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Sunday, June 25, 2017

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After nuclear deal, H-1B visas first major test for Indian lobbying
Ashok Sharma, adjunct faculty at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy and fellow at the Australia-India Institute has closely tracked US-India relations and Indian lobbying in US foreign policy for a decade now.

Vaghela hits out at Congress leadership, hints exit
Senior Congress leader Shankersinh Vaghela assumed an aggressive posturing of brinkmanship as he attacked Congress leadership in Delhi on Saturday for party's complete lack of preparedness to fight the 2017 Gujarat assembly elections.

Move over Raju the guide, the PhD travel expert's here

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Business

CBDT notifies new format for I-T notices
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has notified revised format for income tax notices to further push its e-proceeding facility and reduce taxpayers’ interface with tax officials.

Privatisation talk hasn't affected Air India's expansion plans: Lohani
"Our expansion plans are unhindered. Twenty-five big and small aircraft will be inducted in the next couple of months. Our situation is improving with every passing year. Negative coverage (in media) is on decline," Air India CMD Ashwani Lohani said.

Kerala asks Centre to cap airfares to Gulf

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Environment

China sends two giant pandas to Germany
Meng Meng and Jiao Qing took a Lufthansa cargo flight from their home in Chengdu, for a 12-hour flight to Berlin this morning. The plane took off at 9:35 am (local time), taking the pandas and 1,000 kilogrammes of bamboo, apple and a large number of biscuits.

It's a girl: Japan zoo's star panda baby gets a checkup
The baby panda who has become an overnight celebrity in Japan is a girl. It's difficult to determine the gender of a panda newborn. The zoo had also been careful not to separate the baby from her mother. The still nameless cub has been doing well, drinking mother ShinShin's milk.

Frogs with burrowing skills found
A Delhi University student has found four new species of burrowing frogs from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot. The frogs were confirmed as new species in a DU lab by using an integrated taxonomic approach that included DNA studies, detailed morphological comparisons and bioacoustics.

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World

British lawmakers hit by 'sustained' cyberattack
Britain's parliament was hit by a "sustained and determined" cyber attack on Saturday designed to identify weak email passwords, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country's health service.

15 bodies found after landslide buries scores in China
Crews searching through the night in the rubble left by a landslide that buried a mountain village under tons of soil and rocks in southwestern China found 15 bodies, but more than 110 more people remained missing.

Donald Trump: Different strokes

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Entertainment

Pic: Karisma Kapoor flaunts a black bikini

'Mom': Reasons to watch the film
Sridevi, who marked her return to Bollywood with the critically acclaimed 2012 film 'English Vinglish', is all set to rule the silver screen once again. This time around, the star will be seen in the thriller title 'Mom'.

Sonakshi strikes Tubelight pose with Salman

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Science

NASA's CHESS rocket to study interstellar clouds
NASA is launching a new CHESS sounding rocket on June 27. It will study vast interstellar clouds to understand more about the earliest stages of star formation. CHESS is short for the Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph. CHESS will fly for about 16 minutes total.

Mystery behind 'bright nights' solved
Scientists have solved a centuries-old mystery of "bright nights" - an unusual glow that appears in the sky after dark and lets observers see distant mountains, read a newspaper or check their watch.

Asian strain of zika virus has mutated: Scientists

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Sports

World Cup: Mandhana, Raj guide India to 35-run win over England
India women's cricket team launched their campaign at the ICC Women's World Cup with a comfortable 35-run win over England, riding on superb batting display by the top-order on Saturday.

Hockey World League Semi-Final: India beat Pakistan 6-1
India continued to torment Pakistan in the Hero Hockey World League Semi-Final, hammering the arch-rivals 6-1 in a 5th-8th place classification match on Saturday. They will now play Canada.

Kumble was impeccable in his role as coach: Vinod Rai
Vinod Rai, head of the Committee of Administrators (CoA), on Saturday hailed Anil Kumble for his "impeccable" role as India coach and said they will ensure cohesion in the team.

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Technology

Uber India employees start drive to bring former CEO Travis Kalanick
Fearing neglect of local ops, majority of 1,000 employees in India sign petition

Moto G5 available on Amazon at cashback of Rs 1,000, conditions apply
Lenovo-owned Motorola launched the Moto G5 smartphone in India in April this year. The company priced the device at Rs 11,999 and it is exclusively available on Amazon India's website.

Zopo Speed X smartphone with dual camera
Zopo has launched its latest smartphone in India. Dubbed Zoppo Speed X, the smartphone comes with dual-rear camera setup and an AI-based chatbot Niki.

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Education

CBSE extends dates for verification & obtaining of photocopies; details on website on Friday
The Board stated that application process for online rechecking/ verification has been extended till June 27 and for obtaining photocopies till June 30, 2017. The details will be made available by the Board on its website on Friday.

From 2018, CBSE boards to begin a month early
Come 2018, Class X and XII Board exams will take place in February instead of March as the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is planning to advance the cycle of exams and related activities from 2018-19 as a part of reforms focused on “error-free evaluation“.

Delhi HC to examine scrapping of answersheets' re-evaluation by CBSE
The Delhi High Court has remarked that the Central Board of Secondary Education's examiners would also make mistakes or errors in totalling of marks and evaluation. In the wake of several petitions being moved by students, Delhi High Court to examine scrapping re-evaluation of answersheets'.

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Mumbai

All-India topper Lucy is CISF star at Mumbai airport

Fadnavis announces Rs 34,022cr loan waiver, to aid 89L farmers

Kalyan farmers damaged Rs 1.55cr police property

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Delhi

In 5 years, you could be flying from NCR's second airport
The National Capital Region could get its second airport, in Jewar, in five years. “In principle clearance has been granted,” civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said at a press conference on Saturday, paving the way for acquiring 1,000 hectares (around 2,500 acres) for the first phase.

Train lynching accused admits beef-eater jibe

Teen loses bike, phone to cons

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Bangalore

Koli community hopeful of getting ST tag in Karnataka
or nearly two decades, members of the Koli community in the state have been demanding scheduled tribe (ST) status in all regions of Karnataka, but to no avail.

Karwar postmaster dupes over 300 customers of 50 lakh
Lakshman Govind Naik, postmaster of Baithkol post office in Karwar, is absconding after alleged misappropriation of around Rs 50 lakh.

Bengaluru girl eyes Guinness record for world's smallest chessboard
Small is the new big and you have to see the miniatures created by this class X girl to believe it.From Baahubali actors to Dasara characters, this artist has created wonderful art works in sizes as less as 1-5cm.

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Hyderabad

HMDA to make 2 logistic parks around capital

Nizamabad man trapped in Dubai jail for carrying medicine

Doctor among 3 held for selling diluted blood

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Chennai

Government says yes to 85% Tamil Nadu medical seat quota
It's official now.The state government will reserve 85% of government quota seats for state board students in MBBS BDS admissions, counselling for which will begin on July 17.

Political uncertainty dries up Tamil Nadu manufacturing, growth dips to 1.65%
"The death of a leader like J Jayalalithaa must have affected the mood of companies which wanted to invest in Tamil Nadu.

New entry/exit for airport planned

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Ahmedabad

Shankersinh Vaghela hits out at Congress leadership, hints at exit
Addressing his supporters, Vaghela said, "For the past one year I have been demanding in vain that Congress should do its homework for 2017 polls.With factors like Patidar, Dalit, OBC unrest, the situation is favourable.

Blessed juggernaut on a roll

Collected works of Mahatma Gandhi rededicated
After almost two decades, 100 volumes of the mammoth collected works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG)—Prof K Swaminathan edition—was published again by the Publication Division of the government of India.

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Allahabad

AUSU vice-president shaves his head as mark of protest

One arrested for Congress leader's murder
The Varanasi field unit of STF, on Friday, nabbed a contract killer near Varanasi Cantonment railway station.

Saroj brothers keep up their promise of tutoring village kids
"Study hard to make your dreams come true," they were told by the Saroj brothers.

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Bhubaneswar

Rain threat looms over annual Rath Yatra festival

Couple walks 400 km to urge Odisha CM to ban liquor

Stage set for Puri Rath Yatra

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Bhopal

Congress frowns at MP minister for selling 'Tubelight' tickets
Madhya Pradesh minister for panchayats and rural development Gopal Bhargava came under sharp criticism on Saturday when a video went viral showing him selling movie tickets in a cinema hall in his constituency Gadakota in Sagar district.

Congress demands resignation of MP minister Narottam Mishra
Mishra is Water Resources and Legislative Affairs minister in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government.

Kamal Nath to repay dead farmer's loans
Former Union minister and MP from Chhindwara Kamal Nath will repay the loans taken by a farmer and resident of his constituency who committed suicide on Thursday.

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Chandigarh

11.1% overcrowded, Punjab jails need to go London way
Overcrowded Punjab jails are in for a revamp to come up to international standards. Addressing the issue of rampant overcrowding in state's prisons, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, which was tasked with the makover, has in its report proposed designing of new and improved cells on the lines of London's high-security Belmarsh prison.

Sunday launch for 5 smart projects

Child's DNA doesn't match with dad, surrogate mom booked
A surrogate mother, her sister and family friends have been booked for cheating an NRI after the DNA examinations of the child failed to match with that of the father.Accused surrogate mother identified as Harjinder Kaur, her sisters Lakhwinder Kaur, who is a nurse in government hospital of Faridkot district of Punjab, and Jaswinder Kaur and their associates who include Harjinder's male friend Puneet are booked in a case of cheating and breach of trust registered against them at Sector 14 police station here.

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