Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Slamming the opposition parties and the “ecosystem” backing them, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said those rejected by people in elections have been left with few weapons and were spreading confusion and lies. He asked the BJP workers to reach out to the public more actively, adding that maintaining direct communication with…
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WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday lowered growth estimate for India to 4.8 per cent for 2019, citing stress in the non-bank financial sector and weak rural income growth as the major factors for the downward revision. India saw a sharp 1.2 percentage point cut to its 2020 growth forecast to 5.8% —…
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A 20-year-old British Sikh student has been murdered in Nottingham city centre. Arjun Singh, a student at Nottingham Trent University, died on Sunday, 19 January, after being assaulted near the Slug and Lettuce pub in Long Row, in Nottingham city centre, just before 4am on Saturday night. The bar and restaurant, which opened in September…
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NAY PYI TAW: China and Myanmar on Saturday inked 33 deals aimed at speeding up key infrastructure projects to provide Beijing a stepping stone to the Indian Ocean after a meeting between President Xi Jinping and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, as the Communist nation ramped up support to cement its hold over the…
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NEW DELHI: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath has warned BJP that there appears no end in sight for the seemingly unceasing protests against the CAA-NRC-NPR, saying that the agitation is in the hands of students who are angry over not just the divisive policies of the central government but also the economic collapse. In…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has urged the US to support its bid to exit from the grey list of the FATF ahead of a key meeting of the international terror financing watchdog in Beijing in which it will scrutinise Islamabad’s efforts to adopt stricter laws against terror financing and money laundering. A Pakistani delegation arrived in Beijing…
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DEHRADUN: The railway authorities have decided to replace Urdu language on signboards at state platforms with Sanskrit. The signboards which have names of railway stations written in Hindi, English and Urdu will now be written in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. According to railway officials, the decision has been taken as per provisions of the Railway…
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NEW DELHI: Faced with criticism over quality of data as well as allegations of manipulation, the government has begun discussions on a much-delayed revamp of official statistics, which have been at the centre of a political slugfest during the last few years. The focus is to capture economic activity more accurately, particularly in the unorganised…
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AHMEDABAD: Cops in Gandhinagar fell in a catch-22 situation when a state government employee approached them with a complaint that the 26-year-old woman class teacher of his 14-year-old son had gone missing taking his son in tow. The man, who works at Udyog Bhavan in Gandhinagar said the woman had seduced his teenage son, who…
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It’s been 30 years since Kashmiri Pandits living in the Valley were forced to leave their homes because of a violent separatist movement that selectively targeted the minority community. The exodus which started on January 19, 1990 saw four lakh KPs resettle outside the Valley as refugees. To observe the anniversary, #HumWapasAayenge has been trending…
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