Serena Williams breezed past Romanian Edina Gallovits 6-1, 6-2 while Justine Henin beat Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-4, 6-2.
With the addition of 2 lakh subscribers every month, private direct-to-home (DTH) service operators Dish TV and Tata Sky may cross Rs 650 crore (Rs 6.5 billion) in revenues for financial year 2007-08, a three-fold increase from 2006-07. The revenues of private DTH operators may cross the Rs 1,000-crore (Rs 10 billion) mark in 2008-09 with a total subscriber-base of 8 million. Private DTH operators have to pay 10% of their revenues as the licence fees to operate the services.
The Goa police say British teen Scarlette Keeling was first raped and then died due to a drug overdose. The police claim that Placido Carvalho had been supplying drugs to Scarlette and that he was the one who raped her. Scarlette's mother has sought the Prime Minister's intervention in the case, saying she had lost faith in the state police.
In an interview with a weekly, the envoy disclosed how defence ties between the two countries got a boost after Kargil when Israel came to India's rescue at a critical time, helping turn around the situation on the ground.
The incident occurred on Monday, when the accused stopped his jeep in the middle of the road and tried to drag the girl into his vehicle while she was walking towards her hotel, the police said.
The film has superb imagery and performances but is bereft of emotion.
The highest wicket-taker in Ranji Trophy history was recommended for the award in the domestic category by Sunil Gavaskar.
The racist and abusive remarks were picked up on a stump microphone at Centurion.
Sidhu is the only MP to appear in a number of advertisements and programmes.
It's funny how everyone other than you seems to be scoring exceptionally well on the CAT. Is something wrong?
Overseas education counsellor Karan Gupta dispels myths about US student visas in our April 25 chat.
'Modi is now realising what kind of damage he has done to his image after 2002,' says social activist Achyut Yagnik.
The Lok Sabha speaker also expressed shock and sorrow over the loss of innocent lives in the explosions.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has admitted that terrorists operating in Kashmir have nexus with Al Qaeda, Taliban and Pakistani extremists, which is a "very dangerous" combination.
Indians face considerable income loss, primarily due to inaccessibility to good quality and subsidised healthcare
Complications have accompanied the conveniences that the evolution of banking in India has ushered in.
Jaswant Singh again reiterated that he would share the information with the PM.
The police said high grade explosive material was used in the blasts but the exact nature of the explosives was yet to be established
Cable producers enjoy strong demand prospects but volatile raw material prices are a key concern.
BMW began its innings earlier with this year with the 3 Series executive sedan and the 7 Series luxury sedan. Beginning this month, BMW will start assembly of its fabled 5 Series premium executive sedans and retail operations as well.
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State-owned telecom major BSNL is understood to have finalised plans to cut the domestic mobile roaming charges to as low as Re 1 a minute for incoming calls and Rs 1.50 for outgoing calls.
And, as promised, the film's star cast kept their date with the legendary athlete and posted pictures of their visit on Twitter.
India has given up on plans to bid for the 2016 Olympics following its failure to land the 2014 Asian Games, the country's Olympic association (IOA) said.
Investors lost as much as 20 per cent of their money put into equity focused mutual funds over the past one month as the benchmark stock index Sensex dropped about 11 per cent during the same period.
A goal each by Clifford Miranda and Ranty Martins enabled Dempo win the battle between Goa teams.
Shane Oliver, Head-Investment Strategy at AMP Capital Investors, believes that higher US labour cost has fuelled rate hike fears again. According to him, the Fed may have finished with its rate hike cycle.
Matthew Hayden's chances of playing in the third Test in Perth are slim with the opener saying he was not sure whether he can recover in time for the match beginning January 16.
Of the 125 sectors tracked by Business Standard Research Bureau, 62 sectors have lost ground, while 63 others have gained over the May 10 levels.
Justice R S Pathak was probing allegations against Congress and Natwar Singh in the oil-for-food scam.
Post strategic sale, Disney will have a representative on the UTV board.
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Musharraf said on Saturday the fact that Hurriyat leaders have not come on Indian passports and Pakistani visas is a recognition by the countries of the disputed status of Kashmir.
World number one Roger Federer visited the Tsunami survivors in Tamil Nadu as Unicef ambassador.
The inquiry will have done its job if it makes victims' families -- many of whom immigrated to Canada from India -- feel like real Canadians, Major said.
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