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BoE confirms novelist Jane Austen to grace new £10 notes
25 Jul 2013
Besides a portrait of Jane Austen, the new banknote design will feature the famous quote from Pride and Prejudice: “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”
Delhi HC seeks CBI’s reply on bail pleas of accused in cash-for-post railway bribery case
19 Jul 2013
2G case: Court allows CBI to examine Anil and Tina Ambani
19 Jul 2013
Anil Ambani, who is facing trial in the case along with Swan promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka, is planning to move the Delhi High Court against the order
2G case: Court allows CBI to examine Anil and Tina Ambani
19 Jul 2013
Anil Ambani, who is facing trial in the case along with Swan promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka, is planning to move the Delhi High Court against the order
2G case: Court allows CBI to examine Anil and Tina Ambani
19 Jul 2013
Anil Ambani, who is facing trial in the case along with Swan promoters Shahid Usman Balwa and Vinod Goenka, is planning to move the Delhi High Court against the order
P Sathasivam takes oath as new Chief Justice of India
19 Jul 2013
Justice P Sathasivam was today sworn in by President Pranab Mukherjee as the 40th Chief Justice of India, taking over from Altamas Kabir, who retires today after serving as CJI for a little over nine months
Insider trading: Rajat Gupta fined another $14 mn; debarred
18 Jul 2013
Rajat Gupta, the disgraced former Goldman Sachs director accused of insider trading has been ordered by a US court to pay $13.9 million in civil penalties, and banned from serving as an officer or director of a public company
Hospitalised Mandela sees spate of tributes on 95th birthday
18 Jul 2013
Mandela's birthday is also Nelson Mandela International Day, a day declared by the UN as a way to recognise the Nobel Prize winner's contribution to reconciliation
Tata Sons appoints Dr Nirmalya Kumar as member, Group Executive Council
17 Jul 2013
Dr Nirmalya Kumar is one of the world's leading thinkers on strategy and marketing
42 years after liberation, Bangladesh covicts former Pakistani collaborator
15 Jul 2013
A 91-year-old former chief of an Islamic party in Bangladesh, Ghulam Azam, was awarded a 90-year jail term today for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war
Bose Corporation founder, Amar Gopal Bose passes away
13 Jul 2013
Indian-American engineer and inventor, Amar Bose, a former member of the MIT faculty and the founder of Bose Corporation, passed away on Thursday. He was 83
Bollywood bids adieu to its famous villain, Pran
13 Jul 2013
Pran, Bollywood’s famous and prolific villain, was cremated at the Shivaji Park electric crematorium in Mumbai today.
Education a must, Pak Taliban victim Malala Yousafzai tells UN
12 Jul 2013
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head at close range by Taliban gunmen in October in Pakistan's Swat Valley for campaigning against the Taliban's efforts to prevent women’s education
Former telecom secretary R Chandrashekhar to head Nasscom
05 Jul 2013
Chandrashekhar will take over after current president Som Mittal's tenure ends in January 2014
Railgate: CBI names Pawan Kumar Bansal as witness
04 Jul 2013
The CBI has filed charges against Bansal's nephew Vijay Singla and nine others for their involvement in the railway recruitment scam
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