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Monday, May 23, 2016
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Silver struggles for day six, down Rs 320; gold steady
Silver prices plunged Rs 320 to Rs 39,580 on Monday. Traders attributed the sustained fall in silver prices to a weakening trend overseas and slack demand. Gold of 99.9 per cent and 99.5 per cent purity went flat at Rs 29,650 and Rs 29,500 per 10 grams, respectively.

Centre, states should share best social practices: Panagariya

Sensex bounces 217 points on value-buying
The benchmark Sensex rebounded by over 217 points and the Nifty took back the 7,800-mark in the beginning of the session on Monday, snapping its 3-session losing spell, driven by value-buying by retail investors amid a firm trend in Asian bourses.

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India cages endangered lions after fatal attacks
After three villagers were killed in past few months, thirteen endangered Asiatic lions in western India have been caged. Gujarat's chief minister A F Khan said lions that have preyed upon humans will be analyzed, while the rest will be introduced back into the wild.

110 rhinos died in Indian zoos from 1965 to 2015
An ongoing research titled ‘Great Asian One Horned Rhinoceros dying in Indian Zoos’ by a wildlife expert has revealed that 110 rhinos have died in Indian zoos during the period from 1965 to 2015. The research stated that only 34 of these rhinos were born in zoos.

Law on civil penalties on anvil to protect environment
Giving details of the proposed law, environment minister Prakash Javadekar said besides covering industries and other private entities, it will have provision to impose heavy penalties on government agencies, local bodies and state-run institutions.

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Multiple blasts kill more than 100 in Syria
A spate of bombings in two Syrian regime stronghold cities killed at least 101 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Yemen bombings kill at least 41
A suicide bomber killed 34 people queueing up to enlist at recruitment centre near the Badr base in the Khormaksar district. A second explosion went off inside the base afterwards, killing seven soldiers.

S Korea rejects North's military talks offer
The North's leader - Kim Jong-Un - offered the military dialogue during a speech to a recent congress of the ruling Workers' Party - the first event of its kind for more than 35 years. Seoul though said that talks cannot happen minus mention of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.

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Isro launches India's first reusable launch vehicle from Sriharikota

India to get new indigenously-built supercomputer next year
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing that built India's first supercomputer, Param, is handling the project. The government had, in March 2015, approved the plan of the National Supercomputing Mission, under which 80 supercomputers will be built in the next seven years.

'New form of light discovered'
One of the measurable characteristics of a beam of light is known as angular momentum. Until now, it was thought that in all forms of light the angular momentum would be a multiple of Planck's constant. But, in the new form of light the angular momentum of each photon takes only half of this value.

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5 biggest smartphone makers of the world
The smartphone industry is one of the most dynamic marketplaces out there.

Upgraded Asus Zenfone Max launched starting at Rs 9,999: Specs and features revealed
While the new version of the Asus Zenfone Max features the same design as its previous version, it houses some bumped up specifications when it comes to the processor, RAM, and inbuilt storage.

Apple-Google rivalry continues
At the top of the corporate world, Apple and Google are in a back-and-forth battle to be number one.

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IIMB ranks among Top 50 Global schools for Executive Education
IIMB takes the 47th position in the overall Financial Times Executive Education 2016 Ranking and is ranked alongside prestigious universities like London Business School, IESE, IMD, Harvard Business School, University of Oxford, among others.

Students find JEE advanced paper tough
The students who appeared for the exam found that the question paper was "more difficult" than last year's, especially the physics section, which contained many difficult questions.Around 2,500 students appeared for the exam at 8 centres in the city and most walked out of the centres with gloomy faces after the exam.

DUTA executive announces boycott of evaluation process for 4 days
Delhi University Teachers’ Assocation has announced boycott of evaluation in DU from Tuesday, May 24 to Friday, May 27, in protest against the new UGC Gazette Notification amending the UGC 2010 Regulation that alters work-load requirements for college teachers. If the governemnt doesn’t listen, teachers may even boycott the admission process.

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Bombay HC stays trial proceedings in Jiah Khan case till June 7
A vacation bench of the Bombay high court on Monday has stayed trial court proceeding in actress Jiah Khan’s suicide case until June 7.

Court rejects Peter's bail plea in Sheena murder case
A special CBI court on Monday refused to grant bail to former media honcho Peter Mukerjea in the Sheena Bora murder case.

ISIS 'promotes' Kalyan youths as deputy khalifa, governor of Indian territories
Two days after Daesh released a video highlighting the Indian jihadists in its ranks, it has emerged that Kalyan youths Fahad Tanveer Shaikh and Aman Naeem Tandel, featured in the video, have been promoted to the top echelons of the terror outfit.

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Delhi court clears Arvind Kejriwal of defamation over 'thulla' remark
The term "thulla" used by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was made with reference to the Delhi Police officers who are "inefficient", have "low productivity rate" and take money from street vendors, a court said while dismissing a criminal defamation complaint against the AAP leader.

Plan for Varanasi Metro Approved
The Centre has approved a plan for a metro service in the Prime Minister's constituency of Varanasi ­ estimated to cost Rs 12,350 crore ­ by extending 'provisions of the Metro Railways Act to the city

Man with 'villain is back' stickers on bike battered Congolese to death
Stickers on his bike scream, "Villain is back".Mobin Azad Saifi, 23, accused in a sensational molestation case in Vasant Kunj last December, appears to have lived up to the slogan, again.

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'Industry' coined from Indus, says VHP man

IIT aspirants stopped from entering exam hall with full-sleeves
They say chasing your dream calls for sacrifices. What they don't tell you is, those sacrifices can take a lot out of you - or your clothes. That's what this aspiring engineer learnt on Sunday.

Farmer turns messiah, holds mass marriages for Muslims
At 62, Mohammed Anwar Khadri is an unassuming social worker who lives in a small house in Tippu Nagar, Shivamogga. Khadri is well-known here for his more popular activity of hosting mass marriages for poor Muslims. He took his initiative to a more personal level by getting his daughter married in such a programme. On April 24, Karnataka saw one of the largest mass marriages, with 163 couples tying the knot in a single ceremony.

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Telangana statehood celebrations fail to enthuse job seekers
The ongoing preparations for the second anniversary of Telangana statehood has done little to cheer lakhs of job seekers in the state. With the government failing to fill over 1.30 lakh vacancies, getting employed in the separate state has been a pipe dream for over six lakh unemployed youths in Telangana.

Man jumps into lions' cage for a handshake
A 35-year old man from Rajasthan had a strange desire to shake hands with lion.He wasted not even a second, when he developed this desire while going round the Nehru Zoological Park in Hyderabad on Sunday.

Hyderabadis turn up to lend support for saving green cover
In a show of solidarity to preserve Hyderabad's depleting green spaces, hundreds of citizens from various walks of life gathered at the KBR Park on Sunday evening to participate in the silent candlelight march organized by Times of India as part of its efforts to protect the city's green cover from being bulldozed.

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Jayalalithaa swearing-in ceremony causes huge traffic snarls in Chennai
Huge traffic snarls were seen in Chennai on Monday when AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa was sworn in as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the sixth time.

Jayalalithaa closes 500 liquor shops, cuts liquor shop timings by two hours
ne of the first signatures of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa after taking oath for the sixth time was to reduce the timing of liquor shops by two hours and to close 500 Tasmac shops in the state.

Jayalalithaa takes over as Tamil Nadu chief minister for sixth time
AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa was on Monday sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister for the historic second consecutive term, after her mentor M G Ramachandran set the record in 1984.

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DRI unearths multi-crore scam in import of used offset printing machines
The Ahmedabad zonal unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has unearthed a multi-crore duty evasion scam in an import of old and used offset printing machines.

Gujarat govt to organize quarterly Loksamvad Setu Programmes

14,735 students admitted under RTE ACT in Ahmedabad
A total of 14,735 students were given admission under Right To Education Act in the district of Ahmedabad.

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Now, villagers think over recycling of grey water
Making a strong pitch for conserving each drop of water during the upcoming monsoon season, volunteers of Jal Chetna Yatra are taking up a campaign among villagers of Allahabad and Pratapgarh districts asking them to take initiatives to check the depleting level of groundwater and water conservation.

Sufi songs reveberate Khusrau Bagh, Sabri Bros' rendition wows audience
The lush green and serene surroundings of majestic Khusrau Bagh came alive with soul-stirring Sufi songs.Famous Sabri brothers' three-hour rendition kept the audience spell-bound.

CBSE report card: Govt schools score over public
It is contrary to boards like Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP Board), where students of private schools and aided schools have proformed better than government schools.

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Baby-swap charges rock Vimsar hosp
Allegations of baby-swapping surfaced at at the Special New Born Care Unit (SNCU) of Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medial Sciences and Research (Vimsar) in Burla on Saturday evening.

CM's MoUs grow in length, so do yet-to-start projects
When chief minister Naveen Patnaik assumed office in 2000, hopes soared that the industrial sector, a potential field to generate employment in the mineral-rich and yet backward state, would get a boost.

CBI questions former Koraput MP
The CBI on Sunday interrogated former BJD lawmaker from Koraput, Jayaram Pangi, in connection with the murder of a teacher, Itishree Pradhan.

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Former IAS officer turns BJP poll strategist in Ghoradongri
When chief minister Shivraj Singh kicked off his election campaign on Sunday for Ghoradongri by-election scheduled for May 30 all eyes were on Arun Bhatt, a former IAS officer, who announced to support the BJP.

Bizmen confine, beat bank staff
A senior bank official and a few employees who had gone to serve a recovery notice were locked in a flat and beaten up by two businessmen here on Saturday.

Khajuraho continues to reel at 47 C
The state capital got a little relief from the scorching heat wave conditions with the maximum temperature being recorded at 42.5 degrees Celsius but district of Bundelkhand and other areas in northern MP are still reeling under sultry weather conditions.

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Punjab roadways driver killed
A 55-year old driver with Punjab Roadways, Sarabjeet Singh, was crushed to death under the wheels of an unknown truck near his residence in Sector 29 on Sunday night.

Ex-DGP Samar pens book on terrorism era
Retired 1967-batch IPS and former Punjab DGP Samar Vijay Singh, who had played a key role in staving off Khalistan terrorism in 1980s and 1990s, has authored a book on his experiences in combating militancy and vigilance cases of corruption.

Class 10 results: Haryana board students fail to cross 50% hurdle
The BJP government has failed to improve the standards of education in Haryana as 51.12% students have failed to clear the class X examination of Board of School Education, Haryana (HBSE). Sonipat has recorded the highest pass percentage of 69.84% while NCR district of Faridabad has recorded the lowest pass percentage of 34.47%.

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