American Michael Wardian was the last runner standing in the 'Quarantine Backyard Ultra' on Tuesday as the endurance athlete took the title after completing 422km in 63 hours. Wardian's reward was what the organisers described as the "world's most coveted prize" - a golden toilet paper roll.
Pasta procured in Italy cooked up with lightly braised vegetables that can be mimicked in India.
Poland, which has long been critical of Lukashenko and harboured many activists from Belarus, has granted her and her husband humanitarian visas.
Aiming to be the number one player in the soda ash industry, Tata Chemicals Ltd said it has acquired 63.5 per cent stake in UK-based Brunner Mond Group Ltd
The size of the Tata group's nine acquisitions in 2005 is only marginally lower than the Rs 4,380 crore spent so far by India Inc on buying companies abroad in the year.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray told British billionaire Richard Branson that he would study the Mumbai-Pune ultrafast Hyperloop transport project and take further decisions. Branson met Thackeray in Mumbai to clear "misunderstandings" and gauge the new administration's interest in the $10 billion project. Branson had said the entire cost of the project will be borne by the private sector and it will not depend on any funding from the state.
A right wing Swiss politician described the German government's plans as a declaration of war.
After a series of protests and court cases, Bangalore, the IT capital of India, finally got a full-fledged international airport at Devanhalli, 31 km away from the city. The first flight flew to Singapore.
Several people in the city have now moved the court seeking a direction to both the State and Union Government to keep the HAL airport open at least for domestic operations.
On Friday midnight, an Indian carrier will fly the first aircraft from the much-awaited airport to Singapore.
There is some relief for those flying out of the new Bengaluru International Airport with the Airport Authority deciding to slash by 50 per cent the User Development Fee until May 31, 2008.
Once the private sanctuary for some of world's richest and most powerful men, Augusta National shed some of its stodgy old boy image during a 24-hour goodwill blitz.
Cyrus Mistry undertook quite a few significant initiatives at the Tata Group in the past two years.
Fourteen per cent of the $16 billion invested by Ratan Tata in M&As abroad has been written off by his successor.
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