* Vijender gets his bronze
Vijender [Images] Kumar was awarded his middleweight (75 kg) bronze medal on Saturday.The India shared the bronze with Darren Sutherland of Ireland.Britain's James DeGale won the gold by outpointing Cuba's Emilio Correa Bayeaux (who beat Vijender in the last four). Vijender, with his effort, made history by becoming the first Indian boxer to win an Olympic medal.
* One-hit wonder
Ukraine's Vasyl Lomachenko needed just one hit to snatch his Olympic title in the featherweight category on Saturday.The 2006 junior world champion, arguably the finest pound-for-pound amateur boxer, found the target after less than a minute in a one-sided contest against France's Khedafi Djelkhir.
* 'India won't accept prescriptive conditionalities'
As Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon headed for Washington to discuss amendments to the draft waiver being considered by the Nuclear Suppliers' Group, India on Saturday made it clear that it will not accept any 'prescriptive conditionalities' attached to the exemption.
* Arun Jaitley slams Hurriyat for 'lying'
Bharatiya Janata Party General Secretary Arun Jaitley slammed the Hurriyat Conference on Saturday, accusing them of lying about the 'economic blockade' against the Valley.
* Bekele wins 5000m to seal double
Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele sprinted to victory in the 5,000 meters on Saturday to become the first man to complete the Olympic long-distance double since 1980
* Images
Germany's Sabine Spitz won the women's cross-country Olympic mountain bike race on Saturday, after taking a commanding lead from the first lap of the 27-km race under a broiling sun.
* Cuban Matos gets life ban for kicking referee
Cuba's Angel Valodia Matos was banned for life from taekwondo on Saturday after he kicked the match referee in the head in his Olympic bronze medal bout, a tournament official said.
* Tale of raw injustice on R and AW's 11th floor
One read with a surreal feeling reports about the attempt by Nisha Bhatia, a directly-recruited officer in the research and analysis service of the Research & Analysis Wing, to commit suicide in the reception of the Prime Minister's Office while waiting for an appointment with a PMO official to once again ventilate her grievances against some R&AW officers.
* Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda resigns
harkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda resigned on Saturday, capping a week of political turmoil in the wake of withdrawal of support by Shibu Soren-led Jharkhand Mukti Morcha.Koda met Governor Syed Sibte Razi in Ranchi today evening -- after a meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi [Images] in New Delhi earlier in the day -- and handed over his resignation.
* Phelps, the Phenom
* Personalised books: The future of publishing
* How India Inc is creating a skilled labour pool
ICICI Bank has to sift through over 42 resumes on an average to find one candidate suitable for recruitment. A survey of CEOs of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange quoted ICICI boss K V Kamath as saying that India's largest private sector bank scanned through about 750,000 resumes to find 17,500 qualified candidates last year.
* World Bank - Most Asians were dead in 1950
Knowledge about the true level of a country's income serves many purposes. It informs us about present and future economic power, about the magnitude of poverty, etc. It can also inform us about the possibility of when a country, e.g. India might host the Olympics - as a spate of articles have speculated recently.The World Bank defines a person as poor if she consumes, on average, less than $1.08 per day in 1993 prices. This level of consumption is a bare minimum level, a level consistent with bare survival. But according to the new data, all of Asia had an average level of consumption of only 0.71 1993 PPP$ per day. In contrast, the estimate for sub-Saharan Africa is $2.07, and that for Latin America, $2.32. But maybe only some people were very poor in Asia. Not so.The average consumption of the bottom 80 per cent of the Asian population was 0.49, or less than half the absolute minimum poverty line. Are these numbers plausible? If yes, then you must not be reading it on planet Earth, because your grandparents did not survive the World Bank induced crash of 2005.
* Will the fall in oil prices last?
Following the shock of seeing crude prices pierce through the skies to touch $147/barrel in July 2008 from $50/barrel in January 2007 and its subsequent fall to $115 level has made optimists hope oil will slide back to near old levels in due course. Unfortunately, this optimism appears misplaced as strong market fundamentals point towards an extended run of the oil super cycle.
* Re 1, zero fares fly back in reckoning till September-end
Air travellers between Delhi and Mumbai have reason to rejoice. Low-cost carriers GoAir, IndiGo, SpiceJet and JetLite have gone back to zero and Re 1 air fares on India's busiest sector.These fares are expected to continue through the rest of the lean season, that is, till the end of September. Customers buying any low-cost carrier ticket on the Mumbai-Delhi route will only have to pay taxes and surcharges that range from Rs 3,400 to Rs 3,600
. * OVL mulls buying institutional holding in Imperial...
In an effort to stem a possible counter-bid by China's Sinopec and others, ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas exploration subsidiary of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, has through its advisor Deutsche Bank approached the large institutional investors of Imperial Energy to acquire their holdings.
* 'Tatas' exit to create vacuum in Bengal'
* Railways launches smart card for cashless treatment
* 3 Indians in Singapore's rich list
* Domestic LPG cylinders to have radio tags
* Mughal-E-Yawn
* Out of Breath
* Meera Jasmine in M S Sathyu's next
* Navya Nair's *Boss*
* Big B's Unforgettable gesture!
* Pooja Gandhi dons a swimsuit!
* Sudeep's double whammy!
* Works -- in parts
* A Lifetime In One Day
* *My Friend Ganesha* 2 disappoints
RSS Feed