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Inflation leaves consumers teary-eyed as pricey onions, food items bite

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Onion literally brought tears to the eyes of consumers as retail prices touched Rs 200 per kilogram and tomato too turned pricier in the last quarter of 2019, leaving many scurrying for changes in dietary ways as costly food items pushed retail inflation to a more than three-year high. Though well below the price jump seen for the humble ‘daily consumable bulb’ and tomato, potato also become costlier as crop damages and disruptions stoked supply crunch. Albeit for a brief period during monsoon and afterwards, retail price of tomato went…

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Israel’s Netanyahu wins ruling party leadership vote

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Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a “huge” victory Friday, after winning a leadership primary that ensures he will lead his right-wing Likud party into a March general election. Israel’s longest-serving premier, who faces a corruption indictment and a third general election in 12 months, was expected to beat rival Gideon Saar but the convincing margin of victory strengthened his position in the party he has dominated for 20 years. With all votes counted, the Likud announced that Netanyahu had secured 72.5 percent, with Saar winning 27.5 percent. “A…

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Mamata to attend swearing-in ceremony of Hemant Soren: TMC

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Hemant Soren as Jharkhand chief minister in Ranchi on December 29, TMC sources said. With top opposition leaders of the country scheduled to attend the programme, Soren’s swearing-in ceremony is likely to be a “show of unity” in the wake of countrywide protests against the amended Citizenship Act and the proposed pan-India NRC. “We share a very good relationship with Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and Hemant Soren. So far, it has been decided that our party supremo…

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I listened to my inner self during time away from team: Rahane

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Soul searching proved to be a cathartic experience for India’s Test captain Ajinkya Rahane, who learnt to accept rejection after being snubbed for this year’s ODI World Cup.Rahane was playing county cricket when his teammates were fighting it out in England.For someone, who was an automatic choice in white ball cricket in the 2015 World Cup, it was time for some introspection and he realised that blind pursuit of success was not ideal, always.”At times, we get too caught up in our pursuit of success and then we suddenly realise…

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Iraqi protesters torch buildings, block roads over PM pick

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Iraqi anti-government protesters blocked roads and bridges in Baghdad and the country’s south Thursday after torching several buildings overnight.The demonstrators oppose the entire political class and have vented their anger against leaders who are negotiating to nominate an establishment insider as the next prime minister.”The government is hostage to corrupt parties and sectarian divisions”, said one activist, Sattar Jabbar, 25, in the southern city of Nasiriyah.Smoke and flames from burning tyres in Nasiriyah, Basra and Diwaniyah blocked major roads and bridges across the Euphrates all night, AFP correspondents said, before…

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Fear of speaking out, irrelevance: Anurag, Zoya, Dibakar list what scares artistes

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From never being able to find one’s true potential to putting loved ones at risk by speaking out are some of the fears that “Ghost Stories” directors Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Zoya Akhtar battle in their lives.Kashyap, who has supported the nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), says speaking out against the establishment means putting people close to him and his work at risk.”I don’t want anyone else to be at risk because of what I do, especially the people I love. When I go on Twitter…

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GST Council to set up grievance redressal mechanism for taxpayers

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The GST Council will set up a grievance redressal mechanism for taxpayers.The decision was taken at the 38th meeting of the GST Council held on December 18. It has decided that a structured grievance redressal mechanism should be established for the taxpayers under GST to tackle grievances on GST-related issues of specific and general nature, an official statement said on Wednesday.The council will set up the Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) at zonal and state levels consisting of both central tax and state tax officers, representatives of trade and industry and…

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JU students “rusticate” chancellor Jagdeep Dhankhar, call himspecless

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On the warpath with West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, students of Jadavpur University on Thursday “rusticated” him as the chancellor over his stand on a host of issues, including the contentious Citizenship Act.In an “open letter” that addressed Dhankhar as ‘Ex- Chancellor’, two students’ bodies–Arts Faculty Students Union (AFSU) and Faculty of Engineering and Technology Students Union (FETSU)– said he was being “rusticated” from his position of the chancellor.The letter alleged that the governor was present on university premises in the evening of September 19 “along with miscreants who hurled…

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SC acquits mother of charge of strangulating infant daughter

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A mother, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly strangulating her baby hours after her birth as she was a girl, has got relief from the Supreme Court which acquitted her by saying that it was “totally unnatural” for the woman to kill her own child.The apex court, while allowing the appeal filed by the woman challenging the March 2010 judgement of the Delhi High Court upholding her conviction and sentence, said there was no “clear evidence on record” to hold her guilty of the offence.”It is…

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Pak govt denies permission to Maryam Nawaz to travel abroad

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The Pakistan government has denied permission to PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz to travel abroad, saying those involved in any economic crime and institutional fraud could not be allowed to leave the country, according to a media report on Monday.Maryam, the 46-year-old daughter of Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, was placed on the no-fly list in August 2018 in an alleged corruption case.”The rules concerning placement of the name of persons on Exit Control List (ECL) do not allow the government to entertain her application to remove her name…

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