Indians Planet

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday this week's positive job and economic growth figures proved that his big spending efforts to stimulate the economy were working.

REUTERS - Three months ended Sept 30. (versus the same period a year earlier, in billion rupees unless stated)

MUMBAI (Reuters) - State Bank of India, the country's top lender, expects loan growth and margins to revive as corporate confidence in Asia's third largest economy boost credit demand.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. investors are becoming increasingly alarmed about a new wave of writedowns that may be looming in an obscure corner of banks' balance sheets.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland has struck a last-minute deal that could allow it to escape a government-backed insurance scheme for bad debts, possibly within a year, the Financial Times said.

London has been taken over by gangsters muscling in on various territories, edging out the last of the old-world godfathers of crime, Charlie Hook, who now wants to write a tell-all autobiography. He invites crime reporter Laurie Lane to ghost-write it for him, but before Lane can say yea or ...

A journalist travels the length and breadth of the country by train, taking the trouble of stopping by a few days at dusty towns one doesnt usually bother with: Mughal Sarai railway settlement in UP, Itarsi, Jhansi, Shoranur and other such. Author Bishwanath Ghosh writes Chai, Chai with the enthusiasm ...

I think of Asterix as a comic version of wily Odysseus, says the brilliant translator Anthea Bell of the subject of her best-known work, the Gaulish warrior whose village, forever frozen in 50 BCE, still holds out against Julius Caesars Roman legions. Frankly JC doesnt have a chance of completing ...

The third book in Stieg Larssons Millennium trilogy brings an epic series to a very gratifying close. Unfortunately, writes Jai Arjun Singh, it all really does end here.

PVR's Ajay Bijli is enjoying the process of juggling film content with commerce, but this weekend it's jogging rather than movies that is taking up his time.