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MS Dhoni to lead US T20s.

  Mahender Singh Dhoni will be travelling for US T20s to lead team India. India retained most of the test squad currently in Caribbean, for two of the T20 matches against West Indies. Suresh Raina and Y uvraj Singh were a part of the Indian team in March-April world T20 which was conducted this year but they don’t find themselves in US T20. Most of the youngsters who are a part of the world cup squad were ignored. Raina and Yuvraj will be playing Duleep Trophy and they will lead India Green and India Red respectively. Apart from Dhoni , Jaspreet Bumrah will be travelling to Florida for a couple of matches on August 27th as well as on August 28th.

Seizure of 1000 kg drugs by the police in Europe.

  WARSAW:  On Friday Spain police said, that they seized over 1000kg drugs and targeting a gang of drug smuggling in a joint operation in France, Denmark, Poland and Spain, 23 were arrested. The head of the Polish police, Jaroslaw Szymczyk said that, at first they thought that the gang was operated only in Spain, but later it turned out that they were active all across the Europe and were delivering drugs to Britain and Scandinavia amongst others. The head of the operations for organized and serious crimes in Europol, Michael Rausenbach said that, that great success would not had been possible without the cooperation between Spanish, Europol and Polish police forces as well as other European countries.

Aircel provides unlimited data and calls on Independence Day.

NEW DELHI:  The telecom operator, Aircel announced on Friday that it would provide unlimited data and calls on the occasion of 70th Independence Day, to all the Aircel customers for Rs 123. Anupam Vasudev, Aircel chief marketing officer stated that, with ‘Azaadi Offer’ they would remove the cost barrier of their customers and replace it with unlimited benefits.To avail the offer, customers have to recharge with Rs.123, which is going to remain valid for one day.

Insurers have to deal with more taxes after the implementation of GST.

  MUMBAI:  A report said that, once the GST is implemented with the emergence of the central and states as dual stake holders, the insurance company potentially have to deal with more taxes when compared to dealing with the current taxes.It added that, the number of taxes would increase as the calculation of the input-output tax credits would be performed separately for each individual state in which they would earn. It also said that, the new rules would be expected to create greater focus on services by foreign insurers as they compete for the share of the market.

Union minister, Vijay Goel in the midst of a controversy: Rio Olympics

Vijay Goel, the union sports minister, was threatened by the Rio Olympic organizers, that his accreditation would be cancelled if unaccredited people, who are accompanying him, do not end their “rude and aggressive” behavior. The minister said, “I have not flouted any of the rules and the volunteers have taken me to the field”. Continental Manager of Rio 2016, Sarah Peterson told the Indian Chef-de-Mission, Rakesh Gupta in a letter that, they had had multiple reports of the Minister, trying to enter accredited areas at venues with unaccredited people and when the staff tried to explain that it was not allowed the people with the Minister became rude as well as aggressive with the staff.

Russian Antitrust Regulator fined Google with $6.8 Million.

Google was found guilty for abusing its dominant market position by forcing the smart phone manufacturers to install Google search engine on Android phones. After Google was found guilty, Russian anti-trust authority fined Google with $6.8 Million on Thursday. After an investigation followed by Yandex’s complaint, last year in the month of September Google was deemed in the breach of a law on “protecting competition” by The Federal Antimonopoly Service. Yandex, which is Russia’s largest search engine, asked the antitrust authorities to prevent Android phone from installing Google search engine forcibly.  

Four died in Thailand blasts.

  Bangkok: Authorities said that, in the past 24 hours, four people were found dead in the eight bomb blasts that were hit across Thailand. The resort town of Hua Hin and southern provinces were the major places where the bomb blasts took place.Referring to the new bomb blasts, the chief of Hua Hin district, Sutthipong Klai-udom said that, the twin bomb blasts at the clock tower injured three and killed one.Of the four one was killed in southern Trang, one in the gateway town of Surat Thani and two were killed in Hua Hin, with several injured. Prayut Chan-O-Cha, Junta chief, said that, the bombs were an attempt to create chaos and confusion.

My Economic plan will do more for middle class: Hillary Clinton

  WARREN:  In a speech, Hillary Clinton, US presidential candidate, said, “My jobs and tax plans will better help middle-class Americans than the plans released by Republican rival Donald Trump, earlier this week” at a Michigan Factory To contrast herself with Trump, Clinton has gone through many of the policies over the last year. Democratic nominee Clinton said that, that’s true that too often past trade deals had been sold to the American people with rosy scenarios that didn’t pan out and the answer was to finally make free trade for them, not against them.She promised not to support TPP even as a president and gave  a message to every worker in Michigan as well as across America that, she would stop any trade deal that kills jobs or that holds down the wages, which includes the Trans-Pacific partnership.

Two pilots were suspended, as they were found drunk.

  NEW DELHI: DGCA suspended two pilots, when they were found drunk on the arrival of Air India’s and Jet airways’ overseas flights in India. The two airlines, to which the pilots belong, were directed to register FIR against the pilots.As per the sources, the cabin crew member of Air India was also suspended as traces of alcohol were found after the post flight checks.The aviation regulator, due to the serious violations, wrote to both the airlines to register First Information Reports (FIR) against the concerned pilots, as per the sources.

PM Modi asks the law makers, who are demanding hike?

  NEW DELHI:  The lawmakers’ delegation, which met the Prime Minister with a petition, was told that the members should help the government to cut down the expenditure, by Narendra Modi. The law makers are demanding for hike in their salary, but the government is not likely to agree the same.On Monday, a delegation, which includes all the members of BJP met the Prime Minister with a petition, which was signed by over 250 law makers. The petition was a request for increase in the MPs’ allowance as well as for salary hike of the law makers to develop their constituencies.The congress law maker of Bihar, Ranjeeta Rajan, said that the expenses are high and the salaries are quite low and the people from their constituencies come to Delhi and expect them to help them.Sitaram Yechury from the CPM said that the lawmakers shouldn’t decide their own pay and there should be a committee of outsiders to say what should be their hike.

The main reason for the split with Sania: Martina Hingis

  Martina Hingi and Sania Mirza were separated due to recent poor results, on Monday. In 2015, the duo took the world of tennis by storm. They have won nine titles on the whole, which includes three grand slam titles. It seemed that Santina would receive many more titles. They have started their partnership by banging three titles at India wells, Charleston and Miami in the year 2015. Martina-Sania’s partnership has become world number one as they won the Charleston event. They have also won Wimbledon doubles and 2015 US open with their partnership, but to the poor results that took place recently they have decided to end their partnership.

A Pilot of Air India was arrested for smuggling

  Mumbai: one of the Air India’s senior pilots got arrested for allegedly carrying bars of gold worth Rs 16 lakh.The pilot kept the gold bars inside of his check-in and hand baggage. During routine checks, he was found carrying nearly 600 grams of gold.An official of the Air Intelligence unit, customs department, said that the gold bars were seized from the senior pilot’s possession and he was also found guilty for concealment, possession and carriage of the bars which were being smuggled. He was later released on bail and there was no immediate action or comment from Air India.

After bomb threats, two planes land safely: Brussels

  BRUSSELS:  After receiving threats for a bomb blast, VRT, the Belgian state broadcaster reported on Wednesday evening that two aircrafts were landed safely at Zaventem airport, Brussels. Eric Van Der Sypt, the State Prosecutor said, “Our office has received information about possible bomb alerts and have opened an investigation for the same.”He also added that, “Bomb squad has not been called to the airport.”  Raes said that, the passengers were given instructions to wait ten minutes after the plane is landed and before leaving. They were also informed about the threats. The media of Belgium said, “Some other planes have been diverted to other airports”.

Heavy rains hampered traffic in Delhi.

  New Delhi: Heavy rains hampered traffic around many parts of Delhi causing potholes and water logging, which resulted in long tail backs on many arterial roads, on Wednesday evening. A senior traffic police official said that, people made calls to the police and they had received over 2000 complaints of heavy traffic and water logging until 9.50 PM on Wednesday.Commuters faced tough time due to the traffic jams on different stretches and the rain lasted for an hour.Due to demonstrations with vehicles getting stuck for hours, the parliament road was closed for an hour.

Selfie ban at historic places: Delhi

  Delhi:  On the occasion of Independence Day, Indian tourism department announced that, clicking selfies is prohibited at historic places for a week.From 12th of August to 18th of August, taking selfies at important historic places is banned and the same orders were passed on to all the states of the country. The government ordered all the states, considering the safety measures of Independence Day Celebrations.The police requested Indian tourism as well as the archeology survey to implement restrictions on the visitors near important historic places as there are chances of terrorist attacks on Independence Day.

Bumper offers to the Ola drivers.

  Chennai: Ola cabs’ organization got good news for the drivers and the business partners who are working for Ola. Ola would be providing loans within 30 minutes based on the necessities of the partners as well as the drivers. The organization has been tied up with Flexi Loans Technologies for the same. They can avail this facility by uploading the required documents via online.Ola announced that Felxi Loans Technologies came forward to provide loans to the employees and partners up to Rs. One lakh, which would be done through online services and also that the payment can be performed in monthly installments. This facility will be provided mainly to the star drivers and top rated driver partners in the process of eliminating the difficulties faced by them. Initially these services would be experiment in Mumbai and Bangalore, based on the results, services would be spread all over India.

Drones to monitor traffic: Maharashtra

Maharashtra: To control, identify as well as monitor traffic the government of Maharashtra is considering drones. Deepak Kesarkar, minister of state for home said, “Initially drones will be put in place on a pilot basis on the Mumbai-Pune expressway, which has become a death trap with large number of casualties reported lately”. He added that, mostly heavy loaded trucks jump lanes to overtake other vehicles which cause a traffic jam and the drones would click photos of such instances, so that the transport department could take possible action against such drivers. He also noted that, four to five drones would be hired for the expressway from the private companies and based on the result, the home department would consider using drones across the city of Mumbai.

ACB raid on JMCA officer Madhava Rao’s residence

Vishakhapatnam: ACB officers carried out a raid on the residence of Madhava Rao, who is working as an assistant executive engineer at Greater Vishaka Municipal Corporation. On Wednesday morning, under the control of ACB DSP Ramakrishna Prasad raids were carried on the residences of Madhava Rao, his relatives and his friends at a time and found approximately over Rs.1 crore 50 lakh worth assets for which he was not allegedly accountable. The officers found 20 tolas gold, 8 acres of land in Devarapalli, 300 yards land in Bheemili, 36 tolas gold in the locker of his daughter’s father in law at Pendurti and they also found cash in the locker of Canara Bank. They have registered case and are in the process of enquiring Madhava Rao.   

Goa Independence Day Special “Patolleanchem Fest of Sweets”.

The Goa Tourism department said that, the Goan sweet is made of rice and jaggery encased in a leaf of turmeric and it is a unique festival which honors the sweet dish called “Patello” Traditionally, Patolleanchem was celebrated amongst the villagers by preparing as well as distributing the dish. Visitors were then treated to traditional performances of artists as well as locals and also to the Goan fare. Guests were also given a share of homemade Patello as a token of gift.  The department also stated that various stalls were also put up displaying a variety of handicrafts and wares made by locals. The Goan bands also grace occasion with catchy tunes as well as Konkani favorites.