Daily Newsletter | Tuesday, January 31, 2017 | | | Kingfisher probe extends to finance ministry | | CBI is seeking documents from the finance ministry as it seeks to widen its probe related to loans extended to Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines to include the role of government officials as well as other lenders, who were part of the consortium, which controversially bailed out the now defunct carrier. |
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| BJP to win 202 seats in UP: Times Now-VMR survey | | The BJP will return to power in Uttar Pradesh with a simple majority, according to a Times Now-VMR survey. The SP-Congress alliance, launched with much hope and fanfare, will manage only 147 seats, down 105 seats from the last assembly elections. The alliance will poll 31 per cent of the voteshare. |
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| | Mumbai transporters to go on token strike | | City transporters will go on a one-day ‘token’ stike on Tuesday, with several trucks planning to stay off roads. However, those supplying essential commodities will be exempted from the stir, local transporters said. |
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| Independent Consolidation wins Presidency University polls | | The Independent Consolidation (IC) won all the five key posts at Presidency University, repeating the feat it had achieved in 2015, but Students' Federation of India (SFI) gave it a tough fight with the president and vice-president's post going down to the wire. The third party — All India Students' Association — finished a poor third in all the four seats it contested. |
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| Akhilesh, Rahul 'ride mobike' in Sholey style | | A day after SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi showcased their post-alliance bonding at a road show in Lucknow, local Congress leader Haseeb Ahmad on Monday uploaded a poster on a social networking site showing morphed pictures of both the leaders riding a motorcycle, a la Veeru and Jai (played by Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan) in 70’s Bollywood blockbuster ‘Sholey’. |
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| | | Bindra, Gopichand, Rasquinha in task force for Olympics | | Sports ministry constituted a task force to prepare a detailed action plan for the next three Olympic Games. Sports Minister Vijay Goel said that PM Narendra Modi has approved the constitution of the eight-member committee. |
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| Bangladesh Test: Saha, Patel may both be included in 15 | | Fit-again wicketkeeper batsman Wriddhiman Saha is expected to make a comeback into the Indian Test team as the national selection committee headed by MSK Prasad decides on the 15-member side for the one-off Test against Bangladesh on Tuesday. |
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| | Indian economy not in good shape: Manmohan Singh | | A day before presentation of Economic Survey, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday painted a bleak picture of the Indian economy insisting "it is not in good shape", while former Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the government is "hiding behind" GDP numbers that are being challenged. |
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| Nifty ends flat ahead of Budget, down by 8 points | | The NSE 50-share Nifty index touched an intraday high of 8,662.60 but could not sustain at that level and ended flat at 8,632.75 -- down 8.50 points. Nifty snapped a 4-day rising trend following fresh selling mainly in auto, banking, finance service & realty stocks on the back of bearish global cues. |
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