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Friday, May 15, 2015

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Gold plunges Rs 180 on global cues
Gold prices retreated from over three-month highs by falling Rs 180 to Rs 27,710 per ten grams at the bullion market on Friday on slackened demand from jewellers and retailers at prevailing levels amid a weak global trend.

DLF shares down 2% on Competition Commission order
Shares of DLF fell by nearly 2 per cent today as the Competition Commission found the realty giant guilty of indulging in "unfair and abusive" business practices in sale of apartments in a Gurgaon housing project.

Coal India donates Rs.5 crore to PM's relief fund
World's largest coal miner Coal India Limited (CIL) on Friday contributed Rs.5 crore to the Prime Minister's relief fund to help the quake-stuck people in Nepal and some states in India.

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World

Baby girl born in Nepal named 'Bharati'
A baby girl born at the 60 Para Field Hospital of the Indian Army in quake-hit Sinamangal in Nepal, has been named "Bharati".

Residents prepare as typhoon Dolphin approaches Guam
Residents in Guam are bracing for potentially damaging winds and flooding as typhoon Dolphin approaches the US territory Friday.

Nepal army finds wreckage of missing US chopper
The wreckage of a US military helicopter that went missing while delivering aid in quake-hit Nepal has been found near the Chinese border, the Nepalese army said Friday.

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Science

US company plans to fly first plane on Venus
A US aerospace company is planning to build an inflatable propeller plane that could fly through Venus's atmosphere in 2021.

Quakes reveal deep secrets beneath East Asia
Using 3D supercomputer simulations of earthquake data, scientists have found hidden rock structures deep under East Asia.

A two minute walk can undo harms of oversitting
With evidence mounting that sitting for long stretches of time is unhealthy, many of us naturally wonder how best to respond. Should we stand up, or is merely standing insufficient? Must we also stroll or jog or do jumping jacks?

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Technology

10 Hyperlocal startups to watch out for in India
Hyperlocal startup scene in hotting up in India. Home-grown solutions are solving local problems in a very unique manner, leading to order books bloating.

Housing CEO challenges Zomato, Ola CEOs to give 50% of their shares to staff
Just a day after he announced transfering his shareholding worth Rs 150-200 crore to the company's 2,251 employees, he has now challenged fellow IIT alumnus Ola and Zomato CEOs to return half of their stakes.

Microsoft Lumia 540 first impressions
We got a chance to spend some time with the phone at the launch and here are our first impressions…

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Education

Invitation for new research proposals
The Board of Colleges and University Development of the Savitribai Phule Pune University is inviting new research proposals under ‘University Research Grant Scheme’ submitted by the permanent approved teachers of university departments and its affiliated colleges or institutions for year 2015-17.

Registrations Open For One Of India's Biggest Engineering Contests
Riding on the huge success of its past editions, QuEST Ingenium, a national-level engineering contest in its fifth year strives to benefit a large number of graduating engineering students from across India.

Telangana 10th Class (SSC) results to be declared on 17 May
The Telangana Board is going to announce the Class 10th Result 2015 (Matric) on 17 April.

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Mumbai

Central railways disrupted
Suburban train services on Central Railway's (CR) main line were disrupted due to technical snag neat Kalyan on Friday afternoon.

6,020 CCTV cameras to be installed in Mumbai by Sep 2016
A project to install over 6000 CCTV cameras in Mumbai at a cost of Rs 949 crore to beef up surveillance in crucial places of the city will be completed by September next year, a Maharashtra Home department official has said.

Mumbai's deputy fire chief succumbs to burns from Kalbadevi fire
The city's deputy chief fire officer Sudhir Amin, who suffered fourth-degree burns in the fire at Gokul Niwas, Kalbadevi, last Saturday, succumbed to his injuries following multiple organ failure at 4.30pm on Thursday at the National Burns Centre, Airoli.

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Bangalore

Immune to setbacks, he topped his school
Warm milk lovingly prepared by a mother as you studied. A tuition teacher to clear your doubts.

Cops goof up, murder accused slips out on bail
Police officers in the state are arguing over how a murder accused walked out of jail without a valid bail.

Phishers ditch email, call citizens posing as bank employees
Economic offenders are slowly moving from emails and SMSes to calls.

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Hyderabad

The rise of Lokesh Krishna Prasad
Chandrababu Naidu leaves MLC nominees' selection to son

Vengal Rao Park to get a makeover
The Vengal Rao park in Banjara Hills will soon get a makeover.In addition to a clean pond in its midst, it will also have a gymnasium and a library, irrigation minister T Harish Rao said on Thursday.

10 special courts to try MV Act cases
The Hyderabad police now have 10 dedicated courts to try cases registered under the Motor Vehicle (MV) Act.

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Chennai

Southern Railway runs 194 summer special trains
Southern Railway operated 134 special trains, 60 unreserved special trains and added 1,202 coaches to different trains to handle the increased demand for seats and berths in April.

New technique helps slim diabetics keep sugar levels in check
Obese diabetics have a lot of surgical options that help them lose weight and have a better control over diabetes, but slim diabetics are condemned to regular insulin shots and medication. Now, a simple nip and tuck in the intestine can help slim diabetics live normal lives.

New class 12 syllabus ready, but exam reform needed
Shankar* was a topper in Class 10 and Class 12 state boards but couldn't match that performance again in college.

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Ahmedabad

GERC incorrectly revised RPO for discoms: Aptel
In a move that could have implication on finances of state power distribution companies, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (Aptel) has partially set aside Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (GERC) order to revise their Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) target of 2012-13.

Ahmedabad DGP lays more thrust on cyber-crime expertise in state Police
In a Crime Conference organized at the DGP office in Gandhinagar, DGP PC Thakur laid more thrust on the development of detection skills in cybercrime in the police department.

Woman alleges molestation at a Ashram in Dholkha
A woman, hailing from Vadodara has alleged in her complaint lodged at Dholka police station that she was molested by one Durga Prasad Shastri and his son Aakash at a Ashram in Dholka.

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Bhubaneswar

Scheme for vulnerable tribals mooted
Aiming overall development of particular vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs), the state government is planning to launch a new scheme, Odisha PVTG Empowerment and Livelihood Improvement Programme.

Odisha govt readies sanitation action plan for Nabakalebara
The state government has prepared an action plan for improvement of sanitation and hygiene during Nabakalebara in Puri.

Parsuram murder: Arrest warrant against convicts
The district and sessions court, Balangir, on Thursday issued arrest warrants against three convicts, who were awarded rigorous life imprisonment by the Orissa high court on May 4 in the murder of young politician Parsuram Satpathy in 1974.

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Bhopal

SC notice to Madhya Pradesh government over PIL on 'illegal' mobile surveillance
Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to Madhya Pradesh government, special task force, anti-terrorist squad telecom department, director-general military intelligence and CBI on a petition filed by MPPEB scam whistle-blower Prashant Pandey alleging use of ‘unauthorised’ mobile surveillance software by state police to extract details from individuals.

3 years on, probe into Bhopal's drug trials case still incomplete
Three years on, commissioner for departmental inquiries have failed to conclude investigation against six senior doctors of the Maharaja Yashwantrao government hospital, Indore, in connection with ‘unethical' drug trials issue.

Sacked IAS officer Tinoo Joshi surrenders before special court, sent to jail
Sacked IAS officer Tinoo Joshi surrendered before district special court on Thursday, two days after an arrest warrant was issued against her for jumping bail in Rs 41-crore disproportionate assets case.

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Chandigarh

All Punjabi hostages shot, says ISIS abduction survivor
On a day the external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj assured relatives of 39 Indians, mostly Punjabis, abducted by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that they were safe, Harjit Masih from Punjab, one of the hostages who had managed to escape, debunked the Centre’s assertion on Thursday. He claimed that he was a witness to his fellow workers being gunned down in July 2014 in Mosul, Iraq.

Parliament attack case judge to probe Vadra land deals
The man who delivered the judgment in the Parliament attack case will now investigate land deals in Haryana. The state government on Thursday evening said that the one-man commission of retired judge of Delhi high court Justice S N Dhingra will investigate licences issued to develop commercial colonies in Gurgaon.

Chandigarh auditor on UN mission killed in attack
The Kabul guesthouse siege tragedy has come home for a family in Sector 45 of Chandigarh. RK Bhatti, 64, a retired Indian Audit and Accounts Service official, was one of the four Indians killed in the Taliban attack in the capital of Afghanistan on late Wednesday night.

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