China to encourage private capital in banking

Source: Economic Times

BEIJING: China will give private capital the same entry standards to the banking industry as other capital, state media said on Sunday, as the government makes its hardest push in a decade to court private ...
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For first time, Team Anna attacks PM Manmohan Singh

Source: Economic Times

NEW DELHI: Targeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the first time, Team Anna on Saturday sought an investigation against him and 14 other Cabinet ministers, including finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, on charges of corruption , by a panel of r ...
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Shriram founder Thyagarajan bets on math for success, not B-school grads

Source: Economic Times

In the nearly four decades of shepherding the Shriram Group, R Thyagarajan, 75, has come to be recognised as an outlier. For long, he has been making a success of used-trucks financing targeted at truck drivers and cleaners, a custome ...
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Panel favours unified command for special forces

Source: Economic Times

NEW DELHI: India urgently needs a Special Operations Command (SOC), which brings together disparate special forces of the Army, Navy, IAF and other agencies under a unified command and control structure in o ...
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UK services firms most upbeat in a year: CBI

Source: Economic Times

LONDON: British services firms' confidence rose to the highest level in a year in May and they forecast a pick-up in business in the next three months, a survey showed on Sunday. The quarterly poll by the Confederation of Brit ...
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'JP Morgan replaces prime brokerage chief'

Source: Economic Times

CHICAGO: JPMorgan Chase & Co is replacing Lou Lebedin after keeping him for just two months as the New York bank's sole global prime brokerage chief, reports said, citing unnamed people familiar with the change. Lebedian, a 54-year old former Bear Stearn ...
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EADS head says helicopter cracks not comparable to A380 woes

Source: Economic Times

BERLIN: The head of European aerospace giant EADS said that cracks found in one of its most popular Eurocopter models were a minor glitch and not comparable to problems found on some superjumbo planes made by its subsidia ...
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Linux Mint 13 MATE/Cinnamon preview

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BackTrack 5 is a Linux distribution designed for penetration testers and other security professionals, or those who want to mess with all the best security and penetration testing applications the free software community has to offer. Back ...
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40% rise in Gir visitors

Source: Economic Times

AHMEDABAD: The king's darbar is getting bigger. The number of tourists visiting Gir has shot up by about 40% compared to last year. Barely 20 days are left for the sanctuary to close down for tourists and yet the numbers are on ...
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