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Commercial vehicle sales volume to grow in 14-19% range over next few year
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
A recovery in medium and heavy commercial vehicle (MHCV) from multi-year lows, along with sustained growth in light CV (LCV) categories, will help overall CV volume reach close to one million units by the financial year 2023-2024 (FY24) - the level of the last cyclical peak recorded in the f
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US: FBI warns of threat to synagogues in New Jersey
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Newark said Thursday that it has received "credible information of a broad threat to synagogues" in New Jersey, according to a tweet from the office.
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Delhi HC upholds life sentences awarded to 3 men for raping minor
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Delhi High Court dismissed three appeals against the punishment of life imprisonment for raping a minor in 2011.
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UP cabinet clears proposals to set up pvt varsities and land for irrigatio
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Among the proposals cleared at the cabinet meeting were those pertaining to issuance of letters of intent for setting up the SDGI Global University in Ghaziabad and Major SD Singh University in Fatehgarh, Farrukhabad, under the Uttar Pradesh Private Universities Act, 2019.
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James Corden says "inadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke" foll
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Social media users had pinted out following Monday's episode of 'The Late Late Show' that James Corden's commentary was nearly identical to a joke Gervais delivered in his 2018 Netflix special, 'Ricky Gervais: Humanity'.
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China private security companies making a BRI killing: Report
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Notably, a PSC protects a single strategic point, such as an embassy, port or military base. Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies (MERICS), in a 2018 report noted that there are 5,000 registered Chinese PSCs and some 3,200 personnel operating in several countries including Pakistan and Ira
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2018 Parkland school massacre in US: Shooter sentenced to life in prison w
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
The convicted shooter of Parkland school shooting has been formally sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury last month failed to unanimously recommend the death penalty, disappointing and angering many of the families of the 17 people he killed.
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Delhi HC seeks response of ED on DK Shivakumar's plea challenging second E
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
The petitioner/DK Shivakumar contends that the ED in the impugned proceedings is re-investigating the same offence which it had already investigated in a previous case lodged by it in ECIR 2018. The impugned proceedings have been initiated in complete abuse of process of law and mala fide ex
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ED questions industrialist Venugopal Dhoot in ICICI Bank-Videocon loan cas
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
In March 2019, the Enforcement Directorate also questioned Videocon Industries Chairman Venugopal Dhoot along with Mahesh Pungalia, a director of NuPower Renewables and a close aide of Dhoot, in the case.
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Terror bosses look towards foreigners as J-K youth reject Pak propaganda,
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
After August 5, 2019--when the Centre announced its decision to abrogate J-K's special status and divided it into two Union Territories--30,000 youth have been provided with government jobs, 5.2 lakh youngsters have turned entrepreneurs, while 5.5 lakh women have got associated with the self
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Research: Companies' 'deforestation-free' supply chain pledges have barely
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
More companies must make and implement zero-deforestation supply chain commitments in order to significantly reduce deforestation and protect diverse ecosystems, say researchers. Corporate pledges not to buy soybeans produced on land deforested after 2006 have reduced tree clearance in the B
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Delhi HC issues summons in Abhijit Iyer Mitra suit for reinstatement of hi
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Abijit Iyer Mitra, a scholar working currently as a research fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies through suit stated that his twitter account was forcibly suspended by Twitter after his tweet on the Supreme Court granting bail to Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair, who was
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