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Toyota domestic sales surge 20 pc to 13,113 units in May

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New Delhi, May 31 (DIN NEWS) Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) today reported a 20 per cent increase in domestic sales at 13,113 units in May. The company had sold 10,914 units in the same month last year in the domestic market, TKM said in a statement. It exported 827 units of the Etios series this month, compared with 1,425 units in the same period a year ago, a decline of 42 per cent. “Along with the segment leading products Fortuner and Innova Crysta, Yaris has been a significant contributor to the…

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Non-food credit growth up to 10.7% for April: RBI

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Mumbai, May 31 (DIN NEWS) The Reserve Bank today said non-food credit growth accelerated to 10.7 per cent for April as against 4.5 per cent in the year-ago period, led by retail and the services sector. The non-food credit grew 10.7 per cent to Rs 76,130 billion as on April 27, the central bank said. The gross bank credit, including the food credit, was up 10.4 per cent during the same period, as against 3.8 per cent in the year-ago period. The data includes performance of 41 scheduled commercial banks, accounting…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

Pak Govt to block Musharraf’s national identity card, passport

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Islamabad, May 31 (DIN NEWS) The Pakistan government today directed the interior ministry to block the national identity card (NIC) and passport of former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, a media report said today. Complying with a special court’s order, the government took the action to restrict the Dubai-based former president’s travel and certain facilities available to him as he failed to appear before the court in the high treason case against him. The National Data Base and Registration Authority (NADRA) and Immigration and Passport Directorate were directed to undertake the…

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Polls should be held on time: Pak PM

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Islamabad, May 31 (DIN NEWS) Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi today said polls should be held on time as neither the government nor the opposition are in favour of any delay in the upcoming general election. Abbasi made a farewell address during the 14th National Assembly’s final session just hours before the end of five-year term of the parliament at midnight tonight. Not even a day’s delay will be acceptable, he said referring to the election due to be held on July 25. He said free and fair elections were…

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Oppn urge ruling AIADMK to reach out to DMK on boycott issue

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Chennai, May 31 (DIN NEWS) DMK allies including the Congress in Tamil Nadu today urged the state government to reach out to the main Opposition party to end its boycott of the ongoing Assembly session, while the ruling AIADMK put the ball in its archrival’s court. The DMK had announced it would boycott the ongoing budget session of the state assembly, which started on May 29, until the Sterlite copper unit in Tuticorin was “permanently shut.” Violence had broken out during an anti-Sterlite protest in Tuticorin on May 22 and 23…

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Have to take 2 steps back for a big leap: Rajnath on bypoll

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Bhopal, May 31 (DIN NEWS) With the BJP facing reverses in bypolls to Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said one has to take two steps backward before a big leap. Asked about the BJP’s performance in the by-elections to 11 Assembly and four Lok Sabha seats in various states ahead of next year’s general polls, Singh, in a lighter vein, said, “For a massive leap, one always has to go two steps backward.” “We are going to take a massive leap,” the senior BJP leader…

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Park eyes US Women’s Open, 20 years on from Pak

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Miami, May 30 (DIN NEWS) World number one Park In-bee will take a low-key approach to the women’s US Open tomorrow as she aims to cement the legacy of compatriot Pak Se-ri with her eighth major title. Twenty years ago, Pak blazed a trail for Korean golfers when she stormed to victory in the 1998 US Open, a spectacular triumph that encouraged many of her compatriots to take up the sport. “Back in ’98, I was really just a kid,” Park said Tuesday. “My dad was really a big fan of…

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Chinese-owned Mediapro grab French football TV rights in mega 1bn euro offer

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Paris, May 30 (DIN NEWS) Chinese-owned Mediapro crashed French football’s television rights party in style, snapping up the right to broadcast Ligue 1 matches domestically for the period 2020 to 2024 for 1.153 billion euros ( 1.33 billion) annually, the French league (LFP) announced. “It was a successful bidding process, with a significant increase of our TV rights,” said LFP president Nathalie Boy de la Tour, with the existing deal for 2016 to 2020 valued at 726.5 million euros. Based in Spain but owned by the Chinese private equity fund Orient…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

South star Vedhika to star opposite Emraan Hashmi in ‘The Body’

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Mumbai, May 30 (DIN NEWS) South star Vedhika Kumar is all set to make her Bollywood debut opposite Emraan Hashmi in the film “The Body”. The film will be directed by Jeethu Joseph, who is best known for 2013 Mohanlal-starrer “Drishyam”. “After a nationwide hunt and several auditions, we finally found what we were looking for. Vedhika’s character is of a young college going girl who has this innocence about her. She fits the role beautifully,” Joseph said in a statement. Vedhika, a well-known actor in the South, shot to fame…

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Colin Trevorrow talks about his departure from Star Wars franchise

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Los Angeles, May 30 (DIN NEWS) “Jurassic World” director Colin Trevorrow has opened up about his exit from the Star Wars franchise. The 41-year-old director was scheduled to direct Episode IX, which follows Rian Johnson’s “Last Jedi”, but he left the project over creative differences with Lucasfilm. His exit from the franchise was also attributed to the poor response to his film “The Book of Henry”. He has been since replaced by JJ Abrams who directed “The Force Awakens”, the seventh film in the franchise and the first part of a…

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