News Digest: Assembly elections: All-time-high turnouts in Punjab, Goa

Assembly elections: All-time-high turnouts in Punjab, Goa
In the first round of assembly elections in five states on Saturday , Punjab and Goa recorded their highest-ever turnouts of 78.62% and 83% (as of 5pm, according to EC), respectively.

IGI airport first in India to cross 5 crore flyer mark
In a first for any Indian airport, IGI Airport crossed the 5-crore passenger mark last year. The airport with three runways and as many terminals handled 5.5 crore passengers: 4 crore domestic and 1.5 crore international flyers. Mumbai was a distant second at 4.4 crore.

Jharkhand statehood hero now a vegetable seller
He was the frontrunner of the statehood movement, in and out of jails during bandhs and demonstrations in the late 1980s and through the 1990s. ​

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Disinvestment receipts to touch Rs 45,000cr: Jaitley
With less than two months to go for the current financial year to come to a close, finance minister Arun Jaitley has exuded confidence that receipts from PSU disinvestment will touch Rs 45,000 crore in 2016-17.

GST to smoothen taxation, bring in transparency: Experts
GST will not only ease the process of taxation, but bring in transparency, say experts. At an interactive awareness programme for start-ups in Jaipur, the experts said the government is expected to resolve the queries of entrepreneurs regarding GST.

Airtel Payments Bank operating through 12k shops in UP
Airtel Payments Bank India’s first payments bank announced that it has opened over one lakh saving accounts in Uttar Pradesh within the first 2 weeks of its launch. Approximately 60% of these accounts have been opened in rural areas, underlining the massive scope for serving customers particularly in unbanked and under-banked pockets of the state, especially in rural areas.

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Chennai oil spill: Safe disposal of hazardous sludge
With authorities involved in the post-oil spill clean up operations off Chennai coast expecting to finish the task in the next couple of days, the Centre has now asked the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to treat the collected sludge for its safe disposal through bio-remediation - a waste management technique using biological organism to neutralize pollutants.

Rare leaf-nosed bats sighted after 37 yrs
A specie of the bats aboriginal to the Thar desert, has been re-sighted by a group of zoological researchers after 37 years. Identified as Hipposideros Fulvus (a leaf-nosed bat), the bat has been found roosting in ancient caves at Daijar near Jodhpur.

Judge asked to lift hold on Yellowstone dam and protect fish

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Louvre reopens 24 hours after machete attack
Art lovers returned to the Louvre in Paris on Saturday, 24 hours after soldiers outside the museum shot and wounded a machete-wielding attacker, whose condition stabilized overnight. The Friday incident thrust security threat back into the limelight with authorities saying it was a "terror" assault.

Travel ban: Air France reopens US flights to passengers
Air France said on Saturday it had reopened US-bound flights to passengers affected by President Donald Trump's travel ban on nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, after the executive order was temporarily suspended by a federal court.

China warns Trump not to push it for talks with Dalai
Warning Trump administration of "endless trouble and burden" if it uses the Dalai Lama against it, China on Saturday sharply criticised the new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for his "amateurish" suggestion that he would encourage talks between Beijing and Dharmsala-based Tibetan government in exile.

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'Raees' box-office collection Day 10: Shah Rukh Khan's film earns Rs 128.96 crore
Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Raees’ continues to be an unstoppable force at the box-office as it minted Rs 6.6 crore on Friday (Day 10).

'Kaabil' box-office collection Day 10: Hrithik Roshan's film inches towards the 100-crore mark
The Sanjay Gupta-directed film, which is in its second week currently, garnered Rs 6.40 crore on Friday (Day 10). The total collection of the film now stands at Rs 97.03 crore.

Anurag Basu's hair-raising drama with Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif
Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif cut Anurag Basu's hair on the set of their film.

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World's first 3D printed bridge opens in Madrid
A Madrid park made history with the installation of the first ever pedestrian bridge created from a 3D printer. The pioneering bridge was created by a team from the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, a Barcelonabased research and education center that worked with a contingent of architects, mechanical and structural engineers, and municipal representatives to bring the design to life.

Botanical drugs are safe, effective and affordable: Dr Navin Khanna
For the past 17 years, Dr Navin Khanna has been hard at work in his lab at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Delhi to develop ways to combat dengue. After developing a test kit, he and his team have acquired an international patent on the world’s first drug to combat dengue — Cipa. This comes at a time when there 25,000 deaths and 400m cases of dengue worldwide annually. The dengue fighter spoke to Shobita Dhar

Cancer drug could promote regeneration of heart tissue: Study
Researchers are developing an anti-cancer agent which also promotes regeneration of damaged heart muscle - an unexpected finding that may help prevent congestive heart failure in the future.

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Despite BCCI opposition, ICC set to pass new financial model
According to highly placed sources, India only got support from Sri Lanka. Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies, England and Australia all voted in favour of change in revenue distribution.

EPL: Chelsea overpower Arsenal to stretch lead
Eden Hazard scored a sublime solo goal as Premier League leaders Chelsea thrust a dagger into Arsenal's title aspirations with a 3-1 victory at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

Rohit Sharma eyes comeback in Australia series
Continuing a thorough rehabilitation program, star batsman Rohit Sharma said he is striving to make his long-awaited return to the Indian cricket team in the upcoming big-ticket series against Australia.

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Reliance Jio's 'free services' get clean chit: 6 things to know
Wonder what as a consumer has changed for you? Here are the 6 things that have changed in Reliance Jio's 'free services' plan...

Apple to have 'exclusive manufacturer' for iPhones in India: Report
An assembly plant that Apple's Taiwanese manufacturing partner Wistron Corp is setting up in Bengaluru will focus solely on assembling iPhones, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

PM Narendra Modi's photo lands Paytm, Reliance Jio in soup
The government has issued notices to Paytm and Reliance Jio Infocomm asking them whether they had taken prior permission before using Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photographs on advertisements of their products.

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BEd degree from Jammu & Kashmir institutions will now be valid in Bihar
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) degree from the University of Jammu and the University of Kashmir will now be valid in Bihar for appointment of teachers in secondary and higher secondary schools.

Academic council fumes at attempts to straight jacket popular arts course under science
A circular from under-secretary to government, education department (universities – 2) to registrars of all 17 state universities to offer UG/PG courses in geography, psychology, statistics, mathematics, anthropology and criminology as part of BSc/MSc programmes came in for close scrutiny at the third general meeting of the academic council of Mangalore University on Friday.

Set up grievance redressal system in all varsities: High Court tells UGC

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High court upholds Maharashtra's rule, says schools free to admit kids under RTE
The Bombay high court (HC) has upheld the state government's new rules that give freedom to school managements in admitting students under the Right to Education (RTE) quota.

Assets declared by poll aspirants show steady rise
Election affidavits filed by prominent corporators in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) show that their assets have shown a significant increase in a five-year span.

Uddhav Thackeray hints at shutting door on post-election pact with BJP
ddhav Thackeray on Saturday declared that the Shiv Sena has severed ties with the BJP for ever. “Sena's politics of alliance is over for good.

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Rape survivors to get aid for travelling to Delhi
Survivors of all sexual offences seeking justice in Delhi courts but based abroad or in far-flung places can hope for some relief.

DIAL asked to free up IGI's terminal 1 fast
Coming to the aid of domestic budget flyers, the aviation ministry has directed Delhi International Airport Pvt Ltd (DIAL) to take immediate steps for decongesting the choked terminal 1.

Mentally unstable man threatens to crash Delhi-Mumbai Jet flight
Passengers of a Delhi-Mumbai flight were tucking into their meal on Saturday morning when a flyer stood up, threw his food tray and said he had taken control of the plane and would crash it.

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APMC president still unconscious; 25 picked up for questioning
Dasanapura Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) president K Srinivas alias Kadabagere Seena

Nothing wrong in talking about sex, school principal told student
A day after the principal of a central government school in Sadashivanagar was arrested following complaints of sexual harassment from a student

Cancer treatment goes from blanket chemotherapy to targeted attacks
When Rohan, 12 was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) with a very high white blood cell count, his parents didn't opt for the traditional chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant which has serious side-effects.

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Malakpet man's mercy plea junked by Saudi

Khajuraho's sculptures of love: City artists exhibit paintings at gallery

Third-degree torture on Hyd boy by Saudi 'kafil'

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HC confirms life for man who raped daughter

Unused flare creates flutter in Ayanavaram

Clash at private maritime college: 3 students injured, 5 held
Four Of The Five Arrested Were Former Students

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Spotted sandgrouse seen in Kutch after 19 years

'Untouchability still prevails in schools'

Boy who ran from despair found in Mumbai

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Dacoits' poll diktat no longer rings in Bundelkhand badlands

Poll panel stays transfer of teachers

For Kaushambi's triad, it's a triangular contest

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Panchayat election: Youth shot dead in Dhenkanal in pre-poll violence

'There is no chance of me joining politics'

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik protests curb on NEET attempts

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Killed parents, buried them, claims man accused of entombing live-in partner

Chinese embassy officials meet soldier trapped in India since 1963

New revelations in the murder of Akansha Sharma in Bhopal
According to a police source Udyan Das has revealed that he has killed his father and mother as well and had buried them down in his property premises at Raipur.

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State annual plan: Rs80.5cr to be spent on parking lots in Shimla

5-yr-old among 2 Pak nationals repatriated

Services of 10 SPOs terminated

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