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Wednesday, December 07, 2016

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Terror-related cases in J&K at 4-year high
Terror-related violence in Jammu & Kashmir has peaked to its highest level in four years, with incidents up 47% and killing of terrorists witnessing a 300% spike over 2015. Also, with terrorists going after security personnel and their camps, force casualties have jumped 87% from 39 in 2015 to 71 till November 27 this year.

Punjab cops didn't let Basit hold press meet
Even as India has denied Pakistan’s claims of ill treatment of its foreign advisor Sartaz Aziz during his Amritsar trip, athree-minute video clip has now surfaced showing how Pakistan high commissioner to India, Abdul Basit, nearly breached hotel security. However an alert Punjab Police officer firmly stood his ground.

10 youths from Punjab on death row in UAE
Ten youths from different parts of Punjab have been given death sentence by a trial court in Al Ain in Abu Dhabi for murdering a Pakistani man. All the men on death row were working as labourers in the UAE. They were awarded capital punishment on October 26 but the news has come out only now.

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Business

US SC rules for Samsung in fight with Apple
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that said the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million penalty to its American rival for copying key iPhone designs.

Banks gearing up for second round of pay day rush

Centre asks banks to install additional 10 lakh PoS
In order to promote digital transactions across the country, the government has asked banks to install 10 lakh additional point of sale terminals within four months. There are about 15 lakh PoS terminals currently across different merchants to facilitate card-based payments.

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Environment

Regions around Delhi contribute to its pollution: Expert
The regions surrounding Delhi contribute significantly to the pollution in the national capital, which should be tackled in order to solve this problem, an expert said on Tuesday.

Indonesia expands protection for peatlands, climate

How toxic water destroyed Pakistan's largest lake
For generations, the Mohanna tribe have lived, loved, worked, and played on Pakistan's Manchar Lake; their floating settlement serving their needs from birth to death. But an unrelenting flow of toxic wastewater has slowly rendered it inhospitable, poisoning the water and almost everything in it.

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World

Merkel re-elected by party to lead it into 2017 polls
German Chancellor Angela Merkel won re-election as chairwoman of her Christian Democrats (CDU) on Tuesday with 89.5 per cent of votes cast by just under 1,000 party delegates, giving her a boost as she seeks a fourth term in office next year.

5 killed in coal mine accident in China
At least five workers have been killed and six remain trapped in a coal mine after a gas explosion in central China's Hubei province, the third major mine accident in recent days in the world's top coal producing nation.

Fake US embassy in Ghana shut down
A fake US embassy that operated for "about a decade" in Ghana's capital issuing counterfeit and fraudulently obtained visas has been shut down, the US State Department announced. The scam was orchestrated by 'Ghanaian and Turkish organised crime rings' and a Ghanaian attorney, a statement said.

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Entertainment

Amy: Akshay is better than Schwarzenegger
Amy Jackson talks about shooting with Akshay Kumar and Rajinikanth

Bollywood's top 10 seductive saree songs

'Kaabil' title track to be out tomorrow
It’s rare to see an action adventure with a passionate love story. Director Sanjay Gupta’s 'Kaabil', which stars Hrithik Roshan and Yami Gautam as a visually-challenged couple, is one such film.

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Science

Plants can learn from surroundings, study finds

Chemotherapy may cause women to grow new eggs: Study

Robot flying ambulance makes first solo flight
An autonomous flying ambulance has successfully completed its first solo test flight, offering a potential solution for challenging search and rescue missions.

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Sports

Dhoni may play for India A in warm-up games against England
India's limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has not been playing since the home series against New Zealand in October, would have gone into the ODI series against England, which begins January 15 next year, without proper game time for 77 days.

Don't pinpoint Vijay's short-ball dismissals, urges Kumble
India's opening woes have continued in this home season with Shikhar Dhawan losing form and then getting injured. KL Rahul had an injury lay-off while Gautam Gambhir also failed miserably on his comeback.

Will speak to Thakur and Shirke on revocation, says Ganguly
Bengal's smog-hit Ranji encounter against Gujarat (November 7-10) was rescheduled when two days went without a ball being bowled. The match was rescheduled to December 15-18 in Visakhapatnam but MCA and NCA took up the matter with BCCI citing it as an "unfair advantage" for the two teams.

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Technology

Google's India revenues jump 44% to touch Rs 5,904 in FY2016
Google India's annual revenues jumped 44% with business doubling in the past two years. Google India Pvt Ltd posted a turnover of Rs 5,904 crore during the year to March 2016, outstripping its last year's growth of 35% to Rs 4,108 crore.

Infosys assigns 'profit & loss' responsibilities to horizontal delivery heads
In addition to asking industry unit heads to run their business with separate profit and loss statements, Infosys is working on making its horizontal delivery heads operate under a P&L structure as well, as it looks to boost growth.

India's internet population expected to double to 600 million by 2020: Study
With increased 4G and 3G penetration, the internet user base in India is rapidly expanding and has reached a penetration of over 27% versus 50.3% penetration in China and expected to double to 600 million users by 2020 from 343 million users currently, according to an Assocham-Deloitte joint study.

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Education

More firms but fewer offers at IITs this year
At IIT-Bombay, the number of students picked by leading finance and consulting firms has reduced; it has shrunk from 16 to 13 as in the case with Goldman Sachs or nine to four from consulting firm BCG. Meanwhile, students across IITs have received more offers from the analytics sector.

CAT flaws: Candidates point at complete mismanagement
Though IIM-Bangalore said on Monday that the leaking of the toughest section of last Sunday’s Common Admission Test (CAT) for the Indian Institutes of Management and other prominent business schools on social media sites was an isolated incident that was being dealt with, some candidates have alleged “complete mismanagement” at the test centres.

UGC amends regulations, college principals to get one more term
The University Grants Commission (UGC) in one of the important decisions has said that a college principal can get one more term after completion of his/her five-year tenure, following the constitution of the external peer review committee.

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Mumbai

Rs 2L cr income: Family's PAN cards may have been misused

Aarey Metro carshed gets govt's green nod

24-year-old physio raped, killed at home

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Delhi

No cash for daily business, Delhi takes old barter route

These Himalayan dreams freeze as money goes cold

As people stand, banks think on feet
As the capital inched towards a full month since the surprise announcement on demonetisation, most banks in the city had more cash and fewer visible lines on Tuesday.

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Bangalore

Four sub-committees to study drought
The government on Tuesday constituted four cabinet subcommittees to study and assess the implementation of relief measures in drought-hit taluks across the state.

5th edition of Pinkathon on January 29
The fifth edition of Pinkathon, India's biggest multi-city running event, will be held on January 29 in Bengaluru.

What will happen to DA case pending in Karnataka?
The special court in Bengaluru had convicted late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa along with three others, including Sasikala Natarajan, in September 2014.

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Hyderabad

Outsiders in panel: Shrinks draw battle lines
Psychiatrists are up in arms against the state government's move to allow non-psychiatrists to inspect hospitals in the city in violation of rules.

Tamil film awards to be given on Ugadi
The film awards instituted by the Telangana government will be given away for the first time on Ugadi next year.

Tamilians in Hyderabad recall Jayalalithaa's indomitable spirit
As news broke on Jayalalithaa's death late Monday , S Jayaraman was shaken. A former employee with Madras Port Trust, the 76-year-old, who settled in Nagole after retirement, says there will never be another Amma.

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Chennai

Srinivasa Iyer Ramaswamy passes away, aged 82

Vellore, Tiruvannamalai see a shutdown; no unrest reported

Puducherry government announces three-day mourning for Jayalalithaa

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Ahmedabad

Man stabbed to death in Amraiwadi, accused held

Spouse of bank employee entitled to transfer benefits: HC
Gujarat high court has held that a government employee, who is spouse of a nationalized bank employee, is entitled to the inter-district transfer to the place his/her spouse is posted.

'Sadakal Gujarat' to be held in Varanasi
The Gujarat government has planned to hold it’s annual ‘Sadakal Gujarat’ celebrations at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh (UP) on December 10 and 11.

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Allahabad

'If BJP forms govt in UP, it will be end of caste-based politics'
BJP state president Keshav Prasad Maurya said mafias would be sent behind the bars once BJP forms its government in the state.

Traditional chulhas for kalpwasis at Magh Mela
With lakhs of devotees spending over a month on the banks of Ganga and performing kalpwas, the Magh Mela administration has arranged as many as 10,000 ‘chulhas’ (earthen stoves made of soil) for kalpwasis, who would be preparing their meals once a day during their stay on the mela campus.

ATMs empty, so are wallets

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Bhubaneswar

40% houses in Odisha not electrified

40% houses in Odisha not electrified
While both the central and the state governments often claim to ensure electricity for all by 2018, around 40% families in Odisha don’t have electricity connections.

Former Odisha minister Lalit Mohan Gandhi falls off train, dies

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Bhopal

Married woman gangraped, 4 held, two on the run
The arrested have been identified as Abu Bankar, Raju Khandel, Akash Goliya and Guddu alias Ramesh while a hunt has been launched to arrested two others - Raju Nikkam and Babu Jatav.

Power minister faces BJP, Congress MLAs' ire
No response to my plea for electrification of a village in 12 yrs, says ruling party legislator

State kicks off 271 crore heritage plan for 'Swadesh Darshan'
Project aims at upgradation of heritage, Buddhist and wildlife sites

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Chandigarh

State dithering on implementing projects: Union health minister J P Nadda
The Centre’s initiative to speed up development activities in the hill state was coming to a naught due to the lackadaisical approach of the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh, Union health minister J P Nadda said here on Tuesday.

Court dismisses petition with Rs 1 lakh cost
The Himachal Pradesh high court on Tuesday dismissed a petition with Rs one lakh cost and directed the then members of a managing committee of cooperative society to pay Rs 50,000. It said the remaining amount will be recovered from the secretary of the society.

Woman, 4-year-old girl burned to death by kin in Jind
A 25-year-old woman and her daughter, 4, were allegedly burned to death by their family members in Julana town of Jind district in Haryana.

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