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  Govt to create 1 lakh tons of onion buffer stock in 2020

  Business | December 30, 2019 14:41 IST

  The government had created a buffer stock of 56,000 tonnes for the current year but it was not sufficient to contain the prices which are still ruling above Rs 100 per kg in most cities across the country. 

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  125 crore Aadhaar cards issued till now: Govt

  India | December 27, 2019 14:18 IST

  The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has announced a milestone of sorts with the total number of Aadhaar cards issued so far crossing the 1.25 billion mark.

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  Govt to sell 100% stake in Air India, says Puri

  India | December 12, 2019 16:28 IST

  The national carrier, which has a debt burden of more than Rs 50,000 crore, has been making loss for long and as part of revival efforts, the government has decided on disinvestment.

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  Govt hikes toria MSP by Rs 525 per quintal for this year

  India | December 09, 2019 17:38 IST

  The minimum support price (MSP) of toria was fixed at Rs 3,900 per quintal for 2018-19 rabi season.

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  Netanyahu calls for direct PM election amidst deadlock

  World | December 08, 2019 16:53 IST

  The Blue and White party dismissed the proposal, saying in a statement that the party was "engaged in efforts to avoid costly and unnecessary elections, and not with empty spin aimed at bringing back an election method that has shattered the governance and political system in this country in the past and resulted in complete failure".

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  UP government to provide job and security for Unnao victim's family

  India | December 08, 2019 13:36 IST

  UP government on Sunday announced steps being taken by the government to help the family of the Unnao rape victim who died in Delhi's Safdarjung hospital on Friday. Mukesh Meshram, Lucknow Commissioner, announced that the government had decided to give 24 hours security to the victim's family amid major death threats that they had been getting.

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  Govt finalising rules to mandate social media firms to remove child sexual abuse, terrorism content

  India | December 05, 2019 18:03 IST

  The government on Thursday said it is working on rules to mandate social media companies to identify and remove child sexual abuse material, rape images and content promoting terrorism without affecting privacy.

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  485 candidates with Hindi, other regional languages as mother tongue passed 2018 civil services exam

  India | December 05, 2019 15:07 IST

  A total of 812 candidates were recommended for central civil services on the basis of the 2018 test, it said. The civil services examination is conducted annually to select officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) among others.

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  No proposal to sell onions at uniform rate across country: Govt tells Parliament

  India | December 03, 2019 18:21 IST

  There is no proposal to provide onions at an uniform rate across the country, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday.  

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  Over 3.38 lakh companies struck off from govt records in last two years

  India | December 02, 2019 16:57 IST

  Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Anurag Singh Thakur told the Lok Sabha on Monday that the ministry through its RoCs (Registrar of Companies) files prosecutions against companies that have not filed financial statements from time to time.

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  Govt says no proposal to reduce taxes on petrol, diesel

  Business | December 02, 2019 13:35 IST

  The council, chaired by the Union Finance Minister, has ministers in-charge of finance or taxation from all states as members. "At present, there is no proposal to reduce taxes on petrol and diesel," Sitharaman said in response to a question on whether the government proposes to reduce taxes so thatprices of petrol and diesel would come down.

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  People in power trying to circumvent values of Constitution:Priyanka Gandhi

  India | November 26, 2019 11:13 IST

  "Today is Constitution Day and people in power are circumventing the values of the Constitution and weakening the power of the people in a democracy by promoting money power,"  Priyanka Gandhi tweeted. 

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  EIL, PGCIL, NMDC, BHEL, NHPC may be in list where govt stake to fall below 51%

  Business | November 24, 2019 12:10 IST

  Official sources said no decision has been taken on this but the names are being considered on the basis of the current government stake in them and also the nature of their operation where the private sector is already present and is largely non-strategic.

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  Govt refers surrogacy bill to select committee of Rajya Sabha

  India | November 21, 2019 17:33 IST

  Rajya Sabha members had on Wednesday sought amendments in certain provisions of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, that seeks to ban commercial surrogacy in India.

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  Government finalising new IT rules for social media entailing traceability of info originator

  India | November 21, 2019 16:53 IST

  The government is finalizing new IT rules for social media companies that would mandate traceability of originator of information on such platforms and removal of malicious content within 24 hours of notice, Parliament was informed on Thursday.  

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  Government gives Rs 42,000 crore relief to telcos, defers spectrum payments by 2 years

  Business | November 20, 2019 23:48 IST

  While the move will give Rs 42,000 crore relief to Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio, the government is unlikely to intervene in the Supreme Court-mandated statutory payments, top sources said.

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  WhatsApp expresses 'regret' over Pegasus snooping row

  India | November 20, 2019 19:27 IST

  Last month, the Facebook-owned company had showed that Indian journalists and human rights activists were among those globally spied upon by unnamed entities using Pegasus spyware.  

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  No proposal for one nation, one language: Govt to Parliament

  India | November 20, 2019 19:04 IST

  To another question on the number of sedition cases filed against persons who criticised and doubted surgical strikes conducted by the Army, Reddy said "no such data" is available with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) as on date.

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  No proposal under consideration to merge Assam Rifles with ITBP: Govt

  India | November 20, 2019 16:13 IST

  The minister was asked about the government's intentions on the subject as there have been reservations on this count both by the Assam Rifles and the Army brass.

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  No Central funds for Delhi under National Clean Air Programme

  India | November 18, 2019 22:14 IST

  Calling air pollution as one of the biggest global environmental challenges, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in January 2019 launched the 'National Clean Air Programme' (NCAP).