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IANS 03 December 2015
President Barack Obama repeated a call for gun controls reforms as another deadly mass shooting in Southern California left as many as 14 people dead and another 14 injured.   Hours after the mass shooting at a centre for people with developmental disabilities in San Bernardino, 60...

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IANS 03 December 2015
Royal Air Force Tornado jets on Thursday carried out their first air strikes against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria, hours after MPs voted in favour of British air strikes in Syria.   The MPs backed the action by 397 votes to 223 after a 10-hour debate in the House of Commons, BBC...

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IANS 02 December 2015
Hacking group Anonymous has vowed to take out social media accounts supporting the Islamic State militant group during a planned day of rage.   According to the online Daily Mail, the group was planning to post photographs of dead IS terrorists while bombarding their twitter feeds...

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IANS 02 December 2015
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged to donate 99 percent of their Facebook shares -- about $45 billion -- to advance human potential and promote equality for children.   Declaring the "Chan Zuckerberg Initiative" as they welcomed their first girl...

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IANS 01 December 2015
 Millions of people across the globe are risking their lives this year to reach Karbala, in Iraq, to mark "Chehlum" - the 40th day after the death of Imam Hussain - even as threats from terror group Islamic State (IS) loom large.     Also known as Arbaeen, the Shia Muslim...

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IANS 01 December 2015
A faulty component and the way the pilots responded to a technical malfunction caused AirAsia Flight QZ8501 to plunge into the Java Sea in December 2014, killing all 162 people on board, Indonesian officials said on Tuesday.   The ill-fated plane was en route to Singapore from the...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 01 December 2015
TINA.org report finds states in the US should do more to give consumers access to complaints filed against businesses   As a non-profit focused on educating and empowering consumers to protect themselves from false and deceptive advertising, truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) routinely...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 November 2015
Running over 77 days between 1st December 2015 and 15 February next year, the Festa De Diu is expected to attract over 35 lakh tourists from across the globe   Festa De Diu 2015, the longest beach festival in Asia, is all set to commence from 1 December 2015. President Pranab...

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IANS 28 November 2015
 Last year when Italy sent an espresso machine up to the International Space Station (ISS), researchers wondered how astronauts would sip their double shot espresso in a zero-gravity situation in space.   They came up with six funky-looking cups from a 3D printed transparent polymer...

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Megan McCloskey (ProPublica) 26 November 2015
Senators were already questioning why the Defense Department was restricting a government watchdog. Now there are criminal investigations and questions about retaliation against a whistleblower   The Pentagon is scrambling to justify its actions in restricting the government watchdog...

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Stephen Engelberg (ProPublica) 25 November 2015
A frightened young woman left her apartment in Munich in November 1938 and returned with the visa that saved her family. A team of German journalists launched an improbable search to find the missing artwork and tell its story   Seventy-seven years ago this week, my grandmother left...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 25 November 2015
Agency's inquiry based on findings of TINA.org investigation   The FDA has opened a probe into smoking cessation claims first revealed in a TINA.org investigation of questionable and misleading e-cigarette marketing.    TINA.org’s investigation published in September found...

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IANS 24 November 2015
Turkish warplanes on Tuesday shot down a Russian SU-24 fighter jet near the Syrian border after it violated Turkish airspace. One of its two pilots was killed and the other was captured, media reports said.   According to Tukish authorities, two F-16 warplanes shot down the Russian...

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IANS 20 November 2015
There are 20 Indians in the five-star hotel in Mali's capital Bamako where gunmen on Friday took 170 people hostage, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.   "#MaliAttack: Acc'g to current info there are 20 Indians staying in the hotel. Our Amb is continuously in...

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IANS 20 November 2015
At least three people were killed on Friday as gunmen took 170 people, including 20 Indians, hostage inside a five-star hotel in Mali's capital city Bamako.   "#MaliAttack: Acc'g to current info there are 20 Indians staying in the hotel. Our Amb is continuously in touch with them &...

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IANS 20 November 2015
President Barack Obama has nominated India-born Swati A. Dandekar, a Nagpur and Bombay University alum, to be United States director of the Asian Development Bank, with the rank of ambassador.   The nomination of Dandekar who will replace Robert M. Orr was announced by the White House...

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IANS 19 November 2015
There has been a nine-fold increase in deaths due to terrorism globally, rising from 3,329 in 2000 to 32,685 in 2014, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2015 report by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a think-tank based in Sydney, Australia.   The global economic cost of...

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Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica) 19 November 2015
As a pre-dawn raid Wednesday outside Paris targets suspected mastermind of last week’s attack, his roots point to the shadow Belgium casts over the terror threat in Europe   PARIS 2014 Before a SWAT team stormed a tenement in the Belgian city of Verviers in January, police used...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2015
Despite being enrolled in Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (RGJAY) more than three fifths of the beneficiaries still incurred OOP payments when admitted in the hospital   The public health spending in India has been hovering around 1% of gross domestic product (GDP), and it...

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Amitava Mukherjee (IANS) 17 November 2015
The most heartening feature of the landslide electoral victory of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar is the maturity and statesman-like quality being displayed by its chairperson, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is now showing all potentiality to become a beacon of hope in south and...

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