Daily Newsletter | Thursday, July 06, 2017
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| PM announces Delhi-Mumbai-Tel Aviv flight service |
| Making a major outreach to the Indian diaspora in Israel, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged them to visit India more often and announced plans to launch flight service to Tel Aviv from Delhi and Mumbai. |
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| India and Israel clinch strategic partnership |
| India and Israel on Wednesday elevated their ties to a strategic partnership as New Delhi identified tel Aviv as a major development and technological partner even as both nations agreed to combat growing radicalisation and terrorism and expand cooperation in cyber security. |
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| India beat Pakistan to win Asian Snooker Championship |
| Pankaj Advani remained the only player to not lose a single individual match in the team event. This title brings up Advani’s second Asian title this season and 8th overall (6 Billiards, 1 6-red and 1 Team Snooker) while it is a first for Rawat and Singh. |
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| Service sector grows to eight-month high on new orders |
| The Nikkei India Services Purchasing Managers’ Index, which tracks services output on a monthly basis, increased to 53.1 in June, from 52.2 in May, signalling a “solid and accelerated” upturn in output across the sector. Meanwhile, manufacturing sector growth eased to a four- month low in June. |
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| Liqour ban along highways: UP suffers Rs 5,000 crore loss |
| “We have incurred a loss of about Rs 5,000 crore in 2016-17 fiscal ending March 31. Out of the target of realising Rs 19,000 crore, the excise department could generate Rs 14,000 crore following the apex court order order,” UP excise minister Jai Pratap Singh said. |
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