India will achieve 8% plus growth from FY 2020-2021 onwards: NITI Aayog Vice Chairman
New York: India will achieve a GDP growth of 8 per cent plus from fiscal year 2020-2021 onwards as the structural reform measures like the GST are set to yield the intended benefits, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar has said.
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India strongly rejects Pak”s references to Kashmir at NAM Ministerial
United Nations: India has strongly rejected Pakistan’s references to Kashmir during the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting in Venezuela, saying the global forum can never be a platform for a “self-serving narrative” that aims to undermine the territorial integrity of one nation by another State.
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Pakistan PM Imran Khan to meet Trump to reboot ties
Washington: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is set to hold talks with Donald Trump Monday to reboot bilateral ties that were hit after the US president publicly criticised Islamabad, cancelled military aid and asked it to do more to fight terrorism.
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Iran says seizure of UK-flagged tanker was ”legal measure”
Tehran: Iran”s seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz was a “legal measure”, the spokesman for the Islamic republic”s government said on Monday.
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Lanka will introduce new laws to prevent terrorism: Wickremesinghe
Colombo: Sri Lanka will introduce new laws to prevent terrorism as the existing ones are not adequate to deal with terror attacks like the massive Easter Sunday bombings, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said.
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PM Wickremesinghe to lead new broad alliance for Sri Lanka”s presidential polls
Colombo: Sri Lanka is set to have a new broad political alliance headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on August 5 which will contest the presidential election later this year, a media report has said, amid the power struggle between the premier and President Maithripala Sirisena.
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IAEA says its 72-year-old chief, Yukiya Amano, has died
Vienna: Yukiya Amano, the International Atomic Energy Agency”s director general, has died at 72, the agency announced Monday.
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Imran Khan criticises Opposition for promoting dynasties not merit
Washington: Citing the decline of the Mughal Empire in India, Prime Minister Imran Khan took a jibe at the Opposition parties in Pakistan for the country”s current state of affairs and blamed them for promoting dynasties and not merit.
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IMF urges cash-strapped Pakistan to mobilise domestic tax revenues
Washington: The IMF has urged Pakistan to mobilise domestic tax revenues to provide for the social and development spending and place debt on a downward trend as the cash-strapped country is seeking bailout packages from global lenders to help its ailing economy return to “sustainable growth”.
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UK PM race between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt to conclude
London: Britain”s prime ministerial race entered its final phase as voting closes on Monday evening for counting to begin before Theresa May’s successor is unveiled on Tuesday.
