Shivraj Singh Chouhan pitches for big-ticket Chinese investments in MP

Edit Indian Express 21 Jun 2016
Stating that Madhya Pradesh was among the top five Indian states in the list of ease of doing business, he said the state government itself has a land bank from which investors can secure the required land online without the hassle of getting it themselves ... Stating that Madhya Pradesh was among the top five Indian states in the list of ease of doing ......

Mahanagar Gas Ltd's up to $154 million IPO fully covered on first day

Edit Yahoo Daily News 21 Jun 2016
29. [.BO] ... Royal Dutch Shell's BG Asia unit and Indian state-run Gail - which owned about 45 percent each of Mahanagar Gas before the IPO - are selling 12.5 percent of their holdings each and will receive all the proceeds from the IPO ... ($1 = 67.5200 Indian rupees)....

Traditional irrigation keeps water flowing in drought-hit India

Edit Reuters 21 Jun 2016
BAKSA, India, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ask the farmers in remote Baksa district, in the northeast Indian state of Assam, whether they are affected by climate change and they usually respond with a look of surprise. ....

Our top 10 quirky finds at UAE's biggest Ramadan night markets

Edit The National 21 Jun 2016
We scoured two of the UAE's biggest Ramadan bazaars - at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre and Expo Centre Sharjah - for the coolest finds of the month, which include traditional handmade Indian slippers, pure Ghanaian cocoa butter and high-end Japanese massage chairs ... Indian slippers ... Handcrafted by artisans in the Indian state of Rajasthan they line the Rajasthani Mojaris stall in the Indian pavilion....

Indonesia asks for help with stranded Tamils, admitting 'their boat can't be fixed'

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 21 Jun 2016
Indonesia has asked its Sri Lankan and Indian embassies to verify 43 citizens on board a boat beached in Aceh for more than 10 days and provide travel documents so they can return home ... More than 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamils live in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu after fleeing the protracted civil war that ended seven years ago....

‘The Conjuring 2’ scares Indian man to death ... literally

Edit Arabnews 21 Jun 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1466446455837269900. Publication Date... INDIA ... The 65-year-old was watching ‘The Conjuring 2’ with a friend at a movie theater in Tiruvannamalai, a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on Thursday night ... Offbeat. ....

Only one firm offers in tender for corn from India's PEC - trade

Edit Yahoo Daily News 21 Jun 2016
HAMBURG (Reuters) - Indian state-run trading company PEC has received offers from only one firm in an international tender which closed on Tuesday to buy and import 50,000 tonnes yellow corn (maize), European traders said ... The offers were made for 48,000 tonnes....

Shahid Kapoor's Udta Punjab becomes the 5th highest opening weekend of 2016

Edit Deccan Chronicle 21 Jun 2016
'Udta Punjab' revolves around drug abuse in the affluent north Indian State of Punjab and the characters- Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Diljit Dosanjh- and how they fight the menace of drugs in their own way. ....

500 liquor shops shut as Indian state goes dry

Edit Arabnews 20 Jun 2016
Five hundred liquor shops were ordered closed from Sunday in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu after its newly re-elected government pledged to ban alcohol to curb violence and other problems. The Tamil Nadu government issued a statement ordering the closures as part of staggered plans to become the latest state in India to introduce prohibition....

Manufacturing and Services, Urban Consumption keep Economy on Growth Path (World Bank Group)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
NEW DELHI, June 20, 2016 - The Indian economy will continue to post robust growth in the coming years, says the latest India Development Update of the World Bank. The Update also reviews the current challenges in India's financial sector and analyzes some of the impacts of the recommendations of the 14 Finance Commission on Indian states ... States are now responsible for 57 percent of the spending, which accounts for 16 percent of GDP....

BJP's obsession with patenting cow urine

Edit Deccan Herald 20 Jun 2016
Most Indian states have now banned cow slaughter ... In the early 2000s, when the BJP led the governing coalition of the day, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a state-funded network of research laboratories, started promoting cow-urine technology as a treatment for diabetes, infections, cancer and even DNA damage ... Indian law takes the opposite view....

Bright but deadly

Edit Deccan Herald 20 Jun 2016
Between November 2012 and February 2013, Toxics Link purchased 250 cans of oil-based house paints from various states of India and tested them ... Lead in Enamel Household Paints in India’ in 2015, tested 101 cans of new enamel decorative paints purchased from various Indian states and found that there was very little change in lead levels in paints analysed in 2013 and 2015....

After Udta Punjab, Bollywood film Haraamkhor in trouble with censor board

Edit The National 20 Jun 2016
The Indian Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has banned upcoming drama Haraamkhor (Wretched), a film that has Anurag Kashyap Films Private Limited (AKFPL) as one of its producers ... The controversy around Haraamkhor began when Kashyap was still struggling to get certification for Udta Punjab, his film on the drug menace in the Indian state of Punjab, which released in the UAE on June 16....
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