SpiceJet announced the launch of four new daily non-stop flights connecting Surat to Mumbai and Hyderabad.From July 10, there will be a new daily direct flight for the Mumbai-Surat-Mumbai sector. It will also start operating its second daily direct flight on the sector in the Hyderabad-Surat-Hyderabad sector."SpiceJet is the
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PVR, India's largest multiplex chain, said it opened its 127th property at Grand Galada Centre Mall in Chennai.The facility will have five screens and is equipped with 2K projection, 7.1 Digital Dolby surround sound and Dolby ATMOS. The screens also support 3-D, the company said.With this, the company now
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Finvasia, a technology-driven online broking start-up, announced that it has rolled out what it claimed was India's first 'truly' free online demat account for investing in stocks and derivatives, including futures.There have been many 'free demat account' providers in the past too, but such operators usually find some way
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Noted Kashmiri politician Bhim Singh has called on the government to appoint the next president from Jammu & Kashmir and send a strong signal to secessionists.Singh suggested the name of another Kashmiri politician Karan Singh for the post.Karan Singh is the son of the last ruler of the
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India's merchandise imports continued to grow at a blazing pace, widening the gap between the foreign exchange that the country earns from its exports and the money that it has to shell out for its imports.Imports for May rose by 33% compared to a year ago, resulting in a
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Pharma Major Lupin said received final approval for launching a generic version of Mallinckrodt Inc.'s Roxicodone Tablets in the United States.The drug is used for the management of pain severe enough to require an opioid analgesic and for which alternative treatments are inadequate, the company said.Roxicodone Tablets has US sales
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Where the sun cannot reach, a poet's words can, goes a popular saying.At a time when the concept of South Asian community and solidarity is receding due to the onslaught of geopolitical interests and the widening distrust among regional countries, poets are imagining what politicians have failed to do.They still
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Reliance Industries said it commissioned its third and last crystallization train at its paraxylene complex at Jamnagar, making the company the biggest manufacturer of the key ingredient used in plastic production.Paraxylene is used to make intermediate chemicals that are then used to manufacture polyethylene terephthalate or PET. PET
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State Bank of India said it raised Rs 15,000 cr by selling its shares in a 'qualified institutional placement' or QIP, making it the largest such transaction in Indian share market history.QIP's usually involve selling shares exclusively to big institutions such as mutual funds, banks and other investment houses and are
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Prominent activists such as Kanhaiya Kumar, Jignesh Mavani, Tehseen Poonawalla and Shehla Rashid have formed an anti-lynching front in the background of vigilante attacks in the name of religious symbols like the cow.Under the banner of the National Campaign Against Mob Lynching, the platform will fight against what it
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Godrej Properties Ltd announced its first project in Sohna in the National Capital region.The project, which involves approximately 157,000 square meters (approximately 1.7 million sq. ft.) of saleable area , will be located in Sector 33."This project will offer and will be developed as a modern group housing development.
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Two- and three-wheeler maker Bajaj Auto said its sales volumes for the month of May fell 10% compared to last year to 3.13 lakh units.Motorcycle sales fell by 10% to 2.77 lakh.Domestic motorcycle sales fell by 13% to 1.57 lakh, while exports fell 5% to 1.21 lakh.This is contrast
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Is this mother of all bomb blast? If one looks at the magnitude of Wednesday morning’s explosion in Kabul, one scouts to find a parallel in recent times.A sewage tanker laden with bomb is denoted at the heart of Kabul city surrounded by presidential palace and many prominent embassies.Kabul
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The bomb blast that took place a few minutes ago near the German and Indian embassies in Kabul killed at least 50 people and injured another 50, Afghanistan's ministry of interior spokesperson Najib Danish said.The blast, considered to be one of the biggest in recent years, happened inside the diplomatic
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Larsen & Toubro recorded revenue of Rs 36,828 crore for the final quarter of the financial year, recording an increase of 12% on a y-o-y basis.The overall PAT for the quarter January to March 2017 stood at Rs 3,025 crore higher by 29.5%, as compared to Rs 2,335 crore recorded
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Fitch Ratings said it downgraded IDBI Bank's Long-Term Default Rating and its 'viability rating' by one notch each to 'BB+' and 'ccc' with a stable outlook."IDBI Bank's Viability Rating reflects the deterioration of its financial profile in the last two years and our expectation that both asset quality and capital
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Indraprastha Gas Limited, the supplier of Compressed Natural Gas and Piped Natural Gas in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida & Ghaziabad today announced its Q4 results.The company’s net profit for the three months ended March increased from Rs. 108.96 crores in corresponding period last year to
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Asahi India said it will set up a state-of-the-art automotive glass plant near Mehsana in Gujarat, primarily to meet the requirements of Maruti Suzuki at its newly-established Gujarat plant.AIS will invest up to Rs 500 crore in the facility in two phases, it said.In the first phase, the plant
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India's premier public sector miner has auctioned rough diamonds worth over Rs 110 cr via e-auction, beating a slowdown in India's gems and jewellery sector.It is "a significant development amidst the global slowdown in diamond industry," said mjunction, an e-auction company that also helped with India's spectrum sales. "The e-auction
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When Hussain Rasheed started talking about his son, a sob choked his voice.His feeble reply wasn't even audible to the small gathering for sometime. When he regained his composure the first question he asked: Why was my son killed? What was his crime?The only crime of Yameen Rasheed,an
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