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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