The Morning Standard - September 11, 2024

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September 11, 2024

3 MLAs dropped in BJP 2nd list of 21

THE BJP on Tuesday released its second list of 21 candidates for the Haryana assembly elections in which three more MLAs were dropped.

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IAF Wing Commander booked for rape in J&K

THE J&K police have registered a first information report (FIR) against a Wing Commander at the Air Force station here after a woman flying officer accused him of rape and mental harassment.

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Doctors defy SC fiat, reject Didi's call

If you (doctors) have anything to say, you are always welcome.

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Over 50 students hurt, Net banned in Imphal valley

Protests in Manipur for second successive day in the wake of fresh spurt of violence

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MCD poll on Sept 26 to fill Standing Committe vacancy

THE Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is set to hold its Standing Committee elections on September 26, officials said on Tuesday.

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Transport dept offers 50% rebate on pending challans

AIMING to reduce the burden of unpaid challans, the transport department has planned to slash traffic violation fines by 50 per cent for those who settle the penalty on the spot.

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Admission row: HC permits seven St Stephen's students to attend classes

THE Delhi High Court on Tuesday permitted seven students to attend classes at St.

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HC halts eviction at Barapullah flyover

Seeks report from authorities over blocking of water flow by construction at Madrasi camp

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BJP wants to topple city govt, impose President's rule: Atishi

WITH President's secretariat forwarded the assertions of opposition BJP that Delhi was facing a constitutional crisis to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for \"proper attention\", senior AAP leader and minister Atishi on Tuesday accused the BJP of conspiring to topple the Kejriwal government through \"back door\" by imposition of the President's rule in Delhi.

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Er Rashid gets interim bail for campaigning in J&K assembly elections

A Delhi court has granted interim bail to Lok Sabha MP Engineer Rashid till October 2.

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Zoo focuses on breeding of four animal species, monitor their diet

THE Delhi Zoo is focusing on the breeding of four species of animals and implementing measures such as hormonal testing, along with closely monitoring their daily routine and diet.

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Medicos of AIIMS, other city hospitals worried about punitive action

RESIDENT doctors of AIIMS, Safdarjung and other government-run hospitals, who participated in the recent nationwide strike of medicos over the ghastly rape and murder of their female counterpart in Kolkata, are worried about the punitive action for skipping the duties as the authorities are yet to clear their stand.

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Condition of mpox patient is stable, says Bharadwaj

The 26-yr-old Hisar resident has genital ulcers, skin rashes but no fever

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L-G asks CS to expedite recruitment process

DELHI Lt Governor V K Saxena has directed the chief secretary to form a committee of all stakeholder departments to expedite recruitments, Raj Niwas officials said on Tuesday.

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NGT flags poor e-waste handling by states, UTs

THE National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to submit an updated report concerning the generation and management of electronic waste across various states and Union Territories (UTS).

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Illegal e-rickshaw charging facilities cause ₹120 cr loss to discoms: Officials

THE city's power discoms are battling the menace of illegal e-rickshaw charging facilities that cause an estimated loss of around Rs 120 crore annually besides posing safety risks, discom officials said on Tuesday.

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HC raps Kerala govt on Hema panel

Directs state to hand over the report to the SIT constituted to probe the complaints

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Chikkamagaluru govt hosp doctor assaulted, 2 held

TENSION prevailed on the premises of Malle Gowda General Hospital here on Tuesday morning after a duty doctor was allegedly assaulted by a patient's sister.

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Godavari rising with inflows from upstream areas

FIRST flood warning was issued at Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage in Rajamahendravaram on Tuesday as water in the River Godavari swelled for the fourth time this year.

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Electronics manufacturing firm from US to invest ₹2K cr in TN

TIRUCHY is likely to emerge as an electronics manufacturing cluster soon, with Jabil a Fortune 500 company and supplier to Apple, Cisco and Hewlett Packard planning to set up its electronics manufacturing facility in the city, with an investment of ₹2,000 crore, expected to create 5,000 jobs.

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Naidu blames Jagan govt for Budameru disaster

SQUARELY blaming the previous YSRC regime for the Budameru disaster that jeopardised the lives of more than six lakh people, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said YSRC has resorted to vengeful action against people for defeating it and released three boats, each weighing more than 30 tonnes, towards Prakasam Barrage when it was experiencing a record surplus water discharge of 11.43 lakh cusecs.

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ED chargesheet against former K'taka minister

THE Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has named former minister B Nagendra as the prime accused in its chargesheet submitted to the Special Court in the multi-crore scam in Karnataka Maharishi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.

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TROUBLE WITH PROPAGANDA DISGUISED AS EDUCATION

\"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.

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NURTURING INDIA'S GENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

The PM's recent meetings with the leaders of UAE & Singapore signal continuity in longstanding associations. A lesson from Nehruvian diplomacy is pertinent for parleys with Austria

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Cybersecurity vital for progress: Shah

UNION Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the country's progress is not possible without ensuring cybersecurity, which has become integral to national security in the backdrop of ever-increasing use of internet data.

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Israel seeks to hire 10K construction workers & 5K caregivers from India

ISRAEL is seeking to hire more Indians for blue collar jobs including 10,000 construction workers and 5,000 caregivers to plug the skill gap in their infrastructure and healthcare sectors.

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Suicide a public health concern in SE Asia: WHO

SUICIDE is a major public health concern in the SouthEast Asia Region, which sees more than 2 lakh suicide deaths each year, said World Health Organisation on Tuesday.

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Under new toll collection system, no fee for pvt vehicles for up to 20 km on NHs

ONCE the proposed barrierfree toll collection based on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is implemented, private vehicles will not be charged any fee for travelling up to 20 km on highways and expressways.

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Jaishankar says open to do biz with China, with a rider

In Berlin, EAM says Delhi weighs national security in trade with Beijing

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SC stays defamation proceedings against Tharoor

THE Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the trial court's proceedings against veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor in a defamation case over his 2018 remark allegedly comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a scorpion.

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5th killer wolf caught in Bahraich, hunt on for 6th

AMID increasing wolf scare, the team of forest officials trapped the fifth predator on Tuesday as part of 'Operation Bhediya' campaign that has been ongoing in Bahraich's Mahasi tehsil to catch a pack of six wolves which have devoured nine lives, including eight children leaving over two dozen people injured since mid-July.

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Jackal scare grips MP's Sehore, 2 hurt in attacks

JACKAL scare has gripped Madhya Pradesh's Sehore and Khandwa districts.

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Ajit urges Shah to address Maha rural concerns

TO avoid a repetition of the Lok Sabha election outcome in Maharashtra, the BJP-led Mahayuti has unanimously decided to focus on addressing the agrarian distress ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls.

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12 nabbed for trying to derail Kalindi Exp

TWELVE people, including two known offenders, have been detained for questioning in connection with a suspected sabotage attempt on the Bhiwani-bound Kalindi Express, which narrowly avoided a major disaster in Kanpur late Sunday night.

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MP minister's 'Chandan link to Vasco da Gama's discovery of India

MADHYA Pradesh higher education minister Inder Singh Parmar on Tuesday claimed that Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama did not discover the sea route to India, but landed here merely by following an Indian sea merchant, Chandan, \"who rode a 3-4 times bigger ship than Gama's.

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15 women enter 1st two phases of J&K assembly elections

AT least 15 women candidates are in fray in the first two phases of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.

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5 killed as landslides wreak havoc on Kedarnath route

A severe landslide struck the Kedarnath pilgrimage route in Uttarakhand’s Rudraprayag district, India’s most landslideprone area, on Monday night. Five pilgrims were killed after being trapped under boulders that fell between Sonprayag and Gaurikund.

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Probe ordered after Gujarat school enrols students as BJP members

A probe has been ordered against the principal of a secondary school in Gujarat's Surendranagar district where students have allegedly been enrolled as BJP members, state education department officials said on Tuesday.

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Shah will sound BJP's poll bugle in J'khand on Sept 21

CMs of several BJP-ruled states to join 'Parivartan Yatra' in Dumka

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New sanctions await Iran for supplying to Russia arms

SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken said the United States would impose sanctions on Iran and that Russia could use the Iranian missiles against Ukraine \"within weeks\".

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India-funded projects to continue in Bangladesh

QUO DHAKA A top adviser of the interim government said on Tuesday that India-funded projects are \"very important\" and will continue under the new administration in Bangladesh.

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Oz mulls minimum age for social media

AUSTRALIA will ban children from using social media with a minimum age limit as high as 16, the prime minister said on Tuesday, vowing to get kids off their devices and \"onto the footy fields\".

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Tech billionaire lifts off on SpaceX for spacewalk

CANAVERAL A daredevil billionaire rocketed back to space on Tuesday, aiming to perform the first private spacewalk and venture farther than anyone since NASA's Apollo moonshots.

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Israeli air strike kills 19 in Gaza humanitarian zone

Defence minister Gallant says truce deal a strategic opportunity

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Revenue up 412% from higher tax on online gaming

DESPITE the initial backlash from the industry, there has been a remarkable 412% increase in revenue from the higher tax on online gaming.

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India has capability to become trusted partner in semicon supply chain: Modi

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India has the capability to become a trusted partner in a diversified semiconductor supply chain.

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Carlyle to write off $40 million of lease arrears, says SpiceJet

CARLYLE Group's commercial aviation investment and servicing unit will write off $40.2 million of SpiceJet's lease arrears and convert $30 million of its arrears into equity, the Gurugram-based airline said on Tuesday.

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Card transactions may see stricter disclosures

WITH the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) pushing for more disclosures for cross-border wire transfers, the Indian government says it won't adopt stricter norms at the cost of ease of doing business.

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Equity fund inflows up 3% to ₹38K cr in Aug

THE heavy demand for smallcap and mid-cap funds buoyed the open-ended equity mutual fund inflows by 3.03% to ₹38,239 crore in August, pushing the industry-wide assets under management well past the ₹66.7 lakh crore mark in the reporting month, up from 64.96 trillion in the previous month.

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Maruti's EV to deliver 500 km range, carmaker to export to Europe, Japan

THE first electric vehicle (EV) from the country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki (MSIL) will be powered by a 60 Kilowatt-hour battery that could do a range of 500 km on a single charge.

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'No clarity on GST on services imports'

Many industries in a state of uncertainty as they navigate the implications of this decision

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'Scrapping old cars help grow vehicle sales'

ROAD transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said that an increase in scrapping of old vehicles can help the automobile industry to grow its sales of new vehicles by 18-20%.

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'See JFSL's loan biz entry as opportunity for partnership'

THE entry of Jio Financial Services (JFSL), a Reliance Industries group company, would only help boost credit growth in the country, says YS Chakravarti, CEO of Shriram Finance, the country's second largest Non-banking Financial Company (NBFC).

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South Asian Jr athletics: India set to dominate

INDIA'S Sharuk Khan will spearhead India's challenge at the three-day fourth South Asian Junior Athletics Championships starting Wednesday here at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

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More Indians breaking into top: Anand

Five-time world champ, who will be in action for Ganges Grandmasters in Global Chess League, opens up about Gukesh vs Liren final, India's Olympiad chances & what he misses most. Swaroop Swaminathan took notes...

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Taapsee Pannu and Kanika Dhillon team up for Gandhari

AFTER Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba, Taapsee Pannu is \set to team up again with writer Kanika Dhillon for an action-thriller, titled Gandhari.

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