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Britain set for sweeping Internet, phone monitoring

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Britain is to allow one of its intelligence agencies to monitor all phone calls, texts, emails and online activities in the country to help tackle crime and militant attacks, the Interior Ministry sai

Tata Group targets $500 billion revenue by 2021: Report

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Tata Group targets revenues of $500 billion by the financial year ending in March 2021, the Business Standard newspaper reported on Monday, as the steel-to-software conglomerate aims to increase sales

Asian shares rise as China data soothes, caution caps

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Asian shares kicked off the second quarter with a modest gain on Monday, as surprisingly firm China manufacturing data dispelled fears of a hard landing in the world's second biggest economy, but caut

Global trade bodies warn PM of tax plan impact

International trade associations representing more than 250,000 companies have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh criticising new taxation proposals and warning that investment plans by overseas

Kingfisher to resume salary payment: Mallya

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Kingfisher Airlines will resume payment of staff salaries starting from this week after tax authorities unfroze its bank accounts, the airline's chairman and managing director, Vijay Mallya, said in a

Jewellers' strike still on; silver sales poor

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Jewellers plan to continue their strike, hurting demand and halting imports of gold and silver in the world's biggest buyer of bullion, an industry body head said on Monday.

"We are still striking...

Manufacturing growth slows for a 3rd month: PMI

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The expansion of India's factory sector slowed for a third month in March as growth in new orders eased and costs for raw materials kept rising, a business survey showed on Monday.

The HSBC manufactu

HSBC names veteran Milne as India CEO

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HSBC, Europe's largest bank, appointed company veteran Stuart Milne to head its Indian operations as chief executive officer, the London-listed bank said.

Milne, who was most recently its country man

Cultural killings of women have social sanction in India: UN

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‘Honour’ killings, ‘dowry deaths’ and the lynching of women branded as witches persist in India, partly due to such practices being socially sanctioned and with police often not even treating such mur

EU wants G20 to boost IMF funds after Eurogroup move

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The European Union expects leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies (G20) to agree to contribute more money to the IMF in April after Europe expanded its own bailout capacity, EU officials said on

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