Lahore: India and Pakistan have the potential to boost bilateral trade to $ 15 billion a year, High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal said on Saturday at the inauguration of the largest ever India-specific trade exhibition in Pakistan. Close to 200 Indian exhibitors are participating in the three-day India Show organised at the Lahore Expo Centre. A wide array of products, ranging from gems to heavy machinery, is being showcased at the...
05:58 PM, Feb 11, 2012
In October 2009, nine months after converting the floundering Nature's Basket into a gourmet food store, its team was pleasantly surprised. Its seven stores in Mumbai had seen sales grow at 70 per cent " a surprisingly quick validation of their change in strategy. Getting there, however, has been a rough ride. Two years earlier, Godrej's Nature's Basket business wasn't going as planned. The store, set up in 2006, had...
11:52 AM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: In a major breakthrough in the baby Falak case, the Delhi Police on Friday arrested the key accused, Rajkumar. The police managed to arrest the man while he was trying to flee the capital. Meanwhile, a woman named Pratima was also arrested. She was a part of the human trafficking racket that allegedly exploited the 14-year-old teenager who brought baby Falak to AIIMS in a battered and badly...
07:41 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Dehradun/Chandigarh: An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale shook parts of Punjab, Haryana and Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand in the wee hours on Friday. The quake occurred at 12:47 am and was felt in some parts of the northern region. Though some houses developed cracks in Barkot area of Uttarkashi, there were no reports of any major damage to life and property in the region which was the epicentre...
12:54 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Doctors at AIIMS on Thursday said two-year-old Falak continues to remain in a critical state but was responding well to treatment. Admitted in a battered state at the AIIMS Trauma Centre here 23 days ago, her infection levels have receded, neurosurgeon Deepak Agarwal said. "The culture test of the blood and the chest sample showed no infection but the same was not in case of the brain. This...
10:02 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New York: The agency that is building the new World Trade Centre is "dysfunctional" and has let costs get out of control on the $14.8 billion project, auditors said on Tuesday. The projected cost of the complex has raised $3.8 billion since 2008, when it was estimated at $11 billion, Navigant Consulting, Inc, said in its audit of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Third parties have...
11:21 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Krishnagar (WB): The debt burden bequeathed by the erstwhile Left Front government in West Bengal could be more than Rs 2.3 lakh crore, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday hinted. "The debt of Rs 2.3 lakh crore is to our knowledge only, but the amount can be more, which we do not know, as many papers are missing," Mamata said while launching some local trains here in Nadia district. Painting...
07:30 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response on conducting an independent inquiry into alleged illegal clinical trials of untested drugs by pharmaceutical companies in various states. A bench of justices RM Lodha and HL Gokhale issued a notice to the Centre as also to the Health Ministry and the Medical Council of India seeking their replies on a Public Interest Litigation alleging that the country is...
07:07 PM, Feb 06, 2012
The malignant tumor is in the space between Yuvraj Singh's lungs, which is known as the mediastinum. ...
06:32 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: The National Counter Terrorism Centre will be formed by March 1, the Home Ministry said on Monday. While it will be a part of the Intelligence Bureau initially, options of making it a statutory body are open. The NCTC will be the designated authority for all cases under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. It will be mandatory for all Central and State Intelligence and security machinery to cooperate...
05:56 PM, Feb 06, 2012
London: Brad Pitt says he doesn't think he will have another year of professional success like the last 12 months have been. Pitt, 48, whose last two outings 'Moneyball' and 'The Tree of Life' have been nominated for a string of awards - including six and three Oscars respectively, said he has enjoyed a particularly fruitful period of work, Contactmusic reported. "We're so defined by the last success or the...
12:45 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak, who has been battling for life at the AIIMS, has been put on ventilator support intermittently since Saturday night. Doctors at the AIIMS hospital are monitoring her brain fluid levels. Doctors have said that her vitals signs are stable as of now but she may undergo her fourth surgery if her condition worsens. A woman named Aarti was arrested last week for pushing the 15-year-old,...
11:31 AM, Feb 05, 2012
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