New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the National Green Tribunal to proceed against the grossly polluting industries discharging their untreated effluent into the drains flowing into River Ganga, as it took a dim view of the central and state pollution control panels’ lackadaisical approach in hauling up these units. Asking the NGT […]
Washington, Oct 29 (IANS) India was ranked 142nd among 189 nations in ease of doing business in a new World Bank Group report, even as it found that the country set the pace for regulatory reform in South Asia in 2013-14. India’s overall ranking fell by two notches in “The Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency” […]
Hyderabad, Oct 29 (IANS) Pharmaceutical major Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Limited has reported 17 percent decline in net profit during the second quarter ended September, at Rs.574.10 crore against Rs.690.25 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. The Hyderabad-based drugmaker attributed the drop in margin to lower sales in US market, the biggest contributor to its revenues. […]
Beijing, Oct 29 (IANS) The value of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, strengthened by 16 basis points to 6.1405 against the US dollar in its central parity Wednesday, authorities said. In China’s foreign exchange spot market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading […]
Los Angeles, Oct 29 (IANS) Actress Julia Roberts feels she has taken a “big risk” by not going under the knife to fight the ageing marks. “By Hollywood standards, I guess I’ve already taken a big risk in not having had a face-lift,” the 47-year-old actress told You magazine, reports contactmusic.com. Roberts, who married Danny Moder […]
Mexico City, Oct 29 (IANS/EFE) Experts with the Mexican Attorney General’s Office are scouring an area near the town of Cocula for the bodies of the 43 students who disappeared Sep 26 near the city of Iguala. The officials started working Tuesday at the dump located in a hard-to-access zone about 10 km from Cocula and […]
Buenos Aires, Oct 29 (IANS/EFE) An Argentine television programme aired a video Tuesday showing soccer legend Diego Maradona hitting his ex-girlfriend, Rocio Oliva, hours after the soccer idol had said he “never raised a hand” against a woman. The video was shot with a mobile phone by Rocio Oliva herself and appeared on the programme “Nosotros […]
Los Angeles, Oct 29 (IANS) Actor Ryan Gosling, who has been lying low since becoming a father, stepped into the spotlight again to shoot for director Shane Black’s conspiracy film “The Nice Guys”. Gosling finally stepped back into the spotlight on Friday, making his first public appearance since the birth of his daughter Esmeralda Amada. He […]
Washington, Oct 29 (IANS/EFE) Amber Vinson, one of the two Dallas nurses who cared for an Ebola-infected Liberian man and then infected with the virus themselves, was released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta Tuesday after a 10-day stay. Vinson “has recovered from her infection with Ebola virus, and she can return to her community and […]
Mexico City, Oct 29 (IANS/EFE) The leader of Mexico’s Caballeros Templarios drug cartel has no plans to surrender or seek some kind of deal with authorities, according to an audio tape posted Tuesday on the internet. A man purporting to be Servando La Tuta Gomez says on the audio recording that authorities are mistaken if they […]