Mumbai is the world's seventh largest city in terms of billionaire population, according to Forbes magazine. Mumbai is ranked seventh ahead of San Francisco, Dallas and Tokyo, according to a list of top 10 cities for billionaires available on the website of Forbes. In terms of average wealth of resident billionaires, Mumbai comes on top of all the 10 cities with an average net worth of $7.6 billion. Russian capital city Moscow is number one in terms of billionaire population.
Telecommunications major Reliance Communications will invest $1.5 billion (around Rs 7,000 crore) in Flag Telecom, its under-sea cable subsidiary, over the next three years.
The victory after four qualifiers moved Ireland on to four points but they are still struggling in fifth place.
The defeat at the Lyon indoor tournament means Baghdatis faces a struggle to make the season-ending Masters Cup.
The Prime Minister's Office has sought the opinion of various ministries for creating an umbrella legislation that would empower the government to suspend any foreign investment
Italy beat Portugal 3-1 on a night of friendly matches between Euro 2008 rivals that left tournament co-hosts Switzerland and Austria among the losers.
The organisers were fined a record $5 million for inviting a Turkish Cypriot leader to hand out the trophies after last month's F1 race.
They routed Michael Berrer of Germany and Kenneth Carlsen of Denmark on Sunday.
The Indo-Croatian pair defeated Kristian Pless of Denmark and Danai Udomchoke of Thailand in straight sets in the semi-finals.
Both players were taken to three sets by lesser-fancied opponents in the semi-finals.
"I don't think I can ever win all four Grand Slams in a year," the Spaniard said on the eve of the ATP tournament in Chennai.
Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore says his damaged gun cost him a place in final of the double trap event at World Shooting Championships.
The first flight will take off at 0800 IST while the second jet will fly to the Cypriot capital at 1000 IST and both aircraft will return the same day.
Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi is closely monitoring the evacuation operation.
Altogether 602 Indians were on Friday airlifted back home from Larnaca in Cyprus.
In one of the largest single evacuation exercises during the nine-day old West Asian crisis, India on Thursday pulled out 607 of its nationals from Lebanon to Larnaca (Cyprus) for being airlifted to India.
With the situation in Lebanon becoming increasingly dangerous, about 100 Indians have been evacuated out of the country and over 1,000 others gathered on Wednesday at Beirut jetty to be moved out by four Indian warships.
ONGC-Mittal combine will invest more than $6 billion in setting up a refinery, power plant and railway lines in Nigeria.\n\n
Second seed Rafael Nadal ground down Finland's Jarkko Nieminen to set up a meeting with Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis.
Steel baron Lakshmi Mittal, on his first visit to India after acquiring world No.2 steel firm Arcelor, will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday
Frenchman Fabrice Santoro crushed Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-2 in the second round of the Paris Masters.
Gurjit Singh, working on the 480-foot Tatiana L, a freighter from Cyprus, fell off the cargo ship after it left Port Everglades in Florida on Tuesday night.\n\n
Packaging major Essel Propack Ltd has entered into a share purchase agreement for acquiring 85 per cent stake in US-based Tacpro Inc and Avalon Medical Services Pte Ltd, Singapore.\n
Rafael Nadal was forced to retire with cramps while Carlos Moya defeated Novak Djokovic.
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Abhinav Bindra had to settle for silver in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions shooting event at the 18th Commonwealth Games.
Dementieva will face third seed Maria Sharapova, who beat Martina Hingis, in the final of the Pacific Life Open.
The Belgian will face Elena Dementieva while the Swiss ace will take on Paradorn Srichaphan in ther semi-finals of the Pacific Life Open.
Advani, who at 19 became the youngest world champion in 2003, will lead the Indian challenge at the World Snooker Grand Prix, beginning at Pontin's, England, on Wednesday.
World No 1 Federer got the better of Juan Carlos Ferrero while Nadal proved too good for Tomas Berdych in the quarter-finals.
Bush has said he "intends" to nominate the Career Minister to the post. Boucher's nomination has to be confirmed by the US Senate.
2004 champion Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium beat Hana Sromova 7-6, 6-1 to confirm her position as tournament favourite.
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