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Meghalaya partners Microsoft to launch 'smart classrooms'

Programme would "effectively implement technology in education and creating an environment where students and teachers communicate, collaborate, create, access and consume content using Microsoft tech

D G Vanzara files Rs 101-crore defamation suit against Mufti Abdul Qayyum

Additional Sessions Judge J V Pandya issued notices to Mansuri and five others, posting further hearing to July 31

Workers unrest hits IFFCO production at Paradip

The company is incurring a loss of Rs 3 cr per day due to the production halt

Ferrochrome makers want extension of chromite mine leases till 2020

Seek reduction in chrome ore transport cost

Baby brand start-up Zeezeezoo explores tie-up with online marketplaces

Also intends to expand range of kids products to home decor and education categories

Indian diplomats' domestic trouble

Contracts with India-based domestic assistants for officials abroad have become a headache for the Indian government

Who determines the price - market or regulator?

The govt needs to decide whether it wants a regulator to exercise pricing controls

Case study

Eyeing South, Amit Shah meets party core group leaders

The BJP President sets a target of establishing party offices in all districts by December 2016 and training 1.5 million workers

'Bank the unbanked, fund the unfunded'

Mudra Bank to help create credit for non-agri activities

25 farmers committed suicide in Karnataka since June: CM

Eight were debt-ridden sugarcane growers, rest committed suicide for other reasons, Siddaramaiah tells reporters

Steps taken to check diseases, says minister

To resign or not is left to Lokayukta, says Karnataka CM

Says it is left to the ombudsman to decide on the issue

Quake-hit Nepal to come up with discounts to woo holidayers

Hoteliers, tour operators and airlines have been asked to come up with packages at attractive rates ahead of the festive season

Chit fund firm official arrested

The firm is alleged to have duped crores from the investors in Ganjam district

Bhubaneswar airport braces for international flight operation from July10

The AI077 flight will arrive at Bhubaneswar at 0905 hours while the international flight AI078 will take off at 14:00 hours daily

Lakshmi Mittal joins St Xavier's governing body

Giving company to Mittal would be industrialist Sanjiv Goenka, chairman of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group

Apex life insurance body apprehends PMJJBY viability

Out of Rs 330 charged for Rs 2 lakh sum assured, insurers left with only Rs 250 after bank commission and stamp duty

Bandhan to start banking operations from Aug 23

Bandhan is also in process of obtaining separate RBI licences for RTGS, NEFT, payments gateways and CTS

Odisha to pump in Rs 100 crore to CGTMSE

The state MSME department has sent a proposal to micro units lender Sidbi in this connection