The rupee hit a new low of 78.28 in intraday trade and closed below the 78 level for the first time on Monday as foreign investors sold in the equity markets over fears that the US Fed may hike interest rates further. A forex dealer said that markets were beginning to factor in a further 75-basis-point-increase in interest rates in the United States.
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Monday, June 13, 2022
Amrit Mahotsav: Centre plans to release prisoners
The government has decided to grant special remission to certain categories of prisoners as part of celebrations of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence. Jailed convicts who fulfil the conditions for release under the scheme will be set free on three dates — August 15, 2022; January 26, 2023; and August 15, 2023, the home ministry apprised all states and Union territories in a communication dated June 10.
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National Herald case: Rahul Gandhi quizzed by ED for 11 hours, called again today
Monday’s session began at 11am with the Congress leader being asked about transactions related to acquisition of Associated Journals Ltd, publisher of National Herald and other Congress publications, by Young Indian for Rs 50 lakh. The latter is a private company controlled by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her two children.
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Sunday, June 12, 2022
Rahul Gandhi set to appear before ED today
Congress leaders fanned out across states slamming the ED summons to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald-AJL case. They said there was no illegality in the actions to settle the debt of National Herald newspaper, and the ED decision to question the Congress leadership was a proxy action for the ruling BJP.
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Sonia Gandhi admitted to hospital, said to be ‘stable’
After she conracted Covid last week, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Sunday was admitted to the Ganga Ram Hospital for infection-related issues. AICC spokesman Randeep Surjewala tweeted, “Congress president Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Ganga Ram Hospital today owing to Covid related issues.
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Bulldozer razes home of Prayagraj unrest ‘kingpin’
Municipal authorities in Prayagraj demolished a two-storey house belonging to Javed Mohammed, alias Javed Pump, the arrested “mastermind” of the violence and arson in the city. A police team claimed to have found two country-made pistols, live cartridges, and allegedly inflammatory literature, posters and flags in the house.
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Govt loses UK battle against $111m award to RIL-BG in oilfield dispute
An English commercial court has dismissed the government’s appeal against a $111 million international arbitration award in favour of Reliance Industries Ltd and BG (formerly British Gas, a now Shell subsidiary) in an 11-year-old dispute over recovery of costs for operating the Panna-Mukta and Tapti fields off the Mumbai coast.
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Parkash Singh Badal hospitalised, condition improving
Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch Parkash Singh Badal has been admitted to a hospital in Mohali following a complaint of gastritis and bronchial asthma but his condition was improving, according to a health update on Sunday evening.
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Saturday, June 11, 2022
Live: Russian shelling causes chemical-plant fire in eastern Ukrainian city
Ukraine has reported the death of 24 more children in Mariupol. Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his country's forces were doing everything to stop the Russian offensive, with fierce battles in the east and the south. Kyiv had launched new air strikes in the captured southern region of Kherson, one of the first areas to be taken by Russia after the February 24 invasion.Stay with TOI for latest updates:
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Mamata calls Presidential poll meet, raises eyebrows
In a move parallel to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s initiative to rally opposition parties for putting up a joint candidate in the presidential polls, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote to 22 politicians of non-BJP outfits for unity in the contest for Rashtrapati Bhavan, laying bare once again the fissures and the tendency for one-upmanship within the anti-Modi camp.
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Friday, June 10, 2022
India’s crude cost hits a decade high
India’s crude cost rose to $121.28 per barrel on Thursday, the highest since March 9, 2012 when it had hit $125.13. This has pushed the monthly average in June to $118.34 per barrel, a level last seen in April 2012 when the price averaged $118.64.
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Edutech cos under lens; norms on fake reviews on e-com sites soon
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India abstains from vote on IAEA resolution slamming Iran
India joined Pakistan and Libya in abstaining from voting on a resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that slammed Iran for its lack of cooperation with the global community on the nuclear issue. Thirty countries voted in favour of the resolution, that was drafted by the US, UK, France and Germany. Russia and China voted against it.
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Prophet row: Unrest in several states after Friday prayers
Protests were held after the Friday prayers in several states and Union territories across the country against the controversial remarks made by former BJP spokespersons Nupur Sharma and Navin Kumar Jindal on Prophet Muhammad with police resorting to lathicharge and teargassing at some places where the demonstrations turned violent.
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'Arresting Aryan Khan was a consensual decision' - Report
After Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was given clean chit by the Narcotics Control Bureau in the cruise drug bust case, former NCB Zonal director Sameer Wankhede transferred to Chennai.
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Thursday, June 9, 2022
1st in Asia: Thailand legalises marijuana but smoking pot still illegal
Thailand legalised the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on Thursday, the first Asian country to do so, with the aim of boosting its agriculture and tourism sectors, but smoking pot is still against the law.
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President polls on July 18, NDA very close to halfway mark
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Prophet row: Owaisi among 31 booked for ‘promoting enmity’
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Curfew in Jammu’s Bhaderwah town following communal tension
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Come July, Goa flights to cost more due to hike in airport charges
Come July, a vacation to Goa will cost more if you choose to travel by air. Now flying out of Goa will be costlier from July 1 till next March and then the air ticket prices will get progressively more expensive every fiscal till April 2025.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
CM Nitish: Harmonious Bihar doesn't need anti-conversion law
NItish Kumar also pointed out that no major incident of communal riots occurred in Bihar for the last several years. The state government maintains special attention over even a minor communal incident. “We are fully alert over such issues,” he said.
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No mask could now land flyers on no-fly list
Failure to wear masks and follow all other Covid protocol on aircraft could land air travellers on the no-fly list and fines for defying the norms at airports. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday reiterated the pandemic-time rules for flyers following a Delhi High Court judge saw poor compliance of the same on a recent domestic flight.
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EMIs set to go up as RBI hikes rates in bid to curb price rise
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QS World University Rankings: IISc-Bengaluru is top research varsity
IISc-Bengaluru is now the ‘fastest-rising’ South Asian university, inching closer to the global Top 150, having gained 31 places to 155 in this year’s QS World University Rankings. It remains the world’s top research university, ahead of Harvard, Princeton University and MIT. IITs in Guwahati (37th) and Roorkee (47th) and new entrant University of Madras (48th) also made it to the elite list of global Top 50 research institutions.
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Twitter plans to provide Musk with data on bots: Report
Twitter Inc plans to comply with Elon Musk's demand for data on fake accounts, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the company's thinking.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Prophet row: BJP leader held for inflammatory remarks in Kanpur
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ED: Rs 2.85cr cash, 133 gold coins seized from Delhi minister Jain, kin
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Johnny Depp splashes out Rs 48 lakh on Indian restaurant in Birmingham
Depp spent the cash at the popular Indian restaurant Varanasi on Broad Street, which he hired out in its entirety to have dinner with close friend Beck, their entourage and bodyguards.
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Despite surviving no-trust vote, Boris Johnson's future far from secure
He will have to contend with a privileges committee probe into whether he misled the House of Commons, two difficult byelections, Tory rebels plotting to change party rules to allow a second challenge to his leadership before the current 12-month limit, and the possibility of his Cabinet resigning.
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Pune firm builds 25.56-km bituminous stretch of NH in record 78 hrs
Creating a world record, a Pune-based infrastructure company built a 25.56 km or 75 lane km bituminous National Highway in Maharashtra in just 78 hours. The earlier world record of 25.27 km was achieved in Doha, Qatar, by its public works authority – Ashgha.
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Monday, June 6, 2022
'Around 71% of govt schools across country made disabled friendly'
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WatchOS 9 brings new medication, health features to Apple Watch
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Movie review: Janhit Mein Jaari
A light-hearted film that spells out the importance of condoms and addresses the social stigma around its use.
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Sunday, June 5, 2022
VP Naidu meets top Qatar leaders but no meeting with deputy Amir
As India struggled to contain the diplomatic fallout of the controversial remarks by BJP functionaries targeting the Prophet, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu held a series of meetings with Qatar leaders to boost bilateral ties in Doha. One of his meetings though, in the form of a lunch by deputy Amir Sheik Abdullah Bin Ahmed al Thani on Saturday, was called off at the last moment.
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India’s role in climate change negligible: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that India's role in climate change is negligible but the country is working on a long-term vision in collaboration with the international community to protect the environment. On World Environment Day, he underlined that the country's efforts to protect nature have been multifaceted and his government in the last eight years has kept environmental protection at the core of all key schemes.
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'Telangana politician's son' arrested in Hyderabad gang rape
A teenager believed to be the son of a Telangana politician from Sangareddy district was arrested Sunday for his alleged role in the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in a car parked at an isolated place in Hyderabad’s upscale Banjara Hills neighbourhood on May 28.
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India draws Arab world ire; BJP suspends spokesperson Nupur, expels Jindal for remarks on Prophet
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India's first medical drone corridor likely to link AIIMS Delhi & Jhajjar
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Ankita Lokhande and Vicky Jain win Smart Jodi
The actress in an exclusive chat shares how winning the show was about discovering how she made a good team with her husband Vicky Jain.
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Saturday, June 4, 2022
Anger as transfer list of 177 Kashmiri Pandit teachers leaked
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Corbevax gets DCGI nod for use as booster jab
Hyderabad-based Biological E Limited’s Covid-19 vaccine Corbevax has emerged as the first vaccine to bag approval from the Drug Controller General of India for use as a heterologous booster dose, for those aged 18 years and above, after 6 months of administration of the second dose of either Covaxin or Covishield.
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Friday, June 3, 2022
'Threat to Amarnath yatra, but security agencies fully prepared’
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Adding service charge in food bill is deceit: Goyal
Restaurants cannot add “service charge” to food bills and it should be left to the discretion of diners to leave tips, Union food and consumer affairs minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. Adding service charge to the bill is “chhal” (deceit), the minister said, and eateries cannot mislead people by charging for service. “It has to be the consumer’s choice," he added.
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Thursday, June 2, 2022
In first visit since US exit, Indian officials hold talks with Taliban in Kabul
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In pics: Rajkummar at Badhaai Do screening
Pics: Rajkummar at Badhaai Do screening
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
ED summons Sonia, Rahul for questioning in laundering case
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul for questioning next week in a money laundering case registered against Young Indian, which owns Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) and its properties worth over Rs 800 crore. Sonia and her two children — Rahul and Priyanka — are majority shareholders in Young Indian.
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Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg steps down after 14 years
Meta Platforms Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is leaving the company after 14 years, she said in a Facebook post on Wednesday, sending the social media firm's shares down 4%. Chief Growth Officer Javier Olivan will replace Sandberg, said Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg in a separate post. Javier has worked at Meta for more than 14 years and has led teams handling Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.
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Raj Kapoor’s telegram had Gundappa Vishwanath over the moon
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NEET-PG: Mandaviya lauds NBEMS for declaring result in record time
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022
ED gets 10-day custody of Jain to verify money trail
A special court here sent Delhi cabinet minister Satyendar Jain to the Enforcement Directorate’s custody for 10 days on Tuesday after the agency claimed his custodial interrogation was important to verify the source of more than Rs 5 crore he had allegedly received from Kolkata-based shell companies in entities controlled by him.
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KK demise: Rahul Vaidya says 'Beyond shocked'
Popular Bollywood singer KK is no more. The singer fell sick while performing at Nazrul Mancha Kolkata and was declared dead after he was brought to the hospital.
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Monday, May 30, 2022
PM personally ensures last-mile delivery of welfare plans: Nadda
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Women can't be thrown out of house at will: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday observed that a woman has a right to residence at the houses of her mother as well as her mother-in-law and sending her away "just because you cannot stand her face will not be allowed by this court". "This attitude of throwing out women from their matrimonial homes because of certain matrimonial squabbles is cracking up families," said a vacation bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and B V Nagarathna.
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Live: Russians, Ukrainians fight block by block in eastern city
Russian troops pushed farther into a key eastern Ukrainian city and fought street by street with Kyiv's forces Monday in a battle the mayor said has left the city in ruins and driven tens of thousands of people from their homes. Military analysts painted the fight for Sievierodonetsk as part of a race against time for the Kremlin. Stay with TOI for more updates --
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People need Uniform Civil Code: Law minister Kiren Rijiju
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PM Modi reaches out to Covid orphans
PM Modi on Monday released benefits under the PM Cares for Children scheme to those orphaned due to Covid-19 and then wrote individual letters to each of the 4,345 beneficiaries where he shared the pain experienced by his mother, who lost her mother in a previous pandemic that occurred about a century ago.
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90 Char Dham pilgrims died in 2019; this year, 108 in just 27 days
108 pilgrims dead in less than a month since the Char Dham yatra began on May 3 this year; 90 deaths recorded during the entire six-month period of the pilgrimage in 2019; 102 deaths in 2018 (whole season); 112 in 2017. Around 12 lakh have been on the yatra so far in 2022. In comparison, 32 lakh pilgrims attended the pilgrimage in 2019 and 26 lakh in 2018.
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Sunday, May 29, 2022
Monsoon reaches Kerala 3 days early, likely to hit Delhi around June 25
The southwest (summer) Monsoon arrived in Kerala on Sunday, three days ahead of its normal date of onset (June 1), beginning the four-month rainy season in the country, said the India Meteorological Department which has already predicted ‘normal’ and well-distributed rainfall during the season. This is only the third occasion in the past 10 years when the summer monsoon recorded early onset — before June 1.
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Don't litter Kedarnath, PM Modi exhorts pilgrims
In his monthly radio address 'Mann ki Baat', Modi said, "I have also seen that some devotees are also very sad because of the filth being spread by some pilgrims in Kedarnath. Many people have expressed their views on social media as well. Going on a holy pilgrimage and coming across a heap of filth there is not right... We go there to experience it (the divinity of Dev Bhoomi), so it is our responsibility to maintain this divinity and spirituality."
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'After Ayodhya, Kashi, Mathura and Vrindavan waking up too'
UP CM Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that after the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the temple town of Kashi appears to be waking up, as are Mathura, Vrindavan, Vindhyavasini Dham and Naimisharanya Dham. His remarks came amid legal proceedings in the KV Temple-Gyanvapi mosque dispute.
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Nirmala, Piyush on BJP’s Rajya Sabha list; Naqvi, RCP’s fate uncertain
Bihar CM and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar has denied Union steel minister RCP Singh another term in the Rajya Sabha, while the fate of minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abaas Naqvi also looked uncertain after he failed to make it to the first list of BJP candidates from UP and Jharkhand. If the RS memberships of the two are not renewed, they will have to resign as ministers, setting the stage for a minor reshuffle of the Modi ministry.
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Nadal to face Djokovic in French Open quarter-final
Rafael Nadal set up a blockbuster French Open quarter-final against world number one Novak Djokovic on Sunday when he defeated Felix Auger-Aliassime in a five-set fourth round epic.
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Saturday, May 28, 2022
Working on making coasts impregnable with new tech: Amit Shah
Home minister Amit Shah on Saturday visited the National Academy of Coastal Policing (NACP) at Okha in Devbhumi Dwarka district after offering prayers at Dwarkadhish temple on the first day of his Gujarat visit. He said the Modi government is working towards making coastal security strong and impregnable by using new technologies. “The Union government is seriously assessing the challenges to coastal security to address maritime threats,” Shah said during his visit to NACP.
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Tata Motors gets Gujarat nod to take over Ford's Sanand plant
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Sky's the limit for Maha's 'first Shia girl' with commercial pilot's licence
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Routes via Myanmar, Bangladesh could transform Asia: EAM Jaishankar
India can overcome geography and rewrite history "if only we get the policies and the economics right", foreign minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday while highlighting how land connectivity through Myanmar and sea connectivity through Bangladesh on a commercial scale could open up "a world all the way to Vietnam and Philippines, from Haiphong to Hazira, and Manila to Mundra".
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'Scores dip below 2017 levels across subjects, classes'
The academic disruptions due to the Covid-19 situation, with nearly a quarter of school children not having access to any digital devices, led to further deepening of the learning crisis in the country. When compared to the previous survey conducted in 2017, the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 of over 34 lakh students from classes III, V, VIII and X indicated that the worst hit are those studying in state-government run schools.
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UCL Final Live: Liverpool vs Real Madrid
UEFA Champions League Final, Liverpool vs Real Madrid Live Updates: Liverpool and Real Madrid meet in the Champions League final in Paris today, with Jurgen Klopp's side aiming to end the season with a trophy treble while the Spanish giants will look to Karim Benzema to inspire them to a 14th European Cup victory. The final promises to be a fitting climax to the European season, with Liverpool looking to win a second Champions League in four seasons just days after they narrowly lost out to Manchester City in the Premier League title race.
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Friday, May 27, 2022
Modi, Xi, Putin to meet at June 24 Brics summit
The Brics 2022 summit to be hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping will take place on June 24, official sources said. While the meeting will take place virtually, it will still be followed closely as it will bring Xi, PM Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin together for the first time since Russia launched its "special military operation'' in Ukraine.
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SC stays onerous HC riders for Azam Khan's bail in land-grab case
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed onerous conditions imposed by Allahabad HC while granting bail to SP member Azam Khan in the alleged grabbing of enemy property at Rampur, UP, and stopped handing over of land to government to be used for training purposes of paramilitary forces.
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Wholesale prices to fuel consumer inflation, says RBI
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has warned of more inflation as an increase in wholesale prices gets passed on to consumers with a lag. The conflict over Ukraine and the consequent spike in commodity prices has overcast the outlook for inflation in India as in the rest of the world, the central bank has cautioned.
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Poor suffered as earlier govts were indifferent to tech, says PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the government is seeking to use technological aids, including drones, to deliver benefits to the poor and the middle class, something that was missing due to the indifference towards the use of technology in governance. "Har haath mein smartphone. Har khet drone. Har ghar samridhi, (a smart phone for all, a drone for each field and prosperity for each household is my dream)," Modi said, while inaugurating a drone expo on Friday.
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IPL: Prasidh, Buttler send Rajasthan Royals to their first final since 2008
Jos Buttler extended his dream run this season with a record-equalling fourth hundred as Rajasthan Royals produced a ruthless performance to beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets on Friday and reach their first IPL final since the inaugural edition in 2008. Buttler (1068), the leading run getter of the tournament by a fair distance, toyed with the RCB attack to ensure the Royals romped to victory in 18.1 overs.
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