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Toyota to buy 13 mn air-bag inflators fr...

Toyota to buy 13 mn air-bag inflators from Takata rival

Toyota Motor Corp, in a bid to reduce its risk from potentially lethal air-bag inflators supplied by Takata Corp, will buy millions of them from smaller parts maker Nippon Kayaku Co, people familiar with the matter said. The Japanese carmaker asked the second-tier supplier last month to increase... read more »

Volkswagen unveils five-year investment plan to become world’s leading carmaker by 2018
Volkswagen India shipments to Mexico cro...

Volkswagen India shipments to Mexico cross 1-lakh units

Carmaker Volkswagen India on Wednesday said it has crossed a milestone of exporting one lakh cars to Mexico in less than two years of starting shipments. Volkswagen India shipped its 1,00,000th car built for Mexico today, the company said in a statement. “The production facility of Volkswagen... read more »

Infosys up 1.5%, Aikido to help achieve ...

Infosys up 1.5%, Aikido to help achieve $20bn revenue

Shares of Infosys gained 1.5 percent intraday Friday in an otherwise weak market. Sharp fall in rupee and launch of three new service offerings on Thursday drove the stock higher. The country’s largest software services exporter launched Aikido, three next-generation services in design... read more »

Ashwani Lohani is a railway man and tour...

Ashwani Lohani is a railway man and tourism veteran; can he pull Air India ...

New Delhi: Ashwani Lohani has been featured in the Limca Book of Records in 2007 for holding four different engineering degrees. With his appointment as the chairman and managing director of Air India succeeding Rohit Nandan, he may well get to create some new records in the aviation industry.The... read more »

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Rupee rises 28 paise to 2-month high at 61.13 against dollar

Rupee rises 28 paise to 2-month high at 61.13 against dollar

The rupee surged to its highest level in nearly four months in intra-day trade and fell back to close with a 28 paise gain at 61.13 against the dollar on Monday, boosted by stocks that climbed to a... read more »

Sensex trades flat during pre-noon session

Sensex closes on record 21,000-plus high

Mumbai – A day after the principal opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won three key state assembly elections, a key index of the... read more »

Seven coal, lignite blocks identified for coal gasifica...

Seven coal, lignite blocks identified for coal gasification

New Delhi – Two coal and five lignite blocks have been identified for underground coal gasification (UCG) projects, the coal ministry said... read more »

Gold rebounded by Rs 255 to Rs 30,755 per ten grams

Gold-hungry traders tap NRIs to cater to humongous demand

Snapping its two-day losing streak, gold rebounded by Rs 255 to Rs 30,755 per ten grams in the national capital on Monday on low level buying by stockists and... read more »

Bharti Airtel to invest Rs.4,000 crore in Punjab

Bharti Airtel to invest Rs.4,000 crore in Punjab

New Delhi – In order to expand and contribute towards the digital inclusion drive in Punjab, Bharti Airtel will invest over Rs.4,000 crore in the next... read more »

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Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar Dutt resigns

Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar Dutt has sent his resignation to President Pranab Mukharjee on Wednesday night. “Shri Shekhar Dutt has put in his paper to the president of India,” said Mr.Aman... read more »

Akhilesh Yadav government accused of going soft on riot-accused Muslim leaders

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav reshuffles UP Cabine...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has effected a late night reshuffle of his cabinet, downgrading many ministers and promoting others. At... read more »

Weathered Half-Lies, False Allegations Last Year: Mukes...

Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in the country, spoke to shareholders today about the slew of allegations hurled against him by Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of... read more »

Narendra Modi Government Takes Steps To Control Inflati...

New Delhi – The new government led by Narendra Modi on Tuesday imposed export restrictions on certain farm commodities and ordered a crackdown on... read more »

BJP Leader Yashwant Sinha Agrees to Bail, Will Leave Ja...

Devyani Khobragade row: arrest same sex companions of US diplomats in India, says Yashwant Sinha

Hazaribagh – Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha will be released this evening from jail in Jharkhand, the result of his agreeing to pay bail, a move he... read more »

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Bodies of missing Israeli teens found in West Bank

The Israeli military found the bodies of three missing teenagers on Monday just over two weeks after they were abducted in the West Bank a grim discovery that ended a frantic search that led to... read more »

In North Iraq, a comprehensive culture in rupture

Ever since the Islamist insurgents swept through the small north Iraq village of Bashir, rage had been building up, the memories of children and... read more »

How Boko Haram is beating U.S. efforts to suffocate its...

When Washington imposed sanctions in June 2012 on Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, he dismissed it as an empty gesture. Two years later, Shekau’s... read more »

Germany Seeks ‘significant’ Talks on Ukraine Controvers...

Germany said “substantial” negotiations on ending the pro-Russian insurgency in Ukraine should start today, as a second top-level conference call was... read more »

Iraq gets Russian Sukhois to fight with ISIS

BAGHDAD: Iraqi government officials said on Sunday that Russian experts had arrived in Iraq to help the army get 12 new Russian warplanes into the fight... read more »

Shahid Kapoor’s Vivah: Actor Marries Mira Rajput; First Pic of the Wedding

Actor Shahid Kapoor, 34, married fiancee Mira Rajput, 21, in an intimate ceremony in Delhi on Tuesday. The wedding, with rituals in traditional Punjabi style, is believed to to have been... read more »

Younis Khan’s unbeaten 171 helps Pakistan chase record total, seal series 2-1

Younis Khan remained unbeaten after a brilliant 171 as Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the final Test to win the three-match series 2-1 at Pallekele on Tuesday. Chasing a... read more »

Murray, Federer, Wawrinka, Gasquet enter quarters

2013 Wimbledon champion Andy Murray outlasted the big serving of Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic to reach the quarter-finals, while seven-time champion Roger Federer beat Spain’s Roberto... read more »

Portugal’s Nani joins Fenerbahce from Manchester United

Portuguese star Nani on Monday joined Fenerbahce from Manchester United for six million euros (£4.26m, $6.7m) as the Istanbul giants seek to add a glittering array of foreign talent to... read more »

Parag Sawant, 7/11 train blasts victim, dies after 9yrs in coma

Parag Sawant, who was injured in the 7/11 serial train blasts in Mumbai, died at PD Hinduja Hospital in Mahim on Tuesday morning after battling his injuries for nine years. Doctors at the hospital... read more »