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Rate-sensitive stocks rise ahead of RBI policy decision

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Shares of interest rate-sensitive stocks like auto, banking and realty rallied in morning trade on the bourses ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy decision today. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by RBI Governor Urjit Patel, will announce the resolution of the MPC on its first bi-monthly monetary policy for financial year 2018-19 later in the day. Among banking stocks, Kotak Mahindra Bank rose as much as 1.91 per cent, while Yes Bank jumped 2.40 per cent, State Bank of India 2.06 per cent, Federal Bank 2.07…

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Salman Khan Found Guilty, Other Actors Acquitted In Blackbuck Poaching Case

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A Jodhpur court today convicted Bollywood star Salman Khan for killing two blackbucks in October 1998 but acquitted his colleagues Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre, a prosecution lawyer said. A fifth person, Dushyant Singh, a local from the area, has also been acquitted, Mahipal Bishnoi, the prosecution counsel, told reporters. Salman was found guilty of killing the blackbucks, from the antelope family, in Kankani village near Jodhpur on the night of October 1, 1998 during the shooting of the film “Hum Saath Saath Hain”. While the media…

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Champions League: Liverpool Stun Manchester City, Barcelona Thrash Roma

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Mohamed Salah, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Sadio Mane scored as Liverpool stunned Manchester City 3-0 at Anfield in Wednesday’s first leg of their Champions League quarter-final. Salah fired Liverpool ahead on 12 minutes with Oxlade-Chamberlain hammering in a terrific long-range strike before Mane headed in a third as Jurgen Klopp beat City counterpart Pep Guardiola for the sixth time in 10 meetings. The return fixture takes place in Manchester on April 10. Barca win Luis Suarez’s late strike sealed a 4-1 win for Barcelona against Roma in their Champions League quarter-final, first leg…

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“No Outsider Needs To Tell Us”: Sachin Tendulkar On Shahid Afridi’s Kashmir Tweet

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For Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi, comes a strong word of advice from cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. “No outsider needs to know or tell us what we need to do,” said the former India captain, condemning Afridi’s comments on Kashmir. “It is obvious that we have capable people to manage our country, run our country,” the master blaster added when asked about Shahid Afridi’s tweet in which he had alleged an “appalling and worrisome situation” in Kashmir and urged UN intervention. The former Pakistani captain was apparently reacting to an anti-terror operation in…

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India To Offer $3-4 Billion Development Plan For Giant Iran Gas Field: Sources

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India is set to offer a $3-4 billion development plan for the Farzad B gas field to Iran next week after Tehran reduced the scope of the project, two sources familiar with the matter said. Relations between the two countries, which have long held deep trade ties, were strained last year after Iran sought other investors for the field and media reports suggested Tehran would award it to Russia’s Gazprom. In retaliation, India directed its state refiners to cut oil imports from Iran. At a meeting in New Delhi in…

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Cauvery Issue: Tamil Nadu Shutdown Called By DMK, Other Opposition Parties Today

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Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party – the DMK – along with other parties like Congress, CPI(M) and CPI will hold a state-wide bandh or shutdown today. The reason behind the shutdown is the Cauvery water issue – a decades-old dispute between Tamil Nadu and its neighbouring state Karnataka. The DMK-led opposition parties are demanding that the Cauvery Management Board, as ordered by the Supreme Court, be set up immediately. They have accused the central government of delaying the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board due to electoral gains in…

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“You’ll Get It”: Saif Ali Khan, Upset At Media, Shouts At Driver On Video

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Actor Saif Ali Khan is heard shouting at his driver and threatening to hit him in a video filmed after he landed in Jodhpur yesterday for a court verdict on a 20-year-old case of poaching blackbucks, in which he is an accused. Actor Salman Khan is the main accused in the case; he is accused of killing two blackbucks while on a film shoot in 1998 along with co-stars Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam. Saif Ali Khan and the other actors are co-accused in the case. As he got into…

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“Yogi Adityanath Threw Me Out”: Dalit BJP Lawmaker Complains To PM Modi

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A Dalit parliamentarian of the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi complaining against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Chhote Lal Kharwar, 45, has alleged that he met the chief minister twice, but was “scolded and thrown out”. Prime Minister Modi has reportedly assured him that action will be taken. Chhote Lal represents Uttar Pradesh’s Robertsganj constituency. His complaint has emerged days after the ruling party faced massive Dalit protests across the nation, in which 11 people were killed. Dalit groups were protesting against a Supreme…

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US Rejects China’s “Baseless” Retaliatory Tariffs, World Trade Organization Protest

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The United States on Wednesday rejected as “baseless” China’s retaliatory tariffs and complaint in the World Trade Organization over the US tariffs recently imposed on steel and aluminum imports. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and 15 percent on aluminum early last month, citing national security concerns. But China invoked the WTO dispute process under a different rule, which does not apply, meaning Beijing’s threat of retaliatory tariffs on $3 billion in US exports is not justified, the US Trade Representative’s office said in a statement. “China’s request for…

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Russia Launches Missile Tests, Triggers Partial Closure Of Baltic Sea

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Russia began testing missiles with live munitions in the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, alarming Latvia, a member of NATO, which says the drills have forced it partly to shut down Baltic commercial airspace. The Russian defence ministry said on Monday that its Baltic Fleet, based in its European exclave of Kaliningrad, was preparing for routine training in the Baltic Sea, including live fire drills to practice hitting air and sea targets. “It is a demonstration of force,” Latvia’s Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis told Reuters. “It is hard to comprehend that…

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