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Set to make their debut in the FIH Pro League against the Netherlands at home, India striker Mandeep Singh on Thursday said his team would look to make a winning start to the season with the two-match contest later this month. After having skipped the inaugural edition of the Pro League last year, India will take on the Netherlands in their first leg of event in Bhubaneswar on January 18 and 19. And the young striker believes the world no. 5 hosts will give the Dutch side, ranked third, a tough fight in the upcoming contests. Читать дальше...

The raging bushfires in Australia have killed over one billion animals, a figure which doubles experts' projection of 500 million.

Ride hailing platform Uber on Thursday said it will roll out new safety features, including a PIN verification for starting trips and RideCheck for long, unexpected stops, for users in India. Interestingly, Uber's rival Ola already offer some of these features on its platform. It launched the OTP feature in 2017, while Ola Guardian feature was launched in September 2018 and recently in over 16 cities globally. Through 'Guardian', Ola tracks all on-going trips by analysing ride indicators like route deviations, unexpected and midway stops. Читать дальше...

… TASKS MEMBERS ON BIODIVERSITY Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi has inaugurated Traditional Medicine Board Research Group for the State Traditional Medicine Board, with a call on members of the group to ensure the protection and preservation of the State ecosystem. The Commissioner, who observed that the state ecosystem is currently being …

European stocks on Thursday were on track to reach a record high, as concerns over Iran and China fade into the background.

India's growth rate is projected to decelerate to five per cent in 2019-20 amid enduring financial sector issues, according to a World Bank report, which said the country's GDP was likely to recover to 5.8 per cent in the following financial year. India's GDP growth is seen dipping to an 11-year low of 5 per cent in the current fiscal, mainly due to poor showing by manufacturing and construction sectors, government data showed on Tuesday. "In India, where weakness in credit from non-bank financial companies is expected to linger... Читать дальше...

LOVE Island’s Ollie Williams once caught the eye of Made In Chelsea producers, but turned down the King’s Road for the famous villa. The 23-year-old Islander, who was born in Chelsea, admitted there were potential talks for him to appear on the E4 reality series. He told MailOnline: “I know there have been murmurs of […]

Astronomy enthusiasts and sky gazers will be able to watch six eclipses in 2020, but only three of them are expected to be visible in India. While four of these eclipses will be lunar, the remaining two are going to be solar, Ujjain-based Jiwaji Observatory's Superintendent Dr Rajendraprakash Gupt said. This year's celestial events will start with a penumbral lunar eclipse during the intervening night of Friday and Saturday (January 10-11), which will be partially visible in India, he said. Читать дальше...

Arkadiusz Milik has become a summer target for Premier League giants Manchester United. The Poland international is believed to have a buy-out clause of £60million with a year left on the contract of the Napoli striker.

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Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Thursday stressed the need for Election Commissioners to further strengthen mechanism to check the influence of money power in local body polls and its use to subvert the democratic process. Addressing the State Election Commissioners' Conclave held at the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) here, Reddy said Election Commissioners (ECs) have more responsibility to bring down muscle power and money power in local body elections. Читать дальше...

LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling fell to a near two-week low against the U.S. dollar after Bank of England chief Mark Carney said that there could be a "relatively prompt response" from the bank if it

Also, rumours that Marandi will merge JVM-P with BJP and emerge as leader of opposition for the saffron brigade has been doing the rounds, after he recently dissolved all sub-committees of his party.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) announced that four airports in the country have managed a transition from level 1 to level 2 with a reduction in the carbon emissions by grading their systems as per the Airports Council International (ACI).The airports had adopted the grading system in 2018 and successfully implemented the carbon emission plan."Four AAI airports - Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata; Biju Patnaik International Airport, Bhubaneswar; Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport... Читать дальше...

(Telecompaper) Kazakhstan fixed operator Transtelecom has initiated a procurement procedure for audit services in the period 2019-2021...

MIXED MAJORS BOWLING LEAGUE In Mixed Majors Bowling League action at the Warwick Lanes saw the Movers "N" Shakers fall 17 – 3 to the Activators, while the Warriors went d

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway says it will take 600 asylum seekers recently evacuated to Rwanda from Libyan detention centers as the Scandinavian country wants to stop the sometimes deadly smuggling of migrants across the Mediterranean Sea.

Zero Hedge | Paul blamed Pompeo and Trump for the "death of diplomacy" which can only lead to major war.

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Man Utd missed out on Erling Haaland after he signed for Borussia Dortmund but can still secure his services thanks to a loophole in the player's contract

An official of the militia stressed that the Iraqi militias still haven't carried out their response to the assassination and that the coming response will be "very harsh."
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Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday adjourned the matter pertaining to alleged misappropriation of funds against BJP leader and Member of Parliament Maneka Gandhi till January 28.Special CBI Judge Ajay Kumar Kuhar adjourned the matter for clarification on the closure report.An FIR was lodged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Maneka Gandhi, former secretary of Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF) F U Siddiqui, and former managing trustee of Gandhi Rural Welfare Trust (GRWT)... Читать дальше...

There is no other team in American football to have suffered so much heartbreak in recent years as the New Orleans Saints.

Just 79.8% of patients were seen within four hours in December, new figures reveal