[wanabidii] News Digest: Demonetisation effects to disappear in medium term: WB

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

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Demonetisation effects to disappear in medium term: WB
The World Bank has said that the "adverse effects" of demonetisation in India will disappear in the medium term, saying any reform has short-term costs. It expects private investment to accelerate as firms and banks undertake the necessary measures and the effects of important structural reforms start being felt.

World Bank cuts Indian GDP growth for fiscal to 7%
In its first projection on India post-demonetisation, the World Bank has lowered the country's GDP growth estimate for this fiscal to 7 per cent, from its earlier estimate of 7.6 per cent made in June last year.

Hope to soon resolve issues with GST, says Arun Jaitley
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said that he hoped that the critical issues of dual control and cross-empowerment in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) would be resolved in a matter of weeks.

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Environment

Beijing launches environmental police force
The smog-hit Chinese capital of Beijing will establish a police force to deal specifically with environmental offences as part of its efforts to clean up its air and crack down on persistent polluters.

Centre to ban use of 18 pesticides harmful to humans
The Union Agriculture Ministry has issued a draft order, asking manufacturers, importers and state authorities to completely ban 12 of the identified pesticides from January 1, 2018 and remaining six from December 31, 2020.

World heat shatters records, a new sign of global warming
Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200 nations for limiting global warming, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.

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World

North Korea has plutonium for 10 nuclear bombs: South Korea
North Korea, which has carried out five nuclear tests and numerous missile launches, is thought to be planning a nuclear push in 2017 as it seeks to develop a weapons system capable of hitting the US mainland.

UAE says 5 diplomats killed in Afghan blast, Taliban deny role
The United Arab Emirates announced on Wednesday that five of its diplomats were killed in a bombing in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban denied planting the bomb in the Kandahar attack, which also wounded the UAE ambassador to Afghanistan.

Act against state institutions facilitating violence: Afghanistan to UNSC
In a veiled but scathing attack against Pakistan for providing safe havens to terror groups, Afghanistan called on the UN Security Council to take measures against "state institutions" that facilitate extremism to advance their foreign policy agenda.

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Science

Moon saving Pluto's atmosphere from decay

Moon saving Pluto's atmosphere from decay
Pluto's moon which is more than half its diameter and orbits only 12,000 or so miles away, is slowing down the decay of Pluto's atmosphere, scientists have found. To put that into perspective, picture our moon three times closer to Earth and as large as Mars.

Appendix is not useless, it stores good bacteria
The human appendix, which is thought to be of little use to the body, may actually serve as a reservoir for beneficial gut bacteria, a new study has found.

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Technology

Selected Samsung Gear wearables now compatible with Apple iOS
Samsung has announced that its Gear series of wearables are now compatible with iOS devices. According to a statement released by the company, numerous devices such as the Gear S2, Gear S3 and Gear Fit 2 are now compatible with Apple’s mobile OS.

This is Samsung's production target for the Galaxy S8
It seems that the Note 7 debacle hasn’t deterred Samsung from going full speed towards the launch of its next flagship smartphone even one bit.

Google's AI to support 'continuous conversations' on Android TV: Report
Search giant Google’s voice-based assistant - Google Now, has been available for quite some time now. And probably one of its most well-known features is the ‘Ok Google’ phrase, which can be used to trigger Google Now.

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Education

20 of 1.95 lakh candidates get perfect score in CAT 2016
Twenty of the 1.95 lakh candidates who took CAT 2016 have managed to crack it with a perfect score. Male engineers continued to dominate the toppers’ list this year, too. The number of 100 percentilers is the highest in the last six years but not a single woman is in the top slot.

CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 exams from March 9 to April 29
Usually, exams begin in the first week of March. However, due to elections in five states and two polling dates falling on March 4 and March 8, the exams will begin from March 9. However, there will be no delay in the declaration of the results.

20 students get perfect score in CAT 2016

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Mumbai

Mumbai records minimum temperature of 12.5 degree Celsius
The city recorded the lowest minimum temperatures of 12.5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning for the month of January since the year 2014.

NRI based in US donates USD 25,000 to Saibaba Sansthan Trust
An NRI based in the United States has donated USD 25,000 to the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust (SSST) here for its Anna Daan scheme, executive officer of the trust Bajirao Shinde said.

Navi Mumbai police chief gets notice for not paying electricity bill
Seven police department offices in Navi Mumbai, including that of the Commissioner of Police, have been served notices by the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) for non-payment of electricity bills for more than a year.

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Delhi

Delhi shivers: Coldest day as temperature drops to 5.2 degrees, season's lowest
Cold weather and shallow foggy conditions continued to prevail in Delhi on Wednesday, as the national capital yesterday witnessed its coldest day of the season, with mercury dropping to 5.2 degrees.

Delhi shivers on season's coldest day

Wife left Delhi dad killer Rahul Matta due to misbehaviour

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Bangalore

Won't work to make BS Yeddyurappa Karnataka CM: KS Eshwarappa
The ongoing turf war between senior BJP leaders BS Yeddyurappa and KS Eshwarappa took a new turn on Tuesday , with Eshwarappa saying his newly floated organization, Sangolli Rayanna Brigade, won't work towards making Yeddyurappa the next chief minister of the state.

Karnataka: Malur station is 'jinxed', cops refuse to enter it after 'incidents'
The Malur police station is facing a strange problem. After a police inspector shot himself with his service revolver in his chamber here in October, nobody has been willing to take his place.

Sandalwood rattled by third death in 2 months
Sandalwood's stakeholders are shaken by the second tragedy at a film shooting site in just two months.

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Hyderabad

Born in Pakistan 'Indian at heart' woman makes desperate plea for citizenship

Gandikota reservoir to displace 9,000 families
The National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) on Tuesday approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the submergence of six villages in Kondapur mandal of Kadapa district by Gandikota reservoir.

Singer booked for sexually assaulting child
In a shocking incident, a four-year-old girl was sexually as saulted by a singer in Dug girala in Gun tur district.

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Chennai

Transgender activist from Tamil Nadu to speak at Harvard University
Transgender activist Kalki Subramaniam has been invited by Harvard University to speak at the India Conference 2017. To be held from February 11 to 12, the theme of this year’s conference is ‘India – The Global Growth Engine,’ reflecting the opportunities presented by India’s growth in the last decades and the challenges it must overcome in various areas to truly capitalise on the country’s tremendous potential.

Anna University students stage protest demanding removal of ban on jallikattu
Over 500 students of Anna University staged a protest on the campus on Wednesday demanding that the ban on jallikattu (bull-taming sport) be lifted.

Rowdy killed in TN police encounter
Police shot dead a history-sheeter in an encounter near Manamadurai in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday morning.

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Ahmedabad

District Primary Education Officer slaps 1.10 lakh fine on Memnagar school
The DEO issued a notice to the school, in addition to the fine, granting a time of five days to pay the penalty amount, failing which, the affiliation of the school would have been cancelled.

7 armed robbers from Uttar Pradesh nabbed
Gold, Jewellery Worth 10L, Revolver Seized

Corporate honchos see global leader in PM Narendra Modi
Vibrant Gujarat tends to spring surprises for Narendra Modi.At the 2009 summit, corporate honchos saw a future prime minister in him.

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Allahabad

Army mela organised at Allahabad
With great enthusiasm and active participation of the people of Allahabad, the two day long fair, titled ‘know your armed forces’ commenced at Polo ground of Allahabad, on Tuesday. The fair, organised by the Red Eagle division of Allahabad, would conclude on January, 11.

3.74 lakh seized from traders in Saraon
In a surprise check, cash amounting to Rs 3.74 lakh was recovered from two traders at Saraon, on Monday.

Ailing Ghana girl's parents seek help from Sushma Swaraj
Parents of a four and a half years old Ghana girl, Osei Larbi Abena Aniwaa, who is currently undergoing treatment for quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy in the city

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Bhubaneswar

Rural polls to affect paddy procurement
Paddy procurement at Ganjam district looks likely to be delayed further if officials engaged in the process are lent for duty in the upcoming three-tier panchayat polls.

Trinamool Congress ministers fail to show up at Bhubaneswar rally
Not a single TMC minister turned up at the meeting near Master Canteen, though West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee had on August 8 visited Bhubaneswar to oversee the preparations.

17 lakh spent on each Nagada family: Government
This works out to be around Rs 17 lakh a family since the tribal village has just 116 families or Rs 3.50 lakh a head.The village has a population of around 570 people.

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Bhopal

State govt invokes ESMA ahead of board examination
A day after chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan expressed disappointment over a strike by teachers, seeking hike in wages, the state government on Tuesday announced the enforcement of Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) for teachers associated with coming board examinations.

MP CM not to attend Coca Cola plant bhoomi pujan
It is now official that Shivraj Singh Chouhan will not be present during the bhoomi pujan function of Coca Cola plant at Babai in Hoshangabad district on January 11.

Madhya Pradesh BJP meet lauds PM's note ban move, Shivraj's policies

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Chandigarh

Shoe hurled at Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal
A man threw a shoe at Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal in Rattakhera village of his constituency Lambi on Wednesday.

Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam team out to nab power thieves comes under chilli attack
A 15-member raiding team of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) faced the ire of residents of Kadma village in Charkhi Dadri district on Tuesday when it had gone to catch consumers stealing electricity.Intercepting the DHBVN team, a section of villagers threw chilli powder in their eyes and later tried to assault them to avoid getting caught of power theft at their residences.

Cop in minister's escort dies in accident
A constable deployed in the security of Haryana's minister of state Nayab Saini died and two others were injured as an escort vehicle overturned near Lalru in Mohali district on late Monday night.

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