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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

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Alarm bells as diabetes, Hepatitis C drugs fly off shelves

JDU to review its stand on note ban on Jan 23

Fuel buyers, petrol pumps won't be hit: Govt on card payments
The government said on Monday that consumers can continue to use debit and credit cards at petrol pumps without being charged any transaction fee even after January 13, the day till which petrol pump dealers have put off their threat to stop accepting plastic money to oppose bearing the cost.

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Business

Co-op banks used note ban as opportunity to launder crores: I-T dept
The income tax department has raised serious concerns over the working of a number of cooperative banks across the country claiming they used the "opportunity" of demonetisation to make a quick buck and indulge in money laundering worth several crores.

International stock exchange will work for 22 hours a day

Mistry family has no right to nominate director: Tata Sons
Ahead of the February 6 shareholders' meeting to remove Cyrus P Mistry as director on Tata Sons, the holding company of Tata Group has said the Mistry family did not have any right to nominate a director on the board as the Articles of Association do not provide for it.

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Environment

Beijing launches environmental police force
The smog-hit Chinese capital of Beijing will establish a police force to deal specifically with environmental offences as part of its efforts to clean up its air and crack down on persistent polluters.

Centre to ban use of 18 pesticides harmful to humans
The Union Agriculture Ministry has issued a draft order, asking manufacturers, importers and state authorities to completely ban 12 of the identified pesticides from January 1, 2018 and remaining six from December 31, 2020.

World heat shatters records, a new sign of global warming
Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200 nations for limiting global warming, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.

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World

Pak counts transgender people in census for first time
Pakistan will count transgender people in its national census for the first time when it surveys its population in March this year following a top court ruling on Monday. The move was welcomed by Pakistan's transgender community.

Russia 'tired' of 'amateurish' US hacking claims: Kremlin
The Kremlin on Monday slammed a hacking report by US spy agencies as baseless and amateurish, saying Moscow is growing tired of denying the Russian government's involvement in the US election meddling.

Truck bomb kills 8 policemen in Egypt's Sinai
A truck bomb attack on an Egyptian security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula killed at least eight policemen on Monday. Police said a suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into the checkpoint in the north Sinai city of El-Arish and gunmen then opened fire on the security post.

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Entertainment

Hrithik Roshan: Big films he rejected
A closer look suggests that just like many other Bollywood actors, Hrithik Roshan too has rejected a number of scripts which later emerged as the biggest blockbusters of all times.

Aishwarya-Abhishek, Aamir Khan watch Aaradhya Bachchan and Azad Rao Khan's annual day act
Bollywood couple Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and superstar Aamir Khan turned audience for their children at their school’s annual function.

Birthday special: Know Hrithik Roshan better
Find out some lesser known facts of Hrithik Roshan that might surprise you!

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Science

Milky Way black hole is firing planet sized 'spitballs'

NASA's Mars orbiter captures stunning view of Earth, Moon
The most powerful telescope aboard NASA's Mars orbiter has captured a stunning view of Earth and the Moon, showing the continent-size detail on the planet and the relative size of its natural satellite.

Hubble creates interstellar road map for future galactic trek
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is creating a road map for the two Voyager spacecraft, that will travel through unexplored territories beyond our solar system, by measuring the material along the probes' future trajectories.

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Sports

Shahbaz Nadeem at the forefront of Jharkhand's rise
With 56 wickets in 10 matches, Shahbaz Nadeem has been a prime force in taking Jharkhand to the Ranji Trophy 2016-17 semi-final.

Aussies need Starc at the top of his game in India: McGrath
"Someone like Mitchell Starc can be dangerous and Australia will need him to be on top of his game when they come to India for the four-match Test series," feels former Australian pace ace Glenn McGrath.

One might get to see fearless Dhoni and Yuvi of old: Yuvraj
Having been an integral part of the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led World Cup winning teams (in 2007 and 2011), Yuvraj Singh was very respectful of his contribution to Indian cricket as a player and a captain.

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Technology

Selected Samsung Gear wearables now compatible with Apple iOS
Samsung has announced that its Gear series of wearables are now compatible with iOS devices. According to a statement released by the company, numerous devices such as the Gear S2, Gear S3 and Gear Fit 2 are now compatible with Apple’s mobile OS.

This is Samsung's production target for the Galaxy S8
It seems that the Note 7 debacle hasn’t deterred Samsung from going full speed towards the launch of its next flagship smartphone even one bit.

Google's AI to support 'continuous conversations' on Android TV: Report
Search giant Google’s voice-based assistant - Google Now, has been available for quite some time now. And probably one of its most well-known features is the ‘Ok Google’ phrase, which can be used to trigger Google Now.

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Education

20 of 1.95 lakh candidates get perfect score in CAT 2016
Twenty of the 1.95 lakh candidates who took CAT 2016 have managed to crack it with a perfect score. Male engineers continued to dominate the toppers’ list this year, too. The number of 100 percentilers is the highest in the last six years but not a single woman is in the top slot.

CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 exams from March 9 to April 29
Usually, exams begin in the first week of March. However, due to elections in five states and two polling dates falling on March 4 and March 8, the exams will begin from March 9. However, there will be no delay in the declaration of the results.

20 students get perfect score in CAT 2016

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Mumbai

Man who dumped boy's body came from slum across tracks?

First of six Scorpene subs country bought in 2005 to be commissioned

3 friends of paanwalla's son killed him for gold jewellery

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Delhi

4 injured as gang fires 25 rounds

44 congested stretches to be cleared soon

Light rain, fog likely this weekend

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Bangalore

Bengaluru molestation: Sixth accused nabbed, had also harassed the survivor
Banaswadi police from East division arrested George alias Pappi, 21, an electrician, for his alleged involvement in the molestation of a woman in Kammanahalli, in the early hours of January 1.

Elephant tramples 2 farmers to death
Two farmers were trampled to death by a wild elephant at Sorakayeepete of Gubbi taluk in Tumakuru district on Monday.

Government hospital shows the way in hi-tech surgery
Manav (name changed), 14, was born with scoliosis, a deformity in spine where his backbone was bent towards the right with an angular curvature of 65 degrees.

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Hyderabad

Registering marriages can save Telangana's child brides
It's been fifteen years since the enactment of Compulsory Registration of Marriage Act, but lack of effective implementation has ensured that child marriages continue unabated in the state.

Water board rolls out red-notice campaign for dues, earns Rs 1.35 lakh
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) swung into action on Monday and pasted red notices on the premises of defaulters, who have not paid their dues for several months.

80% of cybercrime unreported, complaints up after note ban
After the move to demonetise currency, most people may have been forced to use digital transaction, and have ended up getting duped by fraudsters, cyber experts said on Monday.

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Chennai

A forgotten pit stop on Chennai outskirts

Metrowater treats only 1/3 of Chennai's sewage

Krishna water on its way to Chennai, will reach in 2-3 days

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Ahmedabad

At 10.7°Celsius, Ahmedabad feels the chill
Amdavadis woke up with chilly winds on Monday as the minimum temperature plummeted to 10.7°C, a steep three degrees below normal. Not only the city, but most of the places in the state recorded a dip in the temperature.

Liquor, beer worth Rs 38 lakh seized near Unjha
Even as several bootleggers have been booked under the new stringent prohibition norms, the liquor flow in the state does not seem to have stopped.

Skydiver hurts ankle due to wind shear accident
A junior warrant officer, a sky div er of the Aakash Ganga team, was injured during his para-drop at the air show by the Indian Air Force ( IAF) at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit ( VGGS) on Monday mornng.Defence sources said the skydiver sprained his ankle as his drop went awry due to “wind shear“, resulting in a high speed of descent from about 30 feet off the ground.

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Allahabad

Ailing Ghana girl's parents get visa extension assurance from minister
union minister for external affairs Sushma Swaraj on Sunday assured her parents not to worry and visa would be extended as per medical advice'.

Ailing Ghana girl's parents seek help from Sushma Swaraj
Parents of a four and a half years old Ghana girl, Osei Larbi Abena Aniwaa, who is currently undergoing treatment for quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy in the city

Post office to take poll campaigning to remote areas
Some of the remotest villages of the state may not have basic infrastructure but they would still be able to get a taste of election campaigning by candidates in the fray.

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Bhubaneswar

MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay to be in CBI custody till January 12
A special CBI court in Bhubaneswar has remanded Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay in CBI custody for three days till January 12.

Trinamool protest rally against arrest of party leaders on January 10
Several senior leaders of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) will address a rally here on Monday in protest against arrests of AITC MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Tapas Pal for their alleged involvement in chit fund scam.

Banker-turned-sarpanch a role model for women in grass root level politics
Last five years were quite eventful for Arati Devi. Elected as country’s youngest sarpanch five years ago from Dhunkapada gram panchayat in Ganjam district, the 31-year-old MBA graduate has become a role model for many women in grass root level politics.

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Bhopal

BJP's two-day meet opens in Sagar on Tuesday
In the light of economic resolution passed by the BJP national executive in New Delhi, the state working committee, in its two-day meet, is likely to pass a political resolution on the consequences of demonetisation and role of government to promote cashless transactions effectively.

13K MP villages to have Wi-Fi by 2017
Aiming at cashless economy under the state government’s ambitious rural Wi-Fi service programme, at least 13,000 village panchayats in Madhya Pradesh will have Wi-Fi connectivity by the end of 2017.

Bhopal: Three held for killing Congress leader
Three days after a Congress leader and a gangster were shot dead in a shootout in Jabalpur district; police arrested three accused on Sunday.

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Chandigarh

Cops act after chairs for Shiromani Akali Dal candidate's event block road in Faridkot town
Acting on instructions of Faridkot deputy commissioner, police registered a case for blocking of a road during the opening of election office of Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Parambans Singh Romana on Monday.

Panjab assembly polls: Parkash Singh Badal's Lambi campaign off to a rough start
Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal's election campaign in Lambi assembly constituency got off to a rocky start on Monday, as poor residents of the segment's Lalbhai village disrupted his speech and claimed that they didn't get grants for the construction of toilets.

Congress's manifesto:It's not populist, but bid to restore state's honour says, Manpreet Badal
Defending promises made in his party's manifesto, Congress leader Manpreet Badal said the document was not populist, but a bid to “redeem Punjab's honour“.

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