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Cognizant to hire more in US, optimise w...

Cognizant to hire more in US, optimise workforce

Chennai: US-headquartered Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS), which has over a third of its workforce in India, has said it will rationalise its cost structure by bringing the employee base in line with demand. The company intends to ramp up hiring in the US while reducing dependence on the H-1B... read more »

View: Indian diplomacy rises above the s...

View: Indian diplomacy rises above the stratosphere

With imaginative use of India’s low-cost space capability, Prime Minister Narendra Mod has improved India’s none-too-smooth relations in the South Asian neighbourhood, with the Indian Space Research Organisation delivering on the prime minister’s promise of a South Asia Satellite (SAS),... read more »

NPA framework: Ordinance to empower RBI ...

NPA framework: Ordinance to empower RBI actually gives more teeth to govt

The Presidential Ordinanceempowering the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to enforce expeditious resolution of non-performing assets (NPAs) of banks should hardly come as a surprise. For several past weeks, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been hinting at this legal empowerment of the central bank to... read more »

Eman Ahmed’s chaotic exit from Ind...

Eman Ahmed’s chaotic exit from India compels Maharashtra govt to issu...

New Delhi: The ‘world’s heaviest woman’, Eman Ahmed, left India amidst a lot of controversy and a chaotic last day. Her final few moments in Mumbai were confusing and supremely disorganized to say the least, so much so, that India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj... read more »

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Government not serious about utilising Nirbhaya fund: BJP

Government not serious about utilising Nirbhaya fund: BJP

New Delhi – As the Rs 1,000 crore Nirbhaya fund remains untouched even after a year, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi today said that the government is not at all... read more »

Sis Ram Ola to be cremated with full state honours in Rajasthan today

Sis Ram Ola to be cremated with full state honours...

New Delhi – The mortal remains of Sis Ram Ola will be consigned to flames with full state honours at his native village, Ardawata in Jhunjhunu,... read more »

Path clear for President’s Rule in Delhi?

Path clear for President's Rule in Delhi?

New Delhi – Delhi seems to be heading towards President’s Rule as it faces political deadlock and subsequent re-election in May. With the last... read more »

Tejpal case: Police probe into Lekhi Twitter leak begin...

Tejpal case: Police probe into Lekhi Twitter leak begins

Panaji – Goa Police have started a preliminary investigation against Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi, accused of leaking the Tejpal... read more »

EC tells states to prepare flawless electoral rolls

EC tells states to prepare flawless electoral rolls

New Delhi – In view of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission (EC) has asked the states and the union territories to prepare error-free... read more »

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Kerry extends US-Afghan security deal deadline

US says not seeking interim Israeli-Palestinian peace deal

Washington – US Secretary of State John Kerry will return to the Middle East this week to push for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, but Washington is not seeking an interim deal, the State... read more »

Several dead in Iraq bomb blast

Several dead in Iraq bomb blast

A car bomb near a cafe in central Iraq has killed at least eight people in the latest in a series of attacks. Monday’s blast in the town of... read more »

Upset family seeks to ban Nelson Mandela’s grands...

Upset family seeks to ban Nelson Mandela's grandson from funeral

London – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s grandson might face a ban on attending his funeral following months-long bitter family... read more »

French cops open new inquiry in Princess Diana’s `murde...

Britain’s SAS not involved in Diana’s death: Police

London – Mere days after the Met Police announced that they had finished looking into Princess Diana’s supposed ‘murder plot’, French cops have... read more »

Pak tribunal to announce Osama doc Shakil Afridi’...

Pak tribunal to announce Osama doc Shakil Afridi's retrial verdict on December 18

Islamabad – Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) tribunal has said it would announce the verdict on the case of Dr Shakil Afridi on... read more »

CBI registers case against Teesta Setalvad for ”illegal” foreign aid

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad for allegedly receiving funds from foreign entities without prior permission from the... read more »

Turkish Airlines emergency landing: Plane leaves for Istanbul from Delhi

An Istanbul-bound Turkish Airlines flight from Bangkok which landed in emergency conditions here on Tuesday following a bomb scare, departed early Wednesday for its destination after being... read more »

Hazare 'extremely weak' on 10th day of hunger strike

I’ll start countrywide agitation or ‘Implement OROP:Anna to PM Modi

Social activist Anna Hazare has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to implement the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme at the earliest, failing which, he would launch a... read more »

Brinda Karat says Kalyan Singh like spoke ‘RSS pracharak’

Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday said Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh had spoken ‘like an RSS pracharak’ when he demanded that the word... read more »

Omar Abdullah takes a jibe at Bobby Jindal’s ‘leaders...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has taken a jibe at United States presidential candidate Bobby Jindal after the later claimed that non-aligned nations like India are... read more »