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Asia-Pacific leaders were urged on Friday to defend free trade from rising protectionism after the election victory of Donald Trump stoked fears that years of tearing down barriers to global commerce could be reversed.

The housing finance company said that Unitech group faced sluggishness in sale of apartments in projects in recent past, affecting the cash flow of the realty firm and adversely impacting progress of the construction work.

Unfazed by criticism of the demonetisation move, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said replacing 86 per cent of the currency in circulation with new bank notes could not have been executed in a better way than currently being implemented.

Chelsea's Antonio Conte was named Premier League manager of the month after leading the club to four consecutive wins in October.

A 70-year-old man standing in the queue for getting his now-invalid notes exchanged died after he was taken seriously ill.

The Rajya Sabha on Friday witnessed multiple adjournments during the first-half of the day, with opposition parties continuing with their protest against the government's move to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes.

A big task lies ahead for the makers and Rowling as Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is the starting of a whole new five films series.

Ford has repeatedly said it has no plans to close any U.S. plants and likely could not do so under the terms of the current United Auto Workers contract that expires in 2019.

"Media reports which suggest that the investigation into the Hrithik-Kangana emails is closed are totally false," Hrithik's lawyer said in a statement.

Manchester United, struggling with injuries and poor form, host an Arsenal side two points off the Premier League summit and unbeaten since the opening day of the season.

Dealers said dollar's strengthening against rivals overseas following hints of interest rate hike in December from US Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen also weighed on the domestic currency.

The company intends to invest Rs 7,000 crore in the state and was seeking land near Supe or Khed industrial zones in Pune district, an official of the industries department said.

Around 1,000 OLM Bank Mitras are now working at GPs and village levels. Almost each village has one or more SHGs linked to the bank. Most of the branch post offices are located in rural areas.

The point helped Kolkata take their points tally to 11, the same as FC Goa, but Zicos team will be placed at the bottom because of their inferior goal difference.

Abhay is an advanced active-cum-passive integrated sonar system designed and developed for the smaller platforms such as shallow water crafts and coastal surveillance/patrol vessels.

"This is a strike not on black money but on legal tender of India, its currency.