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Aadhaar Data Safe Behind Five Feet Thick Walls

The government has assured the Supreme Court that Aadhaar is not a “fly-by-night effort to score some brownie points” and personal data collected from millions of people is safe from breach in storage facilities barricaded behind five-feet thick walls. Appearing before a Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal

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Twist in The Tale

Here was a dramatic twist to iconic actor Sridevi’s death, with the Dubai authorities on Monday attributing it to “accidental drowning” in the bathtub of her hotel suite after losing consciousness. Sridevi (54) was found in the bathroom of the Jumeirah. Emirates Towers room by her husband, Bollywood producer Boney Kapoor, on February 24. The

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Ram Rajya Rath Yatra

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will flag off the ‘Ram Rajya Rath Yatra’ today, starting from the Ayodhya to Rameswaram. This yatra will cover six states over the next two months. The rally comes days before the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit is expected to come up before the Supreme Court for the final hearing.

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Padmaavat Protests

Protests against the release of ‘Padmaavat’ by right-wing fringe outfits continued on Sunday, with Karni Sena members, armed with lathis, blocking busy roads in Gurgaon and vandalising unmanned toll booths in Noida, blocking highways and attacking public and private vehicles in Surat and other parts of Gujarat. Thousands of people were stranded and traffic came

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US Government Shuts Down On First Anniversary Of Trump’s Presidency

The US government officially shut down on Saturday, the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, after lawmakers failed to agree a stop-gap spending deal. Senators were still negotiating on the Senate floor as the clock turned midnight, but Trump’s office issued a statement blaming opposition Democrats for the crisis. Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the

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Pakistan Body Demands Highest Gallantry Medal For Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh should be accorded Pakistan’s highest gallantry award ‘Nishan-e-Haider’ and his statue be installed at Lahore’s Shaadman Chowk where he was hanged 86 years ago, an organisation working to prove the legendary freedom fighter’s innocence in a court has demanded. Singh was hanged along with his two comrades Rajguru and Sukhdev by British rulers

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Pakistan Contacted India to Protest Bipin Rawat’s Comments

Pakistan got in touch with India through diplomatic channels to protest Army chief Bipin Rawat’s comments on calling Islamabad’s nuclear bluff, reported The Nation, a Pakistani newspaper, quoting unnamed government officials. “India has been told that such statements will only worsen the tension. These statements invite reaction and counter-reaction,” said unnamed Pakistani foreign ministry officials

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Leh Records Season’s Coldest Night At Minus 13.8 Degrees Celsius

SRINAGAR: Leh experienced its coldest night this winter as the minimum temperature there settled nearly 14 degrees Celsius below the freezing point, even as the mercury continued its downward spiral in Kashmir valley and Ladakh region in Jammu and Kashmir. Leh town, in the frontier Ladakh region, recorded a minimum night temperature of 13.8 degrees

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Mukesh Ambani Gives Anil Ambani Rs 23,000 Crore Relief

Anil Ambani’s struggling telecom operations received a bail-out from elder brother Mukesh’s Reliance Jio+ as the siblings announced a wide-ranging, but expected, deal for spectrum, towers and optic fibre assets on their father’s birthday. While the companies are yet to announce the deal size, it is estimated to be worth around Rs 23,000 crore, a

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Gets $102 Million Payout in 2017 After Earnings Rebound

Apple CEO Tim Cook will now fly on private aircraft even for personal travel for “security and safety reasons”, a regulatory filing with the SEC reveals. Separately, his received a massive increase in his annual bonus, thanks to earnings rebound for the company. According to a new shareholder proxy statement from Apple, the board of

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India’s Plan For All Electric Cars By 2030 Not Viable

Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz has urged the government “not to rush with the all-electric vehicles push” and thus “foreclose better technological options” for future generations as the rest of the world is racing to run on hydrogen and not electricity. The car manufacturer also called for adopting a less ambitious plan of promoting e-cars arguing that

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Northeast Monsoon Season Largely Normal For Southern States

With less than 10 days to go before the Northeast monsoon draws to a close, the rainfall picture for most southern states looks largely normal, despite actual rainfall figures in four out of five sub-divisions in the south staying below the normal mark this season. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had forecast in early October

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