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‘It's obvious' opposition doesn't want any organised discussion: Jaitley on RS disruptions

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Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday came down heavily on the opposition over the disruptions in the Rajya Sabha proceedings and said that opposition leaders do not want an organised discussion. Asserting that there is a "huge opportunity for discussing all political and economic issues in Parliament", Jaitley fumed at the way the Congress-led opposition is resorting to disrupting proceedings of the House.

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"There is a huge opportunity for discussing all political & economic issues this week in the parliament. Instead, rules are to be violated, every day an effort has to be made to get the House adjourned, then it is obvious that they don't want an organised discussion," he told media.<br />
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What Opposition parties have done in Rajya Sabha today led by Congress party is absolutely unprecedented. Congress and some other parties have tried to manufacture an issue when none existed," he added. The opposition on Tuesday boycotted the Rajya Sabha in the post-lunch session, complaining that their voice was being muzzled outside as well as inside Parliament.
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‘It's obvious' opposition doesn't want any organised discussion: Jaitley on RS disruptions

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday came down heavily on the opposition over the disruptions in the Rajya Sabha proceedings a...

February 06, 2018

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">NEW DELHI: Patanjali Ayurved Ltd., the herbal products manufacturer founded by yoga guru Baba Ramdev, is going digital big time. In collaboration with Google and Facebook, Patanjali is for the first time investing in advertisements tailored for online audiences, hoping to reap bigger dividends than its campaigns in the print and electronic media </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">“We began in February and the response has been far more than our expectations,” said a senior official at Patanjali, requesting <span style="text-align: left;">anonymity. “Within five months, Patanjali has become the most popular FMCG brand and the fifth most sought after brand online.”</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">By June, views for Patanjali on YouTube climbed to 15 crore from 30 lakh, according to the official. Searches for Patanjali products on Google have gone up 11 times in the past four years and three-fold over the past three years, the official said. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">“The response by the online audience to Patanjali proves the very strong association of the users with the brand. It goes on to show that the brand is future-ready and will go beyond the three Ms: metros, millennial and males,” said <span style="text-align: left;">Vikas Agnihotri, industry director at Google India.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">The other online platform where Patanjali fared well is Facebook. Much to its own surprise, Patanjali claims to have connected well with the youth online. “More than 80% of the favourable response we have received is from the youth in Karnataka, Orissa and Punjab,” said Santosh Kumar, CEO of MangoData, the company’s digital agency. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";"><span style="text-align: start;">Reducing the usual 30-second ad duration to six seconds for the Facebook audience and holding live interaction with audiences during product promotions have earned Patanjali a positive buying response, according to Kumar. The Patanjali Ayurved channel on YouTube, which started in July 2014, has more than 96,000 subscribers, while its page on Facebook has 386,709 followers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";"><span style="text-align: start;">“Within five months of its debut, Patanjali has seen a significant ramp-up in its online presence,” said Sandeep Bhushan, director for consumer and media at Facebook India. “Unlike other online platforms, Facebook consumers get to make the choice of how deep they want to go into the content. Patanjali has a range of products across generations.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Google and Facebook have chalked out a plan to take the company to untapped customers. Starting with the southern states, Patanjali has created an advertising narrative in local languages for Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Telangana. “By identifying the right demographic and location for any brand, Facebook is able to target specifically on the right audience,” said Bhushan. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Patanjali is also campaigning online for a boycott of foreign products, in sync with the “Go Swadeshi” movement initiated by founder Baba Ramdev, who doubles up as its brand ambassador. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">In the run-up to Independence Day, Ramdev, who has more than 8.6 million followers on Facebook, will reach out to Patanjali’s online audience and ask them to shun the offerings of foreign companies and encourage the use of swadeshi products. Special digital content and advertisements are being created for social platforms to encourage people to “pledge” the boycott of products of foreign companies. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Starting with online-friendly advertisements for Saundarya cosmetics and Shishu Care lotions and oils for children in February, Patanjali has widened its digital campaign portfolio to 10 products.</span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start;"> </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">“Patanjali offers a massive product range and a seamless experience is created for the right audience by choosing the right product and creating the right message for it,” said Agnihotri of Google. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">The company clocked a turnover of Rs 10,561crore in financial year 2016-17 and plans to double that figure in this financial year to Rs 21,000 crore on the back of growing sales, customer loyalty and new manufacturing plants. </span><br />
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January 24, 2018

Bangladesh eases charity access to Rohingya, seeks $250 million for aid

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<b>DHAKA:</b> Bangladesh  has eased restrictions on aid groups working in refugee camps and  sought $250 million from the World Bank to fund emergency relief,  officials said Tuesday, after an influx of more than 435,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar has overwhelmed its border area.

The government NGO Affairs Bureau cleared 30 local and international  groups to meet "emergency needs" in camps and said more would follow,  Shahdat Hossain, a bureau director, told AFP.

Bangladesh has strictly limited access to Rohingya camps in recent  years. It has never given reasons, but the country is sensitive about  security and there are fears a Muslim influx could tempt extremist  groups.

However, a new deluge of refugees since August 25 has put pressure on  the existing camps, which were already home to 300,000 Rohingya Muslims  who had fled earlier unrest in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar.

The camps are currently facing dire shortages of food and medicine,  while the World Health Organisation warned Monday of a growing risk of  cholera.

The aid groups still only have permission to work for two months in  the camps around the border town of Cox's Bazar, Hossain said, and must  focus on providing healthcare, sanitation facilities and shelters for  the Rohingya.

The new groups include local and international charities. Authorities  previously only let four international groups -- including Doctors With  Border (MSF) and Action Against Hunger (ACF) -- provide food and  healthcare.   </div>
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Muslim Aid, a British-based charity given permission to operate in  Cox's Bazar last week but whose access was later revoked, remains  barred. It operates in other parts of Bangladesh.

Authorities briefly ordered MSF, ACF and Muslim Aid to stop providing aid to the Rohingya in 2012.   </div>
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WHO warns of cholera threat in Bangladesh Rohingya camps

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A month after the exodus began, those dispersed in some 68 camps and settlements along the border do not have safe drinking water and hygiene facilities, according to the WHO.</div>
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The camps also face dire shortages of food and medicine in what has quickly become one of the world's largest refugee settlements.</div>
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"Risk of water borne diseases is high, especially (as) there is a very high risk of cholera and this is why everyone is concerned," the WHO said in a statement. "Interventions are being scaled-up, however, the situation remains critical and challenging."</div>
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The latest influx has overwhelmed the camps around Cox's Bazar, which previously housed at least 300,000 people who had fled earlier violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.</div>
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The WHO says mobile medical centres have been set up, while Bangladesh health authorities say they have treated some 4,500 Rohingya for diarrhoea in a month and vaccinated some 80,000 children for measles and polio.</div>
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"We are trying our best to face the challenges. But we are concerned," Enayet Hossain, deputy head of Bangladesh's health services department, told AFP.</div>
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The department said that at least 10 Rohingya have died in Bangladesh since the influx, most from bullet and blast wounds suffered in Rakhine.</div>
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Two elderly Rohingya men died of diarrhoea at a charity clinic more than a week ago, said Misbah Uddin Ahmed, a health department official at Ukhia, where most of the camps are located.</div>
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"They were also suffering from old age complications and gastroenteritis," he told AFP.</div>
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Two Rohingya women, aged 50 and 60, were shifted to a hospital in the port city of Chittagong after they were diagnosed with HIV, police said.</div>
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Ahmed said specialists from Bangladesh's International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDRB) and government scientists had visited camps to take samples.</div>
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The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) group said last week the camps were on the brink of a public health disaster as filthy water and faeces flow through shanties.</div>
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It said a "massive scale-up of humanitarian aid" was needed, with adults on the cusp of dying from dehydration.</div>
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But Ahmed said the situation was improving as hundreds of latrines and tube-wells were being dug by government services and local charities.</div>
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The army, which has taken over aid management, says it has made sanitary facilities the "highest priority" in an effort to stave off a health emergency. "The situation is still under control," Ahmed said.</div>
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More than 436,000 refugees have crossed the border from Rakhine since Aug 25 when a military crackdown was launched following attacks by Rohingya militants, according to UN figures on Monday.</div>
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The refugees have given shocking accounts of killings and mass rapes by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist mobs. The Myanmar military says they have only targeted Rohingya militants.</div>

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Ex-PM of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif appears before anti-corruption court.

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<b>ISLAMABAD (REUTERS) -</b> Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared before an anti-corruption court on Tuesday (Sept 26), kicking off trial proceedings that he says are biased and which threaten to dent his party's chances at the next general election due in mid-2018.</div>
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Sharif briefly appeared before a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court in Islamabad on three corruption charges. He did not enter a plea.</div>
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Local TV channels reported that Sharif is scheduled to be formally indicted on Oct 2, about two months after his disqualification by the Supreme Court for not declaring a small source of income that he denied receiving.</div>
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A Supreme Court panel has also alleged Sharif family's wealth far exceeds their legal income. "He has appeared before the court and by appearing he has proved to be a lion," said Marvi Memom, a lawmaker for Sharif's ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)party.</div>
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Sharif, who returned from London on Monday (Sept 26) after about a month in Britain, told the court his wife was being treated for cancer in London and needs his care.</div>
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Sharif has portrayed the corruption claims against him as politically motivated, while his allies, including daughter and heir-apparent Maryam, have hinted Pakistan's powerful military had a hand in his toppling.</div>
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The military denies any such action. "It's a good thing that finally NAB and such institutions are holding rich and powerful to the count," said Shafqat Mahmood, a senior members of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.</div>
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Sharif's returned to Pakistan quashed growing speculation that his long absense was the start of another period in exile for the veteran leader whose three stints as prime minister were all cut short, including one by a military coup in 1999.</div>
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"What kind of justice is this, what kind of accountability is this?" Sharif told reporters outside his upscale London apartment in London before departing for Islamabad on Sunday.</div>
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Two of Sharif's sons are also due to appear before a NAB court, as well as Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, a long-time ally who is married into the Sharif family.</div>
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Analysts say Sharif's return to Pakistan was in large part due to fears of defections within the PML-N, a common occurrence in a nation where politicians switch allegiances ahead of polls depending on which way the political winds are blowing.</div>
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Sharif kept control of PML-N after his ouster and installed loyalist Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as prime minister.</div>
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The Supreme Court has told the NAB courts that the trials into the Sharifs must be over within six months, with opponents betting that a flow of negative news from the trials will hurt PML-N's popularity ahead at the next election.</div>

Ex-PM of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif appears before anti-corruption court.

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September 26, 2017

IIT-Kanpur gears up for annual fest Antaragni 2017

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</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">K</span>anpur: After celebrating the 51st year of Antaragni in 2016, IIT-Kanpur is once again readying itself to celebrate one of this most colourful and youthful festivals. This year, the cultural fest , Antaragni, will be held from October 26 to October 29.</span>
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</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.antaragni.in/"><b>ANTARAGNI</b></a> being one of the Biggest cultural extravaganzas of Northern India has established itself as a brand and in its 52nd Edition, its visibility is going to be bigger and better than ever.</span>
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</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Being one of the most eagerly awaited events this Institute, it is conducted on a magnificent scale ensuring tremendous buzz and interest within the junta. Every year Antaragni witnesses a footfall of over 40,000, participation from more than 300 top colleges from various parts of the country.</span>

IIT-Kanpur gears up for annual fest Antaragni 2017

K anpur: After celebrating the 51st year of Antaragni in 2016, IIT-Kanpur is once again readying itself to celebrate one of this most co...

September 26, 2017

Adult Viewers Should be Allowed to See Whatever They Want: Ekta Kapoor

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<span style="text-align: justify;"><b>Kolkata (PTI):</b> Producer Ekta Kapoor feels certain values should be kept in mind when TV soaps are made because they are watched primarily by a family audience but while making films the sensibility of an adult should be acknowledged.</span><br />
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Speaking on the issue of censorship, Kapoor said, "We honour certain values as we enter people's houses and I certainly keep that in mind for our programmes.
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"He (the film viewer) should be allowed to what he wants to see outside his house," she said while speaking at a Q & A session at the FICCI Ladies Organisation here last evening.
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When asked about censor board's act of censoring scenes in recent films, Kapoor said, "We cannot be prudish. We cannot run away from certain problems. Can we stop or prohibit anyone from speaking or doing what he wants?" Kapoor credited her success to the fighting instinct that women have.
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"...whatever I am is because I am a woman. All these fighter instincts women have, make them successful in life... I was too young to be taken seriously by people when I had started (at 18). Contrast that with the environment at present
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