Pramod Mahajan awards for Journalism from next year

State-level awards for excellence in journalism will be given from the next year in memory of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan. This was declared on Monday by his wife Rekha Mahajan who was in Osmanabad to distribute the prizes of Pramod Mahajan memorial national debate competition. Pramod was once a journalist with Marathi daily `Tarun Bharat'. Pramod's daughter ...

Australia name unchanged squad for Sydney Test against Pak

Leading the series 1-0, Australia on Wednesday named an unchanged 12-member squad for the second Test against Pakistan, beginning in Sydney from Sunday. New South Wales spinner Steven Smith, who was called to join the 12-man squad in Melbourne as cover for Nathan Hauritz, has been left out. The hosts won the Melbourne Test by a huge ...

Radhey Shyam returns as Kotla chief curator

Two days after the pitch fiasco that led to the abandonment of the fifth India-Sri Lanka one-dayer, the DDCA brought back old hand Radhey Shyam as the chief curator of Ferozeshah Kotla. His appointment though will have to be ratified by the executive committee of the Delhi and District Cricket Association. A top official said the DDCA ...

OZ register win, beat Pak by 170 runs, lead 1-0

After Australia won the first Test of the three-match series against Pakistan in Melbourne on Wednesday, captain Ricky Ponting declared the victory as one of the side's best in years. ''It's been a great game for us, it's one of our best Test wins in quite a while I think,'' said Ponting, who also became ...

Australia satisfied with security in India, rules out pull out

Australia on Wednesday gave a thumbs up to security arrangements for the 2010 Games in New Delhi and said their athletes will travel to India to participate in the 3rd-14th October mega event. Reacting to British media reports, claiming England are pulling out of the event fearing terror strikes, Australian Commonwealth Games Association CEO Perry Crosswhite ...

Oil falls amid reported rise in US inventories

Oil prices fell slightly in Asia amid a surprise rise in US weekly crude inventory ahead of the release of government data. Benchmark crude for February delivery was down 10 cents to USD 78.77 a barrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added 10 cents to settle ...

Sensex snaps four-day rally, sheds 58 pts

The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark index Sensex broke its four-day rally on Wednesday and fell by 58 points on profit booking amid weak global sentiment. The Sensex, which had gained about 800 points in the last four sessions, failed to extend the rally and closed lower by 57.74 points at 17,343.82, after fluctuating between 17,440.05 and ...

Futures trading in sugar extended till Sept 2010

The government has decided to extend the ban on futures trading in sugar for another nine months till September 2010, commodity market regulator FMC said on Wednesday. "The ban has been extended till September next year," Forward Markets Commission Chairman B C Khatua told a news agency. The curb on futures trading, which expires on Thursday, was ...

India, Japanese officials to meet next month on free trade pact

Receiving a political push at the top, officials from India and Japan will meet in New Delhi two weeks from now to take forward negotiations on the market-opening pact. Negotiators will work on narrowing gaps in services and pharmaceuticals - areas of interest to India. However, Japan has several apprehensions about opening these sectors, an official ...

13th Finance Commission submits report to the President

At a time when reforms both in the direct and indirect taxes areas are likely to be in place in the next couple of years, the 13th Finance Commission submitted its recommendations on sharing of the Central tax receipts between the Union and the states. The report of the Finance Commission, headed by former Finance Secretary ...

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