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March , 2010
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China's insatiable demand for energy to power its economy has made it a serious contender ...
HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, said a theft of data by a former employee affected up ...
London-based oil major BP has agreed to buy Brazilian, Azeri and Gulf of Mexico assets ...
Russia is considering inviting state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp to develop oil and gas ...
Food prices moderated slightly while fuel price inflation accelerated in late February adding pressure on ...
The rupee hit its highest in nearly two months, boosted by stronger regional peers and ...
Most members of the World Trade Organization are years behind in providing data about farm ...
Around one in two sovereign wealth funds invest in private equity, real estate and infrastructure ...
Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Wednesday he believed Britain would maintain its coveted top ...
Daimler, the world's leading truckmaker, expects commercial vehicle markets in developed countries to rebound only ...

Rafaeli urged to dump

An Israeli nationalist group has urged supermodel Bar Rafaeli to ditch boyfriend, Hollywood star Leonardo Dicaprio so that she can settle down with a Jewish husband. The supermodel, who has been dating the ''Titanic'' star on and off since 2005, ...
Rafaeli urged to dump

Two blasts rock Lahore

Two powerful blasts went off near a crowded mosque within the heavily-guarded cantonment in Lahore on Friday, killing at least 39 people and injuring almost 100 others in the latest in a slew of terror attacks across Pakistan. "Thirty-nine people ...
Two blasts rock Lahore

A trip to Las Vegas

One can't really start with day one of any trip to Las Vegas. After awhile, it just kinda all blends together. Its amazing how a huge desert can provide such beautiful tropical getaways. Seeing volcanos exploding, pirate ships sinking and ...
A trip to Las Vegas

Are you being harassed at your workplace?

A study has revealed that 79 per cent of women face sexual harassment at workplace and those in casual and contract jobs are more at risk. 79 per cent of women face sexual harassment at workplace. Anthony LaMontagne, associate professor at ...
Are you being harassed at your workplace?

Is Butler sex paranoid?

Hollywood actor Gerard Butler, who has been romantically linked to Jennifer Aniston, is by his own admission 'paranoid' about sex and doesn't want to engage in bad behaviour, reports said. Contactmusic.com reports that referring to golfer Tiger Woods, whose extra-marital affairs ...
Is Butler sex paranoid?

Sensex at 7-week high level

Stock markets turned edgy today with the benchmark Sensex closing with a marginal 1.34-point drop after a volatile session, as an impressive industrial growth coupled with high inflation rate fuelled fear of imminent hike in lending rates. The Bombay Stock Exchange's ...
12 March 2010 | Read the full story

Rafaeli urged to dump

An Israeli nationalist group has urged supermodel Bar Rafaeli to ditch boyfriend, Hollywood star Leonardo Dicaprio so that she can settle down with a Jewish husband. The supermodel, who has been dating the ''Titanic'' star on and off since 2005, ...
12 March 2010 | Read the full story

Modi should resign

With the Special Investigation Team (SIT) summoning Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning in connection with the post-Godhra riots, Congress today demanded that he should quit on moral grounds. "Modi has no right to be the chief minister once the ...
12 March 2010 | Read the full story

A trip to Las Vegas

One can't really start with day one of any trip to Las Vegas. After awhile, it just kinda all blends together. Its amazing how a huge desert can provide such beautiful tropical getaways. Seeing volcanos exploding, pirate ships sinking and ...
12 March 2010 | Read the full story

An ‘objectiveless’ and timid budget-II

March - 13 - 2010 By: TDI Bureau Respond

All in all, there have been some welcome extra investment in infrastructure and highways, good non-pollution initiatives, and some great tax structure changes if you are a tax-payer
Arindam Chaudhuri
No measures to stop speculation in food. No recommendation of strict punishment to the hoarders and no announcement of using the country’s huge forex reserves to import [...]

Second green revolution?

March - 13 - 2010 By: TDI Bureau Respond

Is there any solution to the ongoing BT brinjal controversy? Do we really need BT modified crops? These and other questions are being debated by farmers, food experts, politicians and multinationals. The proponents of BT brinjal say that it will herald a second green revolution. But the opponents argue that India can manage without modified [...]

ISI supports LeT, other terror outfits in Pak: HM

March - 12 - 2010 By: TDI Bureau Respond

Trashing Pakistan’s assertion that state actors were not involved in terror acts against India, Home Minister P Chidambaram today said LeT and every other militant outfit of that country is supported by ISI and they have set up modules and sleeper cells in this country.
“If it is the state policy to sponsor terrorism, if the [...]

Two blasts rock Lahore

March - 12 - 2010 By: TDI Bureau Respond

Two powerful blasts went off near a crowded mosque within the heavily-guarded cantonment in Lahore on Friday, killing at least 39 people and injuring almost 100 others in the latest in a slew of terror attacks across Pakistan.
“Thirty-nine people were killed and 95 wounded in the attacks,” Punjab provincial police chief Tariq Saleem Dogar [...]

An ‘objectiveless’ and timid budget-I

March - 11 - 2010 By: TDI Bureau Respond

In the middle of such an environment, what’s the role of an annual budget? Is it to maintain status quo or to give the world a robust signal that we are committed to our people — the 45 crore people who earn below 1.25 dollars a day
Arindam Chaudhuri
Shortage of a hundred and fifty million rural [...]

Lonely island, Prayer of pain

March - 11 - 2010 By: TDI Bureau Respond

No political discourse in Tamil Nadu is complete without the mention of Kachatheevu, the uninhabited barren Island of 285 acres in the waters between Sri Lanka and India. When the maritime boundaries between India and Sri Lanka were settled in 1974, this small island, which belonged to the Raja of Ramanathapuram, was ceded to Sri [...]