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Jet Airways to sell Netherlands business to KLM Bankrupt Indian airline Jet Airways Ltd said it had agreed to sell its assets in Netherlands to Dutch airline KLM. If the deal is finalised, it will only involve a sale of part of the company’s business and not impact the shareholding pattern, Jet said in a statement dated Jan. 16. It did not detail the assets held in Netherlands.
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 China's Great Wall agrees to buy General Motors' India plant - sources Great Wall, one of the biggest sellers of sports-utility vehicles (SUV) in China, is expected to pay about $250 million to $300 million to acquire the plant, one of the sources said. The deal, which the sources said could be announced as early as Friday, will give a jumpstart to Great Wall’s plans to build and sell cars in India and is likely to pave the way for GM’s exit from manufacturing cars in the country. GM in India did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Great Wall was not immediately reachable for comment. Chinese automakers are accelerating plans to build cars in India to combat slowing sales at home and have been encouraged by the initial success of rival SAIC Motor in the country, sources have told Reuters. While car sales in India are stuttering, the market is expected to become the world’s third biggest by 2026, behind China and the United States, according to consulta
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India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said New Delhi was in advanced stages to resolve some of the ongoing trade issues with Washington and was keen to expand ties further including a free trade pact. “With the U.S. we are at an advanced stage of dialogue to sort out some of the pressing issues,” Goyal said at a security conference in New Delhi. The two countries have been locked in trade disputes for months, slapping higher tariffs on each other’s products and the U.S. withdrawing a key concession to India. India was also in talks with the European Union to move toward free trade agreements, Goyal said. “As far as the EU is concerned, we are waiting for the EU to take charge,” the commerce minister said. “We are very keen to pursue the dialogue further.”
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·        Bullet- points Mamata not to attend governor's meeting citing preoccupations Kolkata: Citing "preoccupations" West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend an all- party meeting called by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, to discuss issues pertaining to two bills, a Raj Bhavan official said here. Owaisi hits out at Bipin Rawat on "de-radicalisation" comments : Hitting out at the Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat who said de-radicalisation camps are operating in the country, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has questioned who would deradicalise attackers of Muslims and Dalits. Polling for first phase of panchayat polls underway in Rajasthan Polling started on a dull note for the first phase of panchayat elections in Rajasthan on Friday. In the first two hours of polling, only 8.30 per cent voting was recorded, a state Election Commission spokesperson said. J-K admin releases 4 politicians from house arrest The Jammu and Kashmir
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President rejects mercy plea of Nirbhaya convict Mukesh Singh. New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy plea of Mukesh Singh, one of the four men convicted in the 2012 Nirbaya gangrape and murder case, sources said.
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After India's Amazon snub, Modi's party slams Bezos-owned Washington Post NEW DELHI  - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party on Friday slammed editorial policies of billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, even as his e-commerce firm Amazon (AMZN.O) announced plans to create a million jobs in the country by 2025. Vijay Chauthaiwale, the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) foreign affairs department, said there was “a lot of problem” with the newspaper’s coverage of India, without giving any specific examples. The swipe at the Post came a day after a cabinet minister gave short shrift to Amazon’s (AMZN.O) investment plans for India. Bezos has praised India during his ongoing visit, saying the 21st century will be the Indian century and that the dynamism and energy in the country was “something special”. “I am not opposing Amazon as a company, in fact I am a regular customer ... Jeff Bezos should go home tell Washington Post what is his impre
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‘NDA coalition in Bihar intact, Nitish Kumar to be CM face for 2020 Bihar assembly polls’: Amit Shah BJP president and Union Home Minister Amit Shah reiterated that Nitish Kumar would be the chief ministerial face of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar. Addressing a rally to drum up support for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act at the Gharauna Pokhar ground on Thursday, Shah said Prime Minister Narendra Modi would lead the NDA at the Centre and Nitish Kumar in the state. “I want to end all rumours by declaring openly here that the next assembly elections in Bihar will be fought under the leadership of Nitish Kumar,” Shah said.
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