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2G scam: Operation Save P Chidambaram

Daily News & Analysis - ‎30 minutes ago‎
By DNA Correspondent | Place: New Delhi | Agency: DNA With the exit of DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran from the Cabinet, the Opposition has now trained its guns on P Chidambaram, Union home minister who was also Union finance minister.

Cabinet reshuffle likely on Monday: Sources

NDTV.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
New Delhi: The much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle is likely to take place on Monday, say sources. Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet DMK chief M Karunanidhi in Chennai today to discuss the new cabinet.

No rules were bent for Anil Ambani: Kapil Sibal

IBNLive.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
New Delhi: Lawyer Prashant Bhushan has taken on Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal once again. And this time, it's not over Lokpal. Bhushan has filed a PIL in Supreme Court demanding a probe into Sibal's decision to give Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications ...

India vs. West Indies, 3rd Test, Day 3

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WI 204/10 | Ind 227/5
Raina* 31, Dhoni 24
Ind lead by 23 runs
Last 2 Overs: 1 . . . Nb . . | 1 1 . 2 1
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US supports NSG waiver for India

Times of India - ‎1 hour ago‎
NEW DELHI: The US "fully supports" the "clean waiver" that was given to India by the Nuclear Suppliers Group in 2008.

Bihar ignores SC, recruits 6900 anti-Naxal SPOs

Rediff - ‎1 hour ago‎
The Supreme Court may have termed arming of villagers and tribals against Naxals as illegal, but the Bihar government has gone ahead and decided to recruit hundreds of villagers as Special Police Officers to intensify fight against naxalites.

Speaker to decide on Telangana MPs' resignations soon

Business Standard - ‎2 hours ago‎
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar today said a decision on the resignation of 13 MPs from the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh would be taken before the monsoon session of Parliament, which begins on August 1. While addressing a press conference in Delhi ...

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Space shuttle's final countdown marks end of an era in Florida

The Guardian - ‎34 minutes ago‎

Rebekah Brooks confronted by furious News of the World staff

The Guardian - ‎34 minutes ago‎
Rebekah Brooks has been accused of arrogance during a NoW staff meeting. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Rebekah Brooks was confronted by angry News of the World staff on Friday when she updated them on the decision to close the title and ...

Celebration now but challenges ahead for Juba

Aljazeera.net - ‎55 minutes ago‎
Flurry of pre-independence activity in the capital of South Sudan, as workers clean up and dignitaries arrive. Juba, Sudan - Along one of the main roads near the South Sudanese capital's airport, a group of a half-dozen young men are hanging flags from ...

FM asks public sector lenders to act tough as NPAs hit 24.5%

Financial Express - ‎35 minutes ago‎
New Delhi: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday asked public sector banks (PSBs) to take prompt measures to arrest growth in their non-performing assets (NPAs) as it could destabilise the sector and hurt the economy as a whole.

Axis Bank raises base rate 25 bps

Financial Express - ‎1 hour ago‎
Mumbai: Axis Bank, the country's third largest private sector bank, raised both its base and benchmark prime lending rate by 25 basis point with effect from July 5. The bank's revised base rate is at 9.75% while the BPLR is at 17.5%.

Bharti rejigs India, South Asia operations

Times of India - ‎19 hours ago‎
MUMBAI: India's largest mobile services operator Bharti Airtel will split its businesses into two broad verticals as part of a restructuring exercise for its India and South Asia operations , even as the telco grapples with lower profit margins.

Google chairman to testify at Senate hearing

Reuters - Jasmin Melvin, Carol Bishopric - ‎19 minutes ago‎
WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O) Chairman Eric Schmidt will testify at a September hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee, Senator Mike Lee said on Friday.

Twitter Behind Other Social Networks On Security Measures, Say Experts

Scribbal - Kris Holt - ‎4 hours ago‎
When it comes to helping users to make their accounts secure, Twitter has fallen behind other social networking and online services, according to security experts.

HCL denies charges of destroying data of News of the World

Moneycontrol.com - ‎6 hours ago‎
Published on Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 18:19 | Source : PTI Indian IT major HCL Technologies has denied allegations that emails belonging to its client, News International - which is at the centre of a string of phone-hacking scandals - were destroyed at ...

Nokia Zeta set to hit market

News Tonight - Sanjeev Banerjee - ‎1 hour ago‎
Symbian Belle-powered Zeta aka Nokia 700 phone, a new Nokia smartphone based on its overhauled Symbian OS, is said to be leaked at 'Know your mobile' site.

Aamirs Zeitgeist

Business Standard - ‎1 hour ago‎
As a lightning rod which captures the country's mood, one could do worse than look to Aamir Khan for leads. His recent track record of delivering box office hits proves that Aamir is an unparalleled purveyor of zeitgeist —perhaps like few others of ...

Mayank Shekhar's review: Murder 2

Hindustan Times - Mohit Suri - ‎3 hours ago‎
Rating: * "Bheege hoth tere. Pyaasa dil mera…" That's a popular Kunal Ganjawala song, most would know, from the commercial success Murder (2004).

Masand: 'Chillar Party' drags on endlessly

IBNLive.com - Sarath Menon - ‎2 hours ago‎
Good ideas don't always translate into good films. 'Chillar Party' is one such well-intentioned movie with a message for children and adults alike.
Chillar Party Times of India

India inch towards lead

Deccan Herald - ‎24 minutes ago‎
Two strange dismissals clamped down a cruising India as the West Indies gradually gained some foothold on the third day of the third Test here at the Windsor Park stadium on Friday.

Sourav Ganguly: Triumphs, controversies and comebacks

NDTV.com - ‎8 hours ago‎
New Delhi: Sourav Ganguly had his own unique style of perceiving things; probably the quality that earned him the respect that he has today.

SAI just does not have the right manpower

Hindustan Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
I can very well understand the feeling of desperation in the wake of the spate of positive dope tests; some of them leading athletes who have won medals at the Asian and Commonwealth Games.
SAI wakes up too late Calcutta Telegraph

Health minister flooded with 'get-well-soon' messages

Hindustan Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad's labelling of homosexuality as 'unnatural' and a 'disease' has shaken the virtual world.

Sini, Juana, Tiana face two-year ban as B samples too test positive

Times of India - ‎36 minutes ago‎
Sini and Juana had returned positive tests for methandienone while Tiana had traces of epimethandiol in her urine sample collected at the Inter-state meet in Bangalore last month.

Aids at 30: What does the future hold for us?

The Citizen Daily - Chinua Akukwe - ‎37 minutes ago‎
Washington. As the world marks the 30th year of the HIV/Aids, Africa remains at the epicentre of the global epidemic. In the last 30 years, at least 25 million Africans have died of Aids and more than 50 million have been infected ...

SC bars opening of Padmanabhaswamy Temple vaults

Hindustan Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
Devotees walk up the stairs leading to the 16th century Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Trivandrum,...... The Supreme Court on Friday restrained the seven-member committee from opening sixth vault of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram ...

Relocation or refund for Greater Noida flat-owners

Hindustan Times - ‎1 hour ago‎

Rahul cites compulsions of coalition politics for new land law

IBNLive.com - ‎8 hours ago‎
PTI | 04:07 PM,Jul 08,2011 By Sanjeev Chopra Ghagholi (Aligarh), July 8 (PTI) Citing compulsions of coalition politics in the delay in the Land Acquisition Bill, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today promised that the bill when finally passed ...

Jagan focuses on farmers at YSR Congress''s 1st plenary

IBNLive.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
PTI | 11:07 PM,Jul 08,2011 In the speech late this evening, Jagan also announced that his party would shut down all the illegal liquor outlets in the state to protect the poor families, particularly their women.

New market idiom: Question mark is a full stop!

Business Standard - Ashish Rukhaiyar, Mehul Shah - ‎Jul 7, 2011‎
Stock market analysts and dealers are experts in deciphering excel spreadsheets and predicting market movements. Of late, they have also been learning the complexity of English grammar to bypass a recent regulatory fiat.

The nuclear limit

Deccan Chronicle - Arun Kumar Singh - ‎Jul 7, 2011‎
There has been some heated discussion in the media about the latest decision of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to ban the supply of Enrichment and Reprocessing (ENR) equipment to India, despite the earlier Indo-US nuclear deal ...

The ULTIMATE diet plan to lose weight!

Rediff - ‎Jul 4, 2011‎
No pop diets will help you knock of those kilos says fitness expert Samreedhi Goel. The dietician and fitness trainer shares with us her exclusive diet plan and tells you just how you can get into shape without sweating over it.

Volume-led growth, margin hit seen

Business Standard - Sheetal Agarwal - ‎Jul 7, 2011‎
While revenue growth is robust, operating profit margins are likely to come down due to wage inflation. Net profit growth is also expected to fall, due to the discontinuation of tax exemption under Sections 10A and 10B (profits from software exports).

Kerala: India's poor little rich state

Economic Times - ‎Jul 4, 2011‎
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Over a decade ago when economist Geoffrey Sachs visited Kerala, he pointed to the state's crumbling infrastructure and its stretched finances as likely pressure points as the state built on its enviable foundation of developed ...
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