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Kolkata, Jan 11 (UNI) The Bengal Fish Fest 2019 is going to be inaugurated today at Nalban Food Park in Salt Lake.

It will continue till January 13.

On January 11, the fish extravaganza will be held from 4 PM to 9 PM. On January 12 and 13, people can savour culinary delicacies from 12 PM to 9 PM.

On all three days, there will be cultural programmes consisting of song and dance performances in the evenings.

There will also be a technical seminar, an exhibition, a culinary competition and a quiz competition.

Mumbai, Jan 11 (UNI) The benchmark index of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Friday fell by 31 points at 36,075.01 in opening session as selling was seen in energy, finance, industrial, IT and telecom stocks.

The Nifty of National Stock Exchange (NSE) too eased by 18.80 points to 10,802.80.

Though, the sensex opened higher by 85 points to 36,191.87, it immediately went down following selling Energy, Finance, Industrial, IT and Telecom stocks.

The sensex registered intra day high and low at 36,214.26 and 36,037.22 respectively.

The Nifty recorded intra day high and low at 10,850.15 and 10,801.20 points respectively.

The losers were Tata Motors DVR by 2.35 pc to Rs 95.75, TCS by 1.98 pc to Rs 1850.80, Bharti Airtel by 1.55 pc to Rs 332.15 and Tata Motors by 1.46 pc to Rs 182.85.

The gainers were ITC by 1.52 pc to Rs 293.95, ONGC by 1.18 pc to Rs 145.25, VEDL by 1.15 pc to Rs 197.35 and Sun Pharma by 0.72 pc to Rs 447.05.

After being duped at an ATM on Decemeber 18 did not give up. Rehana Sheikh after being duped visited the same ATM 17 times when she succeeded to catch the culprit called Bhupandra Mishra, whom the Mumbai police found to be a habitual offender.A report by the Hindustan Times said that the man had already seven cases of dupping against him.

Jef Bezos-led , world’s richest person, Amazon has surpassed the other software giant Microsoft to become world’s valuable company whose shares rose 3.4 percent giving the company a market capitalisation of $797 billion while Microsoft has a market value of $783 billion. Amazon achieved the record $1 trillion in September last year.

Making it simple the GST council has exempted traders with an annual turnover of Rs.40 lakh from paying any GST while the earlier limit was Rs.20 lakh, At the same time the council also annual composition limit for services by Rs.50 lakh to Rs. 1,5 cr  which implying payment at lower cost and less composition in taxes.

(UNI) A day after resigning from civil services, Shah Faesal, the 2009 IAS topper from Jammu and Kashmir asked the youth for ideas, saying his ‘choice of politics will depend on the what the people of the valley wants’.
Faesal in a Facebook post, which was shared about 700 times and commented upon by over 3,000 users, had asked youth to come out of social media .   

New Delhi, Jan 10 (UNI) Malaysian lawmaker and Leader of the Party Keadilan Rakyar Anwar Ibrahim, who called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Thursday, said that his country will never support terror.

The visiting leader also said that on radical Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, the Malaysian authorities are waiting for more evidence and “more arguments”.

“What we have now is a request to bring him back, documents and reasons should be made available,” Mr Ibrahim said.

He also said that the Malaysian government does not ‘subscribe’ to all allegations unless they are furnished with the details.

“We would need some evidence to the effect. Malaysia has been tough on terrorism, and if we are given evidence that someone was involved, we would not tolerate it,” he said.

The probe agencies have accused the Indian-born Islamic preacher of ‘hate speeches’ and links to terrorism.

In fact, Naik’s radical preaching was also linked to the unprecedented terror siege in Dhaka in 2016.

On July 6, 2018, Malaysian Mahathir Bin Mohamad said that Zakir Naik could remain in Malaysia provided he did not violate the law of the land.

Mr Anwar Ibrahim also said that as a democracy in the region, India should take a more positive leadership role.

During his meeting with Prime Minster Modi, the Malaysian leader Ibrahim was accompanied by two Members of the Malaysian Parliament, Kesavan Subramanian and Santhara Kumar Ramanaidu.

The Prime Minister congratulated Mr Ibrahim on his recent election as President of the PKR Party.

The Prime Minister fondly recalled their last meeting in Malaysia in May 2018.

Prime Minister Modi also conveyed his warm regards to Prime Minister of Malaysia.

The two leaders discussed bilateral, regional and global matters of mutual interest, sources said.

New Delhi, Jan 10 (UNI) After remaining unchanged for last two days, fuel prices were revised on Thursday as petrol, diesel prices became costlier by 28-42 paise per litre across various cities of the country.
In the national capital Delhi, petrol costs Rs 68.88 per litre as against Rs 68.50 yesterday while diesel is at Rs 62.53, against yesterday’s price of Rs 62.24.
In Mumbai, petrol is at Rs 74.53, higher than yesterday’s price of Rs 74.16 while diesel is retailing at Rs 65.43, 31 paise more than yesterday’s price of Rs 65.12 per litre.
In Chennai petrol is retailing at Rs 71.47 and diesel Rs 66.01 a litre and in Kolkata petrol costs Rs 71.01 and diesel Rs 64.30 per litre.
Similarly, in Noida, petrol costs Rs 69.79 a litre and diesel price was hiked to Rs 62.18 as against Rs 61.93 yesterday. In Gurugram, petrol, diesel prices rose to Rs 70.12 a litre and Rs 62.79 per litre.

Actor Prakash Raj met Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal here on Thursday. This was informed by the actor on the micro-blogging site Twitter after he met the Delhi Chief Minister.
‘Met Delhi CM ArvindKejriwal thanked him and AamAadmiParty for the support in my political journey. Discussed and requested to share various ways to address issues which his team has commendably done,’ Prakash Raj tweeted.

Mumbai, Jan 10 (UNI) ZEE5, India’s fastest growing digital entertainment platform, announced its partnership with CloudWalker, a leading online Smart TV brand from India.

CloudWalker emphasises on creating digital content solutions with the power of internet on large format screens. Equipped with a self-developed, Made-In-India content discovery and curation engine, CloudWalker Smart TVs will enable users to discover great content and have an amazing digital entertainment experience from the ZEE5 app in a seamless and hassle-free manner, on the big screen.

According to the association, ZEE5 app will be live on CloudWalker’s flagship Smart TV range, Cloud TV’ available on leading online platforms. ZEE5 will be featuring on the homepage of all CloudWalker Smart TVs.

Manish Aggarwal, Business Head ZEE5 India said, ‘Escalating technology in smart TVs enables us to empower and interact with our consumers. CloudWalker brings limitless digital content streaming in living rooms. This association will help more users to log onto ZEE5 and enjoy the eclectic choice of content. Additionally, this also takes a step forward to our aim of being present on all Smart TVs and connected devices by the end of this year.’

Jagdish Rajpurohit, president, CloudWalker said, ‘At CloudWalker, we believe that great digital content merits to be discovered and so we connect the viewers with India’s largest selection of digital content for streaming on TVs. Our goal is to digitalise entertainment across all the living rooms and enable our customers to have a fantastic user-experience. We are hoping that partnership with ZEE5 amplifies our influence.’

Sydney, Jan 10 (UNI) India opening batsman Rohit Sharma on Thursday heaped praises on his former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni ahead of the three-match One Day International series against Australia, starting from Saturday.

Sharma said that former skipper brings calmness to the team.

Talking to media persons here he said, “Over the years we have seen the kind of presence he has in dressing room and on field. With him being around, there’s calmness around the group, it’s also a bit of a help to the captain, also going down the batting order and that finishing touch is very important.”

“He has finished so many games for us, that role he plays is very important in terms of his batting. His calmness, his advice is very important. So, things he does brings a lot on the table for us and his presence around the group is a massive factor for us,” Rohit added.

During the presser, Sharma also talked about the upcoming ICC World Cup, which is scheduled to begin from May this year in England, The opener said that nobody is guaranteed to the team for the biggest carnival of the game.

“Nobody is guaranteed to that flight to England as yet. We’ve to be in prime form. Each and every player who will be taking part in the World Cup, all of us are aware of that, we need to keep performing and make sure that comes the World cup, we’re ready for it. But more or less you will see the same squad playing the World Cup.”

“There’ll be one or two changes keeping in mind form and injury concerns over next few months. But I don’t see any drastic change in the squad, ” the right-handed batsman added.

Talking about the ODI series, he said that those three bowlers -Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc- who were rested from the Australian squad, are their premier bowlers but they have got the guys who can do the job for them. Their bowling lineup can put us under pressure without a doubt.

“At present, the team is high on confidence, so, we got to carry this form into this ODI series and make sure that we manage to keep things right,” the batsman said.

On the eve of first ODI, Dhoni with other Indian cricketers opted for the indoor-training session due to rain.

On Wednesday, too, Dhoni with his few teammates attended India’s optional training session.

Rohit Sharma, who had flown back to Mumbai as the couple blessed with the baby girl, has returned to join the Indian camp ahead of the series opener.

Kedar Jadhav, Yuzvendra Chahal and Khaleel Ahmed have also joined the Indian team camp.

In the recently concluded Test series, India registered their first-ever series win Down Under in the format.

New Delhi, Jan 10 (UNI) Vietnamese smartphone company Mobiistar on Thursday here launched its much-awaited notch smartphone–X1 Notch with 13 MP AI selfie camera at just Rs 10,000/.

Mobiistar Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Carl Ngo at the launch said, “Our aim is to develop the smartphone segment in India by understanding the consumer need for a selfie smartphone and their desire to gain more enjoyment at great value.”

“We are investing efforts on mobile technology adoption and expanding selfie experiences for India,” added Mr Carl whose company has also launched CI Shine smartphone for users who likes to flaunt their mobile handsets among their friends and colleagues.

The company with tagline ‘Enjoy More’ came to India in May 2018 with its Star Selfie Series and went on to announce its offline expansion in August with the launch of a range of 5 selfie centric smartphones.

Mobiistar has already partnered with over 500 distributors across the country to bolster its operations.

“The company has also set up 1000 service centres to provide best in class after sales services to its customers. With the promise of a pan India presence, currently Mobiistar is already present in 475 cities and 27 states,” said Mobiistar Chief Marketing Officer Aniruddha Deb.

Mr Deb also shared that in next three months the company expects to sell 50,000 units of smartphones. The company also has its focus more on offline marketing as they want to create a strong customer base across the country.

The C1 Shine smartphone allows its users to take great selfies and comes in incredible designs at an affordable cost of Rs 6000/-.

Meanwhile, the sleek curved glass design with dual colour glass back, the X1 Notch is a stunning combination of good looks and attractive pricing of Rs 10,000 comes equipped with Notch display for comfortable viewing and gaming.

“This device allows you to take the perfect selfies with its 13 MP AI selfie camera that takes incredible images even in low light. This device will be available in 3 dazzling colours – Gradient Shine, Midnight Black and Sapphire Blue. The dual SIM dual VoLTE empowers users to keep HD Calls active on both SIM cards thus enhancing calling experience while allowing users to choose to run data or call on both 4G VoLTE enabled and regular carrier SIM card,” shared Mr Carl.

“Pricing plays an important role. Customers want more in less. We have focused on both fronts–Technology as well as body. The 13MP selfie camera not only takes good pictures but brings confidence. The 5.7 inch HD Display provides stunning videos and images,” added the CEO.

“Equipped with facial unlock and fingerprint sensors to give you double security, the phone has a battery capacity of 3020 mAh for unhindered long hours at work or with friends,” he added.

The Mobiistar X1 Notch will be available in 2 variants – 2GB RAM and 16GB ROM and 3GB RAM and 32GB ROM.

The company provides one year warranty on hardware product while six months replacement warranty on accessories such as earphone, charger and battery

The company in future will also tie up with e-commerce platform but as of now the products will be available at mobile retail stores.

Mumbai, Jan 10 (UNI) Car major Maruti Suzuki India Limited on Thursday announced a price change for select models owing to increase in commodity prices and foreign exchange rates.

The price change varies across models and ranges up to Rs 10,000 (ex-Showroom – Delhi). The new prices are effective from January 10 2019, company said in a filing with BSE.

New Delhi, Jan 10(UNI) The Supreme Court on Thursday posted till January 29, the hearing in the Ayodhya land title dispute case after the exit of one of the five judges in the Constitution bench.
Justice UU Lalit recused himself saying he had been a lawyer in a related case nearly two decades ago.
A new five-judge bench will be constituted to hear the matter.
On its next hearing, the apex court is expected to fix a timeline for the next hearing.