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Cognizant Irked With TCS for Preponing Campus Recruitment: Report

"We are doing what we have done in the past," says a TCS spokesperson.

Aug 31, 2015

A Third of BSE 500 Stocks Now Trade at Manmohan Era Levels

Stock prices of over 10% of companies in the index have now been reduced to half in the past 15 months.

Aug 31, 2015

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Pentagon teams up with Apple and Boeing to develop wearable tech

US Defence Secretary Ash Carter awarded $75m (£48.7m) on 28 August, to help a consortium of high-tech firms and researchers develop electronic systems packed with sensors flexible enough to be worn by soldiers or moulded onto the skin of a plane.

Aug 29, 2015

Crude Oil Prices 'Unlikely to Repeat' Rally Witnessed During Jan-April This Year: Commerzbank

Prices went up to as high as $70 per barrel during those months, rebounding by 50% from a low of $46

Aug 28, 2015

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McDonalds and Tyson Foods drop farm after video shows animal cruelty

McDonalds and Tyson Foods both severed ties with a Tennessee farm on 27 August, after an undercover video shot by animal rights activists was released that shows purported farm employees stabbing, clubbing and stomping on chickens.

Aug 28, 2015

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Greenpeace activists drop massive banana peel on Amsterdam Shell Tech centre

The organisation called for a boycott of Shell in the Netherlands.

Aug 28, 2015

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India: New Delhi reports highest number of dengue fever cases in five years

The Indian capital of New Dehli reported 477 cases of dengue fever in August, the highest number since 2010, bringing the total number of cases this year to more than 530, according to local health authorities.

Aug 28, 2015