The UN on Friday called on Bangladesh to initiate steps for preventing violence against writers and activists, including providing physical protection to potential targets, in the wake of the killing of a secular blogger in the country.
RBI staff tell Governor Urjit Patel that the central bank's image of efficiency and independence has 'gone into smithereens in no time.'
The farmers of Khentia are now working in tandem with the IIT team.
A team of the FBI of the US met detectives in Dhaka on Sunday and offered their technical expertise.
IIT Kharagpur set to be a one-stop-shop for all your parents' 'doctor-engineer' dreams! :-)
The naked body of a girl, who tried to save her father from being beaten by locals for failing to pay for a rented tractor at a village meeting and then refusing to follow a kangaroo court's order of licking spit, was found lying on railway tracks at Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district.
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Twenty-six entities, including the Tatas, Aditya Birla Group, Anil Ambani-led Reliance Capital and Religare, apart from India Post, applied. Videocon Group, later on withdrew its application.
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The CBI has recently filed a chargesheet in a court in Kolkata.
Analysts expect modest recovery in Indian economy.
The 40-year-old blogger was attacked by four suspected Al Qaeda linked Islamists at their apartment
'It is like bombing a building with 200 people to kill 5 terrorists.'
Rickshaw pullers and construction workers are the worst hit.
India's industrial output unexpectedly contracted 4.2 percent year-on-year in October, dragged down by a fall in the manufacturing and the capital goods sector, government data showed on Friday.
Nazimuddin Samad, a masters student of the state-run Jagannath University's law department, was killed by suspected Islamist militants in Old Dhaka's Sutrapur area on Wednesday night.
'Some family members are from north India, some from the southern land and some from West Bengal.'
Minacs will be integrated it into SYNNEX's BPO business, Concentrix.
Refuting allegations of brutal lathi charge on Jadavpur university students, Kolkata police commissioner Surajit Kar Purakayastha on Thursday said the situation could have turned worse had the police not intervened as there were reports of armed miscreants entering the campus.
A referee judge of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday extended a stay on execution of an order of filing FIR against Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal for his alleged insensitive comments against women.
A Calcutta High Court bench on Wednesday gave a split verdict on the appeals against a single bench order directing filing of FIR and a CID probe into Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal's 'shoot and rape' comments.
'Just last month alone, 28 Indians have been killed in lynchings'
K C Chakrabarty, former deputy governor, RBI, talks to Anup Roy on issues in the new bankruptcy law and rules.
On Aug 28-31, an average of 1.5 mn e-filed tax returns a day, against IRCTC's daily average bookings of 600,000 & Flipkart's 100,000.
'If lynchings are happening frequently in India, it is the responsibility of those who lead the country to try and end them, not promote them,' says Aakar Patel.
'I feel bad for our audience that they see films like Race 3.' 'But audiences are getting mature.' 'In spite of a big film release a week before, people have showed interest in Pihu.' 'That is a huge achievement.'
Head of state-run Indian Bank T M Bhasin had called for a CRR cut.
What was the RBI doing, what was the PNB top management doing, what were the auditors doing, asks Debashis Basu.
The Trinamool Congress won 211 seats.
Delhi Dynamos finally broke their winless streak at home as they struck twice early into the second half to notch up a comfortable 2-0 win over Kerala Blasters to move to the top of the standings in the Indian Super League (ISL) in New Delhi on Friday. After a fruitless first half, Kean Francis Lewis struck the opener in the 56th minute off a Richard Gadze assist, while Marcelinho doubled the lead when he found the back of the net off marquee signing Florent Malouda's pass in the 60th minute. This was Brazilian striker Marcelinho's fifth goal in the third edition of the league, and he now tops the scoring chart with NorthEast United FC's Uruguayan forward Emiliano Alfaro.
Two more members of the banned Ansarullah Bangla Team militant group have been arrested in connection with the hacking to death of a fourth secular blogger in Dhaka last week that sparked global outrage.
Jaishankar, who along with the Commerce Secretary Rita Teotia, held a series of meetings with top officials of the Trump's administration and Congressional leaders, said the tragic incident in Kansas featured in many of their discussions.
Bringing the curtains down on the four-month-long unrest at Jadavpur University, Vice-Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti on Monday agreed to step down from the post following the intervention of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
While Calcutta has transitioned to Kolkata, Satyajit Ray's detective, Feluda, has remained unchanged in the Bengali consciousness
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Hitting out at the intellectuals attacking the Centre over "the climate of intolerance", they said a section of nation's intelligentsia was dismayed by Narendra Modi's victory in the Lok Sabha polls and "failure in the elections is now sought to be avenged by other means".
In spite of the high decibel financial inclusion drive being carried out for the past three years, a Crisil study has revealed stark disparities in the spread of banking services, saying the top six cities are home to an astonishing 11 per cent of bank branches.
Raghuram Rajan has appointed him as head of several committees soon after taking charge.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
His finest years came when he served as deputy governor under C Rangarajan.
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