US soldier Chelsea Manning, the WikiLeaks source serving prison sentence for espionage, has ended a hunger strike after the army said she would be allowed to receive gender transition surgery, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has announced Wednesday. Manning, 28, who is serving a 35-year sentence for passing data to WikiLeaks, began her hunger …
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September 14, 2016BJP chief Amit Shah on Friday held a meeting with various state party leaders and ministers of Gujarat government to discuss and finalise various programmes to be held in the run-up to the Assembly polls next year. Shah held discussions with several top BJP leaders and ministers, including Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, newly-inducted state …
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September 2, 2016Reliance Industries on Monday said it reserved its rights to initiate legal action against the Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) for what it termed as breach of trust and misrepresentation of facts by it, notably over test runs of 4G services. Such an action was conveyed in a letter to the COAI, even as …
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August 22, 2016The government has slapped an additional penalty of $380 million (around Rs.2,500 crore) on Reliance Industries and its partners for producing less than targeted natural gas from eastern offshore KG-D6 fields. With this, the total penalty, which is in the form of disallowing recovery of cost incurred, for missing the target in five fiscal years …
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August 18, 2016