Pakistan would soon discuss the issue of India's involvement in terror activities inside its geographical boundaries with New Delhi, Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Abdul Basit has said.Reiterating that the security forces have recovered Indian arms and ammunitions during search operations in South Waziristan, where the military is engaged in an intense battle with the Taliban, Basit blamed India fo...

NEW DELHI: Nasdaq-listed BPO firm EXL Service Holdings on Friday announced acquisition of American Express’ travel services captive in India for $30 million, and reported a 13.7% rise in revenues at $48.2 million during the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. ( ) The company’s net profit during quarter also improved to $4 million, as against a loss of $1.1 million in the same period last year....

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BSNL Chennai Telephones has launched two special tariff vouchers (STV) that allow pre-paid mobile users to make local and STD calls at 49 paise per minute or send text messages at 49 paise each.The STV-49 is loaded with a free talk value of Rs.5 and comes with a validity of 90 days while the STV-101 is loaded with a free talk value of Rs.10 and has a validity of 180 days.©...

conductor in London displays the Commonwealth Games Queen’s Baton on Thursday as it continues its 240-day journey through the Commonwealth nations before reaching New Delhi in October...

may rework the insurance reform bill, now before Parliament, to make it more acceptable to both the allies and the opposition parties, whose support is necessary to pass the bill in the Upper House.A bone of contention is the proposal to raise FDI in insurance to 49 per cent from the present 26 per cent.After the global meltdown, many political parties, including some of the Congress’s allies, opp...

Sudip Bandyopadhyay, credited with turning Anil Ambani’s Reliance Money into a financial services powerhouse, has left the company.Bandyopadhyay has joined B.K. Modi’s Spice group, which has now sent out a strong signal of its ambitions in financial services.Bandyopadhyay was with the Anil Ambani group for four-and-half years; under him, Reliance Money became India’s largest financial broking and ...

big names from the West refused to come and the event had to be pushed back by over a fortnight after a chain of terrorist attacks, but Pakistan still managed to unveil its second fashion week.The four-day event — the last was held in 2005 — was scheduled to start on October 15 but started on November 4.Ayesha Tehmina, the chief executive officer of Fashion Pakistan, said in Karachi that security ...

ExlService Holdings has signed an eight-year agreement to service the back-office operations of American Express Business Travel, while acquiring American Express’ Global Travel Service Center operations in Gurgaon.Though the company did not disclose the deal size, it expects over $160 million (Rs 752 crore) in revenues. The purchase price for this transaction is approximately $30 million (Rs 141 ...

MUMBAI: India's largest lender State Bank of India has extended its special home loan scheme at 8 per cent interest rate by over four months to March 31, 2010, a move which would provide relief to small home loan borrowers. The bank, which offers the special scheme under 'My Home Campaign', offers 8 per cent fixed interest rate for 5 years for loans up to Rs 5 lakh, with a maximum tenure of 10 yea...

cricket fraternity on Thursday lavished praise on country's batting icon Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first player in the game's history to cross the 17,000-run mark.Tendulkar, who was chasing the milestone from the onset of the series against Australia, achieved the feat when he, requiring seven runs coming into Thursday's match, played an on-drive to fetch three off pacer Ben Hilfenhaus dur...

Congress on Thursday nightreleased a list of 130 candidates for the GHMC polls scheduled for Nov23.After a two-day long discussions, a list of probables wassubmitted to PCC president D Srinivas for approval.The candidateswere selected by the PCC as per AICC guidelines, party general secretary RAnanda Bhaskar said. M Veerappa Moily, ACC in-charge of Andhra Pradesh affairs,chief minister K Rosaiah, ...