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ELECTRONICS 
June 16, 2019 Electronics manufacturers seek ban on television imports from Vietnam
NEW DELHI: The electronics manufacturing industry has asked the government to immediately ban imports of televisions from Vietnam, which saw a 25-times jump to Rs 1,500 crore within the last one year, and called for changes in the import duty structure. In similar letters dated June 11 to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, commerce minister Piyush Goyal and communications and […]
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ALL DEALS 
May 12, 2018 China’s ZTE Teeters as US Ban Hits Operations
Chinese telecom giant ZTE faces a grim future after ceasing major operations due to a US ban on American sales of critical technology to the company, raising the stakes in a trade spat between the world’s two largest economies. The firm’s fate has added a new source of tension to trade talks between the two countries after Chinese officials […]
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ELECTRONICS 
July 5, 2017 Electronics ban on flights from Turkey to United States lifted: Reports
People travelling from 10 airports in eight countries to US were banned from bringing laptops, tablets and other electronic devices larger than cellphones into the flight cabin. (AFP File Photo) A three-month-old ban on taking electronic devices such as laptops into aircraft cabins on flights from Turkey to the United States was lifted on Wednesday, the private […]
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ELECTRONICS 
May 11, 2017 US ‘likely’ to expand electronics ban to UK flights
The ban would frustrate both business travellers and holidaymakers / Getty The US is considering expanding its electronics ban to all flights departing UK and European airports, according to a new report. Passengers travelling to the US would not be able to board a US-bound plane carrying any electronics larger than a mobile phone. Laptops, […]
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ELECTRONICS 
April 26, 2017 Trump administration might extend electronics ban to UK flights: Report
Passengers flying from the UK to the US may also be banned from bringing their laptops into aircraft cabins, it has been reported. According to the Guardian, the Trump administration is considering extending its security restrictions — which prohibits electronic devices larger than a smartphone from being taken as carry-on luggage — to US-bound flights […]
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ELECTRONICS 
April 22, 2017 MY MACBOOK A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR ELECTRONICS BAN AIRPORT THIEVES
New security regulations from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.K.’s Department for Transport ban passengers flying from certain Middle East and North African airports to the U.S. and U.K. from bringing electronics bigger than a smartphone into the cabins. Laptops, e-readers, tablets, cameras, and more will now have to be checked in at […]
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NEWS 
August 26, 2016 Cabinet clears draft Bill seeking ‘complete ban’ on commercial surrogacy
Image credit: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared a draft Bill on surrogacy, which aims to impose a “complete ban” on commercial surrogacy. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said couples who are “medically unfit to have children” can seek help from a close relative, which is called altruistic surrogacy. However, who qualifies as a […]
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ELECTRONICS 
April 12, 2016 New Report Calls for Ban on ‘Killer Robots’ Amid UN Meeting
Technology allowing a pre-programmed robot to shoot to kill, or a tank to fire at a target with no human involvement, is only years away, experts say. A new report called Monday for a ban on such “killer robots.” The report by Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic was […]
