On March 18, 2011, Harit Vanijya LLP has sold 186,454 shares of Garware Polyester at Rs 108.60 per share on the BSE.

On March 18, 2011, Tata Coffee has touched an intraday high of Rs 1,025.00 and an intraday low of Rs 968. The share closed at Rs 999.40, up Rs 15.25, or 1.55%.

British musician Jet Harris, who played bass guitar in Cliff Richard's band The Shadows, has died aged 71, British media reported on Friday.

A week before jury selection begins in the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, the late singer's father renewed calls for a federal probe into his son's death based on his belief a conspiracy was at work.

The Wankhede Stadium, venue for the World Cup final on April 2, suffered yet another embarrassment when a light tower suffered a power failure during the match between Sri Lanka and New Zealand on Friday.

The Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi called making the band's new album "Angles" "just awful," but despite a fractious recording process most critics seem pleased the New York rockers are finally back.

Twenty million Sri Lankans will be scrutinising Muttiah Muralitharan's medical bulletins for the next few days after the world's most prolific bowler was stricken by a hamstring problem during his team's victory over New Zealand on Friday.

New York City dwellers, by a majority of 49% to 35%, said they preferred that the city's budget be balanced with tax increases instead of service reductions, a new poll said on Friday.

Simon Cowell on Friday confirmed that influential music executive Antonio 'LA' Reid will join him as a judge on his upcoming TV singing contest 'The X Factor'.

Florida, Mexico City and the Pacific resort of Acapulco will be key for the expansion this year of Carlos Slim's Ostar hotel chain, as the world's richest man continues to take his empire well beyond telecoms.

Can you feel the love? Some roosters in the state of New Jersey may not feel it too often as a township plans to limit their conjugal visits with hens.

Bangladesh will have to conjure up something pretty special to upstage formidable South Africa in Saturday's Group B match and make it to the quarter-final of the World Cup.

Indian ADRs ended mixed on Friday. In IT space, Infosys was down 1.04% at $ 64.55 while Patni Computers was up 1.48% at $ 19.95 and Wipro was up 0.23% at $ 13.09.

The initial public offering of PTC India Financial Services, Indian non-banking financial institution promoted by PTC India, has received mild response from investors.

US stocks gained after a week of heightened volatility on Friday, but investors were reluctant to make big bets due to turmoil in the Middle East and Japan's nuclear crisis.

Ad film veteran Prahlad Kakkar finds that Indian food and Scotch do, indeed, go well together.

SKP Securities is bullish on Allcargo Global and has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target of Rs 226 in its March 18, 2011 research report.

KRChoksey is bullish on IRB Infra and has recommended buy rating on the stock with a target of Rs 251 in its March 18, 2011 research report.

Equity diversified NAVs ended lower with advance:decline ratio of 5:257 as the NSE 50-share Nifty ended the week on a somber note below the 5400-mark. It was a newsflow heavy week for the market with intense global and local cues.

Leading steel manufacturers SAIL and Essar Steel today refuted the charges of 'cartelisation' and 'unfair trade practices', levelled by ancillary steel producers, by attributing steep hike in HR Coil prices to sky-rocketing raw material costs.

UK on Friday said it hopes that the on-going negotiations on signing a Free Trade Agreement between European Union and India would be completed successfully to the mutual benefit of all.

Work has begun on the first Nokia smartphones based on Microsoft software following the partnership announced by the companies last month, Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop told Reuters.

Vodafone's India unit has so far gained the most following India's move allowing mobile users to retain their numbers even when they switch carriers, data from an industry body showed on Friday.

China raised banks' required reserves again in a decision on Friday, the latest installment in its monetary tightening cycle that many had thought would be put on hold after Japan's devastating earthquake.

It still says Nokia on the box, but investors might find the similarities end there.