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    India Budget 2025: Tax relief for middle class, interest-free loans to states

    Union Budget 2025 Announcements, Budget 2025 Highlights: Find all the key highlights of the India Union Budget 2025 with all the updates on Income tax slab rates, railways, economic policies, taxation, telecom, infrast

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    Wife sells husband’s kidney, flees with lover and ₹10 lakh

    A woman allegedly coaxed her husband to sell his kidney for Rs 10 lakh to raise money for their daughter’s education, only to flee with another man taking away the entire cash in Indian state of West Bengal

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    Indian Rupee hits record low as Trump tariffs trigger fear of trade war

    Donald Trump slapped Canada and Mexico with 25 per cent duties and China with a 10 per cent duty. The move was the first strike in what could usher a destructive global trade war, forex traders said.

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    Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain dies at 73

    In his career spanning six decades, the musician worked with several renowned international and Indian artistes, but it was his 1973 musical project with English guitarist John McLaughlin, violinist L Shankar

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    Air emergency in Delhi: smog halts life, schools closed

    India’s capital New Delhi switched schools to online classes on Monday until further notice as worsening toxic smog surged past 60 times the World Health Organisation’s recommended daily maximum.

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    Indian students being put off applying to UK universities: Report

     Indian students are being put off applying to UK universities, adding to their financial woes at a time when education institutions are already coping with constrained budgets, a new report into the stability

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    Indian Economy In 'Sweet Spot', Says Moody's, Forecasts 7.2% Growth In 2024

    Indian economy is in a sweet spot, with a mix of solid growth and moderating inflation, Moody's Ratings said, forecasting a 7.2 per cent GDP growth in the 2024 calendar year and 6.6 per cent in the next.

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    Vistara Bids Goodbye, Ends 9 Year Long Flight

    Vistara — a joint venture between​ Tatas and​ Singapore Airlines— has now merged with​ Air India, creating an enlarged entity that is now the country’s largest international carrier.

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    Pakistan wants ICC explanation after India's Champions Trophy snub

    The Pakistan Cricket Board has sought clarification from the sport's governing International Cricket Council (ICC) following India's refusal to travel across the border for next year's Champions Trophy

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    Delhi Man Kills Mother For Not Allowing Him To Shift To Canada

    When Singh reached home, Krishan Kant said "sorry" to him and asked him to go upstairs and see for himself what he had done, Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) Ravi Kumar Singh said.

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    India & Canada expel envoys in Sikh separatist killing row

    India on Monday asked Canadian diplomats in Delhi to leave country by Saturday after Ottawa said it was investigating its Indian ambassador and other diplomats as "persons of interest", after killing of a Sikh leader

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    All 11 Life Imprisonment Convicts In Bilkis Bano Gang Rape Case Released

    All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape and murder of seven members of her family on Monday walked out of Godhra sub-jail.

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    India-Iran sign landmark port deal

    Trade, investment and regional connectivity between India and Iran received a boost Saturday with the two countries signing a dozen pacts including one on strategically located Chabahar port

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    Rouhani gifts Modi Persian copies of Panchatantra, Mahabharata

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani presented an animated version of the Persian translation of the Panchatantra and a Persian copy of Mahabharata to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, 17 February.

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    Competing interests weigh in as Rouhani visits India

    Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani is on a three-day state visit to India to fast-track joint investment plans and review a whole gamut of relations at a time of new geopolitical realities.  

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    India, Iran Ink 9 Pacts After 'Substantive' Talks Between PM Modi, Rouhani

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held "substantive" talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to boost cooperation in key areas of security, trade and energy.

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    West oppressed, exploited resources of East: Rouhani

    On the second day of his three-day visit to India, Rouhani joined commoners in offering prayers at the 17th century mosque whose foundation was laid in late 1616 by Qutub Shahi ruler Sultan Mohammad

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    Iranian President Rouhani could give India key to port

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to India, which began on Thursday, could see the two sides seal details of the final take over of operations of the strategically important Chabahar port by India.

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    Solution to problems lie in returning to genuine Islam: Rouhani

    He said the solution to the problems faced by the humanity lie in returning to genuine Islam and underlined the need for educating all, especially youth, of the teaching of Quran and Prophet Mohammad

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    Indian bank hit by $1.8bn fraud case

    India's second largest state-run bank has uncovered a $1.8bn (£1.3bn) scam linked to a single Mumbai branch.The fraud amounts to nearly a third of Punjab National Bank's (PNB) market value, and 50 times.

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    India's defence budget breaks into world's top five: UK report

    India's defence budget broke into the world's top five, beating the UK for the first time, a new report by a London-based global think-tank has said, signalling a key shift in the military balance

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    Reports of Pak ISI ‘honey trapping' Lt Colonel ‘pure speculation’: Indian Army official

    A day after reports of an Indian Army officer being detained in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh over alleged honey trap by Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, a senior Army official on Thursday said that such reports

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    China fumes as PM Modi visits Arunachal Pradesh

    China today voiced its "firm opposition" to the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Arunachal Pradesh which it claims as part of South Tibet and said it would lodge a diplomatic protest with India.

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    Tight security in place for Rouhani's India visit

    Tight security arrangements have been put in place with about 1,500 police officers deployed as part of the security arrangements for Iranian President Dr Hassan Rouhani’s visit to the city on Thursday and Friday.

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