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Category: INDIAN NEWS

  • Google on Indian online market

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    Indian online market set to explode: Google study With the Indian online market set to explode, telecom companies stand to generate an additional revenue of $8 billion and EBITDA of $2.9 billion over the next three years, a joint study by Google and AT Kearney has forecast. India will witness a major mobile explosion with…

  • India warms up to Arab world

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    The Modi government’s refusal to have a parliament resolution condemning Israel for the bombardment in Gaza had attracted a lot of flak. Now India is warming up to Arab states, a traditional partner and ally.  Emphasising the government’s “unflinching commitment” to expand ties with the Arab world, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Thursday said there…

  • Goa CM uses N-word

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    Goa government is in the news once again for using a racial offensive term while referring to Africans and Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has now apologised after protests. In an annexure submitted to the state assembly, the term ‘unknown African Negro’ was used while referring to an African national who was arrested from the beach…

  • Modi faces SC challenge of judges bill

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    The Supreme Court will hear Monday a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill.An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice R.M. Lodha said Thursday the matter would be heard along with other similar petitions listed for hearing after senior counsel Sushil Kumar Jain mentioned a plea by…

  • E-Commerce & Biz Models

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    Aparajita Gupta meets PwC Director Saurabh Srivastava who says profitable biz model, a must for e-commerce firms The blooming e-commerce companies in India need to focus more on a business model that will be profitable in the short to long term for better survival, a senior functionary of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has said. “The Indian e-commerce companies…

  • Fareed faces new plagarism charges

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     Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakaria, who two years ago got away from a plagiarism controversy claiming he made a “terrible mistake”, is facing fresh plagiarism charges from anonymous internet watchdogs.The website “Our Bad Media” in a Tuesday report by @blippoblappo and @crushingbort cited 12 instances where Zakaria appears to have lifted passages wholesale from other authors.“Their…

  • curious case of cricket coaches

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    What exactly is the role of Ravi Shastri, the new director of cricket operations of the Indian team now in England to complete a tortuous tour playing five one-dayers and a Twenty20 game after losing the five-Test series 1-3?It is not the role of the former India all-rounder but the designation that tells a story.…

  • Sikhs can’t skip helmets

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    Sikhs in the Canadian province of Ontario will not be exempted from wearing helmets, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced.The Canadian Sikh Association said it received a letter last week from Wynne stating the Liberal government, for safety reasons, will not allow Sikh motorcycle riders to wear only turbans, the Toronto Star reported Wednesday.“After careful deliberation, we…

  • Raja, Kani get bail in 2G case

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    A special court here Wednesday granted bail to former telecom minister A. Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi, ADMK chief M. Karunanidhi’s wife Dayalu Ammal and others in a money laundering case related to the allocation of 2G spectrum.Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge O.P. Saini allowed the bail pleas of Raja, Kanimozhi, Dayalu Ammal, Swan…

  • Pak defends talk with separatists

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    Pakistan’s ambassador to India defended his recent talks with Kashmiri separatists, saying that including them in a dialogue is the only way to find a lasting peace between the South Asian rivals. Abdul Basit spoke to reporters in New Delhi two days after India called off diplomatic talks with Pakistan because he had met with separatist…

  • Boy with big hands baffles docs

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    The Barcroft TV aired a footage on Kaleem Khan, 8, who has huge palms weighing more than 12 kg. The rare condition makes his daily tasks such as eating, wearing clothes, tying shoelaces and playing really difficult . Kaleem was born with hands twice the size of an average baby, and his palms now measure 13…

  • US welcomes Modi despite opposition

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    The US has reiterated that it looks forward to welcoming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi despite an online petition seeking cancellation of his visit.An online “We the People” petition to the White House initiated by US based Sikhs for Justice had demanded that instead of hosting Modi at White House, President Barack Obama should condemn…

  • Yoga legend no more

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    World renowned Yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar, who founded the ‘Iyengar Yoga’ died at a private hospital here early Wednesday, an aide said. He was 96. A widower, he was suffering from age-related ailments and breathed his last around 3.15 am. The funeral will be held here later Wednesday. Author of several books on Yoga, its practice and…

  • Pak Army calls for dialogues

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    Pakistan army calls for dialogue as protesters reach parliament  The Pakistan army on Wednesday called for dialogue to resolve the current political crisis in the country as thousands of anti-government protesters forced their way to reach the parliament building demanding resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The current “situation requires patience, wisdom and sagacity from…

  • ‘Secrets of a silent man’

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    Manmohan Singh sought a soft job, but Indira Gandhi did not agree’ Manmohan Singh, who steered the UPA government for 10 years as prime minister, was looking for a ‘soft’ job in his 50s but was told by then prime minister Indira Gandhi to become the governor of the Reserve Bank of India as he…

  • The man who taught yoga to the world

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    World renowned Yoga guru B.K.S. Iyengar, who founded the ‘Iyengar Yoga’ died at a private hospital here early Wednesday, an aide said. He was 96. A widower, he was suffering from age-related ailments and breathed his last around 3.15 am. The funeral will be held in Pune later Wednesday. Author of several books on Yoga, its…

  • Court rescues India’s ‘Iron Lady’

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    Manipur court orders release of Irom Sharmila    A Manipur court asked the state government to release activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, popularly known as Iron lady, on indefinite fast for over 13 years, in an order which was cheered by Amnesty International and other rights groups in India’s northeast. The court order came following a…

  • Poor Taj!

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    Brij Khandelwal says growing human load seen as threat to the Taj More than 200,000 people visited the Taj Mahal in two days over the weekend, causing alarm among conservationists who feel the ever-increasing human load on the fragile white marble wonder on the banks of the Yamuna could prove detrimental to the health of…

  • SPECIAL REPORT: I-Day in New York

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    The Indian-American community, wearing bright and colourful clothes, celebrated India’s 68th Independence Day with a parade dancing down Manhattan’s Madison Avenue. One of the main fashionable avcnues of New York was a sea of Indian colours, complete with floats, drums and, of course, a lot of saris. “It’s a way of saluting those who lost…

  • Indian states to overhaul tax rates

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    Biswajit Choudhury says Indian states drop compensation hurdle for proposed Goods and Services Tax  With state finance ministers having dropped the issue of compensation in lieu of a cut in the central sales tax from the agenda of their upcoming meeting on implementing the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the major hurdle appears to have…

  • Can you ignore Rajan’s call?

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    Vatsal Srivastava looks into Indian Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan’s call for coordinated global monetary policy a distant dream . Rajan earlier predicted the meltdown in the US banking sector which triggered the global recession  RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has been constantly urging major central banks, particularly the US Federal Reserve, to keep in mind…

  • Cyber bullying annoy parents

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    Aparajita Gupta says online bullying a growing worry for parents across the world Exposure to the cyber world may have helped children expand their mental horizons but it has many downsides, the latest being cyber bullying. A concerned government and industry stakeholders are now taking steps to spread awareness and educate people to stop this…

  • PROFILE: Sushma Swara

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    Ranjana Narayan profiles India’s new Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Sushma Swaraj -Making a quiet statement, but no interviews please! She has already paid a visit to five key neighbours in the nearly three months she has been in the ministry, has interacted personally or on phone with dozens of counterparts worldwide, keeps on top of…

  • In a first, India to hang women

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    Two Indian women on death row for murdering five children have lodged a last-ditch appeal after the president rejected their mercy plea, clearing the way for them to become the first women executed in post-independence India. Renuka Shinde and her step-sister Seema Gavit were convicted in 2001 of kidnapping 13 children, forcing them to join…

  • Is Modi diplomatically juvenile?

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    Noted journalist and strategic expert Sidharth Varadarajan, in his column in the NDTV, has wondered whether the recent stand off with Pakistan is exposing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inexperience in foreign policy front. “Barely three months after Narendra Modi won praise in India and abroad for reaching out to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of…

  • Indo-Pak stand off Unfortunate: US

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    As India called off foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan over its envoy’s meeting with Kashmiri separatists, the US termed the cancellation “unfortunate” and said it continued to support their efforts to improve bilateral relations. “It is unfortunate that planned talks between India and Pakistan have fallen through,” State Department spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters in…

  • India – News N Pics

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    Latest news pics from India.

  • KCR to attend Singapore meet

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    Telangana CM going to Singapore for IIM alumni meet Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will leave for Singapore Tuesday to attend the conference of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Alumni Association. He will be accompanied by Finance Minister Etela Rajender and senior officials. The delegation will return to Hyderabad on Aug 24, officials said.…

  • PICS: Floods hit Bihar villages

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    Several Bihar villages are under water as the flood situation gets grim

  • GALLERY: Human pyramids of Mumbai

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    People participate in a `dahi-handi` competition organised on Janmashtami in Mumbai

  • PICS: Janmashtami at ISKCON Temple

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  • Modi flexes muscle to tame Pakistan

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    India calls off talks over Pakistan envoy’s invite to separatists  In a tough move, India Monday called off the Aug 25 foreign secretary-level talks with Pakistan after the latter’s envoy held a meeting with a separatist Kashmiri leader. Pakistan described the decision as a “setback” to its efforts to promote good neighbourly relations. External Affairs…

  • India need 20-20 vision to win Test

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    Veturi Srivatsa says Indian players should have 20-20 vision of Test cricket  Ask any player anywhere in the world and he will say Test cricket is the ultimate. But today – though he may not openly admit it – he knows in his heart that his Twenty20 performance is far more important. It may sound…

  • More jobs in Gulf

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    As more and more women in Middle East countries step outside their homes for work, the opportunities for Asians to work as cooks, nannies and drivers in the region are likely to go up, said a migration expert. S. Irudayarajan, who heads the migration unit attached to the ministry of overseas Indian affairs at the Centre…

  • Modi panel to replace Plan Panel

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     Signalling death of famed Planning Commission, a small, handpicked, five-member thinktank, which will draw its power and prestige from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clear backing, is likely to replace it, accoring to Times of India. The new panel will most likely be led in an executive capacity by former union minister Suresh Prabhu, with free…

  • India fined for slow over rate

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     India were fined for maintaining a slow over rate during the fifth and final Test against England at The Oval here Sunday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said Monday.Match referee Ranjan Madugalle imposed the fines after Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s side was ruled to be three overs short of its target at the end of the…

  • 13 children among Sikh stowaways

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    The stowaway Afghan Sikhs include 13 children aged between one and 12. The group arrived on Saturday on a ship from Belgium and were said by police to be victims of “people trafficking”. Police said they are “being spoken to about their ordeal” before they are passed on to the UK Border Force. Essex Police…

  • Med tech to clock $50 bn by 2025

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    The $6.3 billion medical technology industry in India has the potential to expand to $50 billion by 2025 if it receives the appropriate policy support, the Confederation of Industry said. “The medical technology industry in India, which is just $6.3 billion in size at present, has the potential to expand to $50 billion by 2025…

  • Deal on Andhra, Telangana row

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    Andhra, Telangana CMs agree on talks to solve issues  The chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana agreed to solve the contentious issues between the two Telugu-speaking states through talks and mutual understanding and cooperation. Putting behind the bitterness caused by bifurcation of the state, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and his Telangana counterpart…

  • Dhoni blames the batsmen

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    Our batsmen never really performed: Dhoni India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni blamed his batsmen for not living up to their potential which led to a humiliating 1-3 Test series defeat to England. “We’ve lost a lot of confidence over the five-Test series. It is disappointing. Right from the start, our batsmen never really performed, the lower…

  • Cricket: Humiliating defeat – 1-3

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    The Indian cricket team underwent a dramatic collapse to be bowled out for merely 94 runs in their second innings, suffering a humiliating consecutive innings defeat in only three days and lose the five-match Test series 1-3 to England at The Oval in London. The hosts put on 101 runs in the morning to take…

  • Was Modi speaking to largest Shakha?

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    What we saw at Red Fort was not Modi the politician or even Modi the PM. It was Modi the pracharak, holding forth on naitik shiksha, or moral education, at the largest shakha ever assembled, say columnist Mihir Sharma, raising an oblique voice through his column in Business Standard, contesting commentators who praised the maiden…

  • Now, a corporate vote bank

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    Till now they were indifferent but now they want to stand up and be counted.People from Gurgaon’s corporate and cyber world, who were so far lost to Haryana’s politics, now want to give competition to local residents, especially from villages, when it comes to being part of the area’s democracy. More and more of these…

  • No factionalism in Congress: Pilot

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    The Congress, which suffered one of its worst defeats in both the assembly and Lok Sabha polls, is now trying to regroup itself to fight the local bodies polls, with newly-appointed Rajasthan state party chief Sachin Pilot downplaying reports of factionalism.“There is no factionalism. There can be differences of opinion, but there is no factionalism.…

  • Special Report: India’s new foreign policy

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    Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, former High Commissioner of India to UK, writes on Modi’s foreign policy. The veteran diplomat, who also served in Nepal during the Himalayan country’s transition from a kingdom to a democracy, says Modi’s initiative is a good beginning in protecting India’s core national interests  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Nepal, the…

  • Dot Bharat to hit screens soon

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    Aparajita Gupta says Dot Bharat domain will hit screens soon India, with its existing 243 million Internet users, is all set to get a ‘dot Bharat’ domain name from this month that will help bridge the digital divide and accelerate e-governance. This will be soon followed by web addresses in six regional languages. In tandem with its…

  • Container tragedy: ‘Victims from Punjab’

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    Police launched a homicide investigation on Saturday after the death of one of 35 suspected illegal migrants who were found in a shipping container on board a cargo ferry at the port of Tilbury on the Thames estuary. The stowaways, believed to be 28 adults and seven children, were discovered on board the P&O-owned vessel that…

  • India to get .bharat

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     India, with its existing 243 million Internet users, is all set to get a ‘dot Bharat’ domain name from this month that will help bridge the digital divide and accelerate e-governance. This will be soon followed by web addresses in six regional languages.In tandem with its dream of ‘Digital India’ to connect with the people…

  • Saeed Naqvi on Modi’s I-Day speech

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    Outside of India I have seen men and women find privacy behind the sand dunes in, for example, the Sahara desert Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s courageous elaboration in his maiden Independence Day speech, on the nation’s need to build toilets had in it a touch of Acharya Vinoba Bhave. It also brought back a Devi…

  • Men too prone to breast cancer

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    Shweta Sharma says men are too prone to breast cancer Last November, Kunal Makhija (name changed) noticed a small swelling in his left breast. The swelling, which appeared as a “painless lump”, gradually increased in size within four months and was soon diagnosed as breast cancer – a disease more common among women. Though rare, incidents…