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December 10, 2022

No Opposition leader in new Guj assembly

This is happening for the first time since the inception of Gujarat state in 1960

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KCR’S BRS will debut in K'taka polls

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the new avatar of the TRS, will debut in Karnataka Assembly polls, in its quest to fly the pink flag in the national capital. BRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao also unveiled his new party’s slogan which will be “ab ki bar Kisan sarkar”(this time a farmer’s government).

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BJP Legislative Party meet today to pick Guj CM

The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs will meet on Saturday and formally make an announcement on the chief minister of Gujarat after the party registered a historic victory in the state assembly elections on Thursday.

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Collegium discussions can’t be put out in public domain: SC

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking to disclose details under the Right to Information of a collegium meeting held on 12 December 2018 in which decisions were taken regarding the elevation of judges to the apex court.

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Now, a task force to monitor work on central housing scheme

The panchayat department has already appointed IAS and WBCS officers for all the districts

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BJP slams Cong's U-turn on Kerala govt's Bill

Discord also within Cong on backing Billto remove Guv as Chancellor ofvarsities

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How the BJP lost the plot, gota drubbing in Himachal Pradesh

Experiments by BJP chief JP Naddaand CM Thakur to beatanti-incumbency did notwork out

2 mins

Not so social

Like Meta and Twitter, Big Tech is also gasping for breath. Indeed, Silicon Valley's five big tech giants, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft, the mainstay of US stock markets and economy, have collectively lost over 1.5 trillion in market cap in less than amonth in November, Amazon taking the hardest hit. People perhaps are now beginning to realise, albeit slowly, that social media was the most unnatural way to socialize, though it has become almost our second nature

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Centre seeks Parliament nod for expenditure of additional ₹3.25 lakhcr forrest of current fiscal

Minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary tabled the first batch of supplementary demands for grants in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The approval was sought for gross additional expenditure of about Rs 4.36 lakh crore.

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Steps taken by Centre to reduce reliance on import: Government

Also, activerole of Indian missions abroad towards promoting India's trade, tourism, technology and investmentgoals has been enhanced

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‘May include provisions to prevent shadow banning in proposed Digital India Act’

Amid disturbing disclosures about microblogging site Twitter blacklisting content and preventing disfavoured tweets from trending, the Indian government on Friday said that it may ponder on including provisions in the proposed Digital India Act to prevent this kind of shadow banning or visibility filtering\".

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BSNL’s total net loss ₹57,671 crore since inception

Since inception, the total net loss of BSNL is Rs 57,671 crore while that of MTNL is Rs 14,989 crore as on March 31, 2022, the Parliament was told on Friday.

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City Sports Carnival as build up to Hockey World Cup

In the build-up to host the Men's Hockey World Cup, the local administration here has decided to hold a sports carnival with hockey matches and kabaddiand other such events for more than a fortnight beginning on Friday.

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‘Russia has placed rocket launchers at Ukraine Nplant’

Russian forces have installed multiple rocket launchers at Ukraine’s shut-down Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials claimed Thursday, raising fears Europe's largest atomic power station could be used as a base to fire on Ukrainian territory and heightening radiation dangers.

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