How will China deal with Taiwan's first woman president? Srikanth Kondapalli explains the significance of a historic election.
Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna's challenge at the Australian Open ended, on Wednesday, with a shock defeat in the mixed doubles quarterfinals with partner Yung-Jan Chan.
A surreal life and a tragic death -- here's to the late Michael Jackson, King of Pop.
About 80 per cent of the investors in India said that the economic situation has improved, whereas around 77 per cent investors in China believe so, as per the latest quarterly ING Investor Dashboard survey.
Renault will not contest race-fixing charges levelled against their Formula One team, the team said in a statement on Wednesday. Team boss Flavio Briatore and director of engineering Pat Symonds have left the team, it added.
Indian investors have emerged as the most optimistic lot in Asia and along with their Chinese counterparts have driven an increase in the region's overall investor sentiment in the first quarter of this year, a latest survey says.
The 30-share Sensex provisionally ended up 366 points at 27,275 and the 50-share Nifty ended up 132 points at 8,235.
Shares of most European banks are down significantly.
Ronda Rousey thrashes body shamers calling her 'masculine'.
Double world champion Fernando Alonso said on Tuesday he would think about quitting Formula One if the sport adopted a standard engine from 2010. Champions Ferrari, who could well figure in Alonso's future, and Toyota have already said they will consider pulling out if standard engines are imposed.
Soaring inflation and market volatility notwithstanding, Indian investors have emerged most optimistic in Asia and many of them believe the economy has improved in the second quarter of 2008, says a survey.
At least 14 mutual fund schemes have closed down, according to announcements made by fund houses. The reason: they had less than 20 investors in the scheme or a single investor was accounting for more than 25 per cent of the corpus. According to Sebi's guidelines, any scheme should have at least 20 investors. Also, no investor can account for over 25 per cent of the corpus.
Director Shaji Kailas' latest venture Red Chillies starring Mohanlal depends more on technical slickness than substance and fails to lure us.
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the magnitude of the alleged black money transfer through state-owned BoB will only be known after completion of the multi-disciplinary probe.
Australian doping authorities have cleared retired swimmer Ian Thorpe of any wrongdoing after completing their investigation into an irregular test result.
Barcelona equalled a club record of 12 consecutive league wins as Neymar and Lionel Messi were among the scorers in a 6-0 thrashing of struggling Getafe 6-0 at the Nou Camp on Saturday.
To attract Indian women, companies are coming up with games specially designed for them.
The gorgeous gal turns 25 on July 29.
The Indian market has corrected a lot already. Valuations are clearly more attractive than they were earlier this year.
Amid news that the company was planning to scale down its online marketplace business and eventually exit it, Paytm Mall is targeting Rs 10,000 crore in business over the next 12 months, says Karan Choudhury.
India's Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis stormed into the final of the women's doubles after a straight-sets victory against Germany's Julia Georges and Karolina Pliskova, at the Australian Open in Melbourne, on Wednesday.
India's golfer Aditi Ashok scripted another piece of history in her fast-rising career by clinching partial playing rights on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour with a tied 24th finish in the Qualifying Tournament in Florida.
In continuation of the interim order dated April 27, 2006 relating to IPO scam, G Anantharaman, whole-time member of Securities & Exchange Board of India passed an interim order on Tuesday.
Vodafone-Essar, the leading GSM operator is raising around $500 million (Rs 2,000 crore) through overseas borrowing. This is the first fund raising by the telecom major after British telecom major Vodafone acquired a majority stake.
Kotak announced a 0.15 per cent cut in base rate to 9.85 per cent.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has invited French companies to expand their activities in India, particularly in the infrastructure sector. \n
Tottenham's task was made all the more difficult two minutes before the interval when forward Son Heung-min was sent off
'It's a toss-up between a fire sale of equity or merger with a strong bank,' points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Officers can be heard urging him to "drop the gun" but his wife is heard telling them he is unarmed.
Older people are finding out that they have to push a little harder to get jobs in the corporate world. But they are proving a point or two in the bargain
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram said in the Lok Sabha the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India have taken up corrective measures in the IPO scam.
Liverpool survived a late spell of Everton pressure to stretch their record unbeaten run in Merseyside derbies to 17 games
In the case of Iran, the lifting of sanctions has paved the way for direct relations.
India's Manika Batra and Mouma Das lost 3-0 to Tianwei Feng and Mengyu Yu of Singapore in the women's sinlges final.
In what seems to be a mouth-watering clash for Indian tennis fans, Rohan Bopanna set up a semi-final clash with veteran Leander Paes after the two players won their respective mixed doubles matches on Day 8 of the US Open in New York, on Monday.
HDFC Bank had opened multiple demand accounts which were used for manipulation of the IPO allotment process in the last few years, but those were not held in benami names.
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