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Simon Reeves from BBC looks at the dangerous levels of pollution in the Ganges River in the below video: Recent pictures of Ganges River under the rule of Narender Modi and the BJP party:

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Raphael Samuel, a 27-year-old resident of Mumbai, India recently made news when he announced that he wanted to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. The startling nature of his agenda, combined with a comically oversized fake beard and sunglasses to hide his face, made many people ask: for real? Apparently Samuel is for real. If anything, a little too much, perhaps.Samuel

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For the past several months, India has engaged with WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging platform, as well as Twitter in its quest to fight fake news and other social media abuse. It has focused on tracking messages that distribute fake news to deal with law and order, but raised fears of government spying. India has fancied its chances of extracting some concessions because it forms the

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Rare footage shows how women dressed in England just over 100 years ago.

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Average working hours of employees in India are among the longest compared to global peers, according to a report by the National Sample Sample Survey Office (NSSO). Workers in Indian cities worked for 53-54 hours and those in villages worked 46-47 hours in a week during the July-June 2018 period, Business Standard reported.This NSSO survey is the first official estimate of working hours in

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Reuters is withdrawing the story headlined “UPDATE 1- Taliban warns India, Pakistan clashes will impact Afghan peace process”. The Taliban spokesman quoted in the story told Reuters that the statement emailed to media was not issued by the Taliban. Earlier, Reurters quoted a Taliban spokesperson that ongoing clashes between India and Pakistan would impact the Afghan peace process.“The

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Extensive attention has been given to plastic bags and straws as pollutants to the environment and a hazard to the ecosystem. However, very few know about the adverse impact of cigarette filters, containing plastic, on the habitat.Approximately, 5.7 trillion cigarettes were smoked globally in 2016. Cigarette butts are the most common form of anthropogenic litter and constitute a significant

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The discovery of a new species of tyrannosaur will help scientists understand how its famous cousin the Tyrannosaurus rex evolved. A fossil of the four foot tall Moros Intrepidus (which means harbinger of doom) was found in Utah National Geographic reports.  Despite its relatively diminutive size, the tyrannosaur that roamed the earth 100 million years ago was still extremely lethal."

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Uber Eats, the food delivery arm of ride-hailing app Uber Technologies Inc, is close to a deal to sell its Indian business to Bengaluru-based Swiggy, the Economic Times reported on Friday.  The share-swap deal is expected to close by next month and will give Uber a 10 percent stake in food delivery service Swiggy, the paper said, citing people privy to the development.Separately, the

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Facebook is finally shutting down the Moments Photo app. It developed and launched the app in 2015, and the Moments app was meant for storing images, videos from your smartphones or laptops, somewhat like Google photos. Users could store their images, create moments, edit them and share them with friends. The functionality was quite similar to that of Google Photos.  But Moments, as a

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The data war between major telecom operators -- Reliance Jio, Vodafone and Bharti Airtel -- has been on ever since Jio introduced free 4G data for three months last year.Interestingly, a startup company based in Bangalore called Wifi Dabba has joined the war, and it has the potential to change the course of the competition.  Reliance Jio currently offers 1 GB data with free voice calling

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Mysterious booming sounds have been recorded from different places across the globe leaving people as well as experts baffled, the media reported.  The terrifying noises, nicknamed as "Bama Boom", have been recorded from the Middle East to the East Midlands to Australia, with the majority heard on America's eastern coast.  The boom has left experts stumped, with suggested causes

Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3956652655677223475.post-84888664819190448642017-06-03T05:32:00.002-04:002017-06-03T05:32:42.911-04:00

American hackers could have planted false evidence that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying by NBC News on Saturday.U.S. intelligence officials have said Russia tried to interfere in the U.S. election by hacking the Democratic Party to sway the vote in favor of Donald Trump, a charge the Kremlin has repeatedly denied. In an

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After the debacle by Donald Trump at the Paris Accord, world leaders have regretfully viewed the incident as the demise of USA as the leader of the free world. They see Trump's actions as a vote bank politics to appease to it's base similar to the actions of the Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi with respect to 'Freedom of Religion' and 'Human Rights' in India. Both leaders of perhaps the

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The Mumbai-Goa Tejas Express, the country’s first high-speed semi-luxurious train, returned to the city in a mess after some passengers thrashed the LCD screens, stole headphones, soiled the toilets and littered the entire train. The railway authorities were shocked to see the mess on the train, following which they have now appealed to passengers to safeguard the Tejas Express and treat it like

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India's latest estimate of its projected population stands at nearly 1.28 billion as in 2015, even as reports in Western media has surfaced predicting that India may have already overtaken China in population figures. "We go by our Census. The last Census on 2011put India's population at 1.21 billion. For the purpose of Aadhaar enrollment, the population as an estimate in 2015 was projected at

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It is true that there is an increase in carbon emission by India and China due to homegrown consumption and lack of infrastructure. But let's keep in mind that India's carbon emissions per capita are still 10 times lower and China's is half of that compared to the US. A majority of right-wing American politicians are climate change deniers, consider global warming to be a hoax and blame

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An iconic species of penguin could be extinct on the New Zealand mainland in less than 40 years unless urgent action is taken, researchers say.A peer reviewed study from the University of Otago has found the Yellow-eyed penguin population on the mainland is dropping dramatically. 'Between 1996 and 2013 we lost more than 75% of our population, and that trend seems to continue,' Thomas Mattern, a

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Large scale deaths of leopard sharks have been reported in San Francisco Bay. The death toll running into thousands was the highest in last six years and has rightly alarmed environmentalists.Dead sharks have been washing up on the shores of the San Francisco Bay for many weeks. According to reports, hundreds of dead sharks have been found on the beaches from San Mateo to Bolinas. The die-off

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An article by an eleventh grade student at Palo Alto High School in California, USA has caught the fancy of the internet which claims the American media is one of the primary forces of racism in USA against people of color.Below is an excerpt:Go back to your country," mutters the man in line at Peet's Coffee and Tea in Palo Alto, California, as I head out of the shop with a coffee in hand. It

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In the tenth year of its operation, the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at Hyderabad has drawn up ambitious plans to emerge as the hub airport for entire south and central India.GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL), which developed the country’s first greenfield airport under the public-private partnership model, sees the RGIA as gateway airport to a vast region stretching into

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Facebook, is reportedly planning to launch around two dozen original “TV-like” programs in mid-June. Back in December, rumors started flying that Facebook was looking to follow Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix into the original content game. And now, multiple sources tell Business Insider that those plans are well under way. Sources are framing this push as Facebook simultaneously

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To make passenger entry easier and elevate the level of security at airports across India, the civil aviation ministry is close to rolling out Aadhar-enabled entry in all the airports across the country. Presently, passengers show their printed or mobile air tickets coupled with their government-approved identity card to enter an airport. According to reports, Bengaluru airport, owned by

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The BJP government on Wednesday admitted in the Supreme Court that Aadhaar card holders’ data were indeed leaked, but maintained that there was no leakage by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Arguing for the government, advocate Arghya Sengupta told a bench led by Justice AK Sikri that the leakage was by various other government departments and state agencies.

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