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NEWS DIGEST 18 / Aug / 2015

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HEADLINES : National News

Modi in Dubai: India, UAE to boost defence, security ties

Modi announced Rs 1.25 lakh crore package for Bihar

Monsoon Concerns: Moody’s cut India’s 2015

GDP growth forecast to 7% CBSE may make Class X board exams

compulsory again

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HEADLINES : International News

Sri Lanka: UNP edges out UPFA UNP won 93 seats while UPFA coalition secured 83 Incumbent PM Ranil Wickremesinghe likely to retain his seat At next week’s NSA meeting, Pakistan to ask

India for resumption of foreign secretary level talks Indonesian plane missing: 54 people missing Searchers recovered Black Boxes from Plane Passengers were all Indonesians & was carrying nearly half a million dollars in govt cash for poor families

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NATIONAL : Business News

M for Marshmallow: Google announced next Android version

E-Bay to sell one-third Snapdeal stake in next funding round

ICICI Bank launched India’s first robotic locker facility

IPO market heats up, 30 companies ready with Rs. 16000-cr offers

Goldman Sachs to invest $150 million in Piramal Reality

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SPORTS

Aditi Chouhan creates history: Joins West Ham United as a goalkeeperPaes, Wawrinka in Cincinnati Open second round

Kerala Blasters signs ex-QPR defender Perone

Chris Rogers confirms retirement after Ashes

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