US OPEN 2016 – Overview

The 2016 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 136th edition of the US Open, the fourth and final Grand Slam event of the year. It took place at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

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Static GK - List of Gardens in India

1. Hanging Gardens – Mumbai
 

The Hanging Gardens, in Mumbai, also known as Pherozeshah Mehta Gardens, are terraced gardens perched at the top of Malabar Hill, on its western side, just opposite the Kamala Nehru Park.

News Insight (Business Line) ; 13th Sept 2016 - ‘Bhattacharya, Kochhar among most powerful women outside US’

India’s top women bankers, SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI head Chanda Kochhar and Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma, are among the 50 most powerful women based outside the US, according to a list by Fortune, which is topped by Banco Santander’s boss Ana Bot

Bhattacharya, 60 is ranked second on the list, while Kochhar comes in at the fifth spot and Sharma in the 19th position in Fortune’s ‘50 Most Powerful Women International’ list, which has ranked the women based outside the US.

Editorial (Business Line) : Put consumers first

Telecom is perhaps the only sector where a company can succeed only through co-opetition. The quality of service offered by an operator is highly dependent on how well it interconnects with rival service providers. For example,

Editorial : Reining in the adventurist North

North Korea’s fifth nuclear test may have had an explosive yield of no more than ten kilotons, somewhat less than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, but

Editorial : Effective, but not equitable

The dynamic fare pricing announced for the Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto trains on an “experimental basis” has been justified by the Ministry of Railways as a means to shore up lagging passenger revenues. The Ministry says the cost per passenger kilometre today is around 73 paise, while the Railways recovers only 37 paise.