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Cabinet to decide on presidential reference today

Apart from sexual misconduct, note also details his foreign trip, arbitration assignment.




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Centre announces new hospitals, infra upgrade for several others

The Centre on Monday announced setting up of a slew of new hospitals and expansion plans for several existing ones to bolster health care facility in West Bengal.




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BJP launches portal for Modi rally registration

BJP will also set up camps at Sector V to tap techies.




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Bengal teen''s family 'concerned about safety'': Bihar team

The report, however, has no mention of the investigation by the West Bengal Police.




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Economic Survey: Banks open 40,000 ultra-small branches

Indian banks have set up over 40,000 ultra-small branches across the country to drive financial inclusion in un-banked and under-banked centres, according to the Economic Survey for 2012-13.




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Price support shouldn't be the only way to incentivise farming: Survey

As the government battles to keep food inflation within manageable limits, the annual Economic Survey of the Finance ministry said that existing price support mechanism, should not be the sold tool to incentivize farming, but instead methods other ...




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AI's performance has improved: Economic Survey

Air India is likely to come out of its precarious financial position this financial year with a positive cash flow, as its performance has improved considerably, the Economic Survey said today.




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India Inc sees sales growth fall by more than half in Jul-Sept

Amid declining private investment due to high interest rates and policy bottlenecks, India Inc saw sales growth dip by more than half to an average of 11.4% during the second quarter of the current fiscal.




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India Inc raised Rs 4,974 cr in corporate debt

Resource mobilisation in the corporate debt category witnessed a significant decline as just Rs 4,974 crore was garnered through debt issues in the first nine months of the current fiscal, which was not even 10% of the total funds raised during ...




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Govt takes steps to improve interaction with rating agencies

Amid concerns of possible downgrade of India's credit rating, the Economic Survey today said the government is taking steps to improve interaction with rating agencies to ensure that they make "informed decisions".




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Reliable financial products can boost total savings

Reliable and easily accessible financial saving opportunities can help boost total savings and reduce attractiveness of alternatives like gold, the Economic Survey 2012-13 has said.




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Delhi rape case finds resonance in Economic Survey

After being at the receiving end of public ire, the government did not miss the opportunity of slipping in a brief policy statement on addressing the issue of violence against women in the Economic Survey




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Economy would bounce back to achieve 6.1 to 6.7% growth

The pre-Budget Economic Survey for 2012-13, tabled in Parliament today, has exuded confidence that the Indian economy would bounce back to achieve higher growth of around 6.1 to 6.7%, up from the advance estimates of 5% economic growth in the ...




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A balanced Survey: Nitin Desai

A growth forecast that is seriously wrong is dangerous - it can lead to revenue projections and spending decisions that become seriously inflationary




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MSP hikes isn't the only tool to incentivise farming

Policy on price and procurement support should not encourage more production of abundant crops




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Housing the green concept

Jayant Ghosh refuses to step into stereotypes. He is a farmer who struts about in Wrangler jeans and Reid and Tailor shirts...




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Punjab planning insurance cover for farmers

As reports of hailstorm-induced crop destruction pour in from various parts of Punjab and district heads prepare to assess the damage...




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Advance wheat yield pegged at a record 78 mt

All seems to be well on the farm production front. The Government will soon announce the fourth advance estimate of crop production for 2007-08...




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Punjab''s cancer belt finds antidote in its dense cover of neem

While Punjab''s Malwa belt is witnessing rising incidence of cancer - largely due to addiction to alcohol and tobacco...




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Floriculture blooms in J-K as govt encourages women

Commercial cultivation of flowers is gradually picking up in Jammu and Kashmir.




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Central agency bridges the technology gap for farmers

Yadvendra Ram Tripathi, of Sariyya village under the Khajni development block in Gorakhpur district, a graduate, spurned the offer of a government...




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'There is scientific evidence to prove that GM crops have harmful effects''

Amid arguments for and against introducing genetically modified (GM) crops in India, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee....




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Orissa bans Bt Brinjal citing small farmers'' interests and biosafety concerns

Despite the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee giving its nod to the commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal last week....




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Now, Ranchi boasts of own Dutch roses

It pays to go Dutch. Ask Rasila Kothari, 52, who took to commercial cultivation of Dutch roses in Chandwe village, near Ranchi in Jharkhand.




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Blight off insurance list, Pune''s farmers fear for potato crop

Ashok Bajare, a potato cultivator from Ambegaon taluka in Pune district has reason to worry. He has a Rs eight lakh investment riding on his potato crop at his 20 acre plot in Bhavadi village....




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FRI team to embark on mission to save trees at Cambodia''s ancient Ta Prohm temple

A team from the Forest Research Institute (FRI), the country''s premier forest research organisation, will soon travel to Cambodia, to save one of the major attractions of that country.




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A rare mango variety faces extinction

Giant Noor Jahans grow only on three trees left in the Katthiwara area of MP''s Alirajpur district




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Optimising crop insurance

World Bank-aided pilot idea uses GPS, cellphones and remote-sensing data to try and overcome problems of existing insurance schemes




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Genome sequenced, tomato yield may look up

Indian researchers, along with those from 13 other countries have sequenced the genome of the tomato and its wild ancestor Solanum pimpinellifolium




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Female preference

Punjab imports cattle semen doctored to produce only female calves




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Once reluctant, MP warms up to pomegranate

The pomegranate, believed to have originated in Iran, has for ages thrived also in India, which accounts for half the world''s production, yet farmers'' responses have varied from state to state




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Subsidy, insurance, marketing facilities for Orissa farmers ahead of elections

After tryst with industry, govt shifts focus with agriculture policy that CM Naveen will unveil soon




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Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch gets Magic Keyboard, Intel 10th-gen SoC, and more

Price starting at Rs 1,22,990, the new lineup of MacBook Pro will be available soon in the country




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Lunch with BS: A fullstop for now

Madhukar Kamath talks to about how the succession plan unravelled at DDB Mudra




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UN launches plan of action on hate speech

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday announced the launch of the UN Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech.




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Trump's choice for US Defence Secretary pulls out

US President Donald Trump has announced his choice for Defence Secretary has withdrawn, shaking up the Pentagon at a time of rising Middle East tensions.




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Acting US Defence Secretary quits as domestic violence reports surface

Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan has quit as reports of a domestic violence incident from nearly nine years ago surfaced marring his chances for confirmation even as Washington readies for a possible confrontation with Iran.




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Trump formally launches 2020 re-election campaign

US President Donald Trump has formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign at a rally in Orlando, Florida, and called on his supporters to deliver a metaphorical "earthquake" at the ballots against his Democratic Party rivals.




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Insurance firms looks to bridge online trust deficit amid Covid--19 crisis

With customers caught in a swirl of panic and fear, life insurance companies are looking at confidence building measures for a post Covid-19 world




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HDFC Bank's Q4 performance strong, but investors will have to be wary

Provisioning costs higher than expected; FY21 EPS estimated to decline by 2-4 per cent




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AU Small Finance hits new low, slips 14% in 4 days post March qtr results

Analysts believe the bank will be unable to maintain high AUM growth and will likely see a sharp rise in credit cost & deterioration in incremental deposit mix, amid the current lockdown




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Paint stocks trade weak on concern of demand destruction in near term

Asian Paints, Berger Paints India, Kansai Nerolac Paints and Akzo Nobel India slipped in the range of 2 per cent and 5 per cent on the BSE.




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PPEs, work-life balance the new normal as pharma salesforce hits the field

GSK leads the charge with staggered return-to-work, others plans yoga sessions and health care webinars for salesperson's family




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NCLT orders insolvency procedure for Eason Reyrolle on SBI, Canara plea

The banks together claimed over Rs 230 crore from the company, along with interest and other charges




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Advanced issues in partial least squares structural equation modeling / Joseph F. Hair, Jr, University of South Alabama, USA, University of South Alabama, [and three others]

Hair, Joseph F., author




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Privacy-enhancing aggregation techniques for smart grid communications / Rongxing Lu

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Proceedings of the 40th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education : PME 40, Szeged, Hungary, 3-7 August, 2016 / editors: Csaba Csíkos, Attila Rausch, Judit Szitányi

PME Conference (40th : 2016 : Szeged, Hungary)




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Fundamentals of thermal-fluid sciences / Yunus A. Çengel, John M. Cimbala, Robert H. Turner ; adapted by Mehmet Kanoglu

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Fuzzy techniques : theory and techniques : proceedings of the 2019 Joint World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association and the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society IFSA/NAFIPS'2019 (Lafayette, Lo




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Difference equations for scientists and engineering : interdisciplinary difference equations / Michael A. Radin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

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