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| Centre rules out military action against Naxalites | 21-NOV-09 |
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| The Union home secretary GK Pillai today ruled out the military action against the Naxalites in the country. “No military action is being planned against the Naxalites. Coordinated operations by different states with help from the Centre could be beneficial for fighting the Left-wing ultras”, he said. |
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| When big is big | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Scale has always fascinated Paresh Maity, but now he’s experimenting with newer genres in paintings and sculpture. |
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| Ashok K Lahiri: Has China moved to the centre? | 21-NOV-09 |
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| A rising China has not only inched closer to the US, it has also developed backward linkages - through the ‘disassembly line’ - with a host of other countries, including developed ones. |
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| Honeywell to invest $34 mn in Gurgaon centre | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Diversified company Honeywell India today said it will set up a technology centre with an investment of $34 million (Rs 157 crore) to expand global research capabilities. |
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| G-20 at centre of US' cooperative effort: Geithner | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Noting that G-20 is the premier forum for international economic co-operation, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told lawmakers that the Obama Administration is placing the forum at the centre of its global economic cooperative effort. |
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| Pegasystems opens support centre in Hyd | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Pegasystems Inc, a US-based provider of business process management (BPM) software, has opened its global customer support centre in Hyderabad, with an initial staff of 10 support personnel. The company’s research and development centre in the city currently employs over 100 professional. |
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| Beef up security for public, pvt aircraft fleet: Centre | 17-NOV-09 |
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| With rising terror threat, the Centre today asked states to beef up security for both public and private aircraft fleet and aviation facilities, including abandoned airstrips, and carry out drills on a regular basis. |
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| Surinder Sud: Zeroing in on tillage | 17-NOV-09 |
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| The specialised zero-tillage seed drill, which could sow seeds in fields without ploughing it, was introduced by the Mexico-based International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) in Pakistan much before it was brought into India. Yet, the zero-tillage system of cultivation, one of the key technologies under the environment-friendly conservation agriculture, has proved a bigger success here than it did in Pakistan. |
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| The man who'd map consciousness | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Only the steady tide of readers overflowing into the aisles of the Gulmohar Hall indicated that this was not just another book discussion at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi. Vilayanur Ramachandran’s lecture drew students, fellow neurologists and inquiring readers in such numbers that we could easily have filled the nearby Stein Auditorium. |
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| Centre may raise coffee package to Rs 802 cr | 16-NOV-09 |
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| The Centre is likely to increase the debt relief package for coffee growers to Rs 802 crore, 58 per cent more than the recommendations of Coffee Board, Union minister of law and justice, M Veerappa Moily said. |
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| NID to apply for Centre of Excellence status | 16-NOV-09 |
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| The National Institute of Design (NID)’s governing council will meet this December to work on its final proposal to apply for the Centre Of Excellence (COE) status through an Act of Parliament. The proposal will be forwarded to Parliament by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry. |
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| Centre to minimise list of exemptions from GST | 14-NOV-09 |
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| The Union ministry of finance is looking at minimising the list of exemptions from the goods and services Tax (GST), the new tax structure which will be introduced from April 1, 2010, according to Sumit Dutt Majumder, special secretary, and member of the Central Board of Excise and Customs. |
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