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"Despite what happened in Greece, the domestic market has not been affected since we have only negligible direct linkage with Greece," UTI MF Group President for Sales and Marketing Suraj Koeley told PTI.
"Going forward, it will depend on how other EU nations like Spain and Italy in particular, which are more indebted than Greece, react to these developments," he said.
Quantum Asset Management Company said that the Greek tragedy is not such a big event for the Indian economy, since most of its debt is owned by European governments. "The failure of Greece is not such a big event for the Indian economy, since most of its debt of 320 billion Euros is owned by other governments. However, the European Central Bank has ringfenced other EU members by stating that it would buy their bonds," Quantum AMC Fixed Income Head Murthy Nagarajan said.
"In the domestic context, the impact is not expected to be high since exposure is very low. However, the Greece issue would increase risk aversion towards emerging markets, which would affect capital flows to our markets in the short-term," Nagarajan said.
Varaka with vegetables, samsa with spinach was served as snacks. Also on the menu was broccoli cream soup, steamed rice with veggies and biryani.
Yeh desh hai veer jawanon ka, the famous patriotic song, was played at the dinner.
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"I have received no summons. They know where I live in london. Awaiting the same," he tweeted.
Jules Stenson had pleaded guilty in December 2014 to a conspiracy to hack phones and intercept voicemails. The 49-year-old is the ninth and final journalist from the erstwhile weekly to be convicted for phone hacking.
Justice Saunders also sentenced him to 200 hours of community service, a 5,000-pound fine for conspiring to hack phones, and ordered him to pay 18,000 pounds in legal costs. Stenson was charged with plotting to hack phones between January 1, 2003 and January 26, 2007.
The father-of-three broke down in the dock when he heard he would not be going to jail and thanked the judge before he left court. Outside, he apologised to the victims saying: "It was wrong and it should never have happened."
"It would be quite wrong for me to say that, as it has gone on so long and public interest is less, those convicted at the end of the series of trials should receive shorter sentences than those who were arrested earlier and sentenced in a blaze of publicity," Justice Saunders said.
The Hindus, who constitute 1.6 per cent of Pakistan's total population, have been struggling to get a specific marriage law since the country was founded in 1947. Hindu marriages can not be legalised or registered in Pakistan in absence of such a law. The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights headed by Chaudhry Muhammad Bashir Virk met here to discuss and finalise a set of laws to formalise and facilitate registration of Hindu marriages.
An official said that the committee deferred the approval till July 13 when it is expected to approve a final draft of 'The Hindu Marriage Bill, 2015' and 'The Hindu Marriage Bill, 2014'.
The 2014 bill was jointly presented in the parliament last year by Ramesh Lal of opposition Pakistan People's Party and Dr Darshan of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
A separate but similar government law known as 'The Hindu Marriage Bill, 2015' had been tabled in the parliament by Law Minister Pervaiz Rashid in March this year.
Justice V P Vaish allowed Greenpeace's plea after the Centre and Yes Bank, with whom the NGO has the account, said they had no objection to the correction. The NGO has claimed that as per the May 27 order, by which the high court allowed it to use two of its accounts for receiving fresh domestic donations, one of the accounts was shown to have Rs 3,75,383, whereas the correct figure was Rs 2,00,868.
The court ordered the correction be made and disposed of the application of Greenpeace. The court on May 27 had granted the relief to Greenpeace saying it cannot be choked of funds.
It had also allowed the NGO to liquidate its fixed deposits, saying these and fresh donations be used for its aims and objectives and in accordance with law. The order had come on Greenpeace's plea challenging freezing of five of its accounts as well as cancellation of its registration under FCRA.
He has been asked to explain charges against him.The ED has set a three-week deadline.
Agency officials were recently sent to Singapore and Mauritius to look into alleged deals made by him.
The dean of a medical college in Madhya Pradesh, who was assisting the probe, was found dead in a Delhi hotel on Sunday. (Read the story here)
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has pointed out that the SIT is not working under the Madhya Pradesh government but under the supervision of the (Madhya Pradesh) High Court.
The PM arrived in the Uzbekistan capital, Tashkent, today on the first leg of his eight-day visit to Central Asia and Russia, aiming to enhance strategic, economic and energy ties besides attending Summits of BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
Modi was received at the airport by his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev and his cabinet colleagues. The Prime Minister also held a meeting with Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov and signed key agreements to strengthen cooperation between the two countries.
After Uzbekistan, Prime Minister Modi will visit Kazakhstan. Stressing on the importance of India-Kazakhstan relations, the Prime Minister had stated that New Delhi and Astana share a strategic partnership.
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"His (Singh's) death is one among the many allegedly mysterious deaths that have occurred in the inquiry currently underway. "Any doubts about the cause of the death of Singh should be dispelled by conducting an impartial inquiry involving an independent agency. The employer should also adequately compensate his surviving dependents," the body said in a statement today.
In a statement, a spokeswoman for the company said Shavitz died of respiratory complications in Bangor, Maine, surrounded by family and friends.
Shavitz started Burt's Bees when he, a beekeeper making his own honey, encountered a hitchhiker called Roxanne Quimby, who started making products using his beeswax. The two became business partners in the 1980s. Read more
When Modi congratulated Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on his 60th birthday through his account in the Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo last week, he once again showed the high value he attaches to diplomacy through social media accounts, said an article by Zhao Gancheng, director of the Shanghai Institute for International Studies said.
His account on Weibo, akin to Twitter has tens of thousands of followers, the article carried by the web edition of the state- run Global Times said.
Noting that Modi's social media campaign is not exclusive to China as he "did the similar things" for the US, Russia and Japan, it said the move is aimed at delivering a message to the world that India is more open and is keeping up to date with the latest trends.
"As Home Minister I am ready for a CBI probe. But it is already being investigated by a special investigation team under the supervision of the High Court. The High Court has said no," Rajnath Singh said, after Chouhan briefed him on the case.
The Congress on Monday stepped up its attack on Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the Vyapam scam, saying that he should be sacked to allow an impartial probe and that he cannot escape responsibility for the "45 deaths" connected to it.
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the opposition party said he should explain and take moral responsibility for the events.However, Police Commissioner B S Bassi said "nothwithstanding the initial reports, a medical board has been constituted at the Safdarjung Hospital to conduct postmortem of the deceased. Our crime team had inspected the site where the incident took place and a CFSL team had done the same. So no evidence went unnoticed," Bassi told reporters.
He said that police was in touch with Sharma's family as well for background check to make sure that there were no shortcomings in the investigation. CCTV footage was also being scanned, he said.
64-year-old Sharma, who was said to be probing fake examinees in the Vyapam scam, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a hotel in south-west Delhi's Dwarka yesterday.
If you key in Housing.com, it opens to a page (pictured) that said #rahulyadav and #housingdown. And a promise (to themselves or the reader is not quite clear given the gobbledegook): "Yes, We will solve real estate.
Yadav, who was fired from the company on July 1, was instrumental in developing one of India's best-known startups.
While the news was on expected lines, the board consisting mainly of investors made its displeasure with Yadav obvious by severing all ties with him and blaming the IITBombay dropout for poor management of the company and bad behaviour with various stakeholders.
However, the website opened, shortly thereafter with the url, Housing.com/in, but has been hacked again.
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The Delhi Police, which took Aam Aadmi Party leader and former law minister Jitendra Tomar to Faizabad and Ayodhya as part of its investigation, have found that his BSc degree is fake.
With the key category facing an uncertain future, food processing industry players are worried that this could have an impact on their overall investment plans, while companies are now facing 'increased harassment from safety inspectors', according to a senior official of industry body Assocham. "
In the last one month the instant noodles category has suffered a massive drop in sales to about Rs 30 crore a month. Before the Maggi ban this category was around Rs 4,200 crore annually, which is about Rs 350 crore per month. There is a fear psychosis among consumers," the official said.
@narendramodi tweeted: Hello Uzbekistan! I thank PM Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev for the warm welcome in Tashkent. Wonderful being here.
Half an hour later, the two PMs got to work. @PMOIndia tweeted: The meetings begin instantly... PM @narendramodi meets PM Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev after landing at Tashkent. (Pictured)
The Prime Minister will also meet Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov and sign key agreements to strengthen cooperation between the two countries.
After Uzbekistan, Prime Minister Modi will visit Kazakhstan. Stressing on the importance of India-Kazakhstan relations, the Prime Minister had stated that New Delhi and Astana share a strategic partnership. Prime Minister Modi will then go to Russia to participate in BRICS and SCO Summit at Ufa.
After Russia, the Prime Minister will go ahead with his visit to Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Prime Minister Modi had said that he looks forward to strengthening India's relations with these countries during the visi
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The Kim Dae-Jung Peace Centre in Seoul said the agreement on dates for the four-day visit by 93-year-old Lee Hee-Ho was reached following talks with officials in North Korea.
Lee has visited the North three times -- the last occasion being to pay her respects following the death of former leader Kim Jong-Il in December 2011. She is the widow of Kim Dae-Jung, who instituted the "sunshine policy" of engagement with North Korea that led to an historic summit with Kim Jong-Il in 2000.
It was not immediately clear if Lee would meet Kim's son and successor, Kim Jong-Un, who had initially extended Lee an invitation to visit last year, after she sent a wreath marking the third anniversary of his father's death.
The trip will ostensibly be a humanitarian one, with Lee planning to visit a children's hospital, a maternity home and an orphanage in Pyongyang.
The high-profile Vyapam scam got even more murky today with the death of a trainee sub-inspector under mysterious circumstances in a lake in Sagar's district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday morning.
Anamika Kushwaha was recruited through Vyapam and was from 2014 batch. Eyewitnesses claimed that the death was a suicide.
Khushwaha was the third person connected with Vyapam who died in past three days. On Sunday, the dean of a medical college in the state Arun Sharma, who was assisting the Vyapam scam probe, was found dead in a Delhi hotel following the mysterious death of Aaj Tak journalist Akshay Singh. The back-to-back death have deepened the suspicious that people connected to the scam are being killed to save the real culprits.
A restaurant and a mosque were targeted on Sunday night. No-one has claimed responsibility but militant group Boko Haram has attacked Jos before, even though it is not in north-east Nigeria where the Islamists normally operate.
The blasts are the latest in the series of deadly attacks in recent days which have seen more than 200 people killed.
Dr Sharma had succeeded Dr D K Sakalle at the Jabalpur college after Dr Sakalle died mysteriously a year ago. Police reopened that case over the weekend, after Dr Sudhir Tiwari, president of Indian Medial Association, Jabalpur, alleged earlier in the week that Sakalle had been murdered.
Sharma was found dead in his bed by staff at Hotel Uppal near Indira Gandhi International Airport, who entered using a duplicate key after Sharma did not respond to repeated knocks.
An almost empty bottle of alcohol and vomit was found in the room. Forensic evidence has been collected and his body sent for post mortem.
Asked about reported links of Sharma with Vyapam scam, Joint Commissioner of Police (South West) Dipender Pathak said police is "covering all the angles" in its investigation.
Incidentally, Sharma was the second Dean of the medical college to have died under mysterious circumstances in the last one year. D K Sakalle, who was inquiring into admissions of candidates for whom proxies had allegedly appeared in the pre-medical test, had been found burnt at his residence.
"Dr Sharma was found dead at his room in a hotel in Delhi. We are shocked at the death, He was a very close to Dr Sakalle," Indian Medical Association Jabalpur district president Sudhir Tiwari told PTI.
Tiwari claimed Sharma had wept at the funeral pyre of Sakalle,
claiming the latter had not committed suicide, as concluded by police
after investigation.
Schools in most districts, including Nainital, Dehradun and Haridwar, remained closed in view of the MeT department warning of heavy rain.
Official sources said that one person died as a tree uprooted by heavy rain fell over him in Nainital city whereas another drowned while attempting to cross a river near Ramnagar in the district, official sources said.
Sameer Kayani, a resident of Laswa area of Athmuqam in PoK was intercepted by troops deployed in the forward areas after he inadvertently crossed into this side on Thursday, army officials said last night. The Army sent an urgent hot line message to the Pakistan side, after the boy was intercepted, they said.
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The telegram sent Hitler in a frenzied rage and caused him to strip his hand-picked successor of power and appoint Admiral Karl Doenitz as his successor, Mirror.co.uk reported. An angry Hitler sent him a return message saying he had committed "high treason." The telegram will be auctioned in the US tomorrow where it is expected to fetch over 15,000 pounds. The telegram, received by Hitler's secretary Martin Bormann, was found in the Berlin bunker by an American soldier after the collapse of Nazism on May 8, 1945.
Captain Benjamin Bradin found the telegram along with other papers and brought them back to the US. The telegram was handed down to Bradin's son and in turn to his son's university professor who is now putting it up for sale at the Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland.
According to sources, the two leaders, who will be present in Ufa to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, will be meeting on the sidelines of it.
However, the details of the meeting were not specified. Modi, who is embarking on a five-nation visit on Monday, will be in Russia to attend SCO as well as the BRICS Summit.
Modi and Sharif had last met in Kathmandu in November at the SAARC Summit where they did not, however, hold any bilateral meeting.
The Sena said that increasing the Hindu population to counter Muslims is not the solution and that the "Sangh" should pressurise the government to strictly impose family planning on all religions.
"From 2001-2011, the Muslim population increased by around 24 per cent and must have increased by another 5-10 percent till 2015. The increasing population will cause language, geographical and sentimental imbalance and will create cracks in the unity of the country," the Sena said in an edit in mouthpiece 'Saamana.'
"The Prime Minister should clearly tell Muslims to obey the law of the land and accept the necessity of family planning. The PM promised to address their issues even if they knock his doors midnight. But, will Muslims similarly run to help the country?" it questioned.
"More than the Lokpal, the country needs a Common Civil Code in place," it said. "Whoever wants to try Ghar Wapsi can do so. We do not oppose it. But this is not the solution to stop an Islamic onslaught on the country. Pakistan has an Islamic government. Even countries like Iraq have an Islamic government. But in those countries, human lives there do not have much dignity."
"Her death is an unfortunate incident but it is not related to the Vyapam scam investigation. Every death should not be linked," Chouhan said.
Kushwaha's body was found earlier in the day at the Jawaharlal Nehru Police Academy in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh has referred to her death as yet another casualty in theVyapam scam.
What started out as just another case of systemic corruption that is part of everyday life in the country has now possibly caused the deaths of 46 people and is being dubbed as one of the biggest scams in the country.
With
three deaths in the last three days, the Madhya Pradesh Professional
Examination Board scam, known by its Hindi acronym Vyapam, has
turned into a monster which Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan can ignore at his own peril.
"Modi has been given a longer leash by his fans than any other leader of our time. Will he be able to continue putting himself above the fray if other scandals continue to emerge in his term? No, the erosion will inevitably come, given the awful state of this country. But for now, he has managed to shine through a period that would have tarnished any other leader but him," says Aakar Patel. Read
Modi will visit five Central Asian nations including Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan to deepen strategic footprints and energy cooperation.
With focus on enhancing strategic, economic and energy ties, Modi is scheduled to travel from July 6 to 13 to five Central Asian countries and Russia where he will attend the summits of BRICS and SCO.
The Prime Minister's visit will start with Uzbekistan from where he will go to Kazakhstan on July 7. He will then travel to Russia on July 8, before moving to Turkmenistan on July 10, Kyrgyzstan on July 11 and Tajikistan on July 12.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will also be leaving on a four-day visit to Russia to participate in the inaugural meeting of the BRICS backed New Development Bank.
"Soon after the announcement of the referendum results, I was made aware of a certain preference by some Eurogroup participants, and assorted 'partners', for my 'absence' from its meetings; an idea that the Prime Minister judged to be potentially helpful to him in reaching an agreement," Varoufakis wrote on his personal blog.
"For this reason I am leaving the Ministry of Finance today. "I consider it my duty to help [Prime Minister] Alexis Tsipras exploit, as he sees fit, the capital that the Greek people granted us through yesterday's referendum. And I shall wear the creditors' loathing with pride."
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The barometer index hit a low below the psychological 28,000 mark at onset of trading session.
The market breadth indicating the overall health of the market was also weak.
The Sensex resumed lower at 27,857.20 and hovered in a range of 27,946.68 and 27,774.80 before quoting at 27,800.40 at 1105 hrs a loss of 292.39 points or 1.04 per cent.
"The family members of the deceased journalist, Akshay Singh, have requested that viscera sample tests be done at AIIMS in Delhi. The state government has immediately agreed to that request. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has directed Director General of Police yesterday to send the sample to AIIMS or CFSL in New Delhi so that the truth comes out," BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao said.