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Saturday, January 07, 2017

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BJP to Pak: Curtail terror to better ties
Asserting that India’s surgical strikes against POK terror launchpads have had the “required effect” on Pakistan, BJP has asked the Nawaz Sharif government to curtail terror to improve ties.

Hope a failed harvest for farmers as cash runs dry

Note ban has halved hawala ops: Intel
The call traffic between hawala agents in India dropped almost by half post demonetisation, says a recent assessment by the central intelligence agencies. Payments to the end beneficiary of hawala deals are traditionally in cash, with Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 being the favoured denominations.

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Business

Hit by demonetisation, Supertech fails to deposit Rs 10 crore in SC
Real estate giant Supertech failed to comply with a Supreme Court order to deposit Rs 10 crore before it, and told the court on Friday it could not raise the money due to the Centre’s demonetisation decision.

Swedish companies in India shouldn't rest on their laurels: Marcus Wallenberg

SC stays sale of 2G spectrum by Maxis

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Environment

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.

How we shop hurts endangered species
The hidden danger to wildlife posed by imported consumer goods -- an espresso coffee in Beijing, a tofu salad in Chicago -- can now be pinpointed and measured, researchers said Wednesday.

Now, all puppies to be sold with micro-chips
The new rules, which have been proposed by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change also make it mandatory for the state government to form a state board or society for prevention of cruelty to animals.

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World

At least 33 prisoners killed in another Brazil prison uprising
At last 33 inmates have been killed in a new prison uprising in the Amazon region of Brazil, officials said Friday, just five days after 56 inmates were slaughtered in a nearby state in the country's worst prison massacre for more than two decades.

Pak SC asks Sharif to establish ownership of London flats
In the Panama papers leak case hearing, the Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his siblings to come out clean on the ownership details of the London flats which are not shown in their wealth statement.

UK's May to visit Trump following his inauguration
British PM Theresa May's office has said she will meet Donald Trump in Washington in the weeks following his January 20 inauguration as the US president. No dates for the trip were announced on Friday.

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Entertainment

Watch: AR Rahman thank his fans on his birthday
Music maestro A.R. Rahman, who rang in his 50th birthday on January 6, went live on Facebook to thank his fans and well wishers for all their love and support.

Here's proof that all is well between Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone
While gossip mills have been working overtime suggesting a cold war between Priyanka Chopra and her supposed arch rival Deepika Padukone, the ‘Quantico’ actress shut down these rumours in style.

Om Puri passes away: NSD remembers its iconic student
The 66-year-old actor died early on Friday in Mumbai after a cardiac arrest. On the morning of the news of his demise, Amitabh Srivastava, a writer and NSD alumnus from 1979, took us to another gallery that has pictures of NSD alumni who have been feted with Padma or Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards, which also features Puri.

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Science

New method to heal wounds without scars: Study
In a breakthrough, researchers have found a way to manipulate wounds to heal as regenerated skin rather than scar tissue by transforming the most common type of cells found in wounds into the fat cells.

Don't take your cellphone to hospitals, bugs on it can infect patients, warn scientists
Scientists have warned that mobile phones spread infections in hospitals. Their advice: Do not carry your phone inside a medical ward or ICU lest the handset infects patients. It is known that mobile phones are a breeding ground for harmful bacteria and viruses.

Research links living near major roads to dementia
A massive new study has found correlation between dementia and living near major roads. Over a 10-year period, researchers from Public Health Ontario looked at 6.6 million people staying at different distances from major roads. They found that those staying as close as 50 meters to a major road showed a 7 per cent higher risk of developing dementia, possibly due to a combination of air and noise pollution.

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Sports

India v England: Yuvraj, Rishabh in Kohli-led squads
Yuvraj Singh, 35, last played an ODI in December 2013. He was part of India's T20I squad last year, and returns to the ODI squad after scoring 672 runs in five Ranji Trophy games for Punjab this season.

Kohli in the right phase to take over from Dhoni: Ashwin
Ravichandran Ashwin hailed MS Dhoni as an illustrious leader and said a lot of leadership lessons can be learnt from him. He also said Virat Kohli, who will now captain the Indian team in all formats, is no less a player and in the right phase to take over.

Dhoni, Nehra, Rahane to get match time in warm-ups
Short of match practice, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Ajinkya Rahane will captain the India A team for two warm-up matches against England at CCI here next week.

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Technology

Uber fares increased by up to 50% in Delhi-NCR
When contacted, an Uber spokesperson said: "Starting January 5, 2017, we have made some changes to our pricing structure in Delhi, NCR in order to serve the city better."

Vodafone users to get 'unlimited data' for an hour
Telecom major Vodafone on Friday said it would launch SuperHour on Saturday for prepaid customers, enabling unlimited 4G/3G data usage for one hour.

WhatsApp users in India sent 14 billion messages on New Year's Eve
The traffic on the last day of 2016 was higher than WhatsApp's last record of 8 billion messages in one day on Diwali last year.

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Education

This placement season turns out to be best for young IIT students
Ropar and Mandi invited more companies across sectors this year. This seems to have worked well, resulting in a higher number of offers this year.

Genpact and Calcutta University create financial services strategic partnership
Genpact, a global leader in digitally-powered business process management and services, today announced an agreement with Calcutta University for a consultancy and research partnership in banking and financial services analytics.

Schools seeking CBSE affiliation will again need go-ahead from state

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Mumbai

Navi Mumbai hospital claiming adjoining plot gets no relief

Duo accused of raping, killing woman acquitted

Truck mows down senior citizen in Colaba

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Delhi

Nirbhaya case: Supreme Court seeks affidavits

Pension hiked for widows, senior citizens

You can now carry small knife on Metro

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Bangalore

British MP Virendra Sharma opens new section of calligraphy museum
This museum is different. It houses a calligrapher’s collection of fountain pens, nibs, journals and quills.

Chickpet, Avenue Road still reeling under demonetization effect, business down by 40%
Two months after demonetization, business in Bengaluru’s trading and retail hub of Chickpet, Avenue Road and Mamulpet has improved from the lows of November and the first half of December, but it is still down significantly.

Sexual harassment charge: HR manager told to pay Rs 50,000 for 60 months to ex-employee
The state labour department has imposed a monthly penalty of Rs 50,000 for five years on a senior manager of a software company who is facing charges of sexual harassment.

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Hyderabad

Anxious clients line up at Muthoot to reclaim gold

Schoolboy's suicide: Friends speak up, principal arrested for abetment

Scientists discuss role of microbiome

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Chennai

Bharat Ratna for Jayalalithaa: HC rejects PIL
The Madras high court declined to direct the Centre to confer the nation's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, on former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

81-year-old dies waiting for ambulance stuck in traffic
City residents have often suffered silently when stuck in traffic due to political meetings or rallies, but an incident earlier this week gave a new dimension to such disruptions.

Woman, 75, falls into well, is rescued by firemen
A 75-year-old woman survived after slipping into a 50-foot-deep well at Koyambedu on Friday, thanks to a team of fire and rescue services personnel that battled for 45 minutes in the narrow shaft to rescue her.

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Ahmedabad

Vodka plant to come up in dry Gujarat?
The proposal comes from a lesser known industrial house, SBM group, which has listed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to be signed at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit.

From Nobel's hat to Tagore's acceptance video

Congress slams government over Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit spending
Prior to the 8th edition of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival January 9, Gujarat Congress on Friday accused state government of helping the capitalists in exploiting Gujarat’s resources in the name of vibrant summit.

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Allahabad

'Eunuch akhara' to visit Magh Mela

STF nails arms smuggler, recovers 21 pistols

With 'Alav par charcha', BJP to warm up to UP farmers

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Bhubaneswar

Civil society groups protest relocation of tribes from buffer zone of Similipal Tiger Reserve
According to them forest dwelling communities in the tiger reserve have applied for the recognition of community rights over the forest but even while the forest rights recognition process is pending with the government, the forest department has started the relocation drive.

Picnicker beaten to death by friends
A 35-year-old man, who had gone on a picnic with his friends, was beaten to death at Babejor under Jamankira police limits, around 50 km from here, on Thursday.

Publicise RTE among poor, private schools told
"Private schools don't give admission under the 25% reservation quota taking alibi that there are no applicants.

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Bhopal

NGT wants decision on treated wastewater
Currently, the BMC supplies 11.33 lakh litres of clean and good quality water per day to railway department for washing and several other uses at Habibganj railway station.

Assess biomedical waste disposal quantity in hospitals: NGT
being disposed of through in-house facilities in various hospitals which under the new rules of 2016 have been prohibited from disposing of the BMW through in-house disposal facilities.

Barbs fly in run-up to BHEL election
Election to the BHEL Thrift Society was mired in controversy on Thursday with vice-president and president hurling accusations at each other.Voting for the society's top post is on January 8.

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Chandigarh

Remembering an unlikely 'hero'
With the intensity of his piercing gaze, Om Puri rose beyond a web of pockmarks to make it big in Indian theatre and the Hindi film industry.

Punjab Congress submits memorandum to Election commission on Fazilka jail raid
Punjab Congress vice-president and Abohar MLA Sunil Jakhar submitted a memorandum on the recent raid in Fazilka jail to the state’s chief electoral officer (CEO) VK Singh, alleging that the Badal government was influencing the probe into the incident and soft-peddling the case.

Jarnail Singh enrolled as voter in Lambi assembly segment
The Muktsar district administration has enrolled former Delhi MLA and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member Jarnail Singh as an eligible voter from Punjab, after agency reports stated Jarnail had confirmed to have resigned from his Delhi assembly seat.

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