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T-Hub or Technology Hub, a Hyderabad-based innovation hub and ecosystem enabler, announced on Tuesday the inauguration of the world’s largest innovation campus.
New Delhi, June 21 (PTI): Several major opposition parties, including the Congress, the NCP and the TMC, on Tuesday picked former Union minister Yashwant Sinha as their candidate for the July 18 presidential polls. Opposition leaders, who gathered at the Parliament annexe for the meeting convened by NCP chief Sharad Pawar to decide on a common candidate for the much discussed presidential election, unanimously agreed on Sinha’s name. The veteran politician, who has stepped aside from the Trinamool Congress and was earlier with the BJP, will file his nomination papers on June 27. “We regret Modi government made no serious effort to have consensus on a presidential candidate,” Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, who read out a joint statement after the meeting, said. He noted that the initiative to have a consensus candidate for the highest office of the Republic should have been taken by the government. “We are happy to announce that we have unanimously chosen Yashwan