Australia beat Pakistan by 31 runs to win the second one-day final at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday.
Root's innings was always going to be crucial to his team's chances of chasing down a record 354 at Adelaide Oval and although the innings limped on into a second hour, the hope raised among the English on Tuesday was gone.
Kerala budget for 2004-05 presented in the Assembly on Friday laid emphasis on agriculture, IT and tourism, making enhanced allocations to these sectors.
England, who hold the urn, were dismissed for 233 in their second innings in the opening session of the fifth and final day of the maiden pink ball Ashes Test.
Fiscal deficit fell marginally by 2.3 per cent to Rs 90,239 crore (Rs 902. 39 billion) in the first nine months of the financial year 2004-05 mainly due to higher tax mop-up.
While RBI's foreign exchange reserves have swelled to over $400 billion, it has a 'sell' position of $981 billion.
Jaitley does not believe in living on borrowed money.
The solar rooftop system will generate 7,200 kilowatts per system per year, and it will be used for powering internal lights, fans, and other electrical systems of the coach.
Honda Seil Cars India on Thursday said it would invest Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion) in the next two years for indigenisation and aims a hefty over 65 per cent sales growth this fiscal.
Life insurance industry grew by over 65 per cent to Rs 5,436 crore in September compared to Rs 3,291 crore premium income from new business in July, mainly due to the success of LIC's Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana.
A pulsating Ashes opener that had promised a grandstand finish will more than likely end early with a handsome win to Australia after Steve Smith's side pushed within 56 runs of victory at the close of day four on Sunday.
Bonuses are typically commensurate with deal activity in any given year. Investment banks, on average, pocket 2-3 per cent as fees for managing an IPO and 1.5-2 per cent for handling QIPs.
The life insurance industry posted 48 per cent growth in July with the Life Insurance Corporation and 12 private insurers mopping up Rs 3,291 crore in premium income, selling about 49 lakh policies during the month.
National Textiles Corporation's bonds issue to mop up around Rs 500 crore (5 billion) will hit the market next week.
The Sensex slipped to an intra-day low of 5,428, but has now recovered from the lower levels and is down 18 points at 5,445. The NSE is up a point at 1,701.
Historically, it is only the third time funds raised through IPOs has crossed the Rs 10k-crore mark
With the scope of expanding excise and customs duties getting increasingly limited, the government would turn to service tax for widening the tax base, mop up from which is expected to fetch over Rs 10,000 crore by 2005.
Play on the first day of the second Test between New Zealand and India was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Thursday.
The government is likely to mop up between Rs 950 crore and Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 9.5 billion and Rs 10 billion) from the public offer of shares in car-maker Maruti Udyog Ltd at Rs 122-125 a share.
The rupee rose to its highest close in over two years on Friday, helped by a bullish euro, though central bank intervention and importer demand kept it off the day's peak.\n\n\n\n
The central government's gross tax collections rose by 20 per cent to Rs 17,297 crore (Rs 172.97 billion) during the first two months of 2004-05.
Life Insurance Corporation of India lost more than 8 per cent market share after posting a marginal 1.93 per cent growth in business last fiscal, while private players grew by more than 153 per cent during 2003-04.
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, however, said that the appointment of judges would go ahead irrespective of whether new Memorandum of Procedure was in place or not.
The buoyancy in the capital market has enthused companies like Sterlite, UB, Bharat Forge and Centurion Bank to plan rights issues totalling Rs 2,450 crore this fiscal, which is more than double the Rs 1,006 crore raised in 2003-04.
Amid reports of a possible stake sale, low-cost airline SpiceJet on Friday said it is exploring all options to mop up funds to overcome the cash crunch.
If investors still have appetite to buy shares in one of the region's most expensive markets, Coal India might stack up.
Tax collections grew by 18 per cent at Rs 2,52,162 crore (Rs 2,521.62 billion), crossing the Budget target and pushing up the tax-GDP ratio to 9.1 per cent, during 2003-04.
Indirect tax revenues rose marginally by 5.6 per cent in the April-October period to over Rs 2.85 lakh crore, mainly on account of increase in service tax and customs collections.
The Centre's gross borrowing crossed Rs 1,62,000 crore (Rs 1,620 billion) as bond market turned bullish after a fall in price level in the country last week.
As many as 68 artworks went under the hammer on Tuesday evening and included works by the greats like Raja Ravi Varma, V S Gaitonde, F N Souza, Jogen Chowdhury, and Akbar Padamsee among others.
This is part of a strategy to mop up as much revenue as possible in the current financial year.
At first look, the reader would be aghast at the similarities in the DMK and AIADMK's manifestos, wondering if the same hand had drafted both. Yet, when it comes to drinking water and irrigation supplies, both parties are equally silent on the subject -- as if summer did not exist, as didn't water scarcity, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Chelsea's David Luiz never really looked cut out for a role as a defensive rock in one of England's meanest rearguards.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said on Saturday the economy was on course to achieve its target of 8 per cent growth during the next five years compared with current levels of 5.5 per cent.
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