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Essar Oil to invest Rs 6k cr to expand V...

Essar Oil to invest Rs 6k cr to expand Vadinar refinery in Guj

xEssar Oil, which has a 20 million tonne per annum (MTPA) refinery at Vadinar in Gujarat, plans to pump in Rs 6,000 crore to expand its capacity. The plant started commercial production in 2008. Prashant Ruia, Group CEO of Essar, announced the refinery’s expansion plans at the Vibrant Gujarat... read more »

Why Indians Are Beginning To Buy Houses ...

Why Indians Are Beginning To Buy Houses Online

New Delhi: Kolkata businessman Navin Bhartia’s Internet habits make him a dream customer for billionaire foreign media moguls like Rupert Murdoch. The 45-year-old likes to buy homes online, sometimes without visiting them. In the last four years, he has bought five properties for Rs 4 crore... read more »

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to open ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to open restaurant in Scotland

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is reportedly planning to open a new restaurant in the United Kingdom. According to Daily Star, the tyrant is eyeing up locations as he looks to expand the state-backed chain ofrestaurants that started springing up inChina and the rest of Asia before making their... read more »

Why France is seeing an exodus of its Je...

Why France is seeing an exodus of its Jews

In January 1992, I took my Uncle René to the Bastille. It was our last opportunity to go to the opera. René was about to join his daughter in Israel, ending three centuries of our family’s existence as French Jews – Jews who were as proud of their republican heritage as they were meticulous... read more »

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Ad from man accused in suicide case not proper: Achuthanandan

Ad from man accused in suicide case not proper: Achuthanandan

Thiruvananthapuram – Veteran Kerala CPI-M leader and former chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan said Friday that it was improper for the party organ to feature an advertisement by a man accused... read more »

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Tejpal behaving like a fugitive: Ex- home secretar...

New Delhi – Former home secretary R.K. Singh on Friday said Tehelka’s former editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal is behaving like a fugitive by... read more »

Court rejects bail plea of Dhananjay Singh

Court rejects bail plea of Dhananjay Singh

New Delhi – A Delhi court Friday rejected the bail plea of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh, accused of destroying evidence to... read more »

Tejpal leaves for Goa

Tejpal not cooperative, dodging investigators: Goa Police

New Delhi – Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal Friday flew to Goa where he has been booked for sexually assaulting a colleague. “I am going to... read more »

Tejpal evades arrest, police search residence

Tarun Tejpal's anticipatory bail plea hearing: Crucial test for Goa prosecution today

New Delhi/Panaji – Evading arrest in a sexual assault case against him, Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal went missing Friday as police teams reached... read more »

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Over 62,000 migrants arrived in Yemen this year: UN

Over 62,000 migrants arrived in Yemen this year: UN

United Nations – Over 62,000 asylum seekers, refugees and migrants arrived in Yemen from the Horn of Africa in the first 10 months of this year, a UN spokesperson said Friday. The UN Refugee... read more »

Air strike kills seven militants in Yemen

Air strike kills seven militants in Yemen

Aden (Yemen) – Seven members of a Yemen-based Al Qaeda offshoot were killed in an air strike Friday, a government official said. They were... read more »

Pakistan appoints Jilani as new ambassador to US

Pakistan appoints Jilani as new ambassador to US

Islamabad – Pakistan Friday appointed its top diplomat Jalil Abbas Jilani as the country’s new ambassador to the US. He is presently holding the... read more »

Two killed, 29 injured in Libyan clashes

Two killed, 29 injured in Libyan clashes

Tripoli – At least two people were killed and 29 injured as deadly clashes erupted here Friday night between local militia and a brigade from Misrata... read more »

No knowledge of Damascus hiding chemical stockpiles: Ru...

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Moscow – Moscow denied Friday having any information about Damascus hiding some of its chemical arsenals. “For over a month a joint mission of the... read more »

Gold, silver at multi-year lows on overseas cues

NEW DELHI: Gold and silver prices slumped to their multi-year lows to trade at Rs 25,800 per 10 grams and Rs 34,900 per kg, respectively in the national capital today amid weak cues from... read more »

US-led air strikes hit Qaida branch in Syria: Monitor

BEIRUT: US-led coalition air strikes hit al-Qaida’s Syrian branch overnight, expanding the raids to jihadists outside the Islamic State group for only the second time, a monitoring... read more »

Hope to make India power surplus by 2019: Piyush Goyal

NEW DELHI: The government is working towards making India a power surplus country by 2019, minister of state for power, coal and renewable energy Piyush Goyal said on Thursday. He said that... read more »

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

Airtel to woo data users through free internet

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, the country’s biggest telecom operator, is set to offer free internet to subscribers for trial as the company looks to convert more users into... read more »

Coal block winners may have to pay 10% upfront

NEW DELHI: Winners of coal blocks for steel, sponge iron and captive power plants would have to pay 10% of the floor price upfront. Subsequently, they would have to pay on a per-tonne basis an amount... read more »