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  Indian, Pak soldiers fire on LoC near Poonch, Pak DGMO seeks meeting

  India | April 26, 2014 8:35 IST

  New Delhi: Pakistan's Director-General of Military Operations on Friday  called up his Indian counterpart to discuss the ceasefire violation along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir earlier in the

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  Indian, Chinese soldiers celebrate Bihu on LAC

  India | April 17, 2014 9:41 IST

  Guwahati: In a show of brotherhood, soldiers of Indian Army and Peoples Liberation Army of China celebrated Bihu festival at the Indo-China Line of Actual Control  in Arunachal Pradesh.According to an official release, the forward

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  Indian unpaid women workers sent home from Saudi Arabia

  World | April 13, 2014 21:51 IST

  Riyadh: A group of Indian women workers, who were not paid their salaries for the past nine months by their employer here, have been repatriated after the Indian Embassy mediated with their contracting company for

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  Bhutan to hire Indian students for hydel project

  April 10, 2014 17:01 IST

  New Tehri (Ukhand): Bhutan has decided to hire students of a engineering institute here for a 10,000 megawatt hydel power project being built in the country in collaboration with India.Impressed with the expertise of THDC

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  RBI shifts to consumer prices to value Indian rupee against other currencies

  April 06, 2014 20:49 IST

  New Delhi: Governor Raghuram Rajan-led Reserve Bank of India will start using consumer prices instead of wholesale prices as the inflation benchmark for valuing the Indian rupee against other currencies, a move that could make

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  FIIs pump in Rs. 4,900 crore in Indian stocks in week to April 4

  April 06, 2014 16:37 IST

  New Delhi: Foreign investors poured in almost Rs. 4,900 crore in the Indian stock market last week primarily on hopes of a strong reformist government after elections. The total investment by foreign institutional investors (FIIs) in

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  Indian navigation satellite's orbit raised

  April 05, 2014 22:29 IST

  Chennai: The Indian space agency Saturday raised further the orbit of its second navigation satellite by around 4,200 km by firing the space craft's onboard motor for around seven minutes, said a senior official.“The satellite's

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  Indian women trounce Bangladesh in World T20

  Cricket | April 01, 2014 12:09 IST

  Sylhet (Bangladesh):  Indian women recorded their first win in the World Twenty20 with an easy 79-run victory over Bangladesh here Sunday.India, who lost their first two matches to Sri Lanka and England, dominated the proceedings

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  Australia eases visa laws for Indian, Chinese students

  World | March 21, 2014 14:58 IST

  Melbourne: In a significant reform of the immigration laws affecting international students, Australia has eased the financial requirements for the visa applicants from "high risk" countries like India, China and Pakistan.International students from the so-called

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  Indian among nine killed in Kabul hotel attack

  World | March 21, 2014 14:42 IST

  Kabul: An Indian was among the nine people killed in a deadly Taliban attack in a popular hotel in Kabul, sources said Friday. Four of the attackers were also killed.Two women from Canada and New

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  'Indian private sector can partner Republic of Congo economy'

  March 10, 2014 23:40 IST

  New Delhi: Indian companies can play a key role in the Republic of Congo's march towards becoming an emerging economy by year 2025, a senior minister of the central African country said here Monday.“Indian companies

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  GSK pays Rs 6400 crore to lift its stake in Indian subsidiary to 75%

  March 11, 2014 9:30 IST

  London: UK drug maker GlaxoSmithKline Plc. ( GSK ) has increased its stake in its Indian subsidiary from 50.7 per cent to 75 per cent, following a recent open offer. The company announced that the

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  Indian rupee unlikely to maintain rally, to be range-bound: Experts

  March 09, 2014 18:28 IST

  New Delhi : The Indian rupee, which rallied to a three-month high last week, is unlikely to maintain the momentum this week due to higher demand for dollars from importers and rise in the greenback

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  Indian construction worker falls to death in Sharjah

  World | January 28, 2014 12:31 IST

  New Delhi: An Indian construction worker fell to his death while working on the eighth floor of a building under construction in Al Mamzar area next to Sharjah Islamic Bank.The accident took place on Sunday

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  Indian, Pakistani soldiers greet each other on Milad-un-Nabi

  India | January 15, 2014 6:51 IST

  Srinagar: Indian and Pakistan soldiers on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday greeted each other on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi or the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed, a defence spokesman said."A

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  Indian and Japanese navies to train together for the first time

  India | December 18, 2013 13:10 IST

  New Delhi: Forging closer military ties against the backdrop of rising Chinese naval power, India and Japan will hold maritime exercise JIMEX in the Bay of Bengal starting Thursday."The first ever Japan-India Maritime Exercise (JIMEX)

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  Another Indian to be charged for Singapore rioting

  World | December 16, 2013 21:23 IST

  Singapore: Another Indian has been arrested in connection with Singapore's worst outbreak of violence in over 40 years and will be charged tomorrow for alleged rioting, taking the total number of Indians arraigned in the

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  Indian to be sued for selling 900-year-old Shiva statue in Aus

  World | December 07, 2013 9:44 IST

  Melbourne : Australia's top gallery yesterday said it will launch legal action against disgraced Indian-originart dealer Subhash Kapoor after it was confirmed that its prized 900-year-old dancing Shiva was stolen from India.The National Gallery of

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  Indian cargo ship detained in Singapore

  World | November 22, 2013 13:49 IST

  Singapore: A cargo vessel owned by India's Essar Shipping carrying iron ore from Brazil to China has been detained in Singapore over a dispute with a bunker fuel supplier. The 106,438 DWT ship 'Kishore' was

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  Indians best at cracking cheap hotel deals: Report

  India | November 12, 2013 10:00 IST

  Mumbai: Indians top the list of nationalities seeking the best value on hotel tariff deals, paying an average of Rs 4,950 when they travel domestically, says a Hotels.com report.According to the latest Hotel Price Index