[wanabidii] Top Headlines: PM Modi unleashes his charm on opposition in bid to break Parliament logjam

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[wanabidii] Top Headlines: PM Modi unleashes his charm on opposition in bid to break Parliament logjam

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PM Modi unleashes his charm on opposition in bid to break Parliament logjam

PM Modi entered Rajya Sabha just before chairman Hamid Ansari adjourned the House, the second and final adjournment in the first session of the day.

Wife meets Yakub, says 'Allah pe bharosa hai'

Teary-eyed wife Rahin, daughter Zubeida and three other family members of Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon spent around half an hour with him in the ‘mulaqat’ arena of Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning, where he is scheduled to be hanged on July 30.

I-T to ED: Probe Virbhadra for money laundering

The I-T department on Thursday asked the Enforcement Directorate to probe Himachal CM Virbhadra Singh for allegedly accepting bribes in a hydel project.

CITIES

Kejriwal blinks, sends Maliwal file to Jung

After courting major controversy over the appointment of Swati Maliwal as chairperson of Delhi Commission for Women without first getting the go-ahead from the lieutenant governor, the Delhi government on Thursday finally sent him the file saying it did not want “to make an issue of it”

Anand Parbat case: Fear lurks week after girl's murder

It's more than a week since Meenakshi, 19, was brutally stabbed to death by a stalker in a west Delhi colony but the residents haven't got over their shock and fear.

Forced to kneel down in school, 10-yr-old dies in Hyderabad

A class V student at a private school in Huzurabad town of Karimnagar district died on Thursday after she was subjected to corporal punishment, sparking off massive protests by child rights activists.

TECH

5 new WhatsApp features you don’t know about

WhatsApp has just released a new update for Android smartphones that brings a bunch of new features for the popular app. Though the update has not been pushed to the Google Play Store, you can still download it from the company’s website and check out the new features.

Apple grows faster in India than China

India is proving to be quite a strong growth engine for Apple, the world’s most valuable company that sells the iPhone smartphones, iPad devices and Mac line of computers.

SPORTS

We feel this is the best pace attack: Patil differs from Dhoni

The selection committee chairman Sandeep Patil in a polite yet firm manner made it clear that his point of view on team's pace attack is different from MS Dhoni.

Leggie Amit Mishra makes Test comeback after 4 years

The national selection committee, headed by Sandeep Patil, announced the Indian squad for the three-Test series vs Sri Lanka starting August 12.

Pragyan Ojha picks three, Australia A 185/4 at stumps

Bowling with a rejigged action, Ojha finished the day with figures of 3/52 as he had at one stage reduced Australia A from 57/1 to 75/4 in a space of 23 deliveries.

BUSINESS

Draft seeks to remove RBI guv’s veto power

The government has proposed to have a dominant say in deciding how interest rates are set in the revised draft Indian Financial Code, which was unveiled on Thursday and also seeks to remove the proposed veto power of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor.

Hyundai plans to invest 4.5k cr for new plant

Nearly two decades after setting foot in India, Korean car major Hyundai has decided to pump in fresh investment of over Rs 4,500 crore for a new factory to boost its production capacity to over a million vehicles.