India
Femina Miss India
PFMI World 2010 went to Andheri girl Manasvi Mamgai. Neha Hinge (left) from Pune won the PFMI International 2010 crown, while Nicole Faria from Bangalore (right) was anointed PFMI Earth.
Time magazine list of 100 most influential people
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh(rank 77), cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar(rank 37) and Nobel winning economist Amartya Sen are among nine Indians on the annual Time magazine list.
Other Indians on the list are eye specialist P Namperumal Swamy, humanitarian worker Sanjit Buker Roy, writer Chetan Bhagat, Indian-American doctor and Harvard professor Atul Gwande, paramedic from Toronto Rahul Singh and entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.
Ajmer Blast 2007
After Malegaon blasts in Maharashtra, the role of the radical Hindu outfit, Abhinav Bharat, resurfaced with the Rajasthan anti-terrorist squad (ATS) on Friday arresting Devendra Gupta for his involvement in the Ajmer dargah sharif blasts in 2007.
World
China bans citizen from buying third house
China on Friday banned its citizens from buying “more than one secondary home” in an effort to curb soaring property prices. The government had in April raised the down-payment requirement on second-home mortgages to 50%, up from the earlier 40%, and reiterated that buyers must pay an extra 10% on interest rates for these homes.
Business
3G bid having a dream run
The bid for a single pan-India block of 3G spectrum hit Rs 9,521 crore on Friday. This surpasses the total revenue of Rs 9,000 crore earned from the allocation of 120 licences for 2G spectrum by telecom minister A Raja on a first-come-first-served (FCFS) basis in January 2008. 3G price, the price per MHz has already touched Rs 86, already five times the Rs 17 per MHz price received for 2G spectrum.
Sports
T20 World Cup
NZ beat Srilanka and West Indies beat Ireland on the opening day of T20 World Cup.
Mahindra United Club shut
In a big blow to Indian football, Mahindra United, one of the country’s top clubs, will not feature in competitive football from the next season, as the owners have decided to allocate resources to a nationwide school-level enterprise instead. The club has recently tied up with the NBA to nurture a community basketball league.
Femina Miss India
PFMI World 2010 went to Andheri girl Manasvi Mamgai. Neha Hinge (left) from Pune won the PFMI International 2010 crown, while Nicole Faria from Bangalore (right) was anointed PFMI Earth.
Time magazine list of 100 most influential people
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh(rank 77), cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar(rank 37) and Nobel winning economist Amartya Sen are among nine Indians on the annual Time magazine list.
Other Indians on the list are eye specialist P Namperumal Swamy, humanitarian worker Sanjit Buker Roy, writer Chetan Bhagat, Indian-American doctor and Harvard professor Atul Gwande, paramedic from Toronto Rahul Singh and entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.
Ajmer Blast 2007
After Malegaon blasts in Maharashtra, the role of the radical Hindu outfit, Abhinav Bharat, resurfaced with the Rajasthan anti-terrorist squad (ATS) on Friday arresting Devendra Gupta for his involvement in the Ajmer dargah sharif blasts in 2007.
World
China bans citizen from buying third house
China on Friday banned its citizens from buying “more than one secondary home” in an effort to curb soaring property prices. The government had in April raised the down-payment requirement on second-home mortgages to 50%, up from the earlier 40%, and reiterated that buyers must pay an extra 10% on interest rates for these homes.
Business
3G bid having a dream run
The bid for a single pan-India block of 3G spectrum hit Rs 9,521 crore on Friday. This surpasses the total revenue of Rs 9,000 crore earned from the allocation of 120 licences for 2G spectrum by telecom minister A Raja on a first-come-first-served (FCFS) basis in January 2008. 3G price, the price per MHz has already touched Rs 86, already five times the Rs 17 per MHz price received for 2G spectrum.
Sports
T20 World Cup
NZ beat Srilanka and West Indies beat Ireland on the opening day of T20 World Cup.
Mahindra United Club shut
In a big blow to Indian football, Mahindra United, one of the country’s top clubs, will not feature in competitive football from the next season, as the owners have decided to allocate resources to a nationwide school-level enterprise instead. The club has recently tied up with the NBA to nurture a community basketball league.
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