Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday night received ‘priya Gujarati’ title based on an opinion poll conducted by a television channel.
Out of the nine contestants for the poll, conducted by E-TV Gujarati, Modi bagged 82 per cent votes to emerge on the top, said Chairman of the E-TV Group Ramoji Rao before the presentation [...]

In a case of bad timing, those behind the wheels of the speeding procession drove straight into the arms of a large-scale operation targeting fines dodgers, unroadworthy vehicles, and other traffic offences including drink driving.
Senior Sergeant Kerrin Price, of the Southland Strategic Traffic Unit, said the joint-operation between police, the Justice Ministry and Land Transport [...]

Octavio Marenzi, the head of Celent’s financial consultancy unit, said more layoffs are inevitable as the subprime crisis hits other parts of the banking industry and spreads beyond mortgages to mortgage-related products, such as home-equity loans, and other types of lending, such as credit cards.”The banking industry over the past 40 years has never seen [...]

eBay is a tad more complicated than Trade Me, charging listing fees as well as success fees.
Selling via Trade Me involves paying either a set fee for classifieds, such as real estate and cars, or a success fee (the fee scale starts at 5.9 percent of the sale price for standard auction items that sell [...]