Telcos such as Loop, Etisalat and Videocon have done little to churn the subscriber base.
Mumbai rode on Akhil Herwadkar's century and a quickfire fifty from Suryakumar Yadav to post a healthy 303 for six at close of play on day one of their quarter-final clash against Jharkhand in Mysore, on Wednesday.
The Nifty also extended gains at 5,519 up 60 points from its previous close.
Flamboyant opener Virender Sehwag on Thursday said he and and Rahul Dravid did not even once discuss their different batting styles even as they struck contrasting centuries on the opening day of the first cricket Test against New Zealand in Ahmedabad.
Average data usage on Airtel India network grew about three fold to 2611 megabyte (about 2.5 GB) per customer from 904 MB on YoY basis. But the average revenue from the data services per customer declined by 22.7 per cent during the period.
Struggling with his form, a downcast Australian skipper Ricky Ponting on Tuesday crashed out of top 20 Test batsmen list for the first time in nearly a decade in the latest ICC ranking.
"Let those who want to align with the Congress do so. We won't stop them," Fadnavis said, in an apparent reference to reports that the Shiv Sena was toying with the idea of roping in the Congress to bag the Mumbai mayor's post.
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The candidates will be selected through a National Qualifier Test. The top 1,000 will be offered a much higher salary -- almost double of that being offered to peers.
The forex reserves rose for the third consecutive week, surging by a robust $2.691 billion to $286.26 billion on a healthy jump in foreign currency assets, the Reserve Bank said.
Shiv Sena nominee Hemangi Worlikar romped home as the deputy Mayor of BMC.
The rupee weakened by 27 paise to trade at six-week low of 60.45 against the US dollar in early trade today at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on high demand for the American currency from importers.
West Indies fast bowling great Courtney Walsh agreed to become Bangladesh's bowling coach and will begin his three-year role this week, the country's cricket board said on Thursday.
Listed realty developers saddled with unsold properties worth Rs 1 trillion
Traders said restricted buying from jewellers and retailers mainly kept precious metals at previous levels.
The total volume of government securities traded during the first quarter of this fiscal went up by almost 18 per cent to Rs 21,72,022 crore (Rs 21,720.22 billion) due to growth in securities transacted outright, especially dated papers.
Mobile phone service providers alone jointly reported gross revenue of Rs 55,164.18 crore (RS 551.64 billion).
Former England skipper Nasser Hussain has said that fast bowler Stuart Broad needs to manage his temper on the cricket field.
China and India, the most populous nations, lifted more from slum conditions than any other countries, says a United Nations report which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.
Kuldeep Yadav took a hat-trick after openers Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul hit centuries to help India crush West Indies by 107 runs in the second ODI in Visakhapatnam and level the three-match series at 1-1. Rohit smashed 159 from 138 balls, while Rahul stroked 102 from 104 balls to power India to a huge 387 for five in their 50 overs. In reply, West Indies made a brave effort courtesy of Shai Hope (78) and Nicholas Pooran (75) but Kuldeep finished off their hopes with his second ODI hat-trick.
Pakistani forces fought pitched battles with Taliban fighters in their bid to wrest their hub of Sararogha in South Waziristan killing 34 militants to raise the terrorist death toll to 227, but lost 11 soldiers as insurgents opened new fronts in the lawless region.
Passengers carried by all airlines in January stood at 41.41 lakhs (4.14 million), compared to 33.76 lakh (3.37 million) in 2009, registering a growth of 22.7 per cent, official air traffic figures released on Friday, said.
Meanwhile, Sheila Dikshit said that the Congress needed aggressive campaignin and nobody asked her for campaigning.
Domestic passenger car sales jumped by 39.48 per cent to 1,43,976 units in April. The figure for the corresponding month of the last year was 1,03,227 units.
The share price of other ADA group firms declined as well, including Reliance Infrastructure (lost Rs 1,660 crore), Reliance Communication (Rs 867.5 crore), Reliance Capital (637 crore) and Reliance MediaWorks (Rs 60 crore).
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Sri Lanka's openers shared a fluent century stand to lead their side to 162 for one in reply to England's 416 on the second day of the third and final Test at Lord's on Friday.
The Nifty, retained the 5,000 level and ended at 5,088 -- up 71 points. Exports in January grew as services and manufacturing activity jumped.
With this, total inflows have reached Rs 3.98 lakh crore in the first 11 months of the current fiscal (2016-17). In comparison, Rs 2.07 lakh crore was invested in various mutual fund products during April-February period of 2015-16.
The auto maker, which is recalling more than a million vehicles in different parts of the world, had a loss of 164.7 billion yen in the same period a year ago. In the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, consolidated vehicle sales jumped 227,000 units, Toyota said on Thursday.
'Whether it is a good upgrade or not is something the judges will decide on the technicalities of the process, not substance. 'But they can't do much because of the constitutional fiction they themselves propounded with their "basic structure" formulation. 'That has not been violated because Article 370 was constitutionally temporary,' says T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.
This is the second largest decline in the world. In 2007, India had posted 22.7 per cent growth, the fastest in that year.
A total of 635 companies have declared their third-quarter results and reported 22 per cent rise in revenue and 47.3 per cent growth in net profit on an average.
Abhinav Mukund hit a master class century as Rest of India (ROI) took full control against Mumbai in the Irani Cup. The fourth day's play ensured that ROI take a sizeable lead of 382 runs, thanks to the 227-run partnership between Mukund and Murali Vijay.
India's forex reserves surged by a whopping $5.04 billion to $291.3 billion in the week ended November 29 on account of a robust jump in foreign currency assets (FCAs), the Reserve Bank said.
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