2 arrested for Monda crash, toll rises to four

Police arrested a businessman and the contractor of the building under demolition on Sunday under the charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and launched a manhunt for three other businessmen in connection with the incident. Meanwhile, another person died at Gandhi Hospital, taking the toll to four in the incident. The police filed [...]

7 bank unions call for strike on February 28:services may be hit

NEW DELHI: As many as seven employees’ unions of banks have given a call for strike on Tuesday, demanding stringent measures to recover bad loans and opposing outsourcing of non-core activities to the private sector. “Seven bank unions of nine have given strike call for stringent and effective measures to recover bad loans of banks [...]

Huge rare pink diamond found in Australia

Mining group Rio Tinto has unearthed an extremely rare pink diamond, Australia’s biggest rough pink diamond weighing 12.76 carats at its Argyle mine. More than 90 percent of the world’s pink diamonds come from the Argyle mine in the East Kimberley region in the far northeast area of Western Australia.The diamond, discovered in the Argyle [...]

FRIDAY FIASCO 7 of 9 Kingfisher flights cancelled

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport witnessed one of the worst days on Friday with respect to cancellation of Kingfisher flights. The airport’s official website listed seven of the nine Kingfisher flights bound for various destinations from Shamshabad as cancelled. While no information or statement was released by Kingfisher Airlines, its officials said that passengers booked on [...]

Nelson Mandela hospitalized, ‘not in any danger’

JOHANNESBURG – Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalized Saturday for a test to determine what is behind an undisclosed stomach ailment, and the country’s current leader said the much beloved 93-year-old icon was in no danger.

Polio gone in India-World Health Organisation

It’s official now: India is no longer a polio endemic country. After witnessing a year-long polio-free period, India was on Saturday taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad made an announcement to this effect at the Polio Summit 2012 in the presence of [...]

YSR told us to invest in Jagan firms, say accused

The Central Bureau of Investigation is tightening the noose around YSR Congress president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy. It has recorded the statements of two industrialists who are named as accused in the case. Mr A.K. Dandamudi, a resident of Gunrock Enclave in Secunderabad, named as Accused No. 62, invested `10 crore and Mr Madhav Ramchandran [...]

BMW crash ends teen's life after birthday bash

Birthday boy Mohammed Abdul Shukoor Quadri’s celebrations turned tragic early on Wednesday morning when the BMW car the teenager was travelling in crashed at Jubilee Hills. Quadri died while the other occupants of the car escaped with minor injuries. Quadri, who was a Second Year Intermediate student of St Mary’s College at Yousufguda had been [...]

RBI TO ISSUE R 1,000 NOTES WITH INSET `R'

“The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue `1,000 denomination banknotes with inset letter ‘R’, in the Mahatma Gandhi Series bearing the signature of D. Subbarao, Governor, RBI, and the year of printing on the other side of the banknote,” the central bank said in a statement. The design of these notes to be issued [...]

Swiss banks to stop `loot'

Assets still to be kept secret Swiss banks have best secrecy clauses Swiss banks are known to have the strongest secrecy clauses globally, which have helped them attract the rich and the mighty from across the world, but this has also given them a “tax haven” tag. In a move that has implications for India’s [...]

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