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Dehradun/Rishikesh/Joshimath, Jun 19: The terrible magnitude of nature’s fury in Uttarakhand unfolded today as the death toll rose to 150 with fears that it may go up substantially as large parts remained under water while hundreds of houses and ...

Saina Nehwal avenged her quarter-final defeat at the Thailand Open on Wednesday, beating Singapore’s Juan Gu in straight games in the opening round of the Singapore Super Series. The World No 2 Indian ace needed only 40 minutes to pack off Juan, ranked 21, winning 21-14, 23-21 and registering her fifth victory over the local player. The 23-year-old from Hyderabad will next take on Japan’s Eriko Hirose, who holds a 3-2 record against the Indian. There was more joy for India at the ...

, but we’ve now learned (from Woodley herself) that Peter Parker’s love interest won’t actually appear onscreen until the third film in the series. Woodley offered up the following thoughts about the change in plans during an ...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s model girlfriend Irina Shayk filed two police reports against an alleged stalker, who repeatedly appeared at her building and even entered into her apartment in New York.Police sources have confirmed the footballer’s girlfriend has filed several complaints about an unidentified perpetrator who has been sending her flowers, gifts and other items, and has showed up at her address repeatedly over two ...

India’s five scheduled airlines together carried 5.71 million passengers in May, the highest domestic traffic in the first five months of this calendar year. This is an increase of about five per cent over the 5.45 million passengers who flew during the same period last year. In March this year, domestic air traffic had spiked by 1.6 per cent to 5.18 million passengers, compared to 5.1 million in March 2012. Data available with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation show though the ...

India’s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has hit the Chinese debt market for a benchmark issue of about $500 million. According investment banking sources, ICICI's three-year tenor benchmark issue is to be issued to the offshore Chinese investors and will be denominated in the renminbi or yuan. An initial pricing guidance of 4.125 per cent has been offered by the bank. The sources, however, did not offer any further details. This is the third issue by ICICI Bank and makes it the ...

Eight new faces were inducted in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s council of ministers on Monday, with Sis Ram Ola and Oscar Fernandes making a re-entry after a gap of four years. With the new inductions, the strength of the Council of Ministers will go up to 77. The expansion-cum-reshuffle of the Council of Ministers has been necessitated by the exit of ministers from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam as well as the resignations of Pawan Kumar Bansal, Ashwani Kumar, Ajay Maken and C P ...

 As Reserve Bank of India Governor D Subbarao readies for Monday’s mid-quarter review of the monetary policy, a fall in the rate of headline inflation in May might have added to his dilemma. The challenge would be simultaneously addressing the issues of a weak economic growth and a volatile rupee increasing prices. “The rupee’s sharp depreciation since May has clearly made a case for no rate cut. "But, since the inflation rate has fallen, RBI will have to take cognizance ...

Mumbai, the country’s financial capital, is home to the highest number of shareholders/directors in offshore entities opened by Indians. Of the 498 entities the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) offshore leaks database throws up for the search ‘India’, 184 are based in Mumbai. An offshore entity is a company, trust or fund created in a low-tax, offshore jurisdiction. The database clearly states merely having an offshore entity does not amount to ...