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Belfast, Sep 7 : Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick as Portugal fought back from behind to beat Northern Ireland 4-2 in their World Cup Group F qualifier at Windsor Park here.

Bruno Alves put the visitors ahead after 21 minutes with a volley following Joao Moutinho's corner but Gareth McAuley headed Northern Ireland's leveller 15 minutes later from a Shane Ferguson corner Friday, reports Xinhua.

Alan Mulally has dismissed suggestions that he is planning to move on from the top job at the company soon and affirmed that he would remain the Chief Executive Officer of Ford for the entire 2014.

Esther George, the President of Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank has urged the central bank to consider starting rollback of its fiscal stimulus package to normalise the monetary policy in the US.

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Videocon Industries on Friday claimed that it had not withdrawn its application for a new bank licence, adding that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) might have committed a mistake in reporting any such move by the company.

The application for a new banking licence was filed by Videocon's Aurangabad-based subsidiary Value Industries Limited.

But, the central bank yesterday posted a release on its website, stating that one applicant, viz. Value Industries, Aurangabad, had rolled back its application.

Following footsteps of rival carriers, IndiGo on Friday announced an increase of 25 per cent in airfares.

Revealing the hike, a source from the budget carrier said, "IndiGo has revised upwards its fares, which are now 25 per cent higher than earlier."

By hiking the fares, the domestic carrier joined airlines like SpiceJet, Air India and Jet Airways, which also recently increased airfares by 25 per cent.

Hiking the airfares, all carriers cited increase in input costs.