2018 | DIN NEWS - Part 419

China ‘worried’ over US trade relations as surplus narrows

February 9, 2018 strong

China expressed concern today over the US ramping up trade investigations as official data showed its surplus with America narrowed in January after reaching record levels last year. This week China announced an investigation into imports of a US agricultural product after President Donald Trump’s administration launched a spate of new trade tariffs and probes into Chinese goods. The Trump administration has shown no signs of letting up, with major decisions looming on Chinese aluminium, steel and intellectual property practices. The tensions are raising the spectre of a tit-for-tat trade…

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Students protest metro fare hike, urge PM to intervene

February 9, 2018 strong

Various students’ bodies today took out a protest march urging the prime minister to rollback the metro fare hike and give concessional passes to all Delhi University students. However, the march that began from the Shastri Bhawan was stopped a short distance away by the Rapid Action Force and the Delhi Police. Some students tried to break the barricades. A delegation was later allowed to submit a memorandum to officials at the PMO. Speaking to reporters, Delhi University All India Students Association (AISA) president Kawalpreet Kaur said they were asked…

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Oppn uproar over demand for special status to AP in RS

February 9, 2018 strong

The issue of grant of special status to Andhra Pradesh today rocked the Rajya Sabha as the opposition created an uproar over the issue, forcing Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to adjourn the House till afternoon. The issue came up after Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Y S Chowdary rose to suggest that since the provisions of Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act have not been implemented, the matter should be addressed by the Finance Minister when he replies to the debate on the general budget. Chowdary blamed…

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‘Once Upon A Time’ to end after season seven

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018 strong

Fantasy TV show “Once Upon A Time” is all set to bid farewell with its current seventh season. It is curtains for the ABC fairy tale mash-up after the end of the season six was given an intense reboot, but failed to catch the audiences’ fancy as it had all series regulars, except three who were released from their contracts, E! News reported. “Seven years ago, we set out to create a show about hope, where even in the darkest of times, a happy ending would always be possible. But…

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Tendulkar urges BCCI to recognise India’s blind cricket body

February 8, 2018 strong

Batting great Sachin Tendulkar has called on the BCCI to recognise the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) and bring its players under the Board’s pension scheme. Tendulkar wrote to the Committee of Administrator’s (CoA) chairman Vinod Rai, requesting him to consider recognition for CABI, weeks after the team won the Blind World Cup 2018, beating Pakistan by two wickets in the final on January 20. “As we celebrate the fourth consecutive victory of the Indian team in the Blind World Cup, I urge you to consider recognition…

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John Cena to release a series of children’s books

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018 strong

WWE star John Cena is all set to debut as an author with the release of a new line of children’s stories. The 40-year-old professional wrestler-actor will turn writer with a franchise that follows the lives of a boisterous family of monster trucks named Elbow Grease, Pinball, Flash, Crash, and Tank, Mashable reported. To be published by Random House Books for Young Readers, the first book is titled “Elbow Grease”, which will focus on the first truck, who is smaller than his four brothers but on a mission to prove…

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SC cancels iron ore mining leases of 88 companies in Goa

February 8, 2018 strong

The Supreme Court today quashed the second renewal of iron ore mining leases given to 88 companies in Goa in 2015. The apex court directed the Centre and the Goa government to grant fresh environmental clearances to them. It said the state government was obliged to grant fresh mining leases in accordance with law, in view of its previous judgement, and not second renewals to mining lease holders. The apex court had said in previous judgements that only fresh leases were to be granted by the Goa government, not second…

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RBI sees inflation firming up at 5.1% in March qtr

February 8, 2018 strong

The Reserve Bank is expecting retail inflation to rise to 5.1 per cent in the last quarter of the ongoing fiscal due to rising crude oil prices and hike in salary components of government employees. The central bank has also projected inflation to be in the range of 5.1-5.6 per cent in the first half of 2018-19. Meanwhile, the RBI has kept the key repo rate, at which it lends to banks, unchanged at 6 per cent. “Domestic pump prices of petrol and diesel rose sharply in January, reflecting lagged…

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Sensex down 69 pts as RBI keeps rate unchanged

February 8, 2018 strong

Market benchmark BSE Sensex was trading lower by about 69 points at 34,127.31 in late afternoon trade after the RBI kept its key policy rate unchanged and lowered economic growth projection for 2017-18. The central bank kept the interest rate unchanged, as widely expected on inflation concerns, but lowered economic growth projection to 6.6 per cent for 2017-18, from 6.7 per cent in its sixth bi-monthly Monetary Policy statement today. The RBI kept the key policy rate unchanged at 6 per cent for the third consecutive time today in view…

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China establishing real time global ocean observation network

February 8, 2018 strong

China is establishing its first global real-time ocean observation network covering most parts of the Pacific, Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, according to Chinese media. Chinese research vessel Kexue recently placed the 400th profiling float in the northwest Pacific Ocean since it joined the forefront ocean monitoring plan Argo in 2002. It signals the establishment of the first global real- time ocean observation network in China, state-run Global Times quoted the China Science Daily as saying. So far, the network covers regions in the northwest Pacific Ocean, the…