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Indian techie, wanted in murder of American woman, found dead

A 26-year-old Indian employee at an IT firm, who was accused of murdering an American woman, was found dead after he allegedly committed suicide due to suspected drug overdose at a New Jersey hotel.

Morgan Stanley faces Facebook fallout, limits damage

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Morgan Stanley was quick to dismiss suggestions its status as the king of initial public offerings for Silicon Valley was under threat because of the botched Facebook Inc IPO last month. And that conf

Ratan Tata gets Lifetime Achievement Award

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Tata Sons chairman Ratan Tata has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation here for innovation in philanthropy.

The Foundation, celebrating 100 years of gl

Sheryl Sandberg becomes first woman to be named to Facebook Board

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Facebook has named its Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg as a member of its Board of Directors, making her the first woman director in the eight-year-old social network company.

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Mongolian dinosaur seized from US warehouse

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A gigantic tyrannosaurus skeleton -- tucked away in a New York warehouse -- was seized on Friday by US authorities, who hope to return the prehistoric remains to their native Mongolia, officials said.

Donations go viral for bullied US grandmother

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Video of a US grandmother being bullied by a busload of school kids went viral on Thursday, tugging at the heart strings of sympathetic strangers who donated more than $330,000 to send her on a trip t

Companies assess bank relations after Moody's move

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In the weeks leading up to Moody's downgrade of major global banks, corporate treasurers quietly accelerated their own reviews of where to put their bank deposits, who they trade swaps with and who th

US man strips naked and bites flesh out of another man's arm

A man from Florida, USA was arrested on Wednesday after he stripped down, bit a chunk of flesh from another man's arm and resisted repeated attempts by police to subdue him with a stun gun.

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Asia, not North America, now has most millionaires

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Weakening economies that roiled markets last year also took their toll on the world's rich, though faster-growing Asia for the first time had more millionaires than North America, according to a study

Facebook stock's bad start reins in short sellers

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Facebook's weak stock market debut has a potential silver lining for the social media giant - some short sellers may have been scared off.

About 8.1 per cent of the 421 million shares in the initial

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.