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Monday, March 27, 2017

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Gilgit-Baltistan part of J&K, Pakistan in illegal occupation: Resolution in British Parliament
A motion was passed in the British Parliament condemning Islamabad's announcement declaring Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth frontier, saying the region is a legal and constitutional part of Jammu & Kashmir illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947.

UP train derailment plot: Nepalese businessman met ISI handler in Dubai
Hoda, during his interrogation by an NIA team in Nepal, revealed that he had met his ISI handler in Dubai once after the Ghorasahan case arrests and thereafter remained in touch with him over the telephone.

India rigid on Indus treaty change, but pushing for Teesta deal
Pakistan will have to live with the fact that India plans to continue utilisation of its allocation under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), as it refused to countenance any change of design of the Miyar dam in J&K.But India is working hard to conclude the Teesta water sharing agreement with Bangladesh

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Business

India becomes 3rd largest aviation market in domestic traffic
India's domestic air passenger traffic stood at 100 million in 2016 and was behind only the US (719 million) and China (436 million), Sydney-based aviation think-tank Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) said in its latest report.

Qatar Foundation looks at job cuts amid low oil, gas prices
The Qatar Foundation says it is looking at possible job cuts, the latest Gulf entity to acknowledge being hurt by low global energy prices. Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, is a major natural gas producer that also pumps crude oil.

General insurance premium set to go up from April 1
These may trigger insurers to revisit the pricing of their products in so far as the costing input relating to commission or remuneration is concerned, said the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai).

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Environment

Temperature drop led to mass extinction

UN predicts unusual weather in 2017
Extreme weather and climate conditions, including Arctic "heatwaves", have continued into 2017, after global temperatures set record last year and the world witnessed exceptionally low sea ice and unabated ocean heat, the UN weather agency said.

Wild chimps have long life spans: Study
Wild chimpanzees can lead surprisingly long lives under the right ecological conditions, according to a new study of a large community of our close primate relatives.

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World

Five dead in military helicopter crash in east Ukraine
The helicopter crashed in war-torn east of the country, killing all 5 people aboard after apparently hitting a power line, in what is believed to be an accident. Nearly 10,000 people have died since the start of a pro-Russian rebellion in 2014 that Kiev and the West accuse Moscow of masterminding.

Over 130 detained at Moscow anti-corruption rally: Rights group
More than 130 people were detained Sunday in Moscow as thousands attended a rally against government corruption, according to a rights group tracking arrests.

Hong Kong's first female leader a 'tilted bridge' over troubled water
Carrie Lam, who won an election to become Hong Kong's first female chief executive on Sunday, is a former student activist who climbed the rungs of the civil service over 36 years, and a tough, capable and possibly divisive Beijing-backed leader.

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Entertainment

Zack Snyder 'unites the league' in new 'Justice League' trailer
Superhero movie fans, rejoice! The League has finally been united.

Pics: Sunny Leone's beach holiday is all about sun, sand and bikinis

'Phillauri' box-office collection Day 2
According to figures quoted by the producers, the film jumped 30 per cent in a day to collect Rs 5.20 crore nett at the box-office on Saturday.

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Science

Stem cell therapy restores sexual function in impotent men
Stem cell therapy can restore sufficient erectile function to allow previously impotent men to have spontaneous intercourse, show results of an early clinical trial. Erectile dysfunction to some degree affects nearly half of men between the ages of 40 and 70.

NASA to launch new probe to measure cosmic material

Scientists launch campaign to restore Pluto to the planet club
Pluto and its newfound kin in the solar system's distant Kuiper Belt region were reclassified as dwarf planets, along with Ceres, the biggest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The decision left the solar system with eight planets.

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Sports

Nathan Lyon spins Australia ahead in Dharamsala
Off spinner Nathan Lyon dismissed Cheteshwar Pujara, Karun Nair, Ajinkya Rahane and Ravichandran Ashwin after tea to turn the second Test slightly in Australia's favour on the second day in Dharamsala.

Smith can close down the likes of Tendulkar: Hodge
Former Australia batsman Brad Hodge said current skipper Steve Smith will continue to accumulate runs in Test cricket and could surpass the likes of Sachin Tendulkar.

It was horrible execution of a pull shot: Lokesh Rahul
Calling his execution of a pull shot "horrible", India opener Lokesh Rahul termed the morning spell bowled by Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins as the "toughest" he has faced in his nascent Test career.

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Technology

Uber grounds self-driving cars, here's why
Uber has grounded its fleet of self-driving cars pending an investigation into the crash of an Uber autonomous vehicle in Arizona, a spokesperson for the car-hailing service said Sunday.

India in YouTube's top 10 markets
People put their content in various places. What we see is that they do it to promote their videos, while they consider YouTube as their home, said David Powell.

This app is setting a new record in the US
Bitmoji, the personalized emoji app owned by Snapchat, is the fastest-growing app in the United States. That's according to measurement and analytics firm ComScore, which ranked the top 11 fast-growing apps from December 2014 to December 2016, though it only measured Bitmoji's growth since February 2015.

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Education

3Ts to encourage madrassas to teach regular subjects, too
In its effort to encourage madrasas to promote mainstream education along with traditional religious teachings, the Union ministry for minority affairs has called upon state governments to give proposals so that the ministry can make “3Ts”- Teacher, Tiffin, Toilet for these religious schools possible.

NEET 2017 to be held in 23 more cities; app to help students locate nearest centre
For NEET 2017, there will be additional 23 cities apart from the 80 existing examination cities. The registration for the combined entrance test saw a jump of 41.42% as 11.35 lakh aspirants have registered this year as against 8.02 lakh in 2016.

Scrap courses with few takers, IITs and other institutions told
The ministry of human resource development has told all centrally funded technical institutions, including the Indian Institutes of Technology, to close centres and end courses which have seen a decline in the number of applicants in the past three years.

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Mumbai

Mumbai sweats as mercury crosses 35°C mark
Sunday was not so cool for Mumbaikars as temperatures went soaring past 35 degrees Celsius. The IMD's Santacruz observatory recorded a maximum temperature of 35.3 degrees Celsius on Sunday , which was 2.5 degrees above normal. The maximum temperature was a degree higher than that recorded on Saturday.

Body in suitcase: Boy was a zari unit worker
The police claimed to have cracked the murder case of a boy , aged around 12, whose body had been found stuffed inside a suitcase at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at Kurla in January this year.

Man rapes his step-daughter, now on the run
Vithalwadi police are searching for a man who allegedly raped his 16-year-old step-daughter, who is now three months pregnant.

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Delhi

E-tailer's godown robbed of Rs 25L
Six robbers stormed an e-tailer's godown in east Delhi's Patparganj on Saturday night, held the employees hostage at gunpoint and made off with Rs 25 lakh in cash -all in two minutes.

Murders, thefts in Delhi rise in first quarter
Murders, considered to be one of the prime indicators of the crime situation in a city, have shot up in the capital in the first quarter of 2017 as compared to last year, crime data compiled by Delhi Police reveals.

Boy narrates older sister's ordeal, gets rapist arrested

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Bangalore

PU college lecturers end protest

Foundation stone in a month or two: Suresh Prabhu

Driver strangles wife to death

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Hyderabad

Indian-Americans gift Ian Grillot $100,000
American hero Ian Grillot was presented a cheque for $100,000 by the Indian-American community in the USA to buy a house in his home town Kansas.

SCB takes cue from GHMC, cracks whip on flexis after KTR's order
The Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) has decided to crack the whip against illegal flexis and banners displayed by politicians in the Cantonment area. The SCB wants to follow in the footsteps of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), which has been removing banners and flexis from public places for the past few months.

Mom-son murder: Techie not at home during crime, say US cops
The Maple Shade Police have got some strong leads in the murder of Telugu woman Sasikala, 38, and her six-year-old son Anish Narra at their Fox Meadows Apartments. The murder took place on March 24 in New Jersey, USA. The police have got at least two leads that could help them identity the culprit.

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Chennai

Firm ordered to pay Rs 40 lakh for illegal sale of property

Gravy train: 6 more railway stations to get food plazas

Security guard tries to stop burglars, is beaten to death

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Ahmedabad

Mercury crosses 40C in eight Gujarat towns

Enact law for Ram temple: Togadia

Common form for PG medical intake

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Allahabad

Crackdown on slaughterhouses has led to loss of livelihood: UP minister
For the first time after the crackdown on illegal slaughterhouses in UP, a representative of the Aditya Nath Yogi government admitted on Saturday that the move had resulted in loss of livelihood for many.

Allahabad cops wield brooms at 39 police stations
Days after chief minister Yogi Adityanath called for a greener and cleaner Uttar Pardesh, Allahabad's policemen have launched cleanliness drives at all 39 police stations in the city and trans-Ganga and Yamuna areas.

Chicken, mutton sellers harassed, says AIMIM
Mahanagar AIMIM president Afsar Mahmood said traders with valid licences are facing hardship in their business and there was none to hear their grievances.

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Bhubaneswar

NCERT to focus on research and development of edu tools

Discrimination against girl child still continues in Odisha

ATM hacker, a rickshaw-puller, held from Uttarakhand

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Bhopal

Dogs eat up patient in Madhya Pradesh govt hospital
In yet another instance of healthcare horror in Madhya Pradesh, dogs have eaten up the body of a 70-year-old woman who went missing from a government hospital in Rajgarh on March 22. This is the fifth such incident in the state in less than 10 months.

Madhya Pradesh govt announces revival of class 5, 8 board exams

Slum girl outshines boys on hockey field

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Chandigarh

Another case of sexual harassment rocks PU

Woman molested, gets lewd calls

Mohali's new DC gets a grip on civic issues

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