He also thanked Oman for its support in anti-piracy operations.
The richest and poorest candidates who contested the Maharashtra assembly elections were defeated.
Batsmen Usman Khawaja, Adam Voges and Joe Burns have been rewarded for their strong form over the past 12 months by being awarded central contracts by Cricket Australia on Friday.
Sun Pharma was the best gainer among Sensex components, surging 6.91 per cent
Contrary to popular perception, health insurance is rarely expensive and claims are usually paid by the insurers.
Declining motorcycle sales remained a cause of worry.
The meeting with the top officials of public sector banks is scheduled for March 5, a senior finance ministry official told PTI.
Tata Steel was the day's worst performer in the Sensex pack, plunging 3.25 per cent, followed by Bharti Airtel at 3.05 per cent.
Industry experts estimate that demand for loans from the sector outstrips supply by more than $80 billion.
A delay in US Federal Reserve's quantitative easing tapering, coupled with better-than-expected September quarter earnings, ensured FIIs kept foreign money flowing into Indian equities.
Progress on monsoons along with favourable base effect in 2HFY2017 continues to point towards RBI achieving its near 5 per cent inflation target by the year-end
While a pick-up in summer monsoon rains in recent weeks is expected to cool food inflation, most analysts don't anticipate another rate cut before a new governor is on the job
Some of the players in the GST race are Payworld, Dell, Tally Solutions
Raghuram Rajan, who has been pilloried by his critics for keeping interest rates high and has also been accused of stifling growth.
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According to latest data available with the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India, Indian firms raked in a total of Rs 35,214 crore (rs 352.14 billion) from the debt on a private placement basis route in June, a slight increase from Rs 33,759 crore (Rs 337.59 billion) garnered in May.
Real Madrid are the richest soccer club by revenue for the 11th straight year and La Liga rivals Barcelona have leapfrogged Manchester United into second.
Maharashtra's Swapnil Gugale slammed a triple century while Ankit Bawane hit a double hundred as the duo registered the highest-partnership in the history of the Ranji Trophy, against Delhi, in the Ranji Trophy Group B match at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai, on Friday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Fourteen per cent of the $16 billion invested by Ratan Tata in M&As abroad has been written off by his successor.
According to bankers and economists, there is room for further rate cut by the RBI as retail and wholesale inflation rates have remained benign.
This is Rai's second medal having claimed the top prize in 10m air pistol mixed event with Heena Sidhu on Monday.
It is only 'zero-cost' money from FPIs that is keeping the market afloat
Traditionally, food prices have been seasonal in nature.
The poll of over 30 economists, taken in the past week, showed Asia's third largest economy will expand 7.8 percent in the fiscal year ending March 2017.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji list the 50 most valuable IPL-11 players.
Decision will be taken in second democratic transition of power in the nation's 70-year chequered history.
The team of Rahi Sarnobat, Anisa Sayyed and Heena Sidhu won India a bronze medal in women's team event of 25m pistol of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon on Monday. South Korea won gold while China took silver.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
Petrol prices on Thursday crossed Rs 73 a litre mark, the highest level since the BJP government came to power in 2014, while diesel touched a record high of Rs 64.11 a litre.
Rishabh Pant of the Delhi Daredevils, with a most valuable player index of 897, is the most valuable player of IPL 11.
Seeking to assuage the feelings of the people of Tamil Nadu opposed to India's participation in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting meet in Sri Lanka, Centre on Tuesday detailed its relief and rehabilitation efforts for minority Tamils in the war-torn island nation.
One of the reasons is that the retail prices are not bench-marked to crude but their respective international benchmark prices.
Globalisation with small government has not been a successful pairing.
Neymar scored all four goals in a sumptuous display for Brazil as the five-times world champions routed an under-strength Japan 4-0 in a friendly in Singapore on Tuesday to maintain Dunga's perfect start since returning as coach.
This classification of districts is to be followed by states and union terrotories till a week post May 3, when the second phase of lockdown will end, for containment operations.
With slowing sales and to avoid inventory accumulation, Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd has planned to cut production of passenger cars and utility vehicles at its factory in Bidadi, 35 km from Bangalore.
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri mused on Sunday that, if he had his wish, every one of his wonderful squad would have been honoured as Player of the Year at the Professional Footballers' Association awards night.
After a volatile session, Sensex closed the day 563 points lower
Once decisions are taken to sell stock in certain state-controlled enterprises, there is no reason to not start scheduling sales immediately.
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