Gold on June 6 hit a fresh all-time high by adding Rs 100 to Rs 30,400 per 10 grams on brisk buying by stockists triggered by a firming global trend. Silver followed suit, and shot up by Rs 1,200 to Rs 55,500 per kg on increased offtake by industrial units and coin makers.
As new, modern shopping centres come up in more than 100 cities across the country, shoppers of all strata will happily desert the congested, filthy and shopper-convenience-unfriendly traditional markets in those cities.
Poor shape of economy and massive corruption in UPA government would result in defeat of the ruling coalition in the next general elections, BJP MP and party's spokesperson Prakash Javadekar claimed in Hyderabad on Monday.
Channel 4 decided to pull the plug on the show after it managed an average of just two million viewers in it's tenth year, which is a massive drop from the 10 million who tuned in during the 'Celebrity' edition starring Shetty two years ago, reported Daily Mail.
'Certainly, I've had some success at Galle, and I know some of the other seamers have as well, so it is certainly not doom and gloom for the seamers. We've got to be ready to put in a big shift.'
India seamers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami took three wickets each as the tourists bowled South Africa out for 191 to claim victory by 113 runs just after lunch on the fifth day of the first Test in Centurion on Thursday.
Malik has been the find of the season as he outsmarted the top batters of the world with his brutal pace.
Central pay commissions in the past have usually been set up after every 10 years and the 10-year period of the current sixth central pay commission would be over by 2015.
The captain of the Costa Concordia admitted in court he attempted a tricky manoeuvre to show off when the vessel sank with the loss of 32 lives.
Essentially a message movie, Jayeshbhai Jordaar masks its horror in humour to play out like an on-the-run road trip, observes Sukanya Verma.
'The China opportunity, the digital opportunity and the end of geography opportunity are the three pieces of luck India got due to Covid.'
As we celebrate Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar's birthday on April 14, Subhash K Jha picks 5 fine films based on inequality and the caste system.
Virat Kohli stepped down as India's 20-overs skipper and lost ODI captaincy too with Rohit Sharma taking over as their sole white-ball leader.
'I gave everything I had to give to Devdas because I knew I would never make a better love story.'
US company Monsanto's 'Kargil 900 m' maize crop cultivated over 140,000 hectares of land in Bihar has failed and the state government has ordered an inquiry into the fiasco.
'It would be a huge mistake to think that Gorbachev's reforms did not achieve anything.' 'We all live in the world, which is in many respects a result of Glasnost and Perestroika.'
M Night Shyamalan opens up about his latest offering, The Last Airbender.
The Indian economy is in deep crisis, and it will take at least two years to recover -- and that if we have a focused government. The challenges are immense as it will take a long while to overcome the policy paralysis of the last few years, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, in the first of our series on what awaits the next government on the economic front
The Indian economy is in deep crisis, and it will take at least two years to recover -- and that if we have a focused government. The challenges are immense as it will take a long while to overcome the policy paralysis of the last few years, says Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, in the first of our series on what awaits the next government on the economic front
Does the "story" of a Mani Ratnam film come first or does its "spirit" asks Sreehari Nair.
IMAGES from Day 1 of the 3rd Ashes Test played in Melbourne on Sunday.
The 50-odd launches and unveilings at the Auto Expo are unlikely to lift the gloom off the domestic automobile industry, which has been battling declining sales for six months.
Gandhi said around 400 Congress members will be attending the Chintan Shivir in Udaipur from May 13 to 15 and stressed on the message of every leader holding one party post.
With multiple health camps at these protest sites, immediate medical assistance is always at the farmers' disposal in case a protestor develops symptoms like fever or breathlessness.
'But we are much better than what we all had expected and planned, and what all the prophets of doom had predicted.'
As we continue grappling with an irrepressible pandemic, music is both a refuge and source of comfort.
"The GDP growth projections are 5 per cent for this year and 5.5-7 per cent next year, which are very good in the current context. So we are doing relatively well," says HDFC Bank's Managing Director Aditya Puri.
These kinds of assumptions to be used for a nation of India's size and "to put us in poor light is not desirable"
Two days on, distressing videos have emerged showing the Boeing 737-800 on a domestic flight nose-dived into the mountains on Monday crashing with an explosion leaving its debris in a vast forested area making rescue efforts difficult.
Thrillers, horrors and real-life inspired stories dominate the OTT scene this week.
Modi's hankering for illusory legacy in the Kalpsar mega water project could prove disastrous for the state's environment and economy, writes activist Himanshu Thakkar
After repeatedly essaying the role of doomed lover, Dilip Kumar, a thinking actor, found it diffcult to break out of in real life. Heeding his psychoanalyst, he flirted with some frothy roles and played the swashbuckling hero with elan, recalls Dinesh Raheja.
Biswajit, movie heart-throb of the 1960s, remembers The Legend.
Sukanya Verma lists her 10 favourite male performances of 2021.
Gehraiyaan seems to be aurally thin, which serves as a clue to the larger issues plaguing the movie, observes Rohit Sathish Nair.
Floodwaters surged through many parts of Pakistan's southern Sindh province on Tuesday following unprecedented rains over the past 10 days, with the deluge claiming over 200 lives and affecting an estimated 5.3 million people.
Stephen Hawking, in his final book Brief Answers to the Big Questions, considered an asteroid collision to be the biggest threat to the planet. At this point, we are as well prepared as dinosaurs were when a 10-km wide asteroid hit the planet 65 million years ago, notes Kumar Abishek.
Neither the batting has worked nor has the bowling clicked in the two matches played so far.
Beijing will be intently watching Washington's response for any hint of weakness. Xi Jinping, who feels China has a limited window of strategic opportunity, will be emboldened to take additional initiatives in the Indo-Pacific and specifically against India and Taiwan, warns Jayadeva Ranade, the former senior RA&W officer and China expert.
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