Daily Newsletter | Tuesday, December 15, 2015 | | | '87% of Himalayan glaciers stable since 2001' | | As many as 248 of 2,018 or 12.3% of Himalayan glaciers are “retreating” while 18 are advancing, environment minister, Prakash Javadekar told the Rajya Sabha on Monday in a written reply. The minister's reply, however, also revealed that a majority or about 86% of glaciers have remaned stable. |
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| | Girl died before shack was crushed, father tells cops | | Two days after a six-month-old girl's death during a demolition drive in west Delhi's Shakurbasti area triggered a political slugfest, police on Monday registered a case of negligence against unknown persons on the basis of a statement by the girl's father. |
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| Thampu offers to present ‘relevant facts’ to Parliament | | St Stephen’s principal Valson Thampu has offered to “present the relevant facts” to the Parliament. Some of its members St.Stephen’s alumni were planning to raise the issue of the college’s constitution change during the zero hour. Thampu has written to the speaker seeking time; he says it will “hardly take... 15 minutes.” |
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| Woman paid with life for resisting rape in Delhi | | A day after the body of a 25-year-old woman was found in a drain southwest Delhi's Dadri, police said she was injected with poison by three men, including a Nigerian man, for resisting their attempt to rape her. |
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| | Apple launches iPad Pro in India, price starts at Rs 67,900 | | Apple's iPad Pro is available on all company retail stores starting from Monday. The Wi-Fi-only model (32GB) has been priced at Rs 67,900 while users will have to pay Rs 79,900 for the 128GB model. The tablet's 128GB model with 4G LTE connectivity costs Rs 91,900. |
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| 14 ridiculously expensive tech gifts | | That's certainly the case with the products on this list: The highest cost products worth coveting in the tech world. These items are all real, potentially fun, and certain to induce sticker shock. |
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| Apple slashes prices of iPhone 5s to almost half in three months | | Apple has slashed prices of its Indian bestseller iPhone 5s for the third time in three months, bringing them down to almost half of September levels. In the third price cut in three months, iPhone 5s now starts at Rs 24,999, down from Rs 44,500 in September. |
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| | | RBI pulls up banks on bad debt tags | | Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan on Monday pulled up banks for lack of consistency in recognizing the same bad loan among different lenders. |
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| | Priyanka: I think the world is male-dominated | | We are both sipping coffee. In different parts of the world, in different time zones. It is 7 am in Montreal; Priyanka is curling her sweeping lashes with mascara, while chatting with me at the other end — all perky and raring to go. |
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