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| Thursday morning brief |
Mar 30 2017 |
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| 8 coaches of the Mahakaushal express train derailed in UP’s Mahoba town. According to initial reports, nine passengers were injured in the incident which took place at 2:07am, North Central Railway said. The cause of derailment of the Jabalpur-Nizamuddin Express is yet to be ascertained. Railway officials have opened helplines at Jhansi, Gwalior, Banda and Nizamuddin stations for relatives of the passengers who need information. |
| 5 amendments to the Finance Bill, moved by the opposition, were adopted by Rajya Sabha yesterday. Three of the amendments were moved by Congress MP Digvijaya Singh and two by Sitaram Yechury of the CPI(M). Yechury’s amendments related to a clause linked to political funding. Digvijaya’s amendment related to a clause which gave powers to an assistant commissioner of income tax to order searches, rather than a junior officer. |
| Maharashtra’s Bhira recorded a searing 46.5°C on Tuesday as the Met issued a heatwave warning in several parts of India. Heat wave warnings were issued for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, south UP, south Haryana, Chandigarh and interior Odisha. “Hot conditions, including heat waves, are likely to continue till Saturday (April 1), after which temperatures may drop by a degree or two,” said an official at the National Weather Forecasting Centre. |
| 2 days after a mob beat up six Nigerians in Noida, a group yesterday allegedly assaulted a Kenyan woman also in Noida. The group allegedly stopped an Ola cab and dragged the woman out and beat her up yesterday evening. Police said they couldn’t verify her version of events as the cabbie denied the incident happened. |
| Samsung yesterday unveiled its Galaxy S8 and Samsung Galaxy S8+ flagship smartphones. Two versions of the Galaxy S8, code-named Dream, were launched at a media event in New York, with 6.2-inch (15.75 cm) and 5.8-inch curved screens – the largest to date for Samsung’s premium smartphones. There’s no increase in battery capacity though in the new phones, providing the battery more breathing room. Samsung’s Note 7 fiasco pushed the engineering envelope with its battery, which contributed to a series of spontaneous smartphone combustions. |
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