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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 ...

  • Russia opens consulate in Goa

    A slew of illegal land deals involving its nationals was one of the reasons why Russia decided to start a consular office in Goa, which hosted 1.5 lakh Russian tourists this season, Ambassador Alexander Kadakin said Friday. The ambassador also expressed distaste at the manner in which the word "mafia" was being liberally used when it came to rare cases involving Russians nationals. "Illegal ...

  • IAF chief stresses on operational capability training

    Indian Air Force chief, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne Friday stressed on enhancing operational capability and training for its station commanders. "Commanders need to concentrate on operational capability and training, creation of operational infrastructure, asset protection resources for operation and people management," Browne said at a meeting of the station commanders of the Training ...

  • Misquoted on arms sale says Russian envoy

    Russian Ambassador Alexander Kadakin Friday said he had been misquoted by a section of media, which Friday said that a miffed Russia may stop arms sales to India, in light of the latter looking to the US for defence technology and equipment purchases. Kadakin said India and Russia shared a "confident, firm and stable cooperation" in the military field and that the relationship between the two ...

  • Two students killed in Delhi road accident

    Two Bachelor in Computer Application (BCA) students were killed after the car they were travelling in collided against an electric pole here, police said here Friday. The accident was reported from west Delhi's Chhawla area around 4.30 p.m. Thursday. Anup, 24, and Abhhimanyu, 24, were rushed to the Rao Tula Ram Memorial Hospital, where they were declared dead. Initial investigation revealed ...

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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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  • Assocham calls for comprehensive port development strategy

    Industry body, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham), has called for a comprehensive port development strategy and for providing level playing field to private players. In its report on ports development in India, released here Friday, it underlined the need to expand the existing framework to attract participation from the private sector for development of ...

  • RIL-BP make huge gas discovery in KG-D6

    Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) Friday announced a large natural gas discovery in the consortium's KG-D6 block offshore in Andhra Pradesh. "Formation evaluation indicates a gross gas and condensate column in the well of about 155 metres in the Mesozoic reservoirs," RIL-BP said in a statement here. "The KGD6-MJ1 well was drilled in a water depth of 1,024 metres - and to a total depth of 4,509 ...

  • GJM calls indefinite shutdown in Darjeeling hills

    The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) Friday called an indefinite shutdown in north Bengal's Darjeeling hills from Sunday to protest the arrest of an elected member of the hill development body for alleged involvement in arson and violence. The GJM gave the call Friday evening after a local court rejected the bail application of Gorkha Territorial Administration (GTA) member and party leader ...

  • Pressure mounts on Srinivasan to resign Gurunath faces questioning

    The clamour for Indian cricket board president Narayanswamy Srinivasan's resignation got louder after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, Chennai Super Kings chief executive, Friday was taken away by Mumbai police for interrogation in the IPL spot fixing scandal. Chennai Super Kings, however, sought to distance itself from Meiyappan, whose name cropped up during questioning of Bollywood actor ...

  • Bhajjis Bangnam Style Tendulkars fitness keeps social network abuzz

    Move over Psy's 'Gangnam Style'. Mumbai Indians (MI) fans were awestruck with Bhajji's 'Bangnam Style' as the Mumbaikars took on the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League play-off at the Eden Gardens here Friday. There was speculation over Tendulkar's fitness through the day, till the late evening heartbreak that he would not take the ground. The supporters of 'paltan' or MI rallied to ...

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