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STATE TIMES NEWS NEW DELHI: Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh on Friday presented INSPIRE awards to 60 StartUps and financial support to 53,021 students. The award is instituted by the Department of Science & Technology (DST),…
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NEW DELHI: The government on Friday cut the windfall profit tax on locally-produced crude oil in line with a fall in international rates, and reduced the levy on export of diesel and jet fuel (ATF) with effect from September 17. At the…
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NEW DELHI: The government on Friday issued operational guidelines for direct to home services in the country that seek to cap the total number of permitted platform service channels at 5 per cent of the operator's total channel carriage…
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BHUBANESWAR: India will roll out its first hydrogen-powered train, designed, developed and manufactured indigenously, on the next Independence Day, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said. India has been able to build trains which are…
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NEW DELHI: Former president Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a true follower of B R Ambedkar and is working towards turning the social reformer's vision into a reality. Kovind also listed out initiatives of…
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NEW DELHI: Peoples Conference leader Sajjad Lone wanted to be Jammu and Kashmir chief minister just before the dissolution of the Assembly in 2018 although he had only six MLAs, the erstwhile state's last governor Satya Pal Malik has said.…
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NEW DELHI: The government on Friday launched diabetes drug Sitagliptin and its combinations at rates as low as Rs 60 per pack of ten, which will be sold at generic pharmacy stores, Janaushadhi Kendras. The Pharmaceuticals & Medical…
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New Delhi: After the results for the Common University Entrance Test were declared, UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar on Friday said universities will prepare the rank list for undergraduate admissions on the basis of "normalised" scores and…
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New Delhi: Fresh rules for central government employees to file details of assets and liabilities under the Lokpal Act are yet to be notified, the Department of Personnel and Training has said. The declaration under the Lokpal law is in…
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New Delhi: The results for the debut edition of the Common University Entrance Test for undergraduate admissions were declared on Friday, National Testing Agency officials said. The CUET-UG results were scheduled to be declared by 10 pm…
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