The new minister must commit himself to supporting long-term defence plans or else defence modernisation will continue to lag and the growing military capabilities gap with China will assume ominous proportions, warns Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Apologising for the incident, the Indian Army also announced an Rs 10 lakh compensation to the family of those who were killed.
What was the RBI doing, what was the PNB top management doing, what were the auditors doing, asks Debashis Basu.
But gains in the rupee were kept in check as domestic shares faltered, ending a five-session gain.
Air India, which is set to fly to Moscow from early next month, is exploring CIS destinations among the new places that it wants to expand its global operations to, an airline official said.
The probe into the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, was today transferred to the elite Crime Branch of Delhi Police, a week after she was found dead in a luxury hotel in the national capital
The BSE IT sector, however, failed to snap a three-day losing streak and closed around 0.14 per cent lower.
Sapience offers an innovative solution to measure the productivity of office and mobile workers, with almost no manual inputs from managers or employees, says Romita Majumdar.
Sentiment was largely positive after April IIP grew at 4.9 per cent, spurred by higher growth in manufacturing and mining sectors.
Dealers attributed the rupee's fall to increased demand for the US currency from importers.
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Investors have kept their eyes on US-China trade talks and are optimistic about a positive outcome.
Brokers said a flurry of buying by investors in blue-chips mainly influenced the sentiment.
Domestic equity markets opened with losses which capped the rupee gains.
Shane Watson's pads have never tired of planting themselves between ball and stumps but on Monday in Cardiff their failure to do so delivered the ultimate punchline at the Australian's expense.
'India missed the software products revolution (and now is in danger of missing the platform revolution), complacent that we are the software experts of the world based on IT services prowess,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
The market players are expected to react to the better than expected factory output data for the month of August, which revealed that the industrial production grew by 6.4%.
While the BJP emerged as the single largest party in 12 municipal bodies, it has majority in five of these bodies.
The 30-share Sensex, after opening on a strong footing, continued its upward march to hit an all-time high of 35,827.70. The NSE Nifty also hit a record intra-day high of 10,975.10, before finishing at 10,966.20, up 71.50 points.
A weakening dollar against other currencies overseas supported the rupee.
Belgium's Elise Mertens rallied from a set down to beat top seed Simona Halep 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 and clinch her first Premier-level title at the Qatar Open on Saturday.
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