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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

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Stan Chart Bank renames its global shared services
Standard Chartered Bank’s global shared services -- Standard Chartered Global Shared Services Centre – has been renamed as Standard Chartered Global Business Services (GBS) Private Limited.

Reforms in India to boost medium term growth: Moody's

Gold futures up by Rs 14 on firm global cues

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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

US blacklist additions will degrade ties: Kremlin

Pak needs a dose of Trump's madman diplomacy: Expert
Noting that the US is yet to find an effective way to gain Pakistan's full cooperation in the fight against international terrorism, a top American expert on South Asian issues has said that the country needs a dose of President-elect Donald Trump's madman diplomacy.

'Thousands attend Iran ex-prez Rafsanjani's funeral'
Tens of thousands of Iranians were already at Tehran University on Tuesday to attend the funeral service for former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani led by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Science

Milky Way black hole is firing planet sized 'spitballs'

NASA's Mars orbiter captures stunning view of Earth, Moon
The most powerful telescope aboard NASA's Mars orbiter has captured a stunning view of Earth and the Moon, showing the continent-size detail on the planet and the relative size of its natural satellite.

Hubble creates interstellar road map for future galactic trek
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is creating a road map for the two Voyager spacecraft, that will travel through unexplored territories beyond our solar system, by measuring the material along the probes' future trajectories.

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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

Bombay HC restrains BMC from carrying out repairs on Lalbaug flyover till February 9
The Bombay high court on Tuesday restrained the BMC from carrying out surface repairs works on Lalbaug flyover till February 9, 2017 and only after receiving the structural audit report.

Huge fall in apartment sales in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, says report
Apartment sales in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) in the second half of 2016 have been the worst in the last seven years, according to a Knight Frank report released on Tuesday.

Chill in Mumbai, minimum temperature drops to 13.6 degree celsius

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Delhi

Delhi records lowest temperature as cold wave intensifies
Delhiites witnessed a chilly Tuesday morning as cold wave gripped the national capital. The minimum temperature recorded was 5.2 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season's average, also the lowest this season.

4 injured as gang fires 25 rounds

44 congested stretches to be cleared soon

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Bangalore

Demonetization took a toll on foreign entries at deaf film fest

Traffic. That's the reason most NRIs are cagey about investing in Bengaluru
The state government was left red faced during a session on Innovate, Invent and Invest in Karnataka held at the Pravasi Bhartiya Divas here on Monday as the delegates attending the session complained about the traffic snarls ailing the city and the lack of proper infrastructure for the flourishing industrial ecosystem of Bengaluru.

After 76 long years, family gets its property back
Three members of a family have been given back over three acres of land in Byrasandra that they had acquired from the family patriarch back in 1941. Legal dispute over acquisition of the land went on all these years. The family members claimed that they were never paid compensation for the land originally notified by the then Government of Mysore to build a central prison.

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Hyderabad

IT firm managing director arrested for duping youth
A fugitive managing director (MD) of Overt Technology Private Ltd has been arrested by the Madhapur police for duping several unemployed youth on the pretext of providing jobs.

Civic body's apathy to vendors fuels Moin Bagh market trouble
The recurring unrest at Moin Bagh over the weekly vegetable market has brought to the fore the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation's slow progress in issuing ID cards to vendors.

Advertisers defacing public property to face the heat

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Chennai

Three more quacks held in Tiruvannamalai
With the latest arrests, the number of quacks arrested in Tiruvannamalai has crossed 25 since August 23.

Tamil Nadu will be declared drought-hit state, CM says
Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam on Tuesday announced that all parts of the state will be declared drought-hit, owing to the failure of the northeast monsoon last year. Land tax will waived totally for farmers.

Demonetisation: Chennai real estate market suffered Rs 1,100crore revenue loss in 2016, report says
Demonetisation dented the real estate market in Chennai causing notional revenue loss to the tune of Rs 1,100 crore last year, a report by a global property consultant has revealed.

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Ahmedabad

Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani detained: Offence for violation of notification lodged

At 10.7°Celsius, Ahmedabad feels the chill
Amdavadis woke up with chilly winds on Monday as the minimum temperature plummeted to 10.7°C, a steep three degrees below normal. Not only the city, but most of the places in the state recorded a dip in the temperature.

Liquor, beer worth Rs 38 lakh seized near Unjha
Even as several bootleggers have been booked under the new stringent prohibition norms, the liquor flow in the state does not seem to have stopped.

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Allahabad

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

Post office to take poll campaigning to remote areas
Some of the remotest villages of the state may not have basic infrastructure but they would still be able to get a taste of election campaigning by candidates in the fray.

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Bhubaneswar

CBI finds vital evidence against TMC MP in Rose Valley scam
CBI on Monday claimed to have come across vital clues against arrested TMC parliamentarian Sudip Bandyopadhyay in connection with Rose Valley Ponzi scam and suspected his mediation behind diversion of crores of rupees from the firm to foreign countries.

IGNOU designs course for primary teachers
Several states, including Chhattisgarh, have made this course mandatory for untrained teachers in government schools.The NCERT has developed the course keeping in mind shortage of trained teachers in schools.

Youngest sarpanch readies for zilla parishad fight
"My political journey was not smooth.Things were very different and difficult at the ground level.But I am happy that I could bring changes in my panchayat, which I hope will continue even after me," said Arati.

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Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission for relief to kin of Shivpuri sanitary workers
Two labourers had died while working in a sewage line in May last year

Video shot by village kids nails sexual offender principal in Bhopal
A group of teenage students of a private school in Harpalpur village of Chhatarpur district conducted a sting on their principal while in the act of sexually harassing minor students, recently.

Midi-buses to end transport woes in Bhopal
The fast developing colonies of Bhopal are going to get a midi-bus fleet, ending commuting woes of lakhs of people.

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Chandigarh

Chief electoral officer takes strong note of stoning of Sukhbir Singh Badal 's cavalcade
Punjab chief electoral officer V K Singh on Monday took strong note of the incident in which stones were hurled at the cavalcade of SAD president and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal during campaigning and said such incidents will not be allowed to happen again in the poll-bound state.

Punjab assembly elections: Songs of candidate's praise to cost him Rs 1.5 lakh in poll panel's tab
Punjab assembly election candidates' extravagance during high-decibel campaign is now under the hawk-eye of the Election Commission (EC).

Cops act after chairs for Shiromani Akali Dal candidate's event block road in Faridkot town
Acting on instructions of Faridkot deputy commissioner, police registered a case for blocking of a road during the opening of election office of Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Parambans Singh Romana on Monday.

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