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New Delhi, Aug. 30 (ANI): Senior Rashtriya Swayam Sewak (RSS) leader Madan Das Devi on Sunday said he was confident about the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) taking appropriate steps to resolve all of its problems, including the issue of the party succession plan.

Addressing a press conference in the capital this morning after between RSS chief [...]

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SAIL (Steel Authority of India Ltd.) invites application from young, energetic and result oriented persons for around 300 posts of Management Trainees (Technical).
Candidates having engineering degree :

in Production/Industrial Engg./Manufacturing can apply against Mechanical discipline
in Electronics & Communications can apply [...]

South Korea’s Incheon International Airport was voted the best in the world for 2009 in an annual survey dominated by Asian airports. The survey, by British-based consultancy Skytrax, covered more than 190 airports and is based on the results from 8.6 million passenger questionnaires completed from 2008 to 2009. ‘Incheon is an airport that has [...]

Santa Barbara (California, US), Apr.25 (ANI): Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has praised American democracy and thinks President Obama is realistic and open.

In an exclusive interview with FOX News during his five-city tour of the United States, the Dalai Lama said: “I think basically America is a champion [...]

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Comedy Central star Demetri Martin has been cast opposite Brad Pitt in “Moneyball,” a professional baseball drama that Steven Soderbergh is directing.
Steven Zaillian wrote the screenplay of the Columbia film, which adapts Michael Lewis’ nonfiction book about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who assembled a contending ball club despite [...]

Kolkata, March 30 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Shourie on Monday said that Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh should not hesitate from joining BJP leader L.K. Advani in a public debate.

The public would know the ability of the person who deserves [...]

Kathmandu, Feb 24 (PTI) Former Nepal King Gyanendra will leave for India tomorrow on a two-week long private visit, his first since he was dethroned, during which he is expected to meet the top leadership in that country. However, the visit has been kept at low profile and no official announcement has been made so [...]

New York – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that he and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper discussed efforts to secure the freedom of a Canadian diplomat kidnapped last December in Niger.
Robert Fowler, a high-ranking Canadian official and former ambassador to the United Nations, disappeared on December 14 with his foreign affairs aide, [...]

Damascus – Presidents, important US senators, senior officials from the Arab League – lately it seems everyone is courting Syria.
In recent months Damascus has been the centre of a flurry of international diplomatic activity.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited. So did a delegation of European Union officials and foreign ministers. Arab League chief Amr Mussa, [...]

Kareena Kapoor stormed the industry with her zero size figure in Tashan. Recently she launched her dietician Rujuta Diwekar’s book ‘Lose Your Weight Not Your Mind’ in Mumbai. Rujuta Diwekar is the person behind size zero Kareena.
Kareena praised her dietician for her balanced approach. She said: “I had not been to a dietician before I [...]

Pre-eclampsia cause high blood pressure and can lead to stroke, blood clotting and kidney, liver and lung problems in pregnant mothers. Sophie Ellis Bextor, 29-year-old singer and daughter of former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis once again suffered from this condition in her second pregnancy.
Sophie Ellis Bextor has given birth two months prematurely to her [...]

Islamabad – Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Monday announced a four-fold increase in the numbers of Pakistani government military officers to be trained in Australia.
Speaking at the beginning of a three-day visit to Pakistan, Smith said the decision would “raise the numbers to 40 to 50 officers.”
With around 1,100 Australian troops already stationed in [...]

Humans can have bad or good memories. Good memories give us happiness whereas bad memories can torture sometime. Recent study has shown that a drug, used for treating for high blood pressure can be used to remove bad memories.
Animal studies have already shown that fear memories can be altered at the time they are recalled [...]

Johannesburg – Leading Zimbabwean opposition figure Tendai Biti will become the country’s finance minister before the week is out, Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced Tuesday.
Biti, a lawyer by training and a vocal critic of President Robert Mugabe, will be sworn in as minister on Friday, along with some 30 other ministers [...]

Washington, Feb 9 (IANS) Biotech scientists have teamed up with curators to stem the decay of world’s art and cultural heritage, hastened by the depredations of climate change.
Many of the world’s cultural treasures are created out of organic materials like paper, canvas, wood and leather which, in prolonged warmth and dampness, attract mould, micro-organisms and [...]

Tokyo – Visiting Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday invited Japan to seek new investment opportunities in Thailand’s industrial and agricultural sectors now that the political situation in the country has returned to normalcy.
Calling Japan “the most important trade and investment partner and important origin of tourists for Thailand,” Abhisit said at a Tokyo [...]

New Delhi, Jan.28 (ANI): Prasar Bharati CEO B.S. Lalli and UNICEF India Representative Karin Hulshof have signed a broadcast agreement for Phase 2 of the Facts for Life entertainment-education drama serial, Kyunki…Jeena Issi Ka Naam Hai (Because… That’s What Life Is).
In an unprecedented partnership between India’s public broadcaster and UNICEF, the signing is a go [...]

Saying that it is yielding enough money, and it’s aimed to cut costs, Google Inc, on Tuesday, announced that it is ceasing its two-year-old service to sell newspaper advertising, and thus gave a big blow to its own efforts to extend its ad program beyond web.
On its blog on Tuesday, the company stated that on [...]

Indian equities opened the day sluggishly following negative global signals.
Among the prominent losers this morning, realty, banking, metal and oil & gas stocks topped the list with sharp losses.
Auto, power, PSU, information technology, telecom, pharma and FMCG stocks were also down.
Mirroring heavy selling action, all the sectoral indices were trading in the red zone with [...]

Hamburg – The idea is as simple as it is ingenious – people from all over the world come together in an online network to offer accommodation on their sofas to others. In return, they can spend time abroad on a couch anywhere around the globe.
Online communities that bring so-called couch surfers together such [...]