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Noida: China's state-owned rolling stock manufacturer, CRRC Nanjing Corporation Limited on Thursday started supply of coaches of metro rail for 29 Km long elevated metro corridor between twin cities of Noida and Greater Noida. It dispatched the first train for India and which is expected to reach Gujarat port in mid of December this year.  

Sending off metro cars for the corridor is running behind the schedule as the rolling stock manufacturer was expected to finish the supply of coaches by May this year. But it started dispatching them for cities only on November 2.   

New Delhi: The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter and PML-N party leader Maryam Nawaz has asserted that her father was disqualified by Pakistan's Supreme Court in haste and claimed that the ruling amounted to the murder of justice.

Sharif has been indicted by an anti-graft court in three cases of corruption related to his investments abroad and in other offshore companies. The cases were registered after the Supreme Court disqualified the 67-year-old as prime minister on July 28 in the Panama Papers scandal.

Maryam, said that her father, who was re-elected recently as the President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, has been disqualified but not discredited, despite many attempts by their enemies.

New Delhi:  Ex union minister and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has said that former UPA government and the one led by Narendra Modi have ignored the all-important sector of tourism.

Tharoor said that India was not investing money in building the infrastructure needed to draw tourists.

"I am taken aback by the fact that both my own government and the present one seem oblivious of the fact that there is a whole series of studies that says a thousand dollars invested in tourism will employ eight times as many people as the same amount invested in manufacturing," Tharoor said at the concluding session of the literary festival Penguin Fever 2017.

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has dismissed the World Bank's ease of doing business ranking with India recording a significant jump, prompting finance minister Arun Jaitley to hit back saying that the UPA era was marked by an "ease of corruption".

Rahul tweeted an improvised Ghalib verse to suggest Jaitley was deluding himself. "Sabko maloom hai 'ease of doing business' ki haqeeqat, lekin khud ko khush rakhne ke liye 'Dr Jaitley' ye khayal achha hai (Everybody knows the reality of ease of doing business, but this thought, Dr Jaitley, is good to keep you happy)," he said.