At least seven persons, including a woman, were injured when proscribed Garo National Liberation Army militants triggered an IED blast in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district today.

The moderate intensity blast occurred near a wine shop in in Williamnagar bazar. The seven injured were shifted to civil hospital for treatment, Inspector General of Police (Operations) G H P Raju said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Saturday briefed by senior defence and security officers about the terrorist attack, carried out by suspected Pakistani terrorists last week, on the Pathankot IAF base.

The prime minister arrived here on Saturday morning for an assessment of the attack.

The Andhra Pradesh government has extended a host of incentives, including a complete waiver of value added tax (VAT) for 10 years, for a mobile telephone manufacturing facility set up at Sri City in May last year by Foxconn, the Taiwanese multinational electronic contract manufacturing company.

Sri City is 575 km from here and about 70 km north of Chennai, just off National Highway 5. The company had said it would invest Rs 100 crore at this facility, to build a capacity to produce two million handsets a year and employ about 2,000 people, mostly women, by the end of 2015. It has already been producing a number of models for various mobile phone brands, including Xiaomi.

Former Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar has claimed that the Indian government has a special relationship with underworld don Chhota Rajan, who was deported from Bali in November last year. Kumar made the assertion during a session at the Delhi Literature Fest late last evening with journalist Avirook Sen.

“The short answer- yes there is,” Kumar said to Sen’s question. Kumar reiterated his statement when session moderator Madhu Trehan asked him whether this was a fact or just hearsay.

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is launching a close ended plan 'Jeevan Shikhar' which would be open for sale from January 11 to March 31, 2016. It is a non-linked, with profits, single premium plan wherein the risk cover is ten times of tabular single premium providing a combination of savings and risk cover.

Under this plan, the proposer/Life assured will have an option to choose the maturity sum assured and the single premium payable will depend on the chosen amount of maturity sum assured and the age of the assured. The plan is available from ages 6 years to 45 years.

German luxury carmaker Mercedes- Benz today said it posted record sales of 13,502 units in India last year as compared with 10,201 units in 2014, a significant jump of 32%, and is planning to add 12 'fascinating' new products to its portfolio in 2016.

By registering sales of 13,502 units in the January- December 2015 period, the company also achieved its highest sales volume in a single calendar year in India ever since its inception, Mercedes-Benz India said in a statement.

Lashing out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over his fresh attack on the Modi government, BJP on Friday accused him of taking one unconstitutional step after another and asked him to be ready to go to jail in the defamation case filed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

The Kejriwal government has been a complete failure and the chief minister has been resorting to levelling politically -motivated charges against BJP leaders to hide its failures and protect his principal secretary who is facing corruption charges, the party alleged. Attacking the AAP leader after he insisted that the Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Delhi government to look into the alleged DDCA corruption will continue working despite the Centre's decision to term it illegal, BJP said he should give these arguments in the court where the defamation case was being heard.

After recent changes in its apex management, Wipro, the country's third largest information technology services company has announced some more changes to its senior leadership.

After nominating company veteran Bhanumurthy B M as president and chief operating officer, the company has decided to replace him in the earlier role with Hiral Chandrana, vice- president and head for the consumer products business unit. He is being made VP & head of business application services (BAS), which Bhanumurthy was heading as president. BAS accounts for close to half of Wipro’s overall revenue.

The government has waived customs duty on import of goods for producing oil and gas from 69 idle fields of state-owned ONGC and Oil India Ltd that will be auctioned this year. In a notification, the revenue department said ‘nil’ customs duty will apply to goods imported “in connection with petroleum operations undertaken under specified contracts under the Marginal Field Policy (MFP)”.

The Union Cabinet had on September 2 last year approved MFP to bring idle fields of ONGC and OIL to production at the earliest so as to augment domestic production of oil and gas.

United Breweries Holdings said on Friday that ICICI Bank had unilaterally bought 1.96 million shares amounting to Rs 186 crore of its holding in United Breweries (UB), which it had pledged with the bank.

The firm said it had given non-disposal undertaking in favour of ICICI Bank with respect to the shares it owned in United Breweries. The undertaking was given only as a top-up to secure the company’s obligation to repurchase the loan provided by ICICI to Kingfisher Airlines, the firm said. ICICI had bought the shares on Wednesday.

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