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3 September, 2015

Indian American engineer Ankur Bhatnagar’s startup skyTran gets investment from Eric Schmidt

skyTran, cofounded by Indian engineer Ankur Bhatnagar, a path-breaking transportation company headquartered in California, has received financial investment from Google chairman Eric Schmidt.…

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2 September, 2015

CHINA FALTERS, AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS FORCED TO ADAPT

HONG KONG (TIP): The commodities giant BHP Billiton spent heavily for years, mining iron ore across Australia, digging for copper…

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28 August, 2015

13 KILLED IN PAKISTAN ROAD ACCIDENTS

ISLAMABAD (TIP): At least 13 people were killed and 16 injured in two separate road accidents in Pakistan on August…

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28 August, 2015

Blasts at Afghan gas storage facility kill 11, mostly children

HERAT (TIP): At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed in a series of explosions at an Afghan…

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28 August, 2015

Protests over Nepal statute kill at least 9

KATHMANDU (TIP): At least nine people, including six policemen, were killed and several others injured as thousands of ethnic protesters…

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28 August, 2015

Cops `forcibly’ take Maldives ex-president Nasheed to jail

MALE (TIP): Mohamed Nasheed has been forcibly taken back to jail by police, a month after the former Maldivian president's…

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28 August, 2015

Nepal opens Everest expedition after earthquake

KATHMANDU (TIP): A Japanese climber will be the first to attempt to scale Mount Everest since a massive earthquake in…

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28 August, 2015

Pak court orders arrest of ex-PM Gilani

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (TIP): A Pakistani court on August 27 issued arrest warrant for former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani in a…

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24 August, 2015

Is financial apocalypse around the corner?

There is a statue of a marauding bull on the Wall Street. But, alas, the fella seems to be having…

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21 August, 2015

GOVT MAY OFFLOAD 10% IN COAL INDIA THIS FISCAL

NEW DELHI (TIP): The government may sell 10 per cent stake in Coal India this fiscal itself through a public…

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19 August, 2015

Birla to buy two Lafarge India cement units

Birla Corp. Ltd on Monday said it had agreed to acquire two cement assets from the local arm of Lafarge…

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19 August, 2015

UAE to invest Rs 5 lakh crore in India

Abu Dhabi/Dubai: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has agreed to increase its investment in India to Rs 5 lakh crore (US$…

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19 August, 2015

Australia’s FAL Food and Beverages to enter India & export from India

Australia’s FAL Food and Beverages, which makes the Coco Joy, Juiced Up and Aqua Hero beverages, on Monday said it…

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19 August, 2015

RJio to bring out 4G handsets in Sept before its 4G beta launch

Reliance Jio is set to launch 4G-enabled handsets in the second week of September, ahead of the formal launch of…

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15 August, 2015

CHINA DEVALUES YUAN THIRD TIME IN A ROW, MARKETS ON THE EDGE

BEIJING/NEW DELHI (TIP): China set the reference rate for its currency more than one percent lower against the US dollar…

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15 August, 2015

India’s economic data brings cheer amid worries over stalled reforms

NEW DELHI (TIP): India's retail inflation cooled to a record low in July and annual growth in industrial production hit…

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15 August, 2015

IRCTC gets into medical tourism in a big way

KOLKATA (TIP):The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) Ltd, East Zone, has got into medical tourism in a big…

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15 August, 2015

INDIA INCREASES IMPORT DUTY ON STEEL

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (TIP): A day after devaluation of the Chinese yuan, the government on August 12 announced a 2.5%increase in…

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15 August, 2015

Global Indians – 13 Global CEOs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has all along been appreciative of the struggles and achievements of NRIs. His close association with a…

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14 August, 2015

Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar among World’s 20 Richest People in Tech: Forbes

NEW YORK (TIP): Wipro Chairman Azim Premji and HCL founder Shiv Nadar are the only two Indian tycoons in the…

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14 August, 2015

Indian rupee breaches 65 against dollar

Bangalore August 13 (TIP): Indian rupee breached 65 against US dollar, its weakest since September 2013. The rupee has remained under pressure ever…

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10 August, 2015

$24 billion from EU to India in FDI over last 3 years

NEW DELHI: Despite the Free Trade Agreement talks with the European Union being in limbo, India has received an impressive…

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6 August, 2015

India-US trade will be USD1 trillion by 2030 | Indian American Policy expert Nish Acharya’s book

Bengaluru (TIP) August 5 : The book “The India-U.S. Partnership: $1 Trillion by 2030″ was launched here by Gateway House,  authored…

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3 August, 2015

Army should back the State Police not Replace them in counter-terror operations

The response of the Punjab Police to the Dinanagar terror strike on July 27 has stirred up a debate on…

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3 August, 2015

Govt to spend Rs 19,000 cr more on social schemes

New Delhi: The government has sought parliamentary approval for an extra Rs 18,995 crore social sectors during 2015-16, almost half of…

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3 August, 2015

Government announces major highway development program worth US$ 93 billion

New Delhi (TIP) (Secondary Research): The Government of India has announced highway projects worth US$ 93 billion, which include government flagship…

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3 August, 2015

Government earmarks Rs 50000 crore for developing 100 smart cities

New Delhi (TIP) : The Government has earmarked Rs 50,000 crore (US$ 8 billion) to develop 100 smart cities in the…

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3 August, 2015

10 foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in India hold US$ 28 billion investments

TIP (Secondary Research): Europacific Growth Fund, the largest foreign portfolio investor (FPI) in India was born seven years before liberalisation ushered…

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1 August, 2015

Elephant in the room: Deciphering China’s rise as a military power

Is China's rise as a military power a threat to international, or even regional security? To answer this question one…

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1 August, 2015

U.S., Russia: The Case for Bilateral Talks

Phone calls between relatively low-level diplomats are normally not newsworthy. But Monday's conversation between U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland…

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