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Dehradun, Jun 21: Forty bodies of flood victims were recovered from Haridwar, taking the toll in the rain fury to 190 as operations to rescue over 9000 stranded in Kedarnath and Badrinath were stepped up with the deployment of 40 helicopters. As the magnitude of the tragedy continued to unfold, Uttarakhand principal secretary Rakesh Sharma said casualty figures can be "shockingly high". In

New Delhi, Jun 21: Amid growing concerns over huge gold imports hurting the country's economic strength, financial services major Reliance Capital today became the first company to suspend gold sales across all its businesses. The decision includes suspension of sale of gold coins and other physical forms of the yellow metal, as also as an investment product across all its businesses and

New Delhi, Jun 21: Between 2009-10 and 2011-12, the proportion of people working slipped slightly in India, and the share of unemployed persons ticked up, a government report released on Thursday has revealed. In 2009-10, 36.5% of the population was gainfully employed for the better part of the year. By 2011-12, the proportion of such workers had dipped to 35.4%. Meanwhile the unemployment rate

Jaipur, Jun 21: UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday slammed the opposition for stalling the food security Bill and asked the people to be cautious of such parties which try to create instability in the country. Sonia, who inaugurated a power and a water supply project in Rajasthan on Thursday, said the UPA government would have fulfilled its promise of not letting

New Delhi, Jun 20: Government has decided to deploy more helicopters in Uttarakhand to rescue over 60,000 people still trapped in the rain-ravaged hill state and expedite relief operations. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said so far 22 helicopters have been used to evacuate stranded people to safer locations and through hundreds of sorties they rescued 22,392 people. “But 22 helicopters are not

New Delhi, Jun 20: Both the precious metals, gold and silver tumbled in the national capital on Thursday on heavy sell-off by stockists, triggered by a weak trend in overseas markets. While gold fell by Rs. 400 to Rs. 28,000 per ten grams, silver plunged by Rs. 1,500 to Rs. 43,100 per kg on poor offtake. Traders said sentiment dampened after gold fell to the lowest in more than 2.5 years after U.S

New Delhi, Jun 20: A report claimed on Thursday that India has put in place an elaborate surveillance system that would allow the government and its various agencies and departments, including income tax officials, to tap e-mails and phone calls of unsuspecting individuals. The report said such surveillance would not have any oversight by courts or Parliament. The government claims the programme

Dehradun/Shimla, Jun 20: The Himalayan tragedy continued to unfold on Thursday with fears that thousands of pilgrims staying in 90 rest houses in Uttarakhand may have been washed away in flash floods even as rescue operations were stepped up with additional IAF choppers pressed into service to evacuate stranded people in Kedarnath area. In its report to the Union home ministry, the Uttarakhand

New, Delhi, Jun 20: After the promotion of Narendra Modi catapulted the BJP into crisis, the party is trying to arrange the peaceful co-existence of its top leaders. LK Advani met today with Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the BJP's powerful ideological mentor, the Rashtryia Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS. Mr Advani reportedly emphasized the need for "collective leadership" for the National Democratic Alliance

Mumbai, Jun 20: The rupee on Thursday plunged by a whopping 130 paise to hit life-time low of 60 against the US dollar in early trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange on strong demand for the American currency from banks and importers. Besides, dollar's strength against major currencies overseas on comments by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that the central bank may scale back its monetary