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.
July 30, 2013
MUMBAI: In a severe blow to BCCI and its president-in-exile N Srinivasan, the Bombay high court on Tuesday held as "illegal and unconstitutional" the two-member probe panel set up by it to look into spot-fixing and betting charges in the IPL tournament.
July 29, 2013
WASHINGTON - The FBI arrested 150 people across the United States on charges of holding children against their will for prostitution, a three-day weekend sweep that officials on Monday called the largest-ever operation against child sex-trafficking.
July 29, 2013
Brief Scorecard: Pakistan 135 for 7 (Akmal 46*, Narine 3-26) beat West Indies 124 for 9 (Tanvir 2-20) by 11 runs
Umar Akmal's late burst gave Pakistan enough to defend
July 29, 2013
LAGOS, NIGERIA: The British Home Office confirms it will demand a £3,000 ($4,350) refundable bond for visas for "high-risk" visitors from six former colonies in Africa and Asia.
July 28, 2013
A space telescope aimed at the sun has spotted a gigantic hole in the solar atmosphere — a dark spot that covers nearly a quarter of our closest star, spewing solar material and gas into space.
