Banks are pushing into credit cards and personal loans, using blanket advertising, cold call campaigns and even sending employees to malls to lure customers.
Rajasthan Royals outplayed Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets in their Indian Premier League match in Ahmedabad, thereby registering their fifth straight win of the season.
When do you use 'practise' and when do you use 'practice'? We continue with our English blooper series.
The Pakistan-born bowler made an instant impact on his return to the South Africa line-up and his team mates made sure his hard work did not go to waste as they finished the day on 128 for three wickets, a 29-run first innings lead.
In yet another case of violence against people from the Northeast, a 29-year-old Manipuri youth was allegedly beaten to death by a group of five to six men in South Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur area in the wee hours of the day.
Brendan Taylor has been the boy on the burning deck all through his career for Zimbabwe.
Bobby Darling talks about life, sex, and reality television.
Urban Indians are developing a taste for freshly brewed and bottled craft beer.
The San Antonio Spurs withstood a furious late charge by the Cleveland Cavaliers to claim a 103-92 victory in Game 2 of the NBA finals.
"If there are people who don't like the organisation or don't like me, they will realise they have been wrong... they will realise that."
Akhtar Allabagayath's family in India has alleged that she had been harassed by her Bahraini employer.
A record-breaking year for the world's billionaires.
'It's not only holy reverence that drives them to such vigilantism -- there is adventure too.' 'Some of the younger gau rakshaks enjoy the thrill of the chase: Stopping vehicles, wielding weapons, badgering passengers and then gloating.'
The short-term risk to our external balances stems from the yellow metal.
Mumbai Indians will have their task cut out when they lock horns with Chennai Super Kings.
Dengue menace continued to rattle Delhi with a six-year-old boy and a woman succumbing to the vector-borne disease, raising the toll to 11 even as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said his government was mulling bringing a law to enable temporary takeover of private hospitals during emergencies.
Exports of computer software and services is likely to post a 29 per cent growth and reach close to Rs 100,000 crore
Given the volatility of the global marketplace, India is already on a strong wicket and well poised to provide a lucrative option to foreign investors.
David Warner and Shaun Marsh smashed fifties to complement their bowlers' efforts as Australia crushed England by seven wickets in the third one-day international in Sydney on Sunday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
'His prosecutors have no doubt turned a student union leader into a national figure - howsoever briefly - with their miscalculations and misdeeds, and have done Kanhaiya a huge favour.' 'But he will soon realise that it is a double-edged sword that he has been handed,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
Grant Elliot's all-round performance eclipsed Shahid Afridi's 29-ball blitz to secure New Zealand a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Pakistan in the first One Day International in Wellington on Saturday.
Liverpool defender Steve Finnan was arrested in April on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
Bodo tribals influence as many as 30 seats. No wonder, national parties are keen to forge alliances with Bodo groups.
Cristiano Ronaldo netted his 27th career hat-trick and Gareth Bale struck twice as Real Madrid bounced back in style from consecutive defeats with a thumping 8-2 La Liga win at Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday.
A Pakistan-born woman, who spent some time in Tel Aviv recently, sees a future for herself in Israel.
The launch of a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle was called off by the Indian Space Reasearch Organisation at the eleventh hour on Monday due to a fuel leak in its second stage -- in a setback to the mission to test its homegrown cryogenic engine -- after its failure three years ago.
Syrian troops had entered the smaller nation as peacekeepers in 1976.
The debate between the Congress and its ally Nationalist Congress Party on seat-sharing in Maharashtra for the Lok Sabha elections has taken a new turn. The NCP has told the Congress to go ahead on its own if it was sure of winning all the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Housing Development Finance Corporation has posted a 29 per cent jump in net profit to Rs 236.05 crore (Rs 2.36 billion) for the third quarter ended December 31, 2004 as compared to Rs 182.81 crore (Rs 1.82 billion) for the quarter ended December 31,
Automotive major Mahindra and Mahindra has posted a 24.8 per cent rise in vehicle sales, including three wheelers, at 12,055 units in November 2004 as against 9,662 units in same period last year.
Rediff.com presents some of the oddest Guinness world records held by Indians.
Former Newcastle United striker Faustino Asprilla is entering the world of business by designing and selling fruit-flavoured condoms in his native Colombia.
Spain started their World Cup qualifying campaign with a crushing 8-0 win over Liechtenstein, laying down a marker in Group G with a ruthless second-half display on Monday.
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