The first two days of the Bengaluru summer meeting races have been cancelled due to agitation by the Karnataka Racehorse Owners Association and Karnataka Trainers Association.
As no entries were put by the trainers on Wednesday for the weekend races, the BTC had decided to cancel the races due to paucity of entries.

Stormyred, Crown Vision and Cowboy Cal impressed when the following horses were exercised here on Wednesday.

Robert Foley-trained Numeric, ridden by N. Rupa, won the Shoranur plate, the chief event of the races held here on Wednesday.

Gold prices touched an all time high of $1,244 an ounce on Wednesday. Gold prices have been moving up steadily for the past few weeks as investors fret about the health of the European economies and find gold a

In a rare move, leading telecom firms Bharti and Vodafone have criticised the recommendations on spectrum allocation that were made by sector regulator Trai on Tuesday.

The stocks prices of Bharti and Idea reflected the shock of the markets at the recommendatons of telecom regulator. Both the stocks were down over 8 per cent in the day’s trade. Linking the price of 2G spectrum to the price paid for 3G spectrum can hit the profits of these firms in a very big way.

Mahindra Satyam has bagged a $40 million contract from a global auto major for a five-year period. This is one of the major contracts that the Hyderabad-based company had won in the recent times.

The industrial production grew by 13.5 per cent in March led by a strong growth in the manufacturing sector. This is the sixth straight month of over 10 per cent growth in the industrial production.

Four tourists from Kolkata, who had gone to Arunachal Pradesh, died after their car toppled down a mountain and fell into a gorge due to poor visibility owing to bad weather. The incident that occured in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday evening also left four others injured.

Setting her target on the CPI(M) and not on the Congress before the municipal polls, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee attacked the Left Front and the CPI(M) on her first day of campaigning. Addressing thousands of party workers at Shyambazar five-point crossing on Wednesday, Ms Banerjee thundered: “The Left Front is