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IANS 24 December 2016
Various airlines on Friday said passengers will not be permitted to carry power banks and e-cigarettes in their check-in baggage for safety purposes.   "We are trying to educate passengers on the new regulation that power banks and e-cigarettes are not allowed to be stored in the...

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IANS 23 December 2016
The Supreme Court on Friday refused an urgent hearing of a PIL challenging a provision of the Income Tax Act exempting political parties from disclosing the identity of the doners contributing upto Rs 20,000.   Directing the listing of the PIL on January 11, a vacation bench of...

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IANS 23 December 2016
The Election Commission (EC) has delisted 255 political parties that existed only on paper and has asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to initiate appropriate action, if necessary.   None of these parties have ever contested a local body, assembly or Lok Sabha election...

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IANS 22 December 2016
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it has arrested hawala trader Paras Mal Lodha here for converting over Rs 25 crore demonetised notes linked to industrialist J. Sekhar Reddy and lawyer Rohit Tandon into new currency. A city court later sent Lodha to seven-day ED...

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IANS 22 December 2016
Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday resigned and said he will return to academics, "his first love".   In a brief statement, Jung thanked both Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, with whom he had been locked in a turf battle for...

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IANS 22 December 2016
The union cabinet on Wednesday passed an ordinance to facilitate digital transfer of salaries by employers across the country. However, several trade unions associations and parties opposed the move, calling it impractical.   The government, while moving the ordinance to amend Section...

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IANS 21 December 2016
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday approved a proposal to reintroduce compulsory Class X board examination from the 2017-18 academic year.   The decision was taken during a meeting of the CBSE governing body here, sources said, adding that the first exam will...

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Sanjukta Nair (IANS) 20 December 2016
India's sex ratio at birth -- the number of girls born alive for every 1,000 boys -- declined over the last 65 years from 946 to 887 even as per capita income increased nearly 10 times, according to recently released government data.   India's child sex ratio, or the number of girls...

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IANS 19 December 2016
A special NIA court here sentenced to death five convicts, including Indian Mujahideen (IM)) co-founder Yaseen Bhatkal in the 2013 Hyderabad bomb blasts.   The court had on December 13 held Bhatkal and four other operatives of the banned IM, including a Pakistani national, guilty in...

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IANS 16 December 2016
The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) - which is being slated as another chance for people to come clean on their unaccounted income - will come into effect from December 17 (Saturday) and will remain open for over three months, a top official said on Friday.   "The PMGKY...

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IANS 16 December 2016
Both houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die on Friday, bringing to an end the month-long winter session marked by repeated disruptions and adjournments.   The winter session -- which started on November 16 -- saw repeated adjournments amid ruckus and chaos by opposition members...

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IANS 16 December 2016
The Lok Sabha on Friday passed by voice vote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014, which makes accessibility a mandatory requirement.   The bill, which replaces the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 December 2016
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corp (MSRDC) has finally terminated the contract of two entities who operated food malls on Mumbai Pune Expressway, reveals a reply received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Pune-based RTI activist Sanjay Shirodkar had filed the application...

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Devanik Saha (IANS) 15 December 2016
"It is not a common practice or desirable culture for a Hindu son in India to get separated from his parents on getting married at the instance of the wife, especially when the son is the only earning member in the family," the Supreme Court (SC) noted in a October 2016 judgement, while...

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IANS 15 December 2016
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Thursday following noisy exchanges between the opposition and the treasury benches over the AgustaWestland helicopter deal.   As the house met, opposition members were on their feet. Members of the Bharariya Janata Party waved a newspaper...

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IANS 15 December 2016
The Supreme Court on Thursday banned the sale of liquor within 500 meters on either side of national and state highways across the country.   A bench headed by Chief Justice T.S. Thakur said that all liquor vendors holding licenses for selling liquor would continue to do so till their...

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IANS 14 December 2016
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed by voice vote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2014 which makes accessibility a mandatory requirement.   The bill replaces the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act,...

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IANS 13 December 2016
Chennaities woke up to uprooted trees, big broken branches blocking the roads, fallen name boards, hoardings, damaged compound walls and vehicles under fallen trees, power cut and lack of milk supplies on Tuesday, a day after severe cyclone Vardah ripped through the city.   People in...

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IANS 12 December 2016
Thousands of passengers were stranded on Monday, as 90 trains were delayed and 16 cancelled due to dense fog in parts of north India.   According to a Northern Railway official, the Lichchvi Express was running 34 hours behind its schedule, the Amritsar New Delhi Express was 30 hours...

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IANS 12 December 2016
A part of cyclone Vardah hit the Tamil Nadu coast on Monday afternoon, with winds touching 90 kmph and killing two people, while the central part of it is the process of crossing, authorities said.   The cyclone hit the coast about 10 km north of Chennai. The Tamil Nadu government...

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