Added on November 3, 2020
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Mumbai: Domestic banks, which have the highest bad loan pile in the world, pose a huge risk to the recovery of the pandemic-ravaged economy unless the government rescues them, four former Reserve Bank governors warn in a soon-to-be-released book. While Raghuram Rajan blames excessive investments by companies and the exuberance of bankers, coupled with inability […]
Added on November 3, 2020
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Fayetteville (US): Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that if elected, he will convene a global summit of democracies in the first year of his presidency to counter the “rising authoritarianism” in the world and address issues of election security and human rights. Biden accused President Donald Trump of “embracing” every autocrat in the […]
Added on November 3, 2020
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Jammu: Six suspected smugglers were arrested on Monday after six kilograms cannabis and Rs one lakh cash were found in their possession in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, officials said here. Acting on reliable inputs, a police party of Udhampur intercepted a four-wheeler and two scooties on the highway at Thard, they said. During a […]
Added on November 2, 2020
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Beijing: The just-concluded key conclave of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) has finalised plans to build a fully modern military on par with the US by 2027, media reports here said. By the year 2027, which marks the centennial of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), China will build a fully […]
Added on November 2, 2020
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New Delhi: The ties between India and China have come under “severe stress” and the agreements inked by both sides over the last few years must be respected “scrupulously” in their “entirety” to restore normalcy in relations, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday in the midst of the eastern Ladakh border row. The […]
Added on November 2, 2020
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Beijing: China is all set to begin the construction of the strategic Sichuan-Tibet Railway between Ya’an in southwest Sichuan province and Linzhi in Tibet, close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh, the official media reported. China Railway announced on Saturday the bidding results for the construction of two tunnels and one bridge, as well […]
Added on November 2, 2020
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Samastipur/Chapra/Motihari/Bagaha: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday blazed through the electoral battleground in Bihar mocking RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as “double yuvraj” (two crown princes) who stood for “jungle raj” and were pitted against the NDA’s “double engine” growth which has pulled the state out of lantern age. Firing on all […]
Added on November 2, 2020
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New Delhi: Secularism as principle and practice in India is in “danger”, but “forces of hatred” cannot alter the country’s secular character, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor told PTI in an interview on his new book ‘The Battle of Belonging’. In the book, Tharoor makes a stinging critique of the Hindutva doctrine, asserting that it […]
Added on November 2, 2020
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Jammu: After a 24-year long legal battle, the framing of charges against 16 accused, including a retired IAS officer and four government employees, in the Jammu and Kashmir excise scam has been set in motion, an official said on Sunday. According to the spokesperson of the Crime Branch, Jammu, the state exchequer lost around Rs […]
Added on November 1, 2020
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Srinagar: The aim of the Jammu and Kashmir administration is to eradicate unemployment in the union territory in the next five years, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Saturday. He was speaking after inaugurating a day-long workshop on youth engagement and outreach here. The workshop, organised by the J-K administration at SKICC, was attended by […]
