Nayantara Rai
@NayantaraRai
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Now at @zomato & before that a biz news TV journalist. Was with ET Now for ~7 years; CNBC-TV18 for ~8.5 years. Led Zep, tennis, cricket fan. Tweets personal.
Joined October 2009
This might be my career’s biggest newsbreak. Reported on May 15 exclusively on @ETNOWlive about Indigo promoters falling out. Indigo Ceo kept playing it down. Now one of the promoters told Sebi to intervene as even a paan ki dukaan is handled better than Indigo. Gloves are off.
Yes I’m gloating & not being ladylike. But I’m too excited to care. My exclusive story on Indigo promoters having a fight is followed up by most newspapers. Here it is on the front page of The Economic Times as well as The Times Of India!! .Cc: @ETNOWlive
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Comedy Central? Rahul Gandhi interviewing Raghuram Rajan.
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Dear @JM_Scindia .Pls go back to T3 in IGI Delhi & do surprise checks. Send spies, friends w/out protocol too pls. The airport a mess. Nothing’s changed after your trip the other day. Utter chaos. Long queues. Rude staff. Traffic jams outside. I hope you’ll help the public 🙏.
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My mom is my role model. She has bought an Innova Crysta from money she earned from a catering business that she started at the age of 60. No car loan nothing. The Rai family is so so so thrilled & proud of her.
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India loses the infamous Rs 22000 cr retro tax case against Vodafone in international arbitratuon.What’s super interesting is this was a unanimous verdict. Which means even the arbitrator appointed by Indian govt ruled in favour of Vodafone.
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My biggest lesson from @MyNykaa & #FalguniNayar . Age is just a number. She started Nykaa at the age of 50!. She did it when she had it all as India’s top investment banker at Kotak. Don’t get too comfortable in your comfort zone. Take risks. Follow your dreams.
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So far 7 Uber drivers canceled on me!. *will you pay cash?.*nahin jaana udhar.*aap cancel karo . Whatever you’re doing @Uber_Delhi @Uber_India it ain’t working man.
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Zomato founder @deepigoyal to donate Rs 700 Cr of vested ESOPs to Zomato Future Foundation. The money will be used to educate children of @zomato delivery partners. Details below 👇.What a great cause!!
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I think what I also like a lot about the new Twitter CEO is fact a CTO is getting to head a global tech giant. Not a business guy. Not a sales guy. But a hardcore tech guy.
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Freshworks has created FIVE HUBDRED new crorepatis in India with its @Nasdaq IPO! They’re all employees. And 70 of these new crorepati employees are not even 30 years old!!. @FreshworksInc @mrgirish @skirani @mobhat @saasboomi @avinashraghava @ETNOWlive.
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Disgusted by the lies, rumours & Whatsapp forwards on Mr Jaitley’s health. Fake news ppl. I met him on Saturday & he’s razor sharp as ever. He ate chola bhatura for lunch & analysed the election result in detail. He spoke about why the polls been a nightmare for all psephologists.
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Brajesh Maheshwari co-founded Allen Career Institute. Its well known for IIT JEE, NEET etc entrance exam prep. Website says 25Lakh+ students since 1988. Now @unacademy starting a coaching centre in Kota. Maheshwari threatens educators of being blacklisted if they leave Allen👇
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I cannot believe we are discussing if unemployment is as bad as 1974. Pls talk to people who were around in 1974. Or were trying to do Business. Pls read/study how dead the economy was back then. No liberalisation. No jobs in pvt sector (which barely existed).
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Narendra Modi at a massive rally in Mumbai has declared Congress wont even get 50 seats. Says “Don’t waste your vote. Better to vote for a party that is coming to power & you can strengthen it with your vote”.Adds the only question is if BJP will better its own 2014 tally.
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Wow we now know the priorities of Mumbai Police, Shiv Sena & NCP during a lockdown & Covid.Arnab Goswami being interrogated for more than 11 hours. This is scary. Sickening. How is this not abuse of power? You may not like his channel, his show, his journalism & so you do this?.
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I just realised. I started my TV news career today exactly 13 years ago at CNBC-TV18.Time flies and how.
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How we ended my Mom’s 18-day long quarantine. I came home after what seems like a lifetime. I got the best homecoming from all the Rais including the two 4-legged ones!!! So much to be grateful for 🙏
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The buzz is Congress has lost some momentum in Rajasthan. Not gone as planned. What looked like a sure shot sweep isn’t one anymore. .
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My story: 5 yrs ago at the Digital India launch PM asked why can’t Google be Made In India. The Aatmanirbhar App challenge should remind us to go beyond filling the TikTok void, instead build for the world. @PMOIndia @narendramodi @rsprasad @PiyushGoyal.
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Today I lost someone I love very very much to cancer. I want to share her legacy: Despite being in constant pain for years not once did she whine. Not once did she say “why me”. Despite losing her young son—again to cancer 30 years ago. She lived her life queen size with dignity.
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.@Paytm gets approval from Sebi for its mega IPO. Pegged to be India’s largest ever IPO till date.
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Been hearing horror stories about couples/families traveling in private cars & being stopped by the police over masks to pay 2000.What’s the logic if people live together; sleep on the same bed? Why can’t IDs showing the same residential addresses be good enough to not pay fine?.
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Day One. Let’s do this 💪👊. @zomato @letsblinkit @FeedingIndia @deepigoyal @albinder @tukster16 @akshant_g
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What a silly, politically motivated story in The Wire On @adhia03 .It’s not even a story!! Anonymous gifts dealt with as they are supposed to by law. Purely motivated. Is this the best they could do to counter the 80:20 scam?.
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Wow. If @Dream11 partners with @rariohq then just imagine what can happen with cricket NFTs. Rario has cricketers like @RishabhPant17. Dream11 has 140mn paid MAU. Obvious play would be Rario builds NFTs on its marketplace & Dream11 enables fantasy gaming with that. Web3 & 🏏!!!.
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PM Modi expected to address the nation tomorrow on All India Radio. Maybe DD too. Trying to confirm time. Will be after the Interim Budget speech by Piyush Goyal.
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When you request 2 champions to pose together for a photo. What we kids grew up calling #KodakMoment.Ace shutter Saina Nehwal @NSaina & Patanjali’s Acharya Balkrishna @Ach_Balkrishna .Only at #IEC2018
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Why no CBI enquiry or any enquiry into who was threatening Adar Poonawalla? Who are these powerful people? Why they not being named? How is this not a matter of national security when we are fighting a war against coronavirus?.
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Game On!!. Jeff Bezos Amazon vs Mukesh Ambani RIL & Future Group. Strong statement coming in from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail on Amazon winning interim ruling in Singapore. Reliance to close Rs 24,700 Cr deal with Future Group w/out any delay
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I was in school when #AtalBihariVaajpayee was PM. I was so proud of my PM. He made us go nuclear. He didn’t bow to the US. We beat Pakistan in Kargil. He took a bus to Lahore. All adults were buying cell phones. We had suddenly so many movie theatres & tv Channels. Best years.
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He's not just a CM. He's also an investigative agency and a judge.
If CBI had any evidence against Rajender, why didn't they share it wid me? I wud hv acted against him(2/2).
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Hospitals in gurgaon are running out of oxygen. Let’s pls avoid a Batra Hospital type situation 🙏🙏.Please please help and intervene . @PMOIndia @MoHFW_INDIA @DoC_GoI @mlkhattar @india_oxygen @delhivery @Vaibhav48862045 @karanchandhiok.
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If this Union Budget doesn’t unleash animal spirits then nothing will. Everything so transparent. Stable tax regime. High quality govt expenditure. Bold reforms like insurance fdi hike; a form of bad bank; stake sale in 2 banks etc .@nsitharaman @ianuragthakur @narendramodi.
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Zomato IPO breaks all kinds of records. Highest demand mobilisation by any Pvt sector co at Rs 2.1 lakh cr. Highest institutional demand for a pvt sector co at Rs 1.5 lakh cr. Highest number of retail applications in an India IPO. More than 3.2mn!!. @zomato @deepigoyal @grvgpta.
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It has been decided by the Govt that @FinMinIndia will hold weekly briefings with the Press. BUT. And there’s a big BUT. NO QUESTIONS WILL BE ALLOWED. So bureaucrats will only read out a statement to journalists. Why no Q&A?.
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MASSIVE.Investments from China to come to a screeching halt. @narendramodi Govt effectively stops all new investments from China via a circular issued by the @DIPPGOI under the aegis of @DoC_GoI @PiyushGoyal .Good move in light of distressed/weak valuations thanks to Covid
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Cabinet Minister & Union Ministet for Civil Aviation @JM_Scindia is back today at T3, @DelhiAirport .Listening to the public’s outcry, new ideas to be implemented to better manage the crowds & long queues . @ETNOWlive @ETNowSwadesh
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Why can’t funds from PM Cares be used to pay for labour going back home?.
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While we sleep at night peacefully, and carry on with our days at home and work….
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This photo was clicked a few minutes ago at the @zomato office!! .Just look at those billion dollar smiles!!. Here is Zomato’s @deepigoyal with his 1st investor Sanjeev Bikhchandani of Info Edge (@sbikh) and 2nd investor ie @Sequoia_India’s @mobhat . Photo credit: a lovely Zoman
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Sonia Gandhi damaged democracy by behaving as an Empress & treating the distinguished Pranab Mukherjee & Manmohan Singh as Regents: Arun Jaitley tells me in an interview. Tune in!.
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I’ve been in Japan since last week with my mother. Our annual holiday. I have loved every minute here. Been on the move constantly. My mum should be the posterchild for 60 being the new 40. We’ve been waking up for hikes at 5:30 am. And eating everything in sight!
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Graduates of The @ShereenBhan University . Now working at @zomato . @MeghaVishwanath: Batch Of 2021.Me: Batch of 2016
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Don’t think govt will ban cryptos. It just won’t allow you to use it to buy goods & services & recognise it as a legal tender.Tight regulation maybe on advertising & preventing hawala/laundering/misuse .Maybe even get a tax in when cryptos sold .Will call for global engagement.
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Paytm parent co files for Rs 16,600 Cr IPO. Fresh issue: 8300cr.OFS: 8300 Cr .Largest IPO. Planning India’s largest IPO. Record currently held by Coal India for Rs 15,000cr plus. That was in 2010 . @vijayshekhar @Paytm @ETNOWlive.
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Thank you @nsitharaman for hosting us. My 1st lunch out in forever. I met so many old friends after ages. And I made new friends too who are taking me to Shankar Market for sari blouses! I also had my 1st piping hot tandoori roti straight from the tandoor after a gap of 18 months
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No thank you.
Delhi CM @ArvindKejriwal writes to Union Minister @nitin_gadkari: Journalists should get an exemption from toll tax all over the country !.
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Thank You For The Birthday Love! Here’s the fabulous cake my mum got me
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NRIs living in zero tax domiciles like UAE (Dubai Sharjah & also Bahamas etc) will have to pay tax in India.This is MASSIVE.And now all those who (partly) moved to Dubai recently to evade taxes are stuck. #UnionBudget2020.
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Yes I’m gloating & not being ladylike. But I’m too excited to care. My exclusive story on Indigo promoters having a fight is followed up by most newspapers. Here it is on the front page of The Economic Times as well as The Times Of India!! .Cc: @ETNOWlive
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Are people attending election rallies immune from Covid? How come they’re not being challaned for not wearing masks? Or those in crowded markets?.Why only fine people traveling in private cars? Even when they with immediate families!.
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So PM @narendramodi now follows me on Twitter. I’d like to believe it’s due to 2019 being a great year professionally. Even he took note of it! .Here’s hoping for more scoops, bigger interviews & more impactful journalism in 2020!!!.
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This from a CM who won't even investigate his principal secretary after receiving many complaints about corruption
If I were in place of Sh Narendra Modi ji, I wud have immediately sacked Jaitley ji.
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RIP Mr Sunil Jain.It was an absolute honour to have known you. I learnt so much from you at Business Standard. I loved your humour & admired your knowledge & attention to detail. You prodding me to come up with the best Chinese Whisper candidates was also the best. @thesuniljain.
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Dear @Uber_Delhi @Olacabs .You both in India need to have an in app feature that allows us users to complain when a driver calls asking “where do you want to go”.Either you figure out a way for the app to inform the driver beforehand or you penalise them for the harassment.
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Looking for a tiffin service for a senior citizen living by herself in Barakhamba Road, Delhi. She probably has Covid. All leads will be appreciated.
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I want this!!.
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Governments of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab have FAILED. Shame on us for not booting them out. And not the best time for PM to be overseas talking about ease of living and forest cover. It’s laughable. And foreign diplomacy be damned, 1st show solidarity with us in this gas chamber.
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First ever attempt at synchronised/choreographed jump rope stunts. See us in a month from now!! 💪👊
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Everything so ulta pulta .Now it’s the kids taking parents for vaccinations.
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Today I took this picture with India’s 1st full time female Finance Minister @nsitharaman .She was also India’s 1st full time Defence Minister. More power to her!.
Just another day at ET NOW, @NayantaraRai at work! . @NayantaraRai @nsitharaman #CabinetAnnouncement2019 #Cabinet2019 #Cabinet2019 @nsitharaman @FinMinIndia @BJP4India @narendramodi #ModiCabinet #NirmalaSitharaman @ianuragthakur
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@sardesairajdeep But sir isn’t 18% gst on hotels cheaper than previous tax regime of service tax and luxury tax? It think it was almost 20% earlier. .
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Japanese Haircut.Made In India.#AatmanirbharBharat.Last time i got this haircut in Tokyo. This time in Gurgaon
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Former Attorney General & one of India’s finest lawyers, Mukul Rohatgi, has refused to appear for #TikTok against the Government of India.
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Its 2022. We need to get over the colonial hangover and demand accountability in the bureaucracy. Why should Ladakh & Arunachal Pradesh be punished with over entitled babus? Should they not be fired instead?.
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South Korea becomes the 1st country to curb #Google & #Apple from forcing app developers to use only their payment system for the purchase of digital goods & services. Indian startups have been very upset about this & also keep raising the need for #Aatmanirbhar App Store.
South Korea’s National Assembly has approved their “Anti #Google law.” The law prevents @Google & @Apple from only allowing their in-app billing systems when developing apps
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The look for the newest airline @AkasaAir crew is revealed 👇. Sneakers 😍. I find that so functional & fashionable
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Wore my Nani’s sari to go meet FM @nsitharaman for @ETNOWlive interview on #UnionBudget2022 .A great great interview by our Managing Editor @nikunjdalmia .The parts on bond yields, inflation, stock market boom especially a must watch.
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My school had selected me for a field trip to Parliament. Security clearances were done in advance & the pass was made for Apr 17, 1999. So by sheer coincidence I was in Parliament when Vajpayee lost by 1 vote. I knew that day I wanted to cover Politics #throwback #NoTrustVote.
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My scoop came right!!! 💪💪💪.Yes I’m gloating & not being ladylike. I had reported on Aug 2 that PMO had intervened & told FinMin to look at rolling back the FPI Surcharge. And today the FM has announced it!!! It’s a big big story to get bang on target.
My scoop!!.It moved the markets from deep in the red to the green. Was on holiday on Friday but couldn’t sit on this info!!!.
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Birthday celebration with social distancing .Very memorable birthday. So lucky to have the best family and friends by my side. Was given royal treatment
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Hate me all you want. But I love Medvedev for what he did!!!.
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Why did 108 economists and social scientists wait till the last few weeks of this term of the Modi govt to protest against alleged political interference in statistical data? How is this also not politicisation by the opposition?.
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India 🇮🇳 beats France 🇫🇷 .Yes, we have! Not in Fifa World Cup. But our economy now larger than France’s!! #RiseWithIndia.
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Confirmed. Economic package coming. It’s the first, but definitely not the last. Overseen by the PM himself .@nsitharaman @narendramodi.
FM @nsitharaman TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE AT 1PM. Eco Stimulus coming?.
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This gives a whole new meaning to being a “full stack” player….
Marlboro maker Philip Morris buys stake in British asthma inhaler firm
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When I spotted @anandmahindra at the @TataMotors pavilion at the #AutoExpo2018 & recorded this on my phone. Great to see such camaraderie, mutual respect & graciousness between rivals
When Anand Mahindra was spotted at rival Tata Motors pavilion at the #AutoExpo2018! Was he impressed? Will he buy a car that's not Mahindra?.@anandmahindra @TataMotors @NayantaraRai @MahindraRise
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Pearls of wisdom from @udaykotak during these times of insane fundraising & liquidity gush: . "Be cautious with your own equity, even though you need early VC funding & perhaps even in late stage. You’ll never get your equity back. So protect it if you are indeed truly committed".
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Ladies & Gentlemen I interviewed Michael Phelps!!!! Wait for it. I think it went well. And I didn’t faint from over excitement
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I absolutely love this!!!! .And I wanna play this game so bad.
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I think dictators are those that act above the law; believe they can never be summoned by any court or their secretary raided with a warrant.
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#FakeNews .These personal details were already public. Telecom Regulator @rssharma3 has given his #Aadhaar No & openly challenged to use it to harm him. Also, you can just google a person’s mobile no & address. Who needs an Aadhaar no to find someone’s mobile no & add?!.
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