[wanabidii] News Digest: Economy to bounce back next quarter, expect 7.5 % growth this fiscal: Niti Ayog

Friday, June 02, 2017

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Economy to bounce back next quarter, expect 7.5 % growth this fiscal: Niti Ayog
Niti Ayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya on Friday, said that India's economy is expected to grow at 7.5% in the fiscal ending in March 2018. Speaking at a press conference, he said that the economy will witness a "good" turnaround as early as the next (April-June) quarter itself.

How this Delhi facility can bring about a 'Rehab Revolution' in India
The rehab lab at Fortis Escorts, Delhi that was launched earlier this month in association with Indian shooter and Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra. Here is an interview of Ashok RajgopalChairman and Executive Director, Fortis Bone and Joint Institute with Ramarko Sengupta.

Anil Ambani to address media as RCom reels
Anil Ambani, who controls Reliance Communications, is due to hold a media briefing on Friday in a bid to reassure investors after worries over the mobile carrier's heavy debt load rattled markets and triggered ratings downgrades.

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Environment

China says it will stick to Paris climate deal
China said on Thursday it will stick to the Paris climate deal as the world awaited an announcement by US President Donald Trump on whether to keep the United States in the global pact to fight climate change.

Gay vulture dads hatch chick at a zoo in Amsterdam
Two male griffon vultures in a long-standing relationship have successfully hatched an abandoned egg at an Amsterdam zoo.

UN chief calls on world to back Paris climate deal
"The Paris pledges are historic but still do not go nearly far enough to limit temperature rise to well below 2 degrees and as close as possible to 1.5 degrees," said Guterres in an address at New York University. "So we must do our utmost to increase action until we can bend the emissions curve."

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World

In Damascus, a feeling that war is winding down
In Syria's capital these days, people are breathing a little easier. Across Damascus, new shops are sprouting up, business is brisk, and some people who fled the civil war years ago are contemplating a return.

Kabul protesters clash over deadly bombing
Afghan police on Friday fired live rounds to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing protesters seeking to march on the presidential palace to demand the government's resignation following a catastrophic truck bombing that killed 90 people and wounded hundreds.

Donald Trump: Different strokes

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Science

Nasa set to launch first-ever mission to neutron-stars
Nasa is set to launch the world's first mission tomorrow to study rapidly spinning neutron stars - the densest objects in the universe - nearly 50 years after they were discovered.

Astronauts set to return after marathon ISS mission
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and American Peggy Whitson are due to return to Earth on Friday after a marathon 196-day trip. The world was a different place when they arrived on the International Space Station on November 20 for a 6-month mission.

Third gravitational wave detected; LIGO transiting into era of new astronomy
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), on Thursday said it has made another (third) successful detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, from the merger of two massive black holes that happened three billion light years away, on January 4, 2017.

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Technology

Telecom industry's debt at unsustainable level: SBI
The country's largest bank SBI has sounded alarm bells over troubles of the telecom industry with its chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya writing to the government regarding "highly unsustainable levels" of debt of mobile companies.

10 most-popular Android apps in India
Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report is out. The 2017 edition of the report specially focuses on India's growing internet sector. It also names the 10 most-downloaded Android apps in the country.

This is what Indians prefer over messaging, claims report
Mary Meeker's report said Indians spend 28 hours on their mobiles every week, compared to four hours on TV and two hours on newspapers. Around 34% of the time spent on mobile was on social media and messaging.

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Education

CBSE Class X results likely to be declared on Saturday, June 3
The Central Board for Secondary Education will declare the Class X results on Saturday (June 3), a CBSE official told TOI on Thursday evening. As many as 16,67,573 students appeared for the Class X exams this year.

India's e-education industry to be worth $1.96 billion by 2021: Report
India’s online education industry is set to grow eight-fold by 2021 — from $247 million in 2016 to $1.96 billion — according to a report released by search giant Google and professional services firm KPMG.

CBSE Result 2017: CBSE not to mention grace marks on marksheets
CBSE students, who are short of a mark or two to pass and are awarded grace marks, have a reason to rejoice as the board has decided not to mention it on the marksheets. Last month, it decided to mention grace marks on the marksheets besides scrapping the moderation policy.

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Mumbai

Hazare backs Maharashtra farmers' strike
Hazare extended his support to the indefinite strike of Maharashtra farmers which entered the second day on Friday. But concerned over the violence witnessed on the first day, he urged farmers to carry out their agitation peacefully without causing damage to public or private properties.

MSRTC buses with 'Jai Maharashtra' logo flagged off from Mumbai
Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) on Friday launched buses with a logo containing the words 'Jai Maharashtra'. The buses were flagged off from Mumbai central station to Belgaum in Karnataka.

Monsoon likely to hit Mumbai by next weekend, but light rain expected

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Delhi

PWD scam: ACB files status report
The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Friday submitted status report of an alleged scam pertaining to the Delhi government's Public Works Department (PWD) to a district court here.

Tremors rock Delhi, adjoining areas

AAP to help mayors in dengue fight

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Bangalore

Siddaramaiah stumped by queries from children
CM: This is unaccpetable.I will instruct senior officials to personally visit the place, and take action against those responsible for this.

VTU revaluation results on June 2
Meanwhile, the eighth semester examinations have been postponed from June 5 to 12.Examinations for students studying in other even semesters too have been postponed.

BBMP blames property tax payers for glitches
G Ramamurthy, 72, of Kasthuri Nagar said a visit to the BBMP office had become a daily affair for him."I have been visiting the Palike office to get the 5% rebate on property tax.

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Hyderabad

Greens to stage protest in KBR Park this Sunday

IIIT Hyderabad ‎professor Ramesh Loganathan honoured for his contribution to start-ups
Ramesh is an accomplished technocrat

TSPSC Group 2 exam 2016 results announced

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Chennai

Heroin worth Rs 5 crore seized in Tamil Nadu
Police on Friday seized 5 kg of heroin which was being smuggled into Tuticorin from Chennai in a car.

Dealers asked resister themselves on GST portal
Tamil Nadu commercial taxes department on Friday requested dealers to register themselves on the GST portal with digital signature certificate / e-signature immediately so that "migration to GST will be seamless for them."

Tamil poet Abdul Rahman, who gave voice to the voiceless, is no more
S Abdul Rahman, a poet who travelled across the literary map of Tamil Nadu with a headlamp of modernism, died due to age-related illness at his home in Panaiyur near Chennai in the early hours on Friday. He was 80.

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Ahmedabad

Centre shifts Mithivirdi nuclear power plant to Andhra Pradesh
Besieged by delays in land acquisition and vehement protests from locals, the Centre has finally decided to shift the proposed 6,000 MW nuclear power plant in Mithivirdi village near Bhavnagar to Andhra Pradesh.

Gujarat: Man thinks breast cancer is contagious, deserts wife
A businessman threw out his wife after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. He feared that the disease is contagious and will spread to other members of the family.

Police informer Basi surrenders in court
olice informer Altafkhan Pathan alias Basi of Rakhial surrendered before the court at 4pm on Thursday in the Gomtipur firing case in which one person was killed and another grievously injured.

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Allahabad

High court cancels Atiq's bail
The Allahabad high court has cancelled bail of mafia don-turned-politician and former MP Atiq Ahmad in BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case on an application moved by the latter's widow Puja Pal.

Centre for lost kids at Allahabad railway station
Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha inaugurated an automatic ticket vending machine (ATVM) and a Child Care Centre for lost and abandoned children at the Allahabad railway station on Tuesday.

Relief for Ringing Bells officials, High court grants bail
The case was registered against them by Ayam Enterprises, a Ghaziabad-based company, under Sections 420 (cheating) and others of IPC at police station Sihani Gate, Ghaziabad district.

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Bhubaneswar

Gusty winds and rain lash Bhubaneswar causing dip in temperature

CBSE class XII students continue protest over mark goof up, CM speaks to union HRD minister

Odisha seeks more people under food act
The state government on Thursday urged the Centre to increase the upper ceiling limit of beneficiaries for Odisha under the National Food Security Act (NFSA).

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Bhopal

In just 5 days...we defaced the Raja Bhoj Setu

Youngsters go 'RURBAN' for a real-life experience

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Chandigarh

Man axes wife to death, burns dismembered body parts in courtyard

Residents of Engine Ghar complain of negligence

Youth kills married woman for turning down marriage proposal

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