Archive for July, 2008

US Inc`s women CEOs buck the trend, get pay hikes

Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi tops the list.??CEOs heading Americas 500 largest firms have taken a beating on their paychecks for the first time in five years, but the 13 female members of this elite

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Clarke predicts ‘apocalypse’ for cricket

Michael Clarke fears brewing tension between Asian and Western blocs may cause split in the world cricket.

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Pak violates LoC ceasefire again, fires at Indian troops

A day after flag meeting, Pak forces on Wednesday opened another fresh unprovoked firing at Indian positions along LoC.

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Dalmiya regains president’s post at CAB

Jagmohan Dalmiya regained the president’s post at Cricket Association of Bengal after having spent 18 months in wilderness.

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Sensex opens at 14,083 pts,

The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex rose by 292 points in early trade today on the back of buying by funds in heavy-weight stocks, triggered by firm global markets.

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India face another twin ’spin’ test at Galle

India will have to quickly find a solution to counter the threat posed by SL spinners as they go into the must-win second Test.

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RBI rate hikes to hit realty firms hard

Real estate companies see their cost of borrowing going up by one percentage point as the central bank has increased the repo rate by 0.5 per cent and cash reserve ratio by 0.25 per cent.??The rate

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‘Repo, CRR hikes should have a sobering effect on demand’

On Tuesday, Reserve Bank of India governor Yaga Venugopal Reddy released the quarterly monetary policy review.

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CIA suspects ISI role in Indian embassy bombing in Kabul

The CIA has confronted Pakistan with new evidence about ties between the ISI with some militant groups responsible for rising violence in Afghanistan, possibly including suicide bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul.

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AIDS hitting Asian gays at high rates, says UN

HIV infection rates among gay men in many parts of Asia are as severe as those which devastated US homosexual communities in the late 1980s, top officials of the UNAIDS agency said.

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