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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Biden threatens: No gas pipeline if Russia invades Ukraine

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 In a flurry of diplomacy across two continents, President Joe Biden met with Germany’s new leader Monday and vowed the crucial Nord Stream 2 Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline will be blocked if Russia further invades Ukraine. Russia’s Vladimir Putin retorted that the U.S. and its allies are the only ones talking invasion. Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron met for more than five hours in Moscow at the same time Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke at the White House in efforts to defuse the crisis before armed conflict breaks…

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NATIONAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

BJP, alliance partners want to build ‘Nawan’ Punjab, says Modi

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 In his first rally for poll-bound Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the upcoming Assembly elections are for taking the state out of uncertainty as he stressed that the BJP and its alliance partners want to build a new Punjab. Addressing a virtual rally for Assembly segments of Ludhiana and Fatehgarh Sahib parliamentary constituencies, Modi said the BJP and its alliance partners in the NDA always stood with Sikh traditions. Modi greeted people in Punjabi by saying “Sat Sri Akal” and “Waheguru ji da Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

State funeral for Lata Mangeshkar: Maha CM

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said that singing legend Lata Mangeshkar, who died at a hospital here in the morning, will be accorded a state funeral. Lata Mangeshkar (92), the voice of generations of Indians and one of the biggest music icons of the country, died due to multiple organ failure, her sister Usha Mangeshkar and doctors treating her said. The last rites will be held in the evening. Thackeray in a statement said Lata Mangeshkar’s death was an end of a glorious era. Her melodious voice was…

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BUSINESS NEWS CATEGORIES 

Airtel to spend Rs 1.17 lakh cr on various businesses with subsidiaries over a period of 5 years

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Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has plans to spend about Rs 1.17 lakh crore through business transactions with its subsidiaries like Indus Towers, Nxtra and Bharti Hexacom, according to a regulatory filing. The company will hold an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the company on February 26 to also seek their approval for issuing shares to Google for its about Rs 7,500 crore investment in the company to buy 1.28 per cent stake. According to the EGM notice, Bharti Airtel will spend Rs 88,000 crore in business with mobile…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Officials: Russia at 70 per cent of Ukraine military buildup

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Russia has assembled at least 70 per cent of the military firepower it likely intends to have in place by mid-month to give President Vladimir Putin the option of launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US officials say. The officials, who discussed internal assessments of the Russian buildup on condition they not be identified, sketched out a series of indicators suggesting Putin intends an invasion in coming weeks, although the size and scale are unclear. They stressed that a diplomatic solution appears to remain possible. Among those military indicators: an…

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NATIONAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

An artist born but once in centuries: Tributes pour in after Lata Mangeshkar’s death

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“The end of an era”, “an artist born but once in centuries” and a “void that cannot be fulfilled”, is how prominent personalities, led by President Ram Nath Kovind and PM Narendra Modi, mourned the passing away of singing icon Lata Mangeshkar on Sunday. The 92-year-old singer had tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms and was admitted on January 8 to Breach Candy Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) where she was being treated by Dr Pratit Samdani and his team of doctors. Mangeshkar’s condition had improved in January and…

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NEWS CATEGORIES SPORTS 

Does India need ATP 250 event in wake of poor show by singles player? Yes we do say former stars

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An ATP World Tour event at home is the best opportunity the Indian singles players could have, to earn points, move up the ranking ladder apart from filling their pockets with decent prize money to survive on the Pro circuit. However, the heavy investment which is no less than Rs 15 crore each year, has not been utilised by the current generation of India players as none of them has managed to cross even the second round in four editions of the Tata Open Maharashtra. The lanky and the fit…

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LEGAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

SCBA requests CJI for resumption of full physical hearing in SC

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The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Saturday requested Chief Justice of India N V Ramana that physical hearings in the apex court be resumed to the pre-pandemic level as the COVID-19 situation is in control and stressed that ‘open court hearing’ is both the “convention and constitutional requirement”. In a letter addressed to the CJI, SCBA president Vikas Singh said the positivity rate in the national capital has come down to below four percent and the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) has decided to reopen schools, colleges and gyms…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Will raise money from small investors for road projs; not interested in foreign investment: Gadkari

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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said the government will not take money from foreign investors to build infrastructure projects like roads, and instead mobilise funds from small investors willing to put Rs 1 lakh for an assured return of 8 per cent per annum. The minister said a Rs 8,000-crore project to build road over bridges over railway crossings in towns and cities is also under the works, but the announcement will be made after the budget. Gadkari said his department does works of over Rs 5 lakh crore…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

US death toll from COVID-19 hits 900,000, sped by omicron

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Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the US death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000. The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Indianapolis, San Francisco, or Charlotte, North Carolina. The milestone comes more than 13 months into a vaccination drive that has been beset by misinformation and political and legal strife, though the shots have proved safe and highly effective at preventing serious illness and death. It is an astronomically high…

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