The people's dream of clean air and lesser emission and zero noise are slowly coming into reality. It started with Metro Manila taxi's use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), Palawan's introduction of electric powered tricycles and now, LPG powered buses

UPDATE: Motorists are to advised to drive carefully and be on the lookout for road spikes. Incidents of vehicles being disabled because of punctured tires were reported early today along the southbound stretch of EDSA, in front of the Manila

A few days after the president's call on big businesses to help her fight Meralco, and the GSIS started posturing for a corporate battle, the chairman of the power company's controlling company declared that it is open to a government

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Here is a look at 30-year Fixed Conforming Mortgage Rate averages, with zero points for Monday, May 12, 2008: Rates are unchanged from Friday. Today (5/12/08) - 6.151% Yesterday (5/9/08) - 6.151% One Week Ago (5/5/08) - 6.164% One Month

Pointing out that tax exemptions tend to distort the economy, chairman of Prime Minister's EAC C Rangarajan called for keeping them simple.

India may import five lakh tonne of wheat in the marketing year 2008-09 if domestic prices rise significantly against sharp fall in the international prices during August-October period, the US said.

The Centre has urged the state governments to draw up their action plans for development of science and technology.

Even as they aggressively expand their chain of hospitals across urban India, healthcare majors Apollo Hospitals, Fortis and Max Healthcare have now evinced interest in setting up medical colleges and managing them in a bid to find a captive source

The Centre has allocated Rs 40,000 crore for implementation of e-governance across the country, IT and communication Minister A Raja said.

The J&K police and other security agencies have denied them permission to install antennas near the border until equipment to block the flow of signal across the border was installed.

The Prime Minister Manomhan Singh has convened a crucial meeting on Tuesday to discuss the impact of 0.017% CTT and its effect on commodities exchanges and their transactions.

Representatives of the DIAL said the manpower crunch in core areas such as security and immigration were the main reason behind high congestion and perceived haphazard state of the IGI.

Here is some good news. The South-west Monsoon is likely to hit Kerala coast about five to seven days before the scheduled date of June 1.

The recent announcements of the steel majors on price cut needs closer scrutiny.

ROME (Reuters) - Italian aerospace company Finmeccanica Spa is to make a friendly takeover bid worth 3.4 billion euros ($5.26 billion) for DRS Technologies Inc of the United States, sources close to the deal said late on Monday.

In order to make the prices of jet fuel and bunker fuel competitive for international airlines and shipping lines at the Indian airports and seaports, the government is considering fixation of all-industry rate of duty drawback on the supplies of

With the crude surging to $125 per barrel, the petroleum ministry has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention with a plea that a slew of measures be taken to save the bleeding oil marketing companies.

Former UN under-secretary general Shasi Tharoor's IT biz finishing school in Kerala will be underway from June.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, former chief executive of American International Group , has said the insurer is in "crisis" and urged a delay in its annual general meeting scheduled for Wednesday, according to a letter he sent