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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 »

With Gonda named dirtiest city, Aditynat...

With Gonda named dirtiest city, Aditynath wields broom for cleaner U.P.

The U.P. Chief Minister arrived at the congested Baloo Addar locality in the heart of Lucknow and began sweeping the streets. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday picked up a broom to convey his seriousness towards making Uttar Pradesh clean. This was a day after he expressed... read more »

Serena Williams wary of further ankle injuries

Williams sisters withdraw from doubles at Australian Open

Serena and Venus Williams have pulled out of women’s doubles at the Australian Open, where they’ve won four titles. The Williams sisters were scheduled to play their first-round match... read more »

Russia launches security clampdown for Winter Olympics

Three Russian Olympic gold medallists test positive for doping

Three Russian Olympic gold medallists in race walking were tested positive for abuse of using performance improving drugs, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) said on Tuesday. Sergey... read more »

Obama’s trade and tax wish list may impact India

While India found no mention in U.S. President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union (SOTU) address, certain policy proposals that he made to both houses of Congress on Tuesday... read more »

Installed solar capacity crosses 3 GW

New capacity addition in the clean energy sector was up nine per cent during the first 9-month of this fiscal. The total installed capacity of solar power in the country crossed 3,000 MW... read more »

Toyota tops in global vehicle sales, beats VW, GM

Toyota Motor stayed at the top in global vehicle sales in 2014, selling 10.23 million vehicles, beating Volkswagen and General Motors. Volkswagen AG of Germany sold 10.14 million vehicles in 2014... read more »