Modi to reply by Tuesday
Suspended IPL chairman Lalit Modi is all set to submit by Tuesday his reply to the third show cause notice that BCCI slapped on him for alleged irregularities in the awarding of Twenty20 League’s theatrical rights, his legal adviser said on Friday.
India look to redeem pride
After the humiliation they suffered in the ODI tri-series, India will look to make amends and take revenge against giant-slayers Zimbabwe in the first of the two T20 Internationals here on Saturday
C.S. Verma is SAIL new chairman
Under a new chairman, India’s largest steel-maker SAIL plans to spread its wings over the global landscape and produce speciality steel for nuclear power plants, defence and the space sector.
Citi sells stake in 6 firms
Continuing its selling spree, global financial major Citigroup on Friday offloaded shares of seven domestic companies, including six Sensex firms like Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank, in block deals valued at Rs 109.6 crore.
Industry grows 17.6%, hits 20-yr high
After last fiscal’s double-digit expansion, industrial production picked up more steam to grow by 17.6 per cent in April, boosting the prospects of achieving 8.5 per cent economic growth in 2010-11.
Marans close in on SpiceJet buy
Media magnate, Mr Kalanithi Maran, is close to buying about 37 per cent equity in low cost carrier SpiceJet at an estimated Rs 45 a share that would cost him about Rs 700 crore.
Police freed Anderson after ‘deleting’ charge
Three days after the Bhopal gas tragedy, the police here had released the then Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson and two others on bail by “deleting” in the complaint a stringent charge under the IPC against them, trial court sources said on Friday.
Bardhan: Time for course correction
Holding the “wrong” industrialisation and other policies of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government responsible for the defeat of Left Front in the recent West Bengal civic polls, CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Friday said they need to be reconsidered.
‘Osama to have British grandchild’
A 24-year-old British woman is all set to give birth to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s grandchild, a media report said.
Free English lessons for foreign taxi drivers in UK
A British city is offering free English language lessons to foreign-origin taxi drivers with a poor grasp of the language.