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  • Share of developing nations in investments set to triple by 2030 Share of developing nations in investments set to triple by 2030

    WASHINGTON - The share of developing countries led by China and India in global investment is expected to triple by 2030 to three-fifths, from one-fifth in 2000, says the latest edition of the World Bank's Global Development Horizons (GDH) report, which explores patterns of investment, saving and capital flows as they are likely to evolve over the next two decades. Seventeen years from now, ...

  • Tihar registers record turnover

    The Tihar Jail here registered a record turnover of Rs.32.17 crore in 2012-13 against a turnover of Rs.12.20 crore during the previous year. The prisons's carpentry section, where inmates are employed during their imprisonment, generated Rs.23.14 crore and the bakery section did business worth Rs.4.97 crore in the last fiscal year, an official statement said Saturday. The jail houses around ...

  • CBI officer to be questioned for 3 days on bribe

    A Delhi court Saturday sent Vivek Dutt, a CBI officer heading the probe into the allocation of coal blocks, to the custody of the probe agency till May 21 for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs.7 lakh from a businessman for settling a land dispute. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge V.K. Gupta sent Dutt, inspector Rajesh Karnatak, alleged middleman Rajesh Pachisia and businessman ...

  • Cops to respond on Sreesanths plea for FIR copy

    A court here Saturday issued notice to the Delhi Police on a plea by cricketer S. Sreesanth, arrested for alleged spot fixing in IPL cricket matches, seeking a copy of the first information report (FIR) registered against him. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma sought a response from the investigating officer (IO) by May 20 on the plea of the cricketer, who was arrested ...

  • Selling less gold coins may not reduce consumption SBI chief

    State Bank of India (SBI) chairman Pratip Chaudhuri Saturday said the central bank's request to banks not to aggressively sell gold products may not lead to a reduction in consumption and greater steps are required to check the demand for the precious metal. On the back of huge gold imports, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) earlier suggested that banks should be less active on selling gold coins ...

Movie Review

Office Space

"Office Space" should have started with a brief dedication: "This film is dedicated to anyone who has ever worked in a cubicle." This film, the first live-action offering from Mike Judge, creator of "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill," is a wry tale of vengeance against cubicle culture, and anyone who has ever worked in one will find much to laugh about. I, for one, have worked in a cubi ... ...

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  • Disability issues must be addressed on priority Experts

    Practical issues related to disability like rehabilitation, empowerment, main-streaming, education and employment need to be addressed on a priority basis, experts said here Saturday. At a seminar, the experts focussed on the importance of implementing accessibility standards and complying with different accessibility laws for differently-abled people. N. Subramanian, senior consultant, ...

  • Teachers turn students at a workshop

    For three days, about 45 teachers and principals from different schools turned students and learnt how to enhance the quality of teaching methods at a workshop here. The three-day workshop, 'Gurkul for Gurus', sponsored by Malabar Golds and Diamond for school teachers and principals ended Saturday. About 45 teachers and principals from Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow and other cities of north India ...

  • Law and order has improved in Assam Gogoi

    Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said here Saturday there was considerable improvement in the law and order situation in the state over the past 12 years. He added that the government has been able to bring almost all insurgent outfits to the negotiating table. Gogoi completed his second year as chief minister for the third consecutive term Saturday. He said that while 412 civilians were ...

  • Bengal minister quits

    Three months after losing a by-poll, West Bengal minister Humayun Kabir resigned Saturday, two days ahead of the six month period mandated by the constitution within which a minister must get elected to the legislature. Kabir, who won the 2011 elections from Rejinagar in Murshidabad district on a Congress ticket, resigned from the seat and the party and switched over to the Trinamool last ...

  • Tamil Nadu Police expect breakthrough in match fixing

    The Tamil Nadu Police is expecting a breakthrough soon in the cricket betting case in which six bookies were arrested here Friday, a police officer said. "We expect to achieve a breakthrough in the case soon. We raided three premises here Saturday," a police official of Crime Branch Crime Investigation Department (CB-CID) told IANS on the condition of anonymity. Police said that the Chennai ...

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