Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) Caution-selling, combined with profit-booking and negative global indices, dragged the Indian equity markets lower during the mid-afternoon trade session on Tuesday. Consequently, the barometer 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the BSE…
Tokyo, Feb 23 (IANS) Japan shares erased gains in the morning session and ended mixed by the break on Tuesday as sentiment here, although boosted by the rising oil prices, was held by the yen’s…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Budget passenger carrier SpiceJet on Tuesday launched a three-day pre-summer sale with fares as low as Rs.599 for all non-stop flights across its domestic network. According to the budget passenger…
London, Feb 23 (IANS) Most people are able to keep their hands and eyes free for other tasks by following spatial audio guidance while navigating through streets, according to a Finnish study. Using sound for…
New York, Feb 23 (IANS) MasterCard may soon introduce a face recognition system that pays bills after user clicks a selfie and blinks in 14 other countries, apart from the US where it is currently…
Beijing, Feb 23 (IANS) China is set to open 19 new duty-free shops for domestic consumers, a move aimed at catering to the increasing demand for imported products, a media report said on Tuesday. The…
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Lifesize — a US-based video and audio telecommunications company that provides high definition videoconferencing endpoints and accessories — on Tuesday announced that it has split from Swiss computer peripheral company…
Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) Caution selling, combined with profit booking and negative Asian indices dragged the Indian equity markets lower during the early morning trade session on Tuesday. Market analysts cited, caution selling at the…
Beijing, Feb 23 (IANS) The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, lost 108 basis points to 6.5273 against the US dollar on Tuesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading…
Beijing, Feb 23 (IANS) Chinese stocks opened mixed on Tuesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.05 percent, at 2,925.71 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.03 percent higher at 10,374.36 points, Xinhua news…
Tokyo, Feb 23 (IANS) Tokyo shares opened the trading Tuesday higher following overnight gains in the US equity market and the rise in oil prices. At 9.15 a.m., the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average gained 184.66…
New York, Feb 23 (IANS) The US stocks ticked up in the morning session on Monday, as a strong rebound in oil prices boosted Wall Street sentiment. By midday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged…
Frankfurt, Feb 23 (IANS) The benchmark DAX index at Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Monday went up by nearly 200 points and closed at 9,573.59 points. Oil prices hiked and the exchange rate of euro plunged,…
Madrid, Feb 23 (IANS) The Spanish stock market index Ibex 35 rose 2.35 percent on Monday to close at 8,387 points, up from the 8,194.20 points of Friday. ArcelorMittal shares led rises climbing 7 percent,…
New York, Feb 22 (IANS) US stocks opened higher on Monday as a strong rebound in oil prices boosted Wall Street sentiment. Oil prices traded sharply higher in early trading Monday, with the US oil…
Bengaluru, Feb 22 (IANS) New York-based developers’ cloud computing platform DigitalOcean on Monday said it will set up a data centre in Bengaluru and offer solutions to startups, individual developers and other non-enterprise clients. “Currently…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The government will on Tuesday divest 5 percent stake in power generator NTPC through the offer for sale (OFS) route as a part of the disinvestment programme for this fiscal…
Patna: Union Minister of State for Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge) and Civil Aviation, Dr. Mahesh Sharma addresses a press conference in Patna on Feb 16, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS)…
Mumbai, Feb 22 (IANS) A Mumbai restaurateur will offer a special culinary delight — named ‘Chicken Sanju Baba’ — free of charge to all patrons and fans to celebrate Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s release from…
Rohtak: Security beefup in Rohtak in the wake off Jats demonstration on Feb 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) With the Jat agitation for job quotas continuing in Haryana, Indian industry on…