Daily Newsletter | Monday, May 23, 2016 | | | US helps to get Indian ship off UN sanctions list | | The UN Security Council's decision to remove from a sanctions list an Indian ship accused of loading illicit crude from eastern Libya is being talked about as the latest byword for global India-US strategic cooperation. |
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| | Farmer turns messiah, holds mass marriages for Muslims | | At 62, Mohammed Anwar Khadri is an unassuming social worker who lives in a small house in Tippu Nagar, Shivamogga. Khadri is well-known here for his more popular activity of hosting mass marriages for poor Muslims. He took his initiative to a more personal level by getting his daughter married in such a programme. On April 24, Karnataka saw one of the largest mass marriages, with 163 couples tying the knot in a single ceremony. |
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| Biker undertakes 46,000km journey to connect rural handicraft artists | | From marble artists of Churu in Rajasthan to kutchhi exponents from Gujarat and bamboo artists of Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, 54-year-old Prashant Padve has connected with them all by means of a motorbike journey across the country. He covered a distance of 46,000 kms in an effort to connect and offer a ray of hope to various handicraft artisans from rural India. In the process, he has collected a database of almost 350 artisans, based in some 600 districts of the country. |
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| Karnataka govt hospitals ail with one in four nurse posts vacant | | Karnataka may boast of having the highest number of nursing institutes in the country, but its hospitals are facing a shortage of nurses. According to the health and family welfare department, around 23.6% of nurse posts - 2,118 of the 8,949 sanctioned posts - in government hospitals are vacant. |
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| | | IPL 2016: Virat Kohli 54* powers RCB to playoffs | | Virat Kohli played another match-winning innings as Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Delhi Daredevils by six wickets to march into playoffs. The victory, their fourth in a row, also took RCB to the second in the standings and avoided the Eliminator. |
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| Kohli makes you stand up and applaud: Ravi Shastri | | Kohli has been in brilliant form of late, scoring a record 865 runs from 13 games at the 9th edition of IPL. Shastri said, " Virat has hit a purple patch. It's terrific batting. If he goes on like this, it will only keep on serving Indian cricket and be beneficial to it." |
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| | Insurers tweet their way to customers | | Insurance companies are taking to twitter in a big way. Most of them use twitter to engage in conversation with their policyholders, help them on enquiries and as a complaint portal. In a fin-tech initiative, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance recently launched #TweetInsurance @BajajAllianz, aimed at helping policyholders and prospective customers get quotes on policies, updates on claims and even a soft copy of the policy document online. |
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| PM hints at overdraft for Jan-Dhan account holders | | Jan-Dhan Yojana account holders may soon be able to access an overdraft facility using their RuPay debit card, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hinted in his 'Mann ki Baat' broadcast to the nation on Sunday. |
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| Flipkart rejigs top deck to boost mobile phone sales | | In a bid to improve its seller ecosystem, the country's largest online retailer Flipkart has rejigged top-level roles in its core marketplace business. Samardeep Subandh, who joined the Bengaluru-based e-tailer as its marketing head in December last year, has taken over as head of categories. |
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