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Indian Army goes online for recruitment ...

Indian Army goes online for recruitment of JCOs, other ranks

The Indian Army has revamped its website to commence online registration for enrolment of officers and recruitment of Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) and other ranks. The Recruitment Directorate has re-designed the website. The new set up will involve online application-based call for physical... read more »

Naxals kidnap school boy from hostel, re...

Naxals kidnap school boy from hostel, release him later

Suspected Naxalites kidnapped a student from a reputed residential school in Maoist-hit Jamui district in the wee hours on Thursday. The Maoists released the boy after four hours after making him walk in the jungles for three-four hours and told him to ask his school Principal and staff members to... read more »

NGT fines civic bodies Rs 100 crore for ...

NGT fines civic bodies Rs 100 crore for polluting Ulhas, Waldhuni river

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed four civic bodies, along with the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), and operators of the Dombivli and Ambernath common effluent treatment plant to pay up over Rs 100 crore for the... read more »

Madhya Pradesh police arrive at AIIMS wi...

Madhya Pradesh police arrive at AIIMS with scribe’s viscera samples

A police team from Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh on Thursday arrived at AIIMS in the national capital with the viscera samples of TV journalist Akshay Singh who died under mysterious circumstances while covering Vyapam scam. “A police team have reached AIIMS with the viscera samples of TV journalist... read more »

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Gold prices slipped in futures trade

Gold prices slipped in futures trade

Gold prices failed to extend yesterday’s gains in futures trade Wednesday as market participants remained cautious amid a weakening trend overseas. At the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), gold... read more »

Sebi takes fresh look at Jet-Etihad Airways deal

Jet Airways standalone losses jump eight-fold to R...

The Naresh Goyal-run Jet Airways on Wednesday reported a eight-fold jump in losses at Rs. 891 crore in the September quarter due to the fall in rupee... read more »

Rupee snaps 3-day losing trend, ends 6 paise up at 61.5...

Rupee snaps 3-day losing trend, ends 6 paise up at 61.59 vs USD

Snapping a three-day downward move, the rupee on Wednesday ended six paise higher at 61.59 versus the dollar on hopes that weak US jobs data would result in... read more »

RBI receives $10.1 billion under forex swap window

RBI set to hike rates as inflation control remains priority

Reserve Bank on Wednesday said it has received $10.1 billion under two schemes which were announced last month to attract foreign funds. “The Reserve Bank... read more »

SBI to get Rs 2000 cr as part of Rs 14K cr banks fund i...

State Bank of India (SBI) raises $1.28 billion via share sale

New Delhi: The Finance Ministry on Wednesday decided to pump in Rs 2,000 crore in State Bank of India and Rs 1,800 crore each in IDBI Bank and Central Bank of... read more »

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Lok Sabha Elections 2014: Brisk polling in biggest round of Lok S...

Moderate to brisk voting was today recorded in the first five hours of polling across 12 states covering 121 constituencies in the fifth phase – the biggest of the nine-phased Lok Sabha polls... read more »

Vice Admiral Robin K Dhowan is the new Navy chief

Delhi – Vice Admiral Robin K Dhowan is the new chief of the Indian Navy. His appointment has been cleared by the Appointments Committee of the... read more »

Alliance in trouble, Chandrababu Naidu to speak to Nare...

Hyderabad – The 11-day-old alliance between the BJP and Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party seems headed for trouble over candidates being... read more »

Moderate to brisk polling in Karnataka

Voting began on a moderate to brisk note this morning in the single-phase elections for 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka amid tight security. In the initial two... read more »

Today is India’s biggest voting day

Voters lined up at 7:00 am in 121 constituencies across 12 states where more than 16.61 crore voters are eligible to cast ballots. 45 of the 121 seats... read more »

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Pakistan’s Musharraf charged with high treason

A court in Pakistan has charged former military ruler Pervez Musharraf with treason, the first army chief to face such a prosecution. Mr Musharraf is accused of unlawfully suspending the constitution... read more »

North and South Korea Exchange Fire Across Dispute...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea conducted extensive live-fire military drills off its southern coast on Monday, some of its artillery shells... read more »

Kerry calls for pullback of Russian troops from Ukraine...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Russia must pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border to deescalate... read more »

French voters punish Hollande in municipal vote

The French government was in full soul-searching mode on Sunday after the conservative opposition trounced the governing Socialist Party (PS) in a municipal... read more »

Sri Lanka to release all Indian fishermen

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday ordered the release of all Indian fishermen in the island nation’s custody. The announcement, termed a... read more »

Syria claims to have brought down US drone

A US predator drone went down over Syrian territory but it is unclear whether it was shot down as claimed by the country’s government or suffered from a malfunction. “Syrian air... read more »

Pakistan hangs nine as death row convict’s mother begs for mercy

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hanged nine death row convicts on Wednesday, media said, as the mother of a man charged as a child with murder and due to be hanged this week begged the president for... read more »

Israel elections: Netanyahu’s ‘back’ and what’s in it for India

No one expected the results of the elections held in Israel on Tuesday to give a clear winner—in its 67-year history no party has won outright majority in the Knesset. With 99% of the... read more »

Former Singaporean prime minister Lee Kuan Yew ‘critically ill’ after conditio...

The condition of former Singaporean premier Lee Kuan Yew has deteriorated further and he is critically ill in intensive care, the government says. Mr Lee, the country’s first elected... read more »

White House review panel proposes curbs on some NSA programs

Letter Bound for White House Tests Positive for Cyanide

WASHINGTON — A letter intended for the White House tested positive for cyanide at an off-site mail screening facility on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Secret Service. The statement... read more »