Daily Newsletter | Monday, December 04, 2017
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Hadiya’s ‘husband’ was in touch with IS men before their marriage: NIA |
Shafin Jahan, husband of Akhila Asokan alias Hadiya, was allegedly in touch with two key chargesheeted accused in the terror group Islamic State (IS) Omar al-Hindi case — Manseed and P Safvan — via a closed Facebook group comprising activists of Popular Front of India (PFI)’s political arm SDPI, as well as a popular messaging application, during the months preceding his marriage to Hadiya, an NIA probe has found. |
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Guj polls: TOI’s exclusive interview with Amit Shah |
BJP faces the challenges of a new caste coalition spearheaded by quota warrior Hardik Patel and 22-year incumbency, but the party president Amit Shah is unruffled. In an exclusive interview with Akhilesh Singh, he explains why he thinks winning 150 seats out of 182 in the Gujarat polls is a realistic target. |
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Mob fires at NIA team during raid near Ghaziabad |
A mob opened fire and pelted stones at a NIA team that had reached Ghaziabad’s Nahali village on Sunday morning to raid an alleged arms dealer, Malook, with suspected links to the killers of RSS worker Ravinder Gosain, who was shot dead in Ludhiana on October 17 this year. |
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Noted sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik attacked in Puri |
Noted sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik was hospitalized with an injury on Sunday evening after a miscreant attempted to snatch his wrist watch at the venue of International Sand Art Festival in Odisha’s Puri district. |
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Cyclone Ockhi wrecks havoc in Tamil Nadu, Kerala |
After wrecking havoc in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, cyclone ‘Ockhi’ is centered over the South East Arabian Sea and about 250 km near Amini Divi in the Lakshadweep Islands. Stay with us for live updates: |
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10 cool ARKit apps for iOS devices |
During the WWDC event this year Apple announced Augmented Reality coming to Apple devices with iOS 11. While there aren’t many apps to fiddle with now, we found a couple of free AR apps on the app store and to be honest they are pretty cool. |
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3rd Test: India tighten grip after Kohli double |
While Virat Kohli entertained the 15,000 strong Sunday crowd at the Feroz Shah Kotla with a marathon knock of 243, unfortunately the Indian skipper’s innings was overshadowed by the play being halted repeatedly owing to poor air quality in the area, which eventually led to India declaring their first innings prematurely at 536 for 7. |
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HWL Final: Inconsistent India eye improvement against Germany |
After losing to England on Saturday night, the mood in the Indian camp was sombre. At the press conference, Manpreet Singh’s expression gave away the disappointment of the defeat. He knew his team had committed several mistakes despite raising their game in the final quarter. |
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Cricketers vomiting after fielding in smoggy Delhi: SL coach |
Pollution stopped play on Sunday in the third Test between India and Sri Lanka, and visiting coach Nic Pothas said the smog was so extreme that his players — who took the extraordinary step of wearing face masks — were “coming off the field and vomiting”. |
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Economy may grow by over 6.5% in FY-18: Panagariya |
Arvind Panagariya comments on country’s GDP and predicts 6.5 per cent growth of economy in the current financial year. He said implementation of GST had caused some disruptions but would recover soon. |
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India’s regulatory regime for airports still evolving: Moody’s |
Moody’s Investors Service has said it expects large airports in India to bring forward plans to expand capacity to meet the growing demand. With high double-digit growth in domestic air traffic for the past couple of years, India is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world. |
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SBI to redesign envelopes to protect PAN |
State Bank of India will “redesign” its envelopes used to dispatch tax refund cheques of customers to cover their PAN and contact numbers, after an activist raised that the crucial personal information was visible to anyone which may result in misuse, the bank said. |
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