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North East gets its first regional convention centre in Nagaland
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dimapur (Nagaland) [India], Oct. 6 (ANI): In order to facilitate and honour eminent personalities and achievers from eight north-eastern states, Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya recently laid the foundation of a regional convention centre.
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Parthiv backs BCCI's decision to go ahead with five-member selection
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], Oct. 6 (ANI): Wicket-keeper batsman Parthiv Patel has thrown his weight behind the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) decision to carry on with its conventional five-member senior selection committee.
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Toxicant level in e-cig emissions 95 percent less than regular cigarette s
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
WashingtonD.C. (USA), Oct. 5 (ANI): In a comprehensive chemical comparison between smoke and e-cigarette emissions, researchers have found that toxicant level in e-cigarette vapour was 95% less than in conventional cigarette smoke.
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Need to restructure international legal framework, adopt CCIT to defeat te
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], Sept. 28 (ANI): Asserting that the biggest threat to international peace and to the sovereignty of states today is terrorism, Vice President of India, Mohammed Hamid Ansari said that terrorism can only be defeated by organized international action, adding we need to restruct
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Adopt Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism, expand UNSC: In
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], Sept. 26 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday appealed to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to adopt the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) which New Delhi has been proposing since 1996, under which terrorists sha
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Invoke Article 62 of Vienna Convention to revoke Indus Water Treaty: Cong
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept.26 (ANI): The Congress Party on Monday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his 'blood and water cannot flow together' remarks at the Indus Water Treaty review meet, and asked the government to invoke Article 62 of the Vienna Convention on the Law
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Aaditya Thackeray to grace the dais at 'India Nightlife Convention Aw
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 21 (ANI): Yuva Sena Chief Aaditya Thackeray has added the necessary impetus to the first ever India Nightlife Convention and Awards 2016 taking place on 25th and 26th September 2016 at St. Regis, Mumbai.
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New paper says excessive skepticism towards harm reduction technologies by
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept.17 (ANI-Businesswire India): A new paper published by Reason Foundation, a US-based think tank, finds that the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) has been overly skeptical of technologies that many believe have the potential to reduce the harm done by toba
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India, AfDB ink MoU for hosting bank's annual meetings at Ahmedabad
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept.16 (ANI): India will be hosting the next annual meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group at Mahatma Gandhi Convention Centre, Ahmedabad from May 22 to May 26, 2017.
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India, Canada agree to combat climate change as per Paris pact
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 12 (ANI): Maintaining that the world is changing with increasing energy demand, shifting energy markets and the effects of climate change, India and Canada have agreed take action to combat climate change through innovation and deployment of low-carbon solutions, as
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Digitalisation adoption in Africa is still uneven - SoftAge reveals at Ind
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 6 (ANI-NewsVoir): Addressing the second Indo-Africa ICT Expo and Forum being held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya, SoftAge Information Technology Ltd. Kick started its participation in the event by highlighting the benefits of d
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There should be one policy for retail business and e-commerce, says Amitab
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 2 (ANI): India is the only country where there are different policies for different segments of the retail business and e-commerce. Logically, there should be one policy, said Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, while interacting with CEOs at the Valedictory Session of the
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