GES-2017: Narendra Modi invites global entrepreneurs to invest in India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said his government understood that an environment of transparent policies and the rule of law providing a level playing field were necessary for entrepreneurship to flourish. Inaugurating the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) here, in the presence of U.S. President’s Adviser Ivanka Trump, a couple of Union Ministers and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, […]

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235 killed in terror attack on mosque in Egypt

At least 235 worshippers were killed and 109 others injured when heavily-armed terrorists bombed a mosque and opened fire on people attending Friday prayers in Egypt’s restive North Sinai region, in the deadliest terror attack in the country. The terrorists launched a targeted bomb and gun attack on the al-Rowda mosque in Al-Arish city during the Friday prayers, the state-run […]

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Former US President Obama to visit India on December 1

Former US President Barack Obama will be in New Delhi on December 1 to participate in a Town Hall organised by the Obama Foundation, to “expand the conversation about what it means to be an active citizen and make an impact.” In a statement, the foundation identified India as among the world’s “most culturally, religiously, linguistically, and ethnically diverse nations.” […]

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Google celebrates 132nd birth anniversary of Anasuya Sarabhai

Google today celebrated with a doodle the 132nd birth anniversary of Anasuya Sarabhai, who played a pioneering role in India’s labour movement. A feminist and activist, Anasuya was born on November 11, 1885, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. She came from a family of industrialists. She was married for a short period of time when she was an adolescent but in 1912, […]

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Twitter employee goes rogue, deactivates Trump’s account

An employee of the company went rogue on Thursday evening and deactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account, leading to alarming questions about the integrity of the platform that the U.S President routinely uses to announce policy and even threaten war. Mr. Trump’s account, @realdonaldtrump disappeared at around 6:45 p.m. in Washington on Thursday, and visitors to the page could only see […]

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