Daily Newsletter | Wednesday, December 20, 2017
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| Govt slammed for sluggish Military modernisation |
| A parliamentary committee has slammed the government for not doing enough to ensure military modernisation despite India being confronted with a clear and present “collusive threat” from China and Pakistan. |
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| Guj gets 2m Twitter mentions, Modi figures most |
| The 2017 Gujarat state elections saw nearly two million mentions on Twitter, the social network says. It measured the activity on the hashtag #GujaratElection2017 between December 1 and 18 and found that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the top mentioned political figure. |
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| IPL auction on January 27, 28 in Bengaluru |
| “Since most of the capped players will be back in auction, it will be a mega auction that will be held in Bengaluru on January 27 and 28. Since Bengaluru has been hosting all previous auctions, that was the choice of franchises,” a senior BCCI official said on Tuesday. |
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| Complex scheduling issues but no alternative: Gopichand |
| “Scheduling affects the entire world, not just India. But the fact that we have the Commonwealth and Asian Games, which are important, makes it a lot more complex for India,” Gopichand told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of a sports foundation. |
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| Govt to privatise stadiums under SAI to improve service quality |
| “We are keenly thinking of privatising some of our stadia to have better operations in terms of delivering sports to the sportspersons. There was a general study on how the stadia can be improved. The fact is that there is need to improve the way stadia are administered,” Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said. |
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| Airtel deposits ‘interim penalty’ of Rs 2.5 crore with UIDAI |
| Airtel is learnt to have given the assurance that it will return Rs 190 crore that had flown into the ‘unsolicited’ payments bank accounts of 31 lakh mobile subscribers over the next 24 hours and will also inform the customers that their subsidy-linked account is being switched back to the originally-chosen account. |
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