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The special CBI court on Tuesday ordered framing of charges against BJP leaders L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and nine others in the Babri Masjid demolition case.   The charges will be framed under section 120 B, criminal conspiracy.    Earlier, all the 12...

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Around 8.50 lakh retail chemists, druggists and pharmacies on Tuesday went on a daylong strike all over India in support of their various demands, said All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) President Jagannath Shinde.   A total 8.50 million employees are directly...

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Amit Kapoor (IANS) 30 May 2017
It has been an eventful three years for the Narendra Modi government. Back in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had inherited a system that was peppered with corruption scandals and where terms like policy paralysis, indecision and logjam were commonplace. However, such perceptions have...

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The CISF has decided to end handbag stamping for domestic flyers at six more airports - Chennai, Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Trivandrum and Guwahati from June 1 - CISF Director General O.P. Singh said.   Singh told IANS that a week-long trial at five more airports - Varanasi, Goa,...

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A trainee Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer drowned in a swimming pool here in a rescue effort that went horribly wrong for him, police said on Tuesday.   Ashish Dahiya, a resident of Sonepat in Haryana, was attending a party with his friends from the Indian foreign and...

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The southwest monsoon is likely to break over Kerala on Tuesday, the IMD announced on Monday evening.   With good rains lashing Kerala on Monday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its evening statement, said the present meteorological conditions indicate that conditions...

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Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA) IT system suffered a serious malfunction on Monday, affecting the schedules of numerous flights.   Similar to the troubles faced by British Airways, PIA operations came to a standstill when its software failed around 9 a.m.   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 May 2017
Nationalised banks such as State Bank of India (SBI), Bank of Maharashtra and Canara Bank have hiked charges for several services or facilities provided to customers. These include increase in charges for chequebook issuance, signature verification, cash handling charges, withdrawals beyond...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 May 2017
There is growing discontent, especially among the trading community, over the classifications under the goods and service tax (GST). Items, which were in the lower category under value added tax (VAT) are now being categorised in higher tax slabs under GST, says a traders' body.   In...

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Manu Moudgil (IANS) 29 May 2017
On April 16, Roshan Lal Negi woke up to find snow carpeting the courtyard of his home in Jangi village. Boys with smartphones quickly made videos to share on WhatsApp but more than a month later, the snow -- now filthy -- still sits on the lower parts of most peaks in Kinnaur district,...

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The Supreme Court on Monday put on hold a Rajasthan High Court order directing mobile phone operators to remove their cell towers from within 500 metres of jail premises across the state.   A bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Deepak Gupta stayed the high court order as senior...

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Sakshi Srivastava (IANS) 29 May 2017
The demand for fancy foreign luxury cars is witnessing a steep rise, with buyers, including from faraway northeast, picking up Lamborghinis, Maseratis and Range Rovers that cost up to Rs1.5 crore apiece -- but all pre-owned, a polite term for second-hand.   Big Boy Toyz, based in...

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British Airways has managed to restore some of its services at two major London airports -- Heathrow and Gatwick -- following a global blackout of the company's IT system that caused significant delays.   The blackout also sparked anger among the passengers who were left without their...

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The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed special audit in 10 central universities in the country to check complaints of financial, administrative, and academic irregularities, officials said on Friday.   The UGC order follows a Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 May 2017
Opposing Raymond Ltd's decision to sell its premium property at a throwaway price to its own promoters and their extended family, proxy advisory firm Institutional Investor Advisory Services India Ltd (IiAS) has advised shareholders to vote against the proposal.   Raymond in its...

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his team had a providential escape when their chopper crash-landed here at noon on Thursday.   Fadnavis himself tweeted on the crash, saying they were safe and there were no casualties.     Speaking to English news...

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An Indian woman who alleged she was forced and duped into marrying a Pakistani man was repatriated to her country through the Wagah border on Thursday, a day after the Islamabad High Court permitted her to travel home.   Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj welcomed Uzma...

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On May 22, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tweeted it had ratcheted the pace of rural road construction under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to 133 km a day over the three years to 2016-17, up from 69.35 km a day in 2013-14.   However, compared with the Narendra Modi...

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New Delhi, Sticking to its earlier stand, the Indian telecom regulator on Wednesday recommended penal action against three operators -- Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular -- for not providing adequate points of interconnections (PoI) to newcomer Reliance Jio.   The amount...

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In a bid to further ease doing business in India, the Union cabinet on Wednesday abolished the over 25-year-old Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) that vetted foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals.   "The cabinet today (Wednesday) approved the ending of the FIPB," Finance...

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