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Oldest horned dinosaur in North America discovered
12 Dec 2014 6:45 AM ISTPaleontologists have identified the fossil of a horned dinosaur the size of a crow that is the oldest of its kind ever discovered in North...
In Lebanon, a garden blooms on former ‘trash mountain’
12 Dec 2014 6:44 AM ISTIn the summer, reeking fumes hung over the city, and fires broke out at the dump. Rubbish washed out to sea reaching Cyprus, 260 kilometres away in...
Fidel Castro wins China’s ‘Confucius Peace Prize’
12 Dec 2014 6:42 AM ISTCastro bested more than 20 nominees including South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and the Shanghai Cooperation...
JSPL starts India’s largest billet caster plant in Odisha
11 Dec 2014 5:51 AM ISTJindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) on Wednesday commissioned the country's largest billet caster plant at Angul in Odisha.The billet caster plant,...
Putin here today, Essar to ink deal to import Russian crude
11 Dec 2014 5:50 AM ISTEssar Oil's Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil producer, is among the agreements that are to be signed during...
Gas consumers can get 5-kg cylinders at subsidised rate
11 Dec 2014 5:46 AM ISTTill now, cooking gas (LPG) was available for domestic use in 14.2-kg cylinders. Consumers were entitled to 12 such bottles in a year at subsidised...
Nov car sales zoom 9.5% after two months of decline
10 Dec 2014 6:09 AM ISTDomestic car sales in November stood at 1,56,445 units, up 9.52 per cent, as compared to 1,42,849 units in the same month of 2013, according to the...
RIL forms textile JV with China’s $3-bn Shandong Ruyi Group
10 Dec 2014 6:08 AM ISTTo reposition its textile business and expand globally, Reliance Industries on Tuesday announced a joint venture with China's $3 billion Shandong...
UP to set up panel for single window nod to GAIL pipeline
10 Dec 2014 6:07 AM ISTThe setting up of the panel will give a "boost to the speedy implementation" of the pipeline that originate in Uttar Pradesh and ends in West Bengal,...
NTPC inks two term loans totaling Rs 3K cr to fund capex
10 Dec 2014 6:06 AM ISTState-owned power producer NTPC on Tuesday said it has signed term loan agreements for Rs 3,000 crore to part finance its capital expenditure.One pact...
China sentences 8 to death for attacks in Xinjiang
9 Dec 2014 7:19 AM ISTThe Urumqi Intermediate People’s Court in the capital of Xinjiang also handed out suspended death sentences to five others, China Central Television...
Restoring water to Male could take 10 days: Official
9 Dec 2014 7:18 AM ISTThe two-square-kilometre island has been without water for four days following a fire at the plant that supplies 120,000 city-dwellers, including...
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Governance of Integrated Child Development Services hasn't kept pace...
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2 Oct 2025 1:15 PM ISTVeteran socialist leader, freedom fighter Dr G G Parikh passes away at...
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