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Smartphone sales buck slowdown on strong urban, rural demand

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The economic slowdown may have clipped sales of cars and biscuits in 2019, but smartphones bucked the trend as urban and rural users continued to buy, and even upgrade to, expensive handsets – a trend likely to pick up pace in the coming year. The growth in smartphone adoption was further fuelled by the government’s push to position the country as a global hub for manufacturing and coax Apple and other leading brands to produce and export more phones from India. Experts say that phone shipment is expected to see…

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North Korea’s Kim warns of ‘grave’ economic challenge

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned top ruling party officials of the “grave situation” facing the nuclear-armed state’s economy and called for urgent corrective measures. His comments, reported Monday by state media, came on the second day of a key party meeting held ahead of a year-end deadline for Washington to shift its stance on stalled nuclear talks with Pyongyang. Kim, who chaired the meeting, said the time had come to bring about a “decisive turn” in the North’s economic development. He presented the assembled officials with “tasks…

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Youth hate disorder, anarchy, says PM Modi on Mann ki Baat

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the coming decade belongs to the youth and lauded them for believing in the system and questioning it when it does not respond properly. Addressing his last ‘Mann ki Baat’ of 2019, the prime minister said the youth hate anarchy and disorder and dislike casteism, nepotism and favouritism, remarks that come in the backdrop of recent violent protests in various university campuses over the Citizenship Amendment Act and proposed NRC. “According to me, they appreciate the system. Not just that, they prefer to…

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Retail industry expects growth in second half of2020

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As economic slowdown continues to hurt sales, the Indian retail industry expects to bounce back in the second half of 2020 on the back of consumer demand revival and increased spending.While major players struggled to keep themselves on the growth chart in 2019, they expect a decent double-digit growth coming back in 2020.But sectoral experts are cautions, saying it would depend on various factors like recovery of manufacturing and other sectors, incentives in the Union Budget and availability of money in the hands of consumers to make purchasing decisions.”We are…

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2nd HI Coaching Education Pathway to be held in February-March

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The second edition of the Hockey India (HI) Coaching Education Pathway will be conducted in February-March next year, the national federation said on Sunday.The program, which is an integral part of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Academy, will see Level ‘Basic’ and Level ‘1’ coaching courses being conducted across four zones — south, west, north and east in February 2020, while the HI Level ‘2’ Coaching Course will take place in March.A simplified education structure, the HI Coaching Education Pathway, consists of a combination of web-based modules and face-to-face interactive…

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Opinions justified, violence is no solution: Ajay Devgn on CAA protests

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 Actor Ajay Devgn says those who are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) should put their point across peacefully.The 50-year-old actor, who is the latest A-lister to react on the ongoing nationwide protests, said violence can never be a solution in a democracy.”My stand is, this is a democracy, the establishment is doing its job, is trying to bring out a rule. There is right of democracy. But the only thing I say is both have their rights, violence is not going to solve anything.”Violence is not a solution…

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HC junks PIL wanting CBI to determine location of vegetable research institute

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The Delhi High Court has dismissed a PIL seeking directions to the CBI to ascertain the correct geographical location of the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR), saying it would not be fit to direct such a busy probe agency to perform such a task.The petitioner, who had retired from the institute, had alleged that some IIVR employees were drawing a higher amount of HRA by showing the institute to be located in Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, while according to him it was in Mirzapur where the HRA payable…

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Srinagar witnesses coldest night of season, shivers at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius

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The fringes of the famous Dal Lake froze on Sunday as the mercury continued its freefall in Srinagar which experienced the coldest night of the season at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius, the MET Office said.The minimum temperature across the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh Union Territory stayed several degrees below the freezing point, intensifying the cold wave in some areas in the region, an official of the Meteorological Department here said.He said Srinagar city recorded the low of minus 6.2 degrees Celsius last night, down from minus 5.8 degree Celsius the…

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Mary Kom beats Zareen to make Indian team for Olympic qualifiers

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Six-time world champion M C Mary Kom (51kg category) defeated Nikhat Zareen in an intense trial bout here on Saturday to make the Indian team for next year’s Olympic qualifiers in China. In a bout which had very few clear punches, Mary Kom prevailed 9-1 to make the squad, but tension was palpable inside the boxing hall owing to the bitter row triggered by Zareen’s public demand for a trial. Words were exchanged between the boxers during the bout and outside the ring, a few representatives from Zareen’s home state…

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Top five Bollywood films of 2019: Where are the women?

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If box office success is any yardstick, mainstream Hindi cinema continues to be overtly macho with four of 2019’s five top grossers dealing with themes of hyper masculinity leaving women as mere props or maybe a side note at best. While “War”, “Kabir Singh”, “Uri: The Surgical Strike” and “Bharat” demonstrated the skewed gender dynamic in Bollywood, the fifth in the list of the year’s biggest hits is “Mission Mangal”, which relegated women to the background even while celebrating their achievements. The film is about the women scientists that led…

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