Friday, October 31, 2014

6 years later: Verdict on Raju, 9 other Satyam scam accused on 23 December

A special court here will pronounce its verdict on December 23 in the accounting fraud in the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited, nearly six years after the the multi-crore rupee scam jolted corporate India. Special judge BVLN Chakravarthi fixed 23 December for pronouncement of the much-awaited judgement. All the ten accused in the case, including prime accused Satyam Computers founder and former chairman B Ramalinga Raju and his brother...

Run for Unity: PM Modi masterstroke pushes Indira to irrelevance

Congressmen better grin and bear it. 31 October is no more about Indira Gandhi's death anniversary; the Narendra Modi government has managed to make it irrelevant by superimposing on it another national icon, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. These towering personalities of Indian history would not have liked being placed on conflicting sides of a political divide a bit, but the BJP government is too busy scoring ideological points at the moment...

Overnight US Market.Dow Closed up 221.11 points ,S&P 500 by 12.35 points.

Thursday’s Close: Dow+221.11 17,195.42 +1.30% Nasdaq+16.912 4,566.14 +0.37% S&P+12.35 1,994.65 +0.62%    Dow  |  Nasdaq  |  S&P  U.S. Stocks » GainersPrice% Change VVisa Inc236.65+10.24% MAMasterCard Inc83.13+9.40% BMYBristol-Myers Squi...58.98+8.90% HARHarman Internation...108.87+7.46% AKAMAkamai Technologie...59.83+6.44% LosersPrice% Change AVPAvon Products Inc9.97-9.03% BLLBall...