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NEW DELHI: The Army's elite special forces, along with sharpening their clandestine warfare skills, will now hone their linguistic skills as well. The Army is stepping up training of its Para and Para-SF battalions in "strategic foreign languages", with special emphasis being placed on "Chinese...

India has offered $150 million of credit for project exports to set up a SEZ in Myanmar and has expressed hope that the neighbouring country would permit Indian banks to set up branches there. The issues came up for discussion during the three-day visit of commerce and industry minister Anand...

PANJIM: Brushing aside reservations of patriarch L K Advani and some other senior leaders, the BJP on Sunday anointed Narendra Modi as chairman of its election campaign committee for the 2014 polls, a move considered just short of making him the prime ministerial candidate. "I want to give...

MUMBAI: Unknown to many, the world's largest magnet, weighing 50,000 tonnes and slated to be several times bigger than the one at the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN, Geneva, is being designed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). The massive magnet will play a major role in the...