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January 16, 2023

Mercury falls sharply across north India

Frosty winds whipped the plains of north and northwest India on Sunday, bringing minimum temperatures drastically down in many areas. It is going to turn colder until western disturbances provide some relief starting on Thursday, the Met office said.

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Redevelopment of 11 chawls on fast track

The Union Textile Ministry will redevelop 11 old chawls on NTC mill lands in Mumbai in association with the state Government in a move set to bring relief to 2,062 residents.

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INDIA THUMP SL TO CREATE ODI HISTORY

India annihilated a clueless Sri Lanka to register biggest margin of the victory by runs in One Day International (ODI) cricket history.

1 min

68 killed in Nepal plane crash

Five Indians among 72 passengers on board killed

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CIVIC BODIES TOP IN BRIBERY IN STATE: ACB DATA

₹3.24 crore graft amount is involved in 727 trap cases registered against several depts last year, says bureau

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MBMC's ₹750 cr garbage lifting tender raises a stink

Politically backed cartel eyeing monetary gains by distorting tender process

1 min

FPIs withdraw ₹15,000 cr from equities in 2 weeks of January

Foreign investors have been adopting cautious stance towards Indian mkts for past few weeks

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I belong to middle class, understand their pressures, says Sitharaman

Ahead of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Sunday that she was aware of the pressures of the middle class but also recalled that the present government has not imposed any fresh taxes on them.

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India's Russian oil imports top 1 mn barrels/day in Dec

India's import of crude oil from Russia increased further in December 2022, topping 1 million barrels per day for the first time ever as Moscow remained its top oil supper for the third month in a row, according to data from energy cargo tracker Vortexa.

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Centre wants to capture last citadel of freedom, says Sibal

Rajya Sabha MP and former law minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday accused the Government of attempting to \"capture\" the judiciary and said it was trying its best to create a situation in which the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) in \"another avatar\" may be tested in the Supreme Court once again.

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Secunderabad-Vizag Vande Bharat flagged off

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday virtually flagged-off the Vande Bharat train service between Secunderabad in Telangana and the port city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Makar Sankranti.

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L-G bound by aid and advice of government: AAP

The lieutenant-governor cannot \"impede\" the work of the Delhi government and is supposed to give his nod to subjects already approved by the cabinet, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said on Sunday.

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Opposition against remote voting machine: Digvijaya

Congress on Sunday called an all-party meeting to discuss Remote Voting Machines (RVM) and all the political parties unanimously opposed the proposal of RVM by the Election Com mission of India (ECI).

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Climate Change Is The Real Threat To Tourism

Tourism destinations around India, from Manali to Munnar, are sinking under the weight of tourists their garbage, their buses, cars, their steel and glass hotels and the dust and debris of under-construction roads, highways, railways, waterways, ropeways and airports, that will bring in more tourists in the near future.

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Ukraine races to rescue people after Dnipro strike

Rescue workers in Ukraine scrambled on Sunday to pull survivors from the rubble of an apartment building hit a day earlier by a Russian missile in the southeastern city of Dnipro.

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China reports declining critical Covid cases as peaks pass

China has reported declining numbers of fever patients and critical Covid cases nationwide as both peaks have passed less than a month after the country optimized its epidemic response in early December.

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INDIA SIMPLY SUPERB

Kohli, Gill power hosts to series sweep with massive 317-run win

1 min

India hold England

Remain in contention for direct quarters berth

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University study finds clues to cat domestication

FELINE GENETICS

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NEET SS batches remain empty after two rounds of counselling

Even after the Medical Committee Counselling (MCC) has completed the final rounds for selection NEET Super Speciality (SS) courses, over a thousand medical seats remain vacant, prompting students to demand a third mop-up round with lower cutoffs.

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The Free Press Journal is one of the oldest English Daily newspapers from Mumbai with a heritage of more than 90 years. And yet, The Free Press Journal is a contemporary paper and rooted in current urban realities.

In keeping with the international trend, it has reinvented itself in terms of design, get up and content. It means different thing to different people – a platform for the articulate, a trendsetter for the young and a chronicle for the old.

It was at the forefront of freedom struggle against the British and continues with the free and fearless journalism till date. Indeed, the history of The Free Press Journalism mirrors that of Indian independence.

Swaminath Sadanand, a 30-year-old idealist from Madras trudged his way to Bombay and with a vision that was to prove uncomfortably ahead of his day, brought out a newspaper as unorthodox in character as it was innovative in concept. For Swaminath Sadanand, the Free Press Journal was not so much a business venture as a cause.

The spirit with which he launched the paper and ran it for almost three decades helped it make it an integral part of two great Indian movements — the struggle for independence and the evolution of Indian publishing.