The Government’s decision to hike railway fares which will help in achieving fiscal consolidation, failed to enthuse investors sentiment in today’s trade. After a positive start, the Indian market failed to keep the momentum going  and finally ended in the red. BSE Sensex closed 3.04 points down

Chesteshwar Pujara has gone all out to prove that he can be another Virender Sehwag. In the Ranji quarter-finals against Karnataka, he slammed 352 off 427 balls with 49 fours and 1 six. Add to this, his record against the Englishmen in the Test series — 438 runs at 87.60 — and he should be a shoe

POONCH (J&K): The Pakistani army on Thursday refused to allow trucks from India carrying goods at cross-Line of Control trade point in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, in the backdrop of tension in bilateral relations following ceasefire violations which killed 2 Indian troops. 25 trucks

Emergency humanitarian assistance for Palestinians whose houses and properties were destroyed by floods in the last few days was ordered by Shaikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in the Western Region and President of the Red Crescent Authority (RCA). The initiative came upon d

[caption id="attachment_20582" align="alignnone" width="237"] LG TV[/caption] LAS VEGAS: LG unveiled a  55-inch TV that sports "ultrahigh-definition" resolution with four times the sharpness of regular HD television sets, kicking off what is likely to be a mini-obsession with the latest super-cle

  "What are your short term goals?" This question primarily depends on where you are in your career. A person with 5 years of experience will have different short term goals than a person with no work experience. I'll give an example for both scenarios. But first, here are some short answ

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A new traffic rule that bans speaking on phones while driving cars in China has sparked a frenzy among users to buy Bluetooth earphones online, resulting in many websites running out of stock. E-commerce websites like 360buy.com and Amazon China have sold out their stock of Bluetooth earphones, t

Washington: Chinese phone-maker Huawei Technologies havs unveiled two phones, terming them the world’s “biggest” and the “most powerful” smartphones. The Ascend Mate and the Ascend D2 were unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Xinhua reported. The company said the phones with big

There are about 17 billion in the milky way — but the search for a 'goldilocks planet', just right to support life, goes on Los Angeles: Our Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That’s more than two Earth-size planets for eve

Dubai: At a conference on Wednesday titled ‘Dubai: Capital of Islamic Economy’, His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, announced a group of initiatives to a set up a comprehensive platform of Islamic economy products and s

  AMMAN, Jordan — The fiercest winter storm to hit the Mideast in years has unleashed deadly flash flooding in the West Bank, dumped a rare foot of snow on desert Jordan, and disrupted traffic on the Suez Canal in Egypt. The unusual weather was a particularly harsh blow for the vulnerable

India will raise railway passenger fares for the first time in nine years, snapping a populist trend in order to help mend the finances of a network whose creaky service has become a drag on the economy. Railways Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said on Wednesday the fare increase, which comes into ef