Plans to enhance buffer stock to 500,000 tonnes; Gujarat exempts importers from stock limit

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Only nine of the airline's 370 daily flights were making profits.

Lieutenant General Harbakhsh Singh, GOC, Western Command, disobeyed the then army chief and took on a superior Pakistani armoured column. The Indian Centurion tanks outgunned the more modern Pakistani Patton tanks in the battle at Khem Karan, that proved the turning point of the 1965 War. Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd) salutes the Soldiers' General.

Reacting to market specific developments, the domestic unit touched a low of 66.74 in intra-day trade before concluding at 66.65.

Brokerage CLSA has raised its "already substantial overweight in India", its chief strategist Christopher Wood wrote on Aug. 7.

Foreigners from various corners of the globe to move out of Kathmandu and others parts of Nepal.

'The Modi government's lurch toward America has not brought it any dividends so far. The Western world is simply not in a position to make big investments in India... India needs to take a leap of faith vis-a-vis China.'

Operations at 26 mines are set to commence again within a couple of months.

When big offers hit the market, broader indices corrected 2-4%

The deadly Maoist ambush, claiming the lives of 14 Central Reserve Police Force personnel in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, was planned and supervised by local Naxal leaders who were reportedly camping in south Bastar for past few days, a senior police official said on Tuesday.

Ministers might be fond of attributing the Sensex's rise to renewed interest from foreign investors, betting on an impending revival in the economy, but share prices are influenced more by supply and demand.

Iraq war veteran and Democrat Manan Trivedi tried his luck for the third time, but was trounced by Republican Ryan Costello, the Chester county commissioner for Pennsylvania's open seat in District 6

Knocking out Congress from its bastions, the Modi wave placed BJP on the cusp of forming a government in Maharashtra with unexpected support from Nationalist Congress Party while it stormed to power on its own in Haryana.

The IMF's predictions for India's near-term growth may seem rosy, but the usual caveats apply - that is, we are apt to under-perform.

Congress leader Sachin Pilot, who was recently appointed the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee chief, says people are disenchanted with the Vasundhara Raje government.

For the seven months since February 2014, the benchmark index surged nearly 27%.

'Suicide rates among Indian farmers were a chilling 47 per cent higher than they were for the rest of the population in 2011. In some of the states worst hit by the agrarian crisis, they were well over 100 per cent higher. In Maharashtra, farmers were killing themselves at a rate that was 162 per cent higher than that for any other Indians excluding farmers. A farmer in this state is two-and-a-half times more likely to commit suicide than anyone else in the country, other than farmers,' says P Sainath.

President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday addressed the first joint sitting of Parliament as mandatorily required under the Constitution after the general elections. The address is the political, economic and foreign policy road map of the Narendra Modi government and covers virtually all crucial areas.

A senior police officer said four heavily-armed terrorists stopped a vehicle on the Jammu-Pathankote national highway on Friday morning and opened fire at the occupants of the vehicle, killing one person on the spot and seriously injuring three others.

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi had brought in the United States style 'primaries' with much fanfare to empower grassroot leaders to fight the Lok Sabha elections.

The wholesale price inflation, decelerated faster than expected, to ease to an eight-month low of 5.05 percent in January.

To check fiscal deficit, government needs to drastically cut Plan expenditure.

From Kudankulam to the Land Bill, the author takes the Twitter route to capture the infra action of 2013.

The defence ministry is finalising a decision to allow the FGM-148 Javelin missile, built by US companies Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, into a contest to supply the Indian Army with anti-tank guided missiles. This is bad news for Israelis

At least 16 people have died in flood-related incidents in Odisha, where the situation remained grim even as major rivers were receding on Saturday. Two deaths each were reported from Bhadrak, Jajpur and Nayagarh districts while in worst-hit Ganjam district it remained unchanged at six and four in Jagatsinghpur, Special Relief Commissioner P K Mohapatra told reporters here after the situation was reviewed by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

Auto, tourism exceptions but major sectors otherwise saw decline in FY13 inflows.

BSE Consumer Durable index surged by over 3% followed by counters like Capital Goods, Auto, Power and Metal, all gaining between 1-2%.

Market remains extremely volatile before budget.

The minimum threshold to come under GAAR will be Rs 3 crore.

L&T IDPL, Gammon, IL&FS in race for Rs 21,147-cr Mumbai elevated rail corridor

Jet Aiways had almost signed the deal with Etihad when the new leaked and the stock price of the former shot up, causing the Abu Dhabi carrier to reconsider.

United India Insurance Company plans to enter the West Asia and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries to tap the potential in these regions due to a presence of a large India diaspora.

China declared a ceasefire on November 21 and kept Aksai Chin as its trophy. The sinews of the IAF were not muscular enough to retake Aksai Chin. What matters is what we have done since 1962. Air-minded, we are, but are we strong-minded? asks M P Anil Kumar.

It has been 11 years since the 9/11 terror strike, masterminded by Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, and its devastating aftermath changed the world. Laden was killed in a covert operation -- called Neptune Spear -- by United States Special Forces at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011.

Stephen Kiprotich held off the Kenyan duo of Abel Kirui and Wilson Kipsang to win the men's marathon on Sunday.

In a step towards complying with the new shareholding norms on promoter holdings, the Azim Premji Foundation said it would sell 35 million shares of Wipro through an auction route, opening on Wednesday.

India routed minnows Singapore 15-1 to mark a grand opening to their campaign in the men's hockey Olympic qualification tournament in New Delhi.

More than one-third of this amount (Rs 6,000 crore or Rs 60 billion) is likely to go to the country's largest lender, State Bank of India, while the demand for most other banks is less than Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) each.

State-run BSNL's losses have more than tripled to about Rs 6,000 crore during 2010-11 mainly due to hefty outgo for employees' salary and expenses borne by the PSU for procuring 3G and BWA spectrum.