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THE TIMES OF INDIA

Sunday, August 27, 2017

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India

Push for Aadhaar-enabled e-KYC for digital transactions

Big cities see rise in road accident toll

MP Vyapam whistleblower's father hit by car

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Business

Plan to make PAN card must for all transactions in gold
A panel of financial regulators has proposed that PAN card requirement for gold transactions from jewellers be extended to all transactions, and not just those above Rs 2 lakh and has supported the daily cash limits against the sale of gold to curb tax evasion.

Jatia colluded with McD to grab my business: Vikram Bakshi

India becomes largest 2-wheeler market for Honda globally

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Environment

More than 200 doomed Puerto Rico dogs saved by airlift to US
"The shelters in Puerto Rico have no choice," said Kimberly Alboum, director of policy engagement and shelter outreach for the Humane Society of the US. "They run out of room and, unfortunately, they have to euthanize for space. It's heartbreaking for the staff and it's devastating because these animals are all highly adoptable."

Pollution at crisis levels in North India: Niti Aayog
Noting that air pollution has reached crisis level in Northern India, government think-tank Niti Aayog has recommended a slew of measures like imposing higher taxes on petrol in and around the more polluted cities to encourage commuters to share cars and take public transportation.

Arctic researchers to study wind effects on marine life
The Sikuliaq (see-KOO'-lee-ak), owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will depart on Friday from Nome for the trip through the Bering Strait to waters on and off the continental shelf in the Beaufort.

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World

Storm Harvey threatens Texas with floods, one dead
The most powerful storm to hit Texas in more than 50 years has killed at least one person and is now threatening catastrophic flooding as search and rescue teams deploy to the hardest-hit zones, authorities said on Saturday.

Sharif files review petition challenging Panama verdict
Sharif argued that he cannot be disqualified for not declaring his salary which he had not drawn, as neither the company was mentioned in the petitions against him nor it could be termed as a salary under Pakistan's income tax laws.

27 dead in Boko Haram attacks on Nigerian villages
Boko Haram fighters entered villages in the Nganzai area on Wednesday, slitting throats and using guns to kill at least 15 people while injuring two others, said Modu Jialta, a member of a local self-defense group. The attackers also burned homes.

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Entertainment

Pic: Tiger Shroff and Disha Patani at Ambani's bash
Disha and Tiger looked extremely happy in each other's company and even posed for the shutterbugs without any hesitation.

Pic: Iulia Vantur embraces Indian culture

Vidya Balan has a picture perfect moment with idol Rekha
Vidya meets the ‘Khubsoorat’ actress at the Ganesh Chaturthi celebration at the Ambanis on Friday

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Science

NASA releases stunning picture of dunes on the surface of Mars
NASA has released a stunning picture of dunes on the surface of Mars with snow and ice on ridges. It was spring in the Northern hemisphere when this image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA said.

Nasa rockets to create glowing artificial clouds

SpaceX unveils sleek, white spacesuit for astronaut travel
Chief executive Elon Musk made the big reveal via Instagram on Wednesday. He says it's not him in the new suit, rather a SpaceX engineer. Musk says the new SpaceX suit has been tested on Earth and works.

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Sports

World Badminton: Sindhu storms into final
Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu assured India of a silver medal after reaching the finals of the World Championship with a straight game win over World No 10 Chen Yufei in women's singles, here on Saturday.

World Badminton: Saina loses in semis, settles for bronze
Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal failed to reach her second successive World Badminton Championships final and settled for bronze medal as she went down fighting against Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the semi-finals on Saturday.

Belgian GP: Hamilton equals Schumacher's pole record
Triple world champion Lewis Hamilton equalled Formula One great Michael Schumacher's all-time record of 68 pole positions on Saturday with a dominant performance in Belgian Grand Prix qualifying.

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Technology

JioPhone booking: 7 'terms and conditions' to know

Vishal Sikka likely to join Hewlett Packard Enterprise as CTO
Last Friday, Vishal Sikka ceased to be the CEO and managing director of Infosys and got a new designation as executive vicechairman. In less than a week, he has lost that position, too. On Thursday, Sikka stepped down from the company with immediate effect.

New law to soon monitor how Facebook, Google, WhatsApp and others use your data
The government will come out with a data protection law to check possible diversion and misuse of private user information by social media and tech giants such as Facebook, Google, Instagram, Amazon, and Apple.

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Education

Under new rules, less than 50% private MBBS seats filled
Deemed universities and private colleges across the country are staring at a huge crisis of unfilled undergraduate medical seats under the new system of centralised counselling introduced under the Supreme Court’s orders this year.

IITs, IIMs may be told to rate, certify institutes
“We have a huge talent pool of teachers and students who can use the entire exercise of evaluation as a learning tool,” Prakash Javadekar said.

The Science of Happiness
In an introductory lesson on the Science of Happiness, Dacher Keltner, a UC Berkeley psychologist, underlined the relationship between the success of a person and his/her compassionate and nurturing traits. Here are some of the highlights from his introductory lecture at UC Berkeley:

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Mumbai

Assessment slows down amid festivity
University Unlikely To Meet August 31 Deadline For Results

India-Lanka ODI betting racket busted, 3 bookies held
The ODI series between India and Sri Lanka started on August 20.In recent test matches played from July 26 to August 12, India won three of four matches while one match was drawn.

Blue Whale game: Jaipur boy rescued from Mumbai

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Delhi

Jaypee ready to hand over 25 apartments
The first possession letters in Jaypee Infratech projects after insolvency proceedings began against the company came on Saturday when 25 flats in Aman were offered for handover to their buyers.

Triple whammy strikes Delhi: Dengue, H1N1, chikungunya
It's dengue season, but the city is in the grip of swine flu and chikungunya as well. Where 2016 saw fewer than 200 cases of swine flu, the count is already nearing 2,000 this year. The viral disease has killed at least five people while a 12-year-old died of dengue in south Delhi's Humayunpur last week.

Over 50% of Delhi's private ambulance drivers are overworked: Survey
More than half of the private ambulance drivers in Delhi do back-to-back day and night shifts and about three-fourth of ambulance drivers are recruited without any training, according to some of the findings of a survey conducted in the national capital.

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Bangalore

In poll year, it's raining freebies for students

RSS man B L Santhosh will lead Mangaluru Chalo

India cannot compromise on defence preparedness: Jaitley

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Hyderabad

GHMC swings into action, convenes emergency meet to tackle issues

Man killed as rain-soaked compound wall collapses at construction site

This was third highest rainfall in a day in 10 yrs

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Chennai

Short film fest to revive 'forgotten' grain
A competition organised to revive the importance of a 'forgotten' grain may be new to the short film genre but that's what the 11th edition of the development film festival, by DHAN Foundation has in store.

Know Your Potter, pick your potion

Single parents club, kids included

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Ahmedabad

ASI seals fact: PM Modi's hometown Vadnagar was 'Anandpur' 1,800 years ago
Excavations by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) at PM Narendra Modi's hometown Vadnagar to unearth the Buddhist past of the ancient city and chronicle its historic sequence has yielded exciting relics.

Improve diversity in IIM faculty, research: Alumni body

9-year-old missing in Maninagar

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Allahabad

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology hosts 'Swagat 2017'
After a month-long exercise and wanderings through the maze of counselling for admission in one of the most prestigious NITs of the country, the newly admitted batch of first year students of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad chilled out at the annual freshers’ function “Swagat 2017” at the sprawling Rajiv Gandhi Multi Purpose Hall on Saturday.

Elusive dacoit Babuli Kol has 70 cases against him, 7 lakh reward on his head
Dreaded dacoit Babuli Kol, carrying Rs 7 lakh cash reward on his head, has as many as 70 heinous cases pending against him.

1st unit of 660 MW of Meja thermal power project synchronised
In a major development which would boost the power production on the state, the 1st unit of 660 MW of Meja thermal power project, was synchronised with the main grid, on Thursday.

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Bhubaneswar

Soon, laughter yoga sessions in Bhubaneswar
It’s time for the people of Bhubaneswar to have a hearty laughter. Madan Kataria, founder of the Laughter Club of India, will conduct laughter yoga sessions in different parks of the city, where people can get the benefits of laughter.

Unattended garbage irks Bhubaneswar dwellers
Heaps of garbage at colony corners, ditches, pits and different nooks and corners of the city remain unattended for days at a stretch have become a common site in Bhubaneswar.

Man, son die after house collapsed in Angul
A man and his nine-year-old son died when wall of their house collapsed late on Friday night in Angul district, around 145 km from here. They were fast asleep in their house when the wall fell on them.

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Bhopal

H1N1, dengue claims 2 more lives in Bhopal
Two more people lost their lives in Bhopal on Saturday, one each due to H1N1 and dengue/chikungunya. After dengue and H1N1, chikungunya is emerging as another threat this season.

Bhopal takes to beer, liquor loses zing

Heavy rain floods Iqbal library
Iqbal Library, one of the oldest libraries in Bhopal, was inundated after the season’s heaviest rainfall on Saturday.

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Chandigarh

When Manimajra and Patiala fought water wars

Cops and locals praised for tackling violence

668 trains affected from August 23 to August 27 due to DSS chief case

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