Sonia’s bid to persuade Lalu, Mulayam fails

VE Commercial Vehicles, a 50:50 joint venture between Eicher Motors and Sweden’s Volvo group, on Monday said it was looking at Southeast Asian nations for exports.

The company also announced a tie-up with asset finance company Magma Fincorp for financing ."

Helped by overseas investors’ buying interest in auto, bank and IT stocks, the Bombay Stock Exchange sensitive index, Sensex, closed higher by 108 points at 17102.60 on Monday against 16994.49 last Friday. Blue-chip counters such as ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Infosys, Mahindra &

A Bill, seeking to reduce Centre’s shareholding in State Bank of India (SBI) from 55 per cent now to 51 per cent and to allow the bank to raise more capital from the market through preference shares, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee moved the

Acclaimed Bollywood actress Kajol who is married to actor Ajay Devgn for 11 years now, was voted the favourite bahu (daughter-in law) in a poll conducted by matrimonial site shaadi.com.

As part of the upcoming International Women’s Day celebrations on Monday, shaadi.com

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone, who is blessed with a good figure, says she does not believe in being size zero as the Indian body type is not meant for it.

"Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size

Bollywood star Akshay Kumar has been chosen to endorse LG Electronics’ Flat Panel Displays (FPDs) because the company feels he represents the brand very well.

"We have chosen Akshay as our brand ambassador for LG FPDs because he personifies the LG

Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar said on Monday that he was still receiving congratulatory messages for becoming first batsman in the history of One-day cricket to score a double hundred and he was enjoying the good time. "It has taken many years for a batsman to get a

Picking a wicketkeeper for the national team has never been a problem for Sri Lanka since they have produced some of the greatest glovemen the game has ever seen, before and after the Second World War. The sad part is, the cricket world never heard of many of them because

 Skipper MS Dhoni arrived in Chennai for a week long training camp with the Super Kings ahead of the third season of the Indian Premier League, which starts on Friday.

The Chennai Super Kings were runners-up in the inaugural season (2008) and were semi-