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Larsen & Toubro bags orders worth R...

Larsen & Toubro bags orders worth Rs 1,810 crore

Engineering major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday said it has bagged orders worth Rs 1,810 crore across various verticals so far in this month. The company’s construction arm has secured these contracts in the buildings and factories, water, power and transportation infrastructure... read more »

Indian IT companies among world’s ...

Indian IT companies among world’s worst paymasters

NEW DELHI: Indian IT companies are among the 10 worst paymasters in the world, says a survey — a mid-level IT manager draws an average salary of $41,213 while his Swiss counterpart gets over four times more. According to recruitment platform MyHiringClub.com’s Worldwide IT Salary 2015... read more »

Arun Jaitley pitches India story, finds ...

Arun Jaitley pitches India story, finds takers in fund managers

NEW DELHI: Asserting that India’s macroeconomic parameters are sound, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said that foreign investors are looking for alternatives to China when it comes to manufacturing, and are keen that the reforms process in India is not derailed. Fund managers remain... read more »

Bomb Scare: Eiffel Tower Closed Down For...

Bomb Scare: Eiffel Tower Closed Down For Visitors

The anti-terrorist police closed down for visitors the World famous Eiffel Tower in Paris on 20 September after a suspected terror threat. Officers said three “suspected terrorists” were spotted climbing the structure with large rucksacks. But after a search which went on all morning it was... read more »

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Gold prices surged by Rs. 915 to Rs. 31,815 per ten gram

Gold prices surged by Rs. 915 to Rs. 31,815 per ten gram

Gold prices surged by Rs. 915 to Rs. 31,815 per ten gram in the national capital on Tuesday on renewed demand from stockists and retailers backed by wedding seasonal offtake. However, silver declined... read more »

C. Rangarajan to address Third Finance and Investment Summit

C. Rangarajan to address Third Finance and Investm...

New Delhi – C. Rangarajan, the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, will address the Third Finance and Investment... read more »

Facebook director’s firm sells third of its stake to so...

Facebook director’s firm sells third of its stake to social networking giant

Islamabad – Facebook’s director Marc Andreessen’s venture-capital firm has reportedly sold a third of its stake to the social networking... read more »

RBI imposes further restrictions on import of gold

RBI says tapering effect on economy to be limited

Mumbai – The Reserve Bank of India has imposed more curbs on gold imports. In a notification issued on Monday, the central bank said any authorisation... read more »

Alibaba sets record with $5.75bn one day sales on world...

Alibaba sets record with $5.75bn one day sales on world’s largest online shopping event

Washington – China’s biggest online shopping company, Alibaba has reportedly set record in online sales by processing goods worth more than 5.75... read more »

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BJP using Tejpal incident to settl! e scores, says Patkar

Kirit Somaiya, Sanjay Dina Patil exceeded poll expense limit: Med...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Medha Patkar today alleged that her rival candidates from Mumbai North East seat, namely Kirit Somaiya and Sanjay Dina Patil exceeded the spending limit fixed by Election... read more »

Patna blasts an act of terror: Rajnath Singh

Amid talks of drastic change in BJP, Rajnath meets...

As part of meetings to discuss the BJP’s post-poll strategy, party President Rajnath Singh on Thursday met RSS leader Suresh Soni. Sources said the... read more »

History will be kind to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

History will be kind to Manmohan Singh. It will remember him as the finance minister who launched India’s economic reforms in 1991, and the Prime... read more »

New Indian Mujahideen module suspected to be behind Che...

South Indian Mujahideen (SIM), a hitherto unknown separate module of the Indian Mujahideen, is now suspected to be behind the twin blasts on the... read more »

Two killed in police firing in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Two people were killed and nine injured on Wednesday when police opened fire to disperse two clashing groups in Hyderabad, police said. Curfew was... read more »

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Pakistan MQM leader Altaf Hussain’s arrest in London: Thousands b...

Karachi: Around 4,000 people blocked the main thoroughfare of Pakistan’s port city of Karachi late Tuesday to protest the arrest of Altaf Hussain, the powerful exiled leader of the MQM party. They... read more »

Underwater sound examined for links to missing jet

A team of Australian researchers looking into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 released data on Wednesday about an unusual... read more »

Nine Boko Haram fighters killed in Nigeria

ABUJA: The Nigerian military Monday confirmed it killed nine Boko Haram fighters in the northeastern Borno state. “Patrol troops have successfully... read more »

Nigerian police ban protests over abducted girls

Lagos: Nigerian police have banned any more protests in the capital Abuja concerning more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, saying they could be... read more »

21 killed, scores injured in Libya clashes

TRIPOLI — Clashes erupted in Benghazi between Libya’s army troops and rebel armed groups Monday, causing at least 21 deaths and about 110 injuries,... read more »

Bassi assures action over alleged rape of 23-year-old by ASI

Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi on Saturday said a chargesheet has been filed in the alleged rape case of a 23-year-old woman by an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) in the Rani Bagh area... read more »

With new brand launched, Xolo mulls to invest Rs 100 cr in next 18 months

Xolo, the sub-brand of the Lava International, is mulling to invest Rs 100 cr over next 18 months on development of its proprietary software, Hive, which is built on Google’s Android... read more »

Lava in talks with states for mfg unit; to invest Rs 250 cr

Domestic handset maker Lava today said it is in discussions with various state governments to set up a new assembly unit that will entail an investment of about Rs 250 crore. Lava has one... read more »

Doha Bank looking at setting up subsidiary in India

Doha Bank, one of the largest commercial banks of Qatar, is looking at the possibility of setting up a subsidiary in India, an top official of the bank today said. “Our long-term view is... read more »

Sonakshi Sinha to play RAW agent in ‘Force 2’

Actress Sonakshi Sinha will star opposite John Abraham in upcoming action drama “Force 2” . The 28-year-old “Dabangg” actress is set to play a RAW agent in the Abinay Deo-directed film, which... read more »