Hyderabad : K Chandrasekhar Rao, who has resumed his hunger strike after a controversial break for a glass of juice on Monday, has been moved to a hospital in Hyderabad from Khammam. Rao, or KCR, as he’s known, is the chief of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), and is leading the campaign for a separate [...]
Mumbai: Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat against India in the third and final Test of the three-match series at the Brabourne stadium on Wednesday. Both teams made one change each as Murali Vijay replaced Gautam Gambhir, who flew to Delhi for a family function, in the Indian line-up while Ajantha Mendis [...]
NEW DELHI: State-owned telecom MTNL on Tuesday raised the bar for competitive tariffs by announcing a half paise-per-second plan for mobile calls on its 2G as well as 3G network in Delhi and Mumbai circles. For calls made to other networks, the tariff is 1 paise-per-second, MTNL chairman and managing director RSP Sinha said. Under [...]
Paris : The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US President George W Bush has now become the target of a shoe thrower himself. While speaking at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, was nearly hit in the face by a shoe thrown by what appeared to be another Iraqi [...]
Chandigarh: Dubai’s debt crisis will not affect India much but the government is keeping a close watch and will act to prevent any fallout, the Finance Minister said on Saturday. “The impact cannot be much as our stake is so small and the amount involved compared to the world economy is miniscule,” Pranab Mukherjee told [...]
New Delhi: Following UEFA’s press conference on Friday, the governing body has confirmed that they are working alongside the German authorities in an investigation into around 200 European football matches. A criminal gang is believed to have bribed players, coaches, referees and officials to fix matches and then placed bets on the outcome. It is [...]
Mumbai: Pubilc-sector lender, IDBI Bank on Friday announced the repayment of its 11.50 per cent IDBI SLR Bonds 2009, 55th series on Jauary 9, 2010. No interest will, therefore, accrue on the bonds after January 8,2010 and no request for transfer will be allowed after December 9, 2009 the bank said in a press release [...]
Mumbai: A key index of the Indian equities markets snapped its three-day winning streak Wednesday and ended a choppy session 76 points below its previous close. The 30-share sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened lower at 17,032.01 points, closed at 16,974.55 points, down 76.1 points from its previous close. At [...]
Kolkata: The state-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) is planning to set up a 12-million tonne plant in Jharkhand, the company said here on Tuesday. “We have a plan for a greenfield plant in Jharkhand on our radar,” said company chairman S.K. Roongta. SAIL recently received in-principle approval for renewing mining lease for 810 [...]
NEW DELHI: A 5 percent stake sale in state-run power producer NTPC could fetch the government Rs 8,100 crore ($1.7 billion), Sunil Mitra, a senior finance ministry official, said on Friday. Last week, the government mandated more sales of shares by state firms and changed the rules on how it can use the proceeds, as [...]
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