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  • Wockhardt shares plunge 20 pc on USFDA import alert Wockhardt shares plunge 20 pc on USFDA import alert

    MUMBAI - Shares of Wockhardt, one of the leading Indian pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, witnessed a sharp fall of 20% to Rs. 1,315 ($23.61) on the Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE) on Thursday after the US FDA published an import alert on one of its three manufacturing facilities near Aurangabad. The import alert, 'detention without physical examination of drugs from firms which have ...

  • Himachal courts quashes appointment of 480 teachers

    In a setback to the previous Prem Kumar Dhumal-led BJP government in the state, the Himachal Pradesh High Court Friday quashed appointments of 480 teachers made in 2011 as these were not in accordance with law. Delivering the judgment, Justice Rajiv Sharma said the appointments of postgraduate teachers under the Postgraduate Teacher Class III (non-gazetted) Recruitment and Promotion Rules of ...

  • Court quashes rape FIR against three DJB officials

    The Delhi High Court Friday quashed an FIR and summoning order against three Delhi Jal Board employees, accused of gangraping an executive working in a private company. Justice Suresh Kait allowed the plea of DJB engineers and quashed the trial court order which had summoned the officials to stand trial in the case despite a closure report filed by police which stated that they were falsely ...

  • Mumbai bomb blast inspired me to make D-Day Nikhil Adwani

    Filmmaker Nikhil Adwani, who is gearing up for his film "D-Day" says Mumbai bomb blast "affected" his life and that inspired him to make this film. "It's fictional characters. We have taken events from India's history and used them as triggers. I am particularly obsessed with the fact that I was 21 when the bomb blast happened in Mumbaiit affected my life, quite a lot and I wanted to make a ...

  • Britannia posts 65.7 pc jump in Q4 net profit

    Biscuit and bakery major BritanniaIndustries Friday registered a 65.66 percent jump in its net profit to Rs.87.85 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, from Rs. 53.03 crore during the same period last year. The city-based food maker's net sales during the period under review stood at Rs.1,486.63 crore compared to Rs.1,309.57 crore in the same period a year ago, it said in a filing to the ...

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The Kids Are All Right

The Kids Are All Right

Lisa Cholodenkos The Kids Are All Right is a conventional dramedy about an unconventional family. Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star as Nic and Jules, a long-term lesbian couple with a pair of teenage children, 18-year-old Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and 15-year-old L ... ...

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  • Rajasthan post a handsome 1656 against Mumbai at Eden

    Keeper-willower Dishant Yagnik played a cameo as Rajasthan Royals rode on a late batting surge to post a decent 165/6 in their Indian Premier League playoff at the Eden Gardens here Friday. The Royals scored 61 runs in the last five overs including 18 of the last after opting to bat first on a slow wicket, with rains delaying the start of the game by an hour. Skipper Rahul Dravid top scored ...

  • Demolish all structures in Yamuna flood-plains Tribunal

    Agra/Mathura May 24 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal has authorised demolition of all structures and unauthorised buildings in the flood-plains of the Yamuna river. The May 20 order cleared the way for demolition of all structures all the way from Delhi to Agra in the Yamuna's flood-plains. "If the order is implemented, thousands of buildings will be bulldozed," said environmentalist Shravan ...

  • India US in talks to prepare for PM visit

    India and the US are in discussions to plan for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to America in the "near future". This was revealed by US Undersecretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman and Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai at separate briefings. Mathai and Sherman met earlier in the day to prepare for US Secretary of State John Kerry's June 24 visit to India for the bilateral ...

  • Haryana man gets 10 years jail for raping university student

    A court in Harayana's Sonipat town Friday sentenced a man to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for the rape of a first-year law student of Haryana's all-women university, Bhagat Phool Singh Women's University. The court order came just over a year after the victim alleged that she was abducted and gang-raped by four youths May 18 last year. However, the court of Additional District and Sessions ...

  • NCP talks in two voices on BCCI chiefs resignation

    Hours after its spokesperson demanded resignation of Indian cricket board chief N. Srinivasan over his son-in-law's name figuring in the investigations into the IPL spot fixing scandal, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Friday sought to distance itself from the demand. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson D.P. Tripathi Friday told reporters that Srinivasan should resign as chief of ...

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