Daily Newsletter | Saturday, March 11, 2017
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| Assembly polls: Counting to begin at 8am, trends expected by 11am |
| Counting of votes for the high-stakes assembly elections 2017 in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur will take place on Saturday morning with trends expected to be available by 11 am. By 12 noon, a final picture could emerge on who would be the major players in the five states. |
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| Cong not committing yet to secular alliance in UP |
| Congress was reluctant to engage with ally Akhilesh Yadav’s suggestion for a post-poll “secular” alliance, but said such a suggestion would be addressed only if no party was in a position to form a government. |
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| India snubs UN chief, rejects Kashmir mediation |
| India has again reiterated that only a bilateral solution to the Kashmir issue is possible, amid signs that new United Nations (UN) secretary general Antonio Gutterres was looking at ways to break the deadlock between the two nations. |
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| This may add to the worry of Indian IT companies |
| US clients of India’s $150-billion information technology services industry are inserting new caveats and exit clauses into outsourcing contracts on fears that the Donald Trump administration may bring in a new tax regime that would make off-shoring … |
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| Samsung Galaxy S8 goes up on pre-orders in UK |
| Incidentally, according to reports the price on Mobilefun website is GBP 150 more than Galaxy S8’s predecessor Galaxy S7, which is said to be priced at GBP 549 at the time of launch. The company’s Galaxy S7 edge was priced at GBP 649 at the time of t… |
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| PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal out of All England Open |
| Indian challenge came to an end at the All England Open Badminton Championships with PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal losing their quarter-final matches to Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei and Sung Ji Hyun of Korea respectively on Friday. |
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| COA didn’t want DRS issue to linger, says Diana Edulji |
| “Yes, we firmly stand by our captain Virat Kohli and that’s why the statement was issued supporting our captain. We have complete faith in our captain and it’s not the case that BCCI did not stand with the skipper,” COA member Diana Edulji said. |
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| Reliance Capital CEO Sam Ghosh quits |
| Sam Ghosh, who steered Reliance Capital for about 9 years as its CEO, is leaving the company to pursue other options. Ghosh had joined Reliance Capital in early 2008 and in mid-2015 was elevated to the board of the company as an executive director. |
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| Govt mobilises 6.4 tonne gold under monetisation scheme |
| The scheme also intends to reduce the current account deficit by lowering country’s reliance on gold imports to meet the domestic demand, Minister of State for Finance Arun Ram Meghwal said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. |
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