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Atletico stays in touch with Barca, Madrid wins 5-3 at Betis
Atletico Madrid stayed within sight of Barcelona while Real Madrid’s attack bailed out its porous defense in the Spanish league yesterday. Diego Costa and Kevin Gameiro scored second-half goals to give Atletico a 2-0 win over Athletic Bilbao and keep it seven points behind Barcelona at the top of the table. Atletico will visit Barcelona on March 4 in what could be its last chance to inject some drama into the title race. “We will have many important matches after (the game at Barcelona) but this is our path forward,…
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Yuki jumps 11 places to 101 in ATP singles rankings
Yuki Bhambri today jumped 11 places to stand just outside the top-100 bracket in the men’s singles rankings, following his runner-up finish at the Chennai Open Challenger tournament. Bhambri had squandered a match point against Australia’s Jordon Thompson to settle for 48 ranking points and USD 4240 in prize money. With this jump, Yuki is now ranked 101 and is followed by Ramkumar Ramanathanm (140, +1), Sumit Nagal (216, +1) and left-hander Prajnesh Gunseswaran (242, -1). Yuki had achieved his career-best rank of 88 in November 2015. In the doubles…
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‘Hurting sentiments’: police notice to Oru Adaar Love director
Hyderabad police have sent a notice to the director of the upcoming Malayalam film “Oru Adaar Love”, seeking his reply in a case lodged against him for ‘hurting religious sentiments’. Some local persons had lodged a complaint that lyrics of the song `Manikya Malaraya poovi’ in the Omar Lulu-directed film hurt the sentiments of Muslims. Police registered a case against Omar Lulu on February 14 under section 295A of the IPC (hurting religious sentiments). Two days ago, a notice was issued to the director under section 160 of the Code…
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HC directs TN govt to give relief to kin of manual scavengers
The Madras High Court today directed the Tamil Nadu government to pay due compensation to the families of three manual scavengers who died while cleaning a septic tank at a hotel in Kancheepuram district last week. The first bench of Chief Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Abdul Quddhose gave the direction when A Narayanan, representing Change India NGO, made a mention of the death of three persons while performing manual scavenging at the hotel in Sriperumbudur, 50 km from here, on February 14. To this the bench said, “They must…
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SC asks Centre to apprise it about Haj quota seats, their availability
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to apprise it by tomorrow about the total allocation of Haj quota seats and the vacancies if any on a plea of the Kerala Haj Committee alleging that the policy to grant state-wise quota for Haj pilgrims was discriminatory. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud asked Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Pinky Anand, representing the Centre, to file an affidavit by tomorrow giving details of the total Haj quota seats and the figure of…
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Airtel to offer Rs 2,000 cashback on Nokia phones
Bharti Airtel today said it will offer up to Rs 2,000 cashback over 36 months on purchase of Nokia 2 and Nokia 3 smartphones to its pre-paid customers. “Bharti Airtel…and HMD Global today announced a partnership to offer affordable 4G smartphone options to customers as part of Airtel s Mera Pehla Smartphone initiative. Nokia 3 and Nokia 2, 4G smartphones are now available with cashback offer of Rs 2,000 from Airtel,” the telecom major said in a statement. Both 4G smartphones will come bundled with Airtel recharge pack of Rs…
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Paswan reviews PDS in 13 backward districts of Bihar
Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today reviewed the functioning of the public distribution system (PDS) in 13 most backward districts of Bihar. The government is focusing on transforming 115 most backward districts in the country by ensuring the benefits of the schemes reach to them. In November last year, the Niti Ayog had appointed additional secretary and joint secretary rank officials as prabhari or in-charge to coordinate between the efforts of the Centre and the concerned states. In the first meeting with Prabhari, Paswan took inputs from them to prepare…
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Lanka Army enlists 11 former LTTE members
At least 50 northern Tamil youth, including 11 former LTTE members, have been enlisted to serve the Sri Lanka Army s volunteer force, the military spokesman said today. They will not be wearing the military uniforms but would be entitled to pension and other related benefits, military spokesman Brigadier Sumith Atapattu said, adding that they will be deployed for agricultural work carried out by the Army. Among the recruits are 11 former LTTE members who had undergone rehabilitation. At the end of the three-decade-old separatist war, around 11,000 LTTE cadres…
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