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Madhya Pradesh farmers hopeful of being ‘debt-free’ as loan waiver scheme kicks-off
By Sundeep Pouranik Bhopal, Jan 22 (IANS) A week after the launch of the loan waiver scheme in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress government claims 19.54 lakh farmers have filed their applications in the six days till Sunday. While the opposition…
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Gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir
Srinagar, Jan 22 (IANS) A gunfight between security forces and militants began on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district, police sources said. Firing exchanges were underway in the orchards of Heff Shermal village."The area has…
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Google Doodle honours Noble Laureate Lev Landau
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) The Google Doodle on Tuesday honoured Soviet theoretical physicist and Noble Laureate Lev Davidovich Landau, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research into liquid helium's behaviour at extremely low…
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WhatsApp rolls out 5-chat message forwarding limit globally
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Aiming to curb fake news, Facebook-owned platform WhatsApp on Monday announced it has globally lowered to five the forward limit for chats a feature first launched in India last July."Starting today, WhatsApp…
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Sugar output up by 8% till January
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) India's sugar production has increased by 8.32 per cent year-on-year to 14.6 million tonnes till January 15 but overall output at the end of the season will be lower than the previous year, the Indian Sugar Mills…
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Oracle gears up to launch its first India data centre this year
New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) Buoyed by the high demand in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), telecom and manufacturing sectors in India, Cloud major Oracle is set to launch its first-ever data centre in India later this year,…
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111-year-old Karnataka seer dead
Bengaluru, Jan 21 (IANS) Karnataka's 111-year-old revered seer, Shivakumara Swami of Siddaganga Mutt at Tumakuru, is dead, Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy announced on Monday."His holiness, Swamiji passed away at 11.44 a.m. at the Mutt…
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4,199 persons died in road accidents in Kerala in 2018
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 19 (IANS) The police here on Saturday said 4,199 persons died in road accidents in Kerala in 2018 - an average of over a 11 day. The numbers were 4,131 in 2017 and 4,287 in 2016, the Police Information Centre said.…
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Mizoram urges Centre to cover 80% people under National Food Security Act
Aizawl, Jan 19 (IANS) Mizoram has urged the Centre government to raise the coverage from 64.73 per cent to at least 80 per cent of its 12 lakh population under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in the state, an official said here on…
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Media must rebuild trust, credibility in 2019 as fake news, subscription war loom large
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) Media houses taking up arms against fake news, publishers looking towards subscriptions to make up for the losses, which may fuel lay-offs and thus weaken further their ability to hold politicians and tycoons to…
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