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8 golden rules to prevent heart attack
Frequent Breaks, Not Exercise, Best to Cut Long Sitting Hours
Don’t sit at one place, just hop around your workplace!
Avoid sitting for long hours for a healthy heart
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8 golden rules to prevent heart attack

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Frequent Breaks, Not Exercise, Best to Cut Long Sitting Hours

Ndtv.com
September 22, 2015
London: If you want to remain fit and healthy, try to go for frequent breaks from prolonged sitting at workplace or home as daily morning exercise alone may not help you ward off the ill-effects of sitting for long hours. …

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Don’t sit at one place, just hop around your workplace!   Economictimes.indiatimes.com
13 May, 2015
Every morning, after arriving at her office in Adyar, Divya Mohandoss heads to her department where she can choose from a Japanese-style low seating area, hanging rope chairs or comfortable seats at the coffee shop. …

Avoid sitting for long hours for a healthy heart  
Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Mar 8, 2015
Sitting for long hours everyday is associated with increased coronary artery calcification that can increase the risk of a heart attack, new research says. …

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YouTube paid version launched: 6 things to know
Skype Translator is now available for everyone
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RECENT COURT JUDGEMENTS
* Mere expression of any words without any intention to cause alarm would not be sufficient to bring in the application of section 503 of IPC. But material has to be placed on record to show that the intention is to cause alarm to the complainant. “…in exercise of its jurisdiction under Section 482 Cr.P.C., the court should be extremely cautious to interfere with the investigation or trial of a criminal case and should not stall the investigation, save except when it is convinced beyond any manner of doubt that the FIR does not disclose commission of offence and that continuance of the criminal prosecution would amount to abuse of process of the court.” –  SC Judgment dated 20.01.2015 – Manik Taneja & Anr. Vs. State of Karnataka & Anr. >>> Court Judgments
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YouTube paid version launched: 6 things to know   

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Oct 22, 2015
After months of speculation, Google has announced YouTube Red, a paid service based on the company’s free video-sharing platform, and music streaming app YouTube Music. Here are 6 things you should know about the two new versions of YouTube. …

Skype Translator is now available for everyone

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
13 May, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft-owned Skype has cleared the way for anyone to use a new feature that translates video chats or instant messages in real time. …

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Facebook is ruining marriages, says study   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
May 6, 2015
One in seven Britons have contemplated divorce because their partners spend too much time on various social media platforms, a top British legal firm has revealed. …

Supreme Court of India quashes FIR filed against couple for Facebook comment    Medianama.com
January 22, 2015
The Supreme Court of India upheld a Bangalore-based couple’s right to vent their frustrations on the Bangalore Police Facebook page, reports The Times of India. The court ruled that it was a public forum and the commoner had every right to complain against the authorities. …

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After 18 centuries, Amaravati set to become a ‘capital’ again

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Oct 22, 2015
HYDERABAD: The dusty town of Amaravati will regain the ‘capital’ status it had lost 18 centuries ago at 12.45 pm on Thursday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation on the auspicious day of Vijay Dasami. …

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Nationwide Chemists’ Strike Today to Oppose Online Sale of Medicines

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October 14, 2015
Mumbai: The All India Organisation of Chemists & Druggists (AIOCD) has called a nationwide chemists’ strike from today demanding action from the Centre against “illegal” online sale of medicines. …

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All you need to know about Digital India programme: Explained

Oneindia.com
September 29, 2015
In an order to create participative, transparent and responsive government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the much ambitious ‘Digital India’ programme on Wednesday, July 1, at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in the national capital. …
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Government of India’s DigiLocker: How it works    Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jun 29, 2015
The government has announced digital locker facility that will help citizens to digitally store their important documents like PAN card, passport, mark sheets and degree certificates. …

‘Digital India’ initiative to take books, certificates & IDs online   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jun 18, 2015
NEW DELHI: Problems like not being able to locate an old Class X certificate needed to renew a passport or for some other official work may get sorted out easily. …

Governors now need President’s nod to travel   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Apr 12, 2015
NEW DELHI: The government has decided to restrict governors’ official travel outside their respective states to 73 days in a calendar year, while also requiring them to “avoid or limit” frequency of their visits to the home state. …

The globality Of Hinduism: Hindutva’s attempt to put the Hindu creative brilliance in jail is doomed   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
March 11, 2015
One of the attempted follies of our times is the conflation of Hinduism, essentially an eclectic way of life, into a codified belief system that seeks to mirror the major faiths it has interacted with; for instance, Islam and Christianity. Indeed, since the May 2014 electoral thrashing of Congress by the self-professed Hindutva party, BJP, this gross and distorted projection of Hinduism by fringe groups has grown. …

Are you a citizen or resident of India?   Business-standard.com
January 19, 2015
One of the secretaries in the Union government grew agitated when it was pointed out to him that though he might be holding an Indian passport, an Aadhaar number and a voter identity card, it did not necessarily mean he was a citizen of India. …

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You can’t use RTI to light up every corner: Chief Information Commissioner Vijai Sharma
On RTI’s tenth anniversary, info watchdogs under the scannner
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You can’t use RTI to light up every corner: Chief Information Commissioner Vijai Sharma

Indianexpress.com
Oct 18, 2015
Chief Information Commissioner Vijai Sharma talks about identifying the gaps in the RTI Act, improving pendency levels and dealing with ‘vexatious’ requests.
Shyamlal Yadav: There is a perception that the government wants to weaken the RTI. What is your experience of working with the previous government and this one? …

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On RTI’s tenth anniversary, info watchdogs under the scannner

Hindustantimes.com
Oct 14, 2015
On RTI law’s tenth anniversary, the information watchdog is coming under the scanner.
A civil society-driven analysis of 2,000 verdicts delivered by the Central Information Commission and state panels in three states have indicted the info watchdogs for over 15 counts, right from forcing applicants to pay for delayed information or deciding cases in violation of the law. …

Central Information Commission appeals plunge 96% in four months

Econbomictimes.indiatimes.com
9 Oct, 2015
NEW DELHI: The number of appeals and complaints with the Central Information Commission (CIC), the final appellate authority for the Right to Information Act, plummeted 96 per cent to 119 in September from 3,356 in May. …

Delhi High Court asks Information Commissioner to hear case in absence of CIC Chief   Ibnlive.in.com
May 04, 2015
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has asked the senior most Information Commissioner of Central Information Commission (CIC) to hear a case in the absence of its chief, saying any backlog will jeopardise the interest of RTI applicants. …

CIC told to hear DERC plea afresh   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
May 1, 2015
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday asked the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission not to hold its public hearing for fixing power tariff till May 8. Justice Rajiv Shakdher directed the Central Information Commission to once again hear the plea of DERC where the latter wants to go ahead with a public hearing to fix tariff. …

CIC delayed is spirit of RTI denied   Indianexpress.com
Apr 27, 2015
Files already piled up on the Chief Information Commissioner’s desk could take up to 2020 to clear. Delay in appointing the CIC hurts the objectives of both the RTI Act and the PM’s pledge of good governance. …

RTI activists demand non-political info commissioner   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Apr 27, 2015
CHENNAI: With the present State Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC) K S Sripathi’s term coming to an end on Monday, RTI campaigners have urged the state government to appoint an eminent person who is not a retired bureaucrat and affiliated to any political party. …

Medical bills of SC judges can’t be revealed under RTI: HC   Indianexpress.com
April 19,2015
Observing that giving details of individual medical bills of Supreme Court judges under RTI would “amount to invasion of their privacy”, the Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking details of medical reimbursements of Supreme Court judges under the RTI Act. …

RTI overrides privacy norms of MCI in patients records: CIC   Business-standard.com
New Delhi April 15, 2015
The provisions of Medical Council of India to protect confidentiality in patients’ records cannot override statutes of Right to Information Act, Central Information Commission has held. …

‘CIC order on avoiding penalty on pol parties contrary to law’   Business-standard.com
March 18, 2015
RTI activist Subhash Agrawal today alleged that the order issued by the Central Information Commission expressing helplessness in penalising political parties is “contrary to law” as notices were issued an year before complaint was registered in the Commission. …

CIC pulls up green ministry for ‘misleading’ info on effects of mobile radiation   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Mar 18, 2015
NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission has pulled up the environment ministry for providing “false and misleading” information that it had conducted no study on the harmful effects of mobile radiations. …

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Murder charges for flaw in road design?
Anti-lock braking system must for all two-wheelers
No toll for bad roads, SC tells NHAI in pro-user order   
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Murder charges for flaw in road design? 

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Oct 16, 2015
KOTHPUTLI (RAJASTHAN): Sending a strong message to consultants involved in preparing detailed project reports (DPRs), highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that government can book such agencies for murder, if the fault in design is established as the reason for any road death on national highways (NHs).. …

Anti-lock braking system must for all two-wheelers    Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Sep 20, 2015
NEW DELHI: All models of two-wheelers need to be fitted with anti-lock braking system (ABS) and combined braking system (CBS) by April 2018.. …

No toll for bad roads, SC tells NHAI in pro-user order    Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Aug 28, 2015
NEW DELHI: In what will be music to the ears of long suffering highway users, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and concessionaires cannot collect toll from commuters if the road is in bad shape. …

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SC dismisses plea against NGT order banning 10-year-old diesel vehicles from plying on Delhi roads   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Apr 20, 2015
NEW DELHI: In an order that could improve Delhi’s deteriorating air quality, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed plea challenging the National Green Tribunal’s order prohibiting diesel vehicles that are over 10 years old from plying in the national capital. …

Government to scrap 125 toll plazas by month end: Transport Minister Gadkari   Dnaindia.com
12 February 2015
Aiming to spare general public from levy at highways, the government has announced it will scrap 125 toll plazas in the country by the end of February. …

No steep fine for first time traffic violators   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jan 30, 2015
NEW DELHI: The road transport ministry will revise the proposed fines for traffic rule violations by almost one-fifth of what was originally envisaged in the Draft Road Transport and Safety Bill. …

Wait for registration certificate of your vehicle to be over soon   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jan 20, 2015
NEW DELHI: Soon you will be able to get the registration certificate (RC) of your car or any other vehicle within minutes and there will be no scope for anyone to enter wrong data and details including the chassis or engine number. …

Radio cabs in Delhi must have GPS, panic buttons   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Dec 30, 2014
NEW DELHI: Less than four weeks after a 25-year-old financial analyst was raped in a cab, the Delhi transport department on Monday announced a modified radio taxi scheme that attempts to bring all app-based taxi services under its ambit. …

New Motor Vehicles Act proposes big fines for uninsured vehicles owners
6 Oct, 2014
MUMBAI: Driving an uninsured car or motorcycle may cost you dear, if proposals in the new Road Transport & Safety Bill are passed by the Parliament without changes. General insurance companies, on the other hand, will be smiling all the way to the bank. …

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Make video résumé, land a hot job and big bucks
Time taken to travel to work ‘should count as work’ according to European court
Birth of an idea: PSU banks introduce paternity leave
The dos and don’ts of office romance
Retrenched staff get relief from SC, 23 years after launching legal battle
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Make video résumé, land a hot job and big bucks

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Oct 16, 2015
CHENNAI: Most tritely formatted CVs tend to bore recruiters into a state of comatose dullness that guarantees they elicit no response. What better way, then, to save a busy executive’s time and give him a sneak peek into your personality than a video resume? …

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Time taken to travel to work ‘should count as work’ according to European court

Independent.co.uk
September 12, 2015
Mobile workers without a fixed office should be able to charge employers for first and last journeys of the day, ruling finds. …

Birth of an idea: PSU banks introduce paternity leave   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jun 6, 2015
CHENNAI: A long queue outside your teller counter on Monday morning may not help matters especially after you spend two sleepless nights over the weekend attending to your newborn. …

The dos and don’ts of office romance   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Apr 19, 2015
Love has an uncanny knack of showing up when you least expect it. And when it happens at your workplace, it’s likely to get complicated. That is, if you let it. …

Retrenched staff get relief from SC, 23 years after launching legal battle   Indianexpress.com
March 24, 2015
Manohar Kamkar was 48 in 1992 when Mumbai-based shipping company Mackinnon Mackenzie laid off over 90 of its employees including him. For the next 23 years, he and his colleagues spent fighting a legal battle in three different courts — the Industrial court, High Court and Supreme Court. …

How to deal with frenemies at work   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Feb 11, 2015 A frenemy is one of the most dangerous workplace friends you can come across,” says US-based executive coach and corporate author Ellen Lubin-Sherman. …

Madras high court stays termination of TCS employee   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jan 13, 2015
CHENNAI: In a case which may open a floodgate of litigation, the Madras high court on Tuesday restrained software major TCS from retrenching an employee who has been issued termination by the company. …

SC trashes Central Bank plea against HC ruling  Timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Aug 25, 2013

MUMBAI: The Supreme Court has dismissed a special leave petition filed by the Central Bank of India against the Bombay high court’s landmark order against recruitment on the basis of campus interviews. “We see no reason to interfere. The special leave petition is dismissed,” observed Justice H L Gokhale and J Chelameswar in their one-page order on August 19. …
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Why Ambuja Cement’s ‘Great Khali Ad’ is Taking India by Storm
Bigg Boss 9: Double Trouble

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Why Ambuja Cement’s ‘Great Khali Ad’ is Taking India by Storm

Adageindia.in
Oct 13, 2015
Cement is one of the most boring categories in advertising. Other than Ambuja’s Is Cement mein Jaan hai tagline, I don’t remember any other ‘cement brand’ advertisement. …

Bigg Boss 9: Double Trouble

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Oct 12, 2015
‘Bigg Boss 9: Double Trouble’ is all set to hit the floor on October 11. This time the trouble is double as we will get to see 7 couples going through all the ups and downs in the house. …

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Amitabh Bachchan: I don’t know my caste or creed, I’m universal

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Amitabh Bachchan: I don’t know my caste or creed, I’m universal

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Oct 10, 2015
With the stir over cancellation of Pakistani artist Ghulam Ali’s concert here marring India’s secular image, megastar Amitabh Bachchan opted for a cryptic way to send out a message that an artist belongs to no ‘caste or creed’ and is ‘universal’. …

Dr. Ambedkar: Maker of Modern India

Countercurrents.org
01 April, 2015
Dr. BabaSaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar was born in an untouchable caste which was deprived of all social, educational, religious and political rights. …

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Revisiting The Caste Question   Countercurrents.org
27 March, 2015
How is modern form of caste in contemporary times? Nicholas Dirks had argued on colonial power knowledge complexes instrumental in reifying it within bureaucratic structures and discourses. …

All sections must take part in caste census’   Thehindu.com
March 08.2015
The Karnataka Dalit Sangharsha Samiti (Ambedkarvada) has asked all the deprived sections of society to actively participate in the caste census beginning from April 11 in the State. …

Caste census sparks of row   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Feb 27, 2015
BENGALURU: Karnataka government’s first-ever caste census since the days of the British Raj has run into controversy even before it has begun. …

Villagers shun techie for marrying lower caste girl   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jan 21, 2015
MUMBAI: Three years back, a Dombivli-based software engineer who married a girl from a lower caste following a college romance, found that he and his family had been ostracized back home in their Vaghiware village in Ratnagiri district. …

Government launches scheme to support entrepreneurs from Scheduled Caste community   Economictimes.indiatimes.com
16 Jan, 2015
NEW DELHI: In a bid to encourage budding and existing entrepreneurs from Scheduled Castes, the government today launched a scheme under which members of the reserved community will be offered concessional finance to start new business ventures. …

India bright spot in global economy; caste bias a concern: World Bank   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com Jan 11, 2015 GANDHINAGAR: World Bank on Sunday said India can grow at 6.4 per cent in 2015 and accelerate further next year, but cautioned that an enduring “bias” on the basis of caste and other factors can impede prosperity. …

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On RTI’s tenth anniversary, info watchdogs under the scannner
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On RTI’s tenth anniversary, info watchdogs under the scannner

Hindustantimes.com
Oct 14, 2015
On RTI law’s tenth anniversary, the information watchdog is coming under the scanner.
A civil society-driven analysis of 2,000 verdicts delivered by the Central Information Commission and state panels in three states have indicted the info watchdogs for over 15 counts, right from forcing applicants to pay for delayed information or deciding cases in violation of the law. …

Central Information Commission appeals plunge 96% in four months

Econbomictimes.indiatimes.com
9 Oct, 2015
NEW DELHI: The number of appeals and complaints with the Central Information Commission (CIC), the final appellate authority for the Right to Information Act, plummeted 96 per cent to 119 in September from 3,356 in May. …

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Delhi High Court asks Information Commissioner to hear case in absence of CIC Chief   Ibnlive.in.com
May 04, 2015
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has asked the senior most Information Commissioner of Central Information Commission (CIC) to hear a case in the absence of its chief, saying any backlog will jeopardise the interest of RTI applicants. …

CIC told to hear DERC plea afresh   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
May 1, 2015
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Thursday asked the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission not to hold its public hearing for fixing power tariff till May 8. Justice Rajiv Shakdher directed the Central Information Commission to once again hear the plea of DERC where the latter wants to go ahead with a public hearing to fix tariff. …

CIC delayed is spirit of RTI denied   Indianexpress.com
Apr 27, 2015
Files already piled up on the Chief Information Commissioner’s desk could take up to 2020 to clear. Delay in appointing the CIC hurts the objectives of both the RTI Act and the PM’s pledge of good governance. …

RTI activists demand non-political info commissioner   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Apr 27, 2015
CHENNAI: With the present State Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC) K S Sripathi’s term coming to an end on Monday, RTI campaigners have urged the state government to appoint an eminent person who is not a retired bureaucrat and affiliated to any political party. …

Medical bills of SC judges can’t be revealed under RTI: HC   Indianexpress.com
April 19,2015
Observing that giving details of individual medical bills of Supreme Court judges under RTI would “amount to invasion of their privacy”, the Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking details of medical reimbursements of Supreme Court judges under the RTI Act. …

RTI overrides privacy norms of MCI in patients records: CIC   Business-standard.com
New Delhi April 15, 2015
The provisions of Medical Council of India to protect confidentiality in patients’ records cannot override statutes of Right to Information Act, Central Information Commission has held. …

‘CIC order on avoiding penalty on pol parties contrary to law’   Business-standard.com
March 18, 2015
RTI activist Subhash Agrawal today alleged that the order issued by the Central Information Commission expressing helplessness in penalising political parties is “contrary to law” as notices were issued an year before complaint was registered in the Commission. …

CIC pulls up green ministry for ‘misleading’ info on effects of mobile radiation   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Mar 18, 2015
NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission has pulled up the environment ministry for providing “false and misleading” information that it had conducted no study on the harmful effects of mobile radiations. …

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KP Sharma Oli elected new Nepal Prime Minister
A constitutional mess
How Will Ahmed Mohamed’s Story Play Out in Texas?
NASA’s New Horizons Probe Phones Home After Historic Pluto Flyby
World’s 4th smallest nation is disappearing
Why time will stop for a second on June 30
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KP Sharma Oli elected new Nepal Prime Minister

Dnaindia.com
11 October 2015
Veteran politician KP Sharma Oli was on Sunday elected as the next Prime Minister of Nepal defeating incumbent Sushil Koirala in a contest which became necessary after parties failed to forge a consensus amid violent protests over the country’s new Constitution. …

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A constitutional mess

Dnaindia.com
30 September 2015
After nearly nine years, Nepal finally has a new constitution. It keeps the power in the hands of hill Brahmin men and renders women second-class citizens. …

How Will Ahmed Mohamed’s Story Play Out in Texas?

Newyorker.com
Sep 17, 2015
On Monday, a fourteen-year-old Sudanese-American boy named Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock to school, in the Dallas suburb of Irving. …
More: Ahmed Mohamed is tired, excited to meet Obama – and wants his clock back

NASA’s New Horizons Probe Phones Home After Historic Pluto Flyby      Nbcnews.com
July 14, 2015
LAUREL, Md. — Signals from a spacecraft 3 billion miles away swept over Earth on Tuesday, confirming that NASA’s New Horizons probe survived its history-making flyby of Pluto. …

World’s 4th smallest nation is disappearing      Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jul 8, 2015 
The prime minister of the world’s fourth smallest nation has appealed for help from European leaders to stop it disappearing from the face of the Earth. …

Why time will stop for a second on June 30    Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jun 29, 2015
Our perception of time is based on the earth’s revolution around the sun and its rotation around its own axis. …

Study finds Earth entering 6th extinction phase, many species including humans labelled ‘the walking dead’    Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Jun 20, 2015
MIAMI: The world is embarking on its sixth mass extinction with animals disappearing about 100 times faster than they used to, scientists warned on Friday, and humans could be among the first victims. …

Cannes 2015    Nytimes.com

As it happened: Floyd Mayweather beats Manny Pacquiao in ‘Fight of the Century’   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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