Somnath Bharti surrenders at Dwarka police station in Delhi
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AAP MLA and former Law Minister of Delhi, Somnath Bharti surrendered at Dwarka police station in Delhi on 28 September evening, after the Supreme Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea in the domestic violence case filed against him by his wife Lipika Mitra.
The court termed him an absconder for escaping arrest even after two courts - the trial court and the Delhi High Court - had earlier rejected his bail plea. Somnath Bharti has requested the SC mediation centre to work on settling the case as it is a matrimonial dispute. However, the court said that it cannot force Bharti's wife to settle the matter if she is not willing to do so.
The SC had said that the case will be taken up for hearing on 1 October, only if Bharti surrendered by 28 September evening. Lipika Mitra had filed a complaint of domestic violence against Bharti with the Delhi Commission for Women on 10 June.
Flowing water discovered on Mars by NASA!
According to new research published in Nature Geosciences. during the Mars' warmer seasons, liquid water exists on the surface of the planet. This discovery raises the chances of being home to some form of life. This new revelation has come from new spectral data gathered by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), a spacecraft that studies the planet from orbit. The orbiter analyzed the chemistry of weird dark streaks that constantly appear and disappear seasonally on the surface of Mars. The analysis has confirmed the the streaks are formed by salty water that flows downhill on Mars.
This come as a solution to the question: does the Red Planet truly have liquid water on its surface?
Modi, Obama decide to push strategic cooperation
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama today decided to "further refine" the Indo-US strategic partnership while pushing ahead with cooperation in the areas of security, counter-terrorism, defence, economy and climate change.
During the talks, Modi underlined the need for concrete outcomes at the upcoming global conference on climate change in Paris even as Obama said India's leadership at the meet will set the tone for decades to come.
He also thanked Obama for hosting the 70th peacekeeping summit. India is among the largest contributors to the UN peacekeeping operations with over 1,80,000 troops having participated in missions - more than from any other country. He said that a memorial wall for the fallen peacekeepers should be erected expeditiously, for which India will contribute financially also.
FTII talks today, but Gajendra Chauhan's ouster unlikely
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The agitating students of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) are going to meet officials of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry in the national capital on Tuesday to discuss future course of action. The students had earlier called off their 18-day-long hunger strike in response to the government's communication inviting them for a dialogue to resolve their demands.
It is highly unlikely that the principal demand of the students, the ouster of FTII President Gajendra Chauhan, will be something the government will agree to. Many in the government believe that withdrawing Chauhan's appointment will be a major embarrassment. FTII students have been protesting against the appointment of Chauhan as the chairperson of the premiere film institute in Pune for over 100 days now.
RBI cuts repo rates by 50 basis points to 6.75 per cent, keeps CRR unchanged at 4 per cent
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) unveiled its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy for the current fiscal on Tuesday. In a big boost for the markets and economy, RBI governor Raghuram Rajan cut repo rate by 50 basis points.
It kept the CRR unchanged at 4 percent. This marks the fourth repo rate cut by the RBI since January 2015. However, it has lowered its Financial Year 2016 GDP growth target to 7.4 percent from 7.6 percent. As for inflation, Rajan said that the economy should work towards bringing inflation down to 5 per cent by the end of the Financial Year 2017.
FTII students continue protest as talks with govt remain inconclusive
FTII students resume their protest against the government as talks with Information and Broadcasting ministry ended fruitlessly. The next round of talks will happen on October 1.
The students have demanded that the present FTII society for looking into the appointments of chairperson, staff etc should be dissolved and a new search committee should be formed through a transparent process. The students have also included making FTII a premier national institute like IITs and IIMs as one of their demands so that no bureaucrat can be made the director of the institute.Somnath Bharti sent to two days police custody
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Somnath Bharti was sent to a two day police custody by a Dwarka court on 29 September.
After Bharti's arrest, the case was taken up by the court. However, his lawyer could not make to the hearing on time due to which Bharti had to argue the case himself for 15 minutes.
Bharti surrendered on the night of 28 September after the Supreme Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea ordering him to surrender the same day.
Humans of New York on a new mission: documenting Syrian refugees
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HONY has decided to travel once again, but this time it's different. Brandon Stanton, who runs the widely popular one man show on Facebook called Humans of New York or HONY, has now decided to document Syrian refugees amidst relocation to European countries.
On 26 September, Stanton posted on his FB page that HONY would be travelling through Europe for the coming 10 days, recording the stories of refugees in its true personal style."Together, these migrants are part of one of the largest population movements in modern history," Stanton writes, "but their stories are composed of unique and singular tragedies."
As Modi visits Silicon Valley, Air India announces a direct Delhi-San Francisco flight
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Close on the heels of PM Modi's Silicon Valley visit, Air India has decided to start a non-stop direct flight from New Delhi to San Francisco in a Boeing 777. This is the first non-stop flight to operate on the route.
With this, San Francisco is now Air India's fourth destination within the United States after New York, Newark and Chicago. "The San Francisco flight will make travel easy and convenient for students and parents of non-resident Indians," Air India said.
The flight to and from San Francisco will operate three days a week, on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
30 million windfall for small British town thanks to Banksy's Dismaland
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It may have been a disappointment for most, but Banksy's Dismaland has been hugely popular. Popular to the tune of 30 million dollars for the British seaside town of Somerset. According to local officials, the attraction, which closes after five weeks, drew over 150,000 people to the town with a population of just 75,000.
The event was billed as "festival of art, amusements and entry-level anarchism."
The region has struggled since Britons started choosing foreign vacations over seaside holidays but this transformation has been a shot in the arm for the tiny town.
1,584 people in America have the same unimaginative name -- Seven
The Social Security Administration publishes data only for those names recurring at least five times in a single year. Virtually no one has the name Six. From one to twenty, only one name corresponded with an American first name. That is Seven.
Based on calculations by FiveThirtyEight, there are currently 1,100 men and 484 woman, making for a total of 1,584 people named after the number. Seven may be considered lucky and/or even magical, but for now, we know that it is very popular.
Crocodile numbers reduced because of climate change, apparently
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Fluctuating sea levels and global cooling caused a significant decline in the number of crocodylian species over millions of years, a new study has found. Crocodylians include present-day species of crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gavials and their extinct ancestors.
They first appeared in the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 85 million years ago, and the 250 million year fossil record of their extinct relatives shows a diverse evolutionary history.
Extinct crocodylians and their relatives came in all shapes and sizes, including giant land-based creatures such as Sarcosuchus, which reached around 12 metres in length and weighed up to eight metric tonnes.
Global warning: WWF says glaciers in Italy reduced by 40 per cent
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According to a recent report released by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Alpine glaciers in Italy have lost about 40 per cent of their area in three short decades.
The glaciers currently cover a total area of about 368 sq.kms compared to 609 sq.kms in the 1980s.
The researchers further said that glacier melting has been caused by human activities. "The extent of interactions between the biosphere and the human species in recent centuries is unprecedented," the WWF report reads. "We have seen them retreating slowly for over a century, and much more sharply in the last 50 years."
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