Mumbai: The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex today fell by nearly 117 points in early trade on fresh selling by retail investors and foreign funds triggered by weak global cues. The Sensex moved down by 116.86 points, or 0.68 per cent, to 17,110.82 points in early trade. The 30-share index had gained 244.54 points in [...]
After the poor attendance in Lok Sabha last week, some members in Rajya Sabha too bunked the session on Tuesday. When 6 MPs against whom questions were listed did not bother to show up for the Question Hour, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari was left to wonder if the virus had spread to [...]
SALTA: Tushar Khanderkar (30th) and Shivendra Singh (51st) scored for India while the Kiwis replied through Dean Couzins (47th) and Andrew Hayward (58th) on Sunday. In a hotly contested match, New Zealand were on the attack with a very active Ryan Archibald prompting the moves. However, the Indian defence was vigilant and never let the [...]
New Delhi : The Lok Sabha on Monday witnessed an aggressive blame game over the Babri Masjid issue and the Liberhan Report that had investigated the demolition. Led by party president Rajnath Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went on the offensive, claiming that the “Liberhan Report is not even remotely close to the truth”. [...]
Robben Island (South Africa): The winners of next year’s World Cup final in South Africa will collect a cheque for $30 million, FIFA said on Thursday. The runners-up will receive $24 million and all participating teams will receive an extra $1 million to cover their preparation costs. The decision was announced after FIFA’s Executive Committee [...]
NEW DELHI: The dream run of gold and silver is continuing. Price of gold closed above Rs 18,000 per 10 gram on Wednesday in Indian markets, after crossing $1200 per ounce in the international markets on Tuesday. Price of silver has also crossed Rs 30,000 per kg — an all time high — on Wednesday. [...]
New York : President Obama has spelt out America’s new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan after holding a series of review meetings to discuss threadbare the situation in the region. Announcing a surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, Obama said the stakes are even higher in Pakistan as its nuclear weapons are constantly in danger [...]
Stockholm : A Hindu spirit is stalking the streets of Stockholm, armed with this Nordic capital’s latest fad: the nail bed. It is not the wood and iron nail variety used by Hindu fakirs, but instead a modern Swedish variation that usually consists of a light foam rubber pad, covered in cotton sacking and embedded [...]
Kolkata: The Rs.2,500-crore diversified business group Emami is looking at winter care product sales of Rs.500 crore this year, and will spend Rs.40 crore on advertising and promotion for this purpose. “The company is aiming at attaining about 60 percent growth in winter sales this season compared to the corresponding period in the previous fiscal [...]
NEW DELHI: Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has issued a notice to India’s largest corporate house, Reliance Industries (RIL), charging it with rigging share prices of its subsidiary Reliance Petroleum (RPL) to make a profit of Rs 513 crore in November 2007. RPL was later merged with RIL in 2009. The [...]
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