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Fierce bidding for coal blocks raises vi...

Fierce bidding for coal blocks raises viability concerns

The high prices at which steel and power companies are bidding and getting coal blocks allocated through the ongoing e-auction process are raising serious concerns as to whether these entities will cut corners on issues such as environment and workers’ safety once they embark on mining the blocks... read more »

Coal auction vindicates CAG stand: Nirma...

Coal auction vindicates CAG stand: Nirmala Sitharaman

The ongoing auctioning of coal blocks has vindicated the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) criticism of the way the natural resources was allocated by the previous government, Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday. “Certainly the CAG’s position has been... read more »

Vistara launches maiden flight service t...

Vistara launches maiden flight service to Goa

Tata’s full service passenger carrier Vistara Friday launched its maiden flight between New Delhi and Goa and said that it will expand its fleet to six aircraft by April. The airline had earlier announced the launch of new services to Goa and Hyderabad from February 20 and March 1,... read more »

RIL shares fall; biggest drag on index

RIL shares fall; biggest drag on index

NEW DELHI: A day after Delhi Police arrested seven people, including government employees and a former journalist, whom they said ran a scam to steal official documents from India’s oil ministry and sell them to energy consultants and large private companies, shares of Reliance Industries... read more »

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Will not form Govt. to praise BJP or Congress: AAP

Will not form Govt. to praise BJP or Congress: AAP

New Delhi – Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia on Sunday said that his party will not form the government to praise the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) or the Congress and added that they... read more »

Devyani Khobragade case: US embassy asked to shut its club, follow traffic rules

Devyani Khobragade row: India talking to US to res...

New Delhi – India is in talks with the US to resolve the standoff over the treatment of an Indian woman diplomat as they do not want ties to be... read more »

Decision on govt. formation in Delhi by tomorrow mornin...

Decision on govt. formation in Delhi by tomorrow morning, says Kejriwal

New Delhi – Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday hinted that the decision on forming the new government in Delhi would be taken by... read more »

Rahul fit to be PM: Moily

Rahul fit to be PM: Moily

Describing Rahul Gandhi as “the most competent and ultimate leader” in the country, Union Oil Minister Veerappa Moily on Sunday said the Congress... read more »

India, US don’t want one incident to spoil ties: ...

India, US don't want one incident to spoil ties: Khurshid

New Delhi – External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Saturday that India and the US are in talks to resolve the stand-off over the arrest and... read more »

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Snowden leaks have identified areas of concerns: Obama

Snowden leaks have identified areas of concerns: Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama has acknowledged that leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden have identified some areas of legitimate concerns with regard to privacy of citizens while highly... read more »

We will not see the likes of Mandela again: Obama

We will not see the likes of Mandela again: Obama

Describing himself as one of the countless millions who drew inspiration from Nelson Mandela, US President Barack Obama mourned the death on Friday... read more »

Hundreds of South Africans gather outside Mandela’s hom...

Hundreds of South Africans gather outside Mandela’s home

Johannesburg – Hundreds of South Africans have gathered at Nelson Mandela’s home in Houghton, a suburb of Johannesburg, to pay their respects to the... read more »

Outpouring of emotion as Mandela passes away

Outpouring of emotion as Mandela passes away

Johannesburg – South Africa is witnessing an outpouring of emotion as news of former president Nelson Mandela’s passing away has spread. Madiba,... read more »

South Africa has lost its greatest son: Zuma

South Africa has lost its greatest son: Zuma

Johannesburg – “This is a moment of deepest sorrow for South Africa as the nation has lost its greatest son” said President Jacob Zuma as he... read more »

IS Releases Interview With Captured Jordanian Pilot

Kasaesbeh’s jet crashed last week in a rural area in Syria’s Raqqa province, the group’s stronghold. Jordan is one of several Arab countries taking part in a U.S.-led... read more »

Chinese man jailed for 13 years for eating tigers

BEIJING – A Chinese man has been jailed for 13 years for buying and eating endangered tigers and making wine made out of their blood, state media reported. The man, identified as a... read more »

Man kills 8 people in Canada before taking own life

A man with a lengthy criminal record killed six adults and two young children before taking his own life in Edmonton, Alberta, in what the police chief on Tuesday called the city’s worst... read more »

2-year-old shoots, kills mom in US store

A two-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his mother Tuesday at a Walmart store in Idaho after taking a gun from her purse. Police identified the victim as Veronica Rutledge of... read more »

Boy, 2, accidentally shoots and kills mother in US Walmart

Washington: A woman was accidentally shot dead by a two-year-old boy who reached into her handbag and found a handgun while shopping at a Walmart store in Idaho. Police said the 29-year-old woman was... read more »