Jaitley presents NRI award to G P Hinduja.
The broader NSE Nifty, after shuttling between 10,651.60 and 10.532.70 points on alternate bouts of buying and selling, closed 6.20 points, or 0.06 per cent, down at 10,576.30.
'Why can't a country that builds and manages airports of acknowledged excellence at home and abroad produce passports of durable quality for its citizens?' asks Sunil Sethi.
'There are three issues related to beef consumption and cow slaughter. One is the British origin of cow slaughter. Two, if slaughter of cows is sanctioned by Islamic scriptures and three, the environmental impact of beef consumption.'
British luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce will auction three super expensive 'Centenary Phantoms' in Chinese cities to mark the company's 100th anniversary, a report said on Wednesday.
Miss Teen World 2019 Sushmita Singh shares her inspiring journey to the top.
Opposition Labour's Valerie Vaz also retained her Walsall South seat and Seema Malhotra won her south west London seat comfortably.
The young Indian carded an even par 72 on Day 1 of the British Open.
'Prashant has left us and it is really tragic. But I want to hold on to those little moments of happiness that he shared with me and with others whose lives he touched. That is how I want to remember him.' Aseem Chhabra pays tribute to Patang director Prashant Bhargava, who passed away on May 16. He was only 42.
'India is a strange place.' 'On the one hand we have the most advanced science working on our origins and our ancestry.' 'On the other we are at war with ourselves over a temple to a god whom our first ancestors knew nothing of,' says Aakar Patel.
Jyoti Randhawa, Arjun Atwal, Shiv Kapur and Jeev Milkha Singh feature in the elite list
The venture is seen as a rival to the World Bank.
The duo lead the field in the opening round of the Enjoy Jakarta Standard Chartered Indonesia Open.
'The question now is how long the exercise in perfection he created will last once his influence isn't there any longer,' says Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
Rediff.com brings a list of sportsmen who got hitched this year...
The prestigious Oxford University Students' Union faces allegations of racism after Ruzwana Bashir, a British-born Asian student whose win was disqualified last term on technical grounds, faced similar charges again after winning by a solitary vote.
A defiant FIFA President Sepp Blatter declared there was no moving the 2022 World Cup form Qatar, despite widespread concerns about the bidding process that took the tournament to the Middle East for the first time.
The Indian GM beat over compatriot WGM Nisha Mohota in the first round of the Masters' section in Abu Dhabi chess festival.
For Indian hockey, 2016 was a year in which much was promised and achieved as well. It was also a year where India made significant and visible advancements but deep down somewhere the pain of missing out on an Olympic medal will remain for four more years.
There is "certainly a case for including countries like China and India," British Prime Minister Tony Blair said at the end of the G-8 summit held in Sea Island, Georgia, on Thursday.
Park is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
According to this system, a member of the opposition is assigned to follow the goings-on in a particular ministry. For each ministry or department, there would be a corresponding member in the opposition benches.
Strong month-end demand for the US currency mainly from oil importers along with currency futures expiry related purchases predominantly weighed heavily on the forex market and haunted investor sentiment.
The domestic currency has dropped 40 paise or 0.60 per cent in two days
Trump was good for world peace. He didn't start a war anywhere, which is not something that can be said for most of his predecessors, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
UK government announces inquiry into stop and search powers of police
The aim of the scheme was to reduce the number of people from some "high risk" countries - including India, Pakistan, and Nigeria - staying in the UK once their short-term visa had expired.
The naval officer had circumnavigated the globe in 2012-13, and was a special invitee at the race, which commemorates 50 years of the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race 1968-69.
National football coach Stephen Constantine may have ruled Michael Chopra out from representing India but the British PIO today said he's not lost hope and was waiting the 53-year-old's exit. Hitting out at the India coach, the Kerala Blasters forward said: "Stephen Constantine can say whatever he wants. Personally, it's not a problem for me. Well has he achieved anything in the game as a player? No." There had been reports that All India Football Federation may not be too keen to extend Constantine's contract that gets over in February, a month before the Asian Cup qualifiers begin.
A tribunal also held Ruzwana Bashir's closest rival guilty of violating poll campaign rules.
Aung San Suu Kyi spent her 58th birthday on Thursday in Yangon's forbidding Insein prison.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Aseem Chhabra picks Indian and other South Asian gems at the Toronto International Film Festival.
China on Sunday ruled out allowing open nominations in elections for the Hong Kong's next leader, in a move that could ignite tension in the Asian financial hub where the democracy advocates have threatened to shut down the main business district in protest.
