Infosys reported net profit of Rs.2,875 crore for third quarter (Oct-Dec) of this fiscal (2013-14), posting 21.4 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth. In a regulatory filing to stock exchanges Friday, the IT bellwether said consolidated revenue for the quarter under review (Q3), increased 25 percent YoY to Rs.13,026 crore as per the Indian accounting standard. Under […]
Claiming that Delhi Police created a case against his clients to prove a statement by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi as correct, the defence counsel of two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suspects Thursday sent a letter to the home minister, asking for the transfer of the case to the NIA. Md. Shahid and Md. Rashid were arrested […]
Power distribution companies in the capital will be penalised if their reasons for unscheduled power cuts are found unsatisfactory, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Thursday. He said this in reply to a letter sent by Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely, who warned the chief minister of agitation if long-hour power cuts continue in various […]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Thursday said nobody’s passport application should be rejected on the grounds of a relative’s involvement in militancy. Abdullah’s comment came on Twitter after Sheikh Ruhail Afzal, resident of Trehgam village in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, went to media claiming that his passport application had been rejected by the […]
The Sri Lankan Army Thursday termed as baseless allegations by the US embassy in Colombo that the army was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians at the fag end of the country’s three-decade-long war against Tamil rebels. The US Embassy in Colombo had tweeted a picture of the US ambassador-at-large at the Office […]
Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon’s condition is worsening and his family is by his side, CNN reported Thursday. “In the last few hours there has been a deterioration in Ariel Sharon’s medical condition,” said Michael Schwartz, a spokesperson for the Sheba Medical Center, where the comatose former Israeli prime minister is being treated, in […]
A 28-year-old employee of an advertising firm was fined for rash driving after he overtook the convoy of Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, police said Thursday. Saurabh Rastogi’s car overtook Vadra’s convoy in south Delhi’s Amar Colony area. “Vadra’s security officers signalled to the traffic policemen deployed on the road about the suspicious […]
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was given a G1 visa with full diplomatic immunity Jan 8 and is on her way back to India. The external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted: “Devyani Khobragade was given G1 visa with full diplomatic immunity on 8 Jan, 2014. Airborne on way back to India.”
Nigeria’s troops in northeast state of Borno said Thursday that 38 Boko Haram suspects were killed after it successfully repelled an attack on Damboa community in by suspected Boko Haram fighters. Spokesperson for the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army Muhammad Dole announced the development in a statement in Maiduguri, the restive state capital city, […]
Mohd Asim Khan When we talk of the food at an upscale restaurant we invariably talk of the chef behind it. But despite most of us finding the array of food available in Delhi’s old quarters lip-smacking, few of us remember the ‘bawarchis’, or the traditional cooks, behind the culinary magic. Purani Dilli, as the area is known, […]