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Breaking News Sat, 13 Mar 2010
Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty, center, winner of the British reality TV show "Celebrity Big Brother", arrives at the launch of the soundtrack of the Bollywood film 'Life in a Metro' in Mumbai, India, Friday, March 23, 2007. Shetty stars in the film that features stories that run parallel, set in the backdrop of a metropolis.
Actress   Bollywood   India   Mumbai   Photos  
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Shilpa Shetty to launch new club in Mumbai
New Delhi: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has announced her latest venture on micro-blogging site Twitter. She is all set to open a new club called Royalty in Mumbai with her businessman husband Raj ... (photo: AP / Gautam Singh)
President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama speaks at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009.
Beijing   China   Photos   President   US  
 The Times Of India 
Don't politicise yuan, China tells Obama
BEIJING: The United States should not make a political issue out of the yuan, a Chinese central banker said on Friday, as the two countries lurched towards a potential bust-up over Beijing’s currenc... (photo: AP / Odd Andersen)
Foodgrain Wheat packed i Polythene bags on shelf of a grocery shop - India  The Times Of India 
Centre extends ban on pulses exports until March 31
NEW DELHI: The Centre could extended the ban on pulses exports until March 31, 2011 besides allowing duty-free imports for another year. It is also expected to extend the subsidised pulses distributio... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Delhi   Food   Inflation   Photos   Prices  
comman man - people - on a road, Pune India  The Times Of India 
Opposition walks out of LS over price rise
NEW DELHI: The issue of price rise was sought to be resurrected in Parliament on Friday after a gap of a week, with the Opposition staging two rounds of walk-out in the Lok Sabha during the course of ... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Delhi   Inflation   Parliament   Photos   Price  
Top Stories
INDIA-SOUTH-AFRICA-CRICKET-TEAM-PRACTICE The Times Of India
IPL: Killing the game of cricket?
This refers to your feature ’Manoranjan ka baap’s back’ (ET, Mar 12). It’s IPL time again and one must concede that this is the king of entertainment. Cricket and... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Cricket   IPL   India   Photos   Sports  
Village - hut - India The Times Of India
Banking for all
In the Budget, Pranab Mukherjee has taken a few steps which will yield the results of the ‘banking for all’ principle. However, the crux of the problem is how would t... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Bank   Finance   People   Photos   Rural India  
Shell a leading petroleum company The Hindu
Pranab rules out roll-back of petrol prices
| Aarti Dhar | 'Financial condition does not permit it' | NEW DELHI: Stoutly defending the economic rationale of his budget proposals for 2010-11, Finance Minister Pranab... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Delhi   Finance   Fuel   Photos   Prices  
Political parties in India demanding exclusion of essential food items  from futures trading, The Hindu
CPI(M): ban futures trading of essentials
| Gargi Parsai | NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday in the Rajya Sabha demanded a ban on futures and forward trading of all agricultural and esse... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Delhi   Food   India   Photos   Politics  
C. Rangarajan, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister-India The Hindu
Inflation may decline to 6-7 % by second-half of next fiscal
| Special Correspondent | Agriculture and power are the two major areas of concern, says Rangarajan | Spot, futures trading need to be well-regulated | More emphasis on n... (photo: PIB of India)
Economy   India   Inflation   Kolkata   Photos  
Palm trees, India The Hindu
Traditional beginning
| Sharing knowledge: Bhavna Shah, a representative of Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), lighting a lamp to inaugurate the conference on 'Refined palmolein oil' in Tirupa... (photo: WN / Geeta)
India   Malaysia   Palm Oil   Photos   Trade  
Passengers Travellers at Delhi airport India The Times Of India
Air ticket transaction fee to go soon
MUMBAI: The transaction fee that air passengers had to pay to travel agents while booking flights on certain airlines, mostly foreign carriers, will soon be done away wit... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Airlines   Mumbai   Passengers   Photos   Travel  
Will India's  Agricultural sector register  6% growth? The Times Of India
Farm growth may surpass 6% next year if rain doesn’t play spoilsport: Abhijit Sen
NEW DELHI: The figure is higher than the 5% farm growth estimate made by the Prime Minister’s economic advisory for 2010-11. | “I would not rule out 6% growth, provid... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Agriculture   Economy   India   Photos   Weather  
The Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to PM, Dr. C. Rangarajan - India- Economy The Times Of India
PDS push to help rein in prices: Ranga
KOLKATA: C Rangarajan, chairman of the economic advisory council to the Prime Minister, feels the government should release more food stocks through public distribution s... (photo: PIB of India)
Food   India   Kolkata   Photos   West Bengal  
Finance and Investment Economy
- Chilean FM calls for greater Chinese investment
- Infrastructure gets a boost
- Banking for all
- Cos pitch for 60% import duty on sugar
Infrastructure gets a boost
Infrastructure gets a boost
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- Chile tells China to make use of free trade deal
- China's growth pattern transformation to benefit world e
- Shilpa Shetty to launch new club in Mumbai
- Banking for all
Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty, center, winner of the British reality TV show "Celebrity Big Brother", arrives at the launch of the soundtrack of the Bollywood film 'Life in a Metro' in Mumbai, India, Friday, March 23, 2007. Shetty stars in the film that features stories that run parallel, set in the backdrop of a metropolis.
Shilpa Shetty to launch new club in Mumbai
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Banking Taxes
- Banking for all
- Khalid's suit against Bank Islam postponed
- Palike raising loans from banks to clear contractors’ bills
- Andhra: Bank's placates unhappy customers
Village - hut - India
Banking for all
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- BJP hits out at Centre's service tax policy
- BJP snubs govt plan to widen tax net
- Pay taxes before March 20, win cash
- Commoner Taxed in JK's Zero Deficit Budget
 The Union Minister of External Affairs, Shri Pranab Mukherjee delivering the keynote address at the 9th Asian Security Conference on Security Dynamics in Southeast Asia: Emerging Threats & Responses organised by IDSA, in New Delhi on February 09, 2
Tax collection has to be more humane: Mukherjee
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Trade Industry
- Chile, China must make full use of trade deal
- Yuan value at issue in trade fight
- J&K: Rather presents budget; telephone links to be set up to
- CPI(M): ban futures trading of essentials
Political parties in India demanding exclusion of essential food items  from futures trading,
CPI(M): ban futures trading of essentials
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- Maruti set to cross 10 lakh output, sales in 2009-10
- 2G: Supreme Court will not interfere with adverse findings
- Healthy industrial output in January
- Cos pitch for 60% import duty on sugar
Maruti set to cross 10 lakh output
Maruti set to cross 10 lakh output, sales in 2009-10
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Oil & Energy Markets
- Malaysia’s palm oil tops world edible oils supplier
- Excuse me, I can't roll back oil hike: Pranab Mukherjee
- 2,000 containers of used lube oil
- IEA sees higher 2010 oil demand on emerging markets
A car drives past a group of pump jacks working in an oil field, Friday, Jan. 13, 2006, near Crane, Texas. Crude-oil prices fell Wednesday, as traders took profits from a recent surge in prices over supply worries spurred by possible sanctions against Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, and political unrest in Nige
Oil slips below $82; OPEC expected to maintain output
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- Asia is the most dynamic newspaper market, says N. Ram
- Marketing Malaysia
- No check on prices of kitchen items
- IEA sees higher 2010 oil demand on emerging markets
Kitchen items in Shopping Mall
No check on prices of kitchen items
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