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Ravichandran Ashwin reckons that the 22-yard strip at the SCG has eased considerably and backed two of India’s finest exponents of Test match batting — Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteswar Pujara — to once again come good in a pressure situation. India will need to bat 90 plus overs on the final day of the third Test and score another 309 runs with Pujara and Rahane aiming to save the match by batting out the whole day. “The pitch has been quite slow, and it has been good to bat on.…

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Centre seeks dismissal of review petition on PM CARES Fund

January 10, 2021January 11, 2021 strong0 comment

The Centre on Saturday sought dismissal of a review petition seeking information about funds received by the Prime Minister’s Citizens Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation (PM CARES) Fund. The Union government told the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court that audit statement of receipt and payment accounts of the PM CARES Fund for 2019-20 was available on the trust’s website. An affidavit was filed by Pradeep Srivastava, Under Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, before a division bench of Justices Sunil Shukre and Anil Kilor in response to…

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Big steel, cement firms operating as a cartel; need to place regulator: Gadkari

January 10, 2021January 11, 2021 strong0 comment

Big players in the steel and cement industry are indulging in cartelisation to jack-up prices, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has said, pitching to place a regulator for the sectors. It will be difficult to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of making India a USD 5 trillion economy if the steel and cement prices keep going up, Gadkari said, pointing out the target of investing Rs 111 lakh crore on infrastructure projects in the next five years to aid the economy. It can be noted that allegations of…

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Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea

January 10, 2021January 11, 2021 strong0 comment

Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Indonesia’s capital. The head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, Bagus Puruhito, said officials believe they identified the location of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder the so-called black boxes because emergency signals transmitted by the devices were detected by a navy ship’s sonar system. We have determined…

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Bird flu confirmed in 7 states; test results of Delhi, Maharashtra samples awaited

January 10, 2021January 11, 2021 strong0 comment

The Centre on Sunday said bird flu outbreak has been confirmed in seven states — Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, while test results are still awaited for Delhi and Maharashtra samples. No samples have been confirmed positive in wild birds from Balod district, Chhattisgarh which were tested earlier, the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying said in a statement. After confirmation of avian influenza (bird flu) positive samples in poultry (two poultry farms) of Panchkula district of Haryana, the state government has deployed nine…

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Will introduce immigration bill ‘immediately’ after taking office, says Biden

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 strong0 comment

US President-elect Joe Biden has said he will introduce an immigration legislation “immediately” after taking office, reversing the Trump administration’s policies. Biden will taken the oath of office on January 20. “I will introduce an immigration bill immediately and have it sent to the appropriate committees to begin movement,” he told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday. Biden was responding to a question on what his administration would do first after his inauguration on January 20. He had also previously promised an immigration overhaul within 100 days of taking office.…

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World waiting for India’s vaccines, watching how it runs world’s biggest vaccination drive: PM

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 strong0 comment

India is ready with two made-in-India vaccines for the protection of humanity and the world is not only waiting for them but also watching as to how the country runs the globe’s biggest vaccination programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. In his address at the inauguration of the 16th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention, Modi also asserted that if democracy is most strong, vibrant and lively anywhere in the world, it is in India. “When India got Independence then it was said that such a poor and under-literate…

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Sensex, Nifty soar to fresh highs as bulls make a comeback; log weekly gains

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 strong0 comment

Domestic markets returned to winning ways on Friday after two days of declines as strong buying in IT stocks ahead of TCS’ results propelled benchmarks to fresh lifetime highs amid a bullish trend overseas. A recovering rupee and foreign fund inflows further buoyed sentiment, traders said. The 30-share BSE Sensex sprinted 689.19 points or 1.43 per cent to close at a record 48,782.51. It touched an all-time peak of 48,854.34 during the session. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty rallied 209.90 points or 1.48 per cent to close at its new…

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Beant Singh assassination case: SC asks Centre to decide by Jan 26 Rajoana’s plea to commute death penalty

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 strong0 comment

The Supreme Court Friday asked the Centre to take a decision before January 26 on Balwant S Rajoana’s plea seeking commutation of death penalty in former Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh’s assassination case. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said that the decision be taken before the Republic Day which is a “good date”. “We will give two-three weeks. You should complete the process before January 26. January 26 is a good day. It will be appropriate if you take a decision before that,” the bench said.…

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Ian McKellan is ‘happy’ Elliot Page came out as transgender

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 strong0 comment

Veteran actor Ian McKellan has praised his “X-Men” series co-star Elliot Page for coming out as a transgender, saying that he is happy for him. Page, the Oscar-nominated star of films such as “Juno” and “Inception”, had in December 2020 came out as a transgender in a statement posted on Twitter. Reflecting on his own experience as a gay man in Hollywood, McKellan told Attitude Magazine that Page’s decision to come out will be a huge personal boost for the actor. “Everything gets better when you come out because you…