Italian capital city Rome has given up on its plans of hosting a Formula 1 race, the city's Mayor Gianni Alemanno announced.
With two major international sports events, 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, scheduled to be held in Brazil in the next five years, it’s high time the country should improve its “substandard” tourism infrastructure, according to the Brazil Tourism Report Q1 2011, released recently.
As Karnataka plunges into another political crisis, the capital city Bangalore seems to be in no mood for the BJP-called shutdown.
Movie star Jim Carrey was photographed holding hands with Anchal Joseph, a model and former contestant on the show America’s Next Top Model.
India's largest listed company, Reliance Industries Ltd , posted its highest ever quarterly profit on higher refining and petrochemical margins, but lagged market estimates.
Gold touched a two-month low in Europe on Friday, pressured by a firmer appetite for assets seen as higher risk on expectations the economic recovery was gaining traction, but a retreat in the dollar prevented a steeper drop.
Special Forces from South Korea stormed a cargo ship taken over by pirates in the Arabian Sea and rescued the 21-member crew. The rescue attempt occurred a week after the cargo ship, Samho Jewelry, was hijacked by Somali pirates. The ship had eight South Koreans, two Indonesians and 11 people from Myanmar and was carrying chemicals from the UAE towards Sri Lanka.
The companies that reported earnings after the markets close on Thursday are: Google, AMD, Capital One, International Game Technology, Wipro, Consolidated Edison, Maxim Integrated, Flextronics, Intuitive Surgical, Polycom...
British government plans to introduce new rules this April to cap visas for less skilled workers from non-European countries to cut the number of immigrants from outside Europe.
India’s third largest software exporter Wipro Ltd. has announced the resignation of the joint Chief executives of its IT Business, Suresh Vaswani and Girish Paranjpe
Asian stocks tumbled and commodities paused on Friday after a recent selloff on worries that rising inflation may invite aggressive policy tightening and hurt growth in the world's growth engines like China and India.
India's food inflation eased for the second straight week due to lower fruit and vegetable prices, data showed on Thursday, but an acceleration in headline inflation in December is likely to put pressure on the central bank to raise rates at a policy review next week.
Wipro Ltd surprised markets with the resignations of the joint-CEOs of its information technology business, after reporting profit growth rates which lagged rivals Infosys Technologies LTd and Tata Consultancy Services.
Wipro, India's third-largest software exporter, said a deluge of outsourcing orders helped the company see its third-quarter jump 9.6 percent.
Many (perhaps most) Westerners simply make no distinction between Muslim, Hindu or Sikh; or even much of a distinction between Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs or Iranians.
One of the greatest, most popular and iconic rock-and-roll stars of all-time was of Indian descent – Freddie Mercury, the charismatic (some would sneer over-theatrical) lead singer of British music group Queen.
Just one day after signing a huge contract to sell aircraft to China, Boeing (NYSE: BA) said it will lay off about 1,100 U.S, workers involved in the manufacture of its C-17 military-cargo aircraft through the end of next year.
Bill Draper speaks to IBTimes about his views on venture capital investments.
Safaricom's second tranche of its five-year medium-term note worth 4.5 billion shillings was fully subscribed, the Kenyan mobile phone operator's chief executive said on Thursday.
Boeing Co said on Thursday it would lay off 1,100 workers who make the company's C-17 cargo plane, as it scales down assembly rates to extend the life of the production line.
India on Thursday said it is considering to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail and defense sectors as part of its efforts to step up foreign investments into the country.
Indian pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd on Thursday said it has launched a generic version of Protonix, a drug used to control the amount of acid in the stomach, in the United States.
