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Vodafone Idea's future hinges on SC's AGR verdict

Vodafone Idea's future hinges on SC's AGR verdict

Rediff.com31 Aug 2020

If the apex court decides on a 15-year repayment tenure, it would pose a grave challenge for the debt ridden VIL.

Taxpayers' charter will be statutory and enforceable

Taxpayers' charter will be statutory and enforceable

Rediff.com4 Feb 2020

"The underlining theme with which we have been working till now is that we trust the taxpayers and from purely an enforcement agency, we are shifting our focus to being a service-oriented department," says CBDT chairman Pramod Chandra Mody.

Postal dept has overtaken SBI on digital connectivity: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Postal dept has overtaken SBI on digital connectivity: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Rediff.com15 Feb 2016

Prasad also said India will be a $1 trillion opportunity for digital companies in five years

India, China agree to talk to achieve complete disengagement

India, China agree to talk to achieve complete disengagement

Rediff.com25 Jun 2021

India and China on Friday agreed to hold the next round of military talks at an early date to achieve the objective of complete disengagement in remaining friction points in eastern Ladakh amid fresh sparring between the two sides on the prolonged Line of Actual Control (LAC) standoff.

75 years on, the horror of Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings

75 years on, the horror of Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings

Rediff.com6 Aug 2020

On August 6 and August 9 of 1945, warfare changed forever when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, devastating the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killing more than 100,000 people. The attack on the people of Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, and the second attack on the city of Nagasaki at 11:02 am on August 9 killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting men, women, and children in a horrible blast of fire and radiation, followed by deadly fallout. In years that followed, those who survived -- the hibakusha -- suffered from the trauma of the experience and from the long-term effects of their exposure to radiation from the weapons. Before the blast, they were thriving cities. In a flash, they became desolate wastelands. Seventy-five years later, take a glimpse at the destruction.

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