Lakshmisha K S
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There is an ambitious target of developing 60,000 km of national highways including 2,500 km of expressways, 9,000 km of economic corridors, 2,000 km of coastal and port connectivity, and enhanced connectivity for 100 tourist destinations by 2024.
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As a Kannadiga, I am tired of this grouping of us with Tamil exceptionalism. We don't want to anything to do with this where imagined "North Indian Dominance" is replaced by actual Tamil Dominance. Please,
@manujosephsan
, leave us out of this nonsense.
Through elections, legal loopholes, litigation and imprisonment of rivals, the BJP has become a formidable political force. If this goes on, something has to give. I have a theory that the south may ask why it can’t be free of Delhi forever.
My latest:
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@ShivAroor
Given the Indian bureaucracy lack of creativity. It will be called "e-Rupee".
"e-Rupee" stands for Electronic Reimbursement Used for Promoting Entrepreneurship & Empowerment.
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India's logistics costs have come down to below 9% of GDP, helped by rising state spending on roads, ports and digitisation.
The logistics costs were down in the range of 7.8% to 8.9% of GDP in 2021/22, compared to 8.8% to 10% of GDP in 2012/13
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India’s exports have surged to an unprecedented $776 billion, marking a 36% increase from just $500 billion 2 years ago. Goods exports are up nearly 53% in the last two years from a four-year low of $292 billion during FY 2020-21
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The Kasaragod to Trivandrum train is the best-performing Vande Bharat Express with an average occupancy of 183 per cent among the 23 pairs of such trains running across the Railway network
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This article started an interesting train of thoughts in me. I realised that western intellectual ecosystem is struggling to visualise what a rising India would mean, especially post 2014.
Understanding the BJP and the Hindu nationalist movement that shapes it is critical ffor anybody who wants to understand the direction of world politics.
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The Kutch Copper Ltd. facility, with initial capacity of 500,000 tons a year, is slated to come online in March, boosting the country’s potential production of the metal by 80%.
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Nearly 1.2 tonne of fresh jackfruit from Tripura was for the first time exported to London on Friday, in a move that could potentially boost exports of agricultural and processed food products from the northeast.
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Apple is in advanced talks with component makers such as India’s Aequs Group and Taiwanese camera and lens maker Rayprus Technologies in the iPhone maker’s concerted move to deepen its manufacturing operations in India.
#MakeInIndia
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With Crocs now being manufactured at a new footwear park in central Tamil Nadu’s Perambalur, India has entered a new market: that of non-leather footwear.
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India has told the World Bank that it has reduced the average waiting time at toll plazas to 47 seconds from 714 seconds due to FASTag and lowered the export release time at land ports to 22 hours in 2022 from 101 hours in 2021.
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The Indian Railways has proposed a mega plan to invest Rs 4.2 lakh crore in multi-tracking seven high density corridors in order to introduce faster passenger trains and improve freight movement.
#Infra
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“Practically every market needs to consider Indian wheat now, particularly in the vicinity of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, We have not seen this kind of frenzy for Indian wheat in the global market before.”
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As a proud Kannadiga, born in Karnataka (and dare say who can read, write and speak in Kannada), we Kannadigas are apprehensive of these so called “united south India” claims.
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The Odisha government approved the JSW Group's plan to set up electric vehicles and component manufacturing units in Cuttack and Jagatsinghpur districts with an investment of ₹ 40,000 crore
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The government of India's ambitious production expansion for Vande Bharat trains has given a major boost to the country's indigenous forging and manufacturing facilities.
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What could Karnataka government done with ₹60,000 crores.
1. At ₹220 crores per km, Karnataka can build Bengaluru to Davangere Bullet train.
In 5 years, Karnataka can look at having 1300 kms of bullet train network.
A Fiscal Nightmare? Karnataka Congress Government Announces Implementation Of 'Freebies' Worth Rs 60,000 Crore Annually via
@swarajyamag
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And the apprehension is this that, united south India is a cover to promote and propagate Tamil supremacy and fascism. Tamilian supremacists have always punched above their weight, though accounting only for 5% of the population,
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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is looking at an alternative route to construct the Delhi-Katra expressway if the protests by farm unions in Gurdaspur district continue.
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L&T Semiconductor Technologies (LTSCT) is planning to build three semiconductor fabs in India over the next five to 10 years with potential investments of $10-12 billion
#MakeinIndia
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Vehicular congestion had reduced by 10% on Whitefield Main Road which connects to the newly-opened metro line. “Once the missing link is established, we expect a 30% reduction in traffic
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However with Modi’s coming to power in 2014, the dravidian politics veto over Indian mainstream has been shattered. This is no different to the other shattered vote banks in the post 2014 world.
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India will start manufacturing 'T100' type of carbon fibre in the next 2.5 years in a bid to overcome the import licensing restrictions that prevent its use in strategic applications.
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Exports of engineering goods from India to Russia is soaring, thanks to the rupee payment arrangement.
Engg exports to Russia rise 140% to $1 billion .
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India's atomic energy program has crossed a big hurdle, with the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor has finally got approval from India's atomic regulator to start loading the nuclear fuel and then to go ahead and initiate the controlled chain reaction.
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ITC, India's largest wheat exporter, expects a threefold increase in the country's wheat exports in FY23. ITC is the largest buyer of Indian wheat after the Food Corporation of India (FCI).
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Learning a leaf out of their Islamists brethren who use so called “Dalit Muslim unity” as a cover to promote Islamic fundamentalism, similarly Tamil supremacists are leveraging the combined weight of southern Indian’s power to push their narrow hate filled sectarian agenda.
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ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, has shown willingness to set up plant in Konkan. The company has sought 5000 acres of suitable land in Konkan and has shown interest in investing Rs 80,000 crore in the state
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Tamil politicians have had a virtually a veto over central government policies.
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India slashes solar imports from China as domestic manufacturing thrives.
India has recorded a substantial 76 per cent drop in solar module imports from China during the first half of 2023.
#MakeInIndia
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India's local manufacturing of electronics is widening each year with more and more components being made in the country, leading to a sharp fall in imports of mechanics, vibrator motors, charger adapters, plastic parts, and other parts by value and volume.
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Narendra Modi government is now planning an initiative to create geo-spatially enabled land and property ownership records in urban areas to bring transparency in land transactions,
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The land acquisition process, which began five years ago, is nearing its end with Maharashtra completing the acquisition of 99.75 per cent of the land in the state required for the project
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The IAF and Indian carriers will operate 19 flights to bring back 3,726 Indians from Ukraine's neighbouring countries to India on Thursday, Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said.
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India’s 220 MW Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor is being modified and converted to Bharat Small Reactors, preparatory to handing over to the private sector.
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Adani Group has begun commercial production of wafer and ingots used for making solar power cells and modules at its factory in Gujarat and aims to make polysilicon in 2027/28 to become India's first integrated renewable energy player.
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A brilliant visualization of time and spatial impact of various empires, kingdoms and dynasties in Indian history by Anirudh Arun.
I have sourced from his substack -
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India has overtaken major countries like Australia, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Singapore, and Korea becoming the country with the highest data center capacity of 950MW in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding China).
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Seven cities qualify as global talent hubs. Several of them are surprising, including the three leading cities in this category: Dubai; Bengaluru, India; and Dublin.
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Secondly Karnataka always accepted it being a part of India and actively contributed in shaping India’s destiny.
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India has begun work on a home-built bullet train that will exceed 250 kilometres per hour (kmph). It is being built on the Vande Bharat platform that can already clock a maximum speed of 220 kmph
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India's second home-built 700 MW nuclear power reactor at Kakrapar in Gujarat achieved its first criticality, the start of the controlled fission reaction, early Sunday, setting the stage for its move towards producing electricity.
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Tata Steel is examining nuclear option for producing green steel. According to sources in the atomic energy sector, the company is looking at the feasibility of putting up about 200 Bharat Small Reactors, of 220 MW each, totalling 45 GW of capacity.
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Adani Group has received assurances of financial support from three Japanese banks – Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking and Mizuho Financial Group – according to sources close to the development.
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However the awarding of “Classical” status to fellow “Dravidian” languages was opposed not by Hindi supremacists but by fellow dravidians from Tamil Nadu. There has been repeated PILs against granting of the status to Kannada in Madras HC by Tamil activists.
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You may ask why are Kannadigas, apprehensive of Tamil supremacists? There is long historical context to it. One is that Karnataka as always faced aggression from Tamil kingdoms and powers and rarely faced the same invasions from Northern India.
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A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by an Indian Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge. Rishi Rajpopat made the breakthrough by decoding a rule taught by "the father of linguistics," Pāṇini.
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Need to keep reposting this image.
South Asian student associations at Ivy League universities ought to be about samosas and Bollywood screenings. Something has gone profoundly wrong if they’re instead associated with assaulting Jewish students on campus and writing letters that blame Israel for Hamas atrocities.
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@MandarSawant184
@YusufDFI
Ayyo, Yusuf bhai is unhappy that there will be one point less to crib about Bengaluru infra 🤣
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Around 20 to 30 trains of the Amrit Bharat train will be made every month, and these will come pre-installed with anti-collision avoidance Kavach technology.
#Infra
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Until now, it was completely imported from either Europe or the US. A crash truck is typically used in airports during a plane crash. There are some very stringent performance requirements that we need to meet.
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I am here discounting foreign barbaric invasions from the likes of Khiliji’s, Tughlaqs, Mughals, British and Sonia Gandhi.
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Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is planning to drill a well in Bihar this year to look for oil and gas. The company has acquired 3D seismic data for 300 sq km for its block in Samastipur, Bihar, and is now planning to drill two exploratory wells.
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HAL registers highest-ever revenue from operations of around Rs.26,500 Crores (provisional and unaudited) for FY 2022-23 as against Rs.24,620 for the previous FY. The Company has recorded a revenue growth of 8% during the year as compared to last year.
@DefProdnIndia
@gopalsutar
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Tiruppur knitwear export hub has swung export orders worth ₹450 crore in the last two weeks from Bangladesh in the wake of the political unrest there. Global brands like KiK from Germany, Zeeman from Netherlands, and Pepco of Poland, placed orders
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On the other hand, I would request you to take a leaf out of multi cultural aspect of Karnataka to reform and reorient leading to prosperity and growth.
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Bharat Mart, India's proposed warehousing facility in the United Arab Emirates, could become functional by 2025, allowing Indian exporters to showcase their products under one roof, similar to China's Dragon Mart,
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Indian Railways will invest at least ₹7 trillion over the next decade to lay a record km of new train tracks.
Next year’s budget may allocate ₹50,000 crore for laying 5,000-5,500 km of new tracks, an increase of ~50% from the FY24 budget.
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Groundwater levels in Bengaluru have increased over the last two years. Thanks to heavy rain, percolation wells and lake rejuvenation programmes, the average water table level across the city rose by two feet from 2020 to 2021, and by November 2022, another 8 ft were recorded.
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India will save Rs 1.28 lakh crore annually (as diesel costs) in 2031, if it successfully ferries 1500 million tonne additional cargo through trains,
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Nine months after the IMEC project was announced, to link India and Europe through the Arabian Peninsula via sea and rail links, work has begun to operationalize the first leg of the corridor between India and the UAE
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British Field Marshal Bernerd Montgomery in his Concise History of Warfare:
"The way Baji Rao outgenerelled Nizam-ul-Mulk at the Battle of Palkhed is a masterpiece of strategic mobility."💪💪
Battle of Palkhed, 1728 AD ⚔️ Mughal - Maratha Wars
Source:
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Dixon has scaled its production to 45 million smartphones and 40 million feature phones annually. The company has broadened its portfolio to include large displays for digital signage and flat TVs, as well as handset displays.
#MakeinIndia
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Apple’s Taiwanese supplier (Hon Hai) Foxconn has announced that it will focus on increasing production yield in India. Hon Hai head Young Liu revealed his India plans at the earnings call after releasing its quarterly results.
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Tata Group is set to complete the takeover of Wistron’s iPhone plant in Bengaluru by the end of April, thereby giving India its first homegrown production line for Apple products.
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India aims to produce 100,000 MW of nuclear power by 2047, a massive increase from the current production of over 8,000 MW, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman A K Mohanty said here on Wednesday.
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Reliance Industries Ltd. has secured US approval to resume importing oil from Venezuela despite White House sanctions on the country
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We have always looked North and looked at influencing India’s polity, we have given one PM till date and hope to give more. Staying out of United States of South India nonsense means Bangalore and Karnataka continues to grow economically, politically and culturally.
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Its just not fake news Nupur. Dhanya and TNM regularly spew out which is subtle South (Tamil) supremacist stuff and BJP = cow belt stuff.
This was before Republic was even launched. And you want people to believe you don’t peddle fake news?
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However, every major Kannada kingdom (except for Vijayanagar empire) have faced repeated invasions from Tamil polity.
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Electronics has become the country's fifth largest export commodity, growing by 23% annually.
Electronics manufacturing in India has crossed USD 100 billion market in March 2024, which was USD 49 billion in 2017.
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Groundwork has accelerated to build the first piers for the Bengaluru Suburban Railway Project (BSRP).
Groundwork quickens to build first piers for Bengaluru suburban railway project
www.deccanherald.com
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To quote from the Animal farm, “it seems all dravidian languages are equal but some dravidian language are more equal than others“.
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Sir
@narendramodi
Is this ban by the government influenced by Cigarette lobby. If not can you answer the valid question??
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The Uttar Pradesh government has approved a proposal from a delegation of textile industrialists from Haryana’s Faridabad to expand their business to Jewar in Greater Noida.
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We have prospered by integrating with the rest of the country. The road proposed by you leads us to parochialism, chaos and conflict. We don’t want to be under the tyranny of Tamil fundamentalism replacing our unique identity which is guaranteed in today’s federalist India.
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Jindal Steel and Power (JSP) will set up the world’s largest steel plant in Angul by 2030. It will achieve 12-MTPA capacity from the current capacity of 6-MTPA by next year.
#MakeinIndia
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Let’s take the example of granting “classical” status to Kannada and Telugu, a decision taken in 2008. Prior to that only Sanskrit and Tamil were considered “Classical” languages.
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[Long Thread]
On Twitter, there is a common refrain that Modi is unable to achieve the same speed of development as China. There is a comparison between how China built its bullet train network and the current plan for the bullet train network in India.
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India’s import and consumption of urea, a key crop nutrient, has declined for the first time in decades on the back of higher domestic production of nano urea, a liquid form of the chemical, as well as a move towards eco-friendly alternatives by farmers
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In the history of the sub-continunder North Indian rule for extended period only once, that is under Mauryan empire.
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And to allay any doubts on why the PIL was filed, the activist has stated “that the prominence of Tamil language would be lost if the other languages, which have been conferred ‘classical language’ status, are treated on par“.
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But let me give few more examples for the fact that even today we Kannadigas have been at the receiving end of Tamil hegemony which makes one wary of any so called unity among southern or dravidian states.
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Let me provide another example, a Kannadiga, Mr. M. K Surappa’s, (former director of IIT-Ropar) appointment as VC of Anna University was opposed by DMK and other Dravidian parties.
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This tweet shows the lack of Strategic thought in Kannada community. If the proposed delimitation is true, then Karnataka actually gains a greater say in matters that truly concern us.
ಅಂದಾಜಿನ ಪ್ರಕಾರ
ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ+ತಮಿಳುನಾಡು+ತೆಲಂಗಾಣ+ಆಂದ್ರಪ್ರದೇಶ+ ಕೇರಳ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ -164 ಆಗಬಹುದು
ಕೇವಲ ಉತ್ತರ ಪ್ರದೇಶ+ಬಿಹಾರ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಲೋಕಸಭಾ ಸದಸ್ಯರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ -222
ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಒಂದು ನಂಬರ್ ಗೇಮ್ ತರಹ. ಮುಂದುವರೆದ ದಕ್ಷಿಣದ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳು ತೆರಿಗೆ ಕಟ್ಟುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಮುಂದಿದ್ದರೆ, ತೆರಿಗೆ ಕಟ್ಟುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಂದುಳಿದ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳ
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Hence I would want to conclude this article with an appeal to Dravidanists and other proponents of United States of South India. Please keep Karnataka and Kannadigas out of it.
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The government will soon initiate the process to sell three erstwhile subsidiaries of Air India and real estate including the iconic Air India building in Mumbai. The government is expecting proceeds of about ₹16,000 crore from the sale.
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At the meeting with Modi, Sharma presented the prime minister with a cutting-edge 5G millimeter-wave and sub-6-gigahertz chipset designed by Renesas’s R&D teams in Bengaluru and San Diego.
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India is opposed to diluting the definition of green hydrogen to include fuel produced from low carbon energy, as some developed nations have proposed in G20 meetings, Power and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh said.
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Morbi, India’s undisputed ceramic king, craves more. China’s shadow looms and there’s buzz about a masterplan to topple the tile titan.
#MakeinIndia
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Apple's ecosystem in India is expected to spawn as many as 600,000 jobs by this fiscal-end, reflecting the runaway expansion in operations of the iPhone maker in the country in its efforts to diversify production from China.
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150 kilometres of roads were constructed or widened, 265 streets got a makeover, 10 flyovers and five over-bridges were built at different places, a new civil airport started air services,
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Electronic manufacturing services provider Dixon Technologies is aiming to grow its exports to $100 bn in next five years from current $10bn,"
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After hearing
@sureshpprabhu
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@BJP4India
doesn't use him enough for campaign. Easily evokes complex issues in simple chat
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Exporters in Russia, who started trading with India using Indian rupees, have recently spent nearly $4 billion to buy India-made defence equipment and armaments, among other imports and Indian securities.
#MakeinIndia
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EVR Motors, an Israel-based innovator specializing in high power-density electric motors, today announced the inauguration of its new greenfield plant in Manesar, Haryana
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