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News from July 2009

Maruti sales jump 33.36 pc in July

The country’s largest car maker, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, reported a 33.36 per cent jump in sales at 78,074 units in July. It had sold 58,543 vehicles in the same month last year. Sales in the domestic market grew by 27.63 per cent to 67,528 units in July from 52,911 units in the same month [...]

Jet fuel prices raised 1.6 per cent

State-run oil firms on Friday increased jet fuel prices marginally by 1.6 per cent on the back of rising international oil rates. Aviation turbine fuel rates in Delhi were increased by Rs 585 per kilolitre to Rs 36,923 per kl, effective midnight, an official of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) said on Friday. The increase follows [...]

Robust earnings outlook, global mood lifts Sensex

Encouraging global picture and robust earnings outlook for the fiscal, propelled Indian bourses aiding the benchmark Sensex to hit a 13-month high of 15,670.31 amid end of quarterly earnings season. The Bombay Stock Exchange 30-share barometer gained 1,176 points or 8.0 per cent in July quarterly earning season. The major trigger was the better-than-expected financial [...]

EGoM on 3G meets, DoT presents 3 reserve price scenarios

The Empowered Group of Ministers on 3G spectrum auction held its first meeting on Friday and discussed three reserve price scenarios for auction of radio waves and the number of slots to be auctioned. However, no decision emerged at the meeting as most of the members wanted time to go into the details of options [...]

Ban calls for release of political prisoners in Burma

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Burmese military junta to release all political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi, the popular leader, who has spent 13 of the last 19 years under house arrest. A spokesman of Ban told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York yesterday that the Secretary General met [...]

Landslides kill 10 people in southeastern Bangladesh hills

At least 10 people, six of them belonging to same family, were killed in landslides triggered by monsoon rains in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said in Dhaka on Friday. Six people from the same family were killed in Bandarban hill district when huge chunks of earth buried their hillside. Another five died in three other similar [...]

MCOCA charges dropped in Malegaon blast case

A special court in Mumbai has dropped the stringent MCOCA invoked against Sadhvi Pragya Singh, Lt Col Prasad S P Purohit and nine other accused in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case saying none of them is part of an organized crime syndicate. Designated Judge Y B Shinde, presiding over the special court on Friday, said [...]

Guj Governor designate D N Dwivedi passes away

Gujarat Governor designate D N Dwivedi, who was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi due to liver problems, died on early Saturday morning; he was 74. Dwivedi, who was suffering from liver problems, was admitted to Intensive Care Unit of Gastroenterology department in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on 23rd July, hospital sources said. He [...]

5,000 BSF men to join anti-Naxal operations

In a move to flush out Naxalites, BSF men will be deployed in Maoist infested states along with CRPF, the only para-military fighting the menace at present. Five battalions of the Border Security Force (BSF) will be deployed in the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Maharashtra. “Around 5,000 men, drawn from various [...]

Nirupama Rao to take over as FS today

Seasoned diplomat Nirupama Rao will take over as the new Foreign Secretary on Saturday at a time when India’s diplomatic relations with Pakistan are going through a critical phase. Rao, a 1973-batch IFS officer, is the second woman to hold the post of the top diplomat after Chokila Iyer and will succeed Shivshankar Menon, who [...]

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