Month: April 2019

Royal Australian Navy Ships and Submarine at Visakhapatnam to participate in AUSINDEX-19

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open view news desk Her Majesty’s Australian Ships(HMAS) Canberra (L02), a Landing Helicopter Dock, Newcastle(06)  and Paramatta(154), both frigates and Success(OR 304), a Durance-class multi-product replenishment oiler along with  HMAS Collins, a conventional submarine arrived Visakhapatnam to participate in the third edition of Australia – India Maritime Exercise, AUSINDEX on 02 Apr 19.  The bilateral maritime exercise is […]

4th Session of India-Ukraine working group on Trade and Economic Cooperation held in New Delhi

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open view news desk The 4th Meeting of India-Ukraine Working Group on Trade and Economic Cooperation (IU-WGTEC), under the India-Ukraine Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical, Industrial and Cultural Cooperation was held today in New Delhi. Indian delegation was led by Bidyut Behari Swain, Additional Secretary, Foreign Trade […]

Visit of Vice Admiral Piyal De Silva, Commander of the Sri Lankan Navy (30 Mar to 02 Apr 19)

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open view news desk Vice Admiral Piyal De Silva, Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy visited India from 30 Mar to 02 Apr 19 on an official visit. This is the first visit of the Admiral to India after taking over as Commander, Sri Lanka Navy. The visit […]

Supreme Court quashes RBI directive on resolving bad debt

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MUMBAI – India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed a Reserve Bank of India circular on resolving bad debt, providing relief for some major corporate defaulters but throwing the country’s still nascent bankruptcy regime into question. The Supreme Court said the RBI’s circular from Feb. 12 last year on […]

WhatsApp launches fact-check service to fight fake news during India polls

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MUMBAI – WhatsApp on Tuesday launched a service for Indians to check the veracity of information, in the messaging platform’s latest attempt to combat fake news in India ahead of national elections beginning this month. WhatsApp said in a statement it was working with local startup Proto to […]

Facebook, Twitter sucked into India-Pakistan information war

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ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI – Pakistani social media campaigner Hanzala Tayyab leads about 300 ultra-nationalist cyber warriors fighting an internet war with arch-foe India, in a battle that is increasingly sucking in global tech giants such as Twitter and Facebook. Tayyab, 24, spends his days on Facebook and encrypted WhatsApp […]

Despite being exposed, fake news thrives on social media ahead of India polls

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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI – Two weeks after a suicide bombing in Kashmir in February killed 40 Indian paramilitary policemen, a Facebook user called Avi Dandiya posted a live video in which he played a recording of a call purportedly involving India’s home minister, the president of the ruling Bharatiya […]

Congress promises to halve unemployment; Kashmir plan criticised

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NEW DELHI – India’s main opposition Congress party made election pledges on Tuesday to halve unemployment in five years, but its promise to change a law on special powers for troops in disputed Kashmir drew criticism from the ruling party. Congress has consistently trailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s […]

Seven Pak posts destroyed as Indian Army retaliates to ceasefire violations

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Jammu, Apr 2: Seven Pakistani posts across the LoC were destroyed as the Indian Army retaliated to cross border shelling by Pakistani troops who targeted border areas in Rajouri and Poonch districts, officials said Tuesday. There have been several casualties to Pakistani troops too, they said. As a precautionary […]

Politicians line up for armoured vehicles in poll season

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Chandigarh, Apr 2: Politicians are lining up for armoured vehicles this election season, with the major demand for bulletproof cars coming from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, according to a firm in the business. A leading Punjab-based firm engaged in “up-armouring” or retrofitting vehicles to make them bulletproof and […]

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