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  • 10 killed, 42 injured as bus falls into stream in JK

    At least 10 people were killed and 42 others injured when a bus fell into a stream in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday. The bus, en route to a tourist resort in Pahalgam from Bijbehara, skidded off the road and fell into Lidder stream at Langanbal, 80 km from here, officials said. Four people […]

    US debt crisis: Senate rejects Republican Bill

    In United States, the Democratic-controlled Senate on Friday defeated a bill to raise the US debt limit by a vote of 59 to 41. The Republican-controlled House of representatives had passed the bill earlier in the day. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid is expected to move forward with a different approach that aims to get […]

    B’desh, India sign comprehensive border management deal

    India and Bangladesh on Saturday signed a comprehensive border management agreement as Home Minister P Chidambaram held crucial talks with his counterpart Sahara Khatun ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit in Dhaka in September. “We have just signed the agreement — Border Management Coordination Plan for a comprehensive and joint management of all frontier […]

    Yedyurappa sticks to his plan of resigning tomorrow

    After his tense standoff with the BJP leadership, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Saturday said he would tender his resignation tomorrow amid indications that he will have a say in the choice of his successor. As 68-year-old Yeddyurappa made the fresh affirmation falling in line with the directive of the party leadership which […]

    Obama backs Africa democracies, urges famine aid

    President Barack Obama has pledged that the United States would remain the “stalwart partner” of democracies in Africa, as he called for global aid for famine victims in the continent’s parched east. Obama was speaking after talks at the White House on Friday with the leaders of four French-speaking African nations — an unprecedented meeting […]

    Blasts shake Tripoli

    Several explosions shook the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight, a journalist said early Saturday, the latest of many blasts in a city which has been targeted almost daily by NATO air raids. Shortly after 10:00 pm (2000 GMT) on Friday, at least 10 powerful blasts, some distance away, were heard in the city centre. Early Saturday, […]

    NADA conducts surprise raid at PT Usha School of Athletics

    Continuing its drive to catch drug cheats following the athletics doping scandal, the National Anti Doping Agency officials on Friday conducted a surprise raid at the PT Usha School of Athletics in Kozhikode (Kerela). A team of officers from Delhi, headed by Senior Project Manager V Jayaraman, checked the rooms of the athletes and also […]

    DMK protest a damp squib says Jaya

    Terming the DMK’s school boycott call demanding implementation of uniform education system as a “damp squib”, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said over 93 per cent of the students turned up for their classes. “More than 44.74 lakh of the 47.88 lakh school students in the state had attended classes yesterday against the DMK’s […]

    PIRAMAL GLASS LIMITED WINS ‘AWARD FOR BEST HR STRATEGY IN LINE WITH BUSINESS’

    by NR INDRAN Mumbai :  Piramal Glass Limited (PGL), a part of the Ajay Piramal led Piramal Group won the “Award for the Best HR Strategy in Line with Business” at the 2ndBest Employer Brand Awards 2011 hosted by Employer  Branding Institute-India and World HRD Congress held in Singapore. 2200 entries were received from 33 […]

    Frameboxx Animation in an expansion mode

    by NR INDRAN Mumbai : Frameboxx Animation and Visual effects, India’s leading Animation and Visual Effects training studios, is on expansion spree. It has opened new centres in Rajkot, Patna, Allahabad and Jhansi. Already a strong brand name in the field of producing adept animators, Frameboxx aims to cater to the needs of all aspirants […]