Bharti Airtel profit down 29 percent on rupee woes
Last Updated On 30 October,2013 About 6 hours ago
Its mobile Internet revenue doubled from a year earlier, driving overall revenue up 10 percent.
MUMBAI
(AP) Bharti Airtel, India s largest telecommunications company, says
the weak rupee contributed to a 29 percent slump in quarterly profit.
The
company said Wednesday its net profit for the July to September quarter
was 5.1 billion rupees ($83 million). It absorbed currency losses of
3.4 billion rupees ($55 million).
However,
solid revenue growth in rupee terms boosted the company s stock, which
rose nearly 5 percent on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Bhartil Airtel said its mobile Internet revenue doubled from a year earlier, driving overall revenue up 10 percent.
Double suicide attack in central Iraq kills 12
Last Updated On 30 October,2013 About 1 hour ago
Law and order situation in Iraq is goring from bad to worse with the passage of time.
BAGHDAD
(AP) Officials say a twin suicide attack targeting soldiers and
anti-al-Qaida militiamen in central Iraq has killed 12 people.
A
police officer says the first attacker detonated his explosives-laden
belt late Tuesday among a group of soldiers and Sahwa militiamen
gathered in the orchard of a local militia leader in the town of
Tarmiyah.
A second suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the compound as people tried to flee from the first explosion.
The
officer says nine troops, including a brigade commander, and three
militiamen were killed, and 23 were wounded. Tarmiyah, a former
insurgent stronghold, is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of
Baghdad.
A medical official
confirmed the causality figures. Both spoke on condition of anonymity as
they were not authorized to talk to media.
African elephants live in close-knit groups led by a matriarch
Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta: ICC case delayed
Uhuru Kenyatta has always said he would co-operate with the ICC
The trial of Kenyan
President Uhuru Kenyatta at the International Criminal Court has been
delayed following last month's terror attack in Nairobi.
His trial was due to begin on 12 November but it has been put back until 5 February.
His lawyers said he needed more time to deal with the aftermath of the attack on the Westgate shopping centre.
He denies links to violent attacks following the disputed 2007 election, which left some 1,200 people dead.
African leaders have been lobbying for the case to be delayed
until Mr Kenyatta is no longer in office, saying the trial would make
it impossible for him to run the country.
The African Union has accused the ICC of unfairly targeting the continent's leaders.
At least 67 people were killed when militants believed to be
from the Somali al-Shabab group stormed the Westgate mall last month.
Uhuru Kenyatta has always said he would co-operate with the ICC
Zimbabwe court says Robert Mugabe 'insult law' invalid
Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980
Zimbabwe's highest court has declared unconstitutional a law which makes it a crime to insult the president
Prosecutors should not be overzealous about charging people who
comment about President Robert Mugabe "in drinking halls and other
social places", the Constitutional Court said.
At least 80 cases have reportedly been filed in recent years under the law.
In May, opposition activist Solomon Madzore was arrested for allegedly calling Mr Mugabe a "limping donkey".
He denied a charge of insulting the president.
Under Section 33 of Zimbabwe's Criminal Codification and
Reform Act, a person could be jailed for up to a year or fined $100
(£64) for insulting the president's office.
Elephant society 'is still disrupted decades after cull'
African elephants live in close-knit groups led by a matriarch
African elephants' decision-making abilities are left impaired by culling operations that ended decades ago, University of Sussex research suggests.
A study found that elephant herds that lost adults to culls
during the 1970s and 1980s were less able to respond appropriately to
other elephant calls.
Lead researcher Prof Karen McComb said the animals' "social understanding" had been impaired by the loss of adults.
The results are published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology
Prof Karen McComb explains how the team tested the elephants' reactions
The scientists, from the University of Sussex, say this is the
first "systematic evidence that fundamental social skills may be
significantly impaired by man-made disruption".
To study this, the researchers compared the behaviour of two
herds of elephants: those in the Amboseli National Park, in Kenya, which
have been relatively undisturbed by culling operations and a population
in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa.
The herd at Pilanesberg was made up of young orphaned
elephants introduced during the early 1980s and 1990s, after management
culls of adult and older juvenile animals in the Kruger National Park.
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Prof Karen McComb University if SussexTheir social understanding has been impaired”
There is already evidence that
the loss of these adult elephants had dramatic social consequences on
South Africa's elephants; the researchers describe these effects as akin
to post traumatic stress disorder.
In two protected areas in South Africa, Prof McComb told BBC
News, "young, orphaned male elephants became hyper-aggressive and
attacked and killed rhinoceroses".
Kenya media anger over tough regulations
There have been several attempts to draw up laws to regulate Kenya's media
Kenya's media has expressed outrage after parliament approved a bill imposing regulation on journalists.
In a late-night sitting on Thursday, MPs voted to set up a
communications tribunal with the power to impose fines for breaching a
code of conduct.
Media houses could face fines of $234,000 (£146,000), and individual journalists up to $12,000 (£7,000).
The bill still needs to be approved by President Uhuru Kenyatta before becoming law.
It comes a week after Kenya's top security chiefs warned
journalists over their coverage of September's attack on the Westgate
shopping centre by Islamist militants in which 67 people were killed.
CCTV footage was leaked to the local media which appeared to
show soldiers taking items from a supermarket; the army said the
soldiers were only taking water during the siege.
Two soldiers have since been sacked and jailed for looting
but the army chief denied there had been "widespread looting" and said
there had been an attempt by the media to paint the soldiers as
"unprofessional".
Bharti Airtel profit down 29 percent on rupee woes
Last Updated On 30 October,2013 About 6 hours ago
Its mobile Internet revenue doubled from a year earlier, driving overall revenue up 10 percent.
MUMBAI (AP) Bharti Airtel, India s largest telecommunications company, says the weak rupee contributed to a 29 percent slump in quarterly profit.
The company said Wednesday its net profit for the July to September quarter was 5.1 billion rupees ($83 million). It absorbed currency losses of 3.4 billion rupees ($55 million).
However, solid revenue growth in rupee terms boosted the company s stock, which rose nearly 5 percent on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Bhartil Airtel said its mobile Internet revenue doubled from a year earlier, driving overall revenue up 10 percent.
Double suicide attack in central Iraq kills 12
Last Updated On 30 October,2013 About 1 hour ago
Law and order situation in Iraq is goring from bad to worse with the passage of time.
BAGHDAD (AP) Officials say a twin suicide attack targeting soldiers and anti-al-Qaida militiamen in central Iraq has killed 12 people.
A police officer says the first attacker detonated his explosives-laden belt late Tuesday among a group of soldiers and Sahwa militiamen gathered in the orchard of a local militia leader in the town of Tarmiyah.
A second suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the compound as people tried to flee from the first explosion.
The officer says nine troops, including a brigade commander, and three militiamen were killed, and 23 were wounded. Tarmiyah, a former insurgent stronghold, is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Baghdad.
A medical official confirmed the causality figures. Both spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to media.
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