August 1, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO: Dell's board rejected CEO Michael Dell's attempt to change the voting rules for his bid to buy the slumping personal computer maker, a decision that is likely to doom the deal.
July 31, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Sri Lanka 307 for 4 (Dilshan 99, Sangakkara 75*, Thirimanne 68) beat South Africa 179 (De Villiers 51, Lakmal 3-24, Mendis 3-36) by 128 runs
Sri Lanka piled up 307-4 in the fifth and last ODI against South Africa. Tillakaratne Dilshan missed his century by one run.
July 31, 2013
By Geeta Goindi
Washington, DC – National Dance Day drew thousands to the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in a spirited celebration of this universal art form. On July 27, packing a spacious outdoor venue was a diverse, receptive, dance-happy crowd which couldn’t get enough of the myriad performances.
July 31, 2013
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has called for economic reforms in US saying that not doing so would mean waving the white flag to the rest of the world especially to emerging countries like India and China.
July 30, 2013
NEW DELHI: While fresh hiring has already taken a hit, thanks to the slowing economy, India Inc has for the first time acknowledged that large-scale layoffs are already underway and the job market is likely to get much worse if growth isn't revived fast.
July 30, 2013
Still-smouldering protests from Egypt to Brazil have set off a race among scholars to identify the roots of this summer of discontent in the emerging world. Each major theory starts at the bottom, with the protesters on the street, and notes a common thread: young, Twittersavvy members of a rising middle class.
July 30, 2013
MUMBAI: Despite the global slowdown, campus placement season in city engineering colleges had seemed upbeat last academic year. Several students from top colleges bagged more than one offer on an average, but these attractive offers are yet to turn into reality.
July 30, 2013
BEIJING: Indian economist Ruchir Sharma has become a celebrity of sorts here as he predicted that the "era of BRICS is over" and that China is the only nation in the five-member bloc which has better prospects of breaking out of the middle income trap.
July 30, 2013
MUMBAI: Will banks have to spend a fortune to give customers the choice of either putting their finger prints or swiping plastic cards to withdraw money from ATMs and pay for purchases?
UIDAI says biometric authentification at ATMs/PoS won't be expensive, but banks disagree
July 30, 2013
MUMBAI: Reserve Bank on Tuesday cautioned that rupee depreciation will have adverse impact on prices of fuel and manufactured products in the coming months even as it aims to keep inflation at 5 per cent by March end.
