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O Panneerselvam tweets 'alliance with BJP', deletes it
AIADMK (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma) leader and former CM O Panneerselvam created a flutter on social media and in political circles on Saturday after a tweet from his handle spoke about “alliance with BJP.“

'Politics opened the door to a new world for me'
Women played an active role in the 1967 Naxalbari movement. Of the 11 demonstrators who died in the police firing on May 25, 1967, eight were women. Shanti Munda (Sarkar), now 74, is one of the few surviving women from those days of blood, sweat and fire.

Why Naxalbari's fiery red has acquired a tinge of saffron
The Mahalis are not home. Neighbours say the tribal couple and their children haven't been around for the past week.Among the poorest families in Dakhin Kotia Jote village, the Mahalis seem to have been caught in a political crossfire ever since they hosted BJP president Amit Shah for lunch last month.

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Business

Working to launch GST from July: State finance ministers
State finance ministers, cutting across party lines, said they were working on rolling out goods and services tax from July as consultations to work out product-wise levies concluded in Srinagar.

Tax refunds to exporters within 10 days: Sitharaman
Commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday that the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will help improve exports and assured exporters that they would get their tax refunds within 6 to 10 days under the new regime.

China-Myanmar oil pipeline opens enhancing tie
Crude oil began flowing from Myanmar to China over a 1,420 km long pipeline putting the relationship between the two countries on better footing. The oil reached Ruili, a border city of in China's Yunnan Province at 4 pm on Friday.

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Environment

Govt unveils steps to curb Ganga silting problem
Within 24 hours of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar reiterating the state’s demand for a national policy on desiltation of the Ganga, the Union water resources ministry made public the report of a high-level committee that seeks to address the problem and suggests multiple measures to ensure uninterrupted flow of the river.

Study reveals impact of climate change on Monsoon
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology has come up with a study on impact of climate change on the Indian summer monsoon in last 10,000 years covering the related aspects of migrations, agrarian practices and societal collapses in India.

NGT bans waste dumping on Yamuna floodplains
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday banned open defecation and dumping of waste on the floodplains of the Yamuna and announced an environment compensation of Rs 5,000 for those who violated the diktat.

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World

Thousands in Spain back no-confidence vote against PM
Thousands rallied in Madrid on Saturday to support a no-confidence vote against conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy brought by the far-left Podemos party.

8 injured after plane clips LA airport truck
Eight people were injured Saturday after an Aeromexico flight clipped an airport utility truck, flipping it over, shortly after landing at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.

Donald Trump: Different strokes

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Entertainment

Watch: Aamir Khan shares his favourite Sachin Tendulkar moment
Like most of us are, Aamir Khan too is a big fan of the cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.

'Baahubali 2: The Conclusion' box-office collection: Film's Hindi version sets record for highest fourth Friday
Not a day goes by when S.S. Rajamouli's magnum opus doesn't create a record at the box office.

Pic: Shahid Kapoor has stars lined up at daughter Misha's feet

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Science

New 'smart' T-shirt monitors breathing in real time
The innovation of smart T- shirt paves the way for manufacturing clothing that could be used to diagnose respiratory illnesses or monitor people suffering from asthma, sleep apnea or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

China, Japan extract combustible ice from seafloor
Commercial development of the globe's huge reserves of a frozen fossil fuel known as "combustible ice" has moved closer to reality after Japan and China successfully extracted the material from the seafloor off their coastlines.

Moon orbiting solar system's 3rd largest dwarf planet found

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Sports

IPL 2017: How Rising Pune Supergiant made the final
The Pune-based franchise, in its second season, stormed into the play-offs by clinching second spot in the points table and then brushed aside Mumbai Indians in Qualifier 1.

IPL 2017: Smith, Rohit play down head-to-head results
Steve Smith and Rohit Sharma refused to read too much into their their head-to-head record, where the enviable mingles with the undesirable, on the eve of the title clash of Indian Premier League's tenth edition.

BCCI to open tender for IPL sponsorship rights on May 31
The BCCI will open on May 31 the tender process for allocating the cash-rich IPL's title sponsorship rights for the next five-year cycle. VIVO's title sponsorship rights ends with this edition of the tournament.

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Technology

Microsoft withheld update that could have slowed WannaCry, claims report
KILL World-Britain-cyber-security-attacks-Microsoft "Microsoft withheld update that could have slowed WannaCry: report".Story contains inaccuracies.No new version upcoming.

8 best superzoom cameras under Rs 25,000

GST: Laptops, desktops to become costlier
Laptops and desktops are set to become dearer when GST comes into effect, making the industry, which has been arguing for a lower rate of tax to help boost the Digital India drive, to raise concern about the new rates.

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Education

Haryana launches e-textbook portal for school students
Inaugurating the website, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said as of now, 26 textbooks of classes IX to XII have been uploaded on the portal and these can be easily converted into audio files. These included 11 books of class IX, nine books of class X and three books each of classes XI and XII.

Tamil Nadu SSLC 2017: TN Class 10 board results declared

HBSE 12th Result 2017: Haryana Board Class 12 exam results 2017 announced

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Mumbai

Mumbai teen, 9-year-old boy nail sex offender

In JEE(A), OBC qualifiers almost equal open category aspirants

Heartbroken Thane lad reunited with lost pet, thanks to alert domestic help

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Delhi

Terror propagandists lethal too, says HC

'Where are the affordable meals?'

Pre-election water crisis a political ploy, says Gautam

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Bangalore

Documents submitted for cards, loans misused

Special team formed to nab V Nagaraj's 'missing' wife

Works of Arakkal, other artists in Metro trains and BBMP parks soon

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Hyderabad

HC junks orders cancelling land given to Dalit farmers

Hyd is now den of anti-nationals: BJP

Unrest among staff as transfer ban continues

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Chennai

Marina meets: Cops warn of stern action
Greater Chennai Police have warned of stern action against those gathering in groups or conducting meetings on the Marina.

10,000 TN engg seats down, no admission in 28 tech institutes

Three VC search panels submit names to governor

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Ahmedabad

Shedding religion, atheist wants to be called 'RV155677820'
A city-based autorickshaw driver, born a Hindu, wants freedom from religion and wishes to be known in government documents as 'RV155677820'. But his desire to renounce religion is stuck as the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act does not have provisions to turn atheist.

Narendra Bhandari: Collector of cosmic secrets
Narendra Bhandari, a professor with the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad — who has also worked with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, and the University of California, San Diego — has spent considerable time of his five-decade career collecting and analyzing meteorites.

Two con call centres busted in Ahmedabad
A team of Gujarat University (GU) police that went to President House building near Central Mall in Ambawadi to check a complaint about loud music and liquor party at 8 pm on May 19 stumbled on two call centres functioning illegally.

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Allahabad

Now, pay 200% more fee to study at Allahabad University
If you are planning to seek admission in Allahabad University, you might be in for some bad news. AU administration has decided to hike fee for all courses, after almost a decade, from the next session onwards. Compared to the current fee structure, AU courses are going to get costlier by over 200% from the next session.

Traffic curbs for district bar association polls
Traffic diversions will be in place in view of the District Bar Association polls scheduled on Saturday.

Even after a week, cops clueless as vice-principal remains elusive
Even after a week of lodging of an FIR against the vice-principal of St Joseph's College, Father Leslie Benedict Cutinha, accused of thrashing a student with a stick, remains elusive.

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Bhubaneswar

Undeclared powercuts add to summer woes in Bhubaneswar
With summer at its scorching worst and temperature recording above 40 degree Celsius in the city, unscheduled power cuts have added to the misery of city denizens.

Sunstroke toll rises to 8 in Odisha
As Odisha sizzled in the blistering summer heat, the sunstroke toll mounted to eight in the state on Saturday.

Being a consuming state, Odisha likely to benefit from GST
"GST being a destination-based tax and being levied by states where it is used (rather than produced), the SGST on the final product will ordinarily go to the consuming state.

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Bhopal

Eye goes missing from corpse in MP hospital
The eye of a 26-year-old woman was found missing after her body was taken out of the morgue at a hospital in Gwalior on Saturday. While doctors claimed the eye was gouged out by lizards, the deceased’s family alleged foul play.

Erratic water, power supply adds to woes this summer

Corporator protests new jetty at Upper Lake

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Chandigarh

Rights group urges legal action after CM's disclosure on the killing of 21 surrendered militants

Man found murdered in Punjab's Fatehabad
In a shocking incident, skeleton of a 32-year-old man, who had gone missing since Friday evening was found in the charred car parked in the outskirts of the Bhattu Kalan sub-urban township of Fatehabad on Saturday morning.

BJP introspecting on defeat in Punjab Assembly polls: Amit Shah
We within the party are introspecting on the defeat in the Punjab Assembly election and we are also trying to bring improvement, said Amit Shah.

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