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FSSAI sets nutritional benchmarks to fortify food items for PDS, midday meals
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has released benchmarks to fortify the nutritional quality of food items used in social sector programmes such as ICDS, PDS and midday meals, such as rice, wheat flour, milk, edible oil and salt.

Centre accords 'Z' category security cover to SP's Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh
The Centre has accorded ‘Z’ category security cover to Samajwadi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, a close aide of Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is locked in a leadership battle with his son and Uttar Pradesh CM Akhiklesh Yadav.

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Business

India-Myanmar border trade hit by Manipur blockade

SBI hopes MCLR cut will boost loans

General Motors moving forward on sale of Gujarat plant to China's SAIC

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Environment

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.

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.

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World

At least four dead in Jerusalem truck attack
A truck driven by a Palestinian rammed into pedestrians on a popular promenade in Jerusalem on Sunday killing four people, according to Israeli police who called it a deliberate attack. Israel Radio reported the driver was a Palestinian but did not immediately give his name.

Iran's ex-president Rafsanjani dies: Agencies
Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died in hospital on Sunday after suffering a heart attack, the ISNA and Fars news agencies reported. He was a pivotal figure in the foundation of the Islamic republic in 1979, and served as president from 1989 to 1997.

Attacks in and around Baghdad kill 23
A wave of attacks in and around Baghdad on Sunday killed at least 23 people, the latest in a series of assaults blamed on the Islamic State group. A suicide car bomb ripped through a wholesale market in the sprawling Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, killing at least seven people and wounding 15.

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Entertainment

Aditya: Live-in relationships not a negative thing
Aditya Roy Kapoor, who will be seen playing the lead role in upcoming 'Ok Jaanu', thinks that live-in-relationships which are common these days are not a negative thing.

SRK: Parents should teach sons to respect women
Bollywood Superstar Shah Rukh Khan has urged parents to teach their sons how to respect women.

Actor's actor Om Puri redefined idea of male lead
Om Puri, whose haunting eyes and deafening silence captured the history of violence endured by an ordinary tribal in Aakrosh (1980) and whose portrayal of an upright cop simmering with coiled rage in Ardh Satya (1983) vaulted him to the pantheon of cinema’s finest performers, passed away on Friday.

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Science

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.

China to set up world's highest altitude telescopes at border with India
China is setting up the world's highest altitude gravitational wave telescopes in Tibet, close to Line of Actual Control with India, with a budget of $18.8 million to detect faintest echoes resonating from universe which may reveal more about the Big Bang theory.

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.

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Sports

Dhoni quit under pressure from BCCI, alleges Aditya Verma
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's resignation as captain of India's ODI and T20 International squads "was not spontaneous but under pressure", Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) secretary Aditya Verma alleged on Sunday.

Bopanna-Nedunchezhiyan clinch Chennai Open title
Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut defeated Russian Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 6-4 to win the singles crown while India's Rohan Bopanna and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan beat compatriots Purav Raja and Divij Sharan 6-3, 6-4 to lift the Chennai Open doubles title Sunday.

'Captain' Dhoni's last hurrah, Yuvi to get some match-time
Having manfully shouldered the responsibility of captaining India for close to a decade, it will be one last time that a team list will find the word 'skipper' alongside MS Dhoni when he leads India A in the first warm-up game against England on Monday.

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Technology

Airtel, Vodafone announce new plans to take on Reliance Jio's 'Happy New Year' offer
Vodafone Group Plc in November slashed the value of its Indian subsidiary by Rs 36,448.53 crore due to increased competition since Jio's entry.

Fall in iPhone sales: Apple CEO Tim Cook gets a salary cut
Apple penalized CEO Tim Cook for the iPhone maker's first sales slump in 15 years with a 15% pay cut. Cook still did extremely well, with a compensation package valued at $8.7 million for Apple's fiscal year that ended Sept. 24, according to a regulatory filing made Friday. But the amount was down from nearly $10.3 million in the prior year.

Telecom companies take 'seven-point proposal' to Trai
The telecom watchdog also agreed to look at combining data from various channels such as crowdsourcing, field test and network data.

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Education

Only national awardee principals can continue after 60: CBSE

State assembly polls to not delay CBSE board exams
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class X and Class XII board exams would not be delayed on account of the assembly polls in five states in February and March.

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.

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Mumbai

Parents, kids team up to prove their mettle

100% more caught using phone while driving than four years ago

Mumbai accounted for 36% of road accidents that occurred in Maharashtra in 2015

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Delhi

1 hour of pure horror: Man kills dad, blows up neighbour's flat
The man allegedly first tried to attack the society guard before stabbing his father 36 times inside his flat. When the father tried to escape, he was chased and stabbed as he crawled all the way to the guardroom downstairs.

2 drunk men held after attacking cop in south Delhi

50-year-old held for killing man over Rs 100

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Bangalore

He literally 'walked' into trouble
CCTV footage, Irshad Khan thought, would be strong enough evidence to prove his sister-in-law was indeed molested. But little did he know that he would 'walk into trouble' because of the same images. Khan's plan to tap into the growing outrage against cases of molestations in the city fell flat, thanks to his unusual gait captured on camera.

Cops: Nagawara molestation case was planned by woman's brother-in-law
He Wanted To Portray Her As Victim Of Abuse

A forgotten diaspora seeks to relearn Tamil
“We are the only people who still call India as Bharat, but we are a forgotten diaspora,“ said Jean. Regis Ramsamy-Nadarassin from Reunion Island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Well, Nadarassin is now in Bengaluru on a mission.

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Hyderabad

1,000 kg ganja hidden under cabbage seized from truck

Aggregators block protesting cabbies

Muthoot U-turn: Customers asked to pay interest

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Chennai

Residents replant banyan tree uprooted by cyclone Vardah
Hours after cyclone Vardha wreaked havoc in the city, Elango Raghupathy went over to the Independence Park near Valluvar Kottam in Nungambakkam and surveyed the destruction.

Two arrested with knife in Vyasarpadi

Man attacks younger brother after quarrel

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Ahmedabad

Making of a MoUntain

After celebrity noise, great music

16-year-old girl commits suicide

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Allahabad

Ailing Ghana girl's parents get visa extension assurance from minister

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

Three held for groping, molesting girls on Bhubaneswar road
As Friday’s daylight molestation and assault on three college girls on busy Nandankanan road here endangered safety of women, the police on Sunday said they arrested three persons in connection with the shameful incident.

TMC MP Tapas Pal spends first night in jail hospital
For Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal, it was not easy spending life inside Jharpada special jail here after his remand in CBI custody ended on Friday.

22km cycle track to be cleared of encroachments
It looks like the city can finally have a bicycle track that cyclists can actually use.

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Bhopal

Poor returns force cashless farmers to destroy crops
Poor returns and lack of cash post demonetization have forced farmers in the state to destroy their tomato and other vegetable crops. Rate of tomatoes crashed in mandis to Re 1 to 50 paisa a kg in various parts of Sagar and Ashok Nagar districts.

3 months after operation, piece of cloth removed from woman's stomach
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Lotus blooms in new year: BJP captures 3 civic bodies
Party Wrests Mandav, Harda and Amarkantak

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Chandigarh

Kin allege inaction in Karnal assault case
Family members of two youths who were seriously injured in an attack by a rival group on Friday are alleging that police are inactive in the case and not arresting the culprits even after two days of the incident.

Sukhbir Singh Badal asks people to take charge of election drive, takes on AAP
Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday started his election campaign from Jalalabad assembly constituency. SAD had on January 5, announced candidature of Sukhbir Badal from Jalalabad, along with that of chief minister Parkash Singh Badal from Lambi assembly constituency.

Sukhbir Badal's convoy pelted with stones in home seat
Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal's convoy was pelted with stones and bottles on Sunday when he was leaving after completing a public address in Jalalabad in Fazilka district.

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