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Deal activity in India Inc slows to $40.7 billion due to Covid second wave
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 14 (ANI): Deal activity in India during the first half of 2021 amounted to USD 40.7 billion across 710 deals, including both private equity (PE) and strategic acquisitions (M&A), according to a report by consulting major PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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Jind farmers conduct tractor rally rehearsal ahead of Independence Day
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Jind (Haryana) [India], August 14 (ANI): Farmers conducted a rehearsal in the Uchana Kalan area of Jind district in Haryana on Saturday, a day before their proposed 'Tractor Parade', which will be led by women farmers.
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Billroth Hospital spreads awareness on organ donation to save lives
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 13 (ANI/NewsVoir): Organ Donation Day is celebrated every year on August 13th, across the world.
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Government committed to GST compensation payments to states: Nirmala Sitha
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 13 (ANI): The government is an active participant in the recovery process and remains committed to reforms as is evident from a series of tangible steps taken including the passing of seven critical bills related to finance and corporate affairs in the monsoon sess
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Kharge writes to Rajya Sabha Chairman over pandemonium, says unacceptable
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge and several other leaders belonging to opposition parties in Rajya Sabha have written to Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu over the pandemonium in the House on Wednesday when the House took up the bill on insurance business and s
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Marshals manhandled, choked, dragged by Congress, CPI-M MPs in Rajya Sabha
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): CPI-M member Elamaran Kareem manhandled and severely choked the neck of a male marshal while a lady marshal was pulled and dragged by Congress MPs Phulodevi Netam and Chhaya Sharma, says internal security report of Rajya Sabha on the unprecedented pandemo
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Media bodies reject 'draconian' Pakistan Media Development Authority law
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 12 (ANI): Pakistan's media organisations have rejected as "draconian" the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) bill, which proposes the creation of a centralised media regulatory authority.
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Bill Gates Offers USD 1.5 Billion For Joint Climate Projects With US Gov't
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US] August 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Bill Gates will put up USD 1.5 billion in matching funds if Congress approves a public-private partnership program to develop technologies that combat climate change, the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist told the Wall Street Journal
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Government counters opposition, says 18 bills passed in 'hasty manner' in
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): With the opposition slamming the ruling BJP-led alliance over getting the bills passed "without discussion" in the monsoon session of parliament, the government has said that such approval of bills had not happened for the first time and 18 bills were pas
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Greece to modernize air firefighting fleet in aftermath of blazes: Prime M
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], August 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Greece will invest 1.7 billion euros ($2 billion) to modernize its aerial firefighting capabilities in the wake of massive wildfires that recently ripped through the country, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday.
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Bills passed without any debate in monsoon session, only 11 pc of legislat
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], August 12 (ANI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday accused the government of passing the bills without discussion in the monsoon session of parliament and said the average time spent on the bills was 10 minutes.
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Experts vouch for national DNA database to strengthen crime investigation
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, (Delhi) [India], August 12 (ANI/BusinessWire India): With the DNA Technology Bill pending before Parliament, experts weigh in on the possibility of successful DNA database implementation in India. Addressing related privacy and data security issues, they emphasise regulatory provi
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