Vienna: The price of the OPEC basket of twelve crudes stood at $38.93 a barrel on Monday, compared to $39.08 last Friday, the organisation's secretariat said. The new OPEC Reference Basket of Crudes is made up of the following: Murban (UAE), Saharan Blend (Algeria), Girassol (Angola), Oriente (Ecuador), Iran Heavy (Islamic Republic of Iran), Basra Light (Iraq), Kuwait Export (Kuwait),...
Mumbai: Former media baron Peter Mukerjea, one of the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, was sent to judicial custody till December 14 by a special court on Tuesday. Mukerjea has been in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) since the agency arrested him on November 19 from Mumbai. The prosecution lawyer said that as...
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday said it will recruit 35,000 police constables -- without any written test. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. It was also decided that the constables would be recruited on the basis of marks secured by applicants in Class X and XII. This would be...
New Delhi: There was more communal violence in states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress said on Tuesday, but BJP MPs refuted the claim. Opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge made the charge in the Lok Sabha, saying: "Where the BJP is in majority, more communal violence is reported from there." Furious BJP MPs were up on their feet...
Beijing: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided to include the Chinese currency, the yuan, in its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket, a media report said on Tuesday. During a meeting on Monday on the regular five-yearly review of the SDR basket, the IMF executive board, which represents the fund's 188 members, decided that the yuan "met all existing criteria",...
Mumbai: As Priyanka Chopra scored four million followers on Instagram, Bollywood's 'Desi Girl' sent out love to her virtual family, and thanked her admirers for showering her with love and appreciation. "Four million and counting...my Instagram family continues to grow. Thank you all for the love! This is...because you," the "Mary Kom" actor tweeted. The actress, who made her debut...
New Delhi: Union Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday warned BJP members of parliament from making provocative statements, saying it diverts the attention from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's development agenda. "We should be careful with words and should steer clear from controversies," union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi quoted Naidu, the parliamentary affairs minister, as saying during the parliamentary party meeting. "They...
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani's wife Kamla Advani was on Tuesday morning admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here because of health complications, hospital authorities said. "Yes, Advani ji's wife has been admitted to our hospital today (Tuesday) early in the morning over some health complications," AIIMS director M.C. Misra told....
Lucknow: Two sisters were hacked to death late Monday night on the outskirts of Lucknow, police said on Tuesday. Rekha, 25, and Savita, 19, were killed in front of their mother in their house in Ratauli village of Shahjahanpur district. Investigations are undergoing and police are exploring the possibility of an "insider hand" into the killings, senior superintendent of police...
London: Singer Rita Ora celebrated her 25th birthday with a stripper. "The X Factor" judge enjoyed a sexy dance in the studios. She couldn’t keep her hands off the surprise guest, who also brought her a cake, as per reports. Fellow judges Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and Nick Grimshaw looked on, while Ora wrestled with the guest. The stripper, Ash Edelman, wore a...
