| Passenger train derails as Naxalites strike | 21-NOV-09 |
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| In a major Naxalite strike in Thursday night, several bogies of the Tata-Bilaspur down passenger train were derailed on the railway tracks near Manoharpur railway station in West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. Naxalites used powerful explosives to blow up the train, police said. |
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| CII to raise trained workforce for industries | 20-NOV-09 |
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| To develop soft skills of students in various management and technical institutes, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), MP Chapter, is in talks with various institutes. The idea is to encourage the students from weaker sections of the society to join industry through orientation and development of soft-skills. Further, the CII is also toying with an idea to do assessment of top technical institutes so that it can suggest ways for the institute to improve its weaker areas. |
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| Your SMS is not secure, but help is at hand | 19-NOV-09 |
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| Indians like using short message service (SMS). On an average, a whopping 40 billion text messages are either received or sent by the 400 million-odd mobile phone users in the country, as per the recent data by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). |
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| Cox & King to roll out luxury train in Jan 2010 | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Travel and hospitality company Cox & King (India) is all set to roll out its luxury train christened as Maharajas’ Express in January 2010. The 23-coach train is a 50:50 joint venture between Cox & King and Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). |
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| FM asks Raja to push Trai Bill in Winter Session | 13-NOV-09 |
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| Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has asked IT and Telecommunications Minister A Raja to complete the ground work on the Trai (Amendment) Bill, 2008, on relaxing rules for appointment of regulators so that it could be taken up for consideration in the Winter Session of Parliament. |
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| Kerala Tourism starts online training course | 13-NOV-09 |
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| Kerala Tourism has launched an online training programme to help travel agents and tour operators in the UK get acquainted with the state’s tourism products and in turn increase UK sales to Kerala. |
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| 'NSDC will be like a private equity fund' | 13-NOV-09 |
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| Last month, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) — a Rs10-crore, 51:49 private-public partnership (PPP) enterprise with a mandate to skill 30 per cent of an overall target of 500 million people by 2022. The NSDC, in which industry associations have partly contributed to the private sector’s share, has been described as a “unique” PPP. |
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