A truck packed with explosives detonated outside the provincial council office in Kandahar, killing the driver and at least six other people and wounding more than 40 others... more »

Finance Minister P Chidambaram today met heads of central public sector enterprises and is believed to have impressed upon them to park surplus funds with public sector banks as per the government directive issued early this year... more »

Leading financial services firm ICICI Securities on Wednesday opened a branch at Muscat in Oman, primarily targeting NRI clientele in the region.. more »

The ESOP allotment committee of Kotak Mahindra Bank, at its meeting held on Oct. 31, 2008, has allotted 6,000 equity shares of Rs 10 each, pursuant to exercise of Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP).The board allotted 180 equity shares under ESOP Scheme Series 2005/01, 5,400 equity shares under ESOP Scheme Series 2005/02 and 420 equity shares under .. more »

Book profits in Unitech at Rs 55-60: Gujral.. more »

The Governments decision to give out fresh telecom licences on first-come, first-served basis has resulted in windfall gains to some Indian promoters of new telecom companies. Unitech, which has sold its 60 per cent stake to Telenor, has.. more »

Kerala Public Service Commission Results and Job NotificationsResults and Job Notifications from Kerala Public Service Commission - KPSC jobs and NotificationsCheck the information below for the latest departmental test results from Kerala PSC, public Service Commission. These results are for the exams conducted in July .. more »

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The last remaining survivor of the Titanic received more than $78,000 in an auction of items from the liner to raise money to pay her nursing home fees, auctioneers said. ..... more »

Everybody Hates Homecoming Airs: Friday October 17, 2008 Chris is thrilled when Jenise Huckstable asks him to the homecoming dance. His nerves begin to get the better of him when Jenise tells him that her father Dr. Clint Huckstable wants to meet him before the dance. Drew tries to get Doc to feng shui the store when he takes over .. more »

It turns out Sen. John McCain may not have properly vetted "Joe the Plumber" -- the man he brought up more than 20 times in last night's debate. As the New York Times reports, Joe "may run a plumbing business but he is not a licensed plumber. His full name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher. And he owes a bit in back taxes." Joe the .. more »

U.S. stock futures rose Thursday after the beating in the past session, helped by murmurs of another round of coordinated rate cuts amid worries that the entire global economy may slip into a recession. .. more »

Oct 15 2008Weak global cues to trigger negative startActions may not speak louder for bullsIndia Investment StrategyMRPLMedia SectorReal Estate Sector UpdateYellow metal dives againCrude slipsIndia Strategy.. more »

Mukesh Ambani on Monday came knocking on the doors of top Government officials to explain his firm's plans and raise industry issues... more »

Walmart started selling DRM free MP3 music in August last year, before that its online music store use to sell DRMed WMA songs. For DRMed songs to work they need to authenticate the user if the... . .. more »

Ben Smith fact-checks the McCain campaign's ridiculous conference call assault on the press. But it should be remembered that Steve Schmidt is doing this for two (nefarious) reasons: 1. he's hoping to work the refs: if he complains enough about press bias, we mainstream sorts will cower, cringe and try to seek false equivalences between the two .. more »

Carly Fiorina, a key surrogate to John McCain, admitted on Tuesday, that Sarah Palin does not have the experience needed to run a major company like the one that she, Fiorina, formerly headed. "Do you think [Sarah Palin] has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?" asked the host. "No, I don't," responded .. more »

In a response to an RTI whether lifting of oil from Iraq by Reliance Petroleum was probed by Dayal, authorities say they do not have the report... more »

We recommend a buy in Nectar Lifesciences at current levels, from a short-term perspective. From the charts of the company, it is clearly visible that it has been on an intermediate-term up-trend from its March low of Rs 168 (a 52-week low). ... .. more »

HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian markets mostly dropped Tuesday, reversing some of the sharp gains from a day earlier, with Japanese stocks fronting the decline as financials such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and technology shares like Elpida Memory Inc. paced losses. .. more »