Chennai, May 6
Expressing unhappiness over the Supreme Court order which gave the green signal for commissioning of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, anti-nuclear activists today termed the decision as “unjust...
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Mumbai, May 4
KPMG in India has appointed Nishchae Suri as Partner and Head of People and Change practice. Suri joins KPMG from Mercer Consulting, where he was the Managing Director and CEO for...
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New Delhi, May 2
An Air India aircraft left Delhi at 3.46 p.m. to bring back the body of Sarabjit Singh, the death row prisoner, from Lahore. Two officials from the Indian embassy in Pakistan will fly from Lahore...
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New Delhi, May 2
Asserting that the death of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh has “hurt” people-to-people ties between India and Pakistan, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today hoped that the tragedy will...
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Lahore/Islamabad, May 2
Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh died of cardiac arrest in a Lahore hospital in the wee hours today after being comatose for nearly a week following a brutal assault by other inmates of a...
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May 1, 2013
The National Association for the Blind (NAB) in Bangalore says that of 100 students enrolled in 2012, they found jobs for 95.Along with providing education, NAB Karnataka also provides e...
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Washington, May 1
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi are among 16 Indians who have found a place in the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine’s list of the 500 most powerful people on t...
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New Delhi, May 1
Outraged at the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in one of the cases of anti-Sikh riots, a number of people today staged protest in the capital blocking traffic.
Shouting slogans...
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Washington, May 7
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called for peace and calm in Bangladesh as he expressed concern over the current wave of violence in the country.
“The Secretary-General has bee...
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Kolkata, May 5
‘Bichitra’, an online collection of Rabindranath Tagore’s works, would inculcate the essence of humanity and eternal values of civilisation as propagated by Tagore in his creations, President Pran...
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Bikhiwind (Punjab), May 3
The mortal remains of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died after being brutally assaulted in a Pakistani jail, were today consigned to flames in his village with full state honours.
A...
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May 2, 2013
When Dharmen Makawana, Executive Chef of Chennai’s Leela Palace Hotel, is asked to name the most memorable moment in his three-decade career as a chef, he says softly — with his typical sh...
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Greater Noida, May 2
Indians are conservative, curious and women are expected to dress modestly to avoid sexual harassment. This is the advice given by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to all its delegates visiting In...
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Mumbai, May 1
Berggruen Hotels, the parent company of Keys Hotels, has appointed Vijay Sethi as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer.
In a career spanning 28 years, Sethi has worked in four vertic...
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New Delhi, May 1
The Indian High Commissioner has met the Pakistan Foreign Secretary and requested Pakistan to immediately release Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian and sympathetic grounds, the Ministry of External A...
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Amritsar, May 1
Returning from Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh’s family today accused the Government of doing little for the death-row prisoner battling for his life after a brutal assault and said they would go to Delh...
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Lahore, May 1
Indian national Sarabjit Singh, severely injured in a brutal assault last week, has slipped into a “non-reversible” coma and doctors in a hospital here are struggling to save his life, official so...
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