Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:27:59
Days after it gave India a 30 place jump in its ease of doing business ranking, the World Bank today said the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and reforms push by the government will catapult the country to high middle-income economy in 30 years.
It credited India's "extraordinary" achievement of the quadrupling of per capita income to reforms taken in last three decades.
Comparing the achieveme
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Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:26:04
Five-time world champion M C Mary Kom was today named ambassador of the AIBA Women's Youth World Championships to be held in Guwahati from November 19 to 26.
Besides five world titles, Mary Kom also has an Olympic bronze medal to her credit.
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Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:22:01
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said girls should learn Karate for self-defence and to face challenges in the present competitive world.
He was speaking after inaugurating a national-level Open Karate Championship organised by the Self Defence School of Indian Karate Mangaluru Dojo at Nehru Maidan here on Saturday.
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Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:05:45
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has said that Article 370 of the Constitution, which guarantees special status to the state, is the nation's commitment to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and should be honoured.
The chief minister said that dialogue is the only way forward to resolve the Kashmir issue and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has a "huge mandate", can create his
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Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:03:50
Olympic silver medallist shuttler PV Sindhu today accused an Indigo airline ground staff of misbehaving with her while travelling from Hyderabad to Mumbai, calling it a very bad experience.
World number two Sindhu claimed that the staff behaved rudely with her and an air hostess intervened to advise him against doing so.
"Ground staff (skipper) Mr Ajeetesh behaved very badly and rudely with
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Sat, 04 Nov 2017 17:28:24
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today exuded confidence that India's ease of doing business ranking will further improve next year when the impact of GST - the biggest tax reform - is taken into account.
Modi said India has in three years jumped 42 places to break into top 100 countries on World Bank's ease of doing business ranking.
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Sat, 04 Nov 2017 17:20:10
A team led by renowned chef Sanjeev Kapoor today cooked about 800 kg khichdi -- a traditional dish -- at the World Food India event here in an attempt to enter the Guinness World Records and promote the dish as Brand India superfood.
Yoga guru Ramdev Baba put crowning 'tadka' in the dish which was steam-cooked in a giant wok weighing around 1,200 kg. Officials from the Guinness World Records we
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Sat, 04 Nov 2017 17:01:52
The state government is planning to constitute a special investigation team for probing illegal export of iron ore, said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
"It is a Rs 25,000-crore scam. We will consider handing over the probe to the SIT," Siddaramaiah told reporters at Mangaluru International Airport on Saturday. The Central Bureau of Investigation has dropped its probe into the cases of illegal exp
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