Daily Newsletter | Tuesday, November 22, 2016 | | Powerful quake hits Japan, tsunami alert issued | An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 hit northern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, issuing tsunami advisories for much of the nation's northern Pacific coast. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury, which struck at 5:59 am |
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10% of the value of scrapped notes replaced | The value of currency released by banks since the November 8 demonetisation through exchange of old notes and cash withdrawals amounts to Rs 1.36 lakh crore. This is less than 10% of the Rs 14 lakh crore in high-denomination notes (Rs 500 and Rs 1,000), reveals RBI |
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| | Apple slashes prices of iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus by up to Rs 22,000 | Apple has announced biggest-ever price drop for its smartphones in India. Under the new pricing, iPhone 6S (128GB), carying an MRP of Rs 82,000, will now be available at an MRP of Rs 60,000. iPhone 6s Plus (128GB) will now be available at an MRP of Rs 70,000, the smartphone too has received a price cut of Rs 22,000. Apple's 4-inch smartphone iPhone SE, too has got a price cut. The 64GB version of iPhone SE will now be available at Rs 44,000. |
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| 2nd Test: Spinners bowl India to 1-0 series lead | Ravichandran Ashwin and Jayant Yadav shared six wickets between them to guide India to a huge 246-run win against England on the fifth and final day of the second Test in Visakhapatnam, thereby securing a 1-0 lead in the five-match series on Monday. |
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| Nusli Wadia serves defamation notice on Tata Sons | Industrialist Nusli Wadia, an independent director on some Tata Group companies, on Monday served a defamation notice on Tata Sons board asking it to withdraw "false, defamatory and libelous" allegations against him. |
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Both older and newer Rs 10 coins are valid: RBI | "The Reserve Bank of India advise members of the public not to give credence to such ill-informed notions and ignore them and continue to accept these (Rs 10) coins as legal tender in all their transactions without any hesitation," RBI Principal Adviser Alpana Killiwala said. |
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Domestic airlines carry 86.72L passengers in October | Continuing with the robust growth rate of over 23 per cent, domestic airlines flew 86.72 lakh passengers in October while no-frills carrier IndiGo saw its market share surge to 42.6 per cent during the same period. |
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| Salman Khan continues to ignore Arjun Kapoor | While almost two years have passed since Arjun Kapoor participated in the controversial roast, Salman Khan is not yet in a mood to forgive the actor for cracking some nasty jokes about his kid sister, Arpita Khan. |
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