Night temperatures across Kashmir dropped slightly after a day's relief, bringing back the cold wave conditions prevalent over the Valley in the last week.
A SIT has begun process to freeze bank accounts of arrested accused in the Bihar toppers scam. M I Khan/Rediff.com reports from Patna.
Nokia said the freezing of the fixed assets would not have any impact on the day-to-day operations of the company.
State-owned fuel retailers are losing close to Rs 3 per litre on selling diesel while the profit on petrol has trimmed due to recent firming up in international oil prices, industry officials said detailing reasons for continuing to hold retail prices. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL), who control roughly 90 per cent of India's fuel market, 'voluntarily' have not changed petrol, diesel and cooking gas (LPG) prices for almost two years now, resulting in losses when input cost was higher and profits when raw material prices were lower.
Top Indian IT services companies - TCS, Infosys, Wipro and HCL Tech - have said that they would continue to hire freshers through campus interviews, though lateral hiring will be mostly on exception basis.
'If I'm too nice, it doesn't help in that position.' 'My position almost asks me to be aggressive and not very nice.'
The bank also slashed lending rate on credit to farmers against cold storage and warehouse receipts to 8 per cent, a bank release said.The new rates will be applicable to all customers availing loans between February 23 and May 31, 2009, the bank said.
NGO rebuts Enforcement Directorate's charges.
Petrol and diesel prices were cut by Rs 2 per litre each as state-owned oil companies ended a nearly two-year-long hiatus in rate revision, just hours before the general election schedule was announced.
As winter approaches, the days get shorter and it's the time when the Kashmir Valley turns orange-red.
In fresh trouble for YSR Congress chief and Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Central Bureau of Investigation is freezing the accounts of three companies owned by him, including the Sakshi TV.
The London high court had upheld the decision of the British government to freeze on India's request Quattrocchi two accounts having three million Euros and one million dollars respectively.
Hours after an Iranian military commander claimed to have located the crash site of the helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, conflicting reports emerged as the head of Iran's Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Koulivand, said that rescue teams are still searching the area for the accident site.
Cold wave tightened its grip in Kashmir Valley on Saturday as the night temperature plummeted to the season's lowest in many places, resulting in the freezing of fringes of the famous Dal Lake for the first time this winter.
Networking giant Cisco Systems on Monday said it has frozen the hiring process and is adopting a wait and watch policy due to the global slowdown besides cutting costs up to $2 billion through various means. Cisco is adopting a wait and watch policy of 6-8 weeks before taking any decisions. It also plans to cuts costs up to $2 billion through measures like slashing travel costs.
The family of B Ramalinga Raju, the main accused in the multi-crore fraud at Satyam Computer, has approached a local court seeking a direction to de-freeze bank accounts and return seized electronic items.
The Chinese military on Thursday said the situation along the India-China border 'at present' is 'generally stable' and both sides have maintained 'effective' communication to resolve the military standoff in eastern Ladakh.
Cold wave conditions remained unabated as the night temperature across Kashmir continued to stay below the freezing point with forecasts for dry spell.
The judge said the attitude of the accused left no option for the court, but to freeze Musharraf's bank accounts and confiscate his property.
There has been no let off in the cold wave in northern India.
As the night temperature plummeted to below freezing point in many parts of the Kashmir valley including Srinagar, dense fog engulfed the city and other parts.
At Congress' 'Jan Vedna Sammelan' earlier this month, Gandhi had made comments co-relating his party's symbol 'hand' with religious gods.
Finance Ministry has written to the Power Ministry asking to freeze the completion costs of Dabhol plant.
The ED had conducted searches against the legislator, Sai Aaina Farms Pvt Ltd (now Mahira Infratech Pvt Ltd), other companies of the Mahira Group and some others in July last year.
You can turn out dairy-free bites using tofu instead of paneer.
The sun makes its annual visit to the Gavi Gangadhareshwara cave temple in Bengaluru.
Last month, the Security Council Committee enacted amendments to certain entries in its ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban, and arms embargo.
Temperatures have plunged to -30 degree Celsius (-22F) and below in parts of North America as extreme cold weather known as a polar vortex strikes the region. At least eight people are reported to have died in incidents related to the weather.
Times have changed, situations have changed, but the basic nature of superpower geo-politics remains the same and so also India's diplomacy -- call it non-alignment, strategic autonomy or neutrality; it all depends on the time scale, notes Rup Narayan Das.
IPC Section 153 (wantonly giving provocation with the intent to cause riot) was invoked against the professor.
Ministry of External Affairs officials summoned the Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Gloria Berbena at its office in South Block in Delhi and lodged a strong protest against a US State Department official's remarks on Kejriwal's arrest.
According to norms, census can be conducted only three months after the freezing of boundary limits of administrative units such as districts, sub-districts, tehsils, talukas and police stations.
The freeze on special economic zones may go in the next 10 days, with the empowered group of ministers expected to give its nod to proposals that show land has already been tied up.
The Central Bureau of Investigation court, which is hearing a plea challenging the freezing of accounts owned by YSR Congress President Jaganmohan Reddy, will deliver its verdict on May 14.
Prince William, the second-in- line to the British throne, has spent a night sleeping rough on the streets of London in freezing temperatures as part of his work supporting a charity for the homeless.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said Tel Aviv will have a new accord with Washington to temporarily freeze construction in West Bank, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the bonds between the two countries are "steadfast".
