Closing event promises to be youth-centric
Johannesburg, July 10: The curtain will fall on a riveting and successful Fifa World Cup with an elaborate closing ceremony. Just like the event that has seen the old order being overthrown by a fresh
NCP sets up new front
New Delhi, July 9: Fissures are developing in the ruling UPA with the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party on Friday announcing a new “Secular Democratic Front” at the state level across the co
Rumour on 2G fuels tele stocks
New Delhi, July 9: Speculation about the rejection of telecom regulator’s recommendations on 2G spectrum has boosted the stock prices of telecom companies on Friday. The major gainers were Bharti and
Rainbow Nation has an orange tinge
Johannesburg, July 10: Johannesburg is getting ready for a Dutch party. Holland has an historic connection with South Africa. White Afrikaaners here are Dutch descendants. In addition, more than 60,00
Afzal, Congress’ son-in-law: Nitin
New Delhi, July 9: The BJP president, Mr Nitin Gadkari, has done it again!
After a profuse spree of apologising for describing Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav as “dogs... who lick th
Biz Briefs
The Registrar of Companies on Friday said that it served 11,888 notices to companies in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh for not filling balance sheets under the Companies Act 1956.
Gujarat
TV channels hit by Insat snag
Bengaluru, July 9: Space scientists are working to fix a power glitch which forced a shutdown of half of the transponders on board Insat-4B satellite, disrupting telecasts by 50 television channels an
D’Artagnan for feature
Bengaluru, July 9: S. Padmanabhan-trained D’Artagnan looks set to win the HDIL B.T.C. Anniversary Cup, the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday.
Selections:
1st race: The Commanche
$2 million cap if teams want to retain players
July 8: One of the suggestions to be considered for the fourth season of IPL is whether there should be a salary cap of $2 million for players retained by the fanchises who would also be a part of the
Spanish lulla-bye for Germans
July 8: Paul has proved to be prophetic. The German octopus with psychic powers had predicted a Spain win in the second semi-final. Spain duly obliged the celebrity invertebrate to enter their maiden