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Setting Yourself Apart: How to Make Your...

Setting Yourself Apart: How to Make Yourself Stand Out from the Competition...

In business, competition is everywhere. It’s in the 100 other job applications which may have been received by the same job posting, or it’s in the leading competitor of a business’s particular market. Competition can often bring out the best in people, but when it comes to... read more »

How to Choose an MBA Concentration

How to Choose an MBA Concentration

Choosing an MBA concentration is essential to becoming an expert in your chosen field. While having an MBA will always help move you forward in your career, doing a concentration will give you that extra competitive edge against others in the industry. When you’re going for your dream job,... read more »

US Elections 2020 : Twitter Blocks Donal...

US Elections 2020 : Twitter Blocks Donald Trump’s tweet against Biden, FB a...

Twitter acted on Wednesday placed a “disputed” label on a tweet from Donald Trump in which he accused his rival Strong going Joe Biden campaign of trying to “steal” the tightly contested 2020 presidential elections. In his first reaction to the election results, Trump tweeted, “We are up... read more »

Onions thrown at Nitish Kumar at poll ra...

Onions thrown at Nitish Kumar at poll rally, Bihar Elections 2020

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday faced onion attack while addressing an election rally in Madhubani district. Kumar was talking about jobs when the attack took place. But Kumar continued his speech and said this will not have any impact. “Keep throwing. You all can understand. This... read more »

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Putin denies deployment of n-missiles in Kaliningrad

Putin denies deployment of n-missiles in Kaliningrad

Moscow – Russia has not deployed its Iskander tactical nuclear missiles in Kaliningrad, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. “Iskander is not our only means of defense and response to... read more »

25 killed, 36 injured in Iraq violence

46 killed, 100 injured in Iraq violence

Baghdad – At least 46 people were killed and 100 wounded in violent attacks in Iraq Thursday, including a wave of bombings against Shiite... read more »

US has no plans to drop charges against Khobragade

US has no plans to drop charges against Khobragade

By Arun Kumar Washington – Even as it described the relationship with India as “incredibly important” the US has made clear that it has no... read more »

Diplomat issue: US talks to India, PM asks for full res...

Diplomat issue: US talks to India, PM asks for full resolution

New Delhi/Washington – Concerned over the anger in India at the humiliating treatment meted out to Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, top US officials... read more »

Indian diplomat in US was strip-searched, kept in jail ...

Indian diplomat in US was strip-searched, kept in jail with drug addicts

 Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was subjected to a humiliating strip search and was kept in a cell with drug addicts after her arrest for alleged visa... read more »

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Centre may go for partial rollback of bulk diesel prices : PS Vivek Rae

India hikes excise duties on diesel, petrol

India on Tuesday raised excise duties on petrol by 2.25 rupees per litre and on diesel by 1 rupee per litre with immediate effect, the finance ministry said in a statement to parliament. The... read more »

Alibaba founder Jack Ma in India; to meet Snapdeal...

NEW DELHI | MUMBAI: Alibaba founder Jack Ma is on a visit to India, his first to the country after a record-shattering initial share sale saw the... read more »

Reliance Capital gains as Nippon Life Insurance hikes s...

Reliance Capital surged 4.56% to Rs 503 at 13:09 IST on BSE after the company said Nippon Life Insurance has agreed to increase its stake in Reliance Capital... read more »

MTNL planning to raise around Rs 2,300 crore by selling...

MTNL gains on buzz Cabinet OKs spectrum refund

MUMBAI: State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam is planning to raise around Rs 2,300 crore by selling bonds with ten-year maturity. A week ago, it had mobilised... read more »

American Tower Buys Bharti’s Nigerian Telecom Towers fo...

Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio to share infrastructure

NEW DELHI— Bharti Airtel Ltd , India’s biggest telecommunications company, has agreed to sell its telecommunications towers in Nigeria to American Tower... read more »

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Cricket

Haddin reveals `daughter's battle against cancer` helped him play better in Ashes

Haddin reveals `daughter’s battle against cancer` helped hi...

Sydney –  Brad Haddin has credited his second coming as an Australian cricketer to the perspective offered by his daughter’s battle against cancer, according to reports. According to the... read more »

Daryl Tuffey says `shocked to hear match-fixing reports about himself`

Daryl Tuffey says `shocked to hear match-fixing re...

Sydney –  Former New Zealand cricketer Daryl Tuffey is seeking legal advice after expressing shock at being linked to a probe into match... read more »

Tanvir promises to `improve batting` for lending `more ...

Tanvir promises to `improve batting` for lending `more stability` to Pak team

Islamabad – There were barely any memorable moments for Sohail Tanvir in the recent back-to-back limited-over series against South Africa, and the... read more »

Bravo reveals Lara `told him to go out, make name for h...

Bravo reveals Lara `told him to go out, make name for himself` after first day of Kiwi Test

Wellington –  West Indies player Darren Bravo has revealed that cricket legend Brian Lara messaged him after the first day of the New Zealand Test and... read more »

Haddin hails Clarke as `best batsman in world` after `s...

Clarke batted at No.10 during early grade cricket days: Report

Johannesburg –  Michael Clarke’s stylish 148 on day two of the second Ashes test against England on Friday was another glorious consummation of... read more »

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Sameera Reddy tied the knot with Mumbai-based businessman Akshai ...

Sameera Reddy tied the knot with Mumbai-based businessman Akshai Varde at a small ceremony on Tuesday. The groom, who is the co-owner of Vardenchi motorcycles, arrived in style on a customised... read more »

Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner and doyen of Telugu...

Hyderabad – Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner and doyen of Telugu cinema, legendary actor and producer Akkineni Nageswara Rao (fondly called... read more »

Socialite Kim Kardashian wants daughter

Socialite Kim Kardashian wants daughter

Socialite Kim Kardashian wants her daughter North West to walk her down the aisle with her stepfather Bruce Jenner. The 33-year-old is set to marry her fiance,... read more »

Will Salman Khan’s ‘Jai Ho’ girl Dais...

Debuting with a top star is no guarantee that you will become one too. Here’s looking at the girls who made their debut with Salman Khan, and if... read more »

AR Rahman supports singers in the royalty war against m...

AR Rahman supports singers in the royalty war against music companies

Artists versus music companies war is still on. And the master of music, Rahman has already chosen his side Not so long time ago, Abhay Deol was openly... read more »

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`Vitamin D may not offer protection against cancer, diabetes and dementia`

`Vitamin D may not offer protection against cancer, diabetes and ...

Washington – Researchers have cast doubt on vitamin D’s ability to offer us protection against diseases like cancer, diabetes and dementia. According to French researchers, low vitamin D... read more »

Higher vitamin D levels in pregnancy may result in stronger babies

Higher vitamin D levels in pregnancy may result in...

Washington –  Researchers have suggested that babies are likely to have stronger muscles if their mothers had a higher level of vitamin D in... read more »

Fictional dose for your voracious appetite

Fictional dose for your voracious appetite

An ace crime journalist is killed, and a honeymoon goes awry; a kidnapping somewhere on the streets of Karachi and love blossoming when least expected –... read more »

‘Made in China’ plant can fight chronic pai...

New York –  Suffering from chronic pain? Well, a plant used in Chinese medicine may be of help. A plant used for centuries as a pain reliever in Chinese... read more »

Insured people use emergency rooms more

New York – People covered under health care plan use emergency rooms 40 percent more than those who do not have health insurance, claimed a... read more »

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National

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

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... read more »

Madhya Pradesh police arrive at AIIMS with scribe&...

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... read more »

Army foils infiltration bid in Jammu and Kashmir

Army today foiled an infiltration attempt by three armed militants from across the Line of Control (LoC) in the Sunderbani sector in the Jammu region a Defence... read more »

Chiranjeevi’s son Ram Charan gets Turbo Megha Air...

based Turbo Megha Airways today became the fourth company to receive flying licence from aviation regulator DGCA in the past two years to launch a regional... read more »

New born dies in Delhi after 3 govt hospitals refuse tr...

A day-old baby born was turned away by two government hospitals on Monday and died while waiting at a third. The baby was born prematurely to a 19-year-old... read more »

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Politics

Maharashtra Minister gets ‘milk bath’ after ink attack

Maharashtra Minister Hasan Mushrif gets ‘milk bath’ after ink att...

Mumbai – In a public display of blind faith, NCP workers bathed Maharashtra Labour Minister and party leader Hasan Mushrif in milk to ‘purify’ him from an ink attack by a fellow worker. The... read more »

Harshvardhan congratulates Kejriwal; doubts alliance with Congress will last

Harshvardhan congratulates Kejriwal; doubts allian...

New Delhi – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Harshvardhan on Saturday said that alliance between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress... read more »

Kejriwal praises Harsh Vardhan, ignores Sheila Dikshit

Kejriwal praises Harsh Vardhan, ignores Sheila Dikshit

New Delhi – Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Saturday described BJP leader Harsh Vardhan, who was a chief ministerial contender, as a “good... read more »

Kejirwal and ministers wore common, everyday dress

Lok Sabha polls 2014 : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to contest elections in as many states as possible

New Delhi – All the seven people who took oath as ministers in Delhi’s new government, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, wore their... read more »

Thousands pack Ramlila Maidan as Kejriwal takes Metro

Thousands pack Ramlila Maidan as Kejriwal takes Metro

New Delhi – Tens of thousands of people packed the Ramlila Maidan here Saturday morning as AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal took the Metro to reach the venue... read more »

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Sci - Tech

Fear of pain worse than pain itself

Fear of pain worse than pain itself

Washington – When faced with inevitable pain, most people choose to “get it out of the way” as soon as possible, a new study suggests. In the study, which was conducted from the Institute... read more »

How playing video games make people think and feel alike

How playing video games make people think and feel...

Washington – A new study suggests that playing computer games makes brains feel and think alike. People adopt each other’s poses and... read more »

How flu evolves to escape immunity

How flu evolves to escape immunity

Washington – Researchers have discovered a new way  to improve future flu vaccines after finding that seasonal flu is able to escape immunity from... read more »

LG apologizes for Smart TV snooping on customers

LG apologizes for Smart TV snooping on customers

London – Television-maker LG has apologized to its customers for unauthorized spying by its Smart TVs on their viewing habits, even after the privacy... read more »

Mangalyaan sends first pictures of earth

Mangalyaan sends first pictures of earth

Chennai – The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said that Mars Orbiter “Mangalyaan” has beamed back its first pictures of Earth,... read more »

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Sports

Rival batsmen felt that I was an easy target: Moeen

He has been one of England’s finds in the ongoing Test series against India and off-spinner Moeen Ali feels that visiting team’s batsmen took him lightly which ensured a bagful of wickets for... read more »

Dhoni’s tactics in Tests are strange and oft...

Wellington: New Zealand batting great Martin Crowe has slammed the “illogical” captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the ongoing Test... read more »

Bharat Ratna For Dhyan Chand?

NEW DELHI: Recommendations have been received for conferring the Bharat Ratna on hockey great Major Dhayan Chand and they have been forwarded to the... read more »

World Kabaddi League players may be banned

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PUNE: The Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) is going the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) way. Apart from starting an IPL-style league... read more »

Rugby returns to Olympic programme at Nanjing

Rugby will make its return to the Olympic programme after 92 years at the second Youth Olympic Games scheduled to open in Nanjing on Saturday in the form of... read more »

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World

India and Australia condemn woman killing in Sydney

India’s foreign ministry has said it has taken up the murder of an Indian woman in a Sydney park with the premier of New South Wales. Prabha Arun Kumar, 41, died in a stabbing attack while... read more »

Dimapur rape and mob justice: Five lessons from th...

Several sobering lessons need to be learnt from the lynching of 35-year-old Syed Farid Khan in Dimapur on 5 March, allegedly for the rape of a... read more »

Ohio terrorism suspect wanted to shoot Obama in head

A man accused of plotting an attack at the U.S. Capitol said in an interview with an Ohio television station if he hadn’t been arrested he would have gone to... read more »

Erasing history, culture in Syria, Iraq: IS destroys pr...

The Islamic State group’s destruction of the ancient city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is part of a systematic campaign to destroy archaeological sites it... read more »

‘Law allows me to shoot’: Lankan PM’s...

Sri Lankan Prime Minsiter Ranil Wickramasinghe has stoked a controversy suggesting that Indian fishermen may be shot if they intruded into Sri Lankan... read more »

Supreme Court Pulls Assam Government on deportation of illegal Migrants

The Supreme Court on Wednesday came down hard on the Assam government and said that it was not treating the issue of deportation of illegal migrants seriously enough. “This has gone too... read more »

The Best Weekend Getaways from Hyderabad

The technology hub of India and the joint capital of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad is quite fascinating in itself. With its rich heritage, architectural splendor, and iconic... read more »

Priyanka Gandhi Thrash Modi In Her First Election Speech: “Hatred Being Spread”...

Lashing out Modi & Amit Shah on there home turf in her first Election speach Priyanka Gandhi says “This country is made on the foundations of love, harmony & brotherhood,... read more »

India Elections 2019 : Complete Schedule for Lok Sabha Polls 2019

The Indian Lok Sabha elections will be held on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19, followed by counting of votes on May 23, for 543 Lok Sabha seats across the... read more »

“Thief Returned Papers”: P Chidambaram’s Dig Ov...

Taking a swipe at Attorney General KK Venugopal’s fresh remark on Rafale documents, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said today that from “stolen documents” they became... read more »