Uddhav Thackeray likens NDA to amoeba:

Mumbai, 27/8: Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday likened the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to an amoeba, saying that the BJP-led front does not have any definite shape and size. Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling the opposition INDIA alliance as “ghamandia” (marked by arrogance) and “Indian Mujahideen”, Thackeray…

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Vikram, in a first, records surface temperature variations from lunar south pole

New Delhi, 27/8: A payload onboard the Chandrayaan-3 lander has recorded, for the first time, temperature variations at different depths from the surface of the lunar south pole, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Sunday. ChaSTE (Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment) is designed to measure the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil around the…

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Stock exchanges slap fines on IOC, ONGC, GAIL for failure to meet listing regulations

Mumbai, 27/8: Stock exchanges have slapped fines on state-owned oil and gas firms including IOC, ONGC and GAIL for their failure to meet listing requirements of having a requisite number of independent directors and women directors. In separate filings, the companies detailed the fines imposed by the BSE and NSE but were quick to point…

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J&K teacher beats student for writing ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on blackboard, arrested

Kashmir, 27/8: Just a day after a teacher in Uttar Pradesh was seen making her students beat a fellow Muslim kid, two teachers in the Kathua district of Jammu were booked for allegedly administering corporal punishment to a student for writing “Jai Shri Ram” on the blackboard. The incident was reported from the government higher…

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Gunman kills three, himself in racially motivated shooting in Florida

Florida, 27/8: A man armed with a high-powered rifle and handgun killed three people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday, before shooting himself, in what local law enforcement described as a racially motivated crime. “He hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff TK Waters told a press conference. The suspect, whom Waters described…

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