A suicide bomb and gun attack on a Methodist church in Pakistan has killed at least five people, reports say. The attack happened in the city of Quetta, some 65km (40 miles) from the border with Afghanistan. More than a dozen people were also wounded after gunmen wearing explosive vestsContinue Reading
Spain and Italy take on each other at the final of Euro 2012 on Sunday (today )at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev. Euro 2012: Final Venue: Olympic Stadium, Kiev Date: Sunday, 1 July Kick-off: 19:45 BST Euro 2012 Football tournament reaches its climax, today at Kiev, when defending championsContinue Reading
Trade ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa (BRICS) will meet in New Delhi today to discuss ways to strengthen economic ties ahead of the BRICS Summit.The summit will be held on Thursday.Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma will meet his counterparts from Brazil Fernando Pimente, Chen Deming fromContinue Reading
Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has slashed the return on statutory savings to 8.25% for the current fiscal from 9.5% last year, on cues from finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. A notification for the reduction in rates for 4.72 crore EPFO subscribers was issued earlier this week, and comes days beforeContinue Reading
The Pioneer’s special correspondent J Gopikrishnan won yet another laurel when he received the Ramnath Goenka Journalist of the Year Award in print category here on Monday. CNBC managing editor Udayan Mukherjee was adjudged best journalist of the year. Both of these prestigious awards were for the year 2009. BothContinue Reading
NATGRID gets in-principal approval After the establishment of National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe terror cases, the Union Home Ministry has got the in-principle approval for it’s another show-case project — the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID). The law enforcement and intelligence agencies would be able to share information real time onceContinue Reading
The 1318-km Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway opens after 39 months of construction. Amid heavy protests, the Greek parliament passes austerity measures in order to obtain the latest tranche of a 110 billion euro loan of the EFSF. Christine Lagarde is appointed Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, beginning 5 July. AtContinue Reading
What is Global Peace Index? The Global Peace Index (GPI) is an attempt of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) to measure the relative position of nations’ and regions’ peacefulness. The Institute for Economics and Peace develops this index in consultation with an international panel of peace experts fromContinue Reading
Spectrum Raja Arrested Former Telecom Minister A Raja was today arrested along with his two former associates in connection with the 2G Spectrum scam. Raja arrived at the CBI headquarters this morning, a day after his brother A K Perumal was questioned by the CBI about alleged funding of someContinue Reading
Now Keep Your Number, Change Your Telecom Service Provider Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today flagged off nation-wide Mobile Number Portability, a service that allows subscribers to change service provider while retaining the number. This would benefit over 700 million subscribers, both in GSM and CDMA categories in the country. TheContinue Reading
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