The whopping numbers are just a continuation of a strained labor market as employers in America slashed 5,33,000 jobs in the month of November, the maximum downsizing in 34 years. Right from telecom giant AT&T to battered banking major Credit Suisse to steel maker ArcelorMittal, the layoffs are spread across the sectors, amid the worst financial turmoil since the Great Depression of 1930s.
The Canada-based International Development Research Centre in collaboration with the Gene Campaign has launched a unique research study on the attitudes and perceptions towards crops and foods in India. IDRC has undertaken a similar study in China.
Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com and Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com go backstage at the Cirque Du Soleil.
We forget that, three months ago, the over-riding economic problem in India was inflation. So the good news is that the tide has turned.
As the probe into the death of Rehman, a computer graphics teacher, was reaching its final stage, CBI sources claimed that it looked like a case of suicide and someone had definitely forced him to take this extreme step. Without naming the person, the CBI said it had zeroed down on a close relative of Priyanka. The agency would be pressing abetment to suicide case against the relative. Last month, CBI had registered a murder case against Rizwanur's father-in-law Ashok Todi
Ferrari's 2008 cars lapped quicker than the new McLarens in Formula One's first official test of the year in Jerez.
Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com and Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com go backstage at the Cirque Du Soleil.
Sterlite Industries is set to list its $2 billion (Rs 8,000 crore) American Depository Shares issue, the largest by any Indian company, with the New York Stock Exchange by the middle of this month.
An ISRO official said: "Unless and until everything is intact (lander), it's very difficult (to re-establish contact). Chances are less. Only if it had soft-landing, and if all systems functioned, then only communication can be restored. Things are bleak as of now."
The Mumbai lad was beaten but not disgraced by the world No 2 at the Chennai Open.
India's foreign exchange reserves fell for the second consecutive week, registering a decline of $423 million for the week ended May 6, 2005.
Essel group on Tuesday welcomed the terms of the tender and said it would submit its bid on Wednesday.\n
The flash flood was triggered by the bursting of the Shadi Kor dam in Pasni Tehsil burst on Thursday following heavy rains.
India's captain refused to elaborate on his statement that he was asked to step down on the eve of the first Test against Zimbabwe.
Gold prices crashed by Rs 115 per ten gram and silver plunged by Rs 375 per kilo in the bullion market in Mumbai on Tuesday due to heavy stockists' selling after steep fall in the international prices.
A plea of the UK-based Vedanta group company to export its share of crude oil from Barmer oil field in Rajasthan was on Tuesday rejected by the Delhi high court on the ground that domestic crude cannot be exported till India attained "self sufficiency".
This follows an undercover television documentary broadcast on Tuesday night.
Spanish rivals Villarreal and Valencia had to settle for a goalless draw in the first leg of their UEFA Cup semi-final.
The Pakistan captain became the seventh player to appear in 300 one-day internationals.
After opening with a decent gain of 14 points at 6,041, the index slipped from higher levels to touch a low of 6,006 following weakness in techs, heavyweights, PSUs and other select old economy stocks.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The solar-powered cars manufactured to date are usually built for just one person -- not very useful when the need is to carry passengers.
For the first time in its history, Cirque du Soleil is premiering a new show, Bazzar, outside Canada -- first in Mumbai and then Delhi.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was fastest but teenage rookie Max Verstappen stood out with an eye-catching practice performance on a rainy Thursday at the Monaco Grand Prix.
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