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Archive for May, 2018

Counting underway for 14 bypolls: All highlights

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:50

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For Neymar, first it was a beach, then the world

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:48

Twenty years ago, a coach named Betinho was watching a game of beach football when he spotted a skinny boy of six sprinting up and down the terracing, faster than he'd ever seen someone of that age. It was Neymar.

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Wipro Infra sets up industrial automation unit in India

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:45

BENGALURU: Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (WIN), a part of Wipro, has set up an industrial automation unit to gain a large pie of the near $400 million manufacturing automation market for IT service players in India.The overall Indian industrial automation market is $2 billion and out of that opportunity for system ...

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No lasting impact of Sterlite plant closure: Industrialists

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:43

CHENNAI: Industrialists in Tamil Nadu, one of the country's top manufacturing destinations, believe the permanent closure of the Vedanta-Sterlite copper plant will not dent the state's image as an investment destination but the circumstances of the shuttering should lead the government to evolve ways to monitor polluting industries and probe ...

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Drop T20Is, market Test cricket smartly: Graeme Smith

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:31

While many pundits and former cricketers ruminate on the future of Test cricket South African icon Graeme Smith has a suggestion for the ICC: shelve Twenty20 internationals and put more efforts into boosting interest in the five-day format.

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Woods confident of winning touch ahead of Memorial

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:30

Tiger Woods heads into Thursday's Jack Nicklaus-hosted Memorial Tournament confident he still has what it takes to clinch victory.

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Sidharth’s ‘Kirik Party’ remake in trouble?

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:16

Sidharth Malhotra is currently on a roll with his kitty full of his upcoming movies like 'Shotgun Shaadi', 'Yeh Dil Maange More' and a film - a remake of the Kannada hit, 'Kirik Party'. However, according to latest reports, all is not well with the ...

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Mid-tier IT firms like Mindtree, Zensar, Hexaware turn to freshers again

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:15

BENGALURU|PUNE: Mid-tier IT companies like Mindtree, Zensar, Hexaware amongst others are looking to hire about 500-1,000 freshers in the upcoming recruitment drive for FY19.“Hiring at the fresher level is picking up quite aggressively, but not at the volumes and numbers of earlier days. Currently, hiring is back at 60-70% of ...

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Do you speak Yorkshire? Zverev stumped by reporter’s accent

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:07

German second seed Alexander Zverev came back from two sets to one down to reach the French Open third round on Wednesday -- only to be defeated by a broad Yorkshire accent.

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Dhoni the yardstick as fitness tests await Team India players

Thursday, May 31, 2018 4:05

Close to 14 years after he first arrived on the international scene, former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni continues to be the benchmark for top Team India cricketers where fitness is concerned.

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