Indian retailers are an optimistic lot when it comes to deciding on expansion plans for 2009. Retailers such as Spencer's Retail, Future Group, Shoppers Stop, Westside, Wills Lifestyle, Bata India, and Raymond find the 30-40 per cent drop in retail rentals a reason to cheer.
The World Bank appointed Lafitte as the neutral expert to resolve the dispute for the 450 MW power project in May after Pakistan said construction of the project violated the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.\n\n
'Somehow the Flying Sikh has endured in people's memory.'
Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis lifted their ninth title together this year beating the Spanish pair of Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro to clinch the WTA Finals women's doubles trophy, in Singapore, on Sunday.
Pakistan approached the bank, which is a signatory to the 1960 Indus Water Treaty between the two countries, for arbitration after failure of talks with New Delhi early this year.
Lafitte was appointed neutral expert for the contentious 450 mw power project in May by the World Bank after Pakistan said construction of the Baglihar project violated the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.
Hours after the verdict was announced, Azad visited the dam site in the mountainous Doda district and met the engineers and workers who were jubilant at the verdict by the World Bank appointed arbitrator Prof Raymond Lafitte.
India welcomed the report on Baglihar saying the finding of neutral experts that New Delhi's designs were in conformity with the basic principles of the Indus-Water treaty.
The Indian pair first stunned the second seeded US-Swedish pair of Lisa Raymond and Simon Aspelin 6-3, 2-6, 10-7 in the second round to enter the quarter-finals, and then advanced a round further thanks to a walkover from their quarter-final opponents, seventh seeds Kveta Peschke and Martin Damm, who had beaten Galina Voskoboeva and Frantisek Cermak 6-1, 6-1 in their second round match.
India's Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna fell by the wayside at the Australian Open on Monday.
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The 51-year-old was a member of the Croatian team that finished third in the 1998 World Cup.
Earlier, the IOA Secretary General Rajeev Mehta said expenses of the ceremonial dress and playing kits of the athletes do not come from its coffers. He claimed that cost will be borne by the sponsors who have signed a contract with it to deal with only the affiliated federations.
The tata group intends to invest Rs 1,500 crore (Rs 15 billion) in setting up 150 'value hotels' in India and abroad over the next five years.
Nasdaq-listed IT services firm Kanbay International, which employs 3200 people in India
Lafitte, a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne along with two Swiss, six Pakistani and four Indian officials flew in from New Delhi, officials said.
The Taj Mahal Hotel, which completed 100 years of existence on Tuesday, will continue as the symbol of India's hospitality and warmth, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata said in Mumbai.
To mark Prime Minister Modi's seventh meeting with Obama and his historic joint address to US Congress -- the sixth Indian PM to do so -- India Abroad, the newspaper published from New York and owned by rediff.com, reached out to diplomats and strategic thinkers in New Delhi and Washington, DC, to assess the current state of the US-India relationship and suggest a road map for the future.
Faiza Outalha, an estranged wife of American-born Lashkar e Tayiba terrorist David Headley, has replied to all questions of the National Investigation Agency relating to her knowledge of the conspiracy behind the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
The Indo-Russian pair shocked top seeds top seeds Paola Suarez and Todd Woodbridge in thr semis at the French Open.
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis thrashed Austrian-Hungarian fifth seeds Alexander Peya and Timea Babos 6-1, 6-1 to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon.
Trezeguet had recently played in the Indian Super League for Pune City FC.
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Fast cars, marathons, golfing and shooting - nothing stops these high-power tycoons from pursuing their passion.
The top-seeded duo battled past the Rodionova sisters of Australia, Anastasia and Arina, 6-7, 6-3, 10-5 in their opening round match of the US $731,000 clay-court event.
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The 112-year old hotel chain has readied a three-pronged turnaround plan
'Hathras, Muradabad, Trichur, Salem, Madurai, Aligarh and Kanpur are cities where we are expecting and in some cases have seen new buyers come from.'
United States President Barack Obama has nominated Indian-American, Richard Rahul Verma, as the next US Ambassador to India, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington later this month.
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