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The Puducherry government has decided to do away with the NRI quota seats for medical admissions in the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College from this year. The 22 seats that have been reserved for the NRI students will be clubbed with the 105 ...

HAMPSTEAD, Md. JoS. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. said Monday that its fiscal first-quarter earnings will likely come in below Wall Streets view as sales were hurt in part by lower prices. The mens clothing company anticipates quarterly earnings between ...

Virgin America says its close to turning around its financial losses and could be ready for an initial public offering as early as next year. Virgin America reported on Monday that it lost $145.4 million last year, which is even more than it lost in ...

Its being called the first music video made in space. In an online video, astronaut Chris Hadfield sings the David Bowie song Space Oddity while floating around in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. Amrita Jayakumar This weeks data ...

LOS ANGELES Every time Los Angeles exhales, odd-looking gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that waft skyward. Halfway around the globe, similar ...

WASHINGTON A domestic natural gas boom already has lowered U.S. energy prices while stoking fears of environmental disaster. Now U.S. producers are poised to ship vast quantities of gas overseas as energy companies seek permits for proposed export ...

DETROIT A new report out by Detroits emergency manager says the city is broke and faces a bleak future given the financial path its on. The report released late Sunday by Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr says Detroits net cash position was negative $162 ...

NEW YORK Barbara Walters is retiring. The veteran ABC News anchor is set to announce Monday morning on The View that she will retire from TV journalism during the summer of 2014. Amrita Jayakumar This weeks data offer insight into the housing ...

Pentagon contracts tumbled 52 percent in April from a month earlier as across-the-board federal budget cuts took hold. The Defense Department announced awards with a maximum value of $19 billion in April, about 22 percent lower than a year earlier, ...