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New Delhi, Jan 9 : Sale of domestic passenger cars fell 4.52 percent in December 2013, indicating a bearish consumer market due to slow economic growth, high fuel and interest costs.

Data furnished Monday by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) showed that 132,561 units were sold in the month under review as against an offtake of 138,835 units in the corresponding period of 2012.

Utility vehicles sales fell by 10.44 percent at 40,348 units from 45,049 units sold in the corresponding period of 2012.

New Delhi, Jan 9 : Former Britain No. 1 and World No. 4 Tim Henman Thursday said Indians lacked the physicality to become good tennis singles players -- a disadvantage that has hampered the country's finest such as Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi.

New Delhi, Jan 9 : An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister P.  Chidambaram Thursday deferred a decision on disinvestment in state-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC).

"The decision on disinvestment has been deferred," Petroleum Minister M.  Veerappa Moily told media persons here after the EGoM meeting.

The Petroleum Ministry itself has been strongly opposing the stake sale.  The minister had said that IOC cannot be sold when the scrip is way lower than the 52-week peak of Rs. 375 reached on Jan 18 last year.

New York, Jan 9 : The arctic blast that brought record low temperatures across the US in the past few days has provided fuel for global-warming sceptics, even as scientists debate whether the extreme cold might, in fact, be a consequence of a warming climate.

"Of course, we can't say that this particular pattern is due to arctic warming, but it's very consistent with what we expect to see happen," said Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Telecom operator Telenor on Wednesday appointed its strategy & regulatory affairs head Morten Karlsen Sorby as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Indian unit Uninor.

The appointment of Sorby, who previously headed the company's Norwegian and Nordic mobile & fixed network operations, took effect immediately.  Sorby holds a Master of Science in Business Administration and also holds a degree from Switzerland's International Institute for Management Development.

The Santa Cruz terminal of the Mumbai Airport will cater only to budget airlines by mid-2015, when full-service airlines will completely move to the new terminal - T2.

According airport officials, T2 will be complete and become operational by June-July 2015.  Jet Airways and Air India will shift their operations to the new terminal, leaving the 1A and 1B exclusively for low-cost airlines like Indigo, SpiceJet and GoAir cater.