Sagar: A minor girl was on Monday allegedly gangraped by four youths near Sagar and later set ablaze by them when she told her family about the incident, police said. The 15-year-old went to a nearby forest in Khajda Harchand village when she was overpowered by the accused, who took turns to rape her. The victim somehow reached her house and narrated the crime to her family, who rushed to...
08:37 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday dismissed the possibility that India's economic situation is anywhere near as dire as in 1991. "Attempts have been made to link the current situation with that in 1991. I think this comparison is not correct. There is no reason to believe that we are going back to the situation of 1991 because our fundamentals are very strong," said Mukherjee. "Our foreign...
06:10 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Dhaka: Bangladeshi police on Sunday launched a process to charge a 21-year-old university student for sedition after he posted a comment on Facebook alleging Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's hand in the mysterious disappearance of an opposition politician. "Sohel Mollah (the suspect) is now in jail as we initiated a process for his indictment on sedition charges for threatening the prime minister," police chief of northern Mymensingh Gola Kibria said. He...
03:50 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Taipei: Taiwan's Acer Inc said on Monday it would remain closer to US chipmaker Intel, even though Microsoft also embraces rival ARM for its new Windows 8 operating system. The world's No.4 PC vendor has given an upbeat outlook for the second half after delivering a quarterly net profit that lagged market expectations in April, betting on the launch of Microsoft's new Windows system and more slimline ultrabook computers. The...
03:46 PM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: 'The Avengers' has officially overtaken 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II' to become the third biggest title of all time at the worldwide box office. The superhero film scored its other box office history as it earned a USD 1.331 billion on top of the Harry Potter franchise's USD 1.328 billion. Sitting comfortably at number one of highest grossing film of all time worldwide is 'Avatar'...
03:34 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: The rupee rose on Monday to its highest against the dollar in a week, despite a steep sell-off in global risk assets, on the back of dollar sales by corporates and exporters, as well as unwinding of long-dollar positions by banks. The recovery comes after the rupee had hit a string of record lows against the dollar in the second half of May, with the latest on Thursday when...
03:05 PM, Jun 04, 2012
A day before Foreign Minister SM Krishna's trip, Beijing issued an advisory against travel to India citing protests over the fuel price hike, after New Delhi warned traders against business in Yiwu. ...
02:26 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has some room to reduce policy rates following a moderate core inflation and soft global oil prices, a deputy governor said on Monday. Subir Gokarn was speaking to television channel CNBC-TV18 on the sidelines of a investor conference in Mumbai. The 10-year benchmark bond yield fell to its lowest level in two-and-half months at 8.31 per cent in early trade on expectations of...
02:19 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Beijing: In what is being seen as a tit-for-tat move, China has cautioned its citizens against travelling to India following protests over the increase in petroleum prices, after New Delhi issued advisories warning its traders against doing business in the Chinese commodity hub of Yiwu. An advisory has been posted on the Chinese Foreign Ministry website as well as Chinese Embassy in New Delhi dated June 1 which warned about...
12:31 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Four years ago, Spain made history at the Euros, finally ending 44 years of pain and misery as the perennial under-achievers of international football. Now they arrive at Euro 2012 as defending champions and World Cup winners, looking to become the first side to win three major international trophies in a row. It is no surprise that Spain are the favourites once again, with the core of the squad that...
11:49 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: With increasing popularity of high-speed internet services and proliferation of tablets and smart phones, the number of networked devices would double to around 2 billion in the country by 2016, networking company Cisco has said. "In India, there will be two billion networked devices in 2016, up from one billion in 2011," Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast said. Globally, the forecast projects there will be nearly 18.9...
08:54 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Three state-owned oil companies have issued a statement denying that they are making huge profits and stated that the petrol price hike was necessary. The statement came in response to a letter by Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi to Oil Minister S Jaipal Reddy saying the claim made by oil companies that they are running in loss seems to be untrue in view of the profits they...
07:08 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Dismissing "false impression" of having made huge profits, Chief Executives of the three state-owned oil firms on Sunday said a combined bailout package totalling a whopping Rs 1,38,500 crore had helped them report nominal profits in 2011-12 fiscal. In an unusual joint statement, Indian Oil Chairman RS Butola, Bharat Petroleum Chief RK Singh and Hindustan Petroleum CMD Subir Roy Chowdhry said contrary to the false impression of oil...
01:39 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Delhi Police arrest four people for allegedly firing at Delhi MLA Bharat Singh, say it was personal enmity that made them carry out the brazen crime. ...
09:42 PM, Jun 03, 2012
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