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Goa CM Manohar Parrikar asks health depa...

Goa CM Manohar Parrikar asks health department to list priority areas

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has sought inputs from the health department on identifying priority areas so as to improve medical facilities in the state. “The chief minister has called a meeting of health department officials. During the meeting, a presentation would be made on... read more »

Marathwada droughts: Sinking wells and r...

Marathwada droughts: Sinking wells and rising debts have left farmers helpl...

Parth MN is travelling across Maharashtra’s Marathwada province on a People’s Archive of Rural India fellowship to chronicle agrarian issues in the region, over a period of 6-8 months. Firstpost will reproduce his reports as and when he files them for Pari. Karbhari Ramrao Jadhav’s... read more »

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 »

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Reliance Infra fall on reports about power tariff cut

Reliance Jio issued 2.2 crore numbers for telecom services

 The Department of Telecom is learnt to have issued 2.2 crore numbers to Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio Infocomm which paves way for the company to launch its 4G services. “They (RJIL) have been... read more »

Rupee down 40 paise

Rupee down 40 paise

 The rupee weakened by 40 paise to 61.65 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market due to increased... read more »

No compromise on fiscal consolidation: Chidambaram

No compromise on fiscal consolidation: Chidambaram

New Delhi – Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday said the government will not compromise on fiscal consolidation, and will contain fiscal deficit... read more »

Monetary policy to focus on inflation, liquidity, says ...

Monetary policy to focus on inflation, liquidity, says Rajan

With seven more days to go for the next monetary policy review, the Reserve Bank on Wednesday said it will focus on controlling inflation and roll back... read more »

Govt of the day pays the price for high inflation: Chid...

Govt of the day pays the price for high inflation: Chidambaram

New Delhi – Apparently admitting that price rise was one of the reasons for Congress defeat in recent elections, Finance Minister P Chidambaram Wednesday... read more »

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Tarun Tejpal’s bail extended till July 1

New Delhi. Supreme Court founding editor of Tehelka Tarun Tejpal caught in a sexual assault case against the interim period is extended until July. Tejpal Court will hear the regular bail petition... read more »

Delhi court summons sonia, rahul in national heral...

NEW DELHI: A local Delhi court has ordered Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi to appear before it in a case alleging... read more »

Andhra Pradesh: GAIL Pipeline Fire Killed 15

The blast took place at 5:30 am in a pipeline owned by the Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) in East Godavari district. Reports suggest the number of dead... read more »

UGC sets today’s deadline for compliance by DU on...

NEW DELHI: With admissions delayed over the FYUP row leaving students in the lurch, Delhi University Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh and registrar Alka Sharma... read more »

Marathas, Muslims to get education, job quotas in Mahar...

Mumbai: The Maratha and Muslim communities in Maharashtra will now get reservations in jobs and education in government and semi-government sectors with... read more »

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Deny India access to detainees: senator

An Australian senator has criticised the government’s decision to allow the Indian Consular officials to assess the identity of 157 asylum seekers currently being held in a detention centre in the... read more »

22 civilians reported killed in east Ukraine

Local authorities in eastern Ukraine said at least 22 civilians have been killed in one day by shelling. City hall in Luhansk, which is under the... read more »

Russia violated missile treaty: U.S.

U.S. President Barack Obama said in a letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a letter on Monday that Russia had violated a 1987 arms control... read more »

Six die when swept away by river in Mexico

Six people died and four went missing in northern Mexico after their vehicles were swept away by a swollen river near the US border. A statement from officials... read more »

13 killed as tank shells hit Gaza UN school

A Palestinian health official says 13 people were killed after tank shells hit a U.N. school in Gaza where hundreds of Palestinians had taken refuge from... read more »

Sensex, Nifty see relief rally; rupee gains 50 paise

Oil bounced back from heavy losses today but global oversupply and worries over the severity of the economic slowdown in China, the world’s top commodity consumer, kept prices near... read more »

China stocks sink over 7 per cent as panic selling intensifies

SHANGHAI: China stocks slumped more than 7 percent on Tuesday to their lowest level since December, with panic selling intensifying after the flagship Shanghai Composite Index crashed... read more »

Cannot believe son is a terrorist: French train gunman’s father

The father of a suspected Islamist militant gunman overpowered by passengers, inluding three US citizens, on a high-speed train in France was quoted on Monday, saying he could not believe... read more »

Bodies of climbers found after 21 years

Three frozen bodies that have been found on Ecuador’s highest peak may be the remains of French climbers who disappeared in an avalanche 20 years ago, officials said yesterday. The... read more »

Three policemen killed, over 30 injured in Egypt bombing

Cairo: At least three Egyptian policemen were killed and 33 others injured on Monday when a bomb struck their vehicle north of Cairo, the latest in a series of attacks against the country’s... read more »