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Two-wheeler rental service provider Bounce today said it has raised $3 million from leading venture debt firm, InnoVen Capital. The funds will be used to fund the expansion plans of the company. The company, which recently rebranded itself from Metro Bikes to Bounce, had last month raised $12.2 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital India and Accel Partners.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 6 February 2014, while announcing that more than 125 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where FGM is most prevalent and data exist, warned that some 86 million young girls worldwide are likely to experience some form of the practice by 2030.

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.

More than 93 million people around the world have been confirmed to have the coronavirus, while the death toll has crossed 19,93,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. Over 51.3 million patients have recovered from the deadly disease globally.

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Samsung Electronics had proclaimed the recall of 2.5 million fire-prone Note 7s in initial September.

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.

Japan is planning to earmark 100 billion yen ($970 million) for a storage facility for tens of thousands of tonnes of soil contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima disaster, a report said Wednesday.

VADODARA: It's a decision that could break a million hearts. 'Baroda bomber' Irfan Pathan is set to marry long-time friend Shivangi Dev, daughter of an

New York -- From the streets of Gary, Ind., to the palaces of Europe and the Middle East, to New York City's Times Square, millions of fans are mourning the

DOHA: Pakistan will get 1.5 million ton Liquefied Natural Gas(LNG) annually from Qatar. The sources of investment ministry told Geo News that the decision

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.

Comments of France former President Francois Hollande that Indian government proposed Anil Ambani's Reliance Defence as its partner in the multi-million dollar Rafale deal has caught the Narendra Modi led Centre in a crossfire, with the opposition demanding his resignation. Hollande was quoted in French website Mediapart where he said they had no choice and took the interlocutor which was given, stirring a row.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) once controlled an area stretching from western Syria to eastern Iraq - nearly the size of the United Kingdom. It proclaimed a caliphate in 2014 and imposed its harsh rule on millions of people. But it was flushed out of Iraq and eventually lost most of…

The exports of Basmati rice from India is expected to touch Rs.22,000-Rs.22,500 crore in financial year 2017-18 and the volume to about 4.09 million tonne primarily supported by a growth in average realisations, said the credit rating agency ICRA Ltd in a report on Wednesday.

At least 1 in 7 children - or 332 million globally - has lived under required or recommended nationwide stay-at-home policies for at least nine months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, putting their mental health and well-being at risk, according to a UNICEF report released today.

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today released Shri Mata Vaishno Devi gold and silver coins ahead of Diwali for millions of devotees worldwide.

If you're an avid user of social media, chances are you've come across the name Ankita Dave. This Indian social media sensation has taken the internet by storm with her bold and seductive content, gaining millions of followers and becoming a household name

Indian television has always been a source of entertainment and drama for millions of viewers. From family sagas to reality shows, there have been several controversial moments that have left audiences shocked and intrigued.