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...A transporting fug of incense fills the auditorium during S Shakthidharan’s epic play Counting and Cracking, which draws on the stories of his own family in both Sri Lanka and Australia....
...Mythili Prakash shows off her Bharatanatyam training as the mesmerising goddess Gaia....
...The agreement was reached in talks between S....
...“With such an adverse backdrop, GDP growth is poised to be on a steady downward slope in the third quarter and beyond,” said Prakash Sakpal, economist at ING....
...However, Prakash Sakpal, economist at ING, disagrees. He notes that India has already cut rates by 75 basis points this year....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 1.2 per cent as financials stocks fell 1.2 per cent with all four major banks in negative territory for the day....
...But on Thursday, two of the companies concerned — Prakash Industries, a small miner, and J Kumar Infraprojects, a constituent of the S&P BSE 500 index — secured a stay on the action against them at the Securities...
...The S&P 500 ended 0.2 per cent lower at 2,104, leaving it 1.2 per cent up on the week and 1.4 per cent short of its record high. the index gained 2 per cent over the month as a whole....
...Print advertising revenue was set for further declines, S&P noted, and “digital strategies alone will not halt the overall slide in ebitda for publishers, which must increase subscription and cover prices...
...That may explain why, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, hedge fund assets under management in the city state jumped 21 per cent in 2013 to S$89bn....
...In New York, the S&P 500 index rose 0.4 per cent to 1,885....
...The S&P had dipped to 1,915 after the first release of the ISM data – which initially showed manufacturing activity at its lowest level since February....
...Vishnu Prakash, India’s top foreign ministry spokesman, confirmed last night that the statement was issued after the Fifth India-China Financial Dialogue held in Delhi on Tuesday....
...But recently, bike fans in Mumbai’s gritty former textile mills district got a taste of what American author Hunter S. Thompson meant by the term in his book, Hell’s Angels....
...Prakash Jawadakar, a spokesman for the opposition BJP, predicted that the election would begin on April 20 and would run into early May in eight or nine stages....
...“That time has come,” said Prakash Karat, head of the Communist party of India (Marxist)....
...Rescuers pulled 58 bodies out of carriage S-6, all of them charred beyond recognition....
...The CPI(M)’s website is sharply focused on issues and is therefore more text-oriented; there is a solitary photograph of the party general secretary, Prakash Karat, who gets the same prominence and treatment...
...Two of the principal actors in the Bofors drama, S. K. Bhatnagar, a former defence secretary, and Wim Chada, a businessman who represented Bofors in India, have died....
...Mack McLarty, Former Chairman and CEO, Arkla Dennis Mehiel, Chairman, Four M Corporation Prakash Melwani, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group Ed Meyer, Chairman, President and CEO, Grey Global...
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