One person was killed and five injured Tuesday when police opened fire on angry residents of the colliery township of Umred near here, protesting long hours of load shedding.
Police opened fire after cane-charge failed to bring the situation... More |
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 | Building upon the landmark civil nuclear cooperation deal, the US is now eyeing defence deals worth $30 billion with India over the next five years and is hopeful of winning a coveted Indian contract for 126 fighter jets.
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 | Hyundai Motor Co chairman Chung Mong Koo was convicted Monday of embezzling money from South Korea's largest automaker and sentenced to three years in prison.
The Seoul Central District Court found South Korea's richest man guilty of breach of... More |
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 | Tata chief Ratan Tata Monday maintained the group's proposed small car plant in West Bengal would begin production on schedule, even as the Singur area where it is being built continued to simmer.
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 | The Supreme Court-constituted monitoring committee Monday decided to resume from Wednesday the drive to seal commercial establishments running illegally in residential areas.
City traders who had not filed in November their affidavits, committing... More |
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 | Indra K. Nooyi , 51, Indian-born chief executive officer of PepsiCo, will assume the additional title of chairwoman, the more than $32 billion soft drink and snack food company announced Monday.
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 | Fresh violence broke out Sunday at Singur, the site of a Tata car project in West Bengal's Hooghly district, with frenzied farmers and rights activists fighting a pitched battle with the police.
Police used tear gas and batons the protestors... More |
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 | The Delhi High Court has raised serious objections to the central government's policy of granting tax concessions to the tobacco industry in the northeastern region of the country.
While hearing a public suit, a bench comprising judges Swatanter... More |
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 | Nine debt-ridden farmers in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra ended their lives over the weekend, according to information received here Sunday.
Three suicides were reported from Buldana district of western Vidarbha, two from Chandrapur... More |
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 | A red sea algae is poised to change lives in the coastal village of Vizhinjam in Kerala.
For the 10 families in the village situated near Kovalam, cultivating the red algae, or Kappaphycus alvarezii, in the sea will mean economic... More |
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