Chung Ju, (Korea): India's Swarn Singh Virk along with Manjeet Singh and Sandeep Kumar won their individual events at the Asian Olympic qualifiers and booked their berths for the London Olympics here on Sunday. In the finals of the FISA Olympic Continental Qualification Regatta for Asia, Virk (men's single sculls) and Manjeet Singh and Sandeep Kumar in the lightweight men's double sculls staved off very stiff challenges to qualify. This...
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Mumbai: Two days after the government okayed a turnaround plan, the cash-strapped national carrier Air India invited merchant bankers to raise working capital loans up to USD 1 billion from overseas markets. The move follows the government allowing AI to borrow up to USD 1 billion annually through the external commercial borrowing (ECB) route. The airline has floated an "invitation of offers" for raising funds through the ECB route. It...
11:55 AM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: India's external debt rose to $334.9 billion at December-end 2011, an increase of 9.4 per cent in the first nine months of the current financial year, owing largely to higher commercial borrowings and short-term trade credit, the finance ministry said on Friday. Data released by the department of economic affairs showed that India's total external debt at the beginning of 2011-12 was $306.1 billion. It increased by $28.8...
01:29 AM, Mar 31, 2012
When Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presents the Union Budget 2012 on March 16, experts will be keenly hearing his comments on fiscal deficit. India's fiscal deficit is a cause for worry now. It is expected to exceed the targeted 4.6% of GDP. Former finance secretary S Narayan says, fiscal deficit in percentage terms will be optically low due to inflation. "Projected fiscal deficit for the next year is unlikely to...
06:27 PM, Mar 02, 2012
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Washington: 'Bambi', 'Forrest Gump' and Hannibal Lecter have at least one thing in common: Their cinematic adventures were chosen by the Library of Congress to be preserved in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991), a harrowing psychological thriller about the cannibalistic serial killer Lecter, and 'Forrest Gump' (1994), starring Tom Hanks as the guileless hero who thinks "life is like...
11:48 AM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, who was killed by elite US forces in Pakistan early last month, was a sex machine, according to American writer Jean Sasson who interviewed one of his wives and sons for a controversial biography that is creating a lot of buzz in cyberspace. Sasson says Laden used to have sex with his first wife for days on end whenever he came back...
05:34 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Guangzhou: The rowers provided an unexpected boost to the country's medal hunt in the 16th Asian Games with two silver medals but poor form continued to haunt the fancied shooters with Gagang Narang flopping yet again as India slipped to the 12th position on the sixth day of competitions here on Thursday. Apart from the silver-winning feat of the rowers, shooter Vijay Kumar bagged a bronze medal and Paramjeet Samota...
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Guangzhou: India on Thursday won two unexpected medals in rowing with the men's four and lightweight four teams bagging a silver each in the Asian Games here on Thursday. The men's four team of Anil Kumar, Saji Thomas, Ranjit Singh and Jenil Krishnan won silver, completing the distance of 2000m in 6:16.79, behind China (6:06.40). Uzbekistan won bronze with a timing of 6:22.70. In the men's lightweight four event final,...
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