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Patna, July 28 President Pranab Mukherjee will launch a road map on agriculture prepared by the Bihar government, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said.
Nitish Kumar said he had invited the president to visit Bihar, and this could happen after Aug 15.
Nitish...
Guwahati, July 28 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi Saturday arrived at an airport here and immediately left for Assam’s restive district of Kokrajhar to take stock of the situation.
A week of violence in Bodo areas...
Assam In Violence Crosshair
EXPOSES CENTRE-N.East DISCONNECT
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New Delhi, July 28 : Assam today is caught in the crosshairs of violence between the Bodos and the Muslim immigrants in four districts of the State. Significantly, even after a week...
New Delhi, July 28 India and Indonesia, two of the six co-founders of the Non-Aligned Movement and now among the world’s emerging economies, Friday held talks to map the way forward for deepening strategic ties and signed a double tax avoidance...
Mumbai, July 28 ICICI Bank posted a 36 percent rise in net profit at Rs.1,815 crore for the quarter ended June 30 on strong loan growth and improving asset quality.
The country’s largest private lender had posted a net profit of Rs.1,332 crore...
Chennai, July 28 Banks in India should adopt the electronic bank realisation certificate (EBRC) scheme to reduce the transaction costs for exporters, said a top government official.
“The software glitches which were initially there have been sorted...
Bhubaneswar, July 28 The annual monsoon rainfall has improved slightly in Odisha during the past one week although it still remained weak, an official said.
The state received a total of 437.4 mm rainfall so far against the average of 503.7 mm for this...
Washington, July 28 In a bid to boost defence sales to India, the US is touting the “technical and political advantages” of its Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme of government-to-government transfer without competitive bidding.
“We...
London, July 28 Huge cheers welcomed the colourful Indian delegation into the Olympic Park Friday night during the opening ceremony of the London Games.
The 81-strong Indian contingent, the biggest ever, was led by wrestler Sushil Kumar, a bronze medallist...
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia, Dr. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa calling on the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi on July 27, 2012.
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The Union Minister for Commerce & Industry and Textiles, Anand Sharma in a bilateral meeting with the British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, in London on July 27, 2012.
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NEW DELHI, July 28 : Public sector Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) on Friday said its profit after tax during April-June increased 32 per cent at Rs 877 crore, against Rs 662 crore in the corresponding quarter the previous year.
The company’s...
The first meeting of the CII National Steel Committee in this financial year, held yesterday, witnessed wide participation from all Indian steel majors, industrial members, policy makers and other stakeholders. Picture shows Secretary (Steel) D.R.S. Chaudhary...
Shimla, July 27 The Himachal Pradesh government Friday gave green signal to construction of two mega all-weather tunnels at a cost of Rs.500 crore.
The state cabinet, in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, gave its approval to the Bhubbu...
New Delhi, July 27 : Seventeenth Refinery Technology Meet (RTM) organized by Centre for High Technology (CHT) was recently held at Bangalore. The meet with the theme “Mission Excellence – Innovations in Hydrocarbon Sector” dealt with...
K.R.Kamath, CMD, PNB alongwith Rakesh Sethi, Usha Ananthasubramanian and S.R. Bansal, Executive Directors of the Bank addressing the Press Conference on the occasion of declaration of Bank's quarterly (Q1) financial results ( F.Y. 2012-13).
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New Delhi, July 27 : Buoyed by a 7.83% growth in the generation of power (units), NTPC Limited, India’s largest power generating company with an installed group capacity of 39174 MW, reported an unaudited Profit after Tax of Rs. 2498.67 crore for Q1...
New Delhi, July 27 : Will the Prime Minister bite the bullet and grant a long-standing and just demand of 21 lakh ex-servicemen to implement the principle of One-Rank-One-Pension (OROP)? According to the buzz in the corridors of power, Manmohan Singh...
Mumbai, July 27 State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) posted a 13 percent increase in net profit at Rs.921 crore for the quarter ended June 30 against Rs.815.5 crore during the like period of the previous financial year.
The total income stood...
Shimla, July 27 Himachal Pradesh and Punjab inked a pact here to link two pilgrimage centres with a 3.75-km ropeway.
The Rs.85 crore ropeway would link Punjab’s Anandpur Sahib town with Hindu shrine Naina Devi in Himachal Pradesh.
Himachal Pradesh...
