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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

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India

Congress speaks in two voices over new Army chief

People may lose faith in poll process: EC

Now notebandi for sham parties

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Business

Japanese brand Akai re-enters Indian market
Japanese consumer brand Akai has re-entered the Indian market and has tied up with a local Indian electronics distributor to begin sales. The company will be sourcing product kits from Taiwan and China and assembling them locally.

Gold, silver decline further on global cues
Gold prices slipped at the bullion market here o Tuesday on reduced demand from stockists and jewellers on the back of lower global cues.

Sensex closes lower, makes it 5th day in a row
The market played into the hands of bears for the fifth day on Tuesday as the Sensex ended at a fresh two-weak low of 26,308 and Nifty slipped below the key 8,100-mark, still cautious about how demonetisation will pan out. There were geopolitical worries following deadly attacks in Europe.

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Environment

Environmentalists welcome Uttarakhand HC order banning killing of big cats

India gives over 2k ltr of pollution dispersant to Maldives
India on Tuesday handed over 2,000 litres of pollution dispersant to Maldives after recent incidents of oil spills in the waters of the island nation.

The fight on to save Earth's smallest rhino
Sumatran rhino, one of the rarest large mammals on Earth, are found in deep Indonesian jungle. There are no more than 100 left on the entire planet. One such rhino, Andatu is part of a special breeding programme at Way Kambas National Park in eastern Sumatra that is trying to save this species.

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World

Syrian army poised to enter Aleppo's last rebel enclave
The Syrian army broadcast messages into the last rebel enclave of Aleppo on Tuesday, warning that it was poised to enter the area during the day and urging insurgents to speed up their evacuation of the city.

China says will not change stand on Nobel Peace Prize
China said it will not change its position on opposing the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to people it considers criminals, even though Beijing and Norway had now normalised ties frozen since 2010 when a prominent Chinese dissident won.

Experts say MH370 likely north of search area
For two years, a handful of ships have diligently combed a remote patch of the Indian Ocean west of Australia in a $160 million bid to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. On Tuesday, investigators made what was surely a painful admission:

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Entertainment

Govinda on his comeback film 'Aa Gaya Hero'
Govinda is all set to make his comeback with the upcoming comedy thriller 'Aa Gaya Hero'

Bollywood stars who became parents in 2016
Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan were blessed with a baby boy on Tuesday, 20 December. The proud parents named they little prince Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi.

Aditya-Shraddha's bike ride on Mumbai streets
Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor have been garnering a lot of praise for their sizzling chemistry in the trailer of their upcoming romantic drama ‘Ok Jaanu.’

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Science

Obesity-gene may prompt kids to respond more to fast food ads
The overt response of your kids to advertisements of burgers, pizzas and french-fries may be the result of a key obesity gene influencing their brain to respond more to food advertisements and other cues to eat, a study has found.

Is it good to lower cholesterol to `levels of a newborn'?
As the debate over the use and overuse of cholesterol-reducing medicines continues, a new study claims it’s indeed advisable to lower cholesterol to ``levels of a newborn baby’’ as it cuts the risk of a heart attack by a third.

Heimlich, inventor of anti-choking technique, dies

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Sports

5th Test: Jadeja spins India to 4-0 series victory
India claimed the series 4-0, winning the final Test by an innings and 75 runs, thus extending their unbeaten run in Tests to 18 matches – their longest ever - since losing the first Test at Galle against Sri Lanka in August 2015.

Virat Kohli's team extends unbeaten streak to record 18
Virat Kohli's team equaled India's longest unbeaten run of 17 Tests in Mumbai and broke the record in Chennai with victory by an innings. This is India's 136th Test victory, 94th at home and 25th against England.

It's just the beginning, we want to achieve much more: Kohli
India won their ninth Test of the year to stretch an unbeaten run to 18 and wrote a plethora of records, including notching up their biggest-ever series victory over England to bag the five-match series 4-0.

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Technology

Meet the woman who got Bill Gates as Secret Santa
Every year, Reddit puts on a massive Secret Santa gift exchange, and, every year, one lucky person gets Bill Gates as a Santa. And boy, is he good at it.

This is how Amazon plans to improve 'delivery' in India
The platform will be managed by Amazon Transport Services which will screen third-party logistics companies applying for the platform.

Facebook charged of giving wrong information during WhatsApp takeover
The issue regards a WhatsApp privacy policy change in August in which it said it would share some users' phone numbers with parent company Facebook, triggering investigations by a number of EU data protection authorities.

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Education

NCPCR conducts survey on safe and secure schools
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is carrying out a survey on safe and secure schools in the country, with the data being collected directly from students.

CBSE wants smart cards for students

President Pranab Mukherjee to preside over Army College of Dental Sciences convocation
President Pranab Mukherjee would preside over the convocation ceremony of Army College of Dental Sciences (ACDS), Secunderabad here on December 23.

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Mumbai

Gang boards train at Kalyan, robs over 50

Cops recover Rs 85,000 siphoned from senior citizen's credit card

Indrani Mukerjea plans to publish Gita translation, donate proceeds

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Delhi

Delhi zoo under-reporting deaths, reveals probe

East Delhi robbery: Bike used in cash van heist traced

Cop, 3 others held for extorting money

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Bangalore

Fog disrupts 78 flights

Gold missing from locker: Bank manager summoned

Impact-assessment report wasn't made public, said petitioners

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Hyderabad

Two painters die in road mishap

15 students, 2 teachers hurt as bus overturns in Kurnool

Present imperfect: Hyd tops survey on unwanted gifts

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Chennai

HC flays officials who hide behind court orders

Fallen trees dumped on spaces earmarked for Ammaa markets

'Entrepreneurship' lessons now for school children

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Ahmedabad

Probe into board schools teaching NCERT syllabus ends

First sighting in Jamnagar of brown-breasted flycatcher

26 Pakistanis nabbed off Jhakhau may be fishermen

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Allahabad

BJP to take benefit of going cashless to grassroots

BJP will do in five years, what Nehru and others could not do in 65 years: Gadkari

Over 1K take civil judge exam in city

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Bhubaneswar

Odisha cabinet approves tenders of mega lift irrigation projects

Odisha creates separate cadre to appoint legal officers in government offices

Smart card for city buses in Sambalpur
Pre-paid smart card cards will be introduced for city bus commuters by March.Chief executive officer of paschim Odisha paribahan company Bipin Bhatia said it would provide a cashless commuting experience.

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Bhopal

X-mas carols ring in Yuletide spirit
They are at it for almost 15 days ahead of Christmas.Carol groups are busy spreading sweet melodies of 'jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way' and other carols in the city.

Hamidia junior doctors end strike, nurses on stir
Hours after Junior Doctors Association (JUDA) returned to work at Hamidia Hospital, contractual nurses announced a three-hour strike daily until their salaries were paid, here on Tuesday.

Posh city areas still seek glimmer of hope
Modernisation or augmentation of metering, monitoring and control system comes later, the civic body needs to address some basic issues when it comes to street lights.

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Chandigarh

Congress Sangrur ex-MLA all set to join SAD
Denied a Congress ticket, former Congress MLA from Sangrur Surinderpal Singh Sibia (62) has decided to join the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and he may be given a ticket from Barnala assembly constituency.

Offended by complaint of pet dog, man open fires in Air in Haryana town

Schools get into annual functions mode
The Annual Cultural Fiesta, Radiance-2016 by students of theSKYworldschool, Panchkula was celebrated at Indradhanush Auditorium. The annual function showcased Alice’s journey who wanted nothing more than to touch the stars in the sky.

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