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New Delhi: Freebies are never 'free' and when political parties offer such schemes, they must be required to make the financing and trade-offs clear to voters, RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Member Ashima Goyal said on Sunday, adding…
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New Delhi: Amid the uproar over the death of a Dalit school boy in Rajasthan after being beaten up by a teacher, senior Congress leader Meira Kumar on Sunday stressed on completely eradicating the "illness" of caste system and adopting a…
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Chandigarh: Punjab is expecting a cotton output of around 8 lakh bales in the current Kharif season due to lower acreage and damage to the crop due to rains. The cotton output had dropped sharply to 6.45 lakh bales in the last 2021-22…
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New Delhi: India on Sunday recorded 11,539 fresh coronavirus infections that pushed its tally to 4,43,39,429, while the number of active cases came down to 99,879, according to Union health ministry data. The toll due to COVID-19…
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Lucknow: Sixty-four districts in Uttar Pradesh have received less than normal rainfall this monsoon, with several of these staring at drought-like conditions. According to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) data, only 11 of the…
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STATE TIMES NEWS PUNE: Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh on Saturday inaugurated Pune CSIR's new building complex and interacted with StartUps.The new Institutional Building of CSIR-URDIP is located in NCL Campus and the…
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NEW DELHI: India on Saturday supplied a fresh batch of medical supplies to Afghanistan as part of its humanitarian assistance. The consignments of medical aid were handed over to the Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul. "Today, India…
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NEW DELHI: The airport unit of the Delhi Police has busted one of the biggest fake passport and visa rackets in operation by arresting its mastermind and three other agents, officials said on Saturday. A passenger deported from Kuwait…
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MUMBAI: The text messages received by the Mumbai police threatening a "26/11-like" attack came from a phone number that carried the country code of Pakistan, city Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar said on Saturday. Addressing a…
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AHMEDABAD: Amid concerns over a visit by Chinese ship 'Yuan Wang 5' to his country, Sri Lanka's tourism minister Harin Fernado said here on Saturday that he hoped it would not cause a major diplomatic row as India understands its…
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