securities.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said government has moved "substantially forward" in curbing corruption and improving public services delivery system but acknowledged there is "still a long way" to go to ensure transparency, accountability and probity in public life.

Indian cricket was on Saturday hit by a major sponsorship crisis after Sahara India ended its 11-year-old financial ties with the BCCI and also pulled out of the IPL by withdrawing from Pune Warriors' ownership just hours before the players auction for the fifth edition.

Amid grim global situation and high domestic interest rates, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said country's economic growth is likely to slow down to 7-7.5 pc this fiscal from 8.4 pc last year.

Having already seen its effects on private investment, any further deterioration in the economic situation of Europe has the potential to hit the Indian economy, including a drop in exports, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) official has said.

In a major development having implications for the corporate sector, the Supreme Court on Thursday cancelled the 122 2G spectrum licences granted by former telecom minister A Raja on the ground that they were issued in a "totally arbitrary and unconstitutional" manner.

Telecom regulator Trai on Thursday said there will not be much impact on customers due to cancellation of 122 2G licenses of eight companies, as around 95 per cent of total subscribers belong to operators which got licences before January 2008.

The government on Thursday announced discontinuing releasing weekly primary and food inflation data based on the Wholesale Price Index.

Noting that large parts of the country have become "water stressed", the government has warned of potential "social unrest" due to its "skewed" availability in different regions.

Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's legal team is finalising an appeal to be filed in Pakistan's Supreme Court seeking suspension of its order summoning him on February 13 for framing of contempt charges over his failure to reopen graft cases against the President.

Egyptian pro-democracy activists set on fire a prominent government building in central Cairo as the street protests against army rule raged into the fourth consecutive day, with the toll in the current bout of violence over the bloodiest 'football riot' touching 12.

US President Barack Obama has said country's economy is growing strong and recovery is speeding up.

Armed clashes between supporters and opponents of a presidential election in Yemen left dozens of people wounded in the main southern city of Aden, activists from both sides said today.

With differences over a political solution hampering Sri Lanka's efforts to resolve the Tamil issue, President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday said participation in a parliamentary panel and not an "imported solution" was the way to heal the ethnic woes.

Syrian forces unleashed a barrage of mortars and artillery on the battered city of Homs on Saturday, killing more than 200 people in what appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.

At least 11 people dead when a boat carrying some 70 migrants bound for Puerto Rico capsized after sailing from the Dominican Republic, authorities said.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the contentious issue of the Syria unrest, after Moscow rejected a fresh UNSC bid to seek an end to the political crisis under the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Temperatures plunged to new lows in Europe where a week-long cold snap has now claimed more than 220 lives and forecasters warned that the big freeze would tighten its grip at the weekend.

At least 13 people were killed and eight others injured when an explosion ripped through a coal mine in southwest China's Sichuan province, local authorities said on Saturday.

Russia and China blocked a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its crackdown on protests, amid growing outrage today at a "massacre" in the protest city of Homs and a spiralling death toll.

A lackluster India opened their cricket tri-series campaign on a disappointing note as they slumped to a 65-run defeat against Australia, who yet again exposed the batting chinks of the visitors in a rain-truncated encounter, in Melbourne on Sunday.

Yuvraj Singh, who played a stellar role in India's ODI World Cup triumph last year, has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States.

Indian cricket was on Saturday hit by a major sponsorship crisis after Sahara India ended its 11-year-old financial ties with the BCCI and also pulled out of the IPL by withdrawing from Pune Warriors' ownership just hours before the players auction for the fifth edition.

Ravindra Jadeja on Saturday expectedly turned out to be the biggest draw for the franchises with Chennai Super Kings buying the young Indian all-rounder for a whopping USD two million (approx. Rs 9.72 crore) in the players' auction for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League in Bangalore.

Aiming a fifth-place finish in the 2012 season, Sahara Force India on Friday unveiled its new car - VJM05, which the team says is more refined and fast.

India earned the opportunity to get promotion to Asia/Oceania Group I of the Fed Cup after qualifying for the play-off tie, following a 2-1 win over Phillipines in the last round-robin tie, in Shenzhen on Friday.

Authorities in Srinagar extended the medium avalanche warning in areas close to mountainous areas of the Kashmir valley following fresh snowfall over the past 36 hours.

In an attack on Chief Minister Mayawati, Congress' star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday said people should decide whether they want a government which works for them or one which spends crores on buildings.

Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) withdraws support from Congress-led government in Goa, ahead of the Assembly polls on 3rd March.

Engineering colleges and technical institutions in the country will be forced to maintain quality now with the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) spearheading a new accreditation system.

The Lokayukta Court on Saturday issued summons to former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and five others to appear before it on March 3 for their alleged involvement in an illegal land denotification case.

Providing succour to farmers in cyclone Thane affected Cuddalore and Villupuram districts, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Saturday announced a slew of measures for them, including waiver of land tax.

With the case against P Chidambaram on the 2G issue dismissed by a Delhi trial court, Congress on Saturday went on offensive against the Opposition asking them to apologise to the Home Minister and the nation for its "campaign of calumny".

Snowfall and heavy rains forced the 300-km-long Jammu-Srinagar National Highway to remain closed for the second consecutive day on Sunday.

Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and all Congress members in his cabinet figure in the party's first list of 22 candidates for the March 3 Assembly polls announced in Panaji on Saturday.

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has appealed to Tamil Nadu Government to cooperate with the Centre in ensuring early commissioning of Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project.