News Digest: Excise department offers breather to Cyber Hub, Gurgaon hotels

Excise department offers breather to Cyber Hub, Gurgaon hotels
Haryana's excise department will use `motorable distance' as the benchmark to decide a bar's distance from the highway in Gurgaon, a decision that may come as a reprieve for places like Cyber Hub that feared lo sing their liquor licences after April 1.

Senior BJP ministers to visit constituencies it lost in 2014
BJP chief Amit Shah will be in Hyderabad while Union home minister Rajnath Singh will be in Kolkata South, which was West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's parliamentary seat before she became the CM.

Somalian pirates hijack dhow with 10 Indian crew members
Pirates have hijacked an Indian dhow off the coast of Somalia, which had 10 crew members from Gujarat when it was en route to Bosaso from Dubai. The vessel was hijacked in the vicinity of Socotra (Island).

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Rupee off multi-month high, tumbles 18 paise to 65.03
Buoyant dollar overseas predominantly impacted trading sentiment, though robust capital flows into equities and debt largely cushioned the fall. This is the biggest one-day fall against the greenback in nearly two months.

Banks try to keep pace with customer pings on social media
The onslaught of customer complaints on social media has started acting as an effective check to banks.

2,800 employees of SBI's associate banks opt for VRS
All the five entities — State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ), State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH), State Bank of Mysore (SBM), State Bank of Patiala (SBP) and State Bank of Travancore (SBT), in addition to Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) — merged with SBI with from April 1.

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3 tiger cubs destined for zoo in Syria rescued in Lebanon
The tigers, which were being transported from Ukraine, arrived at the Beirut airport on March 7, inside a ventilated 0.3-cubic-meter (10.6-cubic feet) crate, where they could not stand or move and were forced to urinate and defecate on each other, according to Animals Lebanon.

NGT declines to modify SC order on BS-III vehicles
A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar declined to grant the relief to the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) saying that it has no jurisdiction to entertain the plea.

Some of Greenland's coastal ice may be lost by 2100: Study

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Putin lays flowers at blast site in Saint Petersburg
Russian President Vladimir Putin went to lay flowers on late Monday at the scene of the deadly blast that hit Saint Petersburg's metro, an AFP photographer said.

Saudi Arabia increases fighter pilots' pay by up to 60 percent
The cabinet amended laws pertaining to military officers, allowing air force pilots and weapons operators to receive a 35 percent rise on basic salary, said in a statement. The increase for officers flying fighter jets and operating their weapons systems will be 60 percent, it said.

Germany's Merkel wants to limit Brexit fallout
"This is an incision for the European Union, it's an unfortunate event - Britain's decision," Germany's Angela Merkel told a joint news conference with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico and Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka in Berlin.

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Kareena: Everyone has an opinion in India

Ali Fazal to work with MJ's daughter in a film

Tusshar & son will miss Jeetendra's b'day bash

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Existence of dark matter mere myth?
The elusive dark energy, thought to make up 68 per cent of the universe, may not exist at all, scientists have claimed.

Fuel made from grass may power jets in future
In the quest for sustainable energy sources, scientists have developed “grassoline“ -a biofuel derived from grass that may one day power aircraft.

Loneliness can make your cold feel worse
After adjusting for demographics like gender and age, season, and isolation, the results showed those who felt lonely were no more likely to get a cold than those who were not. However those who were screened in advance for their level of loneliness and became infected -not all of the participants did -reported a greater severity of symptoms than those recorded in previous studies used as controls.

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IPL: Shane Watson to lead RCB in Virat Kohli's absence
Former Australian all-rounder Shane Watson will lead Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the upcoming tenth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) until regular skipper Virat Kohli returns to full fitness.

IPL: Dhawan keen on getting back into national side
Having spent a few months out of the Indian team, opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan on Monday said he would look to perform well in domestic competitions, including in the IPL, so that he can be in the reckoning for the national side once again.

Shastri bats for steep pay hike for international players
Backing the reported demand of top Indian players for a steep hike in their emoluments, former India all rounder Ravi Shastri termed as "peanuts" the increase in their payment announced by the BCCI recently.

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Government to hire tech company to run its e-marketplace GeM
The government is looking to hire a technology company to run its online procurement marketplace launched in August, and some of the biggest players in the industry are in the fray for it.

Essar exits BPO business, sells Aegis for $275-300 million
Ruias-led Essar Group today announced sale of its BPO company Aegis Ltd to Singapore-based private equity fund manager Capital Square Partners for an estimated $275 to 300 million.

Fresh row at Infosys as Narayana Murthy slams COO's pay hike
The flash point this time was a resolution, which came for voting on March 31, to increase the total compensation of chief operating officer U B Pravin Rao by 35% to Rs 12.5 crore. Most of the promoters of the company, including N R Narayana Murthy, abstained on the resolution.

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Maths section tricky and lengthy in JEE (Main), aspirants say

Supreme Court stays CBSE's decision to fix upper age limit of 25 years for NEET

Supreme Court stays CBSE's decision to fix upper age limit of 25 years for NEET
All medical aspiring students can now appear for NEET this year irrespective of their age, as the Supreme Court on Friday stayed CBSE’s decision to fix an upper age limit of 25 years for taking the entrance examination for MBBS course.

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RTE admissions: BMC extends date to April 5

State to draft fresh norms for VIP security

SoBo gets another hospital, this one is for children

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Delhi bus travellers inhale less soot than those in cars: Study

Gandhi Nagar seethes at years of neglect

Ex-minister's exit will be big loss for party: Sheila

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Three Water Adalats to be held today
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewage Board (BWSSB) will hold Water Adalats on Tuesday in its west-1, southeast-1 and southwest-1 zones to address grievances over water billing, sewage and other issues.

'Need to address Metro commuters' last-mile connectivity concerns'
A citizen's initiative this time will look into plugging the issues of first-and last-mile connectivity at Namma Metro stations.

No temple on school premises: Lokayukta P Vishwanatha Shetty
The Lokayukta had summoned the executive engineer and assistant executive engineer of BBMP (Wilson Garden) and the block education officer of the South 3 division.

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31 stranded in Iraq brought back to state

BTech grad, relative run over by train while walking on tracks

Traffic curbs, bars shut for Shobha Yatra tomorrow

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Gang damages signal, robs train passengers of 3.5 lakh gold in Tamil Nadu
A gang tampered with a signal board and forced the New Delhi-bound Kerala Express to stop before Thottampatti railway station in Dharmapuri district just after midnight on Sunday before escaping with gold jewellery worth around 3.5 lakh from five women.

Research, startups make IIT-Madras best in class
Indian Institute of Technology – Madras is the second best institution in the country and the best among engineering institutions in the national institutional ranking framework (NIRF) released by the Union minister for human resource and development Prakash Javadekar on Monday.

Madras high court to take up hotel parking case today

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Gujarat University orders shutting down of NC Bodiwala College
Gujarat University's higher education department issued an order last week, to shut down NC Bodiwala College in Kalupur. Soon after the order was issued, the management laid off 14 faculty members of the institute.

Man thrashed in Sarkhej
A 38-year-old man from Ranpur in Botad district has registered a complaint with Sarkhej police for assault and intimidation.

Pandey resigned on Saturday to avoid embarrassing govt: Pradipsinh Jadeja
Soon after the Supreme Court allowed Gujarat government to accept in-charge DGP PP Pandey’s offer to relinquish his office, MoS (Home) Pradipsinh Jadeja revealed that Pandey had submitted his resignation on Saturday itself.

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'Good SP schemes won't be reversed'
The BJP government in the state will not act in a vindictive manner against the previous government but if evidence of corruption is found in any project, either complete or ongoing or even one that was only proposed, probe would be initiated even if it is the Lucknow-Agra expressway project, said state minister for health Siddharth Nath Singh.

Allahabad set to host PM for mega high court event

'Extend Delhi-Kanpur Shatabdi till Allahabad'
Pramod Tiwari has demanded the extension of New-Delhi Kanpur Shatabdi Express till Allahabad.

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Pyarimohan Mohapatra's daughter becomes Odisha Jan Morcha's secretary general

Tourist special train 'Aastha' to start from Puri on April 4

Pollution panel slaps closure notice on 8 dal mills

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In MP, liquor vends face the wrath of women

Yogi Adityanath gets Shivraj's invite to Narmada Yatra

Row over CM's remark on Scindias shifts to Delhi

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AAP urges Punjab CM to order probe into extra-judicial killings in state

Sukhbir challenges Amarinder to do even 10% of work done by SAD-BJP govt

Congress alleges scam in transfer of municipal corporation booths in Phagwara

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