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The police have seized a few vehicles, including four-wheelers, while a person was also arrested in this connection.Clashes broke out on Tuesday between the in-laws of Osama’s sister and their relatives in the Rani Kothi area on Tuesday evening. Six persons were injured in the clash.Mohammad Shahabuddin’s daughter is married to Sayyad Iftikhar Khan of Motihari.Iftikhar has a property dispute with his brother Sayyad Imtiyaz Ahmed.On Tuesday, tempers rose after it was learned that Imtiyaz’s son Farhan Ahmed was constructing a boundary wall near his house to build a market.After a while, a large number of people carrying firearms and…

US stocks fell on Wednesday with a broad risk off tone across markets after rating agency Fitch late Tuesday lowered the US credit rating citing “expected fiscal deterioration” and an “erosion of governance”.Fitch’s move followed a similar move by S&P Global in 2011 after a previous fight in Congress over raising the debt ceiling.The US Treasury market acts as a global benchmark upon which many financial products are based and so uncertainty about its stability can cause anxiety for investors, MarketWatch reported.The news found a stock market arguably vulnerable to unwelcome surprises, with the S&P 500 index having already gained…

England lost 19 World Test Championship points due to sanctions in four of the Tests, while Australia dropped 10 points from one match. England were slow in all games except Headingley’s third Test, and Australia was penalised for a slow over-rate in Old Trafford’s fourth Test.On the ICC Review, ICC Hall of Famer Ricky Ponting voiced his concern when asked about ways to rectify slow over-rate in Tests.”I can’t see where all the time is going in the game, that’s the one thing I can’t understand. So, now there’s an extra half an hour played every day and still we’re…

The new approach, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, shows that renewable, recyclable plastics are not only possible, but also outperform those from petrochemicals. Plastic waste is a problem. Most plastics can’t be recycled, and many use finite, polluting petrochemicals as the basic ingredients. In the study, researchers from Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) successfully engineered microbes to make biological alternatives for the starting ingredients in an infinitely recyclable plastic known as poly(diketoenamine), or PDK. “This is the first time that bioproducts have been integrated to make a PDK that is predominantly bio-based,” said Brett Helms,…

The device named AC Air Purifier Module (APM) was first launched earlier in March and was recently tested at IIT Kanpur’s National Aerosol Facility.”Within just two hours of usage in a typical Indian home bedroom (50 cubic metre), it achieved an impressive up to 80 per cent removal of PM2.5 particles, while 50 per cent PM2.5 of the pollution was eliminated in just 30 minutes,” the researchers said in a statement on Wednesday.The study also reveals a significant reduction of harmful submicron air pollutants and PM 2.5 by an impressive 90 per cent including dust, smoke, and allergens that bypass…

The arrested people also include four individuals who were involved in the killing of an Imam in the Sector 57 area where a mosque was attacked.The suspects have been identified as Ankit, Rahul, Rakesh and Ravinder — all aged between 23 to 32. They are residents of Tigra village in Gurugram.According to the police, a group of 100 people had attacked the mosque in Sector 57 and pelted stones and fired 15 to 20 gunshots on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday.The arrested accused disclosed that they were disturbed by the violence in Nuh, and set afire an under-construction…

Justice Chandra Dhari Singh also recorded the submission of the aspirants’ counsel that the other two prayers in the petition – challenging the preliminary examination and to re-conduct the exam – are not being pressed in the matter. Counsel was also granted time to file written submissions on the aspect of maintainability of the petition. On July 3, the high court had asked the UPSC to file its preliminary objections on the plea. The plea also challenges the press note issued by the UPSC on June 12 declaring the results of the preliminary examination. In it, the UPSC had stated…

He has asked the district magistrates to include teachers only in survey work and no other administrative work should be assigned to the teachers.Pertinently, following Patna High Court verdict to lift the ban on caste based census, the district administrations are assigning physical surveys to the teaching staff of schools and colleges so that the census gets over in minimum time.Patna District Magistrate Chandrashekher Singh, while inspecting the survey in Phulwarisharif on Wednesday claimed to complete the physical survey within one week.Meanwhile, Bihar government has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court and requested it not to issue fresh directives…

New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) As the Asian Games draw nearer, India’s FIFA athletes Charanjot Singh and Karman Singh are gearing up to showcase their dominance against the top athletes from South Asia and gain the best possible seeding for the country at the seeding event from August 2 to 6 in Seoul, South Korea. Charanjot and Karman will battle it out against the leading athletes from Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh in their seeding event fixtures that will commence on August 4. The matches will be played in the best-of-three format and will feature a total of 21 countries…

Following the decision, the Rajasthan government would now be able to action more than 50,000 mines in the state.The orders have been issued by Justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh of the Supreme Court.Senior lawyer Manish Singhvi appeared in the Supreme Court for the Rajasthan government.The Gehlot government in its previous tenure had canceled the old allocation policy by bringing a new rule for mining auctions.Due to this, the applications that had come for the allotment of more than 50,000 small mines across the state were cancelled.The applicants challenged this decision of the government in the Rajasthan High Court.After hearing…