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RBI outlines broad plans on $150 billion...

RBI outlines broad plans on $150 billion bank bad loan resolution

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) outlined the broad contours of a plan to resolve the $150 billion bad debt problem plaguing the country’s banks Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) outlined on Monday the broad contours of a plan to resolve the $150 billion bad debt problem plaguing the... read more »

GST: Govt dictating prices goes against ...

GST: Govt dictating prices goes against free-market spirit; will anti-profi...

In an interview  on Monday, revenue secretary, Hasmukh Adhia, gave out an explicit warning to companies planning to increase prices on products ahead of the launch of Goods and Services Tax (GST) on 1 July. Adhia, in his not-so-indirect threat, openly asked companies to hold back rate increases... read more »

Xiaomi Redmi 4 review: Redmi 3S Prime HD...

Xiaomi Redmi 4 review: Redmi 3S Prime HD remaster

Xiaomi’s new Redmi 4 borrows heavily from last year’s Redmi 3S (Prime) in almost all the major departments, and yet, when you look at it for the first time and take it out for a ride, it’s a whole new ball game altogether. It’s about refining the jagged edges of the original... read more »

OnePlus 5 Colour Variants Teased, Might ...

OnePlus 5 Colour Variants Teased, Might Offer Interesting Choices

HIGHLIGHTS OnePlus has referred to one of the colours as “Unicorn” OnePlus 5 is expected to come in Black and Red colours as well The smartphone will be launched in Summer If there is any smartphone that has the rumour mills set in overdrive right now, it is the upcoming OnePlus 5.... read more »

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Sensex, Nifty surge most in 7 weeks on RBI hopes; rupee gains 0.6%

Sensex trades flat; midcap, smallcap stocks outperform

Frontline stock indices, Sensex and Nifty, remained flat today but midcap and smallcap stocks continued to see some buying activity. The Sensex was up 20 points at 21,190 while Nifty rose 8 points to... read more »

Shares of Apollo Tyres today ended nearly 6 % up a...

Shares of Apollo Tyres today ended nearly 6 per cent higher as investor concerns over its USD 2.5-billion merger agreement with Cooper Tire &... read more »

Sensex trades flat in pre-noon session

Sensex trades flat in pre-noon session

Mumbai – A benchmark index of Indian equities was trading flat at 21.81 points or 0.10 percent up during the pre-noon trade Tuesday. Good buying was... read more »

RBI warns of rising tide of NPAs

RBI warns of rising tide of NPAs

The Reserve Bank on Monday ruled out any major impact on domestic markets by the US Fed’s tapering its monthly bond buying programme from later this week,... read more »

FIPB approves Vodafone plan to fully own India business

FIPB approves Vodafone plan to fully own India business

New Delhi – The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) Monday approved a proposal of British telecom major Vodafone Group Plc to increase its stake to... read more »

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India, U.S., Japan joint naval exercise in Pacific today

India, the United States and Japan are embarking on joint naval manoeuvres in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday as part of the Malabar series of exercises. The exercise, in which 800 personnel from the... read more »

Access to govt. health care services poor, says re...

A new privately-funded, first-of-its-kind National Health Care Survey 2013 has found that awareness of government health and nutrition schemes is low... read more »

India rescues 58 more nurses from troubled Iraq

India has rescued 58 Indian nurses from violence-hit Iraq in an “extremely difficult” operation, days after rescuing 46 Indian nurses who were in the... read more »

‘Corruption, faulty design are reasons for poor quality...

Leader of the Opposition Jagadish Shettar during a debate on the demands of the Public Works Department in the Legislative Assembly in Bangalore on Wednesday.... read more »

10 students killed as train rams bus in Medak

More than 10 students were killed when a train rammed into a school bus at an unmanned level crossing near Masaipet village of Medak district, about 60... read more »

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Proteas wins over India in first ODI

Dhoni concerned over lack of all-rounders

Kolkata – India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni Tuesday expressed concern over the lack of all-rounders in the side, saying the team needed to find someone like Ravindra Jadeja. “Now that we... read more »

Tendulkar is much more than strokeplay and statistics

Tendulkar is much more than strokeplay and statist...

By Veturi Srivatsa Sachin Tendulkar is on the home stretch, playing his last two Test matches of an amazing career spanning almost a quarter century.... read more »

Diego Costa right to choose Spain: Pele

Diego Costa right to choose Spain: Pele

Sao Paulo – Football legend Pele has backed Diego Costa’s decision to commit his future to Spain, describing the Brazil-born striker’s move... read more »

Ancelotti praises Ronaldo

Ancelotti praises Ronaldo

Madrid – Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has again piled praise on striker Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of his side’s Champions League tie away to... read more »

Wawrinka beats Berdych in ATP World Tour Finals opener

Wawrinka to play in Chennai Open

London – Seventh seed Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland stunned fifth-seeded Tomas Berdych in the opening game of the ATP World Tour Finals here... read more »

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James Foley beheading: Hunt on for ‘British’ jihadist

UK police and security services are attempting to identify a suspected British jihadist who appeared in footage of the killing of a US journalist. Extremist group Islamic State (IS) published a video... read more »

After Strike on Family, Fate of Hamas Commander Is...

JERUSALEM — The fate of Muhammad Deif, the commander in chief of Hamas’s military wing, remained a mystery on Wednesday, like much of his life... read more »

Bank of America Expected to Settle Huge Mortgage Case f...

The Justice Department is poised to announce a $16.65 billion settlement with Bank of America over accusations that it duped investors into buying toxic... read more »

Clashes Erupt as Liberia Sets an Ebola Quarantine

MONROVIA, Liberia — Soldiers and police officers in riot gear blocked the roads. Even the waterfront was cordoned off, with the coast guard stopping... read more »

Palestine Must be Firmed as a Sovereign State by UN

The Gaza Strip is the “weeping shore” of our times. It is just a 45-km-long and 5-12 km-wide piece of land crammed with people from the lower income group,... read more »

Nepal gets its new constitution, but here’s why it has got India worried

India has reasons to be perturbed about the volatile situation in Nepal, a country with which India shares an open and contiguous 1751-km-long border. India’s biggest concern is that... read more »

Jagmohan Dalmiya: The man who drove BCCI forward as a commercial powerhouse

Kolkata: President Jagmohan Dalmiya, who passed away in Kolkata today, will forever be remembered as the man who made Indian cricket a self sufficient entity and engineered a shift of power... read more »

Apple’s iOS App Store suffers first major attack

BOSTON: Apple Inc said on Sunday it is cleaning up its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the popular mobile software... read more »

This day, that year: Yuvraj Singh hits six sixes off Stuart Broad

For whatever he has achieved as an Indian cricketer, Yuvraj Singh will perhaps most be associated with September 19, 2007. For it was on this unforgettable day at Kingsmead that he etched... read more »

Hockey India upholds Gurbaj Singh ban, player to move court

Hockey India decided to uphold the nine-month ban imposed on midfielder Gurbaj Singh, after they found his appeal and explanation unsatisfactory. The decision virtually renders him unavailable for... read more »