Curated News Articles - 13-08-2018 17 hrs
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NCP attacks Maharashtra CM for not paying visit to 26/11 memorial NCP today slammed chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for not paying homage to the martyrs of 26/11 terror attacks by visiting the memorial built for them. |
Vasan unveils party flag sporting images of Kamaraj, Moopanar Former Union minister G K Vasan, who quit the Congress recently, unveiled a tri-colour flag for his yet-to-be named party on Wednesday. |
Taxiway take off: Licences of 2 Jet pilots suspended  Jet had last Friday said that the incident happened when their plane was trying to take off from the runway. But the preliminary probe by Saudi authorities has found that the lane was trying to take off from a taxiway parallel to the take off-designated runway at full power. |
Vasan unveils party flag sporting images of Kamaraj, Moopanar Former Union minister G K Vasan, who quit the Congress recently, unveiled a tri-colour flag for his yet-to-be named party on Wednesday. |
Vasan unveils party flag sporting images of Kamaraj, Moopanar Former Union minister G K Vasan, who quit the Congress recently, unveiled a tri-colour flag for his yet-to-be named party on Wednesday. |
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Musk says in talks with Saudi fund to take Tesla private  The Saudi fund approached Musk about going private multiple times during the past two years. |
Why has Turkey's currency lira fallen so sharply?  The crash on Turkey's "Black Friday" of August 10 -- when the lira fell by some 16 percent -- was precipitated by a tweet from US President Donald Trump doubling aluminium and steel tariffs on Turkey. |
Fund raising via preferential route jumps 11-fold to Rs 1 lakh crore in Q1  The firms had mopped up Rs 9,037 crore in the corresponding period previous fiscal. |
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Uttar Pradesh tops all states with 3.2 lakh toilets built in 17 days  UP was followed by Rajasthan, which constructed 2,54,953 toilets, and Karnataka, which got 2,41,708 toilets built in the same period, it said. |
President Ram Nath Kovind visits Gandhiji's birthplace, declares rural Gujarat open defecation free  "Cleanliness is a multi-stakeholder national movement and not just the responsibility of the sanitation personnel and government departments," the president said. |
Government announces Swacchhata awards  Among the winners is a Delhi-based Facebook citizen group -- 'My Delhi Keep It Clean' -- which is being awarded for promoting efforts to clean public places. |
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