Rupee hits one-week low of 46.32/33
Mumbai, Feb 24 (PTI) The Indian rupee Wednesday lost 8
paise to close at more than one week low of 46.32/33 against
the US currency on dollar buying by importers amid erratic
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Global crude oil prices were trading below USD 79 a
barrel in London Wednesday.
Meanwhile, India's Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee
Mamata spares train travellers from hike in fares
New Delhi,Feb 24 (PTI) India's Railway Minister Mamata
Banerjee Wednesday lived upto popular expectations by not
raising fares and freight rates in her Budget and marginally
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Banerjee proposed the highest-ever annual plan outlay
for Railways by pegging it Rs 41,426 crore for 2010-11 under
which a target of 1,000 km of new lines has been set.
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He described his days in hiding as "very nasty". "This
was a period in my life where people said very nasty things
about me" and "I thought during the time of the attack on that
Rushdie to pen down memoirs of his days hiding the death fatwa
New York, Feb 24 (PTI) Booker Award Indian-origin
novelist Salman Rushdie has said he plans to pen down his
experiences of a decade hiding a death 'fatwa' from the
No hike in fares, freight charges in Rail Budget
New Delhi, Feb 24 (PTI) India's Railway Budget for
2010-11 Wednesday proposed no increase in passenger fares and
freight rates while reducing the tariff by Rs 100 per wagon in
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The budget has provided for the highest-ever plan outlay
for 2010-11 at Rs 41,426 crore, an increase of Rs 1,142 crore
over 2009-10.
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The budget also contains proposals for multi-level parking
and setting up of clean drinking water bottling plants in six
Pak says bracketing Saeed with talks `counter-productive`
Lahore, Feb 24 (PTI) On the eve of the Indo-Pak Foreign
Secretary-level talks, Pakistan Wednesday said that India's
demand for handing over of JuD chief Hafiz Saeed, the
