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Monday, March 05, 2018

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India

Performance in N-E has integrated India: Modi

'Mamata cagey after saffron tsunami in neighbourhood'

Nagaland set for Rio carnival

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Business

RBI asks MNC banks to create sub-targets to meet PSL norms

Nearly 87 crore bank accounts seeded with Aadhaar
The government has mandated submission of the 12-digit unique identity number by every bank account holder by March 31, 2018 to weed out unaccounted wealth.

Brand ambassador should be made liable for misleading endorsements: CAIT

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Environment

Supercolony of over 1.5 million penguins discovered
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown "supercolony" of more than 15,00,000 Adelie Penguins in a chain of remote, rocky islands off of the Antarctica's northern tip. For the past 40 years, the total number of Adelie Penguins has been steadily declining - or so biologists have thought.

Climate change has resulted in substantial reduction of coral cover: WWF
Climate change has resulted in "substantial" reduction of the country's coral cover and growth in the last two decades, according to conservation group WWF India which has stressed the need for formulating a "holistic" approach for their protection.

Only 13 per cent of tiger conservation areas meet global standards: Survey
Only 13 per cent of the tiger conservation areas met the global standards of an accreditation system, the Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards (CA|TS), a new survey of current management methodologies at 112 sites located in 11 tiger-range countries, including India, said.

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World

EU's bruised 'Queen' Merkel gets 4th term

Meet Krishna Kolhi, Pakistan's 1st Dalit woman senator
In a historic first for Pakistan, a Dalit woman from the country’s marginalised Hindu community has been elected to the Senate, the upper house of the parliament. Krishna Kumari Kolhi, a 39-year-old Hindu Dalit woman, was elected senator on a women’s seat from Sindh.

Saudi crown prince lands in Egypt on first public trip
Mohammed Bin Salman arrived in Egypt on Sunday to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on his first public trip abroad since he became crown prince last year and purged the kingdom's political and economic elite. His arrival was confirmed by airport sources and the head of his private office.

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Entertainment

Shahid, Ranveer bonded over music
Shahid Kapoor impressed his fans with his royal act of Maharawal Ratan Singh in 'Padmaavat' and was pitted against the antagonist Ranveer Singh who played Alauddin Khilji with equal brilliance.

Soundarya Rajinikanth slams '2.0' teaser leak
The leaked footage was immediately shared by many on social media. Though there were few who were elated to get a glimpse of the Tamil superstar in the teaser, most of them were extremely unhappy by the leak.

Pics: Virat receives wife Anushka from airport
As Anushka returned back to Mumbai, Virat, like a doting husband received his wife at the airport.

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Science

Isro gears up to launch 2 satellites before Chandrayaan-2 mission
Talking to TOI, Isro chairman Dr K Sivan said, “The first launch will be of GSLV Mk II carrying Gsat-6A satellite by the end of March. Soon thereafter, we will launch navigation satellite IRNSS-1I that will be lifted off by PSLV C-41 in the first week of April. Preparations for these two launches are currently going on at Sriharikota.”

Good skin bacteria may help prevent cancer: Study
"We have identified a strain of Staphylococcus epidermidis, common on healthy human skin, that exerts a selective ability to inhibit the growth of some cancers," said Richard Gallo, professor at University of California San Diego in the US.

Regular walking may protect against heart failure: study

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Sports

IPL: Task cut out for KKR skipper Dinesh Karthik
Karthik, a regular fixture in the IPL set up in the last decade, has guided Tamil Nadu to victory in the Vijay Hazare Trophy in 2009-10, helped India Red to title-win in the last Duleep Trophy.

Sultan Azlan Shah Cup: India, England play out 1-1 draw
A wasteful India played out a 1-1 draw against England in their second match of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament on Sunday in Ipoh, Malaysia.

Rashid Khan becomes youngest captain in international cricket
At 19 years and 165 days of age, highly-rated Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan, the No. 1 Twenty20 International bowler, on Sunday became the youngest captain in the history of international cricket.

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Technology

How to tell if your Facebook account has been hacked
Almost every day, we hear reports about cybercriminals hacking into netizen's accounts and breaching personal data. The problem of online identity theft too has increased manifolds in the past few years. The cases of hackers getting access to social media users' accounts are no longer rare cases.

How to delete your Google search history on Android
Sometime back Google updated its search app and after the update it started storing the screenshots of your search history. When you open the app, you can see a clock like icon placed on the bottom right corner. As soon as you click on it, you will be able to see the screenshots of all the things you have searched.

Google sued for 'hiring discrimination' against white, Asian males
Google has been sued by a former YouTube employee for allegedly pressuring recruiters to only look for female and Latina applicants and that the video-sharing platform had last year stopped hiring White and Asian males for technical positions.

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Education

No admit card, 94 students left in lurch in Ghaziabad

NEET row: Open school students face form hurdle

SSC paper leak: Manoj Tiwari meets Rajnath Singh
Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Sunday met Union home minister Rajnath Singh in support of a CBI enquiry into the alleged SSC paper leak.

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Mumbai

Mumbai: Two ladies compartments of AC local given a new look

Mumbai: TV producer jumps to death

20 hybrid-electric AC buses to hit the road in BKC in 10 days

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Delhi

FIR against Jaypee MD for 'snatching' items of farmer

83 firms offer fat pay to 100 FMS students

SSC paper leak: Manoj Tiwari meets Rajnath Singh
Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Sunday met Union home minister Rajnath Singh in support of a CBI enquiry into the alleged SSC paper leak.

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Bangalore

BMTC, users hit by procurement delays

Featuring walks and games, habba celebrates Nandi Hills
Nandi Hills (Chikkaballapura) Neither the crack-of-dawn flag-off nor the long drive to the outskirts deterred hundreds of Bengalureans from turning up at the inaugural Nandi Habba held at Nandi Hills on Sunday.

On ribbon-cutting spree, Siddaramaiah launches half-done projects

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Hyderabad

Army red-flagged Golconda school too

Crumbling govt school in Army's LoC, students caught in crossfire
GHMC Served Notice Twice To Govt School

K Chandrasekhar Rao's Third Front hotline abuzz, Mamata Banerjee dials support
the crisis.".

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Chennai

Kidney disease treatment: Women get raw deal
Women generally live longer than men, but when they have a kidney disease, men are more likely to get dialysis and tend to survive at the same rate as women, observed doctors at a conclave held to mark World Kidney Day.

Narrow escape for father and son as car catches fire
A father-son duo had a narrow escape when their car went up in flames after fatally knocking down a cow near Mamallapuram on Sunday night.

Father of constable, who shot self, demands judicial probe

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Ahmedabad

Stretches other than SG Rd record more fatalities

Water management skewed: Study

Phone thief had lost his home in betting

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Allahabad

SP-BSP together to defeat communal forces: Nanda
National vice-president of Samajwadi Party, Kiranmoy Nanda, said with the Bahujan Samaj Party extending support to its candidates, SP will defeat communal forces in Phulpur and Gorakhpur bypolls. Nanda was in Allahabad on Sunday to campaign for Nagendra Singh Patel, the SP candidate in fray from Phulpur in the Lok Sabha bypoll.

SP-BSP have come together to defeat communal forces: Kiranmoy Nanda

Why is there no Urdu option in teachers' exam, HC asks UP government
The Allahabad high court has directed the state government to explain as to why Urdu wasn't allowed as option in the examination to be held for the recruitment of 65,500 assistant teachers in the state on March 12.

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Bhubaneswar

Piped water to Silk City by year-end
Good news for water-starved residents of Berhampur.All residential households in the Silk City will get piped water connection by the end of December.

Sundargarh woman killed over witchcraft
In an attack by a group of 15 persons, a sixty-year-old woman was killed and her husband and son were injured critically on Friday evening at Ratakhandi village under Kuanrmunda police outpost in Sundargarh district.

Plus II exam halls may get CCTVs to check cheating
The state government is planning to install CCTV cameras in examination centres across Odisha from next year for the smooth conduct of Plus II examinations.

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Bhopal

Minor raped & pushed into a well in Shivpuri

Panel to study feasibility of simultaneous polls: Shivraj

Rajya Sabha polls: Will Satyavrat Chaturvedi be lucky third time?

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Chandigarh

Punjab government to provide jobs to outstanding players: Dharamsot

School, colleges keen on creating 'vertical gardens' on their campuses

Effluent Treatment Society polls can be called off?

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