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NTPC, 10 others in fray for subsidy on L...

NTPC, 10 others in fray for subsidy on LNG for power plants

NEW DELHI: As many as 11 bidders including NTPC are in the fray on Wednesday for the Rs 298 crore government subsidy on offer for plants receiving inadequate domestic natural gas. The power plants can use the subsidy support from the government to buy expensive imported LNG to make up for the fuel... read more »

Indian Authorities Reject Uber’s Applica...

Indian Authorities Reject Uber’s Application for Delhi License

NEW DELHI—Uber Technologies Inc.’s application for a license to operate in the Indian capital has been rejected for a second time, according to an order passed by transport authorities in the city. The ride-hailing company applied for a license after its services were banned in Delhi in... read more »

Sensex trades firm amid global rally, Ni...

Sensex trades firm amid global rally, Nifty above 7,850; Banking stocks gai...

2.22 pm: GAIL (India) shares advanced over 1 per cent on BSE after the company announced during market hours on Wednesday, that pipeline welding of 12 inch pipeline connecting HFCL Barauni to IOCL, Barauni commenced on Tuesday at Barauni, marking the first phase implementation of company’s... read more »

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Exports declined by 20.7 percent in Augu...

Exports declined by 20.7 percent in August, says Commerce Ministry

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has said that India’s exports plunged 20.7 per cent in August this year, to 21.3 billion dollars. In data appearing in the public domain, the ministry said that this was ninth consecutive month when exports have slumped and global economic slowdown and... read more »

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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to set up world’s largest c...

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), country’s largest software services firm, today said it will set up the world’s largest corporate learning and development centre in Thiruvananthapuram... read more »

Centre committed to growth of IT sector: PM M. Singh

Centre committed to growth of IT sector: PM M. Sin...

Noting that the country has witnessed phenomenal growth in the Information Technology sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the Centre was... read more »

Petrol prices hiked by 75 paise and diesel by 50 paise ...

Petrol prices may come down by Rs 2 a litre this week

New Delhi – Petrol price was on Friday hiked by 75 paise and diesel by 50 paise a litre as rise in global oil rates and fall in rupee value increased the... read more »

Bharti Retail appoints Former Walmart India president R...

Bharti Retail appoints Former Walmart India president Raj Jain as CEO

Former Walmart India president Raj Jain will now be heading the retail operations of Bharti Enterprises. Bharti Retail had roped in Jain as its group advisor... read more »

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for overhaul of financial b...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to ease liquidity as govt holds on to cash

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday suggested an overhaul of existing financial benchmarks, including steps to strengthen the quality, methodology and... read more »

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Acting needs to be learned, practised: Anupam Kher

Acting needs to be learned, practised: Anupam Kher

He argues that reproducing emotions in front of the public needs work, which is something acting schools teach. “Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an... read more »

Taylor Swift, Beckham to star in spy flick, The Secret Service

Taylor Swift, Beckham to star in spy flick, The Se...

Taylor Swift will be starring alongside David Beckham, in the upcoming Mark Millar comic books adapted spy film, The Secret Service. A production... read more »

Thank god, I’m not in ‘Bigg Boss 7’: ...

Thank god, I'm not in 'Bigg Boss 7': Shweta Tiwari

Mumbai – Actress Shweta Tiwari, winner of “Bigg Boss 4”, is horrified after seeing the kind of tasks being given to the inmates in the... read more »

Anything for Narendra Modi: Mallika Sherawat

Anything for Narendra Modi: Mallika Sherawat

Mumbai – Actress Mallika Sherawat, who calls Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi the most eligible bachelor in the country, says she will do anything... read more »

Mallika doesn’t want to marry anyone from filmdom

Mallika doesn't want to marry anyone from filmdom

Mumbai – A “pathetic” and “lonely” life has led Mallika Sherawat to find “real” love via a TV show. And the actress... read more »

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SC gives green signal to cut 697 trees for wider road to Taj

The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the go ahead for felling of 697 trees in over four hectares of protected forests in the Taj Trapezium zone for better connectivity across Agra, Gwalior and... read more »

Hearing begins on T.N. move to release Rajiv case ...

A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing cases related to the validity of the release of seven convicts in the Rajiv... read more »

India votes in support of UNHRC resolution on Gaza

India along with BRICS countries on Wednesday voted in support of a UN Human Rights Council resolution to launch a probe into Israel’s offensive on... read more »

India, U.S., Japan joint naval exercise in Pacific toda...

India, the United States and Japan are embarking on joint naval manoeuvres in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday as part of the Malabar series of exercises. The... read more »

Access to govt. health care services poor, says report

A new privately-funded, first-of-its-kind National Health Care Survey 2013 has found that awareness of government health and nutrition schemes is low and their... read more »

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Rohit's debut century rescues India

Rohit’s debut century rescues India

Rohit Sharma stamped his class by hitting a sparkling century on debut as India recovered from a top-order collapse to take a firm grip of the first Test against the West Indies with a 120-run... read more »

Ex-F1 boss wins court case against Google over blo...

Sydney – Former Formula One chief Max Mosley has reportedly won an ongoing court battle with Google after a landmark French court ruling... read more »

Tea scoreboard: India vs West Indies

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Kolkata – The following is the scoreboard at tea on the second day of the first cricket Test between India and the West Indies at the Eden Gardens here... read more »

Debutant Rohit rescues India

Debutant Rohit rescues India

By Sirshendu Panth Kolkata – Rohit Sharma struck a half century on debut and featured in two valiant partnerships which pulled India out of trouble on... read more »

Ajax beat Celtic for first Champions League win

Ajax beat Celtic for first Champions League win

Amsterdam – Ajax kept their European dreams alive by defeating Celtic 1-0 here after grabbing their first victory this season in the Champions... read more »

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Bangladesh rescuers struggle to find sunken ferry

Rescuers were struggling on Tuesday to locate a sunken ferry that was overloaded and carrying hundreds of passengers when it capsized in a river in central Bangladesh, leaving at least two people... read more »

China Rescue Efforts Slowed by Rain After Quake Ki...

Torrential rains slowed rescue efforts after a magnitude-6.5 earthquake killed at least 398 people in southwest China, as Premier Li Keqiang flew to... read more »

Israel, Palestinians Trade Blame in Breaking Truce

Israel and the Palestinians each accused the other of breaking the fragile seven-hour cease-fire early Monday that was intended to allow refugees a chance to... read more »

Six Minutes into Ceasefire, Airstrike in Gaza Kills 8-Y...

Gaza City / Palestinian Territories – A child was killed and 30 people wounded in a strike on a refugee camp in Gaza City on Monday just minutes into an... read more »

Senate blocks aid to Israel

In the end, the Senate couldn’t even agree to deliver emergency aid to one of the United States’ closest allies. A last-ditch effort to deliver aid to... read more »

Haryana whistleblower Chaturvedi win Ramon Magsaysay award

CHANDIGARH: Haryana’s whistleblower IFS officer has been chosen for this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award for his exemplary integrity and courage in public life. A Haryana cadre... read more »

Supreme Court Judges Disagree on Yakub Memon’s Plea to Stop his Hanging

1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon’s petition to stop his hanging on Thursday was referred to the Chief Justice of India after sharp differences between two judges today. One of... read more »

Obama meets Lucy, an ancient ‘ancestor,’ in Ethiopia

Barack Obama came to Africa partially to connect with the continent of his forefathers. On Monday, he met an ancestor of an altogether different kind: “Lucy,” the 3.2... read more »

Former President APJ Abdul Kalam’s Body Brought to Delhi

GUWAHATI: The body of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, who died on Monday in Meghalaya, has been brought to Delhi from Guwahati in Assam. The three service chiefs were present at the... read more »

APJ Abdul Kalam congratulated cop shortly before he collapsed

Former President APJ Abdul Kalam congratulated a policeman for remaining vigilant through the 100-km drive from Guwahati to Shillong shortly before he collapsed at the IIM in the Megahalaya capital... read more »