Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:37 +0000

India’s annual headline inflation in July slowed more sharply than expected to single digits, but the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is unlikely to take the foot off the pedal on rate rises as it worries about broader price pressures. Analysts said month-on-month increases in prices, a sharp upward revision of May’s readings and a [...]

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:57:33 +0000

Thailand lifted a state of emergency in three provinces on Monday but kept the controversial security law in place in seven others, including Bangkok, where it said the situation remained volatile. The emergency decree has been in place since April, giving security forces broad power to deal with anti-government protests that spiralled into the worst [...]

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:50:48 +0000

Pakistan authorities forecast on Monday a brief respite in rains that sparked the country’s worst floods in decades, but aid agencies warned help was too slow to arrive for millions without clean water, food and homes. Water levels in the Indus River feeding Pakistan’s plains have fallen in Punjab, the country’s most populous and worst [...]

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:28:31 +0000

The London-based bank, which derives most of its earnings from Asia, also plans to expand online stockbroking services to customers beyond Hong Kong, India and Taiwan, Stanchart’s global head of premium banking Foo Mee Har said on Monday. In Singapore, Stanchart will offer investors access to 15 stock markets from next month, she said. Foo [...]

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:26:42 +0000

This committee is of the firm view that allowing mining in the proposed mining lease area by depriving two primitive tribal groups of their rights…in order to benefit a private company would shake the faith of the tribals in the law of the land,” the N.C. Saxena Committee that was set up by India’s environment [...]

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:16:31 +0000

At least 10 people were killed Saturday in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, even as parts of the nation reeled under the havoc of floods on its Independence Day. The militants fired indiscriminately at a passenger bus in Mach city, near Quetta, capital of Balochistan province, killing 10 people and injuring [...]

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:13:55 +0000

Madhya Pradesh Police Saturday failed to achieve a breakthrough in the ticklish case of 61 trucks carrying about 300 tonnes of explosives going missing on way to the state’s Sagar town from Rajasthan’s Dholpur district. “A case has already been registered in Sagar. Police are desperate to make a breakthrough as a huge quantity of [...]

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:09:08 +0000

A week after the ship collision, Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh Saturday visited the site of the oil spill off Mumbai coast to take stock of the ongoing salvage operations. Accompanied by Maharashtra Environment Minister Suresh Shetty, Ramesh expressed his concern over the extensive damage to the environment and the coastal areas [...]

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:27:58 +0000

He stole teenybopper hearts in his debut film “Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na” but actor Imran Khan didn’t quite manage to weave the same magic in his next two movies. As he returns to the screen in the romance “I Hate Luv Storys”, the 27-year-old will be hoping audiences have forgotten his past mistakes. Khan [...]

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:26:28 +0000

Bollywood veteran Amitabh Bachchan will return to ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ as host of the popular reality TV show in its fourth season. “Mr Bachchan was our last and final choice for the host,” Ajit Thakur, Business Head of Sony Entertainment Television told a press conference on Wednesday. “Our research showed that viewers wanted him back [...]