GIA to Host Bangalore Career Fair

GIA to Host Bangalore Career Fair IDEX Online Fairs in Mumbai and Delhi resulted in more than 700 job placements. The Bangalore fair will include a panel discussion with industry professionals, a “Recruiters Corner” for preliminary interviews between company representatives and employment ... See all stories on this topic »

Manufacturing grows at fastest pace in six months

Manufacturing grows at fastest pace in six months
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The country's manufacturing sector rose at its fastest pace in six months in December on the back of robust domestic and oversees orders, a survey showed on Monday. The HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index ( PMI) - a headline index designed to ...
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Navbharat Times launches special edition for National Capital Region

Navbharat Times launches special edition for National Capital Region
afaqs (press release)
By afaqs! news bureau, afaqs!, Mumbai, January 03, 2012 The edition will retain itsDelhi and national content, additionally offering state-level news of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. In a bid to strengthen its position further in Delhi and the NCR ...
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Cabinet may approve Rs 300 cr for marketing support to MSMEs

Cabinet may approve Rs 300 cr for marketing support to MSMEs
Zee News
New Delhi: The government is likely to approve tomorrow a Rs 300-crore initiative for providing marketing support to micro-small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which are facing tough times in the face of industrial slowdown amid rising interest rates. ...
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Year-end discounts lift car sales in December

Year-end discounts lift car sales in December
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Year-end discounts saw car sales end 2011 on a modest note as most of the companies, except for market leader Maruti Suzuki, saw numbers go up in December. The car market, which struggled to stay afloat for most part of 2011 due to high ...
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Five random resolutions for 2012

Five random resolutions for 2012
BBC News
Some people may drone on endlessly about how Test cricket is losing its appeal, but I will continue to wake up before dawn in the morning in my non-heated apartment in the freezing Delhi winter to watch India play Australia. When a few more lights from ...
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Now, stop India E Bangladesh

Now, stop India E Bangladesh (blog) The over-enthusiastic body language of our political leaders in front of New Delhibureaucrats compromises the position of accompanying Bangladeshi diplomats. Let me give an example. When westernized political advisor Gowhar Rizvi makes Indian foreign ... See all stories on this topic »

"Occupy" makes annual list of most overused words

"Occupy" makes annual list of most overused words
Sat,31 Dec 2011 04:47 PM PST
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Occupy this: the trash bin. At least, so say students at Michigan's Lake Superior State University who released an annual list of words they deem so misused, overused and cliched they should be banished in the year ahead. "Occupy," the term associated with the months-long protest movement in New York and across the United States against income inequality and a variety of other social ills, was among the 12 nominees after just a few months of overexposure. ...

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U.S. imposes sanctions on banks dealing with Iran

U.S. imposes sanctions on banks dealing with Iran
Sat,31 Dec 2011 02:16 PM PST
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HONOLULU (Reuters) - President Barack Obama signed into law on Saturday a defense funding bill that imposes sanctions on financial institutions dealing with Iran's central bank, while allowing for exemptions to avoid upsetting energy markets. The sanctions target both private and government-controlled banks - including central banks - and would take hold after a two- to six-month warning period, depending on the transactions, a senior Obama administration official said. ...

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2011 tough year for UPA, but not terrible: Salman Khurshid

2011 tough year for UPA, but not terrible: Salman Khurshid
Moneycontrol.com
The year gone by saw a lot of unwanted action from Delhi, and not enough needed legislations. But Law Minister, Salman Khurshid doesn't believe it was a terrible year for the government. “It wasn'ta good year, but not a terrible one,” he said. ...
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India's Economic Battle: Development Vs. Tradition

India's Economic Battle: Development Vs. Tradition
NPR
In the capital, New Delhi, R. Venkatesan, a consultant at India's National Council of Applied Economic Research, says India needs the foreign exchange that exports such as steel can provide. More importantly, states like Orissa need to create jobs for ...
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Irfan now knows his limitations

Irfan now knows his limitations
Cricketnext.com
PTI New Delhi: He was considered the next big thing in Indian cricket's pace reserves, but after spending nearly two and a half years in wilderness, Irfan Pathan says he has finally realised his limitations as a bowler. After scalping 100 and 154 ...
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DTU achieves great heights in 2011

DTU achieves great heights in 2011
IndiaEduNews.net
New Delhi: The year 2011 for Delhi Technological University (DTU) has been a year of great achievements and growth. The university achieved a new height of its glory with its ranking in Top 10 Best Engineering Institutions in India. ...
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Iran reports nuclear progress as sanctions loom

Iran reports nuclear progress as sanctions loom
Sun,1 Jan 2012 10:16 AM PST
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - - Iran announced a nuclear fuel breakthrough and test-fired a new radar-evading medium-range missile in the Gulf on Sunday, moves that could further antagonize the West at a time when Tehran is trying to avert harsh new sanctions on its oil industry. U.S. President Barack Obama signed a law on Saturday imposing tougher financial sanctions to penalize Iran for a nuclear research programme that the West suspects is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. The move could for the first time hurt Tehran's oil exports, and the European Union is due to consider similar steps soon. ...

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Don't count on the new US ambassador to India Firstpost

Don't count on the new US ambassador to India Firstpost It appears the White House prepared a list of five possible candidates after Roemer's departure from New Delhi. Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution and a former deputy secretary of state in the Clinton Administration, ... See all stories on this topic »

Syria bloodshed defies Arab monitor mission

Syria bloodshed defies Arab monitor mission
Sun,1 Jan 2012 03:43 PM PST
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces killed eight more protesters and an Arab League organization urged Arab monitors to leave Syria, saying unrelenting bloodshed made a mockery of their mission. President Bashar al-Assad's forces, keen to prevent huge protest rallies under the monitors' eyes, have killed at least 286 people since December 23, the day before the mission's leader arrived in Syria, according to activists who tally casualties. Some of Sunday's eight deaths occurred when security forces fired on protesters in the Damascus suburb of Daria, they said. ...

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Israel, Palestinians to meet Tuesday; prospects hazy

Israel, Palestinians to meet Tuesday; prospects hazy
Sun,1 Jan 2012 03:04 PM PST
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will meet this week after more than a year of deadlock in peacemaking, officials said Sunday, but both sides played down prospects of any imminent resumption of talks. Yitzhak Molcho of Israel and Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat will meet Tuesday in Jordan alongside representatives of the Quartet of Middle East mediators - the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. "This aims at reaching a common ground to resume direct talks between the two sides and to achieve a Palestinian-Israeli peace accord ... ...

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No race for Karun in 2012, Narain also doubtful

No race for Karun in 2012, Narain also doubtful IBNLive.com PTI New Delhi: In disappointing news for Indian motorsport fans, Karun Chandhok has declared that he will not race in the 2012 Formula One season, while Narain Karthikeyan is still struggling to earn a racing seat. The new season is set kick off in ... See all stories on this topic »

Sweety's New Year lunch

Sweety's New Year lunch
Newstrack India
Bhai, that is the best job in the world: a minister's wife. Jha hasn't divorced his first wife who is conveniently tucked away in some village in Bihar and probably doesn't care for these New Delhibungalows and the goings on within. ...
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Bawana murders: Jilted lover held

Bawana murders: Jilted lover held
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Cops claim to have solved the Bawana double murder case calling it the handiwork of a jilted lover. The police had found the bodies of a man and a woman with their throats slit from two different places of a canal on June 17 and 18. ...
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U.S. is top 2012 property investment pick

U.S. is top 2012 property investment pick
Sun,1 Jan 2012 10:04 AM PST
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States will remain the top choice of most global commercial real estate investors in 2012, but the country has lost ground to Brazil which ranked No. 2 this year, according to a survey released Sunday. While the United States offers the most stable and secure option in commercial real estate, investors said improvement in rent and occupancy growth and the repeal of a 1980 foreign investment tax would have the strongest impact on their investment decisions, according to the 20th annual survey of Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) members. ...

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Bollywood Sweetheart Starts 2012 with 'The Italian Job' Remake, 'Players'

Bollywood Sweetheart Starts 2012 with 'The Italian Job' Remake, 'Players' Buzzine Abhishek (Bachchan) and I were the leads in Delhi 6; Thank You was about me and Akshay (Kumar); Aisha was all me; and even now, Players is about Abhishek and I. The onus is on me as a lead. But at the same time, there are so many supporting people in ... See all stories on this topic »

Crisis talk, austerity calls mark euro anniversary

Crisis talk, austerity calls mark euro anniversary
Sun,1 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Policymakers marked the 10th anniversary on Sunday of the introduction of euro notes and coins by urging governments in the currency bloc to save and consolidate to overcome their debt crisis. While German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called the euro "a clear success story" and pledged the currency would remain stable, he also urged vulnerable debtor states to follow a tough savings course in 2012, boost their competitiveness and work to win back market confidence. ...

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Jobs no bar Times of India

Jobs no bar
Times of India
He is one of the two students at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Delhi University (DU), to be offered a job at Citibank at an annual pay package of Rs 10 lakh. In the current economic scenario, campus placements seem to be bringing the much needed ...
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Hackers target emails of UK's Gordon Brown: report

Hackers target emails of UK's Gordon Brown: report
Mon,2 Jan 2012 03:51 AM PST
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LONDON (Reuters) - British police have found evidence that private investigators working for newspapers hacked into the email account of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown while he was finance minister, The Independent newspaper reported on Monday. Hundreds of other people may have also had their emails intercepted, perhaps as many as were caught up in the phone hacking scandal at News International's now defunct News of the World tabloid, the paper said. Detectives were looking at evidence from about 20 computers seized from private investigators, the newspaper reported. ...

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Before seeking jobs, DU students take 'employability' test

Before seeking jobs, DU students take 'employability' test
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: As they enter their last semesters and prepare to take a plunge into the job market, a number of final year students of Delhi University are for the first time taking a unique 'employability' test to gauge their preparedness for industry and ...
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New iPhone? No thanks, say cash-conscious Europeans

New iPhone? No thanks, say cash-conscious Europeans
Thu,22 Dec 2011 08:58 AM PST
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(Reuters) - Weakening economies and falling prices of rival smartphones are hurting sales of Apple iPhones across Europe, data from research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech showed on Thursday. The October roll-out of Apple's iPhone 4S boosted its position in Britain and United States, but the new phones failed to excite interest in continental Europe, where Apple's share of the fast-growing smartphone market slipped. The smartphone industry is dominated by Google, which has stormed the market with its free Android platform. "In Great Britain, the U.S. ...

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FBI computer system delayed again after snag

FBI computer system delayed again after snag
Fri,23 Dec 2011 12:30 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI's upgrade of its computerized case file system has hit another snag and will not be fully deployed until mid-2012 after it crashed twice during a trial run by agents in October, according to a government report released on Friday. The agency has struggled to upgrade its systems for years despite efforts by FBI Director Robert Mueller to make it a priority after the September 11, 2001, attacks. The $451 million project, known as Sentinel, has experienced cost overruns and was temporarily halted a year ago when more problems emerged. ... Full Story

Web gambling gets boost from Obama administration

Web gambling gets boost from Obama administration
Mon,26 Dec 2011 03:34 AM PST
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration cleared the way for U.S. states to legalize Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may help them reap billions in tax revenue and spur web-based gambling. A Justice Department opinion dated September and made public on Friday reversed decades of previous policy that included civil and criminal charges against operators of some of the most popular online poker sites. ...

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Stuxnet weapon has at least 4 cousins: researchers

Stuxnet weapon has at least 4 cousins: researchers
Thu,29 Dec 2011 05:33 AM PST
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(Reuters) - The Stuxnet virus that last year damaged Iran's nuclear program was likely one of at least five cyber weapons developed on a single platform whose roots trace back to 2007, according to new research from Russian computer security firm Kaspersky Lab. Security experts widely believe that the United States and Israel were behind Stuxnet, though the two nations have officially declined to comment on the matter. A Pentagon spokesman on Wednesday declined comment on Kaspersky's research, which did not address who was behind Stuxnet. ...

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China urges tighter Internet security after series of data leaks

China urges tighter Internet security after series of data leaks Fri,30 Dec 2011 07:00 AM PST Reuters - SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users. The Ministry of Public Security said on Friday it would work with 10 Chinese search engines to protect the website rankings of financial institutions to lessen the chances that Internet users will be duped by phishing websites. A phishing attack occurs when the user is persuaded to part with his or her username and password via a fake webpage that closely resembles the original. ... Full Story

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Verizon to add $2 bill-pay charge

Verizon to add $2 bill-pay charge
Fri,30 Dec 2011 12:08 PM PST
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(Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, which this month angered customers with three separate data service problems, said on Thursday it will add a $2 fee for one-time telephone and online bill payments. The planned change, to take effect on January 15, was greeted by a storm of criticism. Consumer blog Engadget said charging customers to pay was "downright ludicrous." Another tech website, cnet.com, said the move "made little sense. ...

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Kodak loses third director in a week

Kodak loses third director in a week
Fri,30 Dec 2011 02:58 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - The third director in a week has resigned from Eastman Kodak Co as the former film giant struggles to survive the dominance of digital photography. Laura Tyson, a professor and White House advisor, told Kodak on Thursday she was resigning from its board, the company said on Friday in a Securities and Exchange filing. Kodak, which was once synonymous with photography, is looking to sell patents to shore up its shrinking cash position and stay in business after failing to turn an annual profit since 1997. ... Full Story