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After Blue Whale Challenge, Other Online Fatal Games Hit Supreme Court's Eye

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After the Blue Whale Challenge, many other online fatal games promoting suicide have managed to hit the Supreme Court scanner. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was recently filed in the apex institution of the country thus drawing its attention towards fatal games apart from the Blue Whale Challenge growing at an alarming pace among many people and thus ending up claiming their lives. Many games like Choking Games, Fire Challenge, Eyeball Challenge, Human Embroidery as well as the Salt and Ice Challenge are emerging as a great time pass among many people and thus encouraging suicide on a large scale. Petition Filed At Supreme Court Demanding A Ban On Blue Whale Challenge  The Supreme Court has recently formed a bench in order to deal with the public interest litigation cases filed in relation to the Blue Whale Challenge game seeking the ban on the game which has allegedly claimed many innocent lives across the country. For now, the bench has ordered the Delhi High Cou...

Market Live: Sensex, Nifty trade lower, ICICI Bank, Cipla shares fall

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BSE Sensex trades below 33,400 points, while the Nifty 50 slips below 10,300. Here are the latest updates Mumbai:  The market got off to a muted start on Monday on weakness in IT and metal stocks after participants took profit amid sluggish global pointers. The Sensex fell 54.59 points, or 0.16%, to 33,288.21 in early session. The gauge had gained 582.36 points in the previous two sessions. Also, the NSE Nifty shed 22.10 points, or 0.21%, to 10,261.50. Asian markets remained weak. Japan’s Nikkei fell 0.56%, Shanghai Composite 0.97% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng 0.19%. The US Dow Jones ended 0.43% lower on Friday. Here are the latest updates from the markets ■ 10.56am:  BSE Sensex traded lower by 35.25 points, or 0.11%, to 33,307.55, while the Nifty 50 edged down 15.35 points, or 0.15%, to 10,268.25 ■ 10.40am:  Cipla said that it has received final approval for its abbreviated new drug application for decitabine injection 50 mg single-use sterile vial from the US FDA...

Eating a handful of nuts twice a week can slash the risk of heart disease

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E ating a handful of nuts a couple of times a week can cut the risk of heart disease by almost a quarter, research has shown. A study of over 200,000 people found those who ate walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, pistachios, pecans and peanuts two or more times a week were 23 per cent less likely to develop coronary heart disease and 15 per cent less likely cardiovascular disease. The same amount of peanuts - which strictly speaking are a legume - also reduced the risk of the conditions by 15 and 13 per cent respectively. Nuts have long been regarded a 'superfood' as they are high in antioxidants, proteins, nutrients, minerals and fibre. Lead author Dr Marta Guasch-Ferre, a nutritionist at Harvard University in Boston, said: "Our findings support recommendations of increasing the intake of a variety of nuts, as part of healthy dietary patterns, to reduce the risk of chronic disease in the general populations." Over 210,000 female nurses and male health...

Man detained for trying to hijack Jet Airways Cochin-Mumbai flight

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There was a major scramble at Cochin airport today after a passenger allegedly tried to hijack Jet Airways flight 9W 825. The man has been detained by the CISF. A man was detained today for allegedly threatening to hijack a Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight at the Cochin International Airport, forcing a security scare and delay in the departure. There was a major scramble at Cochin airport today after a passenger allegedly tried to hijack Jet Airways flight 9W 825. The man has been detained by the CISF. In a statement, Jet Airways said the flight was rescheduled to depart Cochin at 2 pm now.  "Jet Airways flight 9W 825 Cochin - Mumbai was rescheduled to depart Cochin at 14O2 hrs., with a delay of 2 hours on account of a security related matter. The airline has informed the relevant authority of the same for further necessary action and has offered full cooperation as required," it said.

GST Council cuts tax rate on 178 items; all restaurants to be taxed at 5%

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The  GST Council , which held its 23rd meeting in Guwahati on Friday reduced the tax rate on 178 items from 28 per cent to 18 per cent. GSTCouncil also brought all AC and non-AC restaurants in the 5 per cent GST bracket without the input tax credit (ITC). Only 50 items, mostly demerit, sin and luxury goods will be in the 28 per cent tax bracket. All members of the GST Council felt that input tax credit (ITC) to restaurants is not passed on customers.  Goods and Service Tax  (GST) was being charged on existing rates which put additional tax burden on restaurant goers. Thus, we decided that restaurant industry will not get the benefit of ITC,  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley  said. Rates for all AC and non-AC restaurants will be 5 per cent. "Since they did not pass on the ITC benefit to customers, they will not be eligible for the benefit themselves," Jaitley added. Restaurants in hotels will cost the same, except in starred hotels which charge Rs 7,500 or...

15 Amazing Facts About Dreams!

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A  dream  is a succession of  images ,  ideas ,  emotions , and  sensations  that usually occur involuntarily in the  mind  during certain stages of  sleep . [1]  The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout  recorded history .  Dream interpretation  is the attempt at drawing meaning from dreams and searching for an underlying message. The scientific study of dreams is called  oneirology Here is the 15 Weird facts about dreams! Things about dreams you probably didn’t know. Strange things that happen in your sleep.watch the video below

Delhi pollution: Odd-even scheme begins on Monday, women, bikers exempt

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Women, CNG and hybrid vehicles and two-wheelers are exempt from the odd-even scheme that will be in effect from 8am to 8pm from 13 to 17 November On Thursday evening, the air quality index of the Delhi and national capital region (NCR) centred on it was 470, which is in the severe category.  New Delhi:  The odd-even scheme for road rationing of private cars will be reintroduced from 13 to 17 November, the Delhi government said on Thursday amid an alarming spike in air pollution in the national capital region. On Thursday evening, the air quality index of the Delhi and national capital region (NCR) centred on it was 470, which is in the severe category. The average levels of the two deadliest air pollutants—Particulate Matter (PM) 10 and PM 2.5—across Delhi NCR on Thursday was 420 µg/m³ (over four times the safe limit) and 477 µg/m³ (nearly eight times the safe limit) respectively. “Last 48 hours the levels of PM2.5 and PM10 have been very high and Delhi government ...

Bitcoin Expansion Is Off the Table. At Least for Now.

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A visitor taking a picture of a monitor at an exchange for virtual currencies in Seoul, South Korea. Advocates of expanding the Bitcoin network’s capacity backed down on Wednesday to avoid a split in the Bitcoin community. SAN FRANCISCO — A long-running civil war over the design of Bitcoin appears to be over for now, after one side in the fight acknowledged on Wednesday that it had not won sufficient support from other virtual currency backers. The camp that conceded had been hoping to double the number of transactions that could be run through the network that supports Bitcoin, in order to keep transactions cheap and fast. This expansion was vociferously opposed by many of the programmers working on the Bitcoin project, who worried that expanding the network quickly would make it easier for a company or government to exert influence over the decentralized system. The group pushing for expansion had planned to switch to a new version of the Bitcoin software...

Today's horrific crash on Yamuna Expressway b/w Agra and Mathura.

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New Delhi:   In a horrific incident, at least 18 speeding vehicles rammed into each other on the Agra-Noida Yamuna Expressway on Wednesday due to dense fog enveloping the national capital and adjoining areas.  The video of the incident is doing the rounds on the social media. Several people were injured in the incident. The shocking video shows speeding cars ramming into one another, while people on the footpath were shouting and telling the drivers to slow down. Watch the video: The national capital and its adjoining suburbs were blanketed in a grey haze this morning, dipping visibility to 300 meters at some places, causing train delays and slowing down flight operations. Some 30 trains coming to Delhi and 30 flights landing or taking off from the Delhi airport were delayed, according to officials. Poor visibility also caused heavy traffic snarls at many places in Delhi and NCR. The saving grace was the absence of hundreds of school buses on the ro...

Nokia 2 pre-orders now open: Sale starts mid-November

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Nokia 2 was unveiled just last week for the first time at an event held in Delhi, India. While the company has already launched several smartphones like Nokia 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in the global market, the Nokia 2 is the most affordable Android smartphone among them all. However, during the event, the price of  Nokia 2  that the company announced was a global average price of EUR 99 (roughly Rs. 7,500). But this will vary considerably depending on the different countries. At this time it is hard to say the actual price in India but it seems the Russian pricing has just been revealed. Well, the device has finally gone up for  pre-orders in Russia  and is now priced at RUB 7,990 (roughly Rs. 8,755). HMD Global had earlier confirmed that Nokia 2 would be going on sale globally starting mid-November. So its obvious that the pre-orders have now started to go live. The good thing here is that the company might soon reveal the Indian price of Nokia 2 as well in the ...

Everything you need to know about the massive Paradise Papers leak(holly sh*T)

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From VICE NEWS A vast new trove of 13.4 million leaked documents dubbed the Paradise Papers have been published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) exposing the offshore banking activities of more than 120 politicians around the world. Included in the leak are documents connecting U.S. Commerce Secretary and billionaire financier Wilbur Ross to a shipping company that does business with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law. The leak is the latest to draw back the curtain on the shadowy world of offshore banking where shell companies allow the wealthy, kleptocrats, or anyone else with something to hide to conduct business largely in secret in known tax havens. This trove, which comes largely from Bermuda-based Appleby law firm, reveals offshore ties of a dozen Trump Cabinet members, advisors, and donors. It also shows the connections between a major investor in Twitter and Facebook with Russian state-owned businesses. ...