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Google offers new format to advertise Indian products
Global search engine Google is offering a new format in India to advertise products and brands for users, the company's Indian subsidiary said Monday. "The new format on Google.co.in under 'product listing ads' menu will help users to find and compare products and prices with their images and links," the company said in a statement here. The facility will appear on the right side of the search ...
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E.M.S.Natchiappan A Congress loyalist who once bested Chidambaram
A veteran Congress loyalist, E.M.Sudarsana Natchiappan, the new union minister of state for commerce and industry, had once humbled present Finance Minister P. Chidambaram at the hustings. The 65-year-old, curly-haired Natchiappan had defeated Chidambaram at the Sivaganga constituency in 1999 Lok Sabha polls when the latter had floated his own party. He will be now the second person in the ...
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Indian actuaries body expels former IRDA member for misconduct
The Institute of Actuaries of India (IAI) has decided to expel R. Kannan, a former member of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, for financial misconduct, said a member. "IAI's top governing council met Saturday in Mumbai and decided to expel Kannan from the institute's membership for life and also levy a fine of Rs.500,000," council members told IANS preferring anonymity. The ...
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Deposit Rs.10000 to meet dying mother court orders terror accused
A special court here ordered an accused in the July 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts case to deposit Rs.10,000 if he wanted to visit his ailing mother with an escort, his lawyer said Monday. The accused, Mohammed Sajid M. Ansari, who is booked under the dreaded Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), had filed a plea seeking four weeks' interim bail to visit and care for his dying ...
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Mamata asks why another union cabinet reshuffle
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday questioned "yet another" cabinet reshuffle of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre. "I am surprised to know that UPA-II has made yet another cabinet reshuffle today. So how many times, in the last four years, UPA-II Government has reshuffled the cabinet," said Banerjee. "After Trinamool, how many times has the minister ...
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Flood prone areas being evacuated in Delhi
The Delhi government Monday began evacuating people from low-lying areas along the banks of the Yamuna river after 8.06 lac cusecs of water was released from Hathnikund barrage in Haryana. At a meeting chaired by Delhi Chief Secretary D.M. Spolia to review the preparedness to tackle floods, the revenue department was asked to complete the evacuation of all families in low-lying areas by Tuesday ...
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New Odisha cops to handle crimes against women
Odisha created 537 posts of police sub-inspectors Monday to deal with crimes against women and children in the state, officials said. The police officers will be recruited by the state-run Odisha Staff Selection Commission and one each will be posted in the state's 537 police stations, an official of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's office told IANS. The state has already set up a women and ...
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J.D. Seelam From IAS officer to union minister
J.D. Seelam, who was Monday inducted in the union council of ministers as minister of state, is a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Karnataka cadre. Seelam, a member of the Rajya Sabha, hails from Bapatla in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. The 60-year-old has been made minister of state for finance. Jesudasu Seelam did his post-graduation in chemistry and also served as ...
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Mamata shouts at Barasat anti-rape protestors
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's belated bid to soothe the family of a murdered gang-rape victim in North 24 Parganas Monday turned sour when she lost her cool after facing noisy protests from villagers. Banerjee rebuked protestors as "CPI-M people" when some women shouted slogans about the lack of security while she was leaving after visiting the gang-rape victim's family at ...
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Minor girl commits suicide in Delhi
A 14-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her home here, police said Monday. Kiran's body was recovered hanging at her residence in west Delhi's Aman Vihar area Sunday night. "We are yet to ascertain the reason behind the extreme step taken by the girl as no suicide note was recovered from the spot," said a police ...
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Left seeks governors intervention in Bengals worsening law and order
Accusing the Trinamool Congress government of inaction in tackling the "deteriorating" law and order situation ahead of the panchayat polls in West Bengal, the Left Front Monday met Governor M.K. Narayanan seeking his intervention in the matter. "We wanted to draw the attention of the governor on the present law and order situation of the state. The state government is not acting against those ...
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Argentina India to explore cooperation in hockey other fields
After football, hockey could be another field for possible cooperation in training between Argentina and India, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Monday after talks with visiting Argentinian Foreign Minister Hector Timerman here. Addressing a joint media conference after the talks, Khurshid said both countries have vast scope for cooperation in sport and youth affairs. "Argentine ...
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15 killed flood alert sounded in UP
Fifteen people were killed in heavy rains and floods in Uttar Pradesh Monday and a flood alert was sounded in several districts of the state, officials said. All the casualties were reported from Saharanpur, where many pilgrims are trapped in the Shakumbhari Devi area following the rain and floods. The flood alert was sounded in many districts as rivers like the Ganga, Ghaghra and Sharda are ...
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Widespread June rains cheer Maharashtra
Spelling cheer for the people, farmers and industry, Maharashtra has received an average of nearly one-fourth of its total annual rainfall in just the first fortnight of June, officials said here Monday. Of the state's total annual average of 115.99 centimetres (cm), the state has so far received an average of 25.52 cm so far, figures released by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's office ...
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Almost all new ministers 65-plus
A day after the Congress touted its most youthful team of office bearers with an average age of 52 years, the UPA-II Monday inducted eight new ministers, most of them in the 65-plus age group. Of the new cabinet ministers, Sis Ram Ola is 86, Oscar Fernandes 72, Girija Vyas 66, and K.S. Rao 63, while of the ministers of state, Santosh Chowdhury is 69, Manik Rao Gavit 77, E.M.S. Natchiappan 65, ...
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MEA apathetic to Lankan attacks on fishermen Jayalalithaa
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday charged the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) of maintaining an "apathetic silence" on the issue of Indian fishermen being attacked by the Sri Lankan navy. She also urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the matter with the Sri Lankan government to release all the 57 Indian fishermen in the island nation's custody and five fishermen ...
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Reshuffle lame exercise BJP
The opposition BJP Monday called the Congress' cabinet reshuffle a "lame exercise" and said that it would fail to make any impact on the 2014 general elections. "It is a lame exercise which may not have any impact on the country," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman told IANS. "If their objective was to send the message that economic and policy paralysis will be gotten over, the message will ...
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The musical chairs in council of ministers
Eight new ministers were inducted into Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's team Monday in the fourth major reshuffle of the cabinet and the council of ministers. The first cabinet appointments of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), led by the Congress, were made May 23, 2009, when seven cabinet ministers were appointed. Another 30 ministers were inducted May 28, 2009. Since then, there have ...
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India working for all communities to find place in Sri Lanka PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that India was working towards finding the rightful place for all communities in Sri Lanka. In a letter to DMK president M. Karunanidhi dated June 11 - a copy of which was released to the media Monday - Singh said: "The government of India has consistently worked for all communities in Sri Lanka, including Sri Lankan Tamils to find their rightful place and ...
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Court notice on plea for cancellation of government recruitment exam
The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to the central government and the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) on a plea of a candidate seeking cancellation of the CGL examination in April on grounds the paper was leaked a day before the test. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, issuing show cause notice to department of personnel and training and the SSC, asked them to file their responses by July ...
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Manmohan inducts eight veterans with eye to polls
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday inducted eight veterans into the union council of ministers, evidently with an eye to state assembly elections this year-end, but the exercise was seen as lacklustre with no new or young faces and a preponderance of senior citizens. With general elections less than a year away, the prime minister evidently played safe and brought in only people with a proven ...
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K.S. Rao an engineer industrialist serving fifth term as MP
Kavuri Sambasiva Rao, who took oath as a cabinet minister Monday, is an engineer and industrialist who is serving his fifth term in parliament. Rao, 63, represents Eluru constituency in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh in the Lok Sabha. Elected to the lower house for the first time in 1984, he is serving his fifth term. He has served as Congress secretary and has been on several ...
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When TV celebs danced to Shiamak Davars tune
The 10th edition of "Star Parivaar Awards" was not just about the grand sets and trophies, it was also about entertaining and scintillating dance sequences choreographed by Shiamak Davar. This was the first time Shiamak choreographed something for the small screen and the performances by the celebrities turned out to be a visual delight for the audience. Sooraj-Sandhya from "Diya aur Baati ...
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AIADMK to support CPI in Rajya Sabha polls
In a dramatic turn on the last day of filing of nominations for the June 27 Rajya Sabha polls, AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa Monday announced her party's support to CPI's candidate and withdrawal of one party candidate. After much dilly-dallying, the principal opposition party DMDK also entered the poll fray with its candidate A.R. Elangovan filing his nomination. In a statement ...
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Dena Bank to focus on West Bengal Haryana and Punjab
State-owned Dena Bank would focus on West Bengal, Haryana and Punjab by opening more branches in the three states to grow its business, a top bank official said Monday. "Our strategy would be to focus on particularly two to three states and grow business there. West Bengal is one of the focus areas. Then we are opening branches in Haryana and Punjab," Dena Bank chairman and managing director ...
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