Prime Minister Narendra Modi will distribute loans to nearly 300,000 street vendors under the PM SVANidhi (Pradhan Mantri Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi Yojana) scheme via video conferencing on Tuesday. He will also communicate with the beneficiaries of the scheme on the occasion. PM SVANidhi Scheme was launched on June 1, …
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The final list, published in August last year, had excluded 19.22 lakh people (archive) Guwahati: At least two stakeholders in the case from the Assam National Citizen Registry have decided to approach the Supreme Court with new petitions, challenging the order of the NRC’s state coordinator, Hitesh Dev Sarma, to …
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The Indian Army is expected to reorganize under five theater commands by 2022 with defined areas of operation and a seamless command structure for synchronized operations. Since the military affairs department will soon have additional and joint secretaries after cabinet clearance, the task of reorganizing the three services under theater …
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Indian cricket fans were in for a huge surprise when BCCI announced the teams for the upcoming Team India tour of Australia on Monday. The name of Rohit Sharma, vice captain and limited test starter, was missing from the teams in all three formats. Rohit has missed the last two …
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NEW DELHI: Kotak Mahindra Bank reported on Monday a 26.27 percent year-on-year increase in stand-alone net profit at Rs 2,184.48 crore for the September quarter. The private lender had reported a profit of Rs 1,724.48 crore in the prior year quarter. Analysts surveyed by ET NOW had projected a profit …
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The third phase of the human trial of the indigenously developed COVID-19 ‘Covaxin’ vaccine will soon begin at the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) and SUM Hospital in Odisha. IMS and SUM Hospital are on the list of 21 medical institutes selected across the country by the Indian Council for …
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With four wins in a row, KL Rahul’s Kings XI Punjab have struggled for a real shot at the playoffs. Their next competition will be against Kolkata Knight Riders and a win over them will place KXIP on the right side of the scoreboard. It is a must win game …
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Narendra Modi “understood the spirit of our booth,” wrote RK Raghavan in his book. (Proceedings) New Delhi: Without stopping a single question out of over 100 asked by the 2002 SIT Gujarat riots, Narendra Modi, as the then Gujarat chief minister, “kept his cool” during the 9-hour marathon of interrogation …
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Mukesh Ambani is exploring a countersuit against Jeff Bezos’ Amazon.com Inc. in India after the US e-commerce giant blocked Reliance Industries Ltd’s (RIL) bid to buy Future group assets in a Singapore court, while Asia’s richest man takes on the world’s richest man for supremacy in India’s retail market, said …
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MUMBAI: cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar He praised Varun Chakravarthy, who on Monday won his first India call-up for T20 Internationals against Australia, saying that he has been impressed by the variations of the mysterious spinner and the calm head during the IPL in the United Arab Emirates. “Varun has been …
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