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Monthly News March 2014

ICC World Twenty20: India wallop Austral...

ICC World Twenty20: India wallop Australia by 73 runs to emerge Group Champ...

Mirpur: India continued their dream run in the ICC World T20 as they pounded a listless Australia by a whopping 73-run margin to emerge group 2 champions with an all-win record, here on Sunday.Put into bat, India scored 159 for seven with Yuvraj Singh showing glimpses of his destructive self with... read more »

Surat-Kolkata flight receives overwhelmi...

Surat-Kolkata flight receives overwhelming response

SURAT: The newly launched Surat-Kolkata flight has received an overwhelming response by the residents in the diamond city, especially the Bengali residents. Around 400 passengers travelled on the Surat-Mumbai-Bangalore and Surat-Kolkata-Delhi sectors respectively on Sunday. Sources said that the... read more »

Forex, money markets closed today for Gu...

Forex, money markets closed today for Gudi Padwa

Forex, money and major commodity markets will remain closed on Monday on account of Gudi Padwa. The Indian rupee in its previous session on Friday had continued its upward march and shot up by 40 paise to close above 60-mark for the first time in last eight months, buoyed by strong local equities... read more »

Sebi to develop mobile app for investors

Sebi to develop mobile app for investors

Capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) plans to bring out a mobile application to increase financial literacy among the public for which it will garner ideas from students. Sebi, which has been looking at ways to leverage technology and social media for its... read more »

North and South Korea Exchange Fire Across Disputed Sea Border

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea conducted extensive live-fire military drills off its southern coast on Monday, some of its artillery shells falling south of the disputed sea border... read more »

Bollywood actress Katrina Kaif to miss debut at Cannes Film Festival?

Bollywood actor Katrina Kaif says her “date issues” may keep her away from her debut at the upcoming edition of the Cannes International Film Festival in France, where she was likely... read more »

Parts of Delhi-UP highway to be closed today

New Delhi – In the wake of protest call given by some Muslim groups, the Delhi Traffic Police has decided to close National Highway 24 – that connects Delhi to Uttar Pradesh... read more »

Terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar will not hang, says Supreme Court

New Delhi – A man convicted for a bomb blast in Delhi in which nine people were killed in 1993 will not hang, the Supreme Court said. Devinderpal Singh Bhullar was convicted in... read more »

Kerry calls for pullback of Russian troops from Ukraine border

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Russia must pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border to deescalate the tension following Crimea’s... read more »