Xi ‘secretly’ visits Tibet, first trip by a China president in 3 decades

In a development that raised eyebrows across the world, Chinese President Xi Jinping made an unannounced visit to Tibet this week, including to Nyingchi located close to Arunachal Pradesh. ​​This was Xi’s first visit to Tibet since taking over as president in 2013.

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Surfeit of 95%-plus scores forces CBSE result revision

The CBSE board is faced with a unique problem this year: A sudden spike in high achievers. After the board’s software pored over the data submitted by schools, it recently found the count of candidates with 95%-plus had zoomed way above the previous years’ numbers.

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After e-tron launch, Audi preparing for 'EV marathon'

Audi India is the third luxury brand to enter the sunrise sector expects up to 15 per cent of its total sales through electric vehicles by 2025

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3rd ODI: SL bag consolation win; India clinch series 2-1

A rejigged Indian team promised a lot but delivered little as Sri Lanka finally managed to chase the 227-run target as per DLS method in 39 overs and complete their first ODI win at home against India since July 24, 2012 and first victory against them since the 2017 ODI at Dharamsala. The hosts beat the visitors by three wickets in the third and final match of the series on Friday.

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Shilpa resigned from Raj Kundra’s co, cops investigating

Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra spent 6 long hours today evening as officials from Mumbai's Crime Branch searched through their sprawling home looking for key evidence. Sources close to the investigation have revealed that Shilpa’s involvement in the case is being probed into right now.

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Over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Some Delhi-based Kashmiri journalists and over 25 people from the Kashmir Valley were selected as potential targets for surveillance between 2017 and mid-2019 by an yet unidentified government agency that is also believed to be a client of the Israeli company NSO Group, The Wire reported on Friday.

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YouTube removes Bengal BJP chief's videos

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Live: BIEAP Intermediate 2nd year results today at 4 PM

Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education (BIEAP) will release AP Intermediate 2nd year results today at 4 PM. BIEAP Inter results 2021 will be released on the official website of the Board - bie.ap.gov.in. Stay connected with the TimesofIndia.com for the latest updates on AP Inter 2nd Year results 2021:

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It’s time for digital currency to counter crypto, says RBI

Making a strong argument in favour of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) for India, the RBI has said that it would reduce currency costs for the government and would help offset the threat of virtual currencies.

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Oly live: Archer Deepika finishes 9th in ranking round

Stay with Times of India to get all the live updates on Olympics 2021, India Events at Tokyo Olympics, Results, Medal Table and more on Times of India. Star Indian archer Deepika Kumari finished ninth in the women's individual ranking round as the country's Olympic campaign kickstarted at the Yumenoshima Park. The world No.1 finished with 663 points.

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China's Xi visits Tibet amid border tensions with India

Xi arrived in the regional capital Lhasa on Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency said on social media. Xi inspected the operation of the Sichuan-Tibet railway during his visit. The region has been at the center of ongoing border tensions with India.

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Covid live: 'Relax travel restrictions for Indians'

India continues to report nearly 40,000 daily cases as states gear up to fight a possible third wave of the coronavirus infection in the country. Stay with TOI for all the live updates

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'Centre never sought oxygen death data'

Two Congress-led states on Thursday refuted the Centre’s statement in Parliament that “no deaths due to lack of oxygen were specifically reported by the states” during the second wave of Covid-19. ​​The health ministers of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh claimed their states were never asked to submit the relevant data and hence did not report the number of Covid deaths medically attributed to oxygen shortage.

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Ready to go: Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa

Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa gave enough indications on Thursday that his exit was imminent and said he would abide by the BJP central leadership’s decision about his political future.

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Amarinder to attend Sidhu’s installation ceremony

Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday agreed to attend the installation ceremony of the new Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu, putting an end to speculations that he may boycott the event on Friday. ​​The CM will also host party MLAs and MPs over tea before Sidhu assumes charge. Amarinder had earlier put a precondition that Sidhu should publicly apologise for his ‘derogatory’ tweets before he agrees to meet Sidhu.

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Second-hand flat buyers have same rights: SC

In a major relief to homebuyers who purchased flats from original allottees but were not delivered the apartments, the Supreme Court on Thursday said a builder cannot deny their right to get possession within a reasonable period of time and that they are also entitled to get a refund of their money.

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Phones of ex-CBI chief Alok Verma too on snoop list: Report

After the government decided to remove Alok Verma as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief, his three phone numbers were allegedly noted by an unnamed agency which was known to be a user of the Pegasus spyware, a web portal said in a report on Thursday.

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IT searches Dainik Bhaskar, oppn calls it attack on press

In a major action, income tax (I-T) officials on Thursday conducted searches on 30 premises across several cities, including Indore, Bhopal, Jaipur, Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Korba and Ahmedabad, against the Bhaskar media group and its promoters in the Panama paper leak case.

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Anil Ambani may also have been surveilled: Report

Phone numbers that have been used by Anil Ambani and one other official of the Reliance ADA Group were added to the leaked list that was analysed by media partners of the Pegasus Project consortium, web portal The Wire said on Thursday.

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High positivity in some states could spur next wave: Govt

Even as the overall Covid positivity rate has been less than 3% for over a month now, states like Kerala, Manipur, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Nagaland and Meghalaya still have large number of districts with weekly positivity significantly above 10%, causing concern in the Centre that this may trigger the next wave in the absence of stringent micro-level containment.

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'Pegasus row aimed at derailing data protection bill'

Junior external affairs minister Meenakshi Lekhi on Thursday said the Pegasus controversy was linked to a report of a parliamentary committee headed by her that examined the Personal Data Protection Bill, and was an attempt to prevent such a legislation.

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Pegasus row: MP snatches, tears IT min’s papers in Parl

High drama unfolded in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday afternoon when Trinamool Congress MP Shantanu Sen snatched papers from IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw just as the minister stood up to make a statement on the Pegasus snooping row, setting off a heated exchange of words with BJP benches.

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Shilpa Shetty's first post since Raj Kundra’s arrest

Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra has been arrested for creating pornography content for mobile applications. He has been sent to police custody till Friday. Also, the latest reports stated that Shilpa will not be served a summon in the Raj Kundra case which was being speculated in the last few days.

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Why SBI, Google & other websites were not working

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Govt clears 100% FDI in PSU oil cos to pave way for BPCL selloff

The government on Thursday cleared 100% FDI (foreign direct investment) through the automatic route in public sector oil companies, paving the way for overseas investors to acquire Bharat Petroleum Corporation, which is up for sale.

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CCI issues notice to Amazon; seeks explanation on FCL deal

Competition Commission has issued a show cause notice to Amazon seeking an explanation from the e-commerce major regarding a deal with a Future Group firm that was approved by the watchdog in 2019, according to sources.

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Audi drives in electric in India; considers local production

Electric is the buzzword for German luxury maker Audi which drove in its first set of green cars in India under the e-tron badging, costing Rs 1 crore and above (ex-showroom), as the company takes on compatriot Mercedes Benz’s EQC and prepares a line-up ahead of Tesla’s entry.

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Pandemic recession was shortest ever in the US

While the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, as rising case numbers in various countries sadly illustrate, the recession it brought on to the US economy officially is.

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'Anil Ambani, ex-CBI chief potential Pegasus spyware targets'

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Akamai outage takes half of global internet down

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Grim scenes in China as flood inundates a subway

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Govt depts: E-comm rules to hit investor sentiment

Several government departments have expressed concerns over the proposed consumer protection norms for e-commerce companies, arguing that it will impact ease of doing business and the overall investment sentiment.

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TCS to spend $320 million on marathons

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will spend as much as $320 million on marathon sponsorships for the next eight years. This would make it one of the top spenders on the running event.

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Two Olympic athletes test positive for COVID-19: Organisers

Tokyo 2020 Olympic organisers said on Thursday two athletes residing in the Olympic village tested positive for COVID-19. The organisers announced 12 new positive cases overall, including the two athletes, bringing the total to 87.

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Top10 - The next Covid wave is already here: WHO chief

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'Pawan Munjal can't use 'Hero' tag for electric vehicles'

In a setback for the Pawan Munjal-run Hero MotoCorp, a 2010 family settlement bars the company and its promoter from using the popular ‘Hero’ brand name for any type of electric vehicle — two-, three- and four-wheeler — as the global rights for the green technology have been allotted to his family member and nephew Naveen Munjal’s Hero Electric.

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Tesla mints nickel deal with Aussie mining giant

Anglo-Australian mining firm BHP said Thursday it had reached a deal to provide Tesla with supplies of nickel -- a metal vital in producing high-powered batteries for electric cars.

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Govt may restrict benefits for employees of Air India

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India in extended troika on Af? Russia yet to decide

Even as it backs a stronger role for India in the Afghanistan peace process, Russia is yet to make up its mind on India’s participation in the extended troika format involving US, China, Russia and Pakistan.

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WHO boss says vaccine IP waiver not a property 'snatch'

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Kangana moves Bombay HC against defamation case

In an appeal filed through advocate Rizwan Siddiquee, Ranaut claimed that the Andheri metropolitan magistrate's court initiated proceedings against her by relying only on the police's report and did not examine witnesses independently.

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China woos young Tibetans to join PLA

China has further cranked up efforts to recruit young Tibetans in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and local militias as well as to act as guides along the border, even as it continues to consolidate its military positions and upgrade its airbases facing India.

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Big dip in J&K terror incidents in 2021

Jammu & Kashmir recorded a significant decline in terror-related incidents this year, which fell to 67 till July 16, 2021 from 105 till June 30 last year. Local terror recruitment too was lower at 57 cases till July 16 this year as compared to 73 in the first half of 2020.

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Taliban routing drugs to West via India: DRI

A Taliban link to drug smuggling to the West via Hyderabad and other Indian cities has emerged in the probe by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). Heroin consignments are frequently being caught at airports in the past few weeks, with three cases in Hyderabad alone.

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Didi tries to rally opposition for 2024 but says no PM aspirations

“We have to unite, for our people, for our country. People will never forgive us if we don’t,” said Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday, using the “July 21 Martyrs’ Day” platform to pitch for a united “front” of opposition parties to take on BJP in the 2024 general election.

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Israeli ministers to look into NSO spyware charges

Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to look into growing allegations that the Pegasus spyware sold by an Israeli cyber firm has been abused in India, France, Mexico, Morocco and Iraq, an Israeli source said on Wednesday.

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Delta causing most post-vaccine infections

Genome sequencing of recent samples from across the country shows that the Delta variant continues to be the dominant lineage causing new Covid-19 cases though there is strong evidence that vaccination offers a high level of protection, the Indian SARS-CoV2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) said.

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Sidhu hosts '62 MLAs' in show of strength

Navjot Singh Sidhu’s meeting with “62 MLAs” at his residence on Wednesday, followed by a trip to the Golden Temple to pray, MLAs in tow, was seen as a major show of strength by the newly appointed Punjab Congress chief in his running feud with chief minister Amarinder Singh.

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UP seeks SC okay to install statues in public places

Keen to install statues of saints, religious leaders, political figures, freedom fighters and martyrs in public places, the Yogi Adityanath government has moved the Supreme Court seeking relaxation of its eight-year-old order banning such activities.

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Drones spotted near Jammu Air Force station

Drone activity was detected near the Jammu Air Force station once again on Wednesday morning, less than a week after a flying machine was spotted along the Line of Control (LoC) in Pallanwala area of Akhnoor.

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India, Pakistan forces exchange Eid sweets

The Indian Army and Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday exchanged sweets and pleasantries with their Pakistani counterparts on the occasion of Eid-ul-Adha at different border posts in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab for the first time since the Pulwama attack in 2019.

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Nirav states he is suicidal and won’t get fair trial in India

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TCS to invest $30-40m in global running sponsorships

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Wednesday said it plans to invest up to $40 million annually in global running sponsorships and related community programming from 2022 to 2029.

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All you want to know about bird flu death at AIIMS

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Magnitude-5.3 earthquake hits Rajasthan's Bikaner

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 on the Richter Scale hit Rajasthan's Bikaner on Wednesday.

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HCL plans to give Mercedes-Benz to performers

It’s a technologist’s market and IT firms are warming up to cool perks and cash-based incentives to retain talent as replacements may come at 20% higher costs. Top performers in HCL Technologies, for instance, might drive home a Mercedes Benz.

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'Rahul sir's belief in my batting pushed me to perform'

India pacer Deepak Chahar, who was an unexpected hero with the bat in the 2nd ODI against Sri Lanka, said coach Rahul Dravid's belief in his batting inspired him to produce a match-winning knock for his team. Chahar came ahead of the more accomplished Bhuvneshwar in the batting order after India lost their 6 wickets for 160 runs while chasing 276. In the end, they both forged an unbeaten 84-run stand to script a 3-wicket win.

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Haryana, Punjab have 4% of India's population, 40% of Oly squad

Athletes from Haryana and Punjab are once again leading the way for the country at the Olympics. The two states, with just 4.4% share of India’s population, have together sent 50 athletes to the Tokyo Games, accounting for 40% of the Indian contingent. Haryana has 31 athletes in the contingent, nearly 25% of the total, while Punjab has 19.

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Live: Kerala's daily Covid-19 cases at 45-day high

India’s tally was back to nearly 40,000 on Tuesday, a day after the country had reported the fewest daily cases since March 16. In the northeast, new cases surged to an all-time high of 806 in Mizoram while Manipur recorded 1,127, just short of the state’s highest count of 1,171 reported last Saturday. Numbers were also high in Arunachal (508), Meghalaya (500) and Tripura (488). Stay with TOI for all the updates

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India’s first bird flu death reported at AIIMS-Delhi

India has reported the first case of human death due to bird flu, the strain of influenza virus that primarily affects birds.

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Raj Kundra sold app to cover up porn trail, say police

To mislead investigating agencies, businessman Ripu Sudan Balkrishna Kundra alias Raj Kundra (45), arrested on Monday for production of pornographic films, sold his app ‘Hotshots’ to the UK-based company Kenrin Pvt Ltd owned by his brother-in-law Pradeep Bakshi but controlled activities from Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.

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Kids handle virus better, open primary schools first: ICMR

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'Legislature won’t act against criminalisation of politics'

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India may be first to get DNA vax for Covid: Mandaviya

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‘Covid ICU costs equal to 7-month pay for avg Indian’

The cost of hospitalisation in the ICU for Covid-19 treatment in India is equivalent to seven months or more of earnings for the average salaried, self-employed or casual worker, with the burden on casual workers equivalent to a year and three months’ income, a study has concluded.

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Kerala easing curbs for Eid a sorry state of affairs: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed a stricture against the Pinarayi Vijayan administration in Kerala for succumbing to traders’ pressure to relax Covid lockdown norms for Eid shopping even when the ‘God’s own country’ had a high Covid positivity rate with more than 1.2 lakh active cases.

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'Karnataka netas picked for possible surveillance'

Mobile phone numbers of former Karnataka deputy chief minister G Parameshwara and the personal secretaries of former chief ministers H D Kumaraswamy and Siddaramaiah were alleged to have been selected for possible surveillance ahead of the toppling of the state government in July 2019, The Wire reported on Tuesday.

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68% of Indians have Covid-19 antibodies, 1/3rd vulnerable

At least one-third of Indians are still vulnerable to Covid-19 infection, health officials have said, while sharing the findings of the fourth national sero survey, which shows 67.6% of the general population have antibodies against the SARS-CoV2 virus.

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France launches probe into Pegasus spying row

The cellphones of French President Emmanuel Macron and 15 members of the French government may have been among potential targets in 2019 of surveillance by spyware made by the Israel-based NSO Group, according to a newspaper report on Tuesday.

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No deaths due to lack of oxygen reported by states: Centre

The government on Tuesday told Parliament that there were no deaths due to lack of oxygen specifically reported by states and UTs during the second wave of Covid-19. Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted that the data was based on reports from the states and UTs. He also said, during a discussion on the pandemic in the Rajya Sabha, that the states had been urged to report all cases and deaths.

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2nd ODI: Chahar scripts India's series-sealing win over SL

Tail-ender Deepak Chahar brought India back from the dead with a steely 69 off 82 balls and script the visiting team's series-sealing victory in the second ODI against Sri Lanka.​ Chasing 276, India were down and out at 193 for seven before Chahar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (19 not out off 28) forged an unbeaten 84-run stand to seal a memorable win for the visitors

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Eid Mubarak: Share your greetings here

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'Centre, states should work as team to combat Covid pandemic'

With some opposition parties including the Congress skipping an all-party meeting on the COVID-19 management, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called for the Centre and states to work together as a team and rise above politics to combat the pandemic.

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Raj Kundra, kin 'masterminded' porn racket: Police

The Mumbai Police on Tuesday made a shocking revelation that arrested businessman Raj Kundra and his brother-in-law Pradeep Bakshi are the alleged masterminds of an international porn films racket perpetrated through their content production companies based in India and the United Kingdom.

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'No deaths due to lack of oxygen during second wave'

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'Excise duty on petrol, diesel calibrated for infra development'

The excise duty rates on petrol and diesel have been calibrated to generate resources for infrastructure building and other developmental expenditure keeping in view the prevailing fiscal situation, minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary said on Tuesday.

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Live: West Bengal WBBSE 10th results today

WB Madhyamik Result 2021 will be announced by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) on Monday through a press conference. Once announced, students can check their results on the official portal of WB Results — wbresults.nic.in. This year, there will not be a merit list as the exams were cancelled. Stay connected to get the latest updates on the WB 10th result 2021 here.

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NCLAT stays Videocon sale to Vedanta on BoM appeal

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J&K teachers sacked for ‘radicalising pupils’

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Excise from petrol, diesel up 88% at Rs 3 lakh crore in FY21

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Stormy start to session: PM Modi unable to introduce new ministers

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By May, 50% of Covid cases were in rural India: Oxfam

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Curbs eased to help distressed traders on Eid: Kerala to SC

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Stan Swamy was wonderful, have respect for his services: HC

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Suvendu warns cop: Don’t do anything to risk transfer to J&K

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Sebi, DRI probing Adani Group companies, government tells Lok Sabha

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Hospitals have become a big industry, laments SC

Made aware of the hefty hospital bills footed by Covid patients during the second wave that pushed health infrastructure to the brink, the Supreme Court on Monday said hospitals have become a big industry instead of discharging their responsibilities to provide succour to distressed patients.

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Journey has just begun: Sidhu on meeting spree with netas

Declaring that his journey has “just begun”, Punjab Congress’ new president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday pledged to work with every “member of the Congress family” to fulfil the ‘Jittega Punjab’ mission, a day after being appointed to the key post after months of a bitter, polarising spat between him and CM Amarinder Singh.

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13 years after Singur saga, TMC government welcomes Tatas

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Sebi, DRI probing Adani Group cos, govt tells LS

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Manipur frees activist after SC gives it 6 hours to comply

In another order that protects liberties, the Supreme Court on Monday gave the Manipur government six hours to release activist Leichombam Erendro, detained since May 13 for a social media post on the inefficacy of cow dung and urine against coronavirus after state BJP president Prof Tikendra Singh succumbed to Covid

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Govt pushes back as fresh allegations of snooping emerge

With Congress and other parties protesting in Parliament, the main opposition said Shah must step down and Prime Minister Narendra Modi be investigated over news reports of alleged illegal hacking of cell phones of several Indian politicians, journalists and constitutional functionaries.

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Two Union ministers, Rahul Gandhi, Prashant Kishor on Pegasus list: Report

The names are part of a cache of around 1,000 numbers from India of which around 300 have been verified, according to the report. The Wire, which is part of the ‘Pegasus Project’, involving media outfits across several countries, reported that at least two phone accounts used by Gandhi as well as numbers used by his aides and friends were on the leaked database.

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Shilpa Shetty's husband arrested in pornography case

"There was a case registered with Crime Branch Mumbai in Feb 2021 about creation of pornographic films and publishing them through some Apps.

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Devshayani Ekadashi 2021 Date, time and significance

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Apple condemns Pegasus spyware attack; says adding ‘new protections’

In wake of the Pegasus spyware attack by Israel’s NSO Group, American smartphone giant Apple condemned the sophisticated cyber hacks on journalists, human rights activists, politicians and others, and said that the company continues to “work tirelessly to defend all our customers”.

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At 6.96%, borrowing costs continue to remain high for states

Cash-starved states are continuing to pay higher for their market borrowings, being forced to offer yields close to 7 per cent even as the system is awash with liquidity amid benign interest rates, as per a report.

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Low taxes, low interest, and expenditure cut: Triple benefits for India Inc during Covid

The reduction in effective tax rate (ETR), low interest rate regime and fall in expenditures amid the Covid-19 pandemic seem to have been a blessing in disguise for India Inc, a report by the State Bank of India (SBI) said on Monday.

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'Tatas welcome to invest in Bengal': TMC says no enmity with group

The Trinamool Congress on Monday welcomed the Tata Group to make big investments in the state, almost a decade after anti-land acquisition movement in Singur that prompted it to shift its proposed Nano car plant to Gujarat.

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Zoom to buy cloud software provider Five9 in $15 billion deal

Zoom Video Communications Inc has agreed to buy cloud software provider Five9 Inc in an all-stock deal worth about $14.7 billion to target more business clients looking to boost customer engagement, it said on Sunday.

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