Pakistan is yet to clear a pre-partition debt of Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion) to India, which has been carrying forward year after year in its Budget account as a "liability".
The Olympic and world champion is convinced he will break Michael Johnson's long-standing 400 metres world record at the Beijing Olympics.
The Indian mutual fund industry's assets under management race from Rs 3 trillion to Rs 4 trillion has come in just nine months.
Statistical highlights after the first day's play in the second Test between India and Pakistan at in Kolkata on Friday.
The proposed SEZ will have various facilities including processing centers and cold storage and other critical infrastructure facilities required for marine food exports.
The UK-based telecom major is looking at single name branding of its Indian joint venture firm, Vodafone-Essar (formerly Hutchison-Essar).
The hits and misses of the week.
The 12-year-old drew with GM Yuriy Kuzubov of Ukraine in the ninth and penultimate round of the Masters section in the Hastings International Chess Congress.
The staff cost of India Inc is increasing at a faster rate of 22 per cent than the growth in net profit and total income coming on the back of accretion in the headcount as also the higher pay packets, according to Assocham.
Director Wilson Lois' Holding Back, a film about a mother of a terminally ill cancer patient, has won international acclaim.
The Nifty appreciated 1.80% (30 points) to close at 1,676.
The hits and misses of the week.
Indu Sarkar is an effective propaganda movie only to the extent that it knows its mission-statement and knows whom to shame and whom to take in its stride, feels Sreehari Nair.
World soccer great Diego Armando Maradona, who died on Wednesday less than a month after his 60th birthday, was worshipped like a god for his genius with the ball, but his demons almost destroyed him.
Akshay Kumar's success rate continues.
Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.
A senior cabinet minister in the Punjab government and his delegation came under attack in New York as hundreds of Sikhs protesting his visit allegedly threw stones and hurled a shoe at the leaders, following which the police took two youths into custody.
The hits and misses of the week.
The government's negligence towards this 'treasure house of knowledge' can be seen from the fact that monkeys roam about freely in the reading rooms, disturbing the calm of the library, as well as putting the lives of the readers in danger, writes Sajad Ahmad Dar.
Capt Amarinder lambasted Badal for the alleged growing incidents of sacrilege in the state, which he said was a clear attempt by the Akalis to divide Punjab on communal lines.
Eight Punjab cabinet ministers and a senior bureaucrat were found to be "absent" from office during a surprise check on Tuesday by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
Helicopter Eela could have been a good film but falls short, says Savera R Someshwar.
The manifesto said that loans of poor farmers and farm labourers will be waived off and loans of SCs and BCs will also be waived off.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The FTSEurofirst was on course for its worst one-day per centage fall since it slumped more than 7 per cent in October 2008
A pregnant woman is murdered in cold blood in the heart of suburban Mumbai. By her father who didn't want her to marry the man she did.
'We always had a doubt that Sidhu would not campaign against the Badals.'
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