Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd shares surged on Tuesday as much as 9.6 per cent after posting a 23 per cent rise in its fiscal fourth quarter profit and giving a relatively upbeat outlook. TCS's results, which came after the market closed on Monday, were seen as a sign it may be better positioned than rival Infosys. TCS shares were last up 8.9 per cent, versus a 0.05 per cent...
10:21 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The IT giant Infosys is set to declare its fourth Quarter results earnings on Friday. While analysts expect muted growth, the earnings season for Indian IT firms comes amid improving macro-economic stability in the US and European markets. Worldwide IT spending is forecast to increase 2.5 per cent in 2012 from a year ago, research firm Gartner Inc. said on Apr 5, lower than its January forecast of...
06:40 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Made on a budget of Rs 28 crore, the film collected Rs 5.25 crore on Friday and saw a steady increase over the next two days. ...
02:14 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Madrid: Tennis great Arantxa Sanchez Vicario has blamed her parents for losing an estimated 45 million ($60 million) in career earnings through mismanagement. The 40-year-old Sanchez Vicario let loose against her whole family in a book of memoirs published on Tuesday. She says she does not speak to her parents or her three siblings. She says her parents were obsessed with her succeeding in a career which netted four Grand...
03:55 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Railways has earned Rs 84,155.40 crore during April 2011-January 2012 period as against Rs 76,223.07 cr during the same period last year, registering an increase of 10.41 per cent. The total goods earnings have gone up from Rs 50,916.21 cr during April 2010-January 2011 to Rs 56,247.30 cr in April 2011-January 2012, an increase of 10.47 per cent. The total passenger earnings during first ten months...
07:55 PM, Feb 07, 2012
London: Beyonce Knowles has been named the highest earning entertainer in the world who charges per minute for appearing on the stage. The 'Love on Top' singer topped a poll by social media website saucytime.com by earning 1.25 million pounds for a five-song performance at a private New Year's Eve 2010 party, equating to 71,040 pounds for each minute she was on the stage, reports femalefirst.co.uk. In second place was...
12:23 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Los Angeles: There is something about the Harry Potter theme park in Florida that actor Daniel Radcliffe loves - that he doesn't have to pay to go on the rides. The 21-year-old actor, who essayed the role of the boy wizard in all eight films of the "Harry Potter" franchise, was excited to be asked to open the attraction in Florida, which is based on the films and original books...
12:03 PM, Jul 17, 2011
Kunming, China: Learning English has become a fad in China. The generation next is driving the change towards communicating in English across China. Almost three lakh Chinese register for English classes every year. Young Xi and his friends study at a university in Kunming in south-western china but they don't speak Chinese among themselves. This group prefers to communicate in English just like lakhs of Chinese who are getting hooked...
08:47 AM, Jul 01, 2011
Boston: Students in schools in the largest U.S. cities, many from low-income households, trail their peers elsewhere in the country in a test of science proficiency, according to a report released on Thursday. Fourth- and eighth-graders in most of the 17 participating urban districts typically scored lower than the national average, the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress Science report showed. "The results are shouting at us: Whatever we are...
12:05 PM, Feb 25, 2011
New York: BPO major Genpact on Monday said its net income rose 33 per cent to $46 million (Rs 209.13 crore) for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010. The company had a net income attributable to shareholders at $34.6 million during the same quarter ended December 2009, Genpact said in a statement. "In 2010, we grew revenues, adjusted income from operations, net income, earnings per share and cash flows....
08:01 PM, Feb 07, 2011
London: TV mogul Oprah Winfrey tops the list of Hollywood's rich of the year compiled by Forbes magazine. Oprah takes the top spot on the newly-released Hollywood's 20 Highest-Earning of 2010 with an estimated $ 315 million, while the success of "Avatar" has put director James Cameron in second place with an estimated $ 210 million earning, reports contactmusic.com. Filmmaker Tyler Perry is on third spot with $125 million. Steven...
12:34 PM, Dec 28, 2010
Vidyarambham was organised at temples across in Kerala as children scribbled their first letters on Vijayadasami today. ...
02:48 PM, Oct 17, 2010
Moustached Americans earned 4.3 pc more than the clean shaven, says study. ...
10:47 AM, Oct 09, 2009
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