A Mastercard representative said the company’s team in India would respond on Thursday; the response was awaited till the time of going to press. In an indirect fallout of the …
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In Friday’s Rs 26,000-crore auction, the RBI had decided to devolve Rs 6,736 crore of the 6.22% government stock 2035. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday partially devolved …
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Gujarat govt will bring in strict law against 'love jihad', says Vijay Rupani in rally ahead of civic election
In the recent past, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, both ruled by the BJP, have brought in laws to stop conversion through marriage or by any other fraudulent means File …
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Hong Kong’s unemployment rate rose to 6.6 per cent in the October-December 2020 period due to the Covid-19 impact, hitting a 16-year high, reports Xinhua news agency. In the face …
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Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development Botcha Satyanarayana has said that the results of the first two phases of the gram panchayat polls indicate that the people of the …
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He hoped the legal course of action for Kotia Panchayat would be taken to its logical conclusion by the state administration. The statement of Pradhan came a day after Andhra …
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Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava in a weekly briefing has said that the Government of India is trying for the extradition of Pakistan-born Canadian Tahawwur Rana, who has …
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Pandemic didn’t deter govt from taking up reforms necessary for long-term growth: Nirmala Sitharaman
A day after Nirmala Sitharaman defended the Union Budget 2021 in the Rajya Sabha, the Finance Minister Saturday told the Lok Sabha that the reforms will lay the path for …
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TO ENSURE THAT the ‘bad bank’ mechanism proposed in the Budget takes off, the Finance Ministry is planning to provide a guarantee against security receipts to be issued by the …
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The response came hours after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed the government has ‘ceded’ our territory to the Chinese. India on Friday said it has not conceded any territory as …
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West Bengal Bandh LIVE Updates: Amid Preps for Schools Reopening, Siliguri Roads Deserted, Tracks Blocked Rail Services Disrupted; Mamata Govt Threatens to Cut Pay
Reacting to the clash between students and police, Left Front Chairman Biman Bose said, “The way police unleashed atrocities on the participants in the march to Nabanna, it created a …
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In view of the 12-hour bandh called by Left parties to protest against the action by Kolkata Police on their party workers, West Bengal government has announced that no bandh …
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Protests erupted on Wednesday across Islamabad, including the Constitution Avenue, outside Secretariat Block and Cabinet Block, whose main entrance door was broken down by the demonstrators, The Express Tribune reported. …
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BBC Studios Inks Deal With Youngest; Australian ‘Survivor’ Gets $3M In Govt Funding; Canneseries Delayed; Discovery+ Madeleine McCann Series — Global Briefs
BBC Studios Inks First-Look Deal With Youngest MediaBBC Studios has signed a first-look distribution deal with entertainment producer Youngest Media, run by former Endemol UK executives David Flynn and Lucas …
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The committee, headed by Justice (Retd) BK Sharma will ‘recommend the appropriate level of reservation of seats in Assam Legislative Assembly and local bodies for the Assamese people’ New Delhi: A …
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In written reply in the Lok Sabha, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that the facilities proposed include congestion-free non-conflicting entry/exits to the station premises, segregation of arrival/departure of passengers, …
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Twitter on Wednesday said that it has suspended more than 500 accounts in response to orders by the Indian government. In an extensive statement ‘to set the record straight’, the …
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Peshawar: The lawyer representing the owner of Indian film legend Dilip Kumar’s ancestral home in Peshawar has advised the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to not buy the over 100-year-old haveli, …
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As India-China tensions continue despite the efforts being made to resolve the border issue, the government has said that as many as 80 Chinese companies are actively doing business in …
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India has so far provided COVID vaccination to over 60 lakh (60,35,660) health care and frontline workers with no case of serious/severe adverse event following immunisation/deaths attributable to vaccination till …
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In a shocking development, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government on Monday ordered a probe to know if celebrities like Sachin Tendulkar, singer Lata Mangeshkar, cricketer Virat Kohli and others tweeted …
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Maharashtra govt to probe social media posts by celebrities supporting Centre on farmers' protests
‘It has been revealed that there were similar posts by celebrities…at the same time. Hence it will be investigated why it has happened,’ the state home minister said File image …
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The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farm unions emphasised that the ‘ball was in the goverment’s court’ while adding that merely putting the laws on hold was not …
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The Finance Ministry has asked IIM-Ahmedabad’s India Gold Policy Centre (IGPC) to come out with a paper on how gold refining can be ramped up in the country. Policy inputs …
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Samyukta Karnataka Horata, an umbrella forum of farmers, workers and Dalit organisations in Karnataka, said in its tweet, “More than 100 farmers have died ever since farmer organisations launched protests …
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The Centre has drawn up a Rs 2.02-lakh crore investment plan to build highways in the next financial year and Rs 30,000 crore of this sum is expected to come …