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Uber to invest $1 billion in India in ne...

Uber to invest $1 billion in India in next 9 months

Uber Technologies Inc will invest $1 billion in India in the next nine months as the online ride hailing company is bullish on the Indian market. Uber said it would use the additional investment to improve operations, expand into newer cities, and develop new products and payment solutions.... read more »

Delhi CM Mr. Kejriwal skips defamation case, court allows exemption plea
Police patrolling to CCTV cameras: Delhi...

Police patrolling to CCTV cameras: Delhi govt starts witness protection pro...

New Delhi: The Delhi government on Thursday decided to formulate a comprehensive policy for protecting witnesses, an official said on Thursday. Representational image. Image courtesy-ibnliveRepresentational image. Image courtesy-ibnlive “The policy envisages categorization of witnesses,... read more »

Coal scam: Madhu Koda, eight others put ...

Coal scam: Madhu Koda, eight others put on trial

Former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda, former coal secretary H C Gupta and seven others were today put on trial by a special court here in connection with a case pertaining to alleged irregularities in allocation of a coal block. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parasar also framed charges against former... read more »

Pakistani Woman Crosses Over To Punjab W...

Pakistani Woman Crosses Over To Punjab Without Passport, Arrested

JALANDHAR: In a major security lapse, a Pakistani woman managed to cross the Attari border without a passport and other travel documents and travelled till Jalandhar in Punjab before being arrested last evening. 27-year-old Chanda, a resident of Karachi, boarded the Samjhauta Express from Lahore... read more »

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Google Nexus 5, new Nexus 7 tablet now available in India

Google Nexus 5, new Nexus 7 tablet now available in India

New Delhi – Google Inc’s newest version of its Android Smartphone—Google Nexus 5 and its second generation Nexus 7 tablet are now available in India. Both the devices can be bought from... read more »

has commissioned a red mud powder producing unit at Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha, describing it as first of its kind in alumina industry tackling major environmental hazards. “The unique project of producing red mud powder has been commissioned in a fully mechanised and automatic plant. The system has been developed in-house after continuous research for more than three years,” a senior company official said in a statement on Tuesday. Giving details of the project, Mukesh Kumar, president and COO of VAL said the project which was commissioned last week is the first of its kind in the world and has been set up with a capital expenditure of around Rs. 50 crore. This will have advantages like savings in caustic consumption by 10-15 kg per tonne of alumina, minimising land requirement by 50 to 60 per cent, and doing away with wet red mud storage thereby eliminating environmental hazards, he said. The powdery red mud can easily be utilised in cement industry as well as in other Industries, Mr. Kumar said. Red mud is a waste from alumina industry and its disposal and utilisation has always been a matter of concern for environmentalists as well as alumina industry. Although, the alumina technology is more than 100 years old but no solution could be evolved by the industry to avoid storage of red mud slurry, sources said. As the slurry is alkaline in nature and its generation is nearly one and a half times of alumina, world over millions of tonnes of red mud is lying in various red mud ponds except in some countries where it is discharged into the sea. In any alumina refinery, a major portion of land is used for handling this waste. Although, red mud is rich in iron and titanium, no use could be made till now mainly due to presence of caustic soda. Looking into the serious nature of hazard such red mud ponds may have, MoEF has formed a special project only few months back as National Mission for Red Mud to sponsor and promote research in red mud utilisation, sources said.

Vedanta (VAL) commissions World’s first red mud po...

Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. (VAL) has commissioned a red mud powder producing unit at Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha, describing it as first of its kind in... read more »

Gold declines further on reduced offtake, global cues

Gold declines further on reduced offtake, global cues

New Delhi – Gold declined further by Rs 180 to Rs 31,500 per ten grams in the national capital on Tuesday on reduced offtake by stockists against subdued... read more »

Sensex near two-week closing high; banks gain

Sensex down 36 points in early trade

The BSE Sensex and the Nifty rose for a third consecutive session on Tuesday to their highest closing levels in nearly two weeks, as a rally in debt markets... read more »

Ratan Tata moved me to tears: Starbucks CEO Howard Schu...

Ratan Tata moved me to tears: Starbucks CEO

New York – Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has voiced his admiration for industrialist Ratan Tata’s “grace” and wisdom, saying he was... read more »

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Sneak peek at Modi’s cabinet: Jaitley as FM, Rajnath for home

Moments after BJP’s parliamentary meet was concluded, Narendra Modi urged Rajnath Singh to accompany him to Varanasi. The BJP President had other work lined up in the day. Nevertheless, he... read more »

CBI reports on plea to make Nitish accused in fodder scam

Nitish Kumar’s decision to resign as Bihar C...

PATNA: Nitish Kumar on Monday firmly said he would not reconsider his decision to withdraw his resignation as chief minister of Bihar and the party... read more »

After Colossal Defeat, Entire Congress Working Committe...

New Delhi: The top leaders of the Congress party will meet this evening to try and make sense of the party’s electoral humiliation. Sonia and Rahul... read more »

Arun Jaitley Compares Ramdev to Mahatma Gandhi

New Delhi – Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley has compared yoga teacher Ramdev to Mahatma Gandhi, praising him for “awakening” the... read more »

Remove Rahul, Bring Priyanka, Say Congress Posters in A...

Allahabad – A small poster mounted in Allahabad asks for Rahul Gandhi to be fired as the no 2 leader of the Congress. The poster suggests Mr Gandhi be... read more »

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22 killed, scores more feared dead as Bangladesh ferry sinks

DHAKA: Divers recovered 10 more bodies from a sunken ferry in Bangladesh on Friday, bringing the death toll to 22, with scores more feared to have perished, police and officials said. Officials said... read more »

British journalists shot and beaten in Syria kidna...

LONDON: Two British journalists were recovering in Turkey on Thursday after being shot and beaten by rebel kidnappers while covering the Syrian... read more »

Anti-Chinese Violence Turns Deadly and Spreads in Vietn...

BINH DUONG PROVINCE, Vietnam — Violence against foreign-owned factories spread elsewhere in Vietnam and took a deadly turn, with officials saying Thursday... read more »

40 killed in air strikes in northern Syria: Human right...

More than 40 people, many of them civilians, were killed by air strikes across northern Syria, a monitoring group said on Thursday. More than three years... read more »

Gas deals expected during Putin’s China visit

Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping said Thursday agreements on natural gas are expected to be signed between China and Russia during Russian President... read more »

Gold, silver prices drop on weak global cues, low demand

After rising for two days, gold prices went down by Rs 100 to Rs 26,850 per 10 grams at the bullion market on Tuesday, tracking a weak global trend amid slackened demand from... read more »

IPOs IndiGo, Infibeam, Teamlease looking to raise over Rs 3000 cr

In a big day for Initial Public Offers, at least three companies — low-cost carrier IndiGo, staffing firm Teamlease and e-retailer Infibeam — have lined up public offers to... read more »

Relief for Nestle India as Bombay HC allows it to export Maggi

Nestle India’s senior counsel Iqbal Chagla informed the division bench of justice VM Kanade and justice BP Colabawala that 40,000 crore packets were to be recalled from across the... read more »

Jayalalithaa wins big in RK Nagar by-poll, defeats CPI’s Mahendran by over 1.5 lakh ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa trounced her nearest rival and CPI candidate C Mahendran with a huge margin of over 1.5 lakh votes as the results for Radha... read more »

Over 100 students fall ill after consuming mid-day meal

More than 100 students of a government school in Bihar fell ill on Monday after consuming a mid-day meal in the state’s Jhanjharpur town. Students started fainting, vomiting and complained of... read more »