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29 Feb 2012

Naik, who has previously served on the board of IIM for seven years, will take over from Raymond’s chairman emeritus Vijaypat Singhania, whose five-year term ends on 28 March

29 Feb 2012

Naik, who has previously served on the board of IIM for seven years, will take over from Raymond’s chairman emeritus Vijaypat Singhania, whose five-year term ends on 28 March

27 Feb 2012

Madhavan Nair, the architect of India’s successful Chandrayan-II moon mission, has been claiming from the start that he and his colleagues were blacklisted without proper explanation by the department of space in order to cover its own mistakes

27 Feb 2012

Australian prime minister Julia Gillard defeated predecessor Kevin Rudd in a leadership ballot, giving her an opportunity to unite the ruling Labor party and brighten its poll prospects ahead of the 2013 elections

25 Feb 2012

25 Feb 2012

25 Feb 2012

The strident criticism of Bernanke is now gradually giving way to a grudging acknowledgment of the Fed’s achievements under him. History will likely judge that while Bernanke failed to anticipate and prevent the 2008 global financial crisis, the Fed under his leadership did help save the world from another depression. By Shivshanker Verma

25 Feb 2012

Prof Roddam Narasimha, the first and the longest-serving member of the Space Commission, has quit  in protest against the treatment meted out to top ISRO scientists

24 Feb 2012

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21 Feb 2012

The managing director of Japan’s scam-hit camera major Olympus has been found dead outside his luxury home in Gurgaon near New Delhi this morning

17 Feb 2012

Amidst growing scrutiny of his financial affairs, including vacations at the homes of business people, prosecutors in Lower Saxony have now sought parliament’s nod to prosecute German President Christian Wulff

16 Feb 2012

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13 Feb 2012

If convicted, Pakistan’s longest-serving prime minister after four years in power, Yousuf Raza Gilani, could be stripped of his office and jailed, triggering renewed political turmoil

11 Feb 2012

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10 Feb 2012

The Army chief will not appeal the apex court order that he should abide by the records of his birth date provided when he joined the armed forces

10 Feb 2012

As the Supreme Court prepares to resume hearing Army chief Gen Vijay Kumar Singh’s petition over the issue of his age, the government today withdrew its order issued on 30 December 2011 rejecting Gen Singh's statutory complaint on the issue

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