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Inspiring Innovation: How To Motivate Creative Marketing Teams

Tips from executives on how to inspire creativity in the workplace




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Falling oil prices pose a challenge for Airbus, Boeing

Sharply falling oil prices are a boon to airlines, saving billions of dollars in monthly fuel bills...




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Telecom giant BT to buy UK’s wireless carrier EE for $19 bn

To issue $1.5 bn in new shares to help finance deal




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News Corp likely to rehire Rebekah Brooks

Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings in Britain, acquitted last year on charges related to the phone hacking...




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Etihad Airways’ rapid ascent frustrates rivals

Emerging from the desert like a giant steel squid, Abu Dhabi’s new airport terminal is starting to take shape.




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Romance in the air

The Courchevel cable car is the latest addition to Airbnb’s ‘A Night At’ series, offering overnight accommodation in money-can’t-buy venues around the world




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Air India arm Alliance Air to induct 8 ATR-72 planes for big low-cost RCS push

Alliance Air, which is the low cost regional subsidiary of Air India, will launch three new routes under the government's regional connectivity scheme by the end of September and will induct eight ATR – 72 aircraft by the end of FY18 to further consolidate and expand its operations.




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Serious charges: Air Asia board says former CEO to blame

The board of directors of AirAsia Group (AAGB) on Tuesday rebutted all allegations levelled against the airline’s top brass including group CEO Tony Fernandes, deputy group CEO Bo Lingam and also AAGB and AirAsia India.




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US citizenship question goes on trial in the next US census to be held for the first time in 70 years

The trial, starting the day before a momentous midterm election, could help rewrite the nation’s political map for a decade.




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Indian-American Neomi Rao to replace Kavanaugh on DC Circuit

Prominent Indian-American lawyer Neomi Rao has been nominated by US President Donald Trump to fill Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s seat on the powerful DC Circuit Court of Appeals.




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Facebook investors want Mark Zuckerberg to step down as firm’s chairman

Facebook used a Republican public relations firm to help repair its battered reputation following criticism of social media.




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Deutsche Bank raid pulls CEO deeper into vicious dircle

Deutsche Bank chief executive officer Christian Sewing was there to give the annual pep talk to his top executives.




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To infinity and beyond! China wants to build the first power station in space

China’s space ambitions are shifting into a higher orbit.




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US First Lady Melania Trump: Growing ease on official role, but not politics

As President Donald Trump shows his eagerness for the coming 2020 re-election battle, the first lady's fervour for participating in the effort is not that clear.




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what r the qualities r required for a lawyer ?

1)for a lawyer , typing and short hand is required or not?




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Will discuss distressed assets fund for realty with SBI: HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh

The fund will work in a similar manner in which the public sector and private sector partnered to invest and rescue Yes Bank.




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DCB Bank sees significant jump in foreign remittance services on coronavirus pandemic

"Since March 15, our volumes on outward remittance services have increased many fold. There is a significant difference in before-and-after demand since mid of March," said Praveen Kutty, Head of Retail and SME Banking, DCB Bank without quantifying the increase in demand.




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S&P affirms HDFC Bank rating

S&P Global Ratings on Saturday affirmed HDFC Bank’s issuer credit rating at BBB-/Stable/A-3 and senior unsecured rating at BBB-, adding that the lender’s rating will move in tandem with that of the sovereign.




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ICICI Bank confirms $100-m exposure to troubled Singapore oil firm Hin Leong Trading

The regulatory norms with respect to provisioning and asset recognition are uniform for Indian banks’ domestic and foreign exposures.




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Union Bank plans to lower stake in IndiaFirst Life to less than 10 per cent

Union Bank received the stake after Andhra Bank was merged with the Mumbai-based lender, effective April 1.




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Over Rs 68,600 cr loans of wilful defaulters, including Mehul Choksi, Vijay Mallya firms, written off: RBI in RTI reply

In the last Parliament session, Rahul Gandhi had asked the government to provide a list of top 50 bank loans defaulters in the country, leading to sharp exchanges and uproar in the Lok Sabha.




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IDFC First Bank to raise Rs 2,000cr capital from promoter, Warburg Pincus, 3 others

Warburg Pincus affiliate Dayside Investment Ltd and insurance firms ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company, HDFC Life Insurance, and Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance will infuse capital in the lender.




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Maharajas Express all set to run its first Indian Panorama journey of the season

Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation’s premier luxury train, the Maharajas Express, is all set to run its first Indian Panorama journey of the 2012-13 season tomorrow. The train will depart from the Safdarjung Railway Station tomorrow at 2200 hours. All guests have been...



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Indian Maharaja Wins Third Successive Award for Best Asian Luxury Train

Indian luxury train, the Indian Maharaja, has bagged the award for the Best Asian Luxury Train for the third year in a row. The train was felicitated at World Travel Awards 2012, quoted by Wall Street Journal as “the travel industry’s equivalent to the Oscars”. The awards are...



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Indian Luxury Trains Adds ‘Fairy Queen’ to its Portfolio

Indian Luxury Trains (ILT), India’s first luxury train portal, is all set to add the Fairy Queen  train, India’s oldest running steam locomotive, to its portfolio. The Fairy Queen train was jolted down last year following the vandalizing & stealing of the brass parts of this...



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  • 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00

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Coronavirus silverlining! NASA images show drop in China’s air pollution after lockdown

In a preliminary analysis, NASA researchers compared NO2 values detected by OMI in 2020 with the average amounts detected at this time of year from 2005-2019.




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Chandrayaan-3 to be launched in first half of 2021: Govt

The Indian Space Research Organisation had then resolved to launch the project again. It had said the project is likely to be launched by the end of the year.




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Coronavirus: How is NASA dealing with COVID-19? Here’s the space agency’s action plan

Coronavirus: A week ago, an employee at the NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California was tested positive for the virus.




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Elon Musk’s SpaceX to send first manned flight to space! To dock at ISS in May

The tech entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket to transport NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a first for the space agency as it looks to cut costs.




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Coronavirus hits moon mission: NASA suspends work on Moon rocket

The space agency is shutting down its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the Space Launch System rocket is being built, and the nearby Stennis Space Center, administrator Jim Bridenstine said late Thursday.




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Air quality picking up in quarantined countries

Air quality is improving in countries under coronavirus quarantines, experts say, but it is far too early to speak of long-term change.




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Coronavirus: Use free time to hone skills like Newton did during London plague, IIT tells students

With classes and all other activities being suspended till March 31 due to coronavirus, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar has launched 'Project Isaac' to engage students confined to their rooms or homes in productive activities.




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Delhi targets 66% reduction in air pollution in 5 years; sets aside Rs 30 cr for smog towers

"Green Citizen Awards" will also be instituted to encourage citizens to contribute to environment protection and preservation work, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said while presenting the budget in Delhi Assembly.




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Coronavirus test results in minutes? Scientists question accuracy

The tests could reveal the true extent of the outbreak and help separate the healthy from the sick. But some scientists have challenged their accuracy.




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Ozone layer is healing! Amidst Coronavirus gloom, Ozone cover above Antarctica records substantial recovery

Efforts of all the countries to stop the damage to the Ozone layer seem to be paying off as the damage to the Ozone layer above Antarctica has recovered.




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Coronavirus lockdown: India breathes easy as over 90 cities record minimal air pollution

India is currently under the biggest lockdown with around 130 crore people asked to stay home in view of the coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed 19 lives and infected over 900 people in the country.




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Coronavirus outbreak: MIT team working on an open-source, low-cost design of ventilators

COVID-19: The team, which consists of only volunteers, has been working without any funding and is working anonymously so that people do not call them with inquiries about the project.




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Paper-based test to detect coronavirus in wastewater: Study

The study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, noted that rapid testing kits using paper-based devices could be used on-site at wastewater treatment plants.




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Coronavirus: China lockdown may have blocked 700,000 virus cases, say researchers

The Wuhan shutdown delayed the arrival of the virus in other cities, their model showed, giving them time to prepare by banning public gatherings and closing entertainment venues, among other measures.




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Clear sky during coronavirus lockdown can help you spot International Space Station! Here’s how

The International Space Station which came into existence in 1998 has been in space for more than 15 years and orbits our planet sixteen times in a day.




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Air quality improves in India amid coronavirus lockdown, says Central Pollution Control Board

The nationwide 'Janta Curfew' on March 22 and the 21-day lockdown imposed since March 24 to combat the coronavirus outbreak have resulted in a significant improvement in air quality.




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Space jam! Over 12,000 aspiring astronauts apply for NASA’s Moon, Mars mission! Check details

A total of 12,000 applicants applied to become astronauts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).




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Coronavirus Lockdown: After improvement in air quality, scientists record drop in seismic vibrations under Earth surface

The report claims that the development could help seismologists detect earthquakes of even very small magnitude, signals of which were earlier drowned in the cacophony produced by various activities.




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Coronavirus and space technologies: Satellites to fight with COVID-19!

First and foremost, through the recent COVID-19 crisis, satellite technology is found proving its utility for support.




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Kolkata air quality deteriorates after people burst crackers in response to 9 pm-9min call

An official at the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) said air quality index (AQI) hovered between 100 and 150 (particulate matter 2.5) in Kolkata -- a spike from 'satisfactory' to 'moderate' level, amid the lockdown.




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Lockdown: Major air pollutants PM2.5, PM10 and NOx down by at least 50 per cent in Delhi

In Delhi, the comparison made from the second week of March (before lockdown) to first week of April (April 6), reduction in PM2.5 was found to be by 62 per cent, PM10 by 57 per cent and NOx by 50 per cent,  the latest SAFAR data accessed by PTI showed.




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Air pollution linked to higher COVID-19 death rates: US study

The yet-to-be-published study looked at more than 3,000 counties across the US, comparing levels of fine particulate air pollution with novel coronavirus death counts for each area.




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Experts say coronavirus lockdown may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but it’s only temporary

Weeks of lockdown in the country to fight coronavirus may have reduced greenhouse gas emissions enabling people to breathe cleaner air and feast on blue skies, but it is only a temporary phase and will not benefit the environment in the long run.




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Blue skies, reduced emissions only temporary, won’t benefit environment in long run, say experts

Weeks of lockdown in the country to fight coronavirus may have reduced greenhouse gas emissions enabling people to breathe cleaner air and feast on blue skies, but it is only a temporary phase and will not benefit the environment in the long run.




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Presence of ‘bat coronavirus’ found in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, says ICMR study

According to the study published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, there is no evidence or research to claim that these bat coronaviruses can cause disease in humans.