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AIIMS hiring on hold
The Prime Minister’s Office has ordered a freeze on hiring 91 reserved category faculty at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences despite a government panel mandating the recruitment drive. ...  | Read.. 
 
Nawaz nettles Pak in positioning play
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today raised a lone voice against the tactics adopted by Islamabad to deny Mumbai attacker Mohammed Ajmal’s Pakistani nationality, ...  | Read.. 
 
Help on old home loans
HDFC, the country’s largest housing finance company, today slashed its retail prime lending rate by half a percentage point, which will reduce the repayment burden o ...  | Read.. 
 
Respectable? Spend less time in jail
Delhi High Court today halved the two-year jail terms of the owners of Uphaar cinema, where 59 people burnt to death in 1997, citing their “advanced age”, social s ...  | Read.. 
 
Koda name in berth race
With Bihar Governor R.L. Bhatia putting his seal on chief minister Shibu Soren’s recommendation to drop Anosh Ekka and Harinarayan Rai from the state cabinet, specul ...  | Read.. 
 
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen greets economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia, the wife of Planning Commission deputy chairperson Montek Singh Ahluwalia, during ...  | Read
 
 
People should not come to court if this is the type of justice one gets
Neelam Krishnamurthy
who lost two children in the Uphaar fire
Oops! Pak beauty ‘condones’ blasts
Pakistanis are poking fun at their own beauty queen who has told CNN she “condones” ...  | Read..
Dino daddies hands-on
Paternal care of the young observed in 90 per cent of the world’s known species of birds i ...  | Read..
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