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RBI’s cash-tightening measures to stay until Forex market stabilizes: Subbarao

RBI Governor D Subbarao has defended the central bank’s stance on choosing inflation over growth, saying that when the “inflation threshold limit is crossed, it becomes difficult to...

August 4, 2013

India to launch indigenous Aircraft Carrier project

India will launch its biggest ever Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) project, in terms of size and complexity of design, on August 12 at Kochi. Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC)...

August 4, 2013

CCEA approves 10% stake sell of IOC

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the proposal for sale of 10% of government stake in country’s largest refiner Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), which is likely...

August 3, 2013

Pacific Marshall Islands under threat of climate catastrophe

The Marshall Islands has sought support to ward-off a future Pacific “climate catastrophe” that, it says, will expunge it from the map without critical action on global warming....

August 3, 2013

Russia grants asylum to Edward Snowden

Former NSA contractor and whistleblower of U.S electronic surveillance programme Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and left the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport...

August 3, 2013

Govt. approves draft amendments to keep parties outside the purview of RTI Act

Draft amendments to the Right To Information Act (RTI) have been approved by the Union Cabinet in order to nullify an order of the Central Information Commission (CIC)...

August 3, 2013

Telangana sparks more Statehood demands across the country

With the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Coordination Committee giving nod to the divide Andhra Pradesh and create Telangana, demands for statehood from several regions of the country backed...

August 3, 2013

Semaandhra people to search for fourth capital in 60 years

In case the division of Andhra Pradesh goes through, the people of the newly created Andhra state, which will include the Rayalseema region, will have to search for...

August 3, 2013

Earth’s runaway heating easy to trigger than earlier believed

A study headed by Colin Goldblatt from the University of Victoria, Canada has found that it may be possible for a planet to experience a runaway greenhouse effect...

August 3, 2013

Union Govt. launches National Teeka Express

The National Teeka Express was launched by Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. It has been launched to protect children from life-threatening childhood diseases. What is the...

August 3, 2013

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