I won’t be soft like my mother, says Rahul

NEW DELHI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi sent out an unusually blunt message to his party colleagues on Thursday, promising to be tougher than his mother in dealing with factionalism and indiscipline......more

Premier Manmohan boasts of powerful India

NEW DELHI: Just weeks after the recent Chinese incursion in eastern Ladakh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said significant additions have been made to “land forces” to protect India’s borders, even as sources said the Union finance ministry is all set to clear the proposal to establish a mountain strike corps of the Army in the eastern sector despite the high financial implications......more

IFFCO posts highest-ever profit

By Deepak Arora

NEW DELHI: The man with the Midas touch Dr U S Awasthi has once again proved the adage that work speaks for itself when IFFCO posted its highest ever profit before tax at Rs1,107 crores with the lowest ever specific energy consumption of 5.764 Gcal/MT of urea during the financial year 2012-13. In the record breaking 12th consecutive year, IFFCO will be also paying dividend to its member cooperatives at the rate of 20 per cent on share capital......more

Increasing link between smuggling counterfeiting and crime

CHANDIGARH: With the agenda to spread large scale consumer awareness against the menace of smuggling and counterfeit products, FICCI-CASCADE (Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the Economy) organized a seminar in Chandigarh on ‘Curbing Counterfeiting and Smuggling—An Imperative for Indian Economy’. The seminar discussed the role of media in increasing awareness on the subject. Besides focusing on the losses to the government and industry, the seminar also highlighted growing link between smuggling and counterfeit activities and organized crime......more

Indonesia, India trade to reach $ 25 billion by 2015: Ambassador Rizali Indrakesuma

NEW DELHI: The new Indonesian Ambassador, Mr Rizali W. Indrakesuma, has been given the mandate by his President, Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to enhance strategic and trade and economic relations with India. Keeping this in mind, Mr Rizali Indrakesuma is confident that the bilateral trade between Indonesia and India would cross US $ 25 billion by 2015 from US $ 19 billion in 2012......more

IFFCO in tie up with Brazilian firm

NEW DELHI: Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative (IFFCO), on Saturday, said it had inked a long-term agreement with Brazilian mining company Vale SA for supply of rock phosphate, used in manufacturing phosphatic soil nutrients......more

Averse to frisking, Meira Kumar shoots down Ukraine visit

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar shot down a bilateral meet at Kiev after Ukraine refused to exempt her and accompanying six MPs from frisking......more

IFFCO slashes fertilizer prices; Gives boost for Kharif Season

NEW DELHI: To provide relief to the farmers and give a boost to the Kharif crop, world’s largest producer and marketer of processed fertiliser, Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO), has reduced the maximum retail price (MRP) of non-urea fertilisers by up to Rs 75 per bag (of 50kg)......more

Boy genius diagnosed with autism has IQ higher than Einstein

NEW YORK: A 14-year-old boy from Indiana, who was diagnosed with moderate to severe autism at the age of 2, has an IQ of 170, which is higher than Einstein’s, and he is now on the road to winning a Nobel Prize. As a child, doctors told Jacob Barnett’s parents that their son would probably never even know how to tie his shoes.......more

Toyota mulls launching more small cars, compact SUVs in India

Global car giant ToyotaMotor Corporation will consider launching more small cars and entering fast growing segments like compact SUVs in order to achieve market leadership in India.......more

BlackBerry rolls out EMI scheme for Z10, follows Apple and Samsung

NEW DELHI: Smartphone maker BlackBerry will sell BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Curve 9220 on easy monthly installments in India from this weekend and has tied up with credit card providers including Axis Bank, Citibank, HDFC bank, HSBC, ICICI Bank, Kotak, SBI Card and Standard Chartered......more

Defence Ministry issues multi-crore tender for 56 new aircraft

NEW DELHI: In a first step of its kind to strengthen the indigenous aerospace industry, the Defence Ministry has issued a tender expected to be worth over Rs 12,000 cr to replace IAF's Avro planes with 56 new aircraft which will be produced by the Indian private sector firms.......more

Nargis Fakhri dons bikini for GQ cover

MUMBAI: Rockstar babe Nargis Fakhri may be MIA (Missing in Action) on the films' front but she surely keeps herself busy with her modeling work and fashion photo-shoots......more

Psy's Gentleman hits 82 million views

TOKYO: South Korean rapper Psy's new video, Gentleman, rocketed up the YouTube heights with more than 82 million views on Tuesday, chasing the success of his megahit "Gangnam Style" after smashing the previous record for first-day views for songs.......more

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