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Turmeric yesterday settled down -3.98% at 5408 due to higher carry-forward stocks, absence of overseas demand and on the timely progress of the monsoon. India's monsoon rains recorded higher than average levels in the first week of the four-month rainy season, weather office sources told, reflecting a timely onset and progress so far over southern states. Turmeric cultivation usually starts in June and continues until August, and a lengthy harvesting process begins from January. Sentiment looks weak because of higher stocks and good progress of monsoon.

Axis Bank in Tuesday announced the launch a new co-branded credit card that offers a blend of insurance and a number of travel benefits for international frequent flyers.

Available in two versions, viz. World Select and World, the card will allow holders to enjoy reward points redeemable with Europe-based international frequent flyer program Miles & More's partners across various sectors like flights, hotels, car rentals and retail stores.

Mumbai, June 12 : Focussing on genres like business, management, leadership, health, fitness, politics, media and cinema, India's first non-fiction festival will be held in Mumbai June 21 to 23.

The three-day festival, India Non-Fiction Festival(INFF), is centred on the theme "Be Bold, Stay Real", and will see panel discussions, conversations with authors, book launches, and book signing sessions to engage book lovers thoroughly at the Nehru Centre in Worli.

New Delhi, June 12 : The government is working to make liquefied natural gas (LNG) a comparably cheaper fuel option and achieve energy security by 2030.

"Making LNG a cheaper fuel option is a great task," Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily said at the third IEF NOC-IOC forum currently underway here.

The major challenge faced by the government in this task was to arrive at a compromise pricing between what the Indian consumer has been used to and the much higher landed price of LNG imports.

New Delhi, June 12 : Nail care company Bio Sculpture, that originated in South Africa, has come to India and offers nail treatment through its first standalone Salon at Gurgaon.

Bio sculpture treatment offers a range of products and services, a statement said.

So, what's on offer?

Executive Base: It helps to strengthen soft nails. The multi-functional conditioning base coat compresses nail keratin.

Lavender Base: It is enriched with lavender essential oil. It moisturises dry and flaky nails. The base is ideal for sore nails and also those, which are infected with fungus.

The controversial BJP decision to elevate hardliner Narendra Modi to run the party’s campaign in 2014 elections and ruthlessly sideline a leader such as L. K. Advani is bound to damage its image, but let us not forget that it is a decisive victory for the RSS, which forced BJP President Rajnath Singh, from behind the scenes, to go ahead with the drastic step.

Hardline groups such as RSS, Shiv Sena and Vishwa Hindu Parishad have been waiting in the wings for decades to somehow harden the BJP’s Hindu nationalist image by encouraging leaders like Modi to lead the party campaigns and also the party.