[wanabidii] News Digest: Sensex slumps 262 pts to end at 21-month low

		THE TIMES OF INDIA
		Wednesday, February 10, 2016
		Today's Headlines

		Business
		Sensex slumps 262 pts to end at 21-month low Falling for a third straight session, the benchmark BSE Sensex slipped by 262 points on Wednesday to close at a 21-month low of 23,758.90, as banks and realty sectors witnessed heavy selling pressure amid weak global cues. Centre hikes import tariff value on gold, silver The government on Wednesday hiked the import tariff value on gold to USD 388 per 10 grams and that on silver to USD 487 per kg taking cues from global market. For the first fortnight of this month, the import tariff value on gold was fixed at USD 363 per 10 gram and on silver was USD 443 per kg. Govt set to revive divestment panel The government will set up a Disinvestment Commission to push strategic stake sales in state-run companies and will offload 20-26% in IDBI Bank through a qualified institutional placement (QIP), minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha told TOI. More Business News»

		Environment
		3rd rhino killed in Kaziranga this year Third rhino has been killed by poachers in last 40 days in Kaziranga National Park of Assam, a senior forest official said on Tuesday. Pollution breaching right to happy life: Prez "Distressing" pollution levels in cities have "breached" people's right to lead a healthy, happy and productive life, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday. Greenhouse gases fuelling long-term global warming The Earth is known to be able to restore its temperature equilibrium after a period of natural warming. More Environment News»

		World
		IS determined to strike US this year, say Intelligence officials In testimony before US congressional committees, that country's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, and other officials described the Islamic State as the "pre-eminent terrorist threat." Clapper also said al-Qaida, from which the Islamic State spun off, remains an enemy. S Korea to shut down joint industrial park with N Korea South Korea said Wednesday that it will shut down a joint industrial park with North Korea in response to the North's recent rocket launch, accusing the North of using hard currency from the park to develop its nuclear and missile programs. UK responds to Russian threat by strenghtening navy Britain is sending five warships and 530 naval personnel to join Nato’s maritime arm as the alliance boosts its military force to counter what it sees as a growing threat from Russia. British troops will also be stationed on the ground in the Baltic states, near to the Russian border, it has emerged. More World News»

		Science
		Cutting prison sentences can reduce HIV spread: Study Reducing the number of men who go to prison could help curb the spread of HIV and other sexually-transmitted infections in a community, says a study. Bacteria can see like human beings It has taken scientists over 300 years to finally figure out how bacteria "see" their world, and they do it in a remarkably similar way to us. Female shark due for 'virgin birth' at Great Yarmouth Sea Life Centre The white spotted bamboo shark arrived at Great Yarmouth Sea Life Centre in 2013 having been evacuated from the badly flooded sister centre in Hunstanton. More Science News»

		Technology
		10 hot gadget gift ideas for this Valentine's Day Let’s face it, a rose or a box of chocolates does not make the cut anymore. Ditch convention for some cool gizmos this time around.We are talking about smartwatches, VR headsets, Netflix subscription…Trust us, your valentine will thank you. Trai's decision on net neutrality: Marc Andreessen snubs India American entrepreneur and member of Facebook's board of directors Marc Lowell Andreessen seems highly miffed with telecom regulator Trai's recent rejection of Facebook's Free Basics in India. Google's self-driving car is its own driver: US government US vehicle safety regulators have said the artificial intelligence system piloting a self-driving Google car could be considered the driver under federal law, a major step toward ultimately winning approval for autonomous vehicles on the roads. More Technology News»

		Education
		UGC lets deemed private universities have 6 off-centre campuses Barely three months after the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued notice to 10 deemed universities, including prestigious ones like the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, for having off-centre campuses without clearance, it has amended its regulation allowing private deemed universities to have six off-campuses. Biometric attendance for Allahabad University students For the first time at Allahabad University, attendance of students would be registered through biometric attendance machine. National civic fest: Students and their ideas steer change at civic level  It was a whirlwind of thought-provoking ideas at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan auditorium on Friday, thoughts that poured out of young minds and actually helped fix civic woes. More Education News»

		Mumbai
		MCZMA clears waste processing facility in CRZ III for BMC The BMC's plea to allow use of an additional 52.5 hectares at Kanjurmarg as a processing facility for municipal solid waste has been approved by the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA). Maharashtra appoints MoEF representative on committee for issuing licenses for sand mining A representative from the union environment ministry and a divisional forest officer will now be part of a committee set up by the state government to issue licenses for sand mining for clearing navigation channels. Bombay HC asks what's YouTube, how does it work In what may eventually lead to some moral policing online, the Bombay high court on Tuesday said that a public in terest litigation filed against the All India Bakc**d (AIB) roast show uploaded in December 2014 on YouTube, a video-sharing website, raises a larger issue of regulating content that is put online. More Mumbai News»

		Delhi
		ABVP protests in JNU over event on Afzal Guru The students affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest outside the office of the vice chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Wednesday to vent their ire over a programme describing the execution of 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as 'judicial killing'. Now take a virtual tour of historic Delhi Now one can take a virtual tour of the capital city with a diary that traces the city's history, prominent monuments, maps and haunted monuments. Raid at Kejriwal aide's office : HC allows CBI plea against trial court order The Delhi high court on Wednesday quashed a trial court order directing CBI to return documents seized during raids at Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's principal secretary Rajendra Kumar's office on December 15, 2015, saying it contained self-contradictory reasons. More Delhi News»

		Bangalore
		30 leopard bites, Gubbi battles it out in hospital His career spanning 20 years as a wildlife biologist has never been uneventful. Sanjay Gubbi, who was part of many rescue operations, has had encounters with umpteen number of wild animals. But two days ago, he had a close shave with death when a leopard, which strayed into the premises of Vibgyor School at Marathahalli in east Bengaluru, pounced on him. By women, for women: Facility to offer free dialysis to the poor For Angel, 25, dialysis is the only hope for survival.Wife of an autorickshaw driver from Viveknagar, Angel's symptoms gradually got worse. 3 'leopard sightings' cause panic in Bengaluru A leopard scare gripped areas in and around Whitefield, east Bengaluru, with three big cats being reportedly spotted on Tuesday evening, two days after one large feline was captured after it entered a school and injured two persons in the locality. More Bangalore News»

		Hyderabad
		Youth climbs cell tower demanding reservations on EBC quota In a shocking incident, an engineering graduate threatens to jump off a cell tower demanding the state government to introduce reservation system based on their economic status, not on the caste bias. TDP faces defections after poll rout After suffering a rout in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections, the Telugu Desam Party is now facing an ex odus of its MLAs and a threat of getting reduced to a nonentity in Telangana. HC raps AP over old-age pension Coming down heavily on the Andhra Pradesh authorities for deleting `most deserving people' from the list of beneficiaries of old-age pension, Justice C V Nagarjuna Reddy of the Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday told authorities to scrap the scheme, if they do not have enough money to give pensions to all the eligible people. More Hyderabad News»

		Chennai
		Elephant herd kills farmer in Tamil Nadu A 58-year-old man died after a herd of eight elephants attacked him near Thalawadi in Erode district of Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Wednesday. AIADMK, DMK events cause massive traffic jam in Chennai Vehicles moved at a snail’s pace on the Mount Road from 10am to 1pm. Limited powers of EC allow TN parties to under-report funding For the period 2010-2014, DMK has declared that it received `112 crore as donations -the most that any state party has de clared. Party leaders say they have stuck to the rules and scrupulously declared its donations. More Chennai News»

		Ahmedabad
		Most Gujarat issues pending with GOI despite Modi being PM It was expected that after the former Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will take over as the Prime Minister of India, Gujarat's most of the long pending issues with the Government of India will be resolved. An able beach for disabled Tithal beach in Valsad district of Gujarat will become India's first disabled-friendly beach. India to follow Gujarat conservation model The success of Gujarat's community-based wildlife conservation model will soon be replicated across the country . The Union ministry of forest and environment has proposed employing the `Van Praani Mitra' model in sanctuary areas and adjoining localities across the country . More Ahmedabad News»

		Allahabad
		Around 1.25 crore devotees likely to take holy dip on Mauni Amavasya With around 30 lakh devotees and pilgrims already flocked Sangam to take holy dip on the occasion of Mauni Amavasya snan scheduled on Monday, men-in-khaki on Sunday turned the entire Magh Mela campus into a fortress. `Ayodhya issue should not be politicised' Shankaracharya of Puri Jagadguru Swami Adhokshayajananda on Saturday targeted the Sangh Pariwar outfits for “playing with the sentiments of people and raising sensitive issues keeping in mind the 2017 UP assembly elections and Lok Sabha elections in 2019." No reservation for creamy layer, says Justice Sacha Former Justice Rajinder Sachar said “creamy layer“ should not get advantage of reservation system in the present context and caste system should be abolished. More Allahabad News»

		Bhubaneswar
		Second RD varsity campus soon: Education Minister Pradeep Panigrahy A satellite campus of RD Women's University will come up soon, higher education minister Pradeep Panigrahy said here on Tuesday. Teachers protest lathicharge, police on toes Protesting against Friday's police lathicharge against agitating block grant schoolteachers here, thousands from the fraternity under the banner of School Teachers' Federation of Odisha (STFO) on Tuesday staged a demonstration at Sishu Bhawan. Justice Panigrahi, Nalco CMD to get Utkal degrees Justice Basudev Panigrahi, who probed the ethno-communal riots in Kandhamal district in 2007, and three others will receive honorary degrees (honoris causa) from Utkal University on the occasion of its 47th convocation on February 16. More Bhubaneswar News»

		Bhopal
		BJP not ready to compensate farmers for crop loss in Sehore Led by a farmer chief minister, the BJP is unwilling to compensate the loss of farmers who were compelled to cut their unripe wheat crop near the venue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally. It's bag, It's bomb? It's hoax An unclaimed bag on the footpath along road connecting Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT) and Subhash Nagar led to panic in the area on Tuesday. Ken-Betwa link may deprive Panna of green lung and big cats, say experts When expert appraisal committee (EPA) on river valley and hydropower projects met to decide environment clearance to Ken-Betwa river link proposal, on Feb 8 and 9, it was flooded with fervent appeals from environmentalists to save Panna national park and its tigers. More Bhopal News»

		Chandigarh
		Murder bid case: Asaram's son sent to 7-day judicial remand in murder bid case A Panipat court on Tuesday sent arrested self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's son Narayan Sai to judicial custody for a week in connection with the attack on a prime witness in a rape case registered against them. OBC quota for jats: Khattar sets up 4-member panel under CS Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday ordered constituting a four-member committee under the chairmanship of state chief secretary to prepare outline for future action on the issue of reservation to jat community. The committee will submit its report by March 31. UK firm to invest 1K cr in Haryana Aiming to provide world-class medical services to people of the state, Haryana government has inked an agreement with Indo-UK Healthcare Private Limited to establish medical institutions in the state with a proposed investment of Rs 1,000 crore. More Chandigarh News»

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