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01 Apr 2015

“You have started to take people along in your `Mann Ki Baat’ where you recently talked about de-addiction. I hope you will also take up the cause of tobacco,” She wrote

31 Mar 2015

The CBI had charged Advani and 20 others under sections 153A (promoting enmity between classes), 153B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration) and 505 (false statements, rumours etc. circulated with the intent to cause mutiny or disturb public peace) of the IPC

30 Mar 2015

28 Mar 2015

Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal created history today, becoming the first Indian woman to attain the number one world ranking, after her closest challenger, Spain's Carolina Marin, lost in the India Open Super Series semifinal

27 Mar 2015

27 Mar 2015

27 Mar 2015

27 Mar 2015

Apart from leaving aside enough for his nephew’s education, Apple chief Tim Cook said the rest of his $800 mn would go to carefully selected charities

26 Mar 2015

26 Mar 2015

A rescue plan for Indian conglomerate Sahara was again scuppered on Wednesday after Spanish bank BBVA denied offering a credit line to the group, as Sahara had claimed.

25 Mar 2015

The speed at which change of land use and other permissions were granted by the Hooda government was specifically intended to help the Vadra firm obtain a higher price for the piece of land, CAG has found

23 Mar 2015

Singaporeans wept and world leaders paid tributes on Monday as the country mourned the death of Lee Kuan Yew, considered the architect who transformed the city-state into a financial powerhouse

19 Mar 2015

Ramakrishnan, the first Indian-origin scientist to hold the post, studied physics at Baroda and biology in the US before shifting to Britain where he shared the 2009 chemistry Nobel Prize for discovering the precise structure of ribosomes

19 Mar 2015

19 Mar 2015

The new fund is aimed at helping countries that are sued by the tobacco industry against restrictions

18 Mar 2015

The National Automotive Innovation Centre in Warwickshire, UK, is planned as the largest research facility of its kind in Europe

17 Mar 2015

16 Mar 2015

Ashu Suyash, CEO of L&T Investment Management, will take over from Crisil veteran Roopa Kudva

16 Mar 2015

Wipro on Monday announced the appointment of Tata Consultancy's BPO head Abid Ali Neemuchwala as group president and chief operating officer with effect from 1 April

16 Mar 2015

A book written by Apple CEO Tim Cook says he and his former boss shared a unique blood type, but Steve Jobs strongly declined to accept a part of his liver

14 Mar 2015

In a court hearing late on Friday night, Nasheed, the country's first democratically elected leader, was charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1990

14 Mar 2015

14 Mar 2015

In a climb-down, Sweden says its prosecutors could interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his Ecuador embassy refuge – but this will need the permission of both the UK and Ecuador governments

13 Mar 2015

13 Mar 2015