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London: A 7-foot-long, fossilised skeleton of an extinct carnivorous marine reptile has been discovered in the UK. Jonathan Bow, an amateur fossil hunter unearthed the ichthyosaur on a beach in south Wales. "Something this large and…
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New Delhi: The fifth National Science Film Festival and Competition will be held in Lucknow in February next year, the Department of Science and Technology said today. The festival, scheduled from February 4 to 8, would screen movies based…
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New Delhi: The least glamorous among all raw materials, coal has turned out to be a pricey affair for the government and corporates alike -- undermining investments totalling lakhs of crores of rupees during 2014 and it will require a lot…
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Melbourne:  Australia-India ties gained significant momentum in 2014 as it saw reciprocal visits by the Prime Ministers in the same year for the first time during which multiple agreements, most importantly a nuclear deal and a landmark…
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Chandigarh:  The winter session of Punjab assembly, commencing here tomorrow, is set to be fiery with main opposition Congress prepared to take on ruling SAD-BJP combine on several issues, including drug abuse, in the state. The assembly…
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New Delhi: India by 2017 will have five or six top-class railway stations on the pattern of monumental Grand Central Terminal, New York, or famed Gare d'Austerlitz terminus in Paris, a top Railway Board official has said. "We should be…
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Hyderabad:  Days after Satyam founder B Ramalinga Raju was convicted in SFIO cases, a special court here is expected to pronounce its verdict on Tuesday in the multi-crore accounting fraud in the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited…
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Chennai:  As India celebrated its success in testing an unmanned space crew module on Thursday, over 1.7 lakh Indians had another reason to be happy as a similar NASA spacecraft carrying a microchip containing their names was brought back…
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New Delhi: Special Secretary in Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the country's external intelligence gathering agency, Rajinder Khanna was today appointed as its new chief. In another appointment by the government, Special Secretary…
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New Delhi: At a time when India is trying to ramp up its uranium export, its own domestic production of the yellow cake has declined by 10-15 per cent after operations in the country's oldest and richest uranium mine in Jaduguda in…
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