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READ MORE Best Foods for Healthy Skin Slideshow Pictures Antiaging Tips Secrets to Look Younger Slideshow Skin Quiz: Test Your Skin IQ MONDAY, Oct. 30, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Good looks may be a hindrance in the hiring process, a new study suggests. But before you feel sorry for attractive applicants, know that the finding only applied to lower-paying jobs. “Our research suggests that attractive people may be discriminated against in selection for relatively less desirable jobs,” said lead author Margaret Lee, a doctoral candidate at the London Business School. But a good-looking applicant did have an edge when it came to desirable jobs such as project director, manager or IT intern, the researchers added. The 750 study participants included university students and managers who make hiring decisions in real life. They were shown profiles and photos of two potential job candidates, one attractive and one unattractive. In a series of experiments, the attractive...

READ MORE India may have lost the fastest growing economy status to China but ‘modinomics’ has helped India wrest the status of a faster improving economy from China, as far as the ease of doing business is concerned. In a 190 country race, India crossed a threshold by jumping 30 spots to reach the 100 rank in the latest Ease of Doing Business World Bank report 2018 compared to last year on Tuesday. Annette Dixon World Bank Vice President South Asia announced World Bank’s stamp on the reforms initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi . She said, “India stands out this year as one of the 10 economies that improved the most in the areas. The lone country in South Asia and even the BRICS to do that.” At a time when the opposition is chanting “PM Modi pushed the economy to a slowdown”, the World Bank report stating India’s Distance to Frontier score rising by a whopping 4.7 points compared to China’s 0.4 points will provide a defensive...

READ MORE New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday ordered Hadiya, the 24-year-old woman at the centre of the Kerala Love Jihad controversy, to be produced before it on November 27, saying it would examine her to ascertain whether she had consented to marry petitioner Shafeen Jahan. The top court said it would examine Hadiya in an open court hearing, turning down her father’s plea for in-camera proceedings. A bench, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, asked senior advocate Shyam Divan, representing the father of the woman, to ensure that she is produced that day for interaction with the bench, which is likely to ascertain her mental stage and whether she had given free consent to the marriage. “Marriage is a personal affair. Individual choices should not be curbed. We’ll have to verify if Hadiya can give free consent,” the court observed. The National Investigation Agency, represented by Additional Solicitor Gener...

READ MORE New Delhi: The National Anthem has assumed the centre-stage of a debate once again, with the Supreme Court being the reason this time as well. A year ago, the arguments centred around why the top court should pass orders on playing the Anthem in movie halls and if this could encourage policing patriotism. And now with the Court reconsidering its orders, questions have arisen either on legal justification of the first order or on reasons for the Court’s sudden disposition. Has the Supreme Court dragged the National Anthem into an unnecessary controversy? It was a year ago when the Supreme Court had admitted a PIL on the National Anthem and called for the Central government’s views. A month later, it issued seven directions on singing and playing of the Anthem while making it compulsory for all movie halls to play the Anthem with the National Flag waving on screen. The highest court of the land then held that “a time has come (that) the citizens of the coun...

READ MORE Known for his huge contribution towards the enrichment of Urdu language, Abdul Qavi Desnavi was honoured by search engine Google with a doodle on his 87th birth anniversary on Wednesday.

READ MORE Attacking the BJP-led centre on Tuesday, the Congress said that spiritual guru and Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a “government agent” with interests in the ongoing Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute in Ayodhya.

READ MORE New Delhi: A public interest litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking minority status for Hindus in eight states. The PIL states that Hindus must be notified as minority community in these eight states so that they are given legitimate benefits  “According to 2011 Census, Hindus are minority in eight states i.e. Lakshadweep (2.5%), Mizoram (2.75%), Nagaland (8.75%), Meghalaya (11.53%), JK (28.44%), Arunachal Pradesh (29%), Manipur (31.39%) and Punjab (38.40%),” the PIL states. It also adds that the minority rights of Hindus in these states are being “siphoned off illegally and arbitrarily to the majority population because neither Central nor the state governments have notified Hindus as a ‘minority’ under Section 2(c) of National Commission for Minority Act. Therefore, Hindus are being deprived of their basic rights, guaranteed under Articles 25 to 30.”  The petition has been filed by Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJ...

READ MORE Mumbai:  It was the end of an illustrious legacy yesterday. Once, the Indian Railways used to manufacture war tanks, hand grenades, shells, etc, in its workshops. Yesterday’s decision by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal turned the tradition around. The Army’s help has been sought to finish railways’ job – building three foot overbridges, one each at Elphinstone Road, Currey Road and Ambivli stations. The Indian Railways has a glorious history of manufacturing sturdy war material, at short notice, that was used in World Wars and battles with China and Pakistan. The workshops of the old Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway (now Western Railway) at Dahod and Lower Parel used to manufacture war material, which is now on display at the Churchgate heritage gallery.   The armoured train manufactured by Western Railway at National Railway Museum in Delhi Yesterday, it was Indian Army’s Military Engineering Services (MES) that took charge of the...

READ MORE “Banuga jaldi banuga” is what Rahul Gandhi is said to have told his senior party colleagues during his interactions with them on Monday, this comes close on the heels of Sonia Gandhi’s assertion of the impending change in the leadership of the Congress party. Truth be told, there has always been a certain inevitability about his elevation. It’s always been a question of when and not whether he will take over. Rahul Gandhi will take over as the 60th president of the country’s oldest and till not very long ago the country’s biggest political party. He also takes over at perhaps the most difficult time in the party’s 132-year-old history. Established in 1885, the Congress-ruled India for close to six decades, but today it is a pale shadow of the all-powerful, mighty juggernaut with an overpowering presence throughout the country, it’s now down to a mere 45 seats in the Lok Sabha. It is being increasingly pushed to the margins by a ...

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READ MORE The Consul General of India in New York has informed through a tweet that NYPD has indicated that “there are no Indian names amongst the casualties” in the terror attack that took place on Tuesday. Indian mission is in touch with the New York Police Department (NYPD) to ascertain more details. Eight people were killed and eleven injured in an attack that is being called a terror attack by New York authorities. The suspect, 29-year old Sayfullo Saipov, an immigrant from Uzbekistan has been arrested and is in the hospital recovering from gunshot wound fired by the police. Even as New York was shaken by this attack where the Uzbek mowed down eight people with a pick-up truck in Lower Manhattan, President Donald Trump has ordered a heightened “vetting process” for travellers entering the United States. In a tweet he said, “I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not ...

READ MORE In what could be the biggest aviation scam of India, Income Tax Department has filed five prosecution complaints against corporate consultant Deepak Talwar for allegedly receiving kickbacks worth hundreds of crores of rupees in individual and corporate bank accounts controlled by him and his family members in various tax jurisdictions, including tax havens, across the world. After several leads, the I-T department had raided Talwar’s establishments in India in June last year. Since then, the accused have been questioned several times and the sleuths have been trying to connect the dots in what appears to be a complex structure of moving funds to tax havens. Investigation wing of I-T department has filed a thousand-page report which clearly spells out Talwar’s relationship with top officials in the UPA government. Talwar allegedly used this influence to amend civil aviation-related bilateral agreements between India and various countries to directly benefit his cl...

READ MORE Washington: Ahead of President Donald Trump’s maiden Asia trip, the White House said today India plays a “big role” in the Indo-Pacific region. Trump embarks on a 12-day trip later this week to visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and Philippines. He will not be paying a visit to India this time. “It certainly plays a big role,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at her daily news conference when asked about India’s role in the Indo-Pacific region. “Does this administration see India as a pivotal part of your strategy when it comes to the Asia-Pacific more broadly?” she was asked. “I can tell you that we have a close relationship with India, that we have a lot of areas of common interest, including — we’re both democracies; we’re both large countries. They’re an enormous country,” State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters at a separate news confer...

READ MORE New Delhi: Tourism Minister KJ Alphons has offered free two-night stay at a five-star hotel in the national capital to the Swiss couple, who were attacked at Fatehpur Sikri earlier this month. Alphons termed the offer as a “token of concern”. In a letter to the couple, Alphons offered to put them up at the government-run ITDC hotel, The Ashok, after they recovered from their injuries. He said Marie Droze and Quentin Jeremy Clerc, can choose to stay at the hotel on the dates of their choice. “Trust you are recovering fast and would be on your way home soon. As a token of our concern, we would like to offer you a room at our luxury hotel, The Ashok, at Chanakyapuri, New Delhi for two nights on the dates of your choice. All expenses at the hotel, including food and beverages, would be covered,” he said in the letter. The minister had earlier written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the issue and also visited the couple, who are curr...

READ MORE NEW DELHI:  Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan , who was seen to have come precariously close to losing his chair in 2015 over the Vyapam examination scam, has been given a clean chit by the federal probe agency Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, in the scandal. The agency, which filed charges against 490 people, said a hard disc that Congress’ Digvijaya Singh had alleged was tampered to erase references to the chief minister, had not been tinkered with. The Supreme Court had ordered a CBI probe in 2015 at a time Mr Chouhan was under intense pressure from rival sections within the party and the opposition Congress that linked a spate of more than 30 deaths to the Vyapam scam. This list included a journalist tracking the case Akshay Singh and the then Governor Ram Naresh Yadav’ son Shailesh. The long list of accused charged by the CBI on Tuesday, however, only includes 3 officials of the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (Vy...

READ MORE New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today condemned the terror attack in New York in which eight persons were run over by a truck. “Strongly condemn the terror attack in New York City. My thoughts are with the families of the deceased and prayers with those injured,” the Prime Minister wrote on Twitter. Eight persons were killed and 12 injured after a truck ploughed into pedestrians in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, the city Mayor Bill de Blasio said, calling the attack an “act of terror”. The suspect has been arrested. New York City Police Commissioner James O’ Neil said the suspect was a 29-year-old man, who was not from the city. According to reports, the attacker is Sayfullo Saipov from Florid

READ MORE New Delhi: As the Narendra Modi government proceeds with the grandiose plans for a ‘Bullet Train’ between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, a RTI query has revealed that over 40 percent of seats on all the trains on this sector go vacant causing huge losses to Western Railway.  According to RTI replies received by Mumbai activist Anil Galgali, only in the past one quarter, the Western Railway’s staggering losses in this sector is nearly Rs 30 crore, or around Rs. 10 crore per month.  “The Indian government is over-enthusiastic and plans to spend more than Rs 1 lakh crore on the Bullet Train project, but it has not done its homework properly,” Galgali said, adding it raises serious question marks on the viability of the Bullet Train project, whenever it comes up.  The Indian Railways have also admitted that they have no plans to introduce any new trains on this sector which is already in the red.  Replying to Galgali’s query on seats ...

READ MORE Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday wished fives states – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kerala and Karnataka, on their foundation day.

READ MORE Lanus are into their first Copa Libertadores decider after an epic comeback sealed an extraordinary semi-final victory over compatriots River Plate on Wednesday. Down a goal from the first leg, Lanus seemed out of the contest after River collected two away goals by the 45-minutes mark. However, Lanus pulled a goal back through Jose Sand in first-half injury time and the veteran striker repeated the feat almost immediately after the second-half restart. The momentum continued for Lanus and there were ahead 4-3 on aggregate by the midway point of the second period thanks to further goals from Lautaro Acosta and Alejandro Silva. Lanus now await the winner of the other semi-final between Gremio and Ecuador’s Barcelona, with the Brazilians boasting a hefty 3-0 first-leg advantage. The winner will represent South America in next month’s FIFA Club World Cup in the UAE. Lanús remonta 4-2 a River y es finalista de la #ConmebolLibertadoresBridgestone por primera vez en...

READ MORE Chennai: An assistant superintendent of police from Tirunelveli was caught using a Bluetooth device during the civil services (main) examination at Presidency Girls Higher Secondary School in Chennai on Monday. Shabir Karim, who is an IPS officer on probation, was allegedly talking to his wife, who was reportedly dictating answers to him over the phone from Hyderabad. Both husband and wife are now in police custody. Shabir Karim was reportedly being dictated the answers over the phone by his wife (Photo: News18). According to the police, Karim was writing the exam as he wanted to be an IAS officer. He had been selected for the IPS in 2014 and was undergoing training at Nanguneri subdivision of Tirunelveli. He has been charged under Section 420 of the IPC (cheating and dishonesty). Sources said he was likely to be dismissed as he was still in the probationary period. The police sought the Hyderabad police’s help to arrest his wife. Article source: http://www.moneycon...

READ MORE Bengaluru: India is readying for the launch of its second mission to the moon by early 2018, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Dr AS Kiran Kumar, said on Monday. Named Chandrayaan-2, the mission is likely to be launched in the first quarter of 2018 and will include a lander and a rover, both of which are in the final stages of construction, Kumar said. “The orbiter integration work is on currently. There are still a few trials of the lander and rover that will take place in December,” Kumar said while addressing a press conference. ISRO’s second moon mission comes nearly ten years after its highly successful maiden attempt at exploring the moon – Chandrayaan 1 – was launched in 2008. The spacecraft had orbited around the moon for about a year, mapping the terrain and minerals. It sent back high resolution images and other data. But most crucially, Chandrayaan-1 gave the first direct evidence of the presence of water-ic...

READ MORE Chennai:  Safeer Karim, the 29-year-old police officer arrested in Chennai on charges of cheating in the civil services examination could lose his job in the police too. On a day the Chennai police went ahead to arrest his wife and a coaching centre faculty member for helping him cheat using hi-tech gadgets , the Home Ministry signalled that it had taken note of the allegations against Mr Karim and would take exemplary action against the official if found guilty. Mr Karim, a 2015 batch police officer had appeared in the civil services examination this year to try getting into the Indian Administrative Service, or IAS, the first choice of 95 per cent aspiring civil servants. He had cleared the first of the three-stage examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. He was writing the exam for the second stage when he was allegedly caught for cheating. The police have said electronic gadgets seized from him indicate that he was in touch with his wife and the ...

READ MORE Patna:  RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav charged that the prohibition clamped by the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar was a “farce” and that the JD(U) depends on earnings through illicit liquor for its finances, inviting a sharp reaction from the ruling party. Mr Yadav, the son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad and Leader of Opposition in the assembly, claimed that JD(U) members are involved in illicit liquor business in Bihar on a large scale. “The prohibition is a farce,” he said. “The JD(U) is heavily dependent for its finances on earnings through illicit liquor.” “As JD(U)’s national president, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar owes an answer to the people of the state…has his government acted against them for flouting prohibition, which he loves to flaunt as his great achievement,” Mr Yadav told a press conference on Tuesday. He said there had been allegations that many officers have got transferred for laying hands on a JD(U)...

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READ MORE NEW DELHI: In a path-breaking verdict, the Supreme Court today held that ‘future prospect’ of a person killed in a road accident would be considered while awarding compensation to the dependents and laid down standard criteria for computation of such claims. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was faced with a vexatious question whether dependents of a road accident victim, who was either self- employed or working on a fixed salary in private or unorganised sector, can get enhanced compensation after addition of certain percentage of the salary drawn by the deceased under the head of ‘future prospect’. Accepting the principle of standardisation, it said, “while determining the income, an addition of 50 per cent of actual salary to the income of the deceased towards future prospects, where the deceased had a permanent job and was below the age of 40 years, should be made. “The addition should be 30 per cent, if...

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READ MORE New Delhi:  Residents of the Katputli Colony today alleged that they were beaten by the police during the DDA’s demolition drive and not allowed to take their belongings before their houses were razed. The drive had triggered clashes among its residents, activists and the police On Tuesday. However, the Delhi High Court ordered a 10-day stay on the Delhi Development Authority’s drive so that persons eligible for relocation can move out voluntarily and those ineligible get time to appeal against the action. Even as the residents alleged forceful eviction, the police and the DDA said that the drive was held peacefully and people voluntarily moved out their belongings. In a press conference, residents claimed that they had spent the night on the road and their family members were scared for their safety. Ms Geeta claimed that three of her children have been missing since yesterday. “I have seven children. My two sons, aged 15 and 13, and my 11-year-old dau...

READ MORE New Delhi:  In a crackdown on the city’s hookah bars, the Delhi government today asked the police and municipal corporations to cancel the licences of restaurants, eateries and hotels where hookah smoking is allowed. Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said that hookah smoking was not allowed in either non-smoking or even smoking zones in the national capital. Mr Jain has said Delhi Police and municipal corporations should immediately cancel the licences of restaurants or eateries having hookah bars. “The minister has made it clear that hookah smoking is not allowed in non smoking zone as per section 4 of COTPA (Cigarette other Tobacco Products Act),” the government said in a statement. It said that a recent notification of the Indian government dated May 23, 2017, from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, completely prohibits use of hookah in the smoking zones also. The government stated that as per the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC...

READ MORE Farmers called off on Tuesday their month-long agitation at Ninder village on the outskirts of Jaipur after receiving a written assurance from the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) on conducting a fresh survey of the land earmarked for acquisition. The farmers had been agitating against land acquisition for a housing project proposed on nearly 1,350 bighas at Ninder. Under the banner of Zameen Samadhi Satyagrah, they had intensified the agitation from October 2, Gandhi Jayanti; 21 of them had buried themselves neck deep in pits. A three-member committee will be formed for the fresh survey. “We have reached an agreement with the JDA on the modalities of conducting a fresh survey, and called off the agitation after receiving a written assurance in this regard,” farmers’ leader Nagendra Singh Shekhawat told HT. The agreement was reached after talks between representatives of the farmers and the urban development minister. Singh said the government has agreed to...

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