Daily Newsletter | Thursday, December 10, 2015 | | | End of freeze? India, Pak to resume composite dialogue | | India and Pakistan on Wednesday decided to resume the composite dialogue process in what marked a significant change of Modi government’s stance facilitated by what sources described as assurances from Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to expedite the Mumbai attacks trial. |
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| Confirmed: Rahul’s Amethi has lost paper mill too | | The Cabinet will soon decide on setting up a Rs 3,650 crore paper mill in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra and the department of heavy industry has written to the finance ministry on the issue, a minister said on Wednesday. |
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| Japan pips China to build India’s 1st bullet train | | The bullet train accident in China four years ago along with low-cost finance and a promise to have a substantial ‘Make in India’ component and transfer of technology clinched the deal for Japan to build the first high-speed train that will run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad — with the possibility of extending it to Delhi in future. |
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| | It's raining funds for Chennai | | Coimbatore-based Dr Shruti Ravikumar was tending to her seven-month-old baby when she heard about the deluge in Chennai. Having worked with Milaap, an online lending platform earlier, she started a crowdfunding campaign on Dec 2. In a few hours, she received Rs 84,000 from contributors nationwide. As of Tuesday, the campaign has raised close to Rs65.8 lakh from %almost 2,000 contributors across the globe. |
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| | Microsoft's 16 predictions for 2016 | | Microsoft Research is the 1,000-strong arm of the company that deals with The Future. Its job is, essentially, to focus more on what comes next than what comes now. Like every year, Microsoft's Researchers have set out predictions for the coming year too. Here are 16 predictions they are making. |
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| | Hopes of Indo-Pak series dying: PCB chief | | PCB chief Shaharyar Khan said that hopes of resumption of bilateral cricketing ties between India and Pakistan with a short series later this month are "dying" with too little time left to organise the big ticket event. |
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| | KKR offers Jain education trust Rs 390cr financing | | Storied Am-erican private equity investor KKR & Co has inked a Rs 390-crore financing deal with Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College Education Trust, which manages higher education campuses of the Bangalore-based Jain Group of Institutions. |
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| ‘India 4th in black money outflows’ | | India ranks fourth in black money outflows with $51 billion siphoned out of the country per annum between 2004-2013, a US-based think tank’s report said on Wednesday. |
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| Carlyle in talks for Rs 500cr stake in Feedback Infra | | Private equity giant Carlyle Group is discussing a Rs 500-crore investment in Feedback Infra, which could make the US firm a major shareholder in the Gurgaon-based infrastructure services company, sources directly familiar with the matter said. |
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| | Rana Daggubati’s relief work for Chennai | | Chennai has been reeling under the aftermath of nature’s fury and though the rains seem to have stopped, the devastation has scarred the lives of those who have survived to see this. |
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| Deepika: I know Ranveer will never hurt me | | It is different when you reach the deep end of Deepika. She is natural, free-flowing, yet striking her diva-esque flair at all times. With soul unveiled and emotions exhaled. No hint or trace of competitiveness, calculation or compare. Just a young woman – vulnerable, venerated and well ... loved and desired too. |
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