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The awards were received by Municipal Commissioner S Aparna and mayor Ranjit Gilitwala from prime minister Manmohan Singh. City, Improvement of Financial Management, Inclusive Pro-Poor Project Implementation and Seven Points Charter of Government of India.

As a first step, the practice of having printed replies to questions posed to ministers may be scrapped. Rajya Sabha deputy chairman K Rahman Khan said the tradition of having printed copies of parliamentary questions may be replaced with them...

Rs 100 crore in the last three years by launching satellites of other countries, Minister of State in PMO Prithviraj Chavan told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The space agency launched 12 foreign satellites during the last three years, including...

But nothing specific has emerged on the reserve price of 2G spectrum, sources said. On the third and final day of the Trai open house, the focus was on realising the economic value of the scarce resource -- spectrum --...

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Pervasive Software, a Texas-based company engaged in providing embeddable data management and data integration software, has chosen Tiara Consulting, a California-based firm providing value-added specialised and IT consulting services, as its international market development partner (MDP)...

And zoo officials seem not too unhappy about the move, for some of the elephants have in the past shown violent tendencies and their upkeep is expensive. November 7, 2009 sent to the Chief Wildlife Wardens of all States requires...