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India's exports of spices and spice products surged 12% to an all-time high in terms of value and also in volume terms in the financial year 2016-17, a communication from the Spices Board on Wednesday revealed. India exported Rs.17,664.61 crore ($2633.3 million) worth of spice products in 2016-17. In terms of volume, it stood at 9,47,790 tonnes. In the fiscal of 2015-16, the spice products export stood at 8,43,255 tonnes in terms of volume and at Rs.16238.23 crore ($ 2482.83 million) in value terms.

The details of the great escape of Thai junior football team and their coach 'wild boars' are emerging out slowly. The boys and their coach entered the caves to explore on June 23rd and were trapped deep inside the cave complex as rains flooded the caves. Till July 2nd their whereabouts were not known. The British divers found them alive on a ledge in darkness. What struck the divers is their calm demeanour. In spite of staying in the darkness and with very low levels of food the boys did not panic. There is a reason for that. When the wild boars were found they were all meditating. Their coach, the real hero of the whole high drama that followed, was a Buddhist monk before he took the responsibility to coach the football team. Earlier the coach Ekapol Chanthawong spent a decade practising as a monk and is a practitioner of meditation. The coach and his team remained calm by meditating. Meditation kept the team healthy and strong. Mother of one of the trapped boy Chanin, Aisha Wiboonrungrueng was all praise for the coach. She was astonished watching the first video of the boys and said "Look at how calm they were sitting there waiting, No one was crying or anything. It was astonishing. Meditation kept the Thai boys trapped in a cave astonishingly calm". READ:Thai cave rescue to be made into a film A meditation expert Leah Weiss who was taught by the Dalai Lama said that the practice of meditation played a key role in keeping the group composed and alive. She was of the opinion that the meditation imparts mental training that improves focus and compassion. Weiss said " "For Buddhists, meditation is a go-to when distressed or in danger. Cognitive resources that would otherwise be hijacked by the threat can be accessed once again, meaning that problem-solving capacities increase." She further added that " Given that insufficient air and food was a major issue for the trapped boys, meditation is actually a very practical response to both of these c

According to the figures released by World Bank for the year 2017 India has emerged as the sixth largest economy by surpassing France. India's GDP worked out to be $2.597 trillion in comparison to France's $2.582 trillion. India's growth was stunted as a result of some of PM Modi's reforms such as demonetization and faulty implementation of new tax regime, Goods and Services Tax. Only last year the economy picked up and the recovery can be gauged by the increased GDP. The comparison with France is lopsided as the population of India is around 1.34 billion, almost twice as that of France's 67 million people. So the per capita income of Indians is 20 times lower than that of France. There is tremendous growth impetus in Manufacturing and Consumer spending that acted as main drivers of the economy in the latter half of the year 2017. India's GDP had doubled within the last decade propelling it as an economic power to reckon with in Asia. International Monetary Fund has projected that India will have a healthy 7.4% growth rate and it may well reach 7.8% by 2019 due to household spending and tax reform. This is far higher than the world's expected average 3.9% growth rate. According to London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research, a consultancy, India may even overtake both Britain and France in terms of GDP by the end of 2018. They predict that India may become the third largest economy by 2032.

With India's exports witnessing a continuous growth, the exporters' body Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) expects that the merchandise shipments from the country would touch $325 billion in the current fiscal. "Indian exports have been on an upward trend in last few months with export of $275 billion in last fiscal and a target of $325 billion to achieve in 2017-18," the exporters' body said in a statement.

At least six labour died while two others were seriously injured in an explosion in a private petrochemical factory in UP's Bijnor, today morning, police said. According to the police, one labour is still missing. The blast took place around 8 am when the boiler of the factory was being repaired.

In a massive show of unity, Hindus and Muslims in Jalaun district of UP have transcended communal barriers to help local administration in relocating some religious structures, which had held up the construction of a flyover for 14 years. In all, 2 temples, 7 tombs and a mosque have been relocated.

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PESHAWAR: A barbaric man with the help of his son-in-law on Friday killed his wife, sister-in-law, and mother-in-law in Zargarabad neighborhood of Yakatoot area of the city. According to police, Ibrahim and accomplice Siraj opened indiscriminate fire on the three during a Jirga at his home killing them on the spot.

In a special ceremony, Arun Jaitley Minister of Finance of India opened the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and and later had a discussion with the investors on the role of UK in developing the fin-tech ecosystem of India and in delivering priorities forits development. The event was attended by Liam Fox, Minister for International Trade of UK.

The US and China will wage a war in the next ten years on the islands of the South China Sea, and "there is no doubt about it." At the same time, the United States will be in another "great" war in the Middle East.

The state of Uttarakhand was separated from its former territory of Uttar Pradesh in 2000 with the objective of exclusively providing development aid to more than 16,000 sparsely inhabited villages in its mountainous areas. But in the sixteen years following this separation, little has been done to improve healthcare and other basic facilities.

The UK's housing crisis will be 'felt across a generation' as the latest figures reveal the scale of children living in homelessness, a charity has warned. Shelter urged the public to support its Christmas appeal which aims to provide families with 'the vital helpline advice and services they need in order to keep their homes…

The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday conducted searches at nine locations in Tamil Nadu in connection with a bank loan fraud case worth Rs. 90 crore involving Indhumathi Refineries. Searches are being conducted at Virudhunagar, Madurai, and Coimbatore. The refineries are located in Chennai.

According to the recently released Financial Times Masters in Management Ranking, IIM-Ahmedabad has emerged as India's top B-School, followed by IIM-Calcutta and IIM-Bangalore. Notably, in a proud moment for India, both IIM-Ahmedabad, and IIM-Calcutta ranked among the top 3 business schools in Asia.

In what appears to be a clear-cut case of drunk driving, a man drove his car on a footpath in West Delhi, killing two and injuring two more in the wee hours of Sunday. The incident took place in Rajouri Garden, and the perpetrator, a 25-year-old techie, was arrested. However, he has given an alibi.

At least 36 persons in Bareilly and adjoining Badaun districts of Uttar Pradesh have succumbed to fever in the last 15 days, officials said Tuesday. The state government has constituted three teams of doctors to look into the cases in Bareilly and Badaun, UP DG (Health) Padmakar Singh said.

Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf today inched closer to becoming the single largest party in the country's general elections by leading on 122 seats in an early count of votes, amid charges of rigging by rival political parties. In the eastern city of Lahore, capital of Punjab province and the country's political heartland, PTI supporters rejoiced by waving flags and raising party slogans as results trickled in after the voting yesterday.

The most important PM of the world is coming", is how Prime Minister Narendra Modi's forthcoming visit to Israel, the first by an Indian premier, is described in an article in one of the leading Israeli business daily. Business daily 'The Marker' in a feature story in its Hebrew edition discussing Indo-Israel ties says that Israelis had set up huge expectations from US President Donald Trump's visit to the Jewish state but "he didn't say much" while Modi, a leader of 1.25 billion people enjoying massive popularity and representing one of the fastest growing economies of the world deserves a lot of attention.

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Foreign direct investments (FDI) in India in the services sector has surged by 77.6% to $7.55 billion in the initial nine months of this fiscal, supported by government measures for improving the ease of doing business.