A few Hollywood A-listers traded arm candy for family on Oscar night.
In China, the toll stood at around 3,250 and in Italy it was 3,405.
Benchmark Sensex declined 224 points on Wednesday, snapping its four-session winning streak, mainly due to sell-off in IT and pharma counters amid rising concerns over possible aggressive interest rate hikes to tame high inflation. The 30-share index rebounded more than 1,200 points from the early lows before settling at 60,346.97 points, a total loss of 224.11 points or 0.37 per cent compared to Tuesday's closing level. The broader NSE Nifty closed lower 66.30 points or 0.37 per cent at 18,003.75 points.
Equity benchmark BSE Sensex closed at an all-time high of 62,272.68 on Thursday, tracking a firm trend in global markets after the US Fed minutes indicated a slower pace of rate increase that bolstered investors' sentiment. Extending its rally to the third straight day, the 30-share BSE benchmark rallied 762.10 points or 1.24 per cent to settle at 62,272.68, its record closing peak. During the day, it jumped 901.75 points or 1.46 per cent to its lifetime high of 62,412.33.he broader NSE Nifty gained 216.85 points or 1.19 per cent to end at 18,484.10.
M&M was the biggest loser in the Sensex pack, declining nearly 3 per cent, followed by TCS, Bajaj Finance, Wipro, Kotak Bank, Tech Mahindra, HCL Tech and Tata Motors. In contrast, Titan, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank and L&T were among the gainers, rising up to 0.93 per cent.
Noting that India continues to suffer from low, but improving, levels of economic freedom, the latest Index of Economic Freedom ranks the nation 120th globally and 25th among 43 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Time Warner, one of the world's largest media companies, is in the final stages to sell its New York headquarters in a whooping $1.3 billion, a media report said on Wednesday.
This is a culmination of the joint investigation carried out by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.
Trading in the domestic stock market would be influenced by trends in the global equities, macroeconomic data and foreign fund movement in a holiday-shortened week, analysts said. Markets may face volatile trends on Monday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at the Fed's annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole on Friday.
Yuri Milner purchased the 25,500 square foot property in Los Altos, California.
The Dalal Street was on Tuesday abuzz with an eerie coincidence that took place last night in the Wall Street, the US stock market, with its benchmark index S&P 500 closing at a level exactly same as that of October 3, 2008.
Chairman and CEO of Xerox, Ursula Burns, has revealed that one of the keys to her success was marrying a great man 20 years her senior.
'It is beyond belief that Obama failed to sense the disconnect that had developed between the ruling elites and the 'masses' in America, something that Trump, albeit a novice in electoral politics, spotted almost instinctively,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Wolf of Wall Street, Philomena, Gravity... check out which films some of our Bollywood filmmakers are rooting for!
JPMorgan Chase took the market by surprise on Thursday after it announced a $2 billion trading loss.
Microsoft Corp is considering Ericsson Chief Executive Hans Vestberg as a possible successor to outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer.
Das faced allegations of opposing enforcement of hate-speech rules against Bharatiya Janata Party and other right-wing leaders. She was also accused of posting messages in support of the BJP for several years on a Facebook group of the company's employees.
Aseem Chhabra explains why didn't like The Wolf Of Wall Street.
Gupta was convicted in 2012 following a jury trial of passing confidential information about Goldman Sachs to Raj Rajaratnam minutes after he learned about them at the board meetings.
Indian-American television star Mindy Kaling had Harvard graduates in splits as she delivered her commencement speech.
At the heart of these predictable manifestations of business cycles usually were financial instruments which became so popular that they came to be more commonly referred to by their abbreviations or acronyms than their original names.
While the users of the three social media platforms remained clueless as they repeatedly received error messages for most part of the day, the stocks of Silicon Valley firm Facebook dropped by nearly five per cent as a result.
Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed higher for a second straight session on Monday following buying in index majors Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank and recovery in global markets.
Facebook expects ad revenues to slow down in current year.
They realised that the Portuguese were better prepared to defend Daman than Dadra and Nagar Haveli. If reinforcements from Daman were to reach Silvassa, there was no chance of defeating the Portuguese. They decided that cutting Daman's communication lines would have to be their top priority before attacking Silvassa. A fascinating excerpt from Neelesh Kulkarni's new book, Uprising-The Liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Rajarengan 'Rengan' Rajaratnam, 42, of Manhattan, was charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Securities and Exchange Commission with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and six counts of securities fraud.
The company handed kickbacks to foreign govt officials in return for software contracts.
Ma Durga might be the city's most celebrated annual visitor, but Kali is the resident Goddess, notes Sandip Roy.
Airbnb, started in 2008, is now a $10 billion company.
Spokesperson said the hackers wanted to monitor the daily's coverage of China.
The panel had called him on the issue of the citizens' data safety.
The new tool lets users search for recommendations from friends.
India's economic development has been marred by corruption, says The Heritage Foundation.
When anonymous tweeter @Comfortablysmug tweeted 'Breaking: Confirmed flooding at NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) The trading floor is flooded under more than 3 feet of water,' it was picked up by the National Weather Service, the Weather Channel and CNN.
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq remained closed for the second consecutive day, the first time since 9/11, as superstorm Sandy swept across New York City, leaving the Wall Street powerless.
Goldman's relationship with ICBC was similar to that of other big global financial institutions that purchased stakes in Chinese banks and insurers.
Yahoo is in the process of auctioning off its search and advertising business.
Apple is likely to launch new product by 2014-end.
In an open letter to Narendra Modi, activists Rohit Prajapati, Trupti Shah and Nandini Manjrekar have questioned his contention on malnutrition and young girls' figure-consciousness
