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Anger Erupts At UN Climate Summit As Major Economies Resist Bold Action

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Major economies resisted calls for bolder climate commitments as a U.N. summit in Madrid limped towards a delayed conclusion on Saturday, dimming hopes that nations will act in time to stop rising temperatures devastating people and the natural world. With the two-week gathering spilling into the weekend, campaigners and many nations slammed Chile, presiding over the talks, for drafting a summit text that they said risked throwing the 2015 Paris Agreement to tackle global warming into reverse.  “At a time when scientists are queuing up to warn about terrifying consequences…

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Bharatnatyam Dancer Leela Samson Faces Charges In Auditorium Project

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The CBI has booked ace Bharatnatyam dancer and former Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi Leela Samson for alleged “unfruitful expenditure” in Rs 7.02-crore renovation project of Koothambalam auditorium of Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai, officials said Saturday. Ms Samson, a Padma Shree awardee and also a former chairperson of Central Board of Film Certification, has been booked along with the then officers of the Foundation: Chief Accounts Officer TS Murthi, Accounts Officer S Ramachandran, Engineering officer V Srinivasan and proprietor of CARD and Chennai Engineers, they said.  In a complaint to the…

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Aviation scam: Lobbyist Deepak Talwar’s close aide granted bail by Delhi court

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A Delhi court Friday granted bail to Yasmin Kapoor, a close aide of co-accused and corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar, in a money laundering case related to negotiations that allegedly favoured foreign private airlines causing losses to state-owned Air India.Special Judge Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj granted relief to the accused, saying she was not the main accused.The ED had arrested Kapoor on October 3 after the court cancelled the anticipatory bail granted to her in the case after the probe agency submitted that she was misusing the bail.The bail was granted on…

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‘Kabir Singh’ represents more than 70 per cent of urban India: Anurag Kashyap

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Why shouldn’t a film like “Kabir Singh” exist when it represents more than 70 to 80 per cent of urban India, says director Anurag Kashyap who believes it is important to make people uncomfortable rather than stay politically correct in cinema.There has always been a debate around the role or responsibility of artistes and whether they should bear accountability for the art they put out but Kashyap says one cannot enforce the existence of one kind of cinema. “The first thing is, it’s up to you whether you want to…

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Obama says Paris climate deal is still the way forward

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 Former US President Barack Obama said Friday the Paris Agreement on climate change may fall short of expectations but is still the way forward to achieve progress and encourage businesses to invest in clean energy. Nearly 200 nations pledged to cut greenhouse emissions and help poor countries cope with the worst effects of an already warming planet under the accord signed in 2016 that was a cornerstone of Obama’s environmental legacy.But his successor, Donald Trump, abandoned that legacy when his administration notified the UN last month that the US would…

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Messi doesn’t need to win World Cup to be called great player: Crespo

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Lionel Messi is in the same league as Pele or Diego Maradona and he doesn’t need to win a World Cup to prove his greatness, feels iconic former Argentine striker Hernan Crespo.Here in the city as the ambassador of TSK 25K run, the prolific Argentine said: “Messi doesn’t need that (to win a World Cup to be great player). In the whole history, I can think of five players — Pele, (Alfredo) di Stefano, (Johan) Cruyff, (Diego) Maradona and then there is Messi.”He however hoped that Messi gets to finally…

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Rupee pares gains to close flat at 70.83 against USD on crude price surge

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The rupee jumped 33 paise in day trade before closing flat at 70.83 to the US dollar on Friday as surging crude oil prices after reports of a US-China trade deal knocked off sharp gains.The rupee opened strong at 70.54 and surged further by 33 paise to touch the day’s high of 70.50 to the US dollar, mirroring sharp gains in stock markets.Equity benchmark BSE Sensex breached the 41,000 level as the US and China reportedly reaching a trade deal and Boris Johnson’s win in the UK general elections boosted…

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50 Jamia students detained after clash with cops during CAB protest

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The Jamia Millia Islamia University turned into a battlefield on Friday after police and students, who wanted to march to Parliament House to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act, clashed with each other prompting AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan to reach the spot to take stock of the situation. Fifty students were detained following a clash between police and students after the protestors were stopped at the varsity gate and prevented from carrying out their march. The students, who were baton-charged by police personnel, alleged that the police also used tear gas…

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Several pleas filed in SC challenging Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019

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Several petitions, including those by Congress MP Jairam Ramesh and Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, were filed in the Supreme Court on Friday challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.According to the amended Act, members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan till December 31, 2014 and face religious persecution there will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship.President Ram Nath Kovind had given assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 on Thursday night,…

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Focus on fitness and recovery ahead of Olympics: Rani Rampal

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Focus will be on fitness and recovery as the Indian women’s hockey team looks to play quality matches against top sides as part of its preparation for the Tokyo Olympics, said skipper Rani Rampal.The Indian team is currently in Bengaluru for the ongoing National coaching camp which will end on December 15.After a three-week break for Christmas and New Year, the core group will return to camp on January 5 to prepare for the New Zealand Tour.”One of the primary focus for us will be on fitness and recovery. While…

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