12-12-2016
Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar has been appointed chief of Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI as part of the first major reshuffle in the military's top brass after new army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa took over the reins last month.
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12-12-2016
New Zealand's socially conservative finance chief Bill English was sworn in as the country's new Prime Minister on Monday following last week's shock resignation of his popular predecessor John Key.
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12-12-2016
India’s leading and fastest growing digital platform, FreeCharge today announced a 2 day cashback bonanza for consumers across its merchant network. The sale is live on 11th and 12th of December 2016 and aims at promoting the usage of digital payment methods in the wake of the government’s move to incentivize cashless transactions.
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12-12-2016
Besides major qualitative changes in the operation of the Indian Haj mission, Indian Hajis will be accommodated closer to the Masjid al-Haram Makkah from 2017 onwards, Consul General Mohammad Noor Rahman Sheikh said Sunday.
Speaking to Saudi Gazette, Noor Rahman said the distance of accommodation of green category pilgrims from the Masjid al-Haram in Makkah has been reduced from 1.5 kmtr to 1 k
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12-12-2016
The Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) on Sunday announced free training courses for Saudi women, especially in mobile technical and electrical maintenance, with the aim of empowering Saudi women in the labor market.
Fahad Al-Otaibi, spokesman for TVTC, said a number of Saudi women are professionally working in the fields of electrical and technical maintenance of mobile dev
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12-12-2016
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his statement that he was not allowed to speak in the Parliament, Congress today alleged that he was running away from the House and sought an apology for the same.
Coming down heavily on Modi over demonetisation, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the move has adversely affected labourers, farmers and hard-working citizens of the country.
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12-12-2016
A group of miscreants desecrated the statue of St Anthony at Our Lady of Health Church in Shirva on Sunday.
The statue of St Anthony has been completely damaged, while the statue of St Lawrence has been displaced. Miscreants have not used any lethal objects to damage the statue, police said.
It is suspected that miscreants carried out this act in the afternoon. Shirva police arrived at the sp
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12-12-2016
Thousands of people were stranded as 82 trains were delayed and 16 cancelled due to dense fog in parts of north India on Monday, railway officials said.
A Northern Railway official said 23 trains were rescheduled as the visibility dropped to 400 metres on Monday.
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12-12-2016
Patidar quota agitation leader Hardik Patel today said the poor and farmers have been hit the most by the note ban and it cannot be termed as a surgical strike against black money.
"As far as curbing black money is concerned, it is a right decision but it is not a surgical strike against the wealth amassed illegally.
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