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Ram temple drive used for Bengal poll survey

Temple is meeting the temporal in Bengal as the Sangh parivar launched on Friday a fundraising drive for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya. Using the donation window, the parivar has begun a dipstick survey in Bengal to assess its support base and launch an outreach campaign ahead of the Assembly elections. As the donation drive, initiated by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, began across the country, parivar officials revealed that the initiative in Bengal had a political objective too. “The ...

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Prime Minister Mark Rutte handed in his resignation and that of his entire Cabinet to King Willem-Alexander van Oranje, on Friday.

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Benchmark bond yields jumped to their highest in four weeks on Friday as the RBI mopped up Rs 2 lakh crore through a variable rate reverse repo auction even as its silence on an open market operation ...
Markets read the release as an indication that the RBI was looking to roll back the massive cash surplus in the banking system, despite its reiteration that it would ensure availability of ample liquidity.
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