Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Vegetable prices which had witnessed a 21.16 per cent contraction in June, shot up by 21.95 per cent in July.
India imported foodgrain worth Rs 2,628.86 crore in the previous fiscal, which was 53.6 per cent less than the Rs 5,666.38 crore (Rs 56.66 billion) imports in 2006-07. The domestic foodgrain production grew by an estimated four per cent to 227.32 million tons in 2007-08, up from 217.28 million tons in 2006-07.
Holder Roger Federer continued his trouble-free progress at the Hamburg Masters with a 6-3, 6-2 in over unseeded Swede Robin Soderling on Thursday.
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.
The record in net addition from the top four was in 2016-17, of 59,427 employees.
Skipper Mithali Raj played a captain's knock by smashing a superb 54 to steer India to a 29-run win against Sri Lanka in the Women's Cricket Asia Tournament in Dambulla on Saturday.
Congress candidate Jehangir Mir was on Saturday elected from the Poonch-Haveli Assembly constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Indian advertising expenditure is doubling every four years primarily dominated by spends on television and print campaigns.
Tendulkar is the highest run scoring Indian with 11,782 Test runs and the second highest in the world, after Brian Lara.
Prices of food articles contracted by 3.47 per cent in June on a yearly basis. Vegetable inflation stood at (-)21.16 per cent.
The updated election ads policy for India will require advertisers to provide a 'pre-certificate' issued by the EC or anyone authorised by the poll panel, for each ad. Further, Google will verify the identity of advertisers before their election ads run on its platforms, reports Peerzada Abrar.
After Hayden, Gambhir is perched at the second spot by accumulating 227 runs at 37.83 in the batsmen's list.
'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.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Saturday.
After emerging as the single largest party but failing to secure a simple majority in the Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation elections, Shiv Sena on Monday started negotiations with Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, a party source said in Mumbai.
Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal's revelations came just a few days after India has been placed at the third spot in worldwide dope violation in 2014 in a report published by World Anti-Doping Agency.
Holding the status of the richest municipal corporation in the country, BMC will witness competitive elections with 2,275 candidates in the fray for 227 seats. Here are some famous faces flashing their fingers!
The Sena-BJP combine was tipped to capture three other cities while Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party may bag four towns.
After dismissing Bangladesh for a paltry 89, Sri Lanka amassed 227 for three by close on Day 1 of the first Test.
Hyderabad, following-on, were 81 for 3 in their second innings, still 148 runs behind Bengal, on the penultimate day of the Ranji Trophy match.
The Indian captain rated his deputy's unbeaten 122 against South Africa in their World Cup opener as his best innings in one day cricket.
State-run oil firms on Saturday hiked jet fuel (aviation turbine fuel) prices by 18.5 per cent in step with rising international oil prices.The ATF price charged from airplanes has been raised to Rs 69,227.08 per kilolitre (kl) in Delhi from midnight on Saturday, an Indian Oil Corp, the nation's largest retailer, said.
The US Fed also said that the unemployment rate too would rise to 5.7 per cent.
Holder Roger Federer coasted to a 6-3 6-2 win over Robin Soderling at the Hamburg Masters on Thursday before second seed Rafael Nadal gave Andy Murray a claycourt lesson for his 21st birthday. Federer was barely made to sweat by the Swede and Nadal joined him in the quarter-finals of the 2.27 million euro (1.8 million pound) tournament by beating the 15th seed Murray by the same 6-3 6-2 scoreline.
The Pro Kabaddi player auction netted a consolidated price of Rs 46.99 crore for 227 players selected over two days of intense bidding between 12 franchises.
Ongoing global events will obviously impact the stock markets through FIIs, but don't underestimate the role of economic growth in driving the Sensex.
The 227-member BMC, India's richest civic body currently ruled by the Shiv Sena-BJP combine, will go to the polls on February 21.
As many as 58 companies raised money from automatic route and 8 firms raised via approval route.
India's opening pressure index (PI) was 102.
The sales comprise 1,504 units of hatchback Chevrolet Spark, 1,550 units of multi-utility vehicle Tavera, 1,227 units of Aveo/Aveo U-VA and 498 units of sedan Optra, it said.
The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 144 points at 16,227 on negative cues from the global markets. The Sensex finally ended with a loss of 727 points at 15,644. The NSE Nifty dropped 207 points to close at 4,735. HDFC, TCS, ICICI Bank, DLF, Reliance Energy, Hindalco, Wipro, Infosys, RCom, Jaiprakash Associates, Grasim, L&T, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Satyam, ONGC, Hindustan Unilever, were major losers. Reliance Capital topped the value chart with a turnover of Rs 324crore.
Sachin Tendulkar became the first player to reach 15,000 runs in one-day internationals while steering India to a six-wicket win over South Africa in the Future Cup in Belfast on Friday.
In the past couple of years, Saregama has redefined itself into a 'content IP company'.
The Sena has 104 corporators in the country's richest civic body, with a budget of around Rs 12,000 crore.
The two parties, who are partners in the DF government in Maharashtra as well as in the UPA government at the Centre failed to reach an agreement on seat sharing.
Flying high over stable economic growth and bullish run at the capital markets, mobilisation by way of public issues grew nearly six per cent to Rs 24,141 crore
For the week, the Sensex recorded a fall of 371 points, or 1.10 per cent, and the NSE Nifty 130.75 points, or 1.25 per cent.
West Indies pace legend Courtney Walsh feels that Indian speedster Ishant Sharma needs to work harder in the nets in order to iron out his flaws and achieve consistency.
Britannia Industries Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 251 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2002 as compared to net profit of Rs 227 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2001.
