News Digest: After MP jailbreak, CISF to audit three more MP prisons

After MP jailbreak, CISF to audit three more MP prisons
After getting the CISF to conduct a security audit of Bhopal central jail from where eight SIMI undertrials had escaped on October 31, the Madhya Pradesh government has now asked the force to carry out a similar audit at three more central jails located at Indore, Jabalpur and Gwalior.

FIR against IISc director, faculty over Dalit atrocity
Sadashivnagar police registered an FIR against the director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and four faculty members for allegedly orchestrating a sexual harassment complaint against a male Dalit faculty member and subsequently dismissing him without an inquiry.

India will soon switch over to 4-digit flight numbers
In a bid to enhance safe flying and end the confusion caused by similar sounding call signs or flight numbers, India will soon switch over to longer flight numbers. Instead of the current three-digit flights numbers, the country will transition to longer four-digit ones.

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Mistry out of Tata Industries, TCS shareholders to vote today
Shareholders of Tata Industries have voted out Cyrus Mistry as a director from the board of the privately held company. Tata Sons holds the majority 54% stake in Tata Industries. With Mistry ceasing to be a director, he is no longer the chairman of the company.

RBI says no move to cancel Axis Bank licence
The Reserve Bank of India on Monday denied a media report that authorities were preparing to cancel the licence of Axis Bank Ltd over irregularities in transactions relating to the exchange of high-value bank notes.

Sensex sinks 232 points on downbeat macroeconomic data
The BSE Sensex stayed in the negative zone throughout the day and touched a low of 26,468.59 before ending lower by 231.94 points, or 0.87 per cent, at 26,515.24. The 50-share NSE Nifty also slipped below the 8,200-mark to touch a low of 8,154.45.

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Reindeer are shrinking: warming threatens Xmas icon
Over the past 16 years, the weight of adult reindeer in Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic has dropped by 12 percent, likely due to global warming, said study findings presented to a meeting at the British Ecological Society (BES) in Liverpool.

Surging methane emissions imperil climate goals
After rising slowly from 2000 to 2006, the concentration of methane in the air climbed 10 times more quickly in the following decade, according to a study. The unexpected and largely unexplained increase was especially sharp in 2014 and 2015.

Cancel illegal salt pans in Sambhar Lake: NGT

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Antonio Guterres sworn as UN secretary-general

Kremlin blames lack of US cooperation for Palmyra blow
The Kremlin today deplored the lack of cooperation with the United States in Palmyra after Islamic State fighters re-entered the ancient Syrian city at the weekend. Russia has carried out a bombing campaign in Syria in support of its long-standing President Bashar al-Assad since September 2015.

Venezuela bans high-value banknotes
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has signed an emergency decree ordering the country's largest banknote, the 100 bolivar bill, taken out of circulation to thwart "mafias" he accused of hoarding cash in Colombia.

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Katrina-Deepika hung out together?
At a recent awards show highlighting women empowerment, the two beautiful ladies — Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif — were seen catching up with each other.

Hrithik third Most Handsome Man in the world
It’s not surprising that Hrithik Roshan has been ranked the third Most Handsome Man in the world by a prominent international website.

Anushka opens up on her equation with Fawad

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Santa, global warming shrank your reindeer

Love bigger cause of unhappiness than cash

Eating half-cooked chicken can lead to paralysis: Study

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Pankaj Advani wins World Billiards Championships title
Pankaj Advani beat multiple world champion Peter Gilchrist by six games to three in a gripping final contest to win his 11th World Billiards (150-Up format) Championships title, which was also his 16th world title overall.

Junior Hockey World Cup: India beat South Africa 2-1 to top pool
Favourites India beat South Africa 2-1 in their last league match and with three wins, they topped pool D and will now face Spain in the quarterfinals. The last-eight contests will be played on Thursday, December 15.

Virat Kohli and the art of effective restraint
'Hitting out of trouble' isn't an unfamiliar theory in international cricket. And it's no surprise to see Kohli egging youngsters to hit in-rhythm bowlers out of the attack. Given his innate, famously brash and in-your-face demeanour, it would just seem right.

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TomTom Touch review: A great fitness tracker, and then some more

How to make Android faster: What works and what doesn't
​​We all wish our phones were just a little faster, right? Whether you’re chugging along with a device from three years ago or rocking a brand new Pixel, it’s the same — more speed is better.

'Indian startup ecosystem needs to work closely with the government'
environment.But the regulatory environment or the tax fiscal.Speaking at a CII event, Ministry of Electronics and IT Secretary Aruna Sundararajan conceded that the regulatory environment is far from "ideal" but added that the industry needs to offer more information and analysis to government.

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Bihar CM writes to Sushma Swaraj, asks Centre to maintain autonomy of Nalanda University
​Hurt over George Yeo’s recent resignation as Nalanda University’s chancellor, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has written a strong-worded letter to the external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, urging the NDA Government not to tamper with the essence behind the ‘idea of Nalanda’.

Oxford University Press launches new integrated learning solution
Aligned to the CBSE curriculum, “Oxford Advantage” includes content both in print and digital mediums. It also focuses heavily on the teacher community by helping them maintain an ascending learning curve of professional development and training workshops.

Delhi Government streamlines admission process for Class VI

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Woman learner runs over 2 army kids cycling in Colaba
Mumbai: Two sons of an army officer, aged 12 and seven, were killed in an accident at Navy Nagar on Sunday afternoon after the wife of a Lance Naik who was learning to drive a car knocked them down before hitting a tree and wall. The two boys were found with multiple fractures beneath the car, police said.

Postgrads score big in IIT placements
Mumbai: The heady rush of placement seasons at IITs is usually centered around undergraduates, with masters students mostly being the second choice for firms and getting a raw deal. But this season has been rather different for postgraduates, reports Hemali Chhapia.

Tatas bid to fortify stake in Tata Motors for Rs 2,500cr
Mumbai: Days ahead of Tata Motors’ shareholders meet on December 22 to decide on the removal of Cyrus Mistry from its board, Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, is said to have mandated foreign brokerage major Morgan Stanley to purchase up to five crore shares of the automobile major at a 10% premium to the stock’s closing price of Rs 454.4 on Monday.The

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Delhi lawyer Rohit Tandon's homes abroad, Khaitan links under lens
On Monday, after the seized cash was moved from Tandon’s office to the RBI chest, sources said that police had begun an investigation into Tandon alleged links with plush properties in Dubai and London, among other places, to determine the financial implication behind these possessions.

BJP to set up cells for illegal colonies
Delhi BJP would set up two cells for unauthorised colonies and villages ahead of the 2017 municipal polls. These, said state BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, would look into the grievances of the people of these areas.

AAP sounds poll bugle, to use note ban as weapon
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has started campaigning for the municipal corporation polls, scheduled to be held early next year, using demonetisation as a plank to demonstrate that BJP’s policies are “anti-people”.

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Karnataka dog unit beats NSG, romps home
Karnataka's dog squad has brought laurels to the state. It emerged victorious at the national counter- explosives competition in New Delhi, with two dogs and three handlers having bagged the best canine and handler awards. It also beat the elite units of National Security Guards (NSG), Border Security Force (BSF) and 28 other teams to be adjudged the best anti-sabotage canine unit.

Writ authority not a remedy for all ills: High Court
The Karnataka High Court on Friday said its authority to issue writs should not become a reason for the public to seek redressal for all grievances by appealing under this power.

Bengaluru to have open-street fests from 2017 to woo tourists
In a bid to make the city a more appealing tourist destination, the government has decided to launch Bengaluru Festival in different localities from 2017. And in keeping with the elements of an open-street festival, traffic will be barred on the road where the festival will be celebrated.

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An afternoon dedicated to Ikebana, art and craft

When Anoushka Shankar's sitar oscillated between elation and dejection

On a mission to end gender-based violence
An interactive social campaign at Lamakaan conceptualised by a city NGO went completely out of the box when it came to the task of raising awareness on the many aspects of gender-based violence.

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Train services left in disarray
The strongest cyclone witnessed by Chennai in two decades left train operations in the city and its neighbouring suburbs in disarray. While 31 long-distance trains were cancelled, suburban services were suspended from 1pm and many more trains were stranded at locations outside Chennai.

Amma canteens beat the storm
The city may have had another tryst with extreme weather - Monday's cyclone Vardah with wind speeds of 120+kmph - but former chief minister J Jayalalithaa's most far-reaching welfare project, the Amma canteens, ensured that the city did not have to bear the ordeal on an empty stomach.

Trees tumble, roofs fly, city stands strong
Hours before the landfall in the city, 18,000 corporation contract workers were out across the city , braving gusty winds and heavy rainfall, all set to remove trees and lamp posts the cyclone was expected to knock down. But the devastation was so extensive that dangling cables, uprooted trees would continue to pose a danger Tuesday morning.

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491 paramedical seats remain vacant

Civil Hospital doc beaten up, colleagues stop work in protest

World Management Conference begins at IIM-A today

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3-day bank closure: Queues get longer

Now, a software to alert you on queues outside banks

Criminal on run in police net

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Demonetisation will have no effect on crafts mela in Odisha: Snehangini Chhuria

Teachers clash with police over equal pay for equal work

Neighbour pours starch on 4-year-old girl over quarrel
Balasore/ A quarrel between two women took an ugly turn on Sunday after one of them poured hot starch on the other's four-year-old daughter.

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Ater and Bandhavgarh bypolls might be announced by month end

It's CM's brother-in-law Vs Vyapam whistleblower in Madhya Pradesh now

Madhya Pradesh govt to launch E-Laxmi to train women for cashless transactions
Post demonetisation, Madhya Pradesh government in a bid to promote cashless transactions will launch an E-Laxmi programme for digital training to women through 92,000 Anganwadi units across the state. The programme will be launched in January 2017.

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`Punjab has no water to give anyone'
Responding to the demand of the Congress and the SAD to make its stand clear on SYL issue, AAP national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said Punjab does not have extra water and question of giving it to any other state does not arise.

Ahead of polls, Bathinda gets air link
After a wait of more than four years, an aircraft landed at the Bathinda airport making the facility finally operational on Sunday. It is the first civil airport in southern Malwa region of Punjab.

Saina Nehwal's father to set up academy near Delhi
Talks were also held with ace badminton player Saina Nehwal's father Harvir Singh, who is based in Hyderabad, for the setting up a badminton academy in Haryana.

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