The Indian women’s hockey team finished on a winning note as they thrashed Ireland 6-0 in their last match of the four-nation tournament in Essen, Germany, on Monday.
Skipper Surender Kaur led from the front scoring three goals in the 9th, 23rd and 32nd minutes.

India will tour Sri Lanka for their three-Test series next month better prepared to deal with whatever comes their way, said team senior Rahul Dravid at the launch of the 2010 Limca Book of Records here on Monday.

With 96 days left for the Commonwealth Games, the training-cum-practice facility that is being developed adjacent to the Games Village is still under construction and chances of it getting ready by the revised July 31 deadline seem bleak.

The six core infrastructure industries posted five per cent growth in May compared to the same period last fiscal, giving optimism that the country’s overall robust industrial expansion is well on track.

After winning the turf war with the markets regulator Sebi over control over Ulips, the insurance watchdog IRDA on Monday tightened the norms for these schemes by raising the lock-in period and insurance cover on them. It also provides a minimum guaranteed return on Ulip pension or annuity products.

The new telecom players are adding moderate number of customers which could help them to gain critical mass to survive in India’s competitive telecom market.
Videocon, which launch-ed mobile services just two months back, now has 13 lakh customers, with 7 lakh added in May. Norway-based Telenor’s subsidiary Uninor, w

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sun-day appointed the CLP leader in the West Bengal Assembly, Mr Manas Ranjan Bhunia, the new PCC president after finance minister Pranab Mukherjee relinquished the post citing “heavy government responsibilities”. The appointment of Mr Bhunia, a close associate of Mr Mukherjee, comes

Recent agreement by BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL) to buy half the power generated by the 16 mw municipal solid waste-based power plant being set up by the Timarpur-Okhla Waste Management Company Private Limited (TOWMCL) in Delhi has triggered off a fresh debate on how to dispose off the city’s waste.

In a bid to ensure that the banks get their money back on the subsidised educational loans provided to students under the Central scheme, the government plans to digitise certification under various courses, these certificates will be marked mentioning about the outstanding loan amount.

Can a student opt for subjects like physics, economics and Sanskrit together at Class 10 or under-graduation level?
Such multi-disciplinary subject combinations, which have been denied to students in most of the state boards and universities, could be a reality soon.
The HRD ministry wants to give students the flexibility of having multi-disciplinary subjects from streams of science, arts and commerce together at Class 11, 12 and graduation.