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In a bid to sell India story and lure overseas investments, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today embarked on a three-nation tour to UK, France and Qatar. During the 5-day tour, Chidambaram will hold a meeting with his UK counterpart George Osborne and address investor conferences. He...

Air India is set to replace all its eight Boeing B-777 (LR) aircraft with the help of the US aircraft manufacturer and make the B-787 Dreamliners its workhorse over the next few years. The announcement by Air India CMD Rohit Nandan came on a day when...

Oil rebounded from recent falls in Asian trade on Wednesday after upbeat US data boosted confidence in the world's largest economy, analysts said. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in June gained 14 cents to $94.35 a barrel and Brent North Sea crude...

The rupee on Wednesday rose by five paise to 54.76 against the dollar in early trade at the Interbank Foreign Exchange on selling of the US currency by exporters. Besides, a higher opening in the domestic equity market and strengthening of euro against the dollar overseas...

The BSE benchmark Sensex on Wednesday rose by a massive 491 points to close at 27-month high at 20,213 on buying mainly in banking and interest-senstive stocks, after RBI said low inflation numbers will be taken into account in its next monetary policy on June 17....

Declining price of food items, including fruits and vegetables, pulled down inflation to nearly a three-and-a-half-year low of 4.89% in April, which may present a case for further monetary policy easing. Inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) stood at 5.96% in March. In April,...

The BSE benchmark Sensex on Tuesday closed 31 points up on funds buying mainly in banking and healthcare stocks as inflation eased to over three years low. After a better start, the Sensex fell to the day's low of 19,652.69 before ending with a gain of...

The Reserve Bank has unearthed various discrepancies, including non-compliance of KYC norms and fictitious PAN, in its probe following the Cobrapost expose that alleged money laundering by banks. "There were definitely violations of KYC norms by banks," said a senior finance ministry official when asked whether...

When Joseph Schumpeter described capitalism as a process of creative destruction more than 70 years ago, he couldn’t have conceived of the miracle that is 3D printing. Yet this hair-raising technology is about to tear apart existing structures in a way that would undoubtedly have shocked...

After reports that users of the company's financial terminals were investigating potential leaks of confidential information, Bloomberg LP CEO Daniel Doctoroff said that the company had made a "mistake" by giving journalists access to data on clients' terminal usage. The financial information and news company sought...

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Iraq PM orders army reshuffle in wake of bloody attacks
Iraq PM orders army reshuffle in wake of bloody attacks
Baghdad: An Iraqi government spokesman says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered changes in senior ranks of the military in the wake of bloody attacks that have killed dozens of people in the past few days. Ali al-Moussawi said...
Ankeet Chavan is a chawl boy at heart: Lawyer
Ankeet Chavan is a chawl boy at heart: Lawyer
New Delhi: While Rajasthan Royals‘ colleague S Sreesanth was having sleepless nights, Ankeet Chavan, the Mumbai all-rounder also accused of spot-fixing in the this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) was having no such problem, said his lawyer Rajiv Shankar...
Japan mulls talks with North Korea over abducted citizens
Japan mulls talks with North Korea over abducted citizens
Tokyo: Japan’s government is looking into re-opening official talks with North Korea to resolve questions over the abductions of Japanese citizens decades ago, raising concerns among allies who fear Tokyo’s focus on that issue might weaken efforts to rein...
Future of Syria can’t have Assad as he has blood on his hands: US
Future of Syria can’t have Assad as he has blood on his hands: US
Washington: While maintaining its earlier position on Syria, US has said the only outcome that is right for the people of west Asian country is the transition from the Assad era to a post-Assad era and strongly believed that...
UPA not a liability, says NCP
UPA not a liability, says NCP
New Delhi: On the eve of the 9th anniversary of the UPA, Sharad Pawar‘s NCP on Tuesday lamented that the Congress failed to reciprocate its support and friendship, but insisted that the UPA was ‘not a liability’. ‘We had...
NGOs should also come under ambit of CAG, says Vinod Rai
NGOs should also come under ambit of CAG, says Vinod Rai
New Delhi: Outgoing Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai favours bringing all private-public partnerships (PPPs), Panchayati Raj Institutions and societies getting government funds within the ambit of the CAG. As he prepares to demit office on Wednesday after an...