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Indian citizen held by China for ‘...

Indian citizen held by China for ‘terror links’ released, depor...

China late on Friday deported the lone Indian arrested on unspecified charges in Inner Mongolia, bringing to an end 72 hours of hard negotiations between Indian diplomats and local officials who caught him with 19 other foreigners for allegedly watching banned videos. The fate of the remaining... read more »

73 IIT-Roorkee students expelled due to ...

73 IIT-Roorkee students expelled due to low scores in exams

What could be termed as an unexpected action taken by any IIT till now, the institute at Roorkee has expelled 73 students for faring badly in the first year B Tech programme, who scored less than a 5 CGPA (Cumulative Grade Point Average) in their exams. A similar case had happened in IIT... read more »

UPSC not inclined to conduct SRCA examin...

UPSC not inclined to conduct SRCA examinations for railways

The Union Public Service Commission, told the Railway Ministry to conduct the Special Class Railway Apprentice Examination (SCRA). Earlier the examination was a part of UPSC curriculum. According to the letter from UPSC Secretary Ashim Khurana to Railway Board Member (Staff) Pradeep Kumar, which... read more »

I won’t make anarkali suits, imper...

I won’t make anarkali suits, imperfection is my thing

From village Jogewala in Moga district to France, fashion designer Navjeet Kaur recalls a journey straight out of a movie script. Over samosas squeezed between white bread slices and non-herbal tea at her apartment (“if you had asked for green, it’s possible that I may have assumed you... read more »

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CESC standalone Q2 Net jumps 25.7% to Rs. 171 crore

CESC standalone Q2 Net jumps 25.7% to Rs. 171 crore

Power utility CESC Ltd on Tuesday reported a 25.73 per cent jump in second quarter standalone net profit at Rs. 171 crore on the back of higher generation and lower power purchase. The profit in the... read more »

Japan to give Rs. 1,958 crore loan assistance to India

Japan to give Rs. 1,958 crore loan assistance to I...

Japan will provide an assistance of Rs. 1,958 crore (30.7 billion yen) to India for campus development at IIT Hyderabad and investment promotion in... read more »

Gold prices surged by Rs. 915 to Rs. 31,815 per ten gra...

Gold prices surged by Rs. 915 to Rs. 31,815 per ten gram

Gold prices surged by Rs. 915 to Rs. 31,815 per ten gram in the national capital on Tuesday on renewed demand from stockists and retailers backed by wedding... read more »

C. Rangarajan to address Third Finance and Investment S...

C. Rangarajan to address Third Finance and Investment Summit

New Delhi – C. Rangarajan, the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, will address the Third Finance and Investment Summit here... read more »

Facebook director’s firm sells third of its stake to so...

Facebook director’s firm sells third of its stake to social networking giant

Islamabad – Facebook’s director Marc Andreessen’s venture-capital firm has reportedly sold a third of its stake to the social networking... read more »

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Mumbai court summons to Amit Shah in Tulsiram Prajapati encounter...

Mumbai: A special CBI court issued summons to Amit Shah, the close aide of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, and other accused in the Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case. On... read more »

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Allahabad HC reserves order on Talwars’ bail...

ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court on Friday reserved its order on the bail application of dentist couple in the criminal appeal filed by them in... read more »

Varanasi: Gul Panag, VJ Raghu chased away by students i...

Actor-turned-politician and AAP candidate from Chandigarh Gul Panag and VJ Raghu Ram of MTV Roadies were Friday allegedly manhandled inside the Banaras Hindu... read more »

Rahul Gandhi’s Tit-For-Tat Roadshow in Varanasi

Varanasi: Rahul Gandhi, wearing a Nehru topi in Congress colours, stood in a crowded open jeep and waved to the people of Varanasi as he toured the city in a... read more »

Anti-Dalit remarks: SC stays proceedings against Ramdev

Baba Ramdev grilled by CBI in missing guru case

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed all proceedings against yoga guru Baba Ramdev for his controversial “honeymoon” remarks on Rahul Gandhi over his... read more »

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ICC rejects MB call to probe Egypt military crimes

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected a bid by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to probe the military’s alleged crimes against humanity. The court said it dismissed the bid... read more »

Car Bomb in Nigeria Capital Kills 15

A car bomb killed at least 15 people late Thursday at a bus terminal on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, Abuja. The blast in the town of Nyanya... read more »

Red herring in hunt for MH370 highlights air traffic fl...

Fresh questions have been raised over air traffic co-ordination after a preliminary report on the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared almost two months... read more »

More Than 100 Injured in Florida Jail Explosion

Pensacola, Florida: A county spokeswoman says a gas explosion at a jail in Pensacola, Florida, has injured 100 to 150 inmates and corrections... read more »

Xi Vows to Combat Terrorism After Attackers Kill 3 in X...

President Xi Jinping vowed to combat “violence and terrorism” after three people were killed in an explosion and knife attack in the capital of... read more »

World Economy May Be Slipping Into 1930s Depression: Raghuram Rajan

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has asked central banks from across the world to define “new rules of the game” as he warned that the global economy may be... read more »

Audi Q3’s variant launched in Coimbatore

German luxury car maker Audi today launched a new variant of its popular Q3 in the region. “This particular brand has a 75 per cent market share in the compact SUV segment across... read more »

Sensex snaps 8-day rally, ends lower by 75 points on Greece woes

the benchmark BSE Sensex today slipped by 75 points to 27,729.67 as market sentiment took a hit in last half hour on news that the creditors have rejected Greece’s new... read more »

‘Raees’ releasing on scheduled date of Eid 2016: Producer

We had announced in February that we will be releasing our film on EID 2016 and we are on schedule to release it as planned #RaeesOnEid2016,” Ritesh tweeted. He along with Farhan... read more »

Normal flight operations resume at airport

Normal flight operations have resumed at St. John’s International Airport Earlier story:After the airport authority was notified of a bomb threat on Air Canada flight 143, which was set to... read more »