Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's proposed visit to the US in July to boost investment chances in the state now appears to be in limbo with his Samajwadi party taking a belligerent anti-US stand.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has cancelled a reception to be hosted in his honour by the New York Consul General Dnyaneshwar Mulay on Saturday, besides boycotting the Harvard lecture in protest against Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan's detention at Boston airport on Friday.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, now in the United States, on Friday boycotted the Harvard lecture he was due to deliver in protest against his minister Azam Khan's detention at the Boston airport.
Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan, who is accompanying Chief Minister Akhilesh Uadav for a HarvardUniversity event in the US, was detained briefly for questioning at BostonInternational Airport.
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While part-time women workers are ahead of part-time men by more than five per cent, among full-time workers in their 20s, wages for men are less than half a percentage point ahead of those for women.
Oprah Winfrey's cable network OWN is close to selling out advertising time at premium prices for the highly anticipated televised doping confession by former cycling champion Lance Armstrong, a senior network executive said.
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Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston's Logan International Airport allege that the "behaviour detection" programme has become a magnet for racial profiling, targeting not only Middle Easterners but also blacks, Hispanics and other minorities, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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The French carmaker wants to erase the Logan memory by opting for a premium play before going down the value chain.
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, the country's largest utility vehicle maker, will roll out a sub-four metre compact model of Verito, the rechristened Mahindra Logan, which is expected to attract only 10 per cent excise duty instead of the earlier 22 per cent. Also, it will have a lower price tag.
Renault is back in India on its own, and the Fluence sedan is its first offering.
A team at Pennsylvania State University in the US says the technology would simultaneously treat the water and the process could be used to provide clean water and power for homes in developing nations, the 'Science' journal reported.
Devinder Sivia, an Indian-origin Mathematics lecturer arrested in connection with the death of his colleague in Oxfordshire, was on Friday released on bail until April 18, the police said. The incident has shocked the academic community in Oxford. Sivia, 49, and victim Professor Steven Rawlings, 50, were described as close friends for decades who had even co-written a book. Rawling's body was found in Sivia's house in Southmoor, Oxfordshire.
A Melbourne-based Pakistani student was on Monday deported on security grounds after being questioned by Australian security intelligence officials over his suspect phone calls to Pakistan.
The Renault Nissan Alliance has said that its Oragadam greenfield facility near Chennai - its first in the world - will be a template for its upcoming Morocco facility, with a few changes only in the back-end engineering. The company is training 30 senior employees drawn from various verticals at its Oragadam plant.
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Mahindra & Mahindra today launched a limited edition of its Verito sedan called Verito Executive, priced in the range of Rs 5.95-7.09 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). The new variant, targeted at corporate professionals or businessmen, will be available in two colours--pearl white and walnut brown, the company said in a statement.
"We have hiked prices last week by 1.5 to 2 per cent on all our vehicles due to higher commodity costs," Mahindra and Mahindra President (Automotive and Farm Sectors) Pawan Goenka said.
The wife of an Oxford University professor found dead in Indian-origin colleague Devinder Sivia's house in Oxfordshire defended him, saying the death was 'not murder' and it must have been a 'tragic accident'.
The company's management and the union had entered into a long-term settlement in 2009 and the next wage revision for the workmen is due in February 2013.
Renault is also mulling a new small car, their sixth model in the country, to be introduced by 2013 or 2014.
Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan, who was briefly detained on Wednesday at a United States airport, on Sunday, accused External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid of hatching a "conspiracy" to defame him outside India.
It has emerged that CBS correspondent Lara Logan is recovering in hospital after she was sexually assaulted while covering Egyptian protests.
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The company had posted a net profit of Rs 413.70 crore (Rs 4.13 billion) in the corresponding period previous year, Mahindra & Mahindra said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
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The new diesel engine powered Nissan Micra will get the same motor that powers Mahindra Logan. The 1.5-litre DCI motor is capable of generating top power of 63bhp and 16.3kgm of max torque. The trims for the diesel version of the Micra will be XV and XV Premium.
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Having started with an economical Rs 999 per room, Ginger, into its eighth year, currently charges Rs 1,500-2,000 per room.
The 2010 Australian Grand Prix posted a A$49.2 million (US$46 million) loss, local media reported on Thursday, placing further pressure on the state government to justify the burden on taxpayers.
Former United States President Jimmy Carter arrived in Boston on Saturday with Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who spent seven months in a North Korean prison for illegally crossing into the Communist nation, but was released on the leader's request.Gomes, 31, was greeted by his family members, including his mother, at the Logan International Airport. "I am just joyful and grateful that my son is home," Gomes's mother Jacqueline McCarthy said.
French car maker Renault on Thursday said it is developing a car which will be designed to meet the requirements of the Indian market and is expected to be introduced after 2013.
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