[wanabidii] News Digest: Sensex slips more than 300 points, Nifty crumbles too as markets crash

Friday, August 11, 2017

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Sensex slips more than 300 points, Nifty crumbles too as markets crash
The 30-share BSE Sensex slipped 317.74 points to close at 31,213.59 while 50-share NSE Nifty came down by 109.45 points to close at 9,710.80. Analysts believe that this major correction in markets was due after the emphatic bull run it saw in the last couple of months.

Govt has not written off single rupee of corporate loans: Finance Minister

SBI post-merger Q1 net profit jumps to Rs 3,105 crore, bad loans rise
Separately, SBI said in a statement that on a comparable basis, bank's consolidated net profit in April-June, 2017-18, rose by over five-times to Rs 2,006 crore, as against Rs 374 crore a year earlier.

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Environment

New hope for endangered eels, Japanese summer delicacy
Soaring demand for Japanese eel, or Anguilla japonica, helped put the creatures on the International Union of Conservation of Nature's "Red List" of endangered species in 2014. It's spurring poaching of similar species off the US east coast.

Snakes face threat from humans, superstitions surrounding them

As glaciers melt, 'Land of Fire and Ice' watches its history seep away

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World

Families demand Malaysia accept MH370 hunt offer
No trace of the Malaysia Airlines plane, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board, was found during a lengthy deep sea hunt in the southern Indian Ocean off western Australia, with the search called off in January 2017.

As tensions soar, South Korea mulls nuclear arms
South Korea, which hosts 28,500 US troops to defend it from the North, is banned from building its own nuclear weapons under a 1974 atomic energy deal it signed with the US, which instead offers a "nuclear umbrella" against potential attacks.

'China should be neutral if North Korea fires first on US'
China should remain neutral if North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Friday, sounding a warning for Pyongyang over its plans to fire missiles near the US Pacific territory of Guam.

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Science

NASA to study Earth's ionosphere during total solar eclipse
NASA is set to study the Earth's ionosphere during the upcoming total solar eclipse in the US, to better understand the Sun's relationship to the region of the atmosphere where satellites orbit and radio signals are reflected towards our planet.

Asteroid to shave past Earth inside Moon orbit: ESA
An asteroid the size of a house will shave past Earth at a distance of some 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) in October, inside the Moon's orbit, astronomers said Thursday.

China's quantum satellite sends unbreakable signals from space

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Technology

Samsung launches Bluetooth headphones starting at Rs 1,800
Consumer electronics giant Samsung has launched its global range of portable speakers and headsets in India. The product range includes Level Box Slim, Bottle and Scoop speakers and Level Active and Rectangle headset.

WhatApp to soon roll out photo filters to Android users: Report
Late last week, there were reports that Facebook-owned WhatsApp is testing on 'adding colour' to your statuses messages. Now a new report claims that the instant messaging company is testing photo filters for Android users.

RCom offers 'unlimited data' and calls at Rs 299
Reliance Communications (RCom) has rolled out a new rental plan for its subscribers. The company announced the new rental plan of Rs 299 via a tweet.

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Education

Centre mulling taking girls into Sainik Schools, NDA: MoS Defence Subhash Bhamre
"There is a suggestion from the (Parliamentary) Standing Committee, there have been PILs and many members have also suggested... Sainik Schools prepare students for NDA, and the NDA is not taking girl cadets," Bhamre said while replying to a query during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha.

Shoolini University is first in north India to offer job oriented programme in yoga
Shoolini University in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, has become the first university in the country to offer research programme at undergraduate level in professional courses.

IIT-M start-up bags $1 million order from Singapore firm

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Mumbai

Debt-ridden farmer's daughter allegedly commits suicide in Maharashtra

Burglary CCTV clip goes viral, trio held
Three burglars, featuring in a viral CCTV clip, were arrested by the Malwani police on Thursday. In the clip, the trio can be seen creeping out of an alley lined with houses. T

How lax laws fail to instill fear in stalkers

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Delhi

How lax laws fail to instill fear in stalkers

Stalking: Five cases that shook Delhi's conscience

2 killed, 6 injured as tempo hits stationary DTC bus
In a freak accident, two men were killed and six others got injured when an allegedly speeding tempo rammed into a DTC bus that was parked on the roadside in north west Delhi's Rani Bagh in the wee hours of Friday.

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Bangalore

Seers, political leaders skip Lingayat conclave
The meeting was the brainchild of water resources minister M B Patil, a Lingayat who is apparently looking to derive political mileage for the party ahead of the 2018 assembly polls.

Dry run: Will Karnataka declare drought for third year in a row?

Indira Canteens: A work of global minds
Come August 16, Indira Canteens, outlets which will serve affordable food, will become operational.

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Hyderabad

Telangana ropes in religious leaders for vaccination campaign

Contract workers fear losing jobs as GHMC moves to install LEDs

Hyderabad lad all pumped up for bodybuilding titles

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Chennai

NEET: TN waiting for favourable decision from Centre
After the Supreme Court dismissed Tamil Nadu’s appeal against the Madras high court order that quashed a GO for 85% reservation for state board students in medical admissions, health department officials continued to say that they were still waiting for a favourable decision from the Centre.

Student dies after falling off footboard of MTC bus in Chennai
A student died and two others suffered injuries when they fell down from the footboard of an MTC bus at Kodambakkam in Chennai on Friday morning.

DMK can move no-confidence motion against TN govt 'for the sake of people,' Stalin says
The Tamil Nadu assembly is likely to see another non-confidence motion soon. DMK working president M K Stalin on Friday said if it is requited, the DMK will move a no-confidence motion against the government.

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Ahmedabad

9,625 shell firms in Gujarat lose registration
In a major crackdown on shell companies, registrations of 9,625 shell companies in Gujarat have been cancelled. As on July 21, 2017, 1,62,618 shell companies across India have been removed from the register of companies.

961 BSc seats vacant after second round

Cash van with 1,200 bottles of liquor caught in Naroda, 2 held
The stringent prohibition laws of the state have forced bootleggers to come up with new ideas on how to ferry booze in dry Gujarat. They have used water tanker trolleys; scooters; ambulances and even school buses to dodge the police.

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Allahabad

'Ghost barber' targets more women, police unconvinced
No Family Reports Case To Police

ABVP holds Mahapanchayat at Allahabad University

Vishwa Hindu Parishad to observe Bharat Akhand Diwas on August 13

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Bhubaneswar

Doctor from Odisha is now an MP in Kenya
A doctor from the seaside village of Panchupalli under Earasama block of Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha scripted history recently by becoming a member of the Parliament of Kenya after winning the election there.

7 trains to be cancelled

Congress troubleshooters to arrive in city today
Chhattisgarh MP Tamradhwaj Sahu, Assam MP Sushmita Dev and former Union minister of state Jitendra Singh have been dispatched to the state by party chief Sonia Gandhi.

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Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh: Notices to online retailers for selling lizard genitals
The special task force (STF) of Madhya Pradesh forest department’s wildlife wing has sent notices to four online retailers for allegedly selling dried hemipenis of monitor lizards' and other wildlife articles.

Congress LoP asks for time from Amit Shah, BJP says contact over phone
Leader of Opposition Ajay Singh on Thursday challenged chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to fix an appointment for him with BJP national president Amit Shah so he can update the leader on the present situation of governance and administration in the state.

Centre seeks report from Madhya Pradesh on onion rot

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Chandigarh

Pak ex-civil servant still remembers home in Amritsar, sister's grave

Doctor on vacation never went back to Peshawar home

Security on SOI agenda for student council elections

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