The CBSE Class 10 board result will be out today at 10 am. Students from schools affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education are awaiting their results with mixed feelings as they will get grades instead of marks this year.

The Delhi University admission process is all set to kickstart today with the beginning of sale of forms at 16 centres across the city amidst uncertainty regarding implementation of the semester system. The session 2010-11 will also witness the third phase of OBC quota implementation that started three years ago.

Two sisters, aged 20 and 13, residing at Chhattarpur in Madhya Pradesh committed suicide by consuming poison on Wednesday as two police constables had taken one of the sister’s inappropriate video and were blackmailing and threatening them.

Truck and car maker Tata Motors has seen a turnaround in its fortunes. The company has posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 2,571 crore for FY10, against a loss of Rs 2,505 crore for the earlier year.

In yet another incident displaying lack of coordination at the Mumbai airport, a major collision between a Jet Airways flight and an Indigo aircraft was averted on Wednesday night. The Jet Airways pilot aborted landing on seeing the Indigo flight on the runway. The Director General of Civil Aviation, however, claimed that it was not a “near-miss” but a “runway incursion”.

Lower price of crude oil has helped oil marketing major Bharat Petroleum post better numbers for FY10, even as the government cut subsidy support to the firm.
BPCL recorded a net profit of Rs 1,720 crore for FY10 versus a net profits of Rs 724 crore in the year before. Profits for the fourth quarter were lower during FY09 as bulk o

The Central Information Commission on Thursday held that the relative assessment with peers which becomes the basis of promotion for a government employee should be disclosed under the RTI Act.

Bata India Limited, the largest shoes maker in the country has earmarked an investment of Rs 200 crore in the next three years, beginning this fiscal.
The investments will include opening of new stores as well as the installation of plant and machinery.

The southwest monsoon has not advanced much in the last few days because of lack of speedy winds but the Indian Meteorological Department is sticking to its prediction that it would set in over Kerala on May 30.

European markets received a boost on Thursday after China said that it would maintain part of its foreign reserve in Euro zone bonds.
This boost to the European markets, coupled with short covering of open positions in India pushed up the Sensex for the second day.