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The intelligence input was as specific as it gets -- four persons, including Veerappan, are moving in an ambulance on their way to a hospital.
The PNB fiasco falls into a family line that involves non-fund limits - read contingent liabilities which are off-books. Harshad Mehta did it with bankers' receipts in 1992. Ketan Parekh exploited the ignorance of bankers who did not know the difference between a cheque and a pay-order. And the RBI blinked when it failed to insist the SWIFT platform be linked to the core banking solution. Raghu Mohan & Abhijit Lele trace the banking mess that was just waiting to happen.
The Mumbai player was beaten by third seed Konstantin Gruber of Austria.
Top seed Rohan Bopanna was knocked out of the ONGC-ITF Masters tennis tournament losing both his singles as well as doubles matches.
The former got the better of Nitin Kirtane while Irishman Peter Clarke beat Vinod Sridhar in the semi-finals of the ITF Satellite tournament.
In a quarter-final between two qualifiers, Kirtane held his nerve to beat the United States' Nima Roshan in the ITF Satellite tournament.
Tata Sons on Friday announced organisational changes, bringing in S Padmanabhan as the group human resources head.
The US-based Indian ace easily beat Indonesia's Prima Simpatiaji to win the ITF Satellite title.
Mankad progressed after his opponent Jamie Delgado of England retired due to dehydration, while Capkovic beat Karan Rastogi 6-4, 6-2 in the other semi-final.
V M Ranjeet shocked Kamal Kannan while Vinod Sridhar beat Amod Wakalkar in the semifinals of the All India Ranking Tennis tournament.
Vijay Kannan, Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthy easily won their quarter-final matches in the individual events at the Afro-Asian Games.
Eighth seed Vijay Kannan however failed to advance, losing to Murad Inoyatov of Uzbekistan, in the ITF Futures tournament.
Ajay Ramaswamy won the battle of Indians when he beat Vijay Kannan to enter the final of ITF Satellite Masters tennis tournament.
The Indian wild card beat the sixth seeded Indonesian to enter the quarter-finals in the ITF Futures tournament.
Public sector oil giant Indian Oil Corporation is investing $100 million in its Sri Lankan subsidiary Lanka IOC Ltd during 2004-05 as part of its retail foray in the island country.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
Two of India's leading players were shown the door in the first round of the ITF men's Futures tournament in Delhi.
The unseeded Indian rallied after dropping the first set to make the second round in the ITF Futures tournament.
India beat The Philippines 3-0 in the semi-finals. They will take on Nigeria in the final.
Lenders can now review a borrower account within 30 days of default. Earlier, the banks had to start resolution within one day of default.
Here's a look at what's happening in the world of Malayalam cinema.
Sunil Kumar Sipaeya beat Somdev Dev Varman while Vishal Uppal got the better of Vijay Kannan in the ITF Futures tennis championship.
The Indian challenge in the men's singles ended with the ouster of Punna Vishal.
Yeu-Tuoo Wang of Chinese Taipei, at 204, is the highest ranked player in the fray for the ITF Futures tennis tournament in Mumbai.
Indian Oil Corporation said on Thursday that it would spend Rs 2,400 crore (Rs 24 billion) on overhauling its marketing operations
The duo defeated Sunil Sipaeya and Vinod Sridhar to clinch the men's doubles tennis title at the Afro-Asian Games.
Prakash Amritraj retired hurt while trailing Australian Sadik Kadir in the ITF Futures tournament in Jakarta.
Two first-half goals enabled runners-up of the last edition Goa to beat Maharashtra 2-0 in the National Games football competition.
Prakash Amritraj rallied to edge past Eliran Dooyev of Israel Mustafa Ghouse ousted Ajay Ramaswami in the ITF Satellite tournament.
He was beaten by Arvind Parmar of Great Britain in the
After an initial close fight, AINRC managed to win only eight seats, including the Indira Nagar constituency by party founder and Chief Minister N Rangasamy.
The victory gave the Indian Davis Cupper a berth in the last four of the ITF tournament.
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