"It has been decided to print banknotes based on plastic or polymer substrate. The process of procurement has been initiated," Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal said in a written reply in Lok Sabha to a query whether Reserve Bank of India proposes to print plastic currency notes in place of paper ones.
'Tamil Nadu's youth bulge will soon be 70 per cent of the population, many of them smartphone-toting millennials looking for gains more tangible than what screen gods can give,' says Sunil Sethi.
8-year-old yoga champion named British Indian of the Year.
Jnanpith awardee Girish Karnad on Tuesday said 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan would have enjoyed the same status as of Maratha king Chhatrapathi Shivaji, if he was a Hindu and not a Muslim.
Militant group Al-Badr has claimed responsibility for the twin suicide attack that rocked Samba sector in Jammu region on Thursday.
The operating income of the bank fell by 5.17 per cent to Rs 25,612 crore during April-June quarter of 2017-18
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Veteran Congress leader and seven-time Member of Parliament Jaffer Sharrief has ended his over six-decade-long association with the party.
The Special Investigation Team probing the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan has arrested one more person of the seven member gang that allegedly hacked him to death.
British banking major HSBC on Thursday announced a consolidation exercise under which it will almost halve the number of branches in the country to 26, which will lead to 300 job losses.
The Kolkata Knight Riders have named Jacques Kallis as their head coach, succeeding the now England coach Trevor Bayliss who was with the IPL franchise for four years.
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After taking over as captain of Kolkata Knight Riders for the upcoming 11th edition of the Indian Premier League, wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik said he would like to emulate current India skipper Virat Kohli and lead from the front.
Of the thousands of railway bridges in India, 36,470 are more than 100 years old, and 6,680 are more than 140 years old! But of these, only 21 rank on the Heritage Directorate of the Indian Railways because for them heritage isn't necessarily a function of age, says Bibek Debroy.
Manpreet Juneja's resolute knocks went in vain as India A succumbed to a humiliating 162-run defeat against the West Indies A in the first unofficial Test, giving away a 1-0 lead to the visitors in the three-match series in Mysore.
At 12:25 PM, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 358 points or 1.3% at 26,368.
Rajnish Kumar was on Wednesday appointed the new chairman of the largest public sector bank, State Bank of India (SBI), replacing Arundhati Bhattacharya who completes her one-year extended term on Friday.
Promising all-rounder Parveez Rasool took five wickets, but West Indies 'A' hit back after being dismissed for 429 in the first unofficial Test at the Gangothri Glades Cricket Ground in Mysore, on Thursday. At stumps on the second day, India 'A' were in a spot of bother at 124 for three, with skipper Cheteshwar Pujara back in the pavilion.
Pune FC has signed experienced India defender NS Manju until the end of the ongoing 2011-12 season as on-loan player.
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Despite being cheaper, the Chinese technology is not the preferred option.
India batsman Gautam Gambhir was on Monday named captain of Kolkata Knight Riders team for the Indian Premier League season four starting next month.
The cities for which the CTTP is being framed are Mysore, Mangalore, Belgaum, Hubli- Dharwad, Bellary and Gulbarga, which are administered by municipal corporations. The plans are being drafted on the directions of the Directorate for Urban Land Transport. According to a recent study, urbanisation is going on at a fast pace. The urban population has risen 30 per cent.
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The Congress must learn its lessons from the Gujarat elections and ensure that the anti-BJP votes don't get splintered by aligning with the JD-S, says Shafeeq Rahman.
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SpiceJet will begin regional operations from Tier-2 and 3 cities like Vijayawada, Tirupati, Mysore, Mangalore, Madurai, Nagpur and Indore using the Bombardier Q400 Next Gen turboprop aircraft.
Navratri celebrations in Chennai are not only about Golu dolls, Saraswathi Puja or Ayudha Puja. These days, Durga Puja and Dandiya Raas too are regular events in the city, reports S Saraswathi.
The finishing school of Raman International Institute of Information Technology, claimed to be the first such in the country, will select its second batch of candidates from across the country. The first batch got an encouraging response with 800 students applying to the finishing school, established on a 2.5-acre plot allotted by the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board in the Hebbal Industrial Area, Mysore.
President A P J Abdul Kalam underscored the need to attain self-reliance in the infrastructural software sector with knowledge products, where the domain applications can be developed and deployed for services sector.
'The BJP is trying to bribe or unleash the income tax authorities (on us).'
Gopinath's research is in the area of international macroeconomics.
After diversifying from agarbathies to its allied branches like fragrances, personal care products and natural and essential oils, the Mysore-based N R Group is now targeting customers through retail outlets in the country and abroad. Ripple Fragrances Pvt Ltd now sells room freshners like Lia Chandanam and Lia Lavender through 20,000-odd retail outlets and car freshners in 6,000 outlets. Ripple has also launched its concept 'Brand Signature Fragrance' under the IRIS brand.
In a historic day for the Indian cricket, former Test captain Anil Kumble was on Sunday elected as president of the Karnataka State Cricket Association and the group led by him won 23 out of the 24 posts that went to the polls in Bangalore on Sunday.
Krishna, during an interaction with a group of journalists, noted that like in the case of Jammu and Kashmir, the maharaja of Mysore had also signed an accession treaty "and I am a citizen of Mysore"
BPO, which is growing at 12 per cent annually in the country, is expected to touch $50 billion by 2020 from the present $21 billion.
Playback singer Vijay Prakash talks about a meeting with A R Rahman that gave him the two most popular songs of his career.
The court ruled that an interim debt order in favour of SBI and other banks seeking access to funds in the Mallya's ICICI UK bank account "should remain in force" but the application to make it final should be adjourned until after the hearing of his pending bankruptcy petition.
The office of the prime minister has lost its value and that is regrettable, said senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former deputy prime minister L K Advani at a rally at Mysore on Saturday, reports Vicky Nanjappa
There is a lot riding for both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress in Karnataka and both these parties should have their final list of candidates out by March 9. The BJP has almost finalised its list and party sources claim that it would not have taken this much time, but there was a great deal of confusion where the Bangalore North, Chickmagalur and Mysore seats were concerned. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Go beyond the curriculum. Talk to experts. Build your network, says Dr NV Raghavendra.
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