Mumbai, Sep 16 (PTI) The Indian rupee strengthened by 18
paise against the US currency in the opening trade Wednesday
as exporters sold the dollar, which weakened against major

Vijith Randeniya, the first Asian to head the UK Fire
Service in March 2009, was chosen for the 'Hmmer Award', given
to an individual who has broken through the glass ceiling.

Mumbai, Sep 16 (PTI) The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark
Sensex rose by 187 points to a 16-month high in opening trade

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India put on hold its composite dialogue with Pakistan
in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, which were blamed on the
Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba terror group.

"Any violence which does occur and any violence which
is racially motivated is completely unacceptable...and I'll
keep repeating this message as long as I have to get the

Bangalore, Sept 16 (PTI) Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) would launch Oceansat-2 satellite, which
would help identify potential fishing zones and in coastal

New Delhi, Sept 15 (PTI) After a humble beginning in
1959 from a makeshift studio in Akashwani Bhavan here,
Doordarshan, India's official broadcaster, has come a long way

Besides two Rubin nano satellites from Germany, the four
cubesats lined up for the mission are: Beesat (built by
Technical University, Berlin), UWE-2 (University of Wuerzburg,