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Home Bengaluru, Shimla ranked 'most livable' cities in govt's Ease of Living Index 2020
PTI New Delhi: Bengaluru topped the list of 111 cities in the government's 'Ease of Living Index' on Thursday, followed by Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Surat, Navi Mumbai, Coimbatore and Vadodra. According to the index released by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Shimla was ranked top in the category of cities with...
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Home EPFO fixes 8.5 pc interest on EPF deposits for 2020-21
PTI New Delhi: Retirement fund body EPFO on Thursday decided to retain 8.5 per cent rate of interest on provident fund deposits for the current financial year. EPFO has more than five crore active subscribers. The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's (EPFO) apex decision-making body Central Board of Trustees decided to fix 8.5 per cent rate of interest for 2020-21 at its...
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Home Sreedharan wears Delhi Metro uniform for last time ahead of political journey
PTI Kochi: Curtain came down on 'Metroman' E Sreedharan's 24-year long career with the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation as he wore the DMRC's outdoor uniform one last time on Thursday ahead of his political journey with BJP. "This will be the last day I will be wearing this uniform", 88-year old Sreedharan, acclaimed for the efficiency in...
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Home Few OTT platforms at times show pornographic content: SC
PTI New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said that few over-the-top (OTT) platforms show some kind of pornographic content at times and there should be a mechanism to screen such programmes. A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to place before it the recent guidelines of the government to regulate social media platforms on Friday, when it...
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Home Shiv Sena extends support to TMC in Bengal
PTI Kolkata: After the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party (SP), the Shiv Sena on Thursday extended its support to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, and said it would not contest assembly elections in Bengal. Hailing Banerjee as the "real Bengal tigress", the party, which had earlier said that it would join the electoral battle in the state, vowed to "stand in solidarity" with the...
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Home Delhi CM administered COVID-19 vaccine at LNJP hospital
PTI New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his parents received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the government-run Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospital here on Thursday. The Covishield vaccine was first administered to Kejriwal's parents, Govind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi, and then to the chief minister. "My parents and I got vaccinated today. All of...
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Home Maha:3 get 2-yr RI for beating cops, ransacking police station
PTI Thane: A court here in Maharashtra has sentenced three brothers to two years' rigorous imprisonment for beating up police personnel and ransacking a police station in 2016. In an order issued on Wednesday, Additional Sessions Judge R V Tamhanekar also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on the three accused - Santosh Balkrishna Kadam (43), Dinesh Balkrishna Kadam (45) and...
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Home Dhoni in Chennai; CSK training camp for IPL-2021 likely from Mar 9
PTI Chennai: Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has landed here to take part in the team's training camp likely to begin on March 9 in the lead-up to the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The former India captain arrived here late on Wednesday and will serve a five-day quarantine. CSK tweeted a picture of Dhoni at the airport and wrote:...
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Home Surge in daily COVID-19 cases, India records over 17,000 new infections
PTI New Delhi: The daily new cases of COVID-19 in India were recorded above 17,000 after a little over a month taking the total tally of cases to 1,11,56,923, while the recoveries surged to 1,08,26,075, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. A total of 17,407 infections were reported in a day. The death toll increased to 1,57,435 with 89 daily...
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Home Petrol price can come down to Rs 75 if brought under GST, but there is lack of political will: SBI Economists
PTI Mumbai: Petrol price can go down to Rs 75 a litre across the country if brought under the ambit of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), but there is a lack of political will, which is keeping Indian oil product prices at one of the highest in the world, economists at SBI said on Thursday. Diesel will come at Rs 68 a litre and the...
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