July 3, 2012
If this year’s budget was not hurting you enough, the change in service tax rule will. Effective today, almost all services that we use are subjected to 12% service tax. Only a few on the negative list and the exempt list have been spared.
July 3, 2012
Rating agency Crisil Ltd sees a high probability of the rupee touching 50 a dollar by March 2013. The current level of the domestic currency closed at 55.43 to a dollar on Monday.
July 3, 2012
Physicists at a US laboratory said on Monday they have come tantalizingly close to proving the existence of the elusive subatomic Higgs boson - often called the "God particle" because it may bring mass and order to the universe.
July 2, 2012
Several books these days are an adaptation of books. Chetan Bhagat is one such writer where most of him books made into movies. The Aamir Khan-starrer 3 Idiots (2009), which was based on Bhagat’s debut novel Five Point Someone turned out to be the biggest grosser of all time in Indian cinema.
Jul 2, 2012
Pakistan opener Sami Aslam scored his second hundred of the series to put his team to 282 while Indian captain Unmukt Chand did the same for his side but unfortunately both the centuries went in vain.
July 2, 2012
Ever since the show began the show has been attracting crowd and making news all over the nation. Aamir Khan’s speaking to a radio channel said “Right now I have to shoot ‘Dhoom 3′ and Rajkumar Hirani’s film ‘PK’.
July 1, 2012
The victory of UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee in the Presidential poll is "certain" only because of the support of Shiv Sena and Janata Dal (United), Sena chief Bal Thackeray said here on Saturday.
June 30, 2012
BJP said Sonia Gandhi's decision not to stake claim to Prime Ministership in 2004, as noted by APJ Abdul Kalam in his forthcoming book, should not be seen as a "supreme sacrifice" as the mandate in that Lok Sabha election was not heavily in favour of her or Congress.
June 30, 2012
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam has made a startling revelation in his forthcoming memoir Turning Points, in which he has written that he was ready to swear in Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as the Prime Minister in 2004, as opposed to the popular notion that he had dissuaded her from becoming PM.
June 30, 2012
Nikki Haley, one of the two Indian American governors in the US has referred to a fellow Republican as a "racist, sexist, bigot." Haley was testifying before the South Carolina house ethics committee investigating allegations made against her by a Republican fund raiser John Rainey.
