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Goa global investors’ meet with focus on start-ups in Dec: Prabhu

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Global investors will meet in Goa in December to help finance the start-up community in the state, Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu said Sunday.    He said the Centre was thinking of making Goa as the start-up and logistics hub to create more jobs and that it will also promote agricultural export from the coastal state.  “One of the problems faced by start-ups is finance. We have called all global players who are into financing. This event, to be held on December 7, will bring in global players for investment in…

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No insurance cover to persons suffering from congenital anomalies: HC seeks IRDAI explanation

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The Delhi High Court has asked the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) to “explain the reasonableness” of not granting insurance cover to people suffering from congenital anomalies.    “What is the objection to giving insurance cover to them (people suffering from congenital anomalies),” a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao asked the IRDAI and sought its response before the next date of hearing on December 17.  “Give the justification for such exclusion,” the court said to the insurance regulator.  The bench also issued notices to…

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Ed Moses backs calls for probe into WADA bullying claims

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Athletics great Ed Moses says he was told to “shut up” at a meeting of world anti-doping chiefs as he backed calls Friday for an investigation into bullying claims at the organisation.Moses, chair of the US Anti-Doping Agency, said a “hostile atmosphere” was “increasingly becoming the norm in the global anti-doping cauldron”.His comments, in an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, follow allegations by Beckie Scott, chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Athlete Committee, that she was “bullied” by some WADA officials over her opposition to reinstating Russia’s anti-doping agency.Scott,…

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I know I’ve become a star but don’t want to believe it: Ayushmann

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Six years and nearly a dozen films later, Ayushmann Khurrana says his aim is to be consistent with his choices by retaining his innocence towards the craft.Ayushmann, who made his debut with “Vicky Donor” in 2012, has featured in several slice-of-life films, including “Dum Laga Ke Haisha” and “Shubh Mangal Savdhan”. His first thriller “Andhadhun”, directed by Sriram Raghavan, is the best reviewed film of the year. He has followed it up with “Badhaai Ho”, which is garnering positive response. “I approach all my films as my first. If you carry…

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Reliance Industries shares slump 7% post Q2 results

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Shares of Reliance Industries Friday slumped 7 per cent despite the company reporting its highest ever quarterly net profit in the July-September quarter.The stock opened lower and declined further by 6.59 per cent to Rs 1,073.15 on BSE.At NSE, shares of the company dived 7 per cent to Rs 1,070.25.In terms of equity volume, 10.50 lakh shares of the company were traded on BSE and over one crore shares changed hands at NSE during the morning trade. Reliance Industries Wednesday reported its highest ever quarterly net profit of Rs 9,516…

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Trump threatens to close US-Mexico border over migrant ‘onslaught’

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US President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to send the military to close its southern border if Mexico fails to stem the “onslaught” of migrants from Central America, in a series of tweets that blamed opposition Democrats.The attack comes less than three weeks before midterm elections where Trump’s Republicans are fighting to retain control of Congress, and as thousands of migrants from impoverished Honduras were marching north through Guatemala toward the United States.”I am watching the Democrat Party led (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our…

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Not Cong, BJP flay Kerala government for bringing activists to Sabarimala

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The opposition Congress and BJP Friday hit out at the Left government in Kerala for allegedly extending support to bring women activists to Sabarimala temple, hurting the sentiments of devotees.They also alleged the police gave one of the women, who climbed to the hill shrine amid heavy security, their official uniform and helmet.The two women, identified as a journalist from Hyderabad and a Kochi-based activist, trekked Sabarimala and reached a few metres away from the holy 18 steps with police escort but had to return due to massive protest by…

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No insurance cover to persons suffering from congenital anomalies: HC seeks IRDAI explanation

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The Delhi High Court has asked the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) to “explain the reasonableness” of not granting insurance cover to people suffering from congenital anomalies.”What is the objection to giving insurance cover to them (people suffering from congenital anomalies),” a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao asked the IRDAI and sought its response before the next date of hearing on December 17.”Give the justification for such exclusion,” the court said to the insurance regulator.The bench also issued notices to the General Insurance…

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अर्थ हिंदी न्यूज़ 

दूरसंचार विभाग ने पुनरोद्धार वार्ता के तहत एमटीएनएल से दीर्घावधि की रूपरेखा बनाने को कहा

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मौजूदा पुनरोद्धार वार्ता के तहत दूरसंचार विभाग ने सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र की कंपनी महानगर टेलीफोन निगम लि. (एमटीएनएल) से एक दीर्घावधि की रूपरेखा बनाने को कहा है। एमटीएनएल के चेयरमैन पी के पुरवार ने पीटीआई भाषा से कहा कि दूरसंचार विभाग ने कहा कि हम यह रूपरेखा तैयार करें कि कैसे अन्य कंपनियों के साथ प्रतिस्पर्धा कर सकेंगे और किस तरीके से अखिल भारतीय स्तर पर अपनी मौजूदगी मजबूत कर सकेंगे। एमटीएनएल पिछले कई साल से घाटे में चल रही है। लोक उपक्रम विभाग के दिशानिर्देशों के तहत कंपनी को शुरुआती…

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विश्व चैम्पियनशिप में भारतीय चुनौती की अगुवाई करेंगे बजरंग

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एशियाई खेलों के स्वर्ण पदकधारी बजरंग पूनिया शनिवार को यहां शुरू होने वाली विश्व कुश्ती चैम्पियनशिप में 30 सदस्यीय भारतीय टीम की अगुवाई करेंगे। चैम्पियनशिप में पूनिया (65 किग्रा वर्ग) भारत के पदक के प्रबल दावेदार होंगे जो 2013 विश्व चैम्पियनशिप में कांस्य पदक जीत चुके हैं। पिछले महीने प्रतिष्ठित खेल रत्न पुरस्कार के लिये उनकी अनदेखी की गयी थी लेकिन उन्होंने इस भुलाकर कड़ी ट्रेनिंग की और अब वह 2013 के पदक का रंग बदलने की कोशिश में हैं। राष्ट्रमंडल खेलों और एशियाई खेलों में उन्होंने जितनी आसानी से…

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