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Indonesia's Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi has confirmed the crash of a Boeing 737-500 plane of Indonesian airlines with 62 people on board that lost contact with the air traffic controller

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India to become $5 trn economy by 2025: Goyal

India is strengthening the entire ecosystem to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream of becoming a USD 5 trillion economy by 2025 through rapid structural reforms, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday. Addressing the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas conference, the Commerce and Industry Minister said: "We are working simultaneously to bring about a quantum leap in our quality, in our productivity, in our efficiency, so that Indian Industry can truly expand our export basket, making it bigger, better and broader".

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Nadda in Bengal

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DGCA issues guidelines for transportation of Covid-19 vaccines

The government on Friday issued guidelines for the packaging and transportation of COVID-19 vaccines by air, directing the airport authorities and airlines to use dry ice as the refrigerant material during the transportation in order to maintain the low temperatures between -8° C to -70° C.

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Tamil Nadu elections 2021: Incumbent E Palaniswami named as AIADMK CM candidate

Tamil Nadu elections 2021: Incumbent E Palaniswami named as AIADMK CM candidate, O Panneerselvam as Deputy CM candidate.

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Tamil Nadu: AIADMK general council meeting being held in Chennai today

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Ajit Pawar orders audit of all hospitals following Bhandara hospital tragedy

Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra Deputy CM and Finance Minister has ordered audit of all hospitals on an urgent basis following the fire incident at Bhandara District General Hospital that claimed lives of 10 people.

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The ongoing campaign in India to empower the poor is being discussed around the world: PM Modi

The ongoing campaign in India to empower the poor of the country is being discussed around the world. We have shown that in the sector of renewable energy, a developing country too can take lead: PM Narendra Modi

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People said that India will break & democracy is impossible in the country, says Modi at Pravasi Bharati event

People said that India will break & democracy is impossible in the country but the truth is that India stands together with a strong and vibrant democracy today: PM Narendra Modi

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Today, India is using technology to end corruption, says PM Modi

Today, India is using technology to end corruption, says PM Modi

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When India stood in the face of terrorism, world too got the courage to face this challenge; PM Modi

When India stood in the face of terrorism, world too got the courage to face this challenge. Today, India is using technology to end corruption. Money worth lakhs & crores are directly being credited to account of beneficiary: PM Modi at 16th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray orders probe into the fire incident at Bhandara district hospital

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray expresses grief over death of newborns in the fire at the Bhandara district hospital, orders probe.

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Noted conspiracy theorists, supremacists among rioters in US Capitol attack

There were infamous white nationalists and noted conspiracy theorists who have spread dark visions of pedophile Satanists running the country. Others were more anonymous, people who had journeyed from Indiana and South Carolina to heed President Trump’s call to show their support. One person, a West Virginia lawmaker, had only been elected to office in November.

 

All of them converged on Wednesday on the grounds of the US Capitol, where hundreds of rioters crashed through barricades, climbed through windows and walked through doors, wandering around the hallways with a sense of gleeful desecration, because, for a few breathtaking hours, they believed that they had displaced the very elites they said they hated. Read on...

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Bird flu scare: Assam bans entry of poultry products from outside NE

The Assam government has imposed an indefinite ban on the entry of poultry products from outside the Northeastern region as a precautionary measure following avian flu outbreak in some states.

 

The ban comes into force with immediate effect and will remain in force until further orders, according to a notification issued by the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary department.

 

However, there is no need to panic as the state has not reported any confirmed case of the bird flue so far, director of the state veterinary department Ashok Barman said. Read on...

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Maharashtra: NCB is conducting raids at three locations in Mumbai in drug cases

Maharashtra: Narcotics Control Bureau is conducting raids at three locations in Mumbai in drug cases.

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Mumbai witnesses worse air quality than Delhi, records AQI of 317

Mumbai on Friday once again recorded an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 317 which was worse than that of Delhi, an official of the India Meteorological Department said.

 

On Thursday too, the city's AQI was worse than that of the national capital.

 

The quality of air was worst in Colaba in south Mumbai on Friday as per the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR-India).

 

With AQI of 352, the air quality in the area fell in the "very poor" category. Read on...