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Reliance raises $1.85 billion long-term loan to infuse into Jio
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 26 (ANI): Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has signed pacts with overseas lenders to avail long-term loans of 1.85 billion dollars (about Rs 12,850 crore) to finance its capital expenditure for the telecom arm.
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Qatar to invest USD 3 bn in cash-strapped Pakistan
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jun 25 (ANI): Qatar has decided to invest USD 3 billion in cash-strapped Pakistan to help the latter in shoring up its crumbling economy.
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IAG to buy 200 Boeing 737 MAX airplanes for $24 billion
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Le Bourget [France], June 19 (ANI) International Airlines Group (IAG) has announced plans to purchase 200 Boeing 737 MAX jets in a deal valued at more than 24 billion dollars.
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2.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water globally: UN
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 19 (ANI): Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have access to safely managed drinking water services, while 4.2 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation services, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nat
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Pak: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa govt presents Rs 900 billion budget for 2019-20
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], Jun 19 (ANI): Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) Finance Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra presented the province's Rs. 900 billion (Pakistan rupee) budget for 2019-2020 at the KP assembly here on Tuesday, amidst protests by the opposition.
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IndiGo places $20 billion LEAP-1A engine order with CFM
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], June 18 (ANI): Low-cost airline IndiGo has placed a 20 billion dollar (about Rs 1.4 lakh crore) jet engine order with CFM International to power 280 Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft.
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Hong Kong: Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong released from jail
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 17 (ANI): Joshua Wong, a pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong, was freed from prison on Monday, a day after authorities said around two billion protesters took to streets to march against a controversial bill that would send criminal suspects to mainland China for persecution.
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PNB scam: Nirav Modi bail hearing concludes, decision on Wednesday
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], Jun 12 (ANI): A UK court here on Tuesday concluded the hearing of the bail plea of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who was arrested in March in connection with the USD two billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case. The court will deliver its ruling at 10 am (local time
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Hearing underway for Nirav Modi's bail plea in UK
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], Jun 11 (ANI): The UK High Court on Tuesday began hearing the bail plea of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who was arrested on March 19 in connection with the USD two-billion Punjab National Bank fraud case.
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Salesforce to acquire Tableau for USD 15.7 billion
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
San Francisco [USA], June 10 (ANI): Software giant Salesforce has announced that it is acquiring data analytics company Tableau in a USD 15.7 billion deal.
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India hands over NPR 1.6 billion to Nepal for post-quake reconstruction
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Jun 10 (ANI): India on Monday handed over NPR 1.6 billion as reimbursement of part payment of the first and second tranches of housing reconstruction in Nuwakot and Gorkha, among the areas affected in the devastating 2015 earthquake.
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India's merchandise exports to rise by 2.5 pc in Q1 FY20: Exim Bank
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): Export Import (Exim) Bank has forecast that India's merchandise exports will increase from 81.9 billion dollars to 84 billion dollars with an expected growth rate of 2.5 per cent during the first quarter (April to June) of 2019-20 over the corresponding quar
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