Farmers protesting Wednesday announced a four-hour blockade of trains across the country on February 18 as part of a new strategy to intensify their agitation against the new farm laws. Revealing its plans for the month, Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella organization for agricultural unions, said it will make all …
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Rising Sun Holdings, controlled by Adar Poonawalla, will acquire a 60 percent stake in non-bank finance company (NBFC) Magma Fincorp by underwriting a prime issue of Rs 3,456 crore. After the capital infusion, Magma and its subsidiaries will be renamed and renamed Poonawalla Finance. Poonawalla Finance is an existing finance …
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau on Wednesday that India would do everything possible to facilitate supplies of the Covid vaccines sought by Canada. Trudeau, who made a phone call to the prime minister, said that if the world succeeded in conquering Covid-19, it …
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A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific on Thursday, generating a tsunami that threatened island nations in the region. The quake struck shortly after midnight Thursday local time (1320 GMT Wednesday) about 415 kilometers (258 miles) east of Vao in New Caledonia at a depth of 10 kilometers, according …
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New Zealand authorities early on Thursday urged residents along its north coast to avoid beaches and coastal areas after a strong earthquake struck southeast of the Loyalty Islands in the Pacific. New Zealand’s National Emergency Management Agency said people should get out of the water, off beaches and away from …
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Slogans in Parliament as the Prime Minister speaks about agricultural laws. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response to the motion of thanks in the president’s speech was overtaken by angry opposition protests when he mentioned farm laws today. After a major altercation, Congress and the Trinamool Congress withdrew when …
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Stock Market Updates: Energetic buying in the last hour of trading helped domestic stock markets close unchanged Wednesday amid losses in select IT and financial stocks. The top-line S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty50 indices broke below their psychological levels of 51,000 and 15,000 to hit an intraday low of 50,846 …
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A lion enters a hotel in Junagadh, Gujarat. Shocking CCTV footage shows the moment a lion checked into a hotel in Gujarat. Surveillance camera footage from a hotel in Junagadh shows the lion leaping over a low boundary wall to enter the hotel’s premises in the early hours of Monday …
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The government asked Twitter to block 1,178 accounts. New Delhi: Twitter, which was asked by the government to block 1,178 accounts for allegedly spreading misinformation about farmers’ protests and provocative content, said today that the orders were inconsistent with Indian law and that, for some accounts, it would restrict access …
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