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India will develop only when villages develop: President
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Gurugram (Haryana) [India], June 2 (ANI): President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said India will develop only when the villages develop, adding that even today 68 percent of the population lives in villages.
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Pakistanis want a radicalised Pakistan: Poll
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): Two in three Pakistanis or 67 percent of the country's population have said that they support the imposition of Sharia as the only law, suggesting that Pakistan has become increasingly radicalized.
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Post GST approval, Centre confident of 7.5 percent growth by March 2018: P
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): Economic Adviser Arvind Panagariya on Friday said that India's economic growth is expected to pick up to 7.5 per cent by March 2018, as the government has sustained eight per cent growth rate over the next two years.
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GDP slump: Chidambaram slams Centre for 'ridiculing' Manmohan�
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Sivaganga (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 2 (ANI): Following the release of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Gross Value Added (GVA) figures for 2016-17 showing sliding of the economy by 1.3 percent, former finance minister P. Chidambaram on Friday trained the guns on the Centre for ridiculing th
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This robot is 'most nimble-fingered' yet
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 2 (ANI): Grabbing the awkwardly shaped items that humans pick up in their day-to-day lives is a slippery task for robots, but this newly-built robot can pick up and move unfamiliar, real-world objects with a 99 percent success rate.
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Drop in GDP a temporary affair: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): Retorting to opposition's criticism against the recent GDP percentage, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said that the drop in economic activity is a temporary affair and that they will be disappointed soon.
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Chewable tobacco easily available in spite of SC ban, says survey
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): In lieu of World Tobacco Day being observed on Wednesday, citizen engagement platform LocalCircles' set of surveys revealed that out of the 10,143 responses, 86 percent said chewable tobacco is easily available, in spite of a ban being imposed on it by t
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Pune girl beats physical disability, scores 91.4 percent in Boards
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India] June 1 (ANI): Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12th student Harmehar Kaur Grewal has shown that physical discomfort cannot be a barrier to anyone if there is determination to achieve the goal.
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BJP lauds India's annual GDP growth at 7.1%
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 01 (ANI): With the new estimates released on Wednesday showing the Indian economy at 7.1 percent in 2016-17, Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on Thursday lauded the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government for the India's GDP (gross d
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Employment generated 155 percent more in 2016-17: Venkaiah Naidu
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation M. Venkaiah Naidu chaired the third Governing Council meeting of the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) here today, to deliberate upon the steps to further strengthen the
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Mechanic's son tops Jharkhand Board exam
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dumka (Jharkhand) [India] May 31 (ANI): Amid the dip in the pass percentage of class 10 board examination in Jharkhand, Gunjan Pal, a motor mechanic's son has topped the state's matric exam by securing 95.8 percent marks.
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Youth prone to misuse of personal information: Kaspersky study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): A study conducted by Kaspersky Lab has revealed that over 93 percent of people make their personal information accessible to strangers, out of which 70 percent share photos and videos of their children and the rest 45 percent share their own private videos an
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