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Tuesday, March 06, 2018

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Shopian toll rises to six, clashes erupt in Valley
Clashes erupted in several parts of Kashmir following the recovery of two more bodies from Pahnoo village in Shopian district on Monday, a day after an Army vehicle was attacked by terrorists.

SC seeks Centre's response on compliance of fire safety norms in buildings
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Union government's response on a PIL alleging flagrant violation of fire safety norms specified in the National Building Code, 2016, by builders and startled the court by saying even the SC and Parliament buildings did not comply with fire safety norms.

Railways to digitise submission of vendors' bills, issuance of inspection certificates
In a bid to infuse transparency, railways will now digitise the submission of bills by vendors for payment and issue of inspection certificates by agencies, aiming for complete digitisation of its contract management system.

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Business

PNB fraud going on since 2010, CBI tells court
Violation of norms for issuance of Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) to benefit billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi had been going on since 2010, the CBI told a court on Monday.

Trump links tariffs to 'fair' NAFTA deal
Trump raised the stakes by holding the NAFTA talks hostage to the new tariffs -- 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum -- as he repeated his claim that NAFTA was a "bad deal" that has taken jobs and companies out of the US.

RBI slaps Rs 3 crore penalty on Axis Bank, 2 crore on IOB
RBI said it had carried out a statutory inspection of private sector player Axis Bank with reference to its financial position as on March 31, 2016.

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Environment

Pollution from buses: SC asks Rajasthan to file affidavit
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Rajasthan government to file an affidavit within three weeks in a matter pertaining to pollution from buses operating to the state from Bikaner House near the India Gate.

Spring arriving earlier at poles than elsewhere: Study
Due to climate change, spring is arriving earlier in the polar regions and other high latitudes than it does at lower latitudes, according to a study.

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.

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World

Pentagon 'cautiously optimistic' about talks between North, South Korea
"Our job is to make sure that we maintain those military operations to defend the Korean peninsula and we will (stand) shoulder to shoulder with our South Korean partners in the ROK-US alliance," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Robert Manning told reporters, using an acronym for the Republic of Korea.

Trump 'may' attend US embassy opening in Jerusalem

'UK does not plan to produce rival Brexit legal text'
Britain does not plan to produce its own draft version of a legal text setting out some of the arrangements around Brexit before a meeting later this month of European Union leaders, finance minister Philip Hammond said on Monday.

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Entertainment

Irrfan Khan reveals he has a rare disease
Taking to Twitter, Irrfan shocked his fans with the news that he is suffering from a rare disease.

Elli AvrRam with rumoured beau Hardik Pandya
After Yuvraj Singh–Hazel Keech, Zaheer Khan–Sagarika Ghatge and Virat Kohli–Anushka Sharma, it looks like we have another cricketer-actress pair in town.

Sneak peek: Shraddha's character in 'Saaho'
Shraddha Kapoor is all set to star opposite south sensation Prabhas for the first time in the upcoming 2018 trilingual

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Science

Regular, brisk walk protects heart of menopausal women

China to launch Long March 5B rocket into space in 2019
The carrier rocket will undergo testing this month in preparation for the first launch mission, and it will help carry the core module and experimental modules to China's space station, said an spokesperson of the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said.

Nothing existed before Big Bang: Stephen Hawking
The Big Bang theory proposes that a tiny speck of matter and energy began to grow, bringing about the birth of our universe billions of years ago. However, scientists are intrigued by what was there before the "explosion" when there was supposed to be nothing.

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Sports

Like EPL, no favourites in T20 format too: Rohit Sharma
India are seen as overwhelming favourites for the tri-nation Nidahas Trophy beginning Tuesday, but captain Rohit Sharma played down the perception, saying anything can happen in the fickle T20 format.

Virat Kohli reminds me of Imran Khan, says Shastri
Heaping praise on skipper Virat Kohli and his recent exploits in South Africa, India cricket team coach Ravi Shastri has compared the mercurial player to Pakistan's World Cup winning captain Imran Khan.

Siva shatters pole vault national record, Seema set for CWG
Tamil Nadu's Subramani Siva shattered his own national record enroute to winning the men's pole vault title while veteran Seema Punia clinched a gold in women's discus throw on the opening day of the 22nd Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships.

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Technology

Reliance Retail's LYF poised to lead India's handset market: Report
With 27% market share, Reliance Retail's mobile handset brand LYF topped India's overall mobile handset leader board in January 2018, followed by Samsung at 12 per cent, and Itel at third with eight per cent, market research firm CyberMedia Research (CMR) said on Monday.

Samsung Galaxy J7 Max, Galaxy J7 Pro get price cut in India
Samsung has slashed the price of its budget smartphones Galaxy J7 Max and Galaxy J7 Pro smartphones. The company launched the Galaxy J7 Max and Galaxy J7 Pro at Rs 17,900 and Rs 20,900, respectively.

Strict H-1B visa rule not to impact Indian IT companies: T V Mohandas Pai
Under the new policy, a firm will have to go an extra mile to prove that its H-1B worker at a third-party worksite has speciality occupation.

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Education

Smooth start to CBSE exams
Day 1 of the board examinations of Central Board of Secondary Education students went off smoothly here on Monday.

Bangalore Central University likely to offer 5-year integrated science course
The new Bangalore Central University (BCU) is mulling over introducing a five-year rigorous integrated science course at its Central College campus.

Students have an easy day out as CBSE boards begin

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Mumbai

Think tank blames cops for Bhima riot
Forum for Integrated National Security (FINS), which calls itself a think tank working on national security issues, has come out with its findings and analysis on the Koregaon Bhima violence which erupted on January 1.

ACB opposes bail plea of six dam scam accused
HC extends protection from arrest to them till March 12

Remove illegal hoardings outside Juhu beach: HC
Hoardings can be permitted as long as they do not pose a threat to the public, the Bombay high court ruled, while ordering the removal of hoardings put up outside Juhu beach without the permission of the BMC.

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Delhi

Batla House: Junaid in crime branch custody
The crime branch took custody of IM operative, Arij Junaid, on Monday in connection with the probe of the Batla House encounter that was transferred to the crime branch after the incident.

22-year-old shot by cousin after brawl
A 22-year-old man was shot by his cousin after an argument in southwest Delhi's Vasant Kunj on Sunday night.

DJ's aide sexually assaults 4-year-old in hotel toilet, held

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Bangalore

Ola and Uber hurt business of other cab aggregators in
Hit by the dominance of Ola and Uber, some homegrown app-based cab-hailing services rolled out over the past few years are fighting to survive.

Smooth start to CBSE exams
Day 1 of the board examinations of Central Board of Secondary Education students went off smoothly here on Monday.

Dacoits chop off jeweller's hand
ved on an unspecified number of two-wheelers in front of the shop.They pounced on Chandulal, and one of the dacoits swung a chopper at his right hand, chopping it.

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Hyderabad

Maoists torch TSRTC bus in Sukma

Government shield allows corrupt babus to flourish, law can't touch them

Man attacks 2 of family in burglary bid
A robber broke into the house of a sales executive in Saroornagar and injured two family members when they raised an alarm on Monday.

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Chennai

Centre calls Cauvery basin states for talks on water board
Water resources secy invites chief secretaries of TN, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry, explores different models to set up Cauvery management board

'I'll take throne vacated by Jaya, will give you MGR rule'
After getting in the crosshairs of the AIADMK leadership with his comments against the "rotten system," actor Rajinikanth on Monday sought to snatch away that party's biggest asset- the MGR legacy.

Bulls were tortured at jallikattu events: PETA

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Ahmedabad

State's spending on social services dips: Study

Court orders criminal trial against Sola PSI

Trader's car, valuables robbed at gunpoint

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Allahabad

Son of Indira's ex-PS eyes win from Nehru's Phulpur
For many years, Indira Gandhi routinely lent an ear to Allahabad-based civil servant J N Misra, later her personal secretary, for all poll alignments, key office assignments, and even for a comeback after the Emergency.

UP minister slams SP-BSP agreement for bypoll

Northern Railways terminates services of 22 employees over absenteeism

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Bhubaneswar

Odisha hospitals get ready to combat heat stroke

ECoR turns padman, installs sanitary napkin vending machine in city station
In order to provide sanitary napkin to its women passengers at a concessional rate, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Monday installed an automatic sanitary napkin vending machine at Bhubaneswar railway station here.

CM Naveen Patnaik begins weekly programme to connect with villagers

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Bhopal

STF to declare bounty on NRI Sunny Anand, others

Shivraj loosens purse strings on b'day, announces sops for poor & women

PSC received 850 objections from candidates

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Chandigarh

1 found dead 20 days before his marriage
Barely 20 days before his marriage, a resident of Chhateana village in Muktsar, was found dead at his house on Monday late evening.

Gurdwara withdraws MP's Vaisakhi invite
With Obhrai facing criticism, the Gurdwara Dashmesh Cultural Society, Calgary, has announced to rescind the invitation sent to him for the 'Khalsa Day Parade'.

Barcelona terror attack: UK Sikh to be honoured

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