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February’s GST revenue growth reflected the third-highest uptick in 2023-24 and lifted the total collections so far this year to ₹18.4 lakh crore. File | Photo Credit: Reuters India’s gross revenues from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) grew at a three-month high pace of 12.54% in February to cross ₹1.68 lakh crore, marking the…
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Meta is talking to hardware companies about building new VR devices, said the report (Representational) Meta Platforms decided against a partnership with Alphabet to use Google’s Android XR platform for its virtual and mixed-reality Quest headsets, The Information reported on Friday. Google had suggested that Meta partnered with its new software platform that is being…
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China and India have been competing for major infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka (Representational) Sri Lanka on Friday awarded the construction of three solar and wind hybrid power generation facilities to an Indian company after scrapping a tender won by a Chinese firm. India has long been concerned about growing Chinese influence in the island…
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File photo of Yuvraj Singh© Twitter Yuvraj Singh on Friday denied reports that claimed that the former Indian cricket team star would be contesting elections from Gurdaspur, Punjab. Yuvraj is one of the best known Indian cricketers who emerged in the new millennium. With his stylish left-handed batting and effetive spin blwoing, he won India…
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The girl had gone missing under suspicious circumstances on Wednesday. (Representational) Nuh: Nuh Police on Friday arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly strangling his eight-year-old niece to death and burying her body in a field 3 km away from his village, said police. The police recovered the body Friday evening and placed it in the…
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.’s (GA-ASI) MQ-9B drone. | Photo Credit: PTI The possible sale of 31 MQ-9B high altitude long endurance armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) from U.S. firm General Atomics to India progressed to the next stage after a 30 day Congressional notification period concluded on March 1. The deal, pegged at an estimated…
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Picture taken on March 16, 2010 shows Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard from Jyllands-Posten making his last drawing for the newspaper, in Viby. | Photo Credit: AFP Bidding closes Friday in the online auction of the original edition of a Danish cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed that provoked violent riots in Muslim countries. Published together with…
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Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Three years of military rule in Myanmar have inflicted unbearable cruelty, leaving people trapped in an unending nightmare as the conflict spreads, the UN human rights chief said Friday. The junta is crushing all forms of dissent with total impunity, Volker Turk…
“It was a low-intensity blast,” said DK Shivakumar Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Friday said that the Rameshwaram cafe blast is being investigated from all angles, adding that 7-8 teams have been formed to probe the incident. DK Shivakumar also stated that a youth came and kept a small bag, which exploded after…
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Ambuj Shukla’s licensed revolver has also been seized. Lucknow: A Congress leader has been arrested for barging into the office of a construction company near Kanpur and brandishing a revolver to threaten its employees. The act has been caught on a CCTV camera. The footage shows Ambuj Shukla – a Congress leader who had unsuccessfully…
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