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The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea of a private firm seeking preservation of India’s decommissioned aircraft carrier ‘Viraat’ and its conversion into a museum. A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian took note of the fact that the Ministry of Defence has refused to accept the representation of private firm Envitech Marine Consultants Pvt Ltd that the decommissioned aircraft carrier be preserved. “You cannot do this. The (Bombay) high court had allowed you to give representation to the government. You…

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Documentary on Osho Rajneesh’s former aide Ma Anand Sheela to premiere on Netflix in April

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 strong

Ma Anand Sheela, who shot to global fame with the documentary “Wild Wild Country” on controversial spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh, will be back to the screen in “Searching for Sheela’”, scheduled to release on Netflix on April 22. Sheela was a crucial figure in helping Rajneesh establish Rajneeshpuram, a utopian city for his followers in rural Oregon, which functioned between 1981 to 1985. She was also the primary perpetrator of the 1984 Rajneesh bioterror attack in Oregon, US. Post the attack she fled to Europe as a fugitive accused of…

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Hardik had shoulder concern but will bowl soon: Zaheer

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 strong

Hardik Pandya did not bowl in Mumbai Indians’ lung-opener on Friday due to a shoulder concern but the India all-rounder will soon contribute in team’s cause with ball in his hand, team’s Director of Cricket Operations Zaheer Khan said on Monday. Mumbai Indians, the five-time champions, lost their opening game to Royal Challengers Bangalore by two wickets. “Hardik, as a whole package is always of great value, everyone knows that. It was a workload related thing in the previous game,” Zaheer said at the pre-match conference ahead of their game…

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EC trying to suppress facts by barring entry of politicians in Cooch Behar: Mamata

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 strong

Describing the incident of firing in Cooch Behar as a “genocide”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the Election Commission has restricted the entry of politicians in the district for 72 hours as it seeks to “suppress facts”. The TMC supremo, while addressing a press meet here, claimed that central forces “sprayed bullets aiming at the torso of the victims” in Sitalkuchi area, when the fourth phase of polling was underway in the state. “There was genocide at Sitalkuchi. I would like to visit Sitalkuchi by April…

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Electrical problem strikes Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 strong

Iran’s Natanz nuclear site suffered a problem Sunday involving its electrical distribution grid just hours after starting up new advanced centrifuges that more quickly enrich uranium, state TV reported. It was the latest incident to strike one of Tehran’s most-secured sites amid negotiations over tattered atomic accord with world powers. State TV quoted Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesman for Iran’s civilian nuclear programme, announcing the incident. Kamalvandi said there were no injuries or pollution cause by the incident. The word state television used in its report attributed to Kamalvandi in Farsi…

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EV policy needs to be rejigged to make it more effective: Hero Electric

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 strong

The country’s electric vehicle (EV) policy needs to be “rejigged” and requires “course correction” in order to make it more effective to achieve envisaged sales targets, according to the country’s leading electric two-wheeler maker Hero Electric. Under the FAME-II scheme, which was launched in April 2019, the plan was to put at least 10 lakh high-speed electric two-wheelers on the road by March 2022. But with two years already over, the number of electric two wheelers on the road remains low at around 60,000 units. In 2020, just 25,735 units…

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Ibrahimovic sets up 2 goals before red card, Milan wins 3-1

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 strong

Zlatan Ibrahimovic set up two goals but was also sent off as AC Milan won 3-1 at relegation-threatened Parma to keep its small Serie A title hopes alive. Ibrahimovic had a hand in both Milan’s first-half goals on Saturday but was shown a straight red card on the hour mark for something he appeared to say to referee Fabio Maresca. Riccardo Gagliolo reduced the deficit but substitute Rafael Le o sealed the result in stoppage time as Milan moved to within eight points of league leader Inter Milan, which hosts…

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Biden orders gun control actions – but they show his limits

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 strong

President Joe Biden has put on a modest White House ceremony to announce a half-dozen executive actions to combat what he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment” of gun violence in America. But he said much more is needed. And while Biden had proposed the most ambitious gun-control agenda of any modern presidential candidate, his moves underscored his limited power to act alone on guns with difficult politics impeding legislative action on Capitol Hill. Biden’s new steps include a move to crackdown on “ghost guns,” homemade firearms that lack…

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Sensex drops over 150 pts in early trade; Nifty below 14,850

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 strong

Equity benchmark Sensex dropped over 150 points in early trade on Friday, tracking losses in index-heavyweights HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries amid largely negative cues from global markets. The 30-share BSE index was trading 186.94 points or 0.38 per cent lower at 49,559.27. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty slipped 44.10 points or 0.30 per cent to 14,829.70. Bajaj Finance was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shedding around 2 per cent, followed by Asian Paints, ICICI Bank, Kotak Bank, HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries. On the other…

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Data should drive good contest in cricket, says Rahul Dravid

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 strong

Data, which is used in statistics-driven cricket to help in strategy and player selection, should drive a good contest, legendary Indian batsman Rahul Dravid said. Cricket has always been statistically-driven like baseball, but over the past 15 years we have moved beyond comparing averages and now use data to help in strategy and player selection, Dravid said during a panel discussion at the 15th MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. The first ever panel discussion on cricket at the MIT conference titled “Howzdata- How Analytics is Revolutionizing Cricket” focused on how…