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Aborted take-off by Air India Express pilot being probed: DGCA
Zeenews
New Delhi: Aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday said that it is looking into an incident of aborted take-off involving an Air India Express flight from Singapore to Trichy carrying around 90 passengers. | The incident took place on Monday, when the pilots of Air I...
Bank of India - national bank in India
(photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Bank of India sees subdued growth in corporate loans
The Times Of India
MUMBAI: State-run lender Bank of India expects a subdued growth for its corporate loan book in the coming quarters and will be cautious about lending to risky sectors, senior officials said, as increased provisions due to debt restructuring and credit losses hurt the bank in October-December. | Corp...
India-Pak committee meets jail inmates
The Times Of India
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet | AMRITSAR: India-Pakistan Joint Judicial Committee on Prisoners visited Amritsar central security jail on Friday to meet Pakistani inmates and discuss the ways and means to expedite their repatriation. | The committee comp...
Mahindra & Mahindra's Ssangyong may consider making India as manufacturing and export base
The Times Of India
Ssangyong Motor Co, majority owned by Mahindra & Mahindra, may consider making India a manufacturing and export base, mirroring similar moves by other automakers that are benefiting from low cost of production here. | Choi Jong-sik, Ssangyong's vice-...
Sorry, India: David Fincher's Unwillingness to Cut Nudity Means No Release For 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'
IMDb
| Briefly: David Fincher is committed to the integrity of his films. He's committed to it to the degree that The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo won't be released in India, because the director refused to make cuts. Variety [1] reports that the January r...
Australia complete four-nil sweep of India
Sydney Morning Herald
| AAP | Australia's preparations for their 2013 Ashes tour took a giant leap forward on Saturday as they completed a four-nil sweep of their home Test series against India. | Chasing a world-record target of 500 to win the fourth Test, India resumed ...
Activists of right wing all-women Dukhtaran-E-Milat (Daughters of the Faith) hold placard as they demonstrate in Srinagar on January 27, 2012.
WN / Imran Nissar
Kashmir women's group seeks Aafia Siddiqui's release
The Siasat Daily
| Srinagar, January 27: Muslim women separatist group, Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of Faith) headed by Asiya Andrabi, staged a demonstration in Srinagar Friday, demanding the rele...
A view of saluting dais of the 63rd Republic Day Parade-2012, at Rajpath, in New Delhi on January 26, 2012.
PIB of India
India celebrates its 63rd Republic Day with patriotic fervour: Report
Irna
New Delhi, Jan 26, IRNA – India on Thursday celebrated its 63rd Republic Day with impressive display of armour and unmanned aerial vehicles recently added to India's military pro...
Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police (JKAP) march during a Republic Day parade at the Bakshi stadium in Srinagar on January 26, 2012.
WN / Imran Nissar
Kashmir celebrates Republic Day with ardour
Newstrack India
| Srinagar/Guwahati, Jan 26 (ANI): Marking the nation's 63rd Republic Day, people and government leaders of Jammu and Kashmir celebrated the occasion with patriotic fervour in Srin...
Duo charged with death of Bangladeshi
The Star
| KUALA LUMPUR: Two unemployed men were charged with the murder of a married Bangladeshi contract worker. | Saiful Rizal Ibrahim, 21, and Muhd Hanis Sehat, 20, were charged with causing the death of Ashed Khan, 28, at a motorcycle parking lot in Tama...
Bangladesh pirates kill 4 Indian fishermen, kidnap 12
The Hindu
Two groups of Bangladeshi pirates on Friday night killed four Indian fishermen, injured eight others and hijacked a trawler carrying twelve fishermen in the Bay of Bengal, police said. | One group of pirates fired at the fishermen travelling in ̵...
Police team off to Mumbai to track man in battered baby case
The Hindu
A police team has been dispatched to Mumbai to track down Rajkumar, who is wanted in connection with the badly battered two-year-old baby girl now battling for life at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences' Trauma Centre here. | Rajkumar, a cab...
Business
British Foreign Secretary William Hague arrives for an EU Foreign Ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels, Thursday March 10, 2011. The European Union is hitting the regime of Moammar Gadhafi with more financial sanctions just as France says it is recognizing the Libyan opposition's Interim Governing Council and plans to exchange ambassadors with it.
(photo: AP / Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
UK wants stronger, deeper ties with India: Hague
Zeenews
London: Noting that India is making its mark on the global economy with electrifying skill, innovation and dynamism, British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said that now is the time to make a "stronger, wider and deeper" relationship with India. | "We want a relationship between India and Britain that is stronger, wider, and deeper," Hague sai...
Sports
Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene raises his bat and helmet to celebrate scoring a century during the Cricket World Cup final match between India and Sri Lanka in Mumbai, India, Saturday, April 2 , 2011.
(photo: AP / Aijaz Rahi)
Sri Lanka not complacent about India in tri-series
The Hindu
The new Sri Lankan cricket captain, Mahela Jayawardene, has said that his team will not be complacent about India because of its current run in tests in Australia. | Speaking just ahead of the team’s departure to Australia, where Sri Lanka will join India and Australia for a triangular one day series, he recalled that in the last India –...



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