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Swaraj Engines standalone net profit declines 4.86% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 8.53% to Rs 175.13 crore




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Reliance Capital reports consolidated net loss of Rs 2124.00 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 33.91% to Rs 3580.00 crore




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Reliance Infrastructure reports consolidated net loss of Rs 153.84 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 9.01% to Rs 3625.86 crore




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Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India reports consolidated net loss of Rs 164.57 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 2.83% to Rs 616.61 crore




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Adani Transmission consolidated net profit declines 35.72% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales rise 25.20% to Rs 3186.96 crore




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ICICI Bank consolidated net profit rises 6.92% in the March 2020 quarter

Total Operating Income rise 11.47% to Rs 21740.68 crore




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Avantel standalone net profit rises 27.55% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales rise 49.79% to Rs 21.69 crore




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HDFC Asset Management Company standalone net profit declines 9.54% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 2.13% to Rs 476.13 crore




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Barca return to training as La Liga eyes restart

Barcelona returned to training after the La Liga champions allowed their stars to enter their facility to prepare for a potential restart to football in Spain. Lionel Messi and company took the fields at Joan Gamper training centre for individual sessions, for which the players arrived alone in kit and took to the three pitches without passing through the changing rooms. As well as doing their routines, they were also subjected to tests to see what effect two months of coronavirus quarantine has had on their bodies. "Finally we are getting back to normal. We hope to carry on and that soon we can get back to enjoying what we like to do most," Arturo Vidal told sports daily Marca. Sevilla, Villarreal, Osasuna and Leganes also returned to training, while Real Madrid -- who were two points behind league leaders Barca when play stopped in mid-March -- will likely start again on Monday should their players pass virus tests carried out on Wednesday. That would mark almost two months since ...




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Russian volunteers search for fallen World War II soldiers

Crouching over the sun-drenched soil, Alfred Abayev picks up a charred fragment of a Soviet warplane downed in a World War II battle with advancing Nazi forces. You can see it was burning, he says, pointing at the weathered trace of a red star. Abayev and members of his search team rummage the steppe for remains of the Red Army soldiers who fell in the autumn of 1942 in fierce fighting with Nazi troops pushing toward the Caspian Sea south of Stalingrad. Stiff resistance by the Red Army stopped the Wehrmacht onslaught in the steppes of Kalmykia, and months later the enemy's forces were encircled in Stalingrad and surrendered, a major defeat for the Nazis that marked a turning point in World War II. The search for remains of fallen Red Army soldiers near Khulkhuta, in Kalmykia, a southern province that lies between the Volga River and the Caspian Sea, is part of a broad effort by myriad volunteer groups across Russia to pay tribute to fallen World War II soldiers. Russia's losses stood .




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Sugarcane farmer killed in clash over land dispute in UP's Shamli

A sugarcane farmer was killed and his brother sustained injuries in a clash between two groups of farmers over a land dispute at Jalalpur village in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said. Police said trouble started when Nareshpal and his brother Harender were confronted by Pardeep with a group of farmers who attacked him with sticks while working in his field. The injured Nareshpal was rushed to hospital where he was declared dead. Nareshpal and Pardeep's agricultural land lie adjacent to each other and a dispute arose over it, police pointed out. A case was registered on Friday under IPC Sections 147 (punishment for rioting) 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 304 (punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder) while a search is on to catch hold of the accused, police added. According to the complaint lodged by .




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NIA arrests narco-terrorist from Sirsa

The NIA said that the agency along with Punjab and Haryana police arrested Ranjit Singh, allegedly a notorious narco-terrorist, from Sirsa on Saturday as he was acting as a conduit for Pakistan-based groups to push drugs into India and the money generated was used for terror activities. In a statement, National Investigation Agency (NIA) spokesman said that the probe into a drug case led to the fact that Pakistan-based terrorist organisations were using narcotic trade to generate funds for terror activities in India. The proceeds of narcotic trade were transferred to Kashmir valley through couriers and hawala channels for terrorist purposes, it said. Singh, who has been on the run for nearly a year, was arrested from Sirsa, the statement said.




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Narco-terrorist with links to Kashmiri terror groups nabbed by NIA in Haryana

After being on the run for nearly a year, the National Investigation Agency on Saturday nabbed Ranjit Singh, a notorious narco-terrorist, from Sirsa as he was acting as a conduit of Pakistan-based terror groups in pushing drugs into India, the proceeds of which were used for terror activities. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), along with the Punjab and Haryana police arrested Singh alias Cheeta, a resident of Amritsar, in an intelligence-based operation from Sirsa in Haryana, the agency said in a statement. The NIA had registered a case in June last year and filed the first charge sheet against 15 people, including Singh, and four companies, in December the same year. The NIA spokesman, said in the statement, that an investigation into a drug case had led to the fact that Pakistan-based terrorist organisations were using narcotic trade to generate funds for terror activities in India. The proceeds of narcotic trade are transferred to Kashmir valley through couriers and hawala ..




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Punjab CM warns Pak against attempts to spread 'narco terrorism'

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh warned Pakistan on Saturday against its "persistent attempts" to spread narco-terrorism in India, asserting that the police force was "keeping a close watch" on anti-national activities across the border even during a crisis. Our eyes are open to what Pakistan is doing, Singh said, hours after the NIA arrested a "notorious narco-terrorist" who acted as a conduit for Pakistan-based terror groups. The central agency said in a statement that it, along with the Punjab and Haryana police, arrested Ranjit Singh alias Cheeta, a resident of Amritsar, from Haryana. It said investigation in a drug case against Singh showed Pakistan-based outfits were using narcotic trade to generate funds for terror activities in India. Assuring people that no matter how much the force has been busy with Covid duties, the Punjab chief minister said, the police was keeping a watch on the borders. "Pakistan is not letting up on its attempts to push drugs, weapons and drug ...




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SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav discharged from hospital

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav was discharged from a Lucknow hospital where he was admitted after he complained of stomach and urine-related issues. The Samajwadi Party founder, admitted to Medanta Hospital on Wednesday, was discharged on Saturday afternoon and he is fine now, party spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said. He had gone to the hospital for a routine check-up but the doctors admitted him for observation, Chaudhary said. Chaudhary said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav met him on Friday and enquired about his health.




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Muslim women fight patriarchal Sharia laws


Several women’s groups are now fighting the age-old gender bias perpetuated by Sharia law and finding ways to help Muslim women who have suffered due to its patriarchal dispensations. Pushpa Achanta reports on some of these, including one which proposes a codification of such law, reinterpreted.




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Searching for Charlie


"If we really love Andrews' memory," said Gandhi when his close friend passed away, then "we may not have hate in us for Englishmen, of whom Andrews was among the best and noblest." Ramachandra Guha visits his grave.




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Make trade fair, say sugarcane farmers


A multi-state campaign to draw attention to the adverse effect of agriculture and trade policies on sugarcane farmers has just ended. Padmalatha Ravi spoke with farmers and campaign coordinators in Tamilnadu, and traces the growth and decline of agricultural families' fortunes around this crop.




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Researching turbulent waters


Researchers around the country gathered to discuss solutions to the key water-related problems India faces. From conflicts between states, to water-saving agricultural practices, to receding glaciers, a number of issues were raised, and their economic and social implications weighed. Surekha Sule reports.




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Development disconnected from research


The practical management of water systems has become detached from the knowledge gained through research, which has made great progress in the last two or three decades. Because critical elements of research have been externalised, the induction of new inter-disciplinary learning has been greatly limited, writes Jayanta Bandyopadhyay.




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Hill women no longer panic over water scarcity


In many part of rural India, women spend most of their time walking long distances to collect water for their household's needs. Nitin Jugran Bahuguna visits the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand where the women no longer have to worry about fetching water from long distances thanks to an intervention that has brought potable water right to their doorstep.




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March Jobs Report Doesn't Tell the Full Story; Here's Why

U.S. employers shed 701,000 jobs in March, in the worst month for job losses since the 2007-2009 recession. But these losses still don't show the pandemic's full impact on the labor market. WSJ's Eric Morath explains. Photo: JOHN MINCHILLO/ASSOCIATED PRESS




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Questions in search of answers


The success of Operation Sarp Vinash must be understood from independent scrutiny of the Army's claims, as well as analysis of new military strategy, says Firdaus Ahmed.




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In search of the missing link


Indifference, impatience, aggression and denial have been among the common responses to rape as a multi-layered problem. In the concluding part of her article, Ammu Joseph draws attention to all that fosters a culture of violence against women in our society and why it is unamenable to hasty remedies.




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Reorienting research priorities


Having failed to meet the challenges of the post-green revolution era, agricultural research has reached a dead end, says Devinder Sharma.




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In search of Binodini and her peers


The leading ladies of Bengali theatre in the late 19th and 20th centuries presented an intriguing portrait of women caught between two worlds, liberated in a way, yet shackled in others. A recent performance as tribute to these artists leads Shoma Chatterji to reminisce their lives and times.




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Unleashing Political Renaissance By Rejecting Patriarchy


Boregaon is a small village in Solapur district of Maharashtra where men have shunned the patriarchal mindset to support women’s political empowerment and gender equality, writes Suchismita Pai.




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In search of the elusive female traveller


Most Indian languages do not have a specific word for the female traveller. The traveller is by definition male, a fact that provokes Namrata R Ganneri to delve deeper into the gendered nuances of travel and its implications for women.




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World Bank's CAS: The forward march of failure


The newly announced country assistance strategy for India is the continuation of what the World Bank has been pushing in this country and elsewhere in the last 15 years or so years, with nothing to show for it, writes Shripad Dharmadhikary.




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The narcissism of the neurotic


The Commonwealth Games were no showcase, but a mirror of India 2010. If they presented anything, it was Indian crony, casino capitalism at its most vigorous, writes P Sainath.




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In search of the blooms


A better tomorrow must be for us all, not just for the middle and upper classes. This has little to do with morality, altruism or idealism, but much more to do with realism says Dilip D'Souza.




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In search of quality care


The public's perception that government facilities and services are poor has led them to abandon these in favour of private providers. But those are not necessarily better, writes R Balasubramaniam.




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NREGS: A farce at Latehar


The first-ever Lok Adalat on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was held recently in Latehar, Jharkhand. Most petitioners came in the hope of receiving unemployment cheques, or at least having their job applications accepted, but left with neither. Pradeep Bhargava reports.




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Char dwellers turn to sugarcane, but will it be enough?


A number of families residing in the char areas of Assam have apparently staved off misfortune by taking up sugarcane cultivation, but it may require more than just that to stem the trend of migration and improve living conditions in the region. Ratna Bharali Talukdar reports.




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An election-year scarcity


Severe shortages of power and water are predicted for the coming months in much of the North. Himanshu Thakkar looks beyond the 'natural phenomena' that are blamed.




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Fresh water scarcity demands fresh ideas


A growing world population has led to rising demand for fresh water to ensure a growing supply of food and to meet rising nutrition demands. Where will this water come from? A new publication co-sponsored by CGIAR sheds some light on the narrowing options. Sudhirendar Sharma reviews the report.




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The electoral roll farce


Kathyayini Chamaraj reports on one of the most critical predicaments of the Indian elections process. A deeply flawed voter registration system.




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Much research, but no decisive action


At least sixteen committees and panels – from the National Farmers Commission led by Professor M S Swaminathan to the Planning Commission's fact-finding-mission led by bureaucrat Adarsh Misra – came this year to Vidarbha, apparently peeved by and concerned over the suicide crisis. Nothing has come of all this yet, notes Jaideep Hardikar.




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Burning down standing surgarcane crops


Farmers in Datodi village in Yavatmal, Maharashtra, turned to sugarcane when the Chief Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, called on the debt-ridden cotton farmers of Vidarbha to shift to the sweet cane last year. They are now paying the price, reports Jaideep Hardikar.




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गूगल पर कभी ना Search करें COVID-19 से जुड़ी ये बातें, हो सकती है मुश्किल

हम आपको बता रहे हैं कोरोना वायरस (Coronavirus) से जुड़ी 5 चीजें जिन्हें गूगल (Google) पर भूलकर भी ना सर्च करें...




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अब डिलीट नहीं Archive में सेव कर सकेंगे इंस्टाग्राम के फोटोज

इंस्टाग्राम पर इस फीचर के ज़रिए अब यूजर्स को अपनी फोटोज़ डीलीट करने के बजाए आरकाइव(Archive) कर सकते हैं.




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Barcelona's Samuel Umtiti suffers calf injury in training

Barcelona defender Samuel Umtiti sustained a calf injury on his return to individual training, the Spanish La Liga club said in a statement on Saturday.




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रामायण-महाभारत पर आई BARC की रिपोर्ट, टीवी TRP के सारे रिकॉर्ड टूटे

बार्क (BARC) ने कहा है 12 अप्रैल को समाप्त हुए सप्ताह तक टीवी देखने का आंकड़ा कोविड-19 से पहले की तुलना में 38 प्रतिशत बढ़ा. इसमें रामायण-महाभारत (Ramayan-Mahabharat) ने अहम भूमिका निभाई.




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Sunny Leone नहीं साल 2018 में 'देसी गर्ल' के पति रहे Google Search की टॉप पर!

प्रियंका और निक सबसे पहले अमेरिका के मशहूर डॉजर्स स्टेडियम में स्पॉट किए गए. ऐसे में जहां कुछ लोगों के लिए यह एक गॉसिप थी वहीं कई लोगों को यह जानने में दिलचस्पी रही कि 'देसी गर्ल' का दिल चुराने वाले निक जोनास आखिर हैं कौन?




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Core industries' growth contracts 6.5% in March

Core industries' growth contracts 6.5% in March





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Weekly Book News (March 30 - April 5)

Weekly Book News (March 30 - April 5)





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Record-breaking hole in ozone layer over Arctic closed: EU sat




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A satellite lets scientists see Antarctica’s melting like never before




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Lion Strays into Gujarat Village in Search of Food, Escapes into School Building as Locals Raise Alarm

According to reports, the lion had been attempting to prey on cattle, which were held fast to a shed right next to the school.




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Researchers Link 400 Million-Year-Old Fossil to Evolution of Plant Reproduction

The research, which was published in Current Biology, is aimed at studying about how the reproduction process evolved in the plants over the years.