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Coal India said to cut auctions to diver...

Coal India said to cut auctions to divert fuel to power stations

New Delhi: Coal India Ltd has cut the amount of the fuel it’s selling at competitive auctions to bolster supplies to power stations to meet demand, said people familiar with the matter. The government has asked the state-run monopoly to cut the quantity auctioned to increase coal supplies at... read more »

The Jet Airways (India) Ltd today joined other airlines
Jet Airways to offer full services on al...

Jet Airways to offer full services on all-economy subsidiary JetKonnect

New Delhi: In a bid to take on competition from Tata-SIA Airlines Ltd’s Vistara airline which is yet to start operations, Jet Airways India Ltd on Thursday announced launch of full services even on its all-economy subsidiary JetKonnect from December and plans to consolidate into a single-brand.... read more »

Alibaba in funding talks with Snapdeal

Alibaba in funding talks with Snapdeal

BANGALORE: China’s Alibaba has been in talks with Snapdeal as it looks to enter India’s booming online retail industry, according to two people aware of the development. Alibaba, whose mammoth share sale in the US is underway, is considering investment in Snapdeal as one of its options... read more »

Nigeria’s $9.3M Scandal: Arms Meant For ...

Nigeria’s $9.3M Scandal: Arms Meant For Armed Forces, Niger Delta Militants...

$1m is conservatively N163m. so, $9.3m is N1,514,502,583.61 at today’s exchange rate of $1 : N163. It means almost N2 billion cash found its way out of Nigeria in two private jets. And the jets took off from Abuja. Reports are suggesting one of the jets belong to Christian Association of Nigeria... read more »

Gas explosions kill 24, injure 271 in Taiwan

At least 24 people were killed and 271 others injured when several underground gas explosions ripped through Taiwan’s second-largest city overnight, hurling concrete through the air and... read more »

10 killed in Bangladesh train-bus collision

At least 10 people were killed and 50 injured on Friday when a train collided with a bus at a railway crossing in Bangladesh’s Jhenaidah district. A railway official said the train... read more »

Gary McKinnon is warned off seeing sick father in Scotland: Fears SNP could allow new US b...

Gary McKinnon has been warned not to visit his sick father in Scotland in case the Nationalist government allows a revived American bid to extradite him. The Asperger’s sufferer was saved... read more »

Public service whistleblowers ‘treated shockingly’, report finds

Whistleblowers who risk their careers to uncover wrongdoing within public services are being victimised by managers who nearly always escape sanction, a public accounts committee report... read more »

Meriam Ibrahim arrives in US

A Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence arrived on Thursday in the United States, where she was welcomed first by the mayor of Philadelphia as a... read more »