London: A Briton has been sentenced to 16 years in jail for savagely punishing his son whom he suspected of stealing his stepmother's jewellery. He welded his son into a cage and threatened to set him on fire. Kevin Clifford, 51, also beat Gary, 29, with a baseball bat and garden hose as the latter hung upside down in agony, The Sun reported. Clifford, an engineer by profession, also took...
07:18 PM, Jun 03, 2012
New Delhi: Gold prices on Saturday jumped sharply up to Rs 1,095 per 10 gram crossing the Rs 30,000 per 10 gram level, its all-time high, on account of rise in global prices of precious metal and weakening rupee. The maximum jump in prices was seen in Chennai, where gold became costlier by Rs 1,095 at Rs 30,380 per 10 gram, followed by Delhi with a again of Rs 960...
08:33 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Tokyo: Like the characters of her book, Anouk Markovits grew up inside the strict Satmar Hasidic Jewish sect, where reading novels was frowned upon and she was expected to wed in an arranged marriage at a young age. Markovits, a native of France, broke away from the community, as does Atara Stern, one of the daughters of the family in "I Am Forbidden." But most of the book centers on...
11:23 AM, May 28, 2012
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has scrapped the greenfield international airport project at Jewar mooted by the previous Mayawati government citing unavailability of Centre's clearance for it. "The state government has decided to scrap the project as we are not getting clearances for it from the Centre. We are planning to develop an international airport between Agra and Mathura", a senior official said. He said the process of identifying land...
11:55 AM, May 09, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai based 145-year old jewellery retailer Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri is tapping the capital market with its public issue of more than 1.66 crore equity shares on April 24, diluting 25 per cent stake, as per the advertisement in The Financial Express. The company has 14 showrooms in nine cities across five states and it primarily sells gold jewellery and diamond-studded jewellery. Jewellery retailer plans to open an additional 44...
03:46 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Mumbai: Physical buying of gold in India, the world's biggest buyer of the yellow metal, abated after a brief pick-up in the previous session, as prices recovered from their lows, dealers said. Gold in overseas markets traded at $1,657.89 an ounce, recovering 1.61 per cent from previous day's low of $1,631.70. Gold on the Multi Commodity Exchange traded at 28,605 rupees per 10 grams. "Yesterday evening there was some activity...
05:49 AM, Apr 12, 2012
Mumbai: Jewellers from Zaveri Bazaar, a major hub for jewellery industry, who opened their shops for the first time on Monday after a 21-day strike saw a muted response from buyers with footfalls nowhere near their expectations. "We expected the demand to be very high as the shops were closed due to the strike. However, the footfalls are much less than our expectations," Kumar Jain of Umedmal Tilokchand Zaveri told....
03:37 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Israel has declared Guenter Grass persona non grata, deepening a spat with the Nobel-winning author over a poem that deeply criticises the Jewish state and suggests it is as much a danger as Iran. The dispute with Grass, who only late in life admitted to a Nazi past, has drawn new attention to strains in Germany's complicated relationship with the Jewish state - and also focused unwelcome light on Israel's...
03:43 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Jewellers across India, except in Mumbai, have called of their strike after UPA Chief Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee promised to look into their demands. The significant lobby includes 10,000 jewellers associations, Bullion Traders and Market Sarafa associations and diamond traders. The unions were on strike since March 17, demanding that the government roll back 1 per cent excise duty on unbranded jewellery, 4 per cent...
06:53 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Mumbai: Gold imports are unlikely to rise immediately as the spurt in demand on account of 21-day stir by bullion traders will be met by existing stocks, Bombay Bullion Association on Friday said. "Jewellery manufacturing was completely stopped during the 21-day strike. Therefore, there is an inventory of 5-10 tonnes of gold, which will be used to fulfill the demand. So, we feel import is not likely to rise," Bombay...
02:39 AM, Apr 07, 2012
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10:18 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Jewellers called off their 21-day strike on Friday after meeting Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday. The jewellers' strike has been called off till Parliament takes a final decision on the excise duty hike on non-branded jewellery and import duty hike on gold. Sources say the Centre is likely to drop one per cent excise duty on non-branded jewellery. An indication that some...
03:17 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Jewellers are likely to call off their 21-day strike, according to sources. The breakthrough came after the jewellers' meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday. Sources say the Centre is likely to drop one per cent excise duty on non-branded jewellery. An indication that some of the demands may be met came as Congress President Sonia Gandhi assured jewellers their concerns will...
01:29 PM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi met protesting jewellers on Friday and assured them that the government would address their concerns. The community's nation-wide strike has entered its 21st day. Some of the jewellers who met Sonia, however, said that they were not satisfied with the meeting as they haven't been given a strong assurance. A meeting of jewellers is also scheduled with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. They are demanding...
11:50 AM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Centre is likely to roll back excise duty hike on gold and non-branded jewellery, according to sources. This came after Congress President Sonia Gandhi stepped in as jewellers' protests against excise and import duty hikes spread. Congress President Sonia Gandhi met jewellers on Friday and has assured them of a relook into their demands regarding a rollback. The jewellers strike has entered the 21st day on Friday. Hoping...
10:05 AM, Apr 06, 2012
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