Daily Newsletter | Friday, July 07, 2017
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| RBI makes card and online payments safer; customer liability cut |
| Electronic payments have become safer for consumers with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introducing the concept of ‘zero liability’ and ‘limited liability’ for bank customers for any card or online fraud. It has also made it mandatory for banks to register all customers for text message alerts. |
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| Doklam row: Indian troops unlikely to withdraw |
| Despite rising stridency in Chinese demands that India pull back from the confrontation near the Sikkim-Tibet-Bhutan tri-junction, Indian troops are digging in to protect the strategic topography that is just 30 km from a hydel project and overlooks the Bengal-Assam road link. |
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| Beijing says Delhi’s stand ‘groundless’ |
| The Chinese embassy in New Delhi has launched a media blitz to drive home its point that India’s position on the issue is “groundless”. The embassy on Wednesday night came up with a video in which it sought to explain that it was India that was trying to change the status quo in the region as Doklam belonged to China. |
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| Name boards without Kannada content defaced at Bengaluru mall |
| Activists of a pro-Kannada outfit defaced the name board of a few shops for not bearing Kannada content. The incident comes just a few days after signages in Hindi were masked in at least two metro stations in the Bengaluru following protests by pro-Kannada activists and social media users against “imposition” of the language. |
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| HTC U11 to spawn a squeezable U11 Mini |
| Taiwan-based HTC recently launched its U11 flagship smartphone around the world. Now, rumours about an alleged mini version of the smartphone have started popping up online. |
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| Asian Athletics: India win two gold medals on Day 1 |
| Shot putter Manpreet Kaur and long distance runner G Lakshmanan grabbed gold medals on a remarkable opening day for India at the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships as the hosts won seven medals to sit atop the medal tally. |
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| India to be base to economic pole of global growth: Study |
| “The economic pole of global growth has moved over the past few years from China to neighbouring India, where it is likely to stay over the coming decade,” new growth projections presented by researchers at Center for International Development at Harvard University said. |
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| How to plan your mutual fund investments. Read here |
| Over the years, mutual funds have come across as a popular and fairly profitable instrument of investment. They have proved to be more hassle free and risk averse as compared to direct stock investments. Here is an insight on how you can plan your mutual fund investment: |
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| Did SRK gift Salman a luxury car? |
| After Shah Rukh Khan made a cameo in Salman Khan’s ‘Tubelight’, the Bollywood ‘Bhai’ is set to return the favour and also make a special appearance in his next dwarf film being directed by Anand L Rai. |
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