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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

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DGCA notice to GoAir for scant remote-area flights

Government yet to bar companies from bribing doctors
The Uniform Code of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) announced in January 2015 was to be made mandatory after six months. Instead, there have been four extensions, with the last one in September for an indefinite period.

Centre sends 4,000 more troopers to Manipur
So far, the home ministry has sent around 17,500 central troops to the state to help the local administration maintain law and order.

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Business

Jaitley meets select bankers to take stock of demonetisation
Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday took stock of the ongoing demonetisation drive at a meeting attended by IBA chief and heads of key bankers including State Bank of India and Punjab National Bank.

Jet Airways to fly wide-body aircraft on domestic routes
Jet Airways on Monday announced that it will introduce its wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft on Mumbai-Chennai and Mumbai-Bangalore legs on the airline’s domestic network, aside from Mumbai-Kuwait and Mumbai-Jeddah routes.

Nifty slumps to 7-mth low, Sensex tanks 234 points
The 50-share Nifty after cracking below the 7,900-mark to hit a low of 7,893.80 finally settled lower by 77.50 points, or 0.97 per cent, at 7,908.25. This is its lowest closing since May 24 this year at 7,748.85.

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Environment

China detains 11 for dumping garbage in Yangtze river
China has detained 11 people for dumping more than 2,900 tonnes of garbage into the Yangtze river in Jiangsu province, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Sunday. The garbage was dumped earlier this month after two firms entrusted to dispose of household garbage subcontracted the work to third parties, Xinhua said.

China encourages industries to protect environment
China will encourage labour-intensive manufacturing industries located along the eastern coast to relocate inland, it said in a new 2016-2020 plan to develop the economy of its western regions. The country's cabinet, the State Council, approved the western development five-year plan on Friday, according to a notice published by China's official government website late on Sunday.

China to levy new taxes in bid to strengthen fight against pollution
China's largely rubber-stamp parliament passed a law on Sunday that will levy specific environmental protection taxes on industry for the first time from 2018, as part of a renewed focus on fighting the country's pollution woes.

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World

Obama confident he could have won White House again
Obama, who winds up his second and final term in office in just over three weeks, said he believes the American public still supports his progressive vision, despite having voted for Trump - his political opposite.

China's aircraft carrier heads to Western Pacific
China's aircraft carrier, Liaoning, is heading towards the Western Pacific Ocean. Military officials in Japan and Taiwan have reported spotting the aircraft carrier and a fleet of battleships crossing the Miyako Strait, a body of water between the Japanese islands of Miyako and Okinawa, heading into the Pacific.

Russia: Crashed jet fragments pulled from Black Sea
All 84 passengers and eight crew on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern city of Sochi en route to Syria.

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Entertainment

Salman Khan shares Christmas dinner with Iulia Vantur, family
The news that Salman Khan and Iulia Vantur have been dating, has kept the rumour mills abuzz for quite some time now.

Birthday Special: Salman Khan's candid confessions
Salman 'Being Human' Khan has revealed somethings about his personal life. Let's take a look at some of his noteworthy confessions.

Ranbir has a cameo in this actor's next

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Science

Cucumbers grown in space show how plants sense gravity
Scientists have examined that cucumber seedlings germinated under microgravity conditions of the International Space Station (ISS), to understand how plants sense gravity and stimulate their own growth.

Ammonia detected in Earth's troposphere for first time
For the first time, researchers have discovered ammonia in the Earth's lowest atmospheric layer with highest emissions of the gas encountered in North India and Southeast China. Ammonia mainly originates from agricultural processes, in particular from life-stock farming and fertilisation.

Now,wolverine-style self-healing, stretchable material
Scientists have developed a transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable conductive material that can be electrically activated to power artificial muscles and used to improve batteries, electronic devices and robots.

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Sports

Smith wants Aussies to test Kohli's patience on India tour
Smith felt that getting behind Kohli would distract his focus from the game, which according to the Australian will be advantageous for the visitors.

My aim is to optimize my potential: Jayant Yadav
Indian off-spinner Jayant Yadav, who was one of the stars of the Test series against England, speaks about the Ashwin influence, his exploits against England and what his targets are going into the New Year.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic keeps Manchester United motoring
The victory ensured that Manchester United, without injured captain Wayne Rooney, extended their unbeaten run in all competitions to 11 matches, despite Fabio Borini's spectacular consolation for the visitors.

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Technology

FreeCharge: Not selling stake to PayPal
Dismissing reports that global payments platform PayPal is set to buy a 25% stake in homegrown e-wallet FreeCharge, a company spokesperson has denied any such development.

Amazon India's loses double to Rs 3,572 crore in FY16
The pace of spending by Amazon India has only risen this year, as it introduced its Prime service and has also made an aggressive grocery push.

Flipkart sees fashion business turning profitable in 2017
Flipkart’s fashion business, including subsidiaries Myntra and Jabong, accounted for about one third of gross sales in the September quarter.

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Education

IIT-Kharagpur to slash fee hike by half
Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur looked poised to slash the proposed hike in registration fees for MTech and PhD scholars by half following unprecedented protests at the institute for over a week.

New IITs have better faculty-student ratio
Despite their more comfortable situation at the moment, the newer IITs are not slackening pace.

IITs seek review of fee concessions for special category students
The cost incurred on such students is "adversely affecting the financial viability of the institutions and eroding their corpus funds", IITs said in a report.

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Mumbai

Municipal council polls: BJP vote share rose from 10% to 28% in last five years

Developers, architect denied pre-arrest bail in slab collapse case

Builder who cheated residents a threat to economy, says HC

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Delhi

`No low-cost carriers at T3 a blow for Express Line'

DDA evicting us forcefully, say Kathputli residents

In a first, western hoolock gibbon born at Delhi zoo

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Bangalore

'Rowdy' Ranga may be tamed, prepared for Dasara festivities
The wild elephant captured on Sunday in Magadi taluk is indeed ‘Rowdy’ Ranga, forest department officials confirmed in private a day later.

Trucks with around 900 LPG cylinders go up in flames, no casualties
It was around 12.30am Monday, when the villagers of Nayanahalli, on the outskirts of Chintamani in Chikkaballapur district, were awakened by thunderous explosions followed by a raging fire.

No action yet on panel report on Nice irregularities

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Hyderabad

Car sales down despite attractive offers

New year boon: Stiff fines for graffiti, street art can be creative solution

King Khan is doctor at Manuu, Prez gives celeb event a miss

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Chennai

CBI nabs deputy chief labour commissioner for taking bribe

Girl, 6, dies, 6 injured as auto rams bus

Audit for women, girls safety after Nirbhaya

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Ahmedabad

Gujarat girl kidnapped, imprisoned in pit, raped for a month
The heinous act is suspected to be a fallout of a feud between two families belonging to the Devipujak community.

Bhajiawala family operated 56 bank accounts, says FIR
The FIR registered with the CBI by Piyush Yadav, deputy commissioner of Income Tax Department Unit-2 (investigation), Surat, reveals that the Bhajiawala family operated a total of 56 accounts in different banks.

New Year's Evening: Party pooper alert!
Come December 31 and there will be cops swarming all over the city roads. With a view to ensuring a strict implementation of prohibition laws, the city police have planned to set up 100 check points and 13 points of traffic police on December 31 and run-up to it.

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Allahabad

Akhara Parishad meeting held in Magh Mela

Chilly conditions makes Allahabad shiver
After witnessing pleasant weather conditions for the past ten days, the Sangam city received chilling conditions on Monday. With overcast conditions and no sunshine for the entire day, Allahabadies, shivered on Monday.

Government begins process to give school bags

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Bhubaneswar

Swain murder accused Mahima brought back from Thailand

Bird flu returns to Odisha's Keranga after 4 years, mass culling of fowls
Bird flu returned to Keranga village in Khurda district after a gap of four year. State government on Monday issued an alert after birds in the village have tested positive for H5N1 A1 virus of avian influenza and decided to start culling of birds in the area from Tuesday.

Dharmendra Pradhan writes to Jagat Prakash Nadda to allow Odia option in NEET
Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday urged health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda to allow Odia as a medium of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).

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Bhopal

Ministers, babus not even looking at overseas this year-end

MP Congress complains to EC after minister threatens voters

Crackers explode inside railway cabin, killing key-man in Jabalpur
One person was charred to death and another sustained fatal burn injuries following an explosion inside a railway gate cabin in Jabalpur district on Monday morning.

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Chandigarh

9 women injured in acid attack in Punjab

'Time to declare Capt Amarinder Singh as CM candidate'
The only woman CM of Punjab and one-time detractor of Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh, senior party leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal feels the 2017 assembly polls will be fought under unusual conditions.

Foundation of Rs 600cr ethanol refinery laid
With elections round the corner and the model code of conduct expected to be enforced soon, Punjab deputy CM and SAD president Sukhbir Badal and his Union minister wife, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, laid the foundation stone of a Rs 600-crore, seocnd-generation ethanol bio-refinery at Tarkhanwala village in Bathinda.

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