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Sacked SMAM calls OC sham

New Delhi, Aug. 11: Australian company Sports Marketing and Management (SMAM) on Wednesday termed the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee’s decision to terminate its services as ‘wrongful, vicious

IRDA to enforce cashless plan

New Delhi, Aug. 11: The insurance regulator will soon take steps to resume the cashless health insurance facility to policyholders by PSU insurers.

“Now that the High Court has given the direction, w

Caste census gets the nod

New Delhi, Aug. 11: Enumeration of castes in the ongoing Census process may now become a reality as the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the issue, headed by the finance minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, has

RBI may allow new banking licenses

Mumbai, Aug. 11: In what could be a change from its past policy, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) seems less squeamish about allowing large industrial houses to promote banks. The central bank is also

Arjun: PV to blame for fiasco

New Delhi, Aug. 11: Absolving the late Rajiv Gandhi of having any role in the former Union Carbide chief, Mr Warren Anderson’s quiet exit from India, Mr Arjun Singh, the former Madhya Pradesh chief mi

Biz Briefs

Mitsubishi on Wednesday said it will increase the price of its newly launched sports utility vehicle Outlander by about two per cent from next month, thus withdrawing the introductory offer on the veh

14 elephants killed at Simlipal National Park

New Delhi, Aug. 11: Fourteen elephants have died at the hands of poachers at the Simlipal National Park tiger reserve in Orissa’s Mayurbhanj district. A fact-finding team which visited the reserve bla

Opposition seeks PM word on Didi Red ties

New Delhi/ Kolkata, Aug. 10: The Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mr Arun Jaitley, said that the PM on several occasions has called the Maoists the single largest threat to internal peace. “He

CVC discovers more overspending cases

New Delhi, Aug. 10: The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has submitted their preliminary findings on financial irregularities in various Commonwealth Games related projects to the CBI. A senior CVC

Brave woman wins dacoits’ praise

New Delhi, Aug. 10: A woman said she went alone to the ravines of Chambal and got her husband freed from dacoits who had kidnapped him in Agra on August 6, and without any help from the police.

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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.

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