The benchmark index skidded 165 points to end at 8160, tracking a rout in Asian markets with Japan’s benchmark tumbling to a 26-year closing low. Realty and banking stocks were battered in today’s selloff on the BSE, with a number of them falling to their 52-week lows.
The Sensex traded in a range of 8,110 to [...]

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US collector James Otis has offered to donate a few more of Mahatma Gandhi’s belongings to India provided New Delhi agrees to his
proposal to substantially increase its spending on healthcare for the poor.

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The private visit is due to take place at Buckingham Palace when the president visits Britain to attend the G20 London economic summit.World leaders are meeting at the G20 in London on 2 April to discuss plans to tackle the current economic crisis.

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The premier Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad saw a 25 per cent drop in the average compensation package offered to its final-year post-graduate programme students in this year’s placements, conducted over nine days from February 25 to March 5.

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Several personal items that once belonged to Mohandas Gandhi, the Indian independence leader,have been sold at a New York City auction for $1.8m.The items were reportedly bought by VJ Mallya, a wealthy Indian businessman who reportedly plans to donate the items to the Indian government, his bidder told Reuters.

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If you feel healthy and in perfect fit now, does not mean you do not need supplements. When it suddenly strikes - an illness, a health problem, a sign of old age, weakness -

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Michael Jackson is making his first live appearance in years, but will it still be a thriller? The King of Pop is due to meet the press at a London concert arena this week to announce the mother of all comebacks — a string of concerts that organizers hope will net the financially troubled star millions.

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Soulful singer Lil Rounds stole the show during the final auditions for “American Idol” last night, proving that she’s a musical force to be reckoned with!

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Tuesday that Queen Elizabeth II would award Sen. Edward M. Kennedy an honorary knighthood.
“I know that you will allow me to single out for special mention today one of your most distinguished Senators, known in every continent and a great friend,” Brown told a joint session of Congress Tuesday [...]

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Following up on President Barack Obama’s announcement two weeks ago, the Treasury Department today began issuing guidelines to lenders and mortgage servicers on how to implement programs the administration says could keep millions of people in their homes by restructuring their home loans.

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