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Modi urges youngsters to join Startup India international summit

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon youngsters to attend ‘Prarambh’, the Startup India international summit on January 15 and 16, saying it seeks to bring together top minds from industry, academia, investment, banking and finance besides young start up leaders. He also shared his LinkedIn post in which he noted that virtual interactions have become the new normal during the COVID-19 pandemic and said a big advantage of this is that people can be a part of programmes sitting at home. “With most events being held virtually, it has…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

It took me 16 years to figure out my voice, says Anubhav Sinha

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“Mulk”, “Article 15” and “Thappad” have established Anubhav Sinha as a prominent voice in contemporary cinema, but the director says it took him over a decade to find his calling. Sinha, who was interacting with the audiences after delivering Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture at the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) here on Saturday evening, started his journey with the 2001 hit “Tum Bin” and went on to make films like “Dus”, “Cash” and “Gulaab Gang”. “It took me 16 years to figure out my voice. The most important question…

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NEWS CATEGORIES SPORTS 

Pitch is good to bat on and two gentlemen out there have proved how good they are: Ashwin

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Ravichandran Ashwin reckons that the 22-yard strip at the SCG has eased considerably and backed two of India’s finest exponents of Test match batting — Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteswar Pujara — to once again come good in a pressure situation. India will need to bat 90 plus overs on the final day of the third Test and score another 309 runs with Pujara and Rahane aiming to save the match by batting out the whole day. “The pitch has been quite slow, and it has been good to bat on.…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Centre seeks dismissal of review petition on PM CARES Fund

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The Centre on Saturday sought dismissal of a review petition seeking information about funds received by the Prime Minister’s Citizens Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation (PM CARES) Fund. The Union government told the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court that audit statement of receipt and payment accounts of the PM CARES Fund for 2019-20 was available on the trust’s website. An affidavit was filed by Pradeep Srivastava, Under Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, before a division bench of Justices Sunil Shukre and Anil Kilor in response to…

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BUSINESS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Big steel, cement firms operating as a cartel; need to place regulator: Gadkari

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Big players in the steel and cement industry are indulging in cartelisation to jack-up prices, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has said, pitching to place a regulator for the sectors. It will be difficult to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of making India a USD 5 trillion economy if the steel and cement prices keep going up, Gadkari said, pointing out the target of investing Rs 111 lakh crore on infrastructure projects in the next five years to aid the economy. It can be noted that allegations of…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea

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Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Indonesia’s capital. The head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, Bagus Puruhito, said officials believe they identified the location of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder the so-called black boxes because emergency signals transmitted by the devices were detected by a navy ship’s sonar system. We have determined…

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Bird flu confirmed in 7 states; test results of Delhi, Maharashtra samples awaited

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The Centre on Sunday said bird flu outbreak has been confirmed in seven states — Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, while test results are still awaited for Delhi and Maharashtra samples. No samples have been confirmed positive in wild birds from Balod district, Chhattisgarh which were tested earlier, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying said in a statement. After confirmation of avian influenza (bird flu) positive samples in poultry (two poultry farms) of Panchkula district of Haryana, the state government has deployed nine…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Will introduce immigration bill ‘immediately’ after taking office, says Biden

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US President-elect Joe Biden has said he will introduce an immigration legislation “immediately” after taking office, reversing the Trump administration’s policies. Biden will taken the oath of office on January 20. “I will introduce an immigration bill immediately and have it sent to the appropriate committees to begin movement,” he told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday. Biden was responding to a question on what his administration would do first after his inauguration on January 20. He had also previously promised an immigration overhaul within 100 days of taking office.…

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NATIONAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

World waiting for India’s vaccines, watching how it runs world’s biggest vaccination drive: PM

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India is ready with two made-in-India vaccines for the protection of humanity and the world is not only waiting for them but also watching as to how the country runs the globe’s biggest vaccination programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. In his address at the inauguration of the 16th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention, Modi also asserted that if democracy is most strong, vibrant and lively anywhere in the world, it is in India. “When India got Independence then it was said that such a poor and under-literate…

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BUSINESS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Sensex, Nifty soar to fresh highs as bulls make a comeback; log weekly gains

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Domestic markets returned to winning ways on Friday after two days of declines as strong buying in IT stocks ahead of TCS’ results propelled benchmarks to fresh lifetime highs amid a bullish trend overseas. A recovering rupee and foreign fund inflows further buoyed sentiment, traders said. The 30-share BSE Sensex sprinted 689.19 points or 1.43 per cent to close at a record 48,782.51. It touched an all-time peak of 48,854.34 during the session. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty rallied 209.90 points or 1.48 per cent to close at its new…

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