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New Delhi, Aug 4: If India remains committed to achieving 100 per cent coverage in terms of safe sanitation services by October 2019, as many as 3,00,000 deaths caused due to diarrheal disease and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) since the country launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in 2014 can be averted, the World Health Organisation highlighted. Results tabulated from a WHO modelling study on

Kochi, Aug 4: Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan on Friday said it would not be possible for him to produce a movie like ‘Hey Ram’ at present as the whole nation, according to him, was becoming intolerant. Speaking to reporters here, Haasan said ‘Hey Ram’, written, directed and produced by him in 2000, was a ‘very strong movie’, which reflected his politics and ideologies. Asked if his new film

New Delhi, Aug 4:India said on Saturday that new higher tariffs against some goods imported from the United States will go into force on September 18. New Delhi, incensed by Washington's refusal to exempt it from new tariffs, decided in June to raise import tax from August 4 on some US products, including almonds, walnuts and apples, and later delayed the move. Trade differences between India and

New Delhi, Aug 3: A Jet Airways flight from Riyadh to Mumbai departed the runway, following an aborted take-off at the Riyadh Airport in the wee hours of Friday. Taking to Twitter, Jet Airways confirmed that all passengers travelling in the flight 9W 523 have been safely evacuated. "All 142 passengers and seven crew members who aboard the B737-800 aircraft have been safely evacuated with no

New Delhi, Aug 3: A Jet Airways flight from Riyadh to Mumbai departed the runway, following an aborted take-off at the Riyadh Airport in the wee hours of Friday. Taking to Twitter, Jet Airways confirmed that all passengers travelling in the flight 9W 523 have been safely evacuated. "All 142 passengers and seven crew members who aboard the B737-800 aircraft have been safely evacuated with no

Aurangabad, Aug 3: A 21-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Chilkalthana area in Maharashtra's Aurangabad on Thursday over the infamous issue of Maratha reservation, police said. "In his suicide note, the man apologised to his parents, stating he did not get a job even after having a BSc degree. He took part in various protests regarding Maratha reservation. He was unhappy that being a

Bengaluru, Aug 3: Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy led coalition government of Karnataka has decided to make yoga a mandatory extra-curricular activity in all universities and colleges in the state starting this academic year. Addressing a press conference after a meeting with Vice Chancellors and officials of all universities in the State, here yesterday, Higher Education Minister G T Deve Gowda

Gurugram, Aug 3: Two saffron extremists beat up a Muslim dhaba owner and forcibly shaved off his beard after tying him to a chair at Hari Nagar in Gurugram near the national capital. They also called him a “Pakistani”. Three persons, including the hairdresser, have been arrested in this connection. Jafruddin and his cook Ibrahim had gone to a salon for a haircut on July 31 around 6 p.m. when two

Reuters, AUG 02: Apple became the first US company to top $1 trillion in market value on Thursday, leading a rebound in technology stocks that helped Wall Street pare losses and turned the Nasdaq positive. Market sentiment was also lifted by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's comment, who said the tariffs that United States is threatening to impose on Chinese goods would not be disastrous for the

New Delhi, Aug 2: India has sent to its High Commission in London a formal request for the government of United Kingdom to extradite fugitive jeweler Nirav Modi, who has been accused of defrauding Punjab National Bank of Rs 14000 crore. The High Commission of India in London will forward the request for extradition of Nirav Modi to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK Government. V K