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Bhubaneswar :  The cattle population in Odisha has declined by 5.59 percent to 11,621,272 against 12,309,000 in 2007, according to the latest livestock census, an official said Wednesday. "The decline is mostly due to farm mechanization,"…
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Riyadh :  A Pakistani has been executed in Saudi Arabia for smuggling large quantity of heroin. Kamran Ghulam Abbas was found guilty of smuggling drugs in the nation's Eastern province, the interior ministry said in a statement. He was…
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Kolkata : At a time when student union elections are open season for defacement of city walls and street furniture in many parts of the country, Kolkata's famed Presidency University, a heritage institution, has come up with mobile poster…
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Mumbai :  A benchmark index of Indian equities markets Wednesday was trading 136.43 points or 0.50 percent down as capital goods stocks dropped. Heavy selling pressure was seen in capital goods, banking, oil and gas, IT and auto sectors,…
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New York :  Do you know which book is the most loved one in the Facebook community? It is the Harry Potter series. This is the result of a meme that floats in your Facebook news feed where your friends list “10 books that have stayed with…
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Washington :  A series of tweets by the Islamic State (IS) have called for retribution against the micro-blogging site Twitter, threatening to assassinate its employees. In a first direct call for attacks on Twitter, the IS tweets asked…
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Washington :  The US space agency, NASA, is developing the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar device to map forests on Earth in 3D and increase understanding of their role in the carbon cycle. The instrument will be the…
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Geneva :  The number of people infected by the Ebola virus disease in West Africa reached 4,269 as of Tuesday, while the total number of related deaths stood at 2,288, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) officials. The virus has…
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New Delhi :  The AAP Wednesday said it has requested Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung to revise the letter sent to President Pranab Mukherjee about permission to invite the BJP to form government in Delhi. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has…
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Washington : South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Middle Eastern, and Arab communities face an increasingly hostile climate in the US, according to a new report by an umbrella community organisation. The report "Under Suspicion, Under Attack"…
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