In this issue

August 12, 2024

IN THE END, INDIA'S CAMPAIGN A CASE OF GLASS HALF FULL

HE lights are dimmed.

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Hindenburg: Oppn seeks JPC probe against Sebi chief

Buch had disclosed her investments, recused to avoid conflicts of interest, says regulator

1 min

Boy electrocuted, another drowns as rain lashes city

IN two tragic rain-related incidents, two boys aged 7 and 13 years died of drowning and electrocution in the city, officials said on Sunday.

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Kerala's 'White' Jews community dwindles to one

KERALA'S once vibrant Jewish community has dwindled to just one person after the death of Queenie Hallegua, 89, on Sunday.

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Statement attributed to Hasina fake, says her son

A day after a section of media reported that former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina blamed the US for the crisis that led to the fall of her government, her son Sajeeb Wazed clarified on Sunday that her mother has not issued any such statement.

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4 kids among 14 hurt in multi-storey building fire

FOURTEEN people, including six women and four children, suffered injuries after a multistorey building in south Delhi's Fatehpur Beri area caught fire early on Sunday, official sources said.

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Panic as Tungabhadra dam's crest gate breaks

PANIC gripped areas along the downstream of Tungabhadra reservoir in Karnataka after one of its crest gates got detached and washed away into the river early on Sunday morning.

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TIFF OVER HOISTING NATIONAL FLAG LIKE PREYING ON CARCASS

IN the school science texts, scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms which may have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.

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Mughal-era summer palace in Mehrauli on verge of collapse

SHORTAGE of requisite funds for restoration of the monument and administrative laxity are posing grave threat to the survival of Zafar Mahal, a Mughal-era summer palace, located in Mehrauli, adjacent to the shrine of noted Sufi saint Qutubuddin Bakhtiar Kaki.

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Sisodia holds AAP meet on poll strategy

AAP leader Manish Sisodia held a meeting with senior leaders on Sunday to discuss the strategy for the Assembly polls slated to be held early next year.

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AAP glorifying leaders out on bail while city grapples with waterlogging: BJP

THE Delhi unit of BJP on Sunday, in an apparent reference to the release of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, accused the AAP for glorifying its leaders who are involved in \"jail and bail\" matters at a time when the city is grappling with severe waterlogging, drowning incidents, and deaths caused by electrocution.

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ASI to restore 400-yr-old Barapulla Bridge: L-G

THE historic 400-year-old Barapulla Bridge in Nizamuddin area will be restored by the Archaeological Survey of India within three months, Raj Niwas officials said on Sunday.

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Severe waterlogging halts city, traffic hit amid deluge

Alert sounded for more rains; Delhi records 160% surplus rainfall

1 min

Childhood in peril: Mourning families blame authorities

\"I need my son back, I can't live without him.

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ACCESS DENIED

14 disabled dying in a month in a govt-run shelter home has turned the spotlight on their plights and the negligence of authorities. From schools denying admissions to colleges and hospitals not fully accessible, Ashish Srivastava, Prabhat Shukla and Anup Verma delve deep into the issue.

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2K people participate in search op

3 body parts were found inside Kanthanpara forest in landslide-hit Wayanad district

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Brand Telangana will suffer if firms keep leaving: KTR

BRS working president and former IT & Industries Minister KT Rama Rao expressed concern over the reports that Amara Raja Group might leave Telangana if the government fails to honour its commitments.

1 min

Kerala police seek creation of 15,000 new posts

REELING under a severe manpower crunch that has created hurdles in effective policing, the state police have proposed the government to create 15,075 new posts in the law and order wing.

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Lightning claimed 1.1L lives in 5 decades, Odisha, 3 others recorded 55% deaths

WITH 1.01 lakh deaths in the last five decades, lightning has emerged as one of the most lethal and challenging disasters among natural hazards in the country.

1 min

Super 100 helps disadvantaged girls pursue careers in science

AN innovative initiative under the 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' scheme is empowering girl students from the most disadvantaged tribal and coastal areas to break free from generational poverty through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education.

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Tribal youth shot at for plucking lemon in TN

A 18-year-old man from the Paliyar tribal community was shot by a landowner who belongs to a Backward Classes community in Sirumalai of Dindigul district on Saturday evening.

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Landslide crashes Air Force dream of Rajasthan youth

THE dream of Rohit Singh Rawat, a 24-year-old from Ajmer, Rajasthan, to serve the country as an Indian Air Force officer, crash-landed after his train was struck in a landslide between Sakaleshpur and Ballupete stations on Saturday.

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SC HAMMERS BASIC PRINCIPLES WHILE GRANTING BAIL TO SISODIA

PROLONGED incarceration before being pronounced guilty of an offence should not be permitted to become punishment without trial.

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FOUR NOMINEES FOR BANK ACCOUNTS A RADICAL MOVE

THE Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, tabled in Parliament last week, has several provisions offering flexibility and uniformity to banks for carrying out their day-to-day operations.

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PROTECTING MINORITIES IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

The Indian government has raised its voice against the atrocities being inflicted on Hindus in Bangladesh. Yet, those who champion minority rights in India have not been so vocal

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HISTORICAL FULFILMENT OF SPIRITUAL DEBTS

ANDAL Jayanti 2024 was on August 7.

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Protests intensify over Kolkata medico's rape, murder

A couple of days after a postgraduate student of RG Kar Medical College and hospital was raped and murdered, the West Bengal government on Sunday removed the superintendent of the medical college over alleged lapses.

1 min

BJP hopes to strengthen RS tally with upcoming bypolls

THE BJP is likely to strengthen its position in the Rajya Sabha after by-elections for 12 vacant seats are held in September.

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Over 3,000 transgenders avail services under PM's Ayushman Arogya Yojana

OVER 3,000 transgender people have used composite healthcare services under the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), according to government data.

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PM push for high-yielding, biofortified crops

Modi releases 109 new seed varieties of 61 crops; move aimed at increasing farm yield as well as farmers' income

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Natwar Singh a 'man of letters': Cong pays tribute to former foreign minister

CONGRESS leaders on Sunday condoled former external affairs minister K Natwar Singh's demise with several leaders hailing his profound contribution to India's diplomacy and external affairs.

1 min

Women power in the saddle in 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh

WOMEN IAS officers are heading the administration in 13 of the 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh, signifying changing social dynamics.

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Civilian dead, forces step up anti-terror ops

SECURITY forces have launched massive anti-militancy operations in the forest areas of Kokernag and Kishtwar after a civilian succumbed to injuries sustained in the gunfight between militants and security forces in Kokernag in south Kashmir on Saturday, taking the death toll in the encounter to three.

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15 people drown, five missing in parts of Rajasthan

HEAVY rains across Rajasthan led to the tragic death of 15 people on Sunday.

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Blast rocks ex-Manipur MLA's house, wife killed

THE wife of a former Manipur MLA was killed in a bomb blast at her residence.

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Trainer aircraft crashes in MP's Guna due to snags, two pilots injured

TWO pilots were injured after the two-seater trainer aircraft they were flying reportedly crashed possibly due to technical snags near the airstrip in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.

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Search launched for MP women brandishing guns in viral video

VIRAL videos and pictures of two women brandishing guns in two districts have brought to fore the thriving gun culture in Gwalior-Chambal region of Madhya Pradesh.

1 min

9 of HP wedding party swept away

Five labourers die after getting trapped in flash flood Incessant rains spell trouble for many tourists in Rajasthan & Uttarakhand

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Iran prez Pezeshkian names one woman in cabinet

IRANIAN President Masoud Pezeshkian presented his cabinet to parliament on Sunday, notably including a woman and a Western-friendly diplomat as the country's foreign minister.

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B'desh govt threatens media with closure for spreading fake news

BANGLADESH's interim government on Sunday issued a stern warning to media organisations, stating that they will be shut down if they publish or broadcast false or misleading news, in a move aimed at curbing the spread of misinformation.

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UK schools to teach on how to spot fake news

THE UK government said on Sunday schools in England could teach children how to spot extremist and online content spreading \"putrid conspiracy theories\", under planned changes to the curriculum.

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Zelenskyy confirms recent military incursion into Kursk

DAYS after Ukraine began a surprise military incursion into Russia's Kursk border region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy broke the government's silence on it late Saturday by indirectly acknowledging ongoing military actions to 'push the war out into the aggressor's territory' in his address.

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Fearing air strikes, Gazans again flee Khan Younis after evac order

Israel says Hamas militants have taken refuge in northern neighbourhood of Khan Younis

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Trump campaign team blames Iran for stealing sensitive internal files

FORMER President Donald Trump's presidential campaign said on Saturday that it has been hacked and suggested Iranian actors were involved in stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents.

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HOW TO FOLLOW THE SMART MONEY

MONEY MATTERS TOCK markets are a confluence of a variety of investors.

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LIC to make investments of about ₹1.30 lakh crore in stock markets in FY25

LIFE Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) MD and CEO Siddhartha Mohanty has said that the corporation is looking to make fresh investments of around ₹1.30 lakh crore in equities during the current financial year.

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WEALTH CREATION! LEARN TO PAY YOURSELF FIRST

ANY of you would have heard of this before, however, for those who have not, Pay Yourself First is a great way of creating wealth for you in the long run.

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Investment in IIFL fund made before joining Sebi: Buchs

The Buchs said investment in a fund promoted by IIFL Wealth Management was as Singapore-based private citizens, and made 2 yrs before Madhabi joined Sebi

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Yes Bank aims to ramp up growth capital, margins

YES Bank, which is in talks with investors to give an exit to the SBI-led lenders who are its majority shareholders, sees profitability improving and the resultant gain in RoI (Return on Investment) from this fiscal as the 44,000 crore tied up in the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) will begin to come back to the bank in tranches from this fiscal.

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Box office hit: Emotional Lin follows Khelif's footsteps to silence doubters

LIN Yu-ting fought to remain poised and calm throughout the Paris Olympics boxing tournament, even when it seemed like most of the chattering world was maligning her, misrepresenting her and questioning the very nature of her being.

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NOWHERE NEAR TARGET

As the Paris Olympics comes to an end, six medals with the all-important gold missing is a reality check for a nation that's planning to bid for 2036 Olympics

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'May look to have short camp before Olympiad'

SRINATH Narayanan, captain of the Indian open team for the upcoming Chess Olympiad, reckons there's a good chance that they can win gold.

1 min

The art of motorcycle warfare

THE Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450, which was launched recently, is the second bike on the 450cc platform from RE, so it doesn't need a separate introduction.

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A GEMSTONE ODYSSEY

AMID the chaos of blazing guns, armed bandits and humour, author Richa Goyal Sikri deftly weaves in nuggets of information about the trade of coloured stones in the African continent in her latest book No Stone Unturned: The Hunt for African Gems (Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd).

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