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The move expands the already existing Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, west of Hawaii and northeast of Australia to six times its previous size.

Attracting domestic investors, government has said that there are opportunities worth over Rs 2.5 lakh crore in defence offsets in the next few years.

"Mahagenco is making efforts to assess and minimise the impact of the Supreme Court judgement to ensure that the state-owned generating PSU utilises the available resources in the best manner possible," a Mahagenco official said.

Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said that this after unveiling the logo for the 'Swachh Bharat Mission' (Clean India Mission), along with Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister Nitin Gadkari.

Devendro, a 2013 Asian Championships silver-medallist, was declared the winner after his opponent - Fahad Albathali of Kuwait - failed to turn up for his bout.

Modi will also conduct bilateral meetings with the leaders of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.

The projects include Dhaka-Tongi and Khulna-Mongla railway line extension and manufacturing of 120 coaches for Bangladesh railways.

The new Mahindra Scorpio is available in siz variants: S2 (featuring the 2.5-litre m2DICR engine) S4, S6, S6+,S8 and S10 that use the 2.2-litre mHawk diesel.

World number seven Saina thrashed Iran's Soraya Aghaeihajiagha (2-0) 21-7, 21-6 in a women's singles round of 16 match at the Gyeyang Gymnasium.

The holy period of Navratri commences today and will conclude on October 2.

Obama will on Thursday sign a proclamation designating the marine reserve in the south-central Pacific, thereby making it off-limits to development and commercial fishing, a statement said.

Forex dealers said though increased demand for the US currency from importers and dollar's gain against other currencies overseas put pressure on the rupee but a higher opening in the domestic equity market capped the losses.

Gujarat Governor O P Kohli said Sanskrit is the mother of all languages and no other language can flourish without its help.

Chelsea needed Oscar's first goal of the season to beat Bolton 2-1 while City routed another second-tier side, Sheffield Wednesday, with seven second-half goals.

Lionel Messi failed to take his chances as Barcelona were held to a 0-0 draw by a disciplined and defensive Malaga side in the Spanish league on Wednesday.

Almost all banks including country's largest lender State Bank of India and private sector ICICI Bank have lent to power plants that were put up based on coal from 214 coal blocks alloted since 1993.