A benchmark index of Indian equities markets recovered after two days of fall and closed 1.22 percent or 233 points up on the back of global markets Thursday.
Good buying was observed in IT, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), technology, media and entertainment (TECK) and consumer durables sectors; while selling pressure was seen in the capital goods and metal sectors.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi met President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Thursday evening.
Modi, who in Delhi for the BJP”s parliamentary board meeting, met President Mukherjee for around 30 minutes.
This was Modi”s first meeting with President Mukherjee after being appointed as the chairman of BJP”s campaign committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. (ANI)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Rajnath Singh on Thursday alleged that the ruling Congress Party was trying to gain political mileage by unnecessarily hyping the 2004 Ishrat Jahan case.
“There have been a lot of encounters in this country. And I think, before 2002 more than 3,000 encounters were took place. But only for political purpose, the hype is being created in this case,” he said.
Launching a frontal attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia yesterday said that the truth has come to the fore in this case.
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Thursday said those guilty of carrying out the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan should be punished.
“Facts are facts. Guilty should be punished,” he told the media here, when asked about the CBI”s submission to the court in this case.
The Union Home Minister”s comment assumes importance as the Ministry of Home Ministry officials have been maintaining that there was not enough evidence against Intelligence Bureau Special Director Rajendra Kumar and three others in the alleged fake encounter case.
An Italian seaside town of Vietri sul Mare on the Amalfi Coast have shocked locals and holidaymakers by banning women from wearing bikinis.
Francesco Benincasa, the mayor of the town, has reaffirmed a law that prohibits scantily clad visitors from the marina area of the town, the Local reported.
Those caught showing off too much flesh will face a fine ranging from 25 pounds and 500 pounds.
The town’s spokesperson Andrea Pellegrino told the publication that upholding the law, which was first introduced in 2011, is necessary “for the area’s image”,
China’s cyber security market revenue which is totaled at 4.9 billion dollars in 2012 is expected to double up over the next five years, a new study has revealed.
Carla Bruni- the French former first lady, who modelled for nude portraits back when she was in her twenties- has opened up about how she felt, after her photos were used on shopping bags without her permission and put up for auction.
Bruni told DuJour that when she was going to meet the Queen in England with her man- Mick Jagger, every single paper had her naked on the cover, the Huffington Post reported.
The 45-year-old said that she was naked everywhere.
She said that at least she was 24 at that time and she had a good body too. (ANI)
Elizabeth Hurley, who is apparently not well, has tweeted that she will be joining fiancé Shane Warne for a minibreak in Vegas.
It seems that nothing will stop the 48-year-old from joining former cricketer for the break before they both head back to Blighty for the Ashes series between England and Australia, the Daily Express reported.
The model also tweeted that she is busy packing and leaving-the-office frenzy on Wednesday. (ANI)
A joint EU-US expert group is reportedly going to investigate the alleged US spying on EU officials after the revelations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has reportedly ordered Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) acting chairman Najam Sethi to conduct fresh board elections within three months.
According to the Dawn, an IHC judge said that he hoped that the former caretaker chief minister of Punjab province would conduct free and fair elections in the PCB within 90 days.
Following the court””s direction to the government to replace Mohammad Zaka Ashraf, terming his election as ””polluted””, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Sethi, a prominent political analyst, last month.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief selector Iqbal Qasim has reportedly resigned from his post on Thursday.
According to the Express Tribune, the PCB dissolved the selection committee soon after the resignation of Qasim, who had recently announced the national squad for the West Indies tour starting from July 3.
Qasim, who was appointed as chief selector after former chief selector Mohammad Illyas resigned from the post on March 1, 2012, had resigned after his work tenure ended, saying that he does not want to continue working as the head selector.
Men, who are believed to think about sex every seven seconds, are much less consumed by it than previously thought, a new study has revealed.
The research, conducted by Duke University in the US, has found that both men and women overestimate how much time they ruminate about sex, as well as how often they have it, the New York Daily News reported.
It was found that men tend to this more, presumably in an attempt to live up to gender stereotypes.
Cheryl Cole is looking forward to move to an area dubbed Millionaires’ Row by locals by spending a whopping sum of 6.75 million pounds.
The former ‘X Factor’ judge will become neighbour of footballers Alan Shearer, 42, and Peter Beardsley, 52, who also reside in the exclusive Darras Hall village near Newcastle, the Daily Star reported.
Estate agent Ben Pridden told the publication that it has fabulous entertaining space with all the requirements of a pop diva.
Doug Engelbart, the man who invented the computer mouse, has died aged 88.
Engelbart developed mouse in the 1960s as a wooden shell covering two metal wheels, patenting it long before the mouse’s widespread use.
According to the BBC, he also worked on early personifications of email, word processing and video teleconferences at a California research institute.
Engelbert’s daughter, Christina, notified about his death to the state’s Computer History Museum in an email.
She said that her father had been in poor health and died peacefully on Tuesday night in his sleep.
The Obama administration has requested Congress for only 1.16 billion dollars in aid to Pakistan for the 2014 financial year.
The amount is almost half of the 2.6 billion dollars the U.S. spent in 2012 and a quarter of the 4.5 billion dollars it spent in 2010, a report released on Tuesday revealed.
According to Dawn News, the military aid has also been reduced to 397 million dollars from over 1.2 billion dollars in 2010.
The cuts, however, may not have a major impact on the Pakistani economy as it received an estimated 12.8 billion dollars from July 2012 to May 2013.
Women can now work as waitresses in restaurants in Saudi Arabia country, the head of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice has said.
Abdul Lateef Al Shaikh said that women however will work only in sections designated for them in line with an agreement to employ them.
According to Gulf News, earlier women were told that their work in the hospitality service would be limited to the kitchen and that they could not work as waitresses.
Sexual assaults on women have soared with 101 sex attacks being reported amid latest wave of protests in Egypt’s Tahrir Square protests that led to the toppling of Egypt”s first freely elected president Mohamed Mursi.
Human rights and women’s groups have condemned the ‘horrific levels’ of sexual violence against women at Tahrir Square.
Pakistan has ‘categorically rejected’ Afghan army chief’s remarks alleging that it could end the 12-year conflict in Afghanistan within weeks if it was really committed to peace.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said the allegations that Pakistan controls the Taliban and has unleashed them on Afghanistan have no basis.
Afghan army chief of staff General Sher Mohammad Karimi in an interview broadcast by the BBC said that Pakistan could end the Afghan war in weeks if it were serious about peace.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has directed the government to complete further investigation against former president Pervez Musharraf under Article 6 of the Constitution.
The move by the SC comes after it disposed off all the identical petitions seeking initiation of treason case against former military ruler.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja concluded hearing of the petitions seeking trial against Musharraf in treason case.
The Taliban will not join talks with the United States because of a dispute over the name of its office in Qatar, a senior US official has said.
The official said that the Taliban never replied to an offer to meet U.S. diplomats in Doha on June 23.
According to Fox News, he said that is because the Taliban insist their office in Doha be called the ‘Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’.
The United States and Afghanistan objected to the name and to the wording of a sign with the name of the former Taliban regime when the office first opened.
The parents, who called teaching yoga in schools as an effort to ‘promote Eastern religion’, are set to appeal the ruling by a San Diego County Superior Court judge which stated that teaching yoga does not violate the First Amendment’s separation of church and state.
The student’s of Encinitas Union School District attend two, 30-minute yoga classes each week in a program supported by a 533,000-dollar grant from the a nonprofit group that promotes Ashtanga yoga, the Christian Science Monitor reported.
Kate Middleton, whose official due date is July 11, is “nervous” to give birth to her little monarch.
A family source told Us magazine that the Duchess of Cambridge is “feeling great.”
The source said that Prince William’s wife of 2 years is full of energy and really “rather used to the bump!”
The insider revealed to the publication that Kate, who is putting the final touches on the redecoration project for the couple’s new, 20-room flat in Kensington, is still busy and is making sure that she’s done as much as possible for the new house before the baby is born.
Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman has reportedly proposed marriage to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on microblogging site Twitter. According to the New York Daily News, Chapman posted a tweet which read, ‘Snowden will you marry me? From Russia with love’.
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino has reportedly discovered a hidden microphone from the Ecuador’s London Embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up for almost a year. According to the Guardian, Patino discovered the interception device inside the office of the Ecuadorean ambassador to the United Kingdom, Ana Alban during his visit to the embassy to meet with British Foreign Secretary William Hague to discuss Assange on June 16.
The New York State Department has reportedly spent a whopping 630,000 dollars on its advertising campaign aimed at garnering more ‘likes’ from the Facebook users. The campaign at the department”s Bureau of International Information Programs succeeded in getting an increase in its fans from about 100,000 to more than 2 million from 2011 to 2013, New York Daily News reports.