1,900 jobs to be axed in Australia due to emails

Last Updated: Friday, June 26, 2015, 09:16

The Australia Post said losses in its mail delivery business were approaching 500 million Australian dollars ($387 million) this financial year, reported Xinhua news agency.

Indian entrepreneurs charged with insider trading in US

Last Updated: Friday, April 3, 2015, 18:17

Two Indian-origin entrepreneurs have been charged by US authorities with insider trading for making over a million dollars in illegal profits through the proposed acquisition of Cooper Tire and Rubber by India's Apollo Tyres.

'Direct FTP export incentives to 3 nations for better results'

Last Updated: Sunday, March 8, 2015, 10:38

Incentives in the new foreign trade policy (FTP), to be unveiled by month-end or first week of April, should focus on only three nations for boosting exports, traders body FIEO said today.

Black money case: Court summons Moin Qureshi, staff as accused

Last Updated: Friday, January 30, 2015, 19:17

Controversial businessman Moin Ahmed Qureshi was on Friday summoned as accused by a Delhi court in a black money case filed by the Income Tax Department for allegedly not disclosing his income of nearly Rs 20 crore.

Victims in Muzaffarnagar camps professional beggars: SP leader

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 14:10

Rubbing salt into the wounds of Muzaffarnagar riot victims, SP leader Atiq Ahmed has said that those living in the camps were "professional beggars".

Ahmed Patel assures help for return of 2 Indians stranded in Iran

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 02:26

Congress president Sonia Gandhi`s political secretary Ahmed Patel assured to take up with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, the issue of two Indians stranded in Iran.

Ahmed Patel takes on Modi over his machismo

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 22:57

Senior Congress leader and political secretary to the Congress president Sonia Gandhi Ahmed Patel on Thursday took on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi over his `56-inch chest` boast, asking why he did not venture out of his house during the riots.

SP to field Atiq Ahmed from Shravasti

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 22:36

Making minor changes the ruling Samajwadi Party on Friday decided to field its controversial Lok Sabha candidate Atiq Ahmed from Shravasti instead of Sultanpur.

Pervez Musharraf wants to undergo treatment abroad: Report

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 17:26

Pervez Musharraf has refused to undergo an angiography in Pakistan and wants to go abroad for treatment, media reports quoted a medical board as saying in a report submitted to a special court.

Syrian opposition demands a future without Assad

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 12:45

Syria`s opposition leader laid out his demands for talks on ending his country`s civil war, calling for the creation of a transitional government that does not include President Bashar al-Assad.

Syria foes clash over Assad, atrocities at first meeting

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 14:54

Syria`s government and opposition, meeting for the first time at a UN peace conference, angrily spelled out their hostility on Wednesday as world powers also offered sharply divergent views on forcing out Bashar al-Assad.

Syria peace talks begin in Switzerland amid muted expectations

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 10:07

The crucial Syria peace talks began, Wednesday, in this picturesque town on Lake Geneva amid little hope of a real breakthrough to end the years of bloodshed in the Middle Eastern country.