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Coast Guard Intercepts Suspect Boat Carrying Explosives in Arabian Sea New Delhi: An intelligence based midnight operation was conducted on the intervening night of Dec 31 and yesterdayby the Indian Coast Guard ships and aircraft to intercept a suspect fishing boat in Arabian Sea near Indo-Pak maritime boundary, approximately 365 …
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Advancing the U.S.-India strategic partnership
New Delhi: The U.S. Mission to India announces the arrival of Ambassador Richard Verma on January 2, 2015 in New Delhi. He will continue the U.S. Mission’s work in advancing the U.S.-India strategic partnership. Upon arrival, Ambassador Verma said, “I am honored to serve as U.S. Ambassador to India at …
Read More »Acquisition of Oil & Gas Machining Company in France by Bharat Forge Ltd
Mumbai: Bharat Forge Limited is pleased to announce that it’s German Subsidiary; CDP Bharat Forge GmbH, has acquired 100% equity shares of Mécanique Générale Langroise (MGL). MGL based in Saint Goesmes, France is a strong technology oriented company focused on precision machining and other high value added processes like cladding …
Read More »Nifty is likely to continue its uptrend
By Mr. Vivek Gupta [CMT – Director Research, CapitalVia Global Research] New Delhi: From start of the week Nifty Future was trading in range bound movement due to festive season for FIIs, but extended gains on the last day of the week, getting help from factors like banking stocks gaining …
Read More »Global Healthcare Summit organized
Mumbai: The Governor of Maharashtra Ch Vidyasagar Rao today praised the contribution of American doctors of Indian origin in America’s healthcare system and appealed to them to involve themselves in teaching, research and continuing medical education programme in India. More than 1200 medical experts from USA, UK and India attended …
Read More »Major FDI Policy Changes in India
New Delhi: Government has put in place an investor-friendly policy on FDI, under which FDI, up to 100% is permitted, under the automatic route, in most sectors/activities. FDI policy is reviewed on an ongoing basis, with a view to making it more investor friendly. FDI helps in the economic growth …
Read More »India establishes NITI Aayog in place of Planning Commission
New Delhi: In accordance with a key announcement made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day, the Union Government today established NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), as replacement for the Planning Commission. This comes after extensive consultation across the spectrum of stakeholders, including state governments, domain experts …
Read More »President of India’s greetings on New Year’s Eve
New Delhi: The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has greeted the nation on the eve of New Year 2015. In a message the President has said, “I extend warm greetings and best wishes to all fellow citizens for a happy and prosperous New Year. Let 2015 be a year …
Read More »32 Websites Blocked Following Court Order
Mumbai: Additional Director General of Police, Anti Terrorism Squad, M.S., Mumbai on 15/11/2014 requested blocking of 32 number of websites / pages which were being used for Jihadi Propaganda. It was stated that Anti National group are using social media for mentoring Indian youths to join the Jihadi activities.These websites …
Read More »Dhoni retires, Virat Kohli new captain of Indian Cricket
Mumbai: MS Dhoni has retired from Test cricket with immediate effect following the drawn Test against Australia in Melbourne. Virat Kohli will take over as India captain for the final Test in Sydney. BCCI press release claimed the strain of playing all formats as the reason. The release said: One …
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