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The widow of kidney patient Sumit Verma, who died yesterday after personnel deployed for the PM's security allegedly delayed his entry to the emergency section of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Research, on Wednesday received a letter of condolence from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The rush to please sugarcane farmers became Centre-state row on Wednesday when Uttar Pradesh joined Punjab government to snub the central government's "fair and remunerative price" (FRP) as too low.

One month into the fiscal's second half and the slow credit off-take in the banking sector appears to belie early signs of economic recovery.

What's true for internet, is true for mobile phones also. Google, the most popular online search engine, is the most accessed website among mobile phones users as well. A study conducted by telecom research agency Informate Mobile Intelligence (IMI) has found that the online search giant and its allied services are the most popular among mobile phone users in India, followed by Yahoo!.

After a year of lull, signs of recovery were evident at the IIM-C campus on Wednesday with the world's leading finance and consulting firms flocking the top business school on day one of summer placements for the 2009-2011 batch.

Exactly a week ago, Jaipur was engulfed in a smoky haze due to the massive fire which followed an explosion in the Indian Oil Sitapur depot.

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In a digi-printing tech world like ours, printing inks have a lead role. It's no longer about black and white letters. We are talking of life-like reproduction of images and quality that sets newer standards.

When Indira Gandhi National Open University's (Ignou) first experiment with online testing collapsed last week, all fingers seemed to point at a malicious cyber attack.

Forceful enough to change the employment landscape forever, the current economic crisis has taught some hard lessons to employers about the need to transform their talent acquisition strategies in the face of growing global competition.

This paper* discusses some of the impacts attributed to climate change that are likely to hit Southern Africa as a result of increasing global GHG emissions.

Raw cotton exports in October soars 293% India's raw cotton exports in October shot up 293% to 115,637 bales (of 170 kg each) over the corresponding period the previous year, a government official said on Wednesday.

Twenty-one judges of the Supreme Court, including the Chief Justice of India, KG Balakrishnan, have set a fine example by declaring their assets on the Supreme Court Web site.

Shobha Karandlaje, Karnataka rural development minister and the only woman in Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa's Cabinet, once again finds herself in the middle of a crisis.

While the impasse on government formation in Maharashtra has drawn attention, the stalemate in Haryana has been all but ignored.

Investment community and markets have welcomed Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decision to purchase 200 tonne of gold, which is valued at Rs 31,490 crore ($6.7 billion) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), under its limited gold sales programme.

South Asia's electricity demand is projected to more than triple from 43.2 mtoe (million tonne of energy equivalent) in 2005 to 165.7 mtoe in 2030, growing at an annual rate of 5.5%.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has informed lenders of the Dabhol power project that their portfolios in the project will become non-performing assets (NPAs) soon if Ratnagiri Gas & Power Pvt Ltd (RGPPL), the owner and operator of the Dabhol project, continues to default on debt servicing.

The 11th Five-Year Plan envisions an increase in infrastructure investment from 5% of GDP in 2006-07 to 9% by 2011-12. Around 30% of the required investment is expected to come from the private sector.