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Marrying idea with features
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The film concludes with a new prospective bride and groom meeting. The entire commercial is bound together by a voiceover that enlists the needs of an Indian wedding and a checklist box that gets ticked every time the Skoda Rapid enters the frame. The...
World Kitchen launches Indian subsidiary; Contract to handle all brands
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"We aim to continue to provide Indian consumers with products of the highest quality, such as Corelle. With the launch of World Kitchen's Indian subsidiary, we are in a very good place to do so," adds Ramchandran. Under the new subsidiary, World...
Lucknow 55, Tendulkar 3
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The tri-series cricket match between India and Australia was the talking point as voters and mediapersons alike were seen 'busy' discussing the probable impact on the polling in the city of nawabs. "Actually India Vs Australia ODIs interest many and...
UPDATE 1-Golf-Haas sinks monster putt to win play-off at Riviera
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Slideshow * Haas edges out Mickelson and Bradley in sudden-death * Holes 43-foot birdie putt to clinch victory (Adds detail, Bradley quotes) PACIFIC PALISADES, California, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Bill Haas clinched his fourth PGA Tour title by beating...
Italian killing of fishermen: it's about law, not diplomacy
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Lastly, what should have been a routine police investigation has given way to suggestions that India was soft-pedalling the issue under Italian pressure, which in turn has sought to be politicised given Sonia Gandhi's Italian ancestry. Some thunderous...
Report: Tibet monk self-immolates in China's west
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In response, security forces have further tightened controls and increased arrests. U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said last week that Chinese authorities had detained hundreds of Tibetans who recently returned from trips to India to attend teachings by...
eCommerce in India – Part 1
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And eCommerce sites are proliferating to meet this demand. Venture capital money is flowing in. Consumers are being papered with specials, offers and discounts. It is finally boom time for the second leg of the Internet in India (the first leg being...
Airline cuts flights in cashflow crisis
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Kingfisher Airlines, faced with mounting losses and starved of cash, yesterday said it had reduced operations but promised to return to full service within days. The airline, which is controlled by Whyte & Mackay-owner Vijay Mallya, has cancelled 32...
Dhoni banned for one match
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The International Cricket Council match referee, Andy Pycroft, ruled India were two overs short of their target when time allowances were taken into consideration. He banned Dhoni for a match and fined him 40 per cent of his match fee. Dhoni was also...
Of trade volume and infrastructure
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At present, the GDP growth rate of Bangladesh is around 5-6% while for India it is around 8-9%. Population pressure is severe in both the countries and utilizing human resources in gainful economic activities is the greatest challenge for the both. In...
Myanmarese seek entry into India for medical treatment
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Tamu and Namphalong occasionally visit hospitals in the border town of Moreh in Manipur's Chandel district during their permissible time to enter India. During the fourth Indo-Myanmar border liaison officers' meeting convened on Thursday at Moreh Trade...
NGO launches awareness drive on rights of disabled
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City-based NGO Sishu Sarothi organised a meeting on Sunday in collaboration with Rehabilitation council of India (RCI) with an aim to create awareness on the rights of persons with disability and to discuss if the disabled people are benefited by these...
Transport body wants exam postponed
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All India Road Transport Workers' Federation (AIRTWF) has appealed the state education department to change the date of the matric examination scheduled on February 28 in view of the all India strike called by trade unions irrespective of political...
Ireland signs trade agreements with China; There is no El Dorado on the horizon
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Irish exports to BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia. India and China from the original classification plus South Africa) are very low and are mainly made by the foreign-owned sector. Exports to these five countries only accounted for 2.3% of total exports...
Ideal trade partners
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That this observation does not amount to empty theorization is amply borne out by the alarm bells that were sounded in the hosiery goods sector of West Bengal in the not too distant past, when the Indian Finance Minister announced Bangladesh-India...
Singapore Stocks-Set for gains, OCBC in focus
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The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 0.23 percent to 1,361.23. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 0.27 percent to 2,951.78. ASIA-PACIFIC STOCK MARKETS: Japan S.Korea China Hong Kong Taiwan SE Asia Australia/NZ India OTHER MARKETS: Wall Street Gold...
GLOBAL MARKETS-Markets buoyed by China easing, Greece hopes
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Slideshow * Yen falls to 6-1/2-month low vs dollar, Aussie jumps TOKYO, Feb 20(Reuters) - Markets jumped on Monday as policy easing by China and prospects for Greece to clinch a second bailout fund buoyed investor appetite for riskier assets, sending...
Iran stops sales of crude oil to UK, France
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The latest announcement comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and Israel, fuelled by a longstanding dispute over Teheran's nuclear programme and rising speculation that Israel might launch pre-emptive strikes against Iranian facilities. Israeli...
A can-do question
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Roughly 37 percent of this waste is recycled, says Mao Da, a postdoctoral fellow at Beijing Normal University and an expert in solid waste management. The rest of the garbage is put in landfills, burned or composted. China is now the world's leading...
Club sandwich
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DJ Sarah Robertson, a former Playboy Bunny, rocked the party at The Saturday Club on Friday. On an eight-city tour of India as part of vodka brand White Mischiefs Mischief Nights, starting with Calcutta, Sarah chatted with t2 about the Playboy life,...

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