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Monthly Archives: JULY 2017

Mukesh Ambani launches ‘Jio Phone’ for Rs. 0

21.07.17 - TEAM PT

Reliance has today unveiled the latest JioPhone feature phone for the Indian consumers. It will be available for pre-booking from August 15 for Rs ZERO. However, one has to pay Rs 1,500 has a security deposit, which will be 100 percent refundable after three years. ...

Sainath takes up a zero TRP subject, again, and manages to shock

20.07.17 - PT EXCLUSIVE*

New Delhi: Even as discussions or debates about poverty are considered non-TRP subjects, and research papers and newspaper articles on the issue are now out-of-fashion, P Sainath remains valiant in his efforts to keep the issue in the headlines. This week, the intrepid scholar-journalist was ...

India lost 1.5 million jobs in the aftermath of demonetisation

20.07.17 - TEAM PT

The Modi government’s demonetisation decision may have resulted in the loss of roughly 1.5 million jobs, according to new survey data put out by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).

CMIE’s data is based on the result of consecutive waves of household surveys performed from ...

Chennai man arrested for receiving "anti-national" WhatsApp message

19.07.17 - TEAM PT

It's not just sending a message that may land you in trouble nowadays. Even receiving a message on WhatsApp makes you vulnerable. Tadikala Akabar Saleem was last week arrested and charged with sedition at the Chennai airport where he had gone to pick up a ...

Adanis win, as Paranjoy Guha Thakurta resigns from EPW

18.07.17 - PT Media Critic

Within days of the Adani Group slapping a defamation notice on the Economic and Political Weekly, its editor Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, one of India's most respected journalists, resigned from his position today.

He had assumed the editorship just a year and a half back. His predecessor ...

Sea of farmers converges at Jantar Mantar, yards away from Parliament

Will it jolt the government into action?

18.07.17 - PT BUREAU

NEW DELHI: As mammoth waves of farmers came converging upon Jantar Mantar, the heart of India's power city of Delhi, merely a few hundred yards of Parliament, one political message was loud and clear: the Narendra Modi government can ignore the issue of farmers' plight ...

Look who is defending Modi regime on RBI head fiasco

17.07.17 - PT BUREAU

WAS NARENDRA MODI government unfair to Raghuram Rajan, the much celebrated RBI chief who was let go by the government? The sledgehammer decision of demonetisation came within days of Rajan's exit and the Modi government did precious little to counter the impression that he was ...

Mastermind of group who pumped Rs 50 crore fake coins into India, arrested

07.07.17 - team pt

The mastermind of a fake coin syndicate has been arrested with around 8,500 counterfeit coins in denominations of Rs 5 and Rs 10. Upkar Luthra, arrested by the Special Cell from Kundli in Haryana on Tuesday , was operating out of Nepal.

Police said that the ...

Punjab Cabinet approves New Draft Transport Policy; Decides to crack down on Badal-controlled transport mafia

05.07.17 - team pt

PUNJAB cabinet on Wednesday okayed the much-awaited new Transport Policy, while also abolishing the system of DTOs and restructuring the Transport Department, in order to streamline the issuance of permits and licences across commercial and private transport vehicles.

The cabinet decided that the state government will ...

each and every employee, including laborers are multi-millionaires

In this Indian town, ‘Billionaires’ work as labourers and peons in factories

05.07.17 - team pt

Can you believe that even factory workers can be millionaires? And not one, two or even ten, but most of them! Literally!

Yes. There is a factory which has each and every employee, including laborers, peons and watchmen who are multi-millionaires.

Factories in motown Sanand are faced ...

Registration of 1 lakh Cos cancelled, 37,000 shell firms identified, says PM at CA Event

01.07.17 -

Government is committed to more tough actions against firms helping in hiding black money, announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi today.

PM Modi called chartered accountants a "big pillar" of the Indian economy and urged them to bring technological innovations to meet global standards.

Addressing Chartered Accountants ...

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