The interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal announced his government’s plan of providing an assisted income support to small and marginal farmers under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme as part of the interim budget on February 1. However, it is the farmers who are suffering at the behest of tall promises made by different …
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Ancient Egypt is known for preserving bodies of human beings, called mummies. According to Egyptians, a person transcends into after-life once they have departed from the present world. To make sure that the person goes onto live in the other world, they tend to preserve bodies. The process of preservation is called ‘mummification’. After placing the decomposed body in a …
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‘Chalta kya hai masjid ke andar?” It was a question 28-year-old Vikas Gavali had thought of often, but never ended up asking even his closest Muslim friends. “There was always a fear. What if they felt bad,” he says. In December last year, Gavali confronted this apprehension of the unknown, when he visited a mosque for the first time in …
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A man who was trying to smuggle a month-old leopard cub from Bangkok into Chennai via flight was detained on Saturday morning when the Air Intelligence Unit heard faint sounds coming from his luggage. The passenger was handed over to Tamil Nadu Forest Department for further action. The man arrived via Thai Airways and was walking in a suspicious manner …
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A day after his death, in what was initially believed to be an accidental fall, Police now says that IIT Hyderabad student Anirudhya Mummaneni jumped to his death from the seven-storey hostel building on the campus. PTI reported that before he committed suicide, Anirudhya had written an email to his friends hinting that he was ending his life. “The decision …
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We’ve heard stories where politicians or party workers are seen distributing money asking votes but never have we witnessed it for real. But this man from Telangana just shot himself on his foot after a video of his surfaced on social media. The video shows the man allegedly asking voters to return the money he had distributed while seeking votes …
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The interim budget is expected to have “interesting features”, possibly including measures to tackle the farm crisis as well as tax benefits for the middle class, as it reaches out to key constituencies ahead of this summer’s general elections. The nature of tax concessions that may be announced on Friday is not clear but sources indicated some of the sops …
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Reuters/Representative Image India has jumped three positions to 78 in the latest Global Corruption Index 2018 list released on Tuesday. India, which was ranked 81st in 2017, is ranked 78 in 2018, according to the latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by the Transparency International. Read more Here’s more top news of the day: 1) Turns Out There’s A Report …
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Government-owned carrier Air India has painted two of its aircraft with the logo of Mahatma Gandhi who is known as Father of the nation. His logo was embossed on the airline to mark his 150th birth anniversary. Gandhi played a pivotal role in India’s freedom struggle as well as development of its constitution. His non-violent practice and promotion of self-reliance …
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An incriminating piece of evidence has been recovered by the Uttar Pradesh Police that could be crucial in solving the murder of Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, who was killed during the Bulandshahr violence. The mobile phone of Inspector Singh was recovered from the house of the main accused Prashant Natt. “We received information about the location of the mobile phone. …
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