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Reliance Retail’s Q1 pre-tax profit jumps 21% to Rs 240 crore

Reliance Retail, the retail arm of Reliance Industries, on Friday reported a 21.21 per cent increase in its pre-tax profit at Rs 240 crore for the first quarter ended June 30. Reliance Retail had reported a PBDIT (profit before depreciation and income tax) of Rs 198 crore in the same period last fiscal. Reliance Retail’s turnover jumped by 45.80 per Read More


Sensex dives 106 points as IT tanks after Infosys cuts guidance

Technology stocks took a hammering in the wake of muted guidance from Infosys, which pulled down the benchmark Sensex 106 points below the 28,000 mark at the close, while a ‘terror attack’ in France kept the market on the edge. The IT index bore the brunt after Infosys slashed its full-year revenue guidance, which triggered a massive sell-off in the Read More


Salman Khan’s Sultan day 10 box office: Gross India business is Rs 320 crore

Sultan is a juggernaut which refuses to stop. The Salman Khan, Anushka Sharmafilm has earned a gross of Rs 320 crore at the box office and is still going strong. The net profit of Sultan in India is Rs 229.16 crore at BO and the international figures for the film are yet to come in. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted Read More


Salman Khan breaks his silence on controversies: ‘It is sad’

Salman Khan is undoubtedly Bollywood’s biggest phenomenon but he also happens to be controversy’s favourite child. While Sultan is breaking box-office records, looming like a Damocles sword on his head is the controversial ‘raped woman’ remark that he made in June. At a press conference organised today at his Panvel farmhouse, Salman was asked about the controversies that keep surrounding Read More


Great Grand Masti movie review: This offensively unfunny, grating thing’s not a film

Great Grand Masti movie cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Urvashi Rautela Great Grand Masti movie director: Indra Kumar Those who have been following the escapades of the ‘Masti’ boys will know that they have been stuck in a limbo: between ‘biwis’ who will not put out and other women who are dying to, between pills that stiffen male Read More


Arunachal Governor wants trust vote tomorrow, Speaker says not possible

Arunachal Pradesh acting Governor Tathagata Roy Friday asked Chief Minister Nabm Tuki to prove his majority in the state assembly tomorrow, rejecting his plea asking for more time. The Speaker of the House, however, said it will not be possible to convene a session tomorrow at such a short notice. CM Tuki today met Governor Roy and sought at least Read More


Salman Khan’s Sultan day 9 box office collections steady, movie beats Kick’s lifetime collections

What explains Sultan Salman Khan’s amazing pulling power at the box office? While you mull over this, here are the day 9 box office collections of Sultan were Rs 9.52 crore: mind-boggling as always, adding to the film’s massive final tally of Rs 229.16 crore. The film has surpassed the lifetime earnings of Salman’s Kick, making this his second highest grosser Read More


Newspaper front pages from around the world on Nice attack

The heinous terror attack in Nice, France was reflected on the front pages of prominent newspapers across the world Friday. At least 84 people were killed when a man drove a truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day or French National Day in the capital of French Riviera. A 31-year-old French Tunisian citizen is believed to have been behind the Read More


France Attack: At least 84 dead in Nice, ‘terrorist nature’ of tragedy undeniable, says Hollande

A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 people today in what President Francois Hollande called a “terrorist” attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver was shot dead after barrelling the truck two kilometres through the festive crowd on the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais, sending hundreds fleeing in Read More


Reliance Industries’ first quarter results to be declared today

The first quarter results of Reliance Industries Limited will be declared later today. A bulk of the company’s fortunes are dependent on the oil economy. Brokerage firms and top analysts have predicted that there would be average rise in net profits of 5.5 per cent over the like period of last year, with maximum jump seen at 10 per cent. Read More