India's current account deficit hits record high

An Indian shopkeeper arranges gold bangles in a Delhi store India has pledged to do whatever necessary to tackle its current-account deficit, after heavy oil and gold imports combined with muted exports to drive the gap to a record high. In a worse-than-expected reading that will keep the rupee currency under pressure, the deficit hit $32.6bn (£21.5bn) in the final three months of 2012, compared with $22.3bn in the September quarter. For April-December,...

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Top 6 budget tabs with big screens

We always want more - more wealth, more fame, more power, more friends, more bandwidth and more screen area. Okay, the last two were my additions, but any self-respecting gadget lover will nod in agreement. And, as Indians, we know how to extract the maximum from every rupee we spend. No wonder then that we want tablets with the performance and form factor of Apple's iPad, but at practically a third of its price...

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Mumbai airport's stunningTerminal 2

The swanky Terminal 2 at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai is all set to open in September this year. With a vision of making the airport one of the best in the world, the Terminal 2, or T2 has been built with a state-of-the-art four-level terminal with an area of over 4,39,000 sq. mts...

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Godrej ropes in Aamir Khan to increase visibility

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan will lend his name and star power to a new set of commercials for the Godrej Group that will break around the launch during the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League  next week. The Mumbai-headquartered group is back as a television sponsor of the cricket tournament after a year’s gap...

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Successful Kumbh Earns Akhilesh a Harvard Invite

Lucknow: The successful hosting of Maha Kumbh 2013 has earned Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav an invite from Harvard University to speak on how the 55-day religious congregation, which attracted tens of millions of people from India and around the world, went off like clockwork and was praised its organization worldwide. Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan, who has also been invited for the April 25 event, said it was...

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“HCL Technologies Pool Campus Drive"

Education :  B.E / BTech/ MCA Experience : Freshers Location : Panipat (Haryana), Pan India APIIT SD INDIA, PANIPAT “HCL Technologies Pool Campus Drive” HCL Pool Campus Drive on 29th March 2013 at APIIT SD INDIA Pool Campus Drive by HCL Technologies will be held at APIIT SD INDIA Panipat on 29th March 2013 (Friday). The details of the Company and Campus Drive are given below. About the Company : HCL Technologies...

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India job market to improve this year

Jobs in India will be back by the end of this year as most global enterprises are likely to resume their expansion activities , after having put them on hold for over a couple of years now , said Pamela Berklich, senior vice president , Kelly Services , a global recruitment process outsourcing services firm. "India , China and Latin America are high-growth geographies and therefore no global corporate can afford to put their expansion and...

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N Sathyanarayanan's startup Central Parking Services making millions through car parking solutions

At social gatherings when people ask N Sathyanarayanan, an engineer from Bharathiar University in Coimbatore, what he does for a living, he tells them he is a "parking guy". "Most people in India associate the parking business with ruffians," says the 42-year-old, whose company, N Sathyanarayanan's startup Central Parking Services making millions through car parking solutions, provides parking facilities for cars and two wheelers in India's...

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McAfee recruiting Software Engineers Freshers

Position: Software Engineer Job Location: Bangalore Note: Locations are subject to change. Event date: 27 Mar 2013 Last date: 24 Mar 2013 Salary Offered: Rs.525000/- Experience Required: Fresher Additional Details: About McAfee: Leading-edge technology; fast-paced opportunity; passion, belief and commitment that drive change and create positive IT solutions for a safer world – that’s McAfee...

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How will our future cities look?

 Will we use flying cars to avoid the rush-hour in the cities of the future? Imagine a city of the future. Do you see clean streets, flying cars and robots doing all the work? Or perhaps your vision is more dystopian, with a Big Brother-style authoritarian regime, dark alleys full of crime, and people forced to live in hermetically sealed pods because war or some other disaster has rendered whole swathes of the city unliveable. No-one...

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Keeping a tab on technology

The other day we were talking about tablets when a colleague pointed out that he preferred the iPad Mini to the iPad, because he could hold it in one hand, a big advantage if one likes to read on the go. While the iPad Mini stays at the pinnacle of one's aspirations, here are a few sub-Rs 10,000 tablets worth checking out in a similar form factor HCL Me U2 Anyone who has used a tab from HCL before will love the U2 for one simple reason....

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Google to shut down Reader web feed application

Google Inc is to retire Google Reader in July, it said on Thursday, citing declining usage for the application that aggregates content served by web feeds. "There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we are pouring all of our energy into fewer products," Google said in its official blog. The Reader application was launched in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep...

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In a world first, Japan extracts 'fire ice' gas from seabed

TOKYO: Japan said on Tuesday it had successfully extracted methane hydrate, known as " fire ice", from its seabed, possibly unlocking many years' worth of gas for the resource-starved country. In what they are claiming as a world first, a consortium is drilling for the hydrate, a fossil fuel that looks like ice but consists of very densely-packed methane surrounded by water molecules, one kilometre (3,300 feet) below sea level. The solid...

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Earth on track to be hottest in 11.3 millennia: Study

The Earth-facing surface of the Sun is pictured in this NASA handout photo taken February 28, 2013 by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. WASHINGTON: The Earth is on track to becoming the hottest it has been at any time in the past 11.3 millennia, a period spanning the history of human civilization, a study published on Thursday has found. Based on fossil samples and other data collected from 73...

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Future of transport: journey of a lifetime

What is the future of travel? From driverless cars to ‘lilypad cities’, Vision considers how we will get from A to B and beyond in the decades to come  Within the next 20 years, transport systems will need to accommodate rapid population growth throughout the world. The population in Asia and Africa alone is set to triple, which will put pressure on the world’s oil reserves, 85 million barrels of which we consume every day. But thanks...

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Internet scam: Beware of personalised mails from fraudsters

BANGALORE: Cyber fraudsters now land up in your inbox as advocates, police officials and friends through emails laced with links to malicious software that can steal your credit cards and bank accounts details. One of the most successful on-going email scams is the job offer letter claiming to be from the office of the Vasant Kunj, Delhi-based human resources executive at carmaker Maruti Udyog announcing selection to the final round interview....

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Mphasis recruiting Technical Support Associate

Company : Mphasis an HP CompanyWebsite : www.mphasis.comEducation : Any GraduateExperience : 0 – 5 YearsLocation : PuneAbout us:It’s about what excites you most..The passion for innovation?The thrill of measuring up to the big challenge?The fascination for an upbeat career growth?Here is the opportunityMphasiS is an HP company that drives talent in creating a global footprint. Talent, passion and the will to excel is the winning combination...

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) - Scientist/Engineer

  Post Name: Scientists/Engineers Organization: State Govt. Qualification:  Last Date of submission of Application Form: March 14, 2013 Annual Recruitment of Scientists/Engineers SC with BE/B.Tech. OR Equivalent...

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Apple’s ‘iWatch’ to reportedly launch this year

Apple (AAPL) plans to debut its much rumored smartwatch later this year, according to a new report. Bloomberg on Monday issued a claim that the so-called “iWatch” could pose a larger revenue opportunity than the HDTV Apple has supposedly been working on for years. The report suggests that Apple hopes to launch the device later this year and is considering a variety of functionality such as voice calling, mapping features and the ability to...

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Budget 2013: Proposal to give Rs 10,000 to each youth for skill training may make 150 million youths job-ready

MUMBAI:   Despite its apparent packaging as a pre-poll carrot and legitimate concerns over it becoming a new fount of corruption, the Budget proposal to give Rs 10,000 to every person availing a certain standard of job readiness through government-registered entities also tacitly addresses critical shortcomings plaguing the skilling ecosystem, say subject and industry experts. "It (the Rs 10,000 incentive) could be a game-changer for skill...

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IT industry to focus on mobile tech, big data, cloud computing

BANGALORE:      The IT industry will focus on internet and mobile technology, big data and cloud computing technologies for speedy growth in order to achieve USD 300 billion revenue by 2020, Nasscom today said. "The IT industry has a vision and aspiration to aggregate USD 300 billion revenue by 2020 by focussing on IT products, Internet and mobile technology, big data, cloud computing and 3G/4G technologies, for speedy growth,"...

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Syntel is looking out for Java/J2EE professionals

Company : Syntel Limited Website : www.syntelinc.com Education : Any Graduate /PG Experience : 3 – 6 Years Location : Chennai Syntel (Nasdaq: SYNT) is a leading global provider of integrated information technology and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) solutions spanning the entire lifecycle of business and information systems and processes. Founded in 1980, Syntel leverages dedicated centers of excellence, a flexible global delivery model,...

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