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Brahma Chellaney wins Asia Society award

India's leading strategic thinker and analyst, Brahma Chellaney has won the 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award for his recently published book Water: Asia's New Battleground. Chellaney......

'Independence for Kashmir is unworkable, unthinkable'

No book on South Asia published in recent years has received the kudos veteran diplomat Howard B Schaffer's The Limits of Influence: America's Role in Kashmir, published by Brookings Institution......

All signs of Al Qaeda inspired attack, says expert

Professor Deepa Ollapally, whose new book The Politics of Extremism in South Asia published by Cambridge University Press has just been released, has said the scale and sophistication of the Mumbai......

Chinese juggernaut will run over India: Book

While the centre of gravity of world affairs is moving to Asia, the prospect of sharpening inter-state competition over scarce resources is very much on the horizon, says a new book by noted......

Bruce Riedel: An India-Pakistan war in future would be Armageddon

'Indians need to think clearly about what kind of future they are going to have with a Pakistan that has the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world, and more terrorists per square mile than......

Low-cost airlines pull down global fares

Planning to fly to Kuala Lumpur from Chennai? Book yourself in an Air Asia flight and you have to fork out just Rs 4,100, compared with Rs 8,243 charged by Jet Airways. Also, for a trip to Sharjah......

BSE plans museum, brand book

The Bombay Stock Exchange, Asia's oldest financial institution, is exploring a novel concept to increase the employee involvement and knowledge base of its employees. The BSE is in the midst of......

Markets slump on SBI numbers, Asian cues also weigh

Markets slumped to the day's low, owing to selling pressure in SBI and Larsen & Toubro. Negative cues from Asian markets have added to the bearish sentiment this afternoon, taking the Sensex to a......

Ford developing vehicles with India as reference point

US auto major Ford is developing global products with India as reference point and take them to other similar markets, giving the company cost advantages. The company which had embarked on a......

Nifty ends below 6,000 on profit taking, ITC top loser

Key share indices ended over 2% lower on Monday because of profit booking after sharp gains last week with ITC among the index heavyweights leading the decline.Last week, the Sensex and Nifty......

Asia Cup: India fail to make semis

Needing an outright win to book a place in the semi-finals, India squandered a two-goal lead and settled for a 2-2 draw against China to see their title defence go up in smoke in the Asia Cup......

Netherlands, Kenya, Canada book World Cup berths

Kenya, Canada and the Netherlands have joined Ireland in qualifying for the one-day World Cup to be staged in South Asia in 2011. \nIreland topped the league standings in the ongoing World Cup......

Aus Open: Djokovic mauls Ferrer to enter final; Azarenka to face Li Na

China's Li Na crushed Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the final of the Australian Open on Thursday. Sharapova had conceded only nine games coming into the match but Asia's first Grand Slam......

'Match-fixing is on the decline; spot-fixing is easier'

Cricket was scarred for life after the match-fixing episode in the late 1990s. It was only after the Delhi police came up with evidence against disgraced, late former South Africa captain Hansie......

Woods visits did nothing for Aussie golf, says Thomson

Tiger Woods's taxpayer-funded visits Down Under did nothing to help Australia's ailing golf tour, which is stuck in a losing battle for relevance unless it does more to embrace Asia, according to......

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L&T profit drops in fourth quarter

Engineering and construction conglomerate Larson & Toubro Wednesday posted a 6.8 percent drop in net profit at Rs.1,787.94 crore for the fourth... ...

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L&T slumps 8.51% in two days on poor Q4 outcome

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Portfolio Night 11 abuzz with nervous enthusiasm

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