Written by Raakhi Jagga | Chandigarh, Ludhiana, New Delhi | Updated: December 31, 2020 7:05:12 am With mounting pressure on the congressional government in Punjab, Reliance Jio and ASSOCHAM separately wrote to Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday with the telecommunications giant seeking his intervention to take action against …
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The severe cold waves that hit north and northwest India drove mercury to subzero levels in many places in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday. Pahalgam (-9 degrees Celsius), Churu (-1.5 degrees Celsius), Kullu (-0.2 degrees Celsius), Amritsar (1.8 degrees Celsius) and the city of Jammu …
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Written by Shamik Chakrabarty, edited by Explained Desk | Kolkata | Updated: December 30, 2020 6:48:46 pm New Zealand’s victory in the first test against Pakistan has made them serious contenders to qualify for the final of the World Test Championship (WTC), to be played in June 2021 at Lord’s. …
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The cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved three industrial projects worth 7,725 million rupees under the National Industrial Corridor Program. These include multimodal transport and logistics hubs in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida, and industrial corridor nodes in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishnapatnam and Karnataka’s Tumakuru region, said Minister …
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Citing recently enacted farm laws, Khoja Traders, a trading company in Dewas owned by brothers Pavan Khoja and Suresh Khoja, cheated 22 farmers in Harda district with their 2,581 quintals of lentils per gram worth nearly 2 million rupees. The 22 farmers first tried to locate the merchant by calling …
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The supreme and former PNC Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday accused the Center of demolishing three new agricultural laws without consulting the states and stated that agriculture cannot be managed “sitting in Delhi” as it involves farmers working in distant villages. As farmers protest on the borders of Delhi …
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West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Tuesday that those who do not respect Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore claim to have built the “Sonar Bangla”. Conspiracies are brewing to destroy the culture of Bengal. Stop this policy of violence and divisive politics, ”CM Banerjee said while addressing a political …
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In what could hurt Congressional prospects in the Assam elections early next year, two MLAs from the incumbent party joined the BJP on Tuesday, days after meeting with Union Interior Minister Amit Shah in Guwahati. Former PWD Minister and current Golaghat Constituency MLA Ajanta Neog and the Acting MLA of …
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Mukesh Ambani spent much of 2020 convincing Facebook Inc., Google, and a handful of Wall Street heavyweights to buy into his vision for one of the world’s most ambitious corporate transformations. Now filled with $ 27 billion in fresh capital, Asia’s richest man is under pressure to deliver. The 63-year-old …
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When 22-year-old Shreyas Sudhaman, ICSE’s best in 2014, went abroad for his undergraduate education in chemical engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, he realized that the school did not. had equipped with some key skills. “I was much more adapted to textbook problems than innovative …
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