Daily Newsletter | Friday, January 12, 2018
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| Rs 3,500 crore in benami assets attached since November 2016: I-T |
| The income tax department has stepped up action under the prohibition of the benami property transactions act, which came into force from November 1, 2016 and has attached properties worth Rs 3,500 crore including immovable properties of more than Rs 2,900 crore across the country. |
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| Treated like a common prisoner, complains Lalu |
| Most political leaders are blessed with the gift of the gab, but probably not as generously as the one bestowed on Lalu Prasad Yadav, so much so that the RJD chief had the cheek to enter into a banter with even the special CBI judge who nailed him. |
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| Tamil Nadu bus strike called off |
| Transport workers unions in Tamil Nadu called off their week-long strike on Thursday night after the Madras high court passed an interim order referring the wage dispute between the state government and the workers of state-owned transport corporations to arbitration. |
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| Crimes in Delhi increased by 12 per cent in 2017: Police |
| Crimes in the national capital increased by 12 per cent in 2017, with the police saying that factors like economic disparity, consumerism and slack family control have a bearing on the rising figures, according to Delhi Police data. |
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| Brief power outage darkens CES tech, electronics show |
| The digital economy’s big annual trade show, CES, suffered a brief, disruptive plunge into darkness on Wednesday because of a power outage the show’s organizers blamed on a glitch caused by heavy rains the day before in usually sunny Nevada. |
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| All-round Arjun Tendulkar sparkles on Australia debut |
| Arjun Tendulkar, son of legend Sachin Tendulkar, continues to make headlines with his impressive performances. The 18-year-old is currently in Australia to take part in Spirit of Cricket Global Challenge, a competition organised by the Sydney Cricket Ground. |
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| Five talking points for India ahead of Centurion Test |
| Following their defeat to South Africa in the first Test in Cape Town on Monday, India’s think-tank has to make selections based on specific conditions as they bid to keep the three-match series alive heading into the second Test at Centurion starting Saturday. |
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| TCS hiring drops as growth stutters |
| Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), once a jobs-creating machine, is now fast slowing down on that count. The company added just 3,657 employees in the first nine months of this fiscal on a net basis, an 85% drop from the same period a year earlier, when it added 24,654 employees. |
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| Kangana-KJo hug it out on TV show sets |
| Kangana Ranaut’s war of words with Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar is so last year! The two stars came together and hugged it out on the sets of Karan’s new television show. |
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