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Go for self-sustaining innovations: Piyush Goyal to cleantech sector

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, has urged the clean energy sector to become self-sustaining and independent of the government as production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes were meant only to help kickstart projects.

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January 12, 2025
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Trump Is Planning 100 Executive Orders Starting Day 1 On Border, Deportations & Other Priorities

Many of Trump's choices for top administration jobs are going through Senate confirmation hearings this upcoming week

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January 12, 2025
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Venezuela's Maduro takes new oath amid protests and international rebuke

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a new term on Friday, extending his increasingly repressive rule in the face of renewed protests and rebukes from the United States and others who believe he stole last year's vote.

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January 12, 2025
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Investigators Consider Array of Possibilities About What Ignited Deadly California Wildfires

Investigators are considering an array of possible ignition sources for the huge fires that have killed at least 11 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in the Los Angeles area.

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January 12, 2025
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US finds no 'Havana syndrome' link to foreign powers, but two spy agencies say it's possible

U.S. intelligence has found no evidence linking a foreign power to the mysterious \"Havana syndrome\" injuries reported by some U.S. diplomats and other government personnel, though two agencies now say it's possible a foreign adversary may have developed or even deployed a weapon responsible for the injuries.

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January 12, 2025
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Greenland's leader says his people don't want to be Americans as Trump covets territory

Greenland's prime minister said Friday that the mineral-rich Arctic territory's people don't want to be Americans, but that he understands U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's interest in the island given its strategic location and he's open to greater cooperation with Washington.

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January 12, 2025
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Indonesia and Japan promise deeper defence and economic ties as regional tensions spike

Japan and Indonesia pledged on Saturday to deepen economic and defense ties during a visit by the Japanese prime minister, seen as promoting regional cooperation as China flexes its muscle and Donald Trump prepares to take over as the next U.S. president.

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January 12, 2025
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Kerala LoP Satheesan urges CM Vijayan to pass resolution against draft UGC regulations

Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, V.D. Satheesan, has written to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, urging the government to adopt a unanimous resolution opposing the draft University Grants Commission (UGC) Regulations of 2025.

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January 12, 2025
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Derogatory remark row: BJP MLC Ravi gets threat letter

BJP MLC C. T. Ravi on Saturday claimed that he has received an anonymous letter asking him to apologise for the alleged derogatory remark against state Women and Child Welfare Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar or else he will be executed.

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January 12, 2025
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Governor Ravi a habitual offender who intentionally violates norms and tradition of TN Assembly: Stalin

Marring under Governor RN Ravi's boycott of the Assembly without delivering the customary address, prepared by the state government, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday charged him with intentionally disrespecting the House and its dignity with a predetermined mindset which amounted to insulting Tamil and the Tamil people.

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January 12, 2025
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Karnataka Police Track Cache of Weapons Belonging to Surrendered Maoists in State's Meguru Forest

Karnataka police have tracked the cache of weapons belonging to surrendered Maoists in Meguru forest in Chikkamagaluru district of the state, sources confirmed on Saturday.

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January 12, 2025
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AIADMK & ally DMDK boycott TN by-poll alleging misuse of power by ruling DMK

Announcing the boycott of the 5 February byelection to the Tamil Nadu assembly from Erode (East) constituency, the principal opposition AIADMK and its ally, the DMDK have said the decision to opt out of the contest was taken since the ruling DMK would not allow the people to vote freely as was the case in the past bypolls.

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January 12, 2025
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Surrender of Maoists in K'taka raises doubts, should be probed, says Tamil Nadu BJP chief

Tamil Nadu BJP State President K. Annamalai, who served as an IPS officer in Karnataka, said on Saturday that the process of surrender of six Maoists before the Chief Minister \"raises doubts\" and should be probed.

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January 12, 2025
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Lost art of waiting

In our hyper-connected world, waiting is increasingly seen as a flaw in the system rather than an inevitable part of life.

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January 12, 2025
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Women in the forefront

This week, two significant announcements impacting women's empowerment deserve attention on a global scale.

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January 12, 2025
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Voter lists

SIR, During the assembly by-elections in Uttar Pradesh last November, many videos were going viral on social media in which the police were preventing voters of a particular religion from voting.

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January 12, 2025
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Celebrating Youth

Vivekananda believed that the youth have the energy, idealism and enthusiasm to bring about transformative change in society. He felt that they were moldable and adaptable, being more open to new ideas, and receptive to guidance, making them ideal for shaping and molding; Vivekananda recognized that the youth of today would become the leaders of tomorrow, and therefore, it was essential to equip them with the right values, skills and knowledge

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January 12, 2025
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Threshold Crossed

The year 2024 will be remembered as a watershed moment in the fight against climate change.

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January 12, 2025
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BPSC protesters reach Patna HC; give call for Bihar bandh today

Independent MP Pappu Yadav filed a petition in the Patna High Court on Saturday, demanding a re-examination and a high-level probe into alleged irregularities in the 70th Combined Competitive Exams (preliminary) conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) on December 13, 2024.

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January 12, 2025
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Ministry of Women and Child Development Hosts Two-Day Chintan Shivir in Udaipur

The Ministry of Women and Child Development inaugurated a two-day Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

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January 12, 2025
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States Need to Cooperate With Centre to Combat Drug Menace: Home Minister

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday called for cooperation between the Centre and the states to fight the drug menace.

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January 12, 2025
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Thackeray-led Shiv Sena decides to go it alone in Maha civic polls

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena will fight the forthcoming Maharashtra civic bodies elections alone, the party's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut announced in Nagpur on Saturday.

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January 12, 2025
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Congress to launch stir over Ambedkar issue from 27 Jan

Campaign will continue until Amit Shah resigns and publicly apologises to the nation: Jitendra Singh

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January 12, 2025
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Woman killed, stuffed in fridge

A man allegedly strangled his live-in partner to death and stuffed her body inside a refrigerator about 10 months ago in his rented house and fled, but the present tenant in the same house discovered the body while cleaning the house and subsequently the police arrested the alleged killer.

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January 12, 2025
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Extensions in Service Defy Logical Principle of Expectation: Dhankhar

Extensions in service in any form for a particular post are a setback to those in line and defy the logical principle of expectation, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Saturday.

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January 12, 2025
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Rajnath Singh Urges Youth to Align Aspirations With India's Vision for 'Viksit Bharat' by 2047

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, during the convocation ceremony at IIMT University in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, called on the youth to tap into their potential and align their aspirations with India's national goal of becoming a 'Viksit Bharat' (Developed India) by 2047.

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January 12, 2025
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Slew of measures for tribals' welfare; budget increased by 45.80 per cent

Keeping in mind the overall socioeconomic development of the Scheduled Tribe (ST) population representing 8.6 per cent of the country's total population and spanning over 700 unique groups, the Union Government has taken a slew of measures for which the budget outlay of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs was increased by 45.80 per cent to about Rs 14925.81 crore compared to the revised estimate of 2023-24.

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January 12, 2025
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Value of rupee against dollar reached lowest level ever: Priyanka

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday criticised the central government over the depreciation of the Indian rupee, claiming that the currency's value against the dollar has hit an all-time low, and alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has failed to live up to his earlier promises regarding the economy.

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January 12, 2025
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Fourth body recovered in Assam's Umrangso coal mine tragedy, five miners still missing

As rescue operations intensified at the waterlogged coal mine in Umrangso, Assam, personnel recovered a fourth body on January 11, leaving five miners still unaccounted for.

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January 12, 2025
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Manipur CM N Biren Singh urges Naga leaders, churches to mediate in ethnic conflict resolution

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has appealed to Naga community leaders, church authorities, and other influential figures to take a proactive role in resolving the ongoing ethnic conflict in the state.

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January 12, 2025