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India’s growth rate to surpass Chi...

India’s growth rate to surpass China’s in 2016: IMF

WASHINGTON: India is expected to grow at 6.3 per cent this year and 6.5 per cent in 2016 by when it is likely to cross China’s projected growth rate, the IMF said on Tuesday while terming the new government’s reforms as “promising” but insisted that their implementation is... read more »

Nifty hits record high; HDFC & Axis ...

Nifty hits record high; HDFC & Axis Bank up 3-4%, GAIL dips

The Nifty touched record high at 8628 today, up 68.55 points or 0.80 percent at 8619.25 while the Sensex rose 249.88 points or 0.88 percent to 28511.89. About 1557 shares have advanced, 1142 shares declined, and 300 shares are unchanged on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Indiabulls Housing shares in... read more »

Air traffic rises 15% in December, Spice...

Air traffic rises 15% in December, SpiceJet registers highest percentage of...

New Delhi: Domestic air passenger traffic increased by 15.29 percent in December to 64.40 lakh passengers — up from 55.86 lakh in the corresponding month last year, official data showed.According to data from the civil aviation ministry, passengers carried in 2014 rose 9.70 percent and stood... read more »

Twitter acquires Indian mobile marketing...

Twitter acquires Indian mobile marketing startup ZipDial

Twitter has just acquired an Indian startup ZipDial, a mobile marketing and analytics company based in Bangalore. ZipDial came into prominence in 2013, when it effectively converted missed calls into business, allowing users to call a business and hang up before being charged, and subsequently... read more »

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Meet the man who beat ten inmates at chess

Meet the man who beat ten inmates at chess, blindfolded!

Melbourne – A chess champion played ten games of chess blindfolded against Cook County jail inmates and won all the games. The chess grandmaster, Timur Gareev, sat in front of ten different... read more »

Kerala announces schemes for Saudi Arabia returnee...

Thiruvananthapuram – The Kerala government Wednesday announced a slew of schemes for returnees from Saudi Arabia, including a subsidy in both... read more »

Gandhi for empowerment of village heads in Kashmir

Gandhi for empowerment of village heads in Kashmir

Jammu – In a veiled attack on the National Conference, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said Wednesday that elected village representatives needed to... read more »

Modi already has NSG cover: R.P.N. Singh

Modi already has NSG cover: R.P.N. Singh

New Delhi – The central government provides security to people as per threat perception and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi already has National... read more »

Moderate earthquake rocks Assam

Moderate earthquake rocks Assam

Guwahati – A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale rocked Assam Wednesday, the India Seismological Department said. The quake,... read more »

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Iran lodges strong protest with Pakistan over killing of 14 border guards

Iran hangs 16 rebels ‘in reprisal for border deaths’

Sixteen rebels have been hanged in Iran in retaliation for the deaths of at least 14 border guards in an ambush, say Iranian news agencies. The rebels were “linked to groups hostile to the... read more »

Nigerian militants raid northern city of Damaturu

Nigerian militants raid northern city of Damaturu

Suspected Boko Haram militants have engaged security forces in a lengthy gun battle and raided a hospital in the northern Nigerian city of... read more »

Serbia state funeral for widow of Yugoslav leader Tito

Serbia state funeral for widow of Yugoslav leader Tito

The widow of former Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito has been honoured in a state funeral in the Serbian capital. Jovanka Broz, who died of heart failure at the... read more »

China vows to improve ties with neighbors for developme...

China vows to improve ties with neighbors for development

BBeijing – President Xi Jinping has directed Foreign Ministry to evolve new friendly political, economic and security cooperation policies to tie the... read more »

2,000 armed opposition groups in Syria: UN

No confirmation on invitees for Syria conference: UN

United Nations – A top UN official said that clashes among an estimated 2,000 armed opposition groups in Syria have made it much harder for the... read more »

Bharti Airtel to invest Rs.4,000 crore in Punjab

Airtel to woo data users through free internet

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, the country’s biggest telecom operator, is set to offer free internet to subscribers for trial as the company looks to convert more users into... read more »

Coal block winners may have to pay 10% upfront

NEW DELHI: Winners of coal blocks for steel, sponge iron and captive power plants would have to pay 10% of the floor price upfront. Subsequently, they would have to pay on a per-tonne basis... read more »

PM asks Varanasi weavers to utilize growing e-commerce market

VARANASI: Pitching for modernization of the textile sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked the weavers to utilize the growing e-commerce market to reach out to global... read more »

India aim to spring another surprise against Australia

PERTH: After a “commendable” series levelling win, India aim to spring another surprise in the third game of the four-match Test series against world champions Australia on... read more »

Federer, Murray, Bryan brothers win ATP awards

LONDON: Roger Federer, Andy Murray and the Bryan brothers are among the winners of the ATP World Tour Awards. Federer was selected by his peers as winner of the Stefan Edberg sportsmanship award for... read more »