New Delhi, March 25: Gold prices tumbled by Rs 170 to a seven-week low of Rs 16,450 per ten grams in the bullion market here today on hectic selling triggered by negative global cues.
Standard gold and ornaments, plunged by Rs 170 each to Rs 16,450 and Rs 16,300 per ten grams, respectively. The metal has lost Rs 320 in the last three trading sessions.
Sovereign also weakened, shedding Rs 50 to trade at Rs 13,950 per eight-gram piece.
Mumbai, March 25: A benchmark index for Indian equities Thursday was trading on a sluggish note in afternoon trade, ruling 18 points higher than its previous close, even as Bharti Airtel’s scrip rose on news that its overseas acquisition was almost complete.
The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 17,458.51 points, was ruling at 17,469.46 points, 18.44 points or 0.11 percent higher than its previous close at 17,451.02 points.
Kurnool, March 25: It’s great for a long-cherished dream to come true.
But, it is rare indeed for two such dreams to converge.
When they do, it is a happy coincidence. And basking in it are Ravindra Naik and Ram Shankar Naik, the cousins from Anantapur.
‘‘Oh yes! we are very happy,’’ says Ravindra Naik as he settles himself comfortably in a chair beside a beaming Ram Shankar Naik. The duo hail from the same family and had shared the hard life that comes from being a tribal in a remote hamlet like Naginayani Cheruvu in Anantapur district.
Mumbai, March 25: Tata Nano, The people’s car, an engineering marvel, the middle class’ dream though does not matter how you refer to it. The Tata Nano is in talks these days because of an unpleasant incident took place near Mumbai with this car.
New Tata Nano car was purchased by an insurance agent Mr. Satish Purushottam Sawant who is a Mulund resident of Mumbai city. He and his whole family still terrified with the March 21st incident in which everyone sitting in Nano car narrowly escaped from the clutches of death.
Hyderabad, March 25: The Editors Guild of India has strongly condemned the attack on the ABN-Andhra Jyothi news channel by activists of Praja Rajyam party here on March 22.
Expressing its dismay over the attack, the guild said in a press release today that such attacks on newspaper and TV channel offices were deplorable and cannot be justified in any way.
Hyderabad, March 25: In order to streamline ration cards in the city, the Civil Supplies department has decided to weed out nearly one lakh white ration cards in the next few days. But the move has already triggered widespread concern that genuine cases might come under the axe of the authorities.
After completing a door-todoor survey, the officials found that out of seven lakh cardholders in the city, one lakh families were ineligible but had been drawing groceries.
Hyderabad, March 25: Taking strong exception to the Telugu Desam Party’s criticism against the Chief Minister and Assembly Deputy Speaker on the conduct of House proceedings, the Congress Legislature Party Wednesday urged the Opposition party to stop indulging in the “politics of blackmail’’.
The House cannot function in accordance with the dictates of the Opposition leader, it remarked.
Vizianagaram, March 25: Three policemen were killed and six others severely injured during an exchange of fire in Tojango forest area of Gumma block of Gajapati district (Orissa) close to Andhra-Orissa Border in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The Special Operation Group (SOG) and District Volunteer Force (DVF) of Orissa were combing the forest area when Maoists started firing at the police party.
In the exchange of fire that ensued for 45 minutes, Deepak Senbai and Balaram Pradhani belonging to the Special Operation Group besides Sanjay Tarky, belonging to the DVF were killed.
Hyderabad, March 25: A 24-year-old woman has given birth to quadruplets on Monday last (March 22) at Maternity Hospital, Petlaburj of which one infant expired due to low birth weight while the other three are in acute medical care in the ICU of Niloufer Hospital.
The remaining infants, two boys and one girl, are struggling with severe respiratory distress and hospital doctors have kept their fingers crossed on chances of recovery.
Hyderabad, March 25: Telugu Desam president N Chandrababu Naidu has alleged that the State Government is not allowing discussion in the State Legislative Assembly on any pressing issue including NREGS, irrigation projects and weeding out of ration cards.
Chennai, March 25: The Videocon Group, one of India’s leading global business conglomerates, today announced the launch of its GSM Mobile service in the Tamil Nadu circle with “below one paise effective tariff” and unviled its plan to invest around Rs 14,000 crore in Videocon Mobile Services over the next three years.
Announcing this at a press conference here, Mr Venugopal Dhoot, Chairman Videocon Group said the company has drawn up plans for one of the fastest sequential roll-outs covering 100 key cities/ towns over the next 100 days across the country.
Ongole, March 25: Facing the heat from paramilitary forces on the Andhra-Chhattisgarh border, Maoists appear to be making a tactical retreat, to their once impregnable fortress — Nallamala forest.
This, notwithstanding the recent ‘‘encounter’’ death of CPI (Maoist) leader Sakhamuri Appa Rao in the region. ‘‘Several Maoist camps have cropped up in the Nallamala,’’ a tribal belonging to Palutla village in Yerragondapalem mandal said.
Warrangal, March 25: Students of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) campus, who have been agitating for the past two days demanding the resignation of its Director YV Rao for allegedly indulging in large-scale corruption, managed to take his resignation letter from him here on Wednesday. They also forced him to request NIT Chairman Deekshitulu to accept his resignation.
But late in the night, YV Rao was quoted as saying that his resignation, submitted under duress, wasn’t valid.
Hyderabad, March 25: Though Telugu Desam’s Telangana leaders formed a separate forum within the party to wage a fight for Telangana State, the forum has remained non-functional so far.
The Telangana Telugu Desam Party Forum (TTDPF), which was officially launched on March 5, has not taken up any concrete action plan to continue its `fight’ for T-State.
Several party MLAs from the region, including TTDPF convener N Janardhan Reddy, maintained silence when asked why the forum was inactive. They neither refute the charges nor try to counter the argument.
Hyderabad, March 25: Union Minister of State for Urban Development Saugata Ray released the manual of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority’s environmental building guidelines at the fifth session of the World Urban Forum held at Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday.
The first copy was presented by the minister to Dr Anna Tibaijuka, Under Secretary General of the UN and Executive Director of UN-HABITAT in the presence of HMDA commissioner BP Acharya.
New Delhi, March 25: The Hindu Despite drawing flak from most of the political parties, Mulayam Singh Yadav chose to stick to his stand on Women’s Bill.
Unfazed by opposition outcry on his “whistle” statement on the Women’s Reservation Bill, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday said his remark was intentional and not just a slip of tongue.
Hyderabad, March 25: Depressed over the delay in creation of separate Telangana, which shattered his dreams of getting a job that matched his qualification, a 27-year-old ended his life at Ibrahimpatnam near here on Wednesday morning.
Narala Tirumalesh, who completed his engineering three years ago, hanged himself to death from the ceiling fan in his house at Uppariguda in Ibrahimpatnam.
Hyderabad, March 25: CPI State secretary K Narayana Wednesday wanted the State Government to stop administering the vaccine preventing cervix cancer, as there were reports that four tribal women died after they were administered the vaccine, which was supplied free of cost by the Gates Foundation.
Narayana demanded the State Government to constitute an expert committee to unravel the truths behind the deaths of four tribal women and wanted the officials to stop administering the vaccine till the report of experts committee was out.
-Agencies
Mumbai, March 25: Lindsay Lohan to design handbag collection for Ed Hardy Lindsay Lohan is in talks to design a handbag collection for Ed Hardy.
According to E! Online reports, the ‘Mean Girls’ star, who was given the boot from Emanuel Ungaro after producing an unimpressive collection for the fashion brand, will be working for the debunked reality star’’s favourite clothing line—Ed Hardy.
Chennai, March 25: The Madras High Court today restrained about 40 private TV channels operating in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, including Sun TV Network, from telecasting any video clippings relating to Kalki Bhagawan, his son and other family members, till March 31.
The interim injunction was granted subject to certain conditions to protect the alleged victims as they had been projected in an identifiable manner, Justice G Rajasuriya observed. It would also amount to violation of human rights, the judge said.
Hyderabad, March 25: It was rash and negligent driving which claimed the lives of five persons, including two youngsters, late Tuesday night.
In the accident on the Greenlands flyover, which left two youths dead and one battling for life, the impact was such that the bike skidded for more than 100 yards and when the vehicle crashed into the road-divider, two of the youngsters rebounded to the other side of the road.
Hyderabad, March 25: After an intense agitation that caught the attention of the nation and the subsequent lull following political and academic developments, Osmania University students are once again planning to revitalise the Telangana agitation with a series of peaceful programmes.
Telangana students JAC which is planning to come out with its programme schedule soon, however, wants to keep any kind of violence out of the agitation as it has affected both the students and the common man.
Hyderabad, March 25: Keeping in view the unprecedented increase in demand for power supply in the State, Chief Minister K Rosaiah Wednesday directed the APGenco to put all its projects on fast track. He wanted the APGenco to commission at least part of its proposed projects ahead of schedule due to the spurt in demand for power from various sectors in the State.
Mumbai, March 25: Media may be agog with the news that the ex-flames Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor are not ready to come together to do the required promotional activities for their upcoming film MILENGE MILENGE, produced by Boney Kapoor. But the fact is the duo is quite willing to be present for any activity related to their film.
Brussels, March 25: The Rajiv Gandhi Airport in Hyderabad is the best airport in India, according to Britain-based consultancy Skytrax, which judges the quality of air travel around the world.
At a ceremony here Tuesday, the Hyderabad airport was given the Best Airport India award.
Singapore’s Changi airport was named the world’s best airport.
It was also called “Airport of the Year 2010”, the best airport in Asia and also the best for leisure amenities.
Skytrax awards serve as the quality benchmark for the world airport industry.