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The Rajasthan High Court on Monday acquitted Bollywood actor Salman Khan in the 18-year-old blackbuck and chinkara poaching cases.   Salman had appealed before the Jodhpur bench of the high court challenging a lower court verdict handing him a one and five-years term in the two...

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An Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft which disappeared on Friday with 29 people on board remained missing on Sunday despite an intensive search and rescue operation, codenamed 'Operation Talash", and some pointers were provided by indigenous satellites.   A senior defence ministry...

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Quaid Najmi (IANS) 23 July 2016
India's magnificent second aircraft carrier, 'INS Viraat', which in its previous avatar led the British task force that retook the Falkland Islands in 1982, lifted anchor on Saturday afternoon for her final voyage from Mumbai to Kochi, powered by her own boilers, prior to her scheduled...

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The search continued on Saturday for the missing AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force that went missing on Friday over the Bay of Bengal and has been untraceable since.   Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar reached Tambaram in Tamil Nadu on Saturday and went on an aerial survey in an...

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Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till Monday by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan after pandemonium in the House as members, rising above party lines, demanded immediate action against AAP member Bhagwant Mann for circulating a video of security zones in Parliament's premises.   As the...

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An AN-32 aircraft of the Indian Air Force with 29 people on board went missing over the Bay of Bengal on Friday, Defence Ministry officials said.   The aircraft was flying from Chennai to Port Blair. Those on board included six crew members.    Officials said it was “courier...

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The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed by a voice vote after discussion, The Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill and The Dentists (Amendment) Bill, which seek to amend the Indian Medical Council Act,1956 and the Dentists Act, 1948 to replace the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)...

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Two Indian Navy security patrol boats caught fire in the Naval Dockyard here early on Tuesday and sank in the harbour waters, official sources said.   The blaze was reported around 1.30 a.m. on one of the two boats anchored beside each other. The fire quickly spread to the second...

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi would have to face trial in a defamation case filed by an RSS activist for allegedly accusing the organisation for assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.   "You can't make collective denunciation of an...

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Jaideep Sarin (IANS) 18 July 2016
On a day when AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal was seeking penance at the holiest of Sikh shrines, the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar, a political drama was unfolding in New Delhi that could change the course of Punjab politics ahead of the state assembly elections.   The...

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Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla and Minister of State for Heavy Industries G.M. Siddeshwara put in their papers on Tuesday and President Pranab Mukherjee has accepted their resignations.   Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who was Heptulla's deputy, was promoted and given...

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Giving a clear message that controversy is no substitute for good work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday removed his one-time handpicked high-profile Smriti Irani from the crucial Human Resource Development Ministry and gave her the responsibility of the low-profile Textiles...

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New Delhi : Minister of State Prakash Javadekar was sworn in as a cabinet minister on Tuesday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought about major changes in his ministry.   In a solemn function at Rashtrapati Bhavan, others who joined his ministry as Ministers of State included Faggan...

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The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will examine whether a lawmaker could have stakes in an entity that has business transactions with the government.   Telling the petitioner, retired bureaucrat S.N.Shukla, that the issue needs to examined, the bench of Justice J. Chelameswar...

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The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the transport of Rs570 crore in three containers and its seizure near Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu in May 2016.   The court ordered the CBI to take action as per law if it finds sufficient material...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to reshuffle his council of ministers on Tuesday, a government official announced on Monday.   "Cabinet expansion tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11 a.m.," Principal spokesperson and Director General of Press Information Bureau, Frank Noronha said in a...

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday inducted two Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) into its 'Flying Daggers' 45 Squadron here.   Southern Air Command Air Officer Commanding-in Chief Air Marshal Jasbir Walia received the certified documents of the indigenous fighters from state-run...

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday discussed the operationalisation of India's first Rs 40,000 crore sovereign wealth fund, the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF).   "Second meeting of the governing council of the NIIF was held under the chairmanship of Arun...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 June 2016
Recent elections of the Rajya Sabha increase probability of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill being cleared by the upper house of the Parliament. If the Bill gets cleared in the Rajya Sabha, the roll out of GST could be by 1 April 2017, says Kotak Institutional Equities Research in a note....

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According to the World Urbanization Prospects of the UN Population Division, the percentage of people residing in urban areas is slated to rise to 60 percent by 2030 and to 66.4 percent by 2050, up from 54 percent in 2015. In 1950 the corresponding figure was just under 30 percent. This shows...

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