Asim Biswas' late strike propelled three-time champions Mohun Bagan to a 2-1 win over Tollygunge.
Viswanathan Anand was held to a draw by Framcisco Pons Vallejo in the fifth round of the 22nd Linares Super Grandmasters Chess tournament.
Medical tourism is likely to be the next major foreign exchange earner for India as an increasing number of patients, unwilling to accept long queues in Europe or high costs in the US, are travelling to the country to undergo surgery, according to a
BSE Oil & Gas index declined by almost 2.5% followed by counters like Auto, Capital Goods, PSU and Metal, all plunging by almost 2% each. Apart from IT and FMCG, all the major BSE sectoral indices are trading in red zone.
Banking, realty and capital goods sectors-- the sectors which are more interest sensitive and hence battered for long now--were the winners today.
K Sasikiran registered his third consecutive win to join R R Laxman at the top after the sixth round.
India and France on Thursday concluded negotiations on the Short Range Surface to Air Missile nearly worth of $6 billion during the talks between French President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who also said talks on $10-billion deal for Rafale fighter aircraft are "progressing well".
RBI's out-of-turn rate cut has surprise few economists.
The year was particularly significant as the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India acted in favour of the investors and eased norms making it easier for them to invest in mutual funds.
Investors got the upper hand in 2009, while fund houses struggled to cope with regulatory changes and upheavals in the economy, even as the industry shrugged off recession blues with its assets hitting an all time high of Rs 8 lakh crore (Rs 8 trillion).
Grand Master Abhijit Kunte with 7.5 points, was tied with five other players, but was adjudged champion on the basis of a better progressive score.
Talking tough on terror in the backdrop of tension on the Indo-Pak border, India told United Nations Security Council that nations using terror as an "instrument of state policy" are "short-sighted" and have invariably themselves suffered immensely from the "Frankenstein monster."
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