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Vodafone India Unveils Zero Downpayment for iPhone 6 Vodafone India on Thursday launched tariff plans wherein customers can get calls, SMSes and 3G data bundled with an iPhone starting at Rs. 2,099 per month. Its subscribers can also buy an iPhone 6 with no downpayment. The company said it is offering tariff plans on EMIs, for a period of 24 ...

We came to US to become Americans: Bobby Jindal Asserting that he didn’t believe in hyphenated identities, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said that his parents came to the US from India four decades ago to become Americans and not Indian-Americans. He invoked his ethnic heritage to make a call for immigrant assimilation and called people who talked about skin pigmentation ...

Raghuram Rajan sets the stage for more cuts RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has kicked off the rate cut cycle in the New Year and provided the much needed boost to growth. Rajan makes it amply clear that he would prefer to assess the government’s commitment to fiscal consolidation in the 2015-16 Budget before moving on interest rates again perhaps in ...

Kiran Bedi joined Bharatiya Janata Party Former Team Anna member Kiran Bedi on Thursday joined BJP and will contest the February 7 Delhi Assembly polls, a move seen as the party’s effort to contain Aam Aadmi Party in the national capital. The 65-year old former IPS officer was inducted into the party fold in the presence of BJP President Amit ...

RBI cuts interest rates The Reserve Bank of India cut interest rates on Thursday by 25 basis points to 7.75 percent in a surprise inter-meeting cut, yielding to growing signs of slowing inflation and a flagging recovery. The wholesale price index for December, released on Wednesday, rose just 0.11 percent year-on-year compared with a 0.6 percent jump forecast by economists ...

Telangana has created a record of sorts with half of the districts in the state, including Hyderabad, being headed by women collectors. After failing to induct a woman in his 18-member Cabinet, Chief Minister Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao has appointed quite a few women as collectors in his maiden administrative revamping exercise. In the latest postings of 24 IAS officials ...

The Telangana government on Monday rectified the lapses of the anti-graft toll free number (040-23454071) to enable people to lodge corruption-related complaints against officials. The toll free number that was catering to Arogyasri-related complaints, from Monday also started receiving corruption-related complaints. Arogyasri complaints are also being received on the same number. The number announced by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao ...

Pakistan on Tuesday hanged seven convicted militants, officials said, raising to 16 the number of executions carried out since it lifted a six-year moratorium on the death penalty in December. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted the moratorium in the aftermath of a brutal Taliban assault on a school in Peshawar that left 150 dead, including 134 children. The executions, which ...

President Obama’s trip a ‘landmark’ visit for India, US: MEA The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) stated that the upcoming trip by US President Barack Obama to India is a ‘landmark’ visit for both New Delhi and Washington DC. “The Government of India is looking forward to the visit of President Obama with great enthusiasm. Yesterday when Secretary of State ...

Construction of a new capital city of Andhra Pradesh on the southern side of river Krishna near Vijayawada is set to begin in June after International Enterprise Singapore (IES) submits a draft master plan, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said here tonight. Singapore government arm IES, with which the AP government signed a memorandum of understanding to prepare ...