New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Apex industry body Assocham has asked market regulator SEBI to treat housing finance companies (HFCs) on par with the private banks and public financial institutions (PFIs). Assocham (Associated Chambers of…
Mumbai, July 26 (IANS) Actor Zakir Hussain, who is best known for playing negative roles in films, will be seen as an honest and strict police commissioner named K.M. Dayal, in the TV show “Ek…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) In the second conviction in a coal block allocation case, a special court on Tuesday held Delhi-based Rathi Steel and Power Ltd. (RSPL) and three officials guilty of illegal allocation…
Mumbai: Music composer Shankar Mahadevan during the Shankar Ehsaan Loy, `Music for a cause` concert organized by (Cancer Patients Aid Association- CPAA) to create awareness about the ill-effects of tobacco, in Mumbai, on June 12,…
Gurgaon, July 26 (IANS) A 40-year-old trader from Tamil Nadu was on Tuesday found shot dead in an upscale hotel here, police said. He had been killed overnight. The deceased was identified as Sameer. He…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Veteran diplomat Arundhati Ghose, who led the Indian delegation at the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) negotiations in Geneva in 1996, passed away here early on Tuesday aged 76….
Imphal, July 26 (IANS) Irom Sharmila, who had long been on a hunger fast against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, on Tuesday surprised people with her announcement that she will end her fast on…
Guangzhou, July 26 (IANS) Guangzhou R&F defender Jang Hyun-soo has been named South Korean captain at the upcoming Rio Olympic Games, the Korea Football Association (KFA) said on Tuesday. The KFA said head coach Shin…
Samsung’s 3D plasma television. Tokyo, July 26 (IANS) Watching a lot of television every day may increase the risk of dying from a blood clot in the lungs, according to new research. A lung blood…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) The government on Tuesday denied it is considering any proposal of strategic sale, involving surrender of majority ownership, of state-run IDBI Bank. Minister of State for Finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Taiwan-based technology major ASUS on Tuesday announced that it has introduced the new Snapdragon 821 SoC in its ZenFone 3 Deluxe smartphone — making it the world’s first smartphone to…
Kolkata, July 26 (IANS) Historian Sujata Mukherjee will teach history of modern India with special emphasis on science, gender issues and health care at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand as the Indian…
Ghaziabad, July 26 (IANS) With crores of kanwarias expected to converge here in western Uttar Pradesh, police have reviewed security issues ahead of an annual gathering that will end on August 3. Uttar Pradesh Additional…
Las Palmas (Spain) July 26 (IANS) La Liga side Las Palmas on Tuesday announced that it will play a friendly game against the Emirati national team on Thursday in preparation for the new football season….
Guwahati, July 26 (IANS) Bollywood director Reema Kagti, who has made films like “Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd” and “Talaash: The Answer Lies Within”, feels Hindi cinema is doing “much better” than Hollywood on the issue…
Mumbai, July 26 (IANS) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday said that governments must protect the independence of their central banks for a stable sustainable growth. “It is important that governments…
Chennai/Thiruvananthapuram, July 26 (IANS) India has lost its arbitration case in an international tribunal against Bengaluru-based Devas Multimedia Private Ltd for cancelling its space/satellite contract with the government-owned Antrix Corporation, Devas said on Tuesday. In…
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) The CBI on Tuesday arrested the former managing director of Odisha-based Midas Touch Group of Companies and his wife in connection with its investigation into a multi-crore chit fund scam….
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) AAP parliamentarian Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi also be summoned before a panel set up to probe the alleged breach of Parliament security, saying the…
Paris, July 26 (IANS) At least two more people were arrested in France over their presumed links with the Bastille Day massacre in Nice which left 84 people dead, the media reported on Tuesday. The…