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Thursday, October 12, 2017

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India

Mukul Roy quits Trinamool, Rajya Sabha

Obesity-linked illnesses to cost India $13bn/year by 2025

Anupam Kher named FTII's new chairman

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Business

Cabinet nod to major skill development schemes
Giving a major push to the Skill India initiative, the Cabinet on Wednesday approved two schemes envisaging an investment of Rs 6,655 crore and gave nod to a proposal to send 3 lakh youth to Japan for on-job training.

US businesses betting big on new envoy to India
With Kenneth Juster being named as the new US Ambassador to India, US businesses are expecting that bilateral commercial ties will grow with him in that position, according to a senior office-bearer of a US-India business body.

Online sales may surpass Rs 30,000 crore in festive month: ASSOCHAM

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Environment

Centre gives corporate push to Ganga cleaning
The exclusive web page, launched by Union water resources minister Nitin Gadkari, carries all details of projects and activities which can be taken up by corporate houses under the CSR funds. It will enable them to apply works online on the NMCG website's interactive page.

Slow and steady, a tortoise is winning its race with extinction

Forest ministry opens up 92,000 hectare of forests
The decision was taken by the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEF & CC), raising serious concerns for the environment at a time when forested lands are being considered valuable carbon sinks.

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World

'Systematic army campaign to drive Rohingya from Myanmar'
The UN report, which is based on interviews with refugees who have fled to Bangladesh, details a campaign by Myanmar's military to terrorise the Rohingya through atrocities that range from indiscriminate killings to rape.

Iran says US opposing 'whole world' on nuclear deal
"If the US wants to take a hostile position regarding an international agreement which is approved by the UN Security Council... they will oppose not just Iran but the whole world," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said at a cabinet meeting shown on state television.

23 receive 'genius grants' from MacArthur Foundation
A director who has taken opera from the concert hall to the streets of Los Angeles and an organizer who helped put a human face on the plight of young undocumented immigrants are among this year's MacArthur fellows and recipients of the so-called "genius" grants.

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Entertainment

Karan Johar announces his upcoming film trilogy with Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt
Karan, who is producing the film took to Twitter to announce that the film will indeed be rolled out in the form of a trilogy with Amitabh Bachchan joining Ranbir and Alia.

Pic: Sunny Leone vacays with daughter in US
Sunny Leone and hubby Daniel Weber are currently on a family vacation in the United States with their daughter Nisha. And the new parents are going all out to make her first international vacation a special one.

Sara Ali Khan's stills from 'Kedarnath'
Saif Ali Khan's daughter Sara Ali Khan is all set to make her big Bollywood debut in ‘Kedarnath’.

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Science

NASA probe spots possible source of sand on Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO) has beamed back an image showing one possible place where sand grains are being produced on the red planet today. The region exhibits dark material that is being eroded from dark layers in the bedrock of a semicircular depression near the boundary of the Southern highlands and the Northern lowlands, NASA researchers said.

Small asteroid set to safely pass by Earth on Thursday
The asteroid designated 2012 TC4 is estimated to be 15 to 30 meters in size. Orbit prediction experts say the asteroid poses no risk of impact with Earth.

Close call: Asteroid to pass Earth at 44,000 km on Thursday
Dubbed 2012 TC4, the space rock will shave past at an altitude of less than 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles)- just above the 36,000-km plane at which hundreds of geosynchronous satellites orbit the Earth. That represents about an eighth of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

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Sports

India beat Macau to qualify for 2019 AFC Asian Cup
A dominant India defeated Macau 4-1 at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday to qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, to be played in UAE.

Clinical India maul Japan 5-1 in Asia Cup hockey opener
India produced an impressive performance to outclass Japan 5-1 in their opening campaign at the 10th edition of the men' Asia Cup hockey tournament on Wednesday. SV Sunil (3rd minute), Lalit Upadhyay (22nd), Ramandeep Singh (33rd) and Harmanpreet Singh (35th and 48th) were on target.

Nehra to retire after New Zealand T20 at Kotla
It seems Ashish Nehra has reached the finishing point of his international career. TOI has learnt that the 38-year-old left-arm pacer has picked the T20I against New Zealand, to be played at the Ferozeshah Kotla in the Capital on November 1, to be his final international match for India.

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Technology

Facebook and Instagram down in possible worldwide outage
World's biggest social networking website Facebook is down. According to the website downdetector, the outage has knocked down the social network's services across the world. Facebook-owned photo-sharing network Instagram too is down.

Amazon launches first waterproof Kindle
While the design is similar to the 2016 model, including that asymmetrical sidebar you can use either left or right-handed, this time the e-reader is made from one seamless piece of aluminum.

Google updates its Home Mini speaker, stopping it from recording everything accidentally
It has been mentioned that Google Home Mini has three touch sensitive areas on it. While two of them are on either side, one is right at the centre where the notification lights are. The one at the centre was apparently not calibrated properly and triggered the speaker to record commands.

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Education

7.5 lakh university and college teachers to receive benefits under 7th Pay Commission
Diwali has come early for professors at central and state universities, with the government on Wednesday extending benefits under the 7th Pay Commission to this group. The move is expected to benefit 7.58 lakh university teachers.

Anupam Kher is new FTII chairman
Anupam Kher was today appointed chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India, succeeding Gajendra Chauhan who had a controversial tenure as head of the Pune-based institute, officials in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said.

Psychology course 'not rooted in national ethos', UGC calls for revamp
According to notification, an expert committee has drafted a new syllabi for the BA/BSc, MA/MSc and PhD of the psychology courses, taking into consideration the “developments in the field of psychology with special relevance to the Indian context.” The committee looked into several aspects like teaching and research in the subject to come up with a model syllabi.

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Mumbai

HC lifts stay on OCs to Ghodbunder Rd bldgs

By '22, more obese kids than malnourished ones

Retd exec in coma, wife moves HC to access a/c

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Delhi

Barking up the right tree
The New Delhi Municipal Council nursery at Chanakyapuri resounded with the chatter of schoolchildren on Wednesday, as over 1,000 students gathered there to learn about the lifecycle of trees and the processes that go into growing them.

Out of a job, he made plans to defraud e-commerce firm
With a bedridden father and no job at hand, Shivam Chopra was left with no choice but to commit fraud to make money. At first, he committed the crime alone, but as the money made was not enough to sustain his family he roped in a relative. Together, they made lakhs within months by targeting an ecommerce website.

Traders 'gift', sell crackers online to get rid of stock
With the Supreme Court banning the sale of firecrackers in Delhi-NCR, vendors have devised innovative ways to get rid of their stock.

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Bangalore

Residents invoke Yamaraj to highlight pothole menace

Youth uploads tenants' video on porn website

Bengaluru hospital reports 5 dengue deaths in October; govt says none

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Hyderabad

Tussle between tribals and forest department reaches court

CM: Youngest state biggest spender on welfare schemes

Telangana to provide 24-hour power for farm sector

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Chennai

Salary of 12 lakh Tamil Nadu government employees hiked by 20% to 25%

MLA boycotts mass conduct prog over absence of officials

Muggers hit, rob woman biker on Anna Flyover

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Ahmedabad

GR permitting overnight stay inside Gir worries foresters

PIL against Ambardi safari dismissed

'Dead' cop deposes before court

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Allahabad

Party all night
An open-air DJ party was organized by Suryansh Gupta and Akram Khan at KP Ground in Allahabad recently.

More women candidates contesting AUSU elections
A remarkable rise in the number of female candidates has been witnessed in the final list of candidates for the AUSU polls.

Designer diyas to sparkle lives of marginalised children in Allahabad

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Bhubaneswar

Odisha gang rape case: State human rights body seeks report within seven days

Naveen Patnaik targets national parties for creating 'uncertain atmosphere' in the country

CBI arrests ex-IAS officer in Odisha in Seashore Group chit fund scam

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Bhopal

Sparks fly as ministers air varying views on MP's Diwali tourism

'More docs, beds in govt hosps to help curb malnutrition'

How crematoriums vanish and resurface in the state

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