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The country's foreign exchange reserves dipped by US$ 1.169 billion to stand at US$ 637.477 billion in the week ended October 1, RBI data showed on Friday.In the previous week ended September 24, 2021, the reserves had declined by US$ 997 million to US$ 638.646 billion. The reserves had surged by...
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The Adani Group-owned Mumbai airport on Friday witnessed chaotic scenes due to heavy passenger rush amid the festive season, forcing the private operator to prepone resumption of flight services from the domestic terminal (T1).Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) will resume...
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The West Bengal government has put the police on alert in view of the Durga Puja festivities in the state, citing terror threats.Issuing a set of guidelines, Chief Secretary HK Dwivedi asked officials to ensure that communal harmony is maintained in the state.All community puja committees were...
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LIVE! Sidhu on maun vrat, fast for arrest of MoS's sonPunjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday began a fast in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri, declaring that he will continue it till Union minister Ajay Mishra's son is not arrested.Sidhu on Friday met the kin of the farmers killed in the...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday spoke with Japan's newly elected Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and discussed the robust cooperation between India and Japan in the Indo-Pacific region.Japan's parliament had elected Kishida prime minister on Monday.In a tweet Modi said, Spoke with H.E. Fumio...
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BJP leader and former Maharashtra minister Babanrao Lonikar on Friday claimed 12 MLAs of the ruling Shiv Sena are in contact with his party and predicted a change in the state.The Shiv Sena, which heads the three-party MVA government in the state, rubbished Lonikar's claim and said the...
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Several employee unions of Air India on Friday expressed happiness over the carrier's earlier owner Tata Sons winning the bid to acquire the national carrier.After a marathon disinvestment process, which was reinitiated in January last year, the government on Friday announced that Tata Sons'...
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The Belagavi police has arrested 10 people including a woman's parents in connection with the murder of 24-year-old Arbaz Mulla over his interfaith relationship.According to police, Eerappa Kumbar and his wife Susheela Kumbar are among the arrested.The couple were upset that their daughter was in...
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Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) K V Subramanian on Friday said he has decided to return to academia after completion of his three-year term in the finance ministry.The government had appointed Subramanian, a ISB Hyderabad professor, as the CEA in December 2018. He had succeeded Arvind Subramanian.In...
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Investors' wealth rose by Rs 4,16,413.43 crore in two days, with the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies reaching a lifetime high of Rs 266.36 lakh crore on Friday.The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex on Friday jumped 381.23 points or 0.64 per cent to close at 60,059.06. On Thursday, it...
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Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said he will speak about the Income Tax department's raids on the properties of his relatives and aides once the action is over.He did not want to obstruct the I-T department's work, he told reporters here.The department is doing its job. The...
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Delhi Police personnel will now get leaves to spend time with their families to celebrate birthdays and wedding anniversary among other important occasions of their lives, an official order has said.Officials said the move has come into immediate effect after the order dated October 7 was issued...
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It is said that Tata group executives used to complain in private that JRD -- the pioneer of the Indian aviation industry -- spent more time worrying about Air India than the Tata group when he was heading both the entities. For JRD the airlines was a labour of love. As Chairman...
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The Sensex soared past the 60,000-level while the Nifty finished at an all-time high on Friday after the Reserve Bank kept the key interest rates unchanged but maintained its accommodative stance to bolster economic recovery. Market heavyweight Reliance Industries led the gains, while...
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The Magistrate's court in Mumbai has said that the bail applications of Aryan Khan and two others are not maintainable before it and hence it has been rejected. In effect, Aryan Khan will spend the night at Arthur Road Jail today.During the hearing, NCB opposed the grant of bail to Aryan Khan on...
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A Delhi court on Friday convicted real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal for tampering with evidence in the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire case.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma also held a former court staff Dinesh Chand Sharma and individuals P P Batra and Anoop Singh guilty in the...
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Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons. Chairman, Tata Trusts, tweets this image alongside with a short, emotional note on the return of Air India to the Tata hangar. Welcome back, Air India (plane emoji, house emoji), Tata wrote. Read the note alongside. Tatas have won the bid...
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Tata Sons beat SpiceJet promoter to bag Air India. The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) secretary said Tatas' bid of Rs 18,000 crore comprises taking over of 15,300 crore of debt and paying the rest in cash. The government...
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For the Tatas, the original owners of Air India, bringing back the airline to its fold is worth the wait even if the attempt to privatise the bleeding national carrier by successive governments has taken over two decades. The salt-to-software conglomerate has never let the love affair with...
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Tata Sons wins the bid for acquiring national carrier Air India. The company had the winning bid for Rs 18,000 crore. Apart from a 100 per cent stake in Air India and its low-cost arm, Air India Express, the winning bid also includes a 50 per cent stake in ground-handling company Air...
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The Supreme Court expressed displeasure over a tweet posted by a media organisation which falsely claimed that Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana had met the kin of victims of Lakhmipur Kheri violence.The Court said it respects the media and their independence but this is not at all...
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Aryan Khan and other accused will be kept in a quarantine cell for 3-5 days in Arthur Jail, says Nitin Waychal, Superintendent of Arthur Jail.Earlier today the accused was brought to the Mumbai jail by the NCB. The court gave judicial custody to the accused yesterday but they could not...
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A fresh notice was posted at the Teni home today
Union Minister of State (Home) Ajay Mishra Teni on his son Ashish not reporting today before the UP police. He has been summoned for questioning tomorrow as well. My son was summoned yesterday but due to health reasons, he could not report to the police. He will report tomorrow, Teni...
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Mumbai airport today. Pic: @ArjV89
The Mumbai airport witnessed chaotic scenes on Friday due to heavy passenger rush amid the festive season and airlines advised travellers to report early to allow sufficient time for security check. Many people took to social media to mention about the chaos and also shared pictures...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, saying thanks to him the festive spirit has faded due to sustained inflation. In a tweet, Gandhi quoted a news report that price rise has hit the common people hard with petrol becoming dearer by Rs 2.35 and...
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Two pressers to be held today:1. A Special Congress Party media briefing will be held by Randeep Surjewala at 3 pn today, at tge Congress HQ in New Delhi.2. The Civil aviation ministry will address a presser today at 4 pm.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2021 awarded to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts 'to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace'.Ressa in 2012 co-founded Rappler, a news website that has focused 'critical attention on the (Philippines...
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NCB brings Aryan Khan and other accused in the drug raid case to Arthur Jail. This is the gist of what Aryan Khan's lawyer Satish Maneshinde said in the court today speaking on behalf of his client:Now on facts, I am a 23 yr old with no prior antecedents.I happen to be part of Bollywood so...
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Pakistan and the US have discussed regional security issues, including the situation in Afghanistan, and bilateral economic cooperation as America's Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman held talks with the country's NSA Moeed Yusuf in Islamabad.The two countries expressed a desire to promote...
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Lakhimpur Kehri violence case: The Supreme Court says not satisfied with action taken by Uttar Pradesh government so far, hearing after Dussehra.This is a suo-motu hearing in the SC on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence which left 8 people dead. The Supreme Court notes that senior advocate...
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Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh begins arguments on maintainability of bail petitions in the cruise ship drug seizure case. Aryan Khan's bail petition also among those filed.Satish Maneshinde, Aryan Khan's lawyer asks the court, Why is the Union of India so agitated in this case...
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And while we wait for the outcome of the court proceedings for Aryan Khan and others, here's something to burst your fiscal bubble. Former Reserve Bank Governor C Rangarajan said today that India becoming a USD five trillion economy by 2025 is impossible under the current circumstance and...
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Mumbai's Esplanade Court begins hearing on bail pleas of Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha in the cruise ship drug case.Aryan Khan, son of movie star Shah Rukh Khan, was sent to judicial custody by the Magistrate's court yesterday. Aryan Khan was supplied drugs by one of the...
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Has poll strategist Prashant Kishor parted ways with the Congress party. This morning Kishor tweeted, People looking for a quick, spontaneous revival of GOP led opposition based on #LakhimpurKheri incident are setting themselves up for a big disappoinment. Unfortunately there are no quick...
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Massive protests in Jammu over the killings of civilians by terrorists. The Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Forum today staged a protest in Jammu against Pakistan over the killings of two teachers by terrorists in Srinagar, yesterday.Slogans of, We want justice were raised during the funeral...
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The United States has said that its support for and defence relationship with Taiwan remains aligned against the current threat posed by the people's Republic of China, the Pentagon said on Thursday.The remarks made by Pentagon spokesperson John Supple come amid a report in Wall Street Journal...
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Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been convicted in a Dera follower's murder case.Panchkula CBI special court judge Sushil Garg pronounced him and others guilty.The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on October 12.
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Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni's son, Ashish, an accused in the deaths of eight people in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, skipped summons at a police station this morning. This was the first time that Ashish Mishra has been summoned for questioning amid calls for his arrest by the...
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Filmmaker Farah Khan is the latest celebrity to support Shah Rukh Khan and his family.As Aryan's bail plea is to be heard by a Mumbai court today, it is also the his mother Gauri's birthday. Taking to Instagram, Farah wished Gauri a very happy birthday and hoped that the latter gets the...
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Another important announcement from the RBI: IMPS limit to be increased from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.This is the eighth time in a row that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has maintained status quo. RBI had last revised its policy repo rate...
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Reserve Bank of India keeps repo rate unchanged at 4%, maintains accommodative stance; reverse repo rate remains unchanged at 3.35%.Monetary Policy stance remains accommodative as long as necessary to revive and sustain growth and mitigate the impact of COVID19 pandemic while ensuring inflation...
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Actor Vivek Oberoi and his family welcome Ma Durga on the 2nd day of Navratri. Let's pray to the divine Goddess but also remember to love and respect the Goddesses on earth; our mothers, wives, daughters and sisters, the actor tweeted.
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Equity benchmark Sensex jumped over 200 points in early trade on Friday, tracking gains in Infosys, Reliance Industries and TCS, ahead of the Reserve Bank's policy outcome. The 30-share Sensex was trading 223.79 points or 0.37 per cent higher at 59,901.62. Similarly, the Nifty...
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With 21,257 people testing positive for the coronavirus infection in a day, India's total tally of cases rose to 3,39,15,569, while the number of active cases declined to 2,40,221, the lowest in 205 days, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Friday. The death toll...
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Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, was invited to the Goa-bound cruise ship from where drugs were allegedly seized to 'add glamour', and he had no connection with its organisers, his lawyer told a court in Mumbai on Thursday.Khan and seven other accused in the case were remanded...
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The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Thursday said that it will hold a meeting on October 8 to discuss the next course of action on the Lakhimpur Kheri violence that left four farmers dead.The SKM, which is spearheading the farmers' agitation against the Centre's farm laws, also said that it is...
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Troops of India and China were engaged in a face-off along the Line of Actual Control in the Arunachal Pradesh sector as the patrols of two countries came face to face at one location.Sources in the defence establishment said the face-off took place between the two sides last week and the troops...
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Tamil Nadu has witnessed an increase in the overall sero-prevalence among the people at 70 per cent, suggest the findings of a latest round of serosurvey by the state government.The Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine on Thursday released the report of the 'state wide cross...
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