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James Murdoch rumoured to replace Elon Musk as Tesla chairman

Murdoch currently serves on the boards of Twenty-First Century Fox and News Corp.

Oct 11, 2018

Govt plans another clampdown as 1,600 combination drugs may face ban

Fixed dose combinations are two or more drugs combined in a fixed ratio into a single dosage form.

Oct 10, 2018

Woman faces humiliation at RPO Chandigarh, shares bitter ordeal in Twitter post

In her long Twitter post, the woman described how she was made to travel with a premature baby from Ambala to Chandigarh passport office to get the passport done in normal category.

Oct 10, 2018

HAL faces cash-crunch amid delay in budgetary allocations

As of October 9, the company only has around Rs 1,000 crore cash in hand which is just enough for the salaries of its 29,035 employees for next three months.

Oct 10, 2018

HAL officer's wife, daughter found dead at home in Ghaziabad; suicide note recovered

Senior Superintendent of Police Vaibhav Krishna said Prema Bist, 46, hanged herself from the ceiling fan of a room while her daughter, 28, was found dead with injury marks on her throat.

Oct 10, 2018

J&K civic polls an eye-wash? Voting began early while Guv 'named' Srinagar Mayor before results

If the allegations of proxy candidates and voters weren't enough, the statement of Governor Satya Pal Malik claiming that the next Srinagar Mayor will be a foreign educated person has only added fuel to the fire.

Oct 10, 2018

Hurricane Michael strengthens to dangerous category 4 storm hours before Florida landfall, over 350,000 evacuated

Hurricane Michael is the first Category 4 storm to hit Florida Panhandle in history and the landfall is expected on Wednesday, October 10, around 4 pm local time. The storm is said to be catastrophic, packing sustained wind speed of about 230 kilometres per hour.

Oct 10, 2018

Madhya Pradesh: Bodies of 5 minor siblings found inside well; parents absconding

Villagers informed the police that there was some dispute in the family of Bharat Singh, 40, who has two wives.

Oct 10, 2018

Four-year-old Pune girl gets skull implant; doctors claim its India's first

The girl sustained serious injuries in a road accident in 2017 and to save her life neurosurgeons had to remove the full frontal as well as partial parietal and temporal bones of the damaged skull.

Oct 10, 2018

Delhi school segregates Hindu and Muslim students in separate sections

The teacher-in-charge, who was appointed in July, is said to be behind the practice. The staff expressed their concerns over this but were told to not interfere.

Oct 10, 2018

Floccinaucinihilipilification: Shashi Tharoor tweets about his new book on PM Modi, leaves everyone stumped

Social media wordsmith Shashi Tharoor has done it again. Thiruvananthapuram MP has used the word floccinaucinihilipilification to introduce his new book about Prime Minister Namenda Modi. What does the word mean?

Oct 10, 2018

Analysis: What is floccinaucinihilipilification? Tharoor continues to flummox Twitter, but there may be more to come!

Many know floccinaucinihilipilification as the longest English word, but that is not the case. So which is the longest, what does it mean, and how has Shashi Tharoor managed to start another vocab war? Read to know.

Oct 10, 2018

Bihar: Karate teacher arrested for raping 3-year-old girl in Patna

As soon as the incident came to light, a team of police officers, led by Station house officer (SHO) Raghunath Prasad began probing the matter and arrested the accused an hour later.

Oct 10, 2018

Rahul Gandhi faces flak for alleged apathy after NSUI chief Fairoz Khan gets named in #MeToo movement

The complainant, who is a former NSUI member, stated that the president constantly forced her to meet him at his hotel room in Bengaluru at midnight.

Oct 10, 2018

Offer explanation or resign: Congress on sexual harassment allegations against MJ Akbar

Some women journalists have come out and accused Akbar, a former editor and now the minister of state for external affairs, of sexually harassing them during his stint as a journalist.

Oct 10, 2018