Halloween make up: Quick tips, tricks to keep in mind

Halloween celebrations in India are on the rise, thanks to the young and cosmopolitan crowd. If you are attending such an event and have your costume sorted but wondering about the make up, make sure you are getting few tricks in place.

Helloween Makeup :Bhavya Chawla, Cheif Stylist at Voonik and Dilip Kundlia, Beauty Expert and Director of Oshea Herbals shares some quick tips and tricks for you to keep in mind.

* Skin test: First step to trying anything new on your face is to do a skin test at least 24 hours prior. Though one doesn’t have to spend on expensive makeup for one day, make sure you buy approved makeup for face.

* Base: Let’s start with the base. If you are dressing up as a zombie, ghost, witch, vampire or a mummy, go for a pale look. Your base should be a few shades lighter than your skin tone to achieve this. For other looks, your regular base should be fine.

* Eyes: First thing, people look at the eyes, so make sure your eye makeup is good. Dark Gray or Black eyeshadow suit most of the dark characters. Just play around with the shapes according to your costume. |BS| Deep red blended with black is perfect for a Vampire. A Mermaid or a Fairy offer a good opportunity for one to show off their colorful eyeshadow palette especially blues and greens. One can also use crystal stones or tattoos around the eyes. If you are comfortable with lenses, adding colored ones would take your costume a notch higher.

* Hair: Your hair depends on the costume. You can buy or hire a colorful, fancy wig at very reasonable prices from party shops or online. If you don’t plan to use wigs, then you can use a hairspray to set your hair. Colored and sparkly hairspray can also be used which are available in the market.

* Lips: Red, Burgundy, Black, Purple are shades for the Halloween season. Apart from these basic shades, gold and shimmery lips can also be played with. A quick tip is to outline the lips with eyeliner pencil to check if you are happy with the shade, as they are easy to remove and smudge less than your lip color.

* Don’t forget the nails!! Once again, perfect opportunity to get creative with all those colors & nail art, you have been collecting over the years. If you don’t feel like spending too much time on nails, black or white should do the trick.

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Asia Bibi blasphemy case: Pak SC overturns Christian woman’s death sentence

Chief Justice Saqib Nisar overturned the conviction by the Lahore High Court that had sentenced Asia Bibi, a mother of four, to death in 2010

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy against Islam’s prophet, ordering her to be freed if she was not accused of any other crime.

Chief Justice Saqib Nisar overturned the (BS) conviction by the Lahore High Court that had sentenced Asia Bibi, a mother of four, to death in 2010.

Her case has outraged Christians worldwide and been a source of division within Pakistan, where two politicians who sought to help Bibi were assassinated.

A hardline Islamist party has threatened street protests if Bibi were to be freed or her sentence reduced.| Business Standard  

Lion Air crash: Indonesia directs inspection of all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes

Indonesia has directed all Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft belonging to commercial airlines in the country to undergo an inspection in the wake of the tragedy involving Lion Air flight 610 that killed all 189 people on board.

Captain Avirianto, an Indonesian Transportation Ministry official, told CNN that Lion Air is currently in possession of 11 of one of Boeing’s most advanced airplanes. National airline Garuda Indonesia has one Boeing 737 Max 8 aricraft.

“We have inspected Garuda last night while Lion is still in progress,” Avirianto stated. He further said that the three of Lion Air‘s airplanes will undergo inspection by the end of Tuesday, while the other eight will be inspected soon.

Daniel Putut Adi Kuncoro, the managing director of Lion Air group, also confirmed the ongoing inspection of the aircraft in their fleet, saying, “We are waiting for their results. We will follow what the regulator tells us to do.”

Meanwhile, drones and sonar technology has been deployed the Java Sea to search for the remains of the downed plane which| BS |crashed on Monday, with the aircraft’s fuselage and flight data recorder yet to be retrieved. The search operations were spread over a 400 nautical mile area on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, police confirmed that 24 body bags have been transferred from the crash site for post-mortem evaluations, adding that DNA samples from as many as 132 family members of the passengers of the ill-fated flight have been taken to verify identities.

According to the region’s national search and rescue agency Basarnas, the aircraft disappeared from radar just 13 minutes after takeoff. The cause of the crash is yet to be ascertained.

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Sabarimala: Ban on women fails four key tests of constitutional morality

Excluding menstruating women from the shrine also violates Article 17 — the Constitutional provision prohibiting untouchability

Nearly a century ago, the princely state of Travancore was convulsing with the question of entry of lower castes into the temple at Vaikom. As holy a sage as Sree Narayana Guru, the saint of the Ezhavas, had been  |BS| prevented from using the roads around the Vaikom Shiva temple. Upon the request of some citizens of Travancore, Mahatma Gandhi had sent Congress workers, including EV Ramaswami Naicker (Periyar), to help in the Satyagraha, demanding equal entry to the temple.

The Maharaja of Travancore at the time was Shri Chitra Thirunal – then 12 years old. His step-mother and regent, Sethu Lakshmi Bayi opposed equal temple entry. President K R Narayanan was to later recount, “During the Vaikom Sathyagraha, Mahatma Gandhi visited Kerala. At that time, Sree Chithira Thirunal was a young man, and had not ascended the throne. Gandhiji asked, ‘When you attain majority and when you assume full authority, will you allow Harijans to enter the temple?’ The twelve-year-old Maharajah said without hesitation: ‘Certainly’. This was not the result of anybody’s advice. This arose from his own mind; from his own thinking.”| Sabarimala Verdict

In 1936, aided by his Diwan Sir C P Ramaswami Aiyer, the Maharaja opened temples to all Hindus. The neighbouring Maharaja of Cochin, in response, declared all people from Travancore as untouchables, but temple entry for all in Travancore became a fact.

Religion and our Founding Fathers

The father of India’s Constitution, Dr B R Ambedkar himself had engineered a number of ‘Dalit temple entry movements’ in colonial India. “The issue is not entry, but equality,” Ambedkar has famously said. The question of religion was a vexed one in the Constituent Assembly. There was sharp disagreement on whether the right to religion would include a limited right of ‘religious worship’ or a more expansive right of ‘religious practice’.| Business Standard

Tributes pour in for ‘Iron Lady’ Indira Gandhi on 34th death anniversary

Congress President Rahul Gandhi also took to the micro-blogging site to remember his grandmother

BS | Top political leaders on Wednesday paid homage to India’s third prime minister Indira Gandhi to commemorate her 34th death anniversary.

“Tributes to our former Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi on her death anniversary,” tweeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Congress President Rahul Gandhi also took to the micro-blogging site to remember his grandmother “with a deep sense of happiness.”

“Remembering Dadi today with a deep sense of happiness. She taught me so much and gave me unending love. She gave so much of herself to her people. I am very proud of her,” his tweet read.|Latest News

The Congress President, along with his mother and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh, also paid floral tributes to the ‘Iron Lady’ at her memorial Shakti Sthal.

Indira Gandhi, who was hailed as one of the tallest world leaders, was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards at her residence located in Akbar Road on October 31, 1984. This came after Operation Bluestar was executed at Amritsar’s Golden Temple, wherein Gandhi ordered the Indian Army to confront Sikh separatists who had taken shelter at the holy shrine.

Born on November 19, 1917, to India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru, she served as prime minister for three terms lasting almost 16 years.

Gandhi, who is the second longest serving Prime Minister, was well known for path-breaking economic and social reforms, including nationalisation of banks, copper, refining, cotton textiles and even insurance industries. She also abolished privy purses of the erstwhile princely states.

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Rupee falls 38 paise to 74.06 over strengthening US dollar, RBI-govt rift

A stable crude oil prices, however, restricted the rupee fall to some extent, forex traders said

Share Market News: The rupee dropped by 40 paise to 74.08 against the US dollar in early trade Wednesday, amid increased demand of the American currencies from importers and sustained foreign fund outflows. Forex traders said, the US dollar’s strength against some currencies overseas and concerns around the rift between the government and the RBI also weighed on the local unit.

At the interbank foreign exchange, after opening lower at 73.91, rupee weakened further to quote at 74.08 against the dollar registering a fall of 40 paise over its pervious close. The rupee Tuesday depreciated by 23 paise to close at 73.68 against the US dollar.

A stable crude oil prices, however, restricted the rupee fall to some extent, forex traders said. Globally, Brent crude, the international benchmark, was trading 0.62 per cent up at $76.38 per barrel.   

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Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of India has said that it will inject Rs 400 billion into the system in November by buying government bonds through open market operations (OMO) for maintaining liquidity in the market. On a net basis, foreign investors pulled out Rs 15.92 billion from equity markets Tuesday, as per provisional data.

Meanwhile, the benchmark BSE Sensex opened on a higher note up 158.99 points but soon pared the gains and was trading at 33,876.69, down 14.44 points or 0.04 per cent at 0948 hrs.

Ten years of Bitcoin: How it started and what the future might hold

With Bitcoin, we have seen extraordinary hype, with astronomical price booms and busts, and thousands of spin-off cryptocurrencies and private blockchains that are all just variations of the original

A mysterious, anonymous entity known as “Satoshi Nakamoto” posted a white paper on October 31 2008 entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. It was the first time that the concept of Bitcoin entered the world.|BS| But outside of the cypherpunk mailing lists – those promoting the use of privacy-enhancing technology – this event was hardly noticed. Ten years on, who hasn’t at least heard of the cryptocurrency?

On just nine pages, the white paper explained how the Bitcoin system would work. Many attempts at electronic cash had already been made going right back to computer scientist David Chaum’s “Digicash” developed in the 1980s. Using an intricate dance of cryptography, Digicash enabled people to pay each other online anonymously, yet prevented users from sending the same money to two different people at the same time (the so-called “double spending problem”).Read More..

Nakamoto’s vision

Business Standard|Previous attempts came close to creating secure digital cash, but there was always one major problem they encountered: the need for a trusted third party like a bank to maintain the system in some way. Nakamoto’s white paper solved this problem by distributing the process of maintaining a totally transparent public ledger (known as the blockchain) among a network of competing “miners”.

Statue of Unity: How environment, Adivasi rights lost again to Patel’s name

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is often thought of as the inspiration for the Sardar Sarovar dam which faced a lot of environmental and humanitarian protests

Latest News | India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate the world’s largest statue, the Statue of Unity in Gujarat. At 182m tall (240m including the base), it is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, and depicts India’s first deputy Prime Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

The statue overlooks the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada River. Patel is often thought of as the inspiration for the dam, which came to international attention when the World Bank withdraw its support from the project in 1993 after a decade of environmental and humanitarian protests. It wasn’t until 2013 that the World Bank funded another large dam project..|BS

Like the dam, the statue has been condemned for its lack of environmental oversight, and its displacement of local Adivasi or indigenous people. The land on which the statue was built is an Adivasi sacred site that was taken forcibly from them.

The Statue of Unity is part of a broader push by Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to promote Patel as a symbol of Indian nationalism and free-market development. The statue’s website praises him for bringing the princely states into the Union of India and for being an early advocate of Indian free enterprise. 

The BJP’s promotion of Patel also serves to overshadow the legacy of his boss, India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru’s descendants head India’s most influential opposition party, the Indian National Congress.

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PKL 2018: Telegu Titans hope to end losing streak, take on Patna Pirates

In the 39th match of PKL 2018, Puneri Paltan will face Gujarat Fortunegiants, while in the 40th match, Patna Pirates will face Telugu Titans

Sports|In the 39th match of VIVO ProKabaddi League 2018, Puneri Paltan will take on Gujarat Fortunegiants at Patliputra Sports Complex, Patna. On the other hand, in the 40th match, Patna Pirates will face Telugu Titans at the same venue. While Patna is placed on the top of the VIVO ProKabaddi League 2018 Points table.

PKL 2018, Match 39: Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat Fortunegiants

While Puneri Paltan is placed on the top of the points table in Zone A with 32 points, Gujarat Fortunegiants are at the second-last spot with just 14 points. Gujarat are in desp[erare need of a win here to keep their spirits going. Puneri Paltan will be playing their first match after a six-day break. Puneri Paltan will look to break their losing streak when they take on Gujarat Fortunegiants.

Head-to-head: Puneri Paltan 0-4 Gujarat Fortunegiants

Today’s first match of Puneri Paltan vs Gujarat Fortunegiants will take place at Patliputra Sports Complex in Pune on Tuesday, October 30, 2018, at 8:00 PM (IST). The match will be broadcast on Star Sports 2, Star Sports 2 HD in English.|BS|Girish Maruti Ernak, Akshay Jadhav, Deepak Kumar Dahiya, More GB, Nitin Tomar, Parvesh, Rajesh Mondal, Bajrang,Ravi Kumar, Vikash Khatri, Vinod Kumar, Rinku Narwal, Amit Kumar, Monu, Sandeep Narwal, Sanjay Shrestha, Takamitsu Kono

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The statue of unity: Can it become the new magnet of tourism for India?

History shows that once-in-a-lifetime structures like the Statue of Unity create opportunities around them, especially in tourism, that create a positive return on investment in just a few decades

Current Affair| The Statue of Unity will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow. Located facing the Narmada Dam, 3.2 kilometres away on the river island called Sadhu Bet near Rajpipla in Gujarat, the monument along with its surroundings occupies over 20,000 square metres, and is surrounded by a 12-sq-km artificial lake.|BS|It is the world’s tallest statue with a height of 182 metres (597 feet). The Statue of Unity is almost 100 feet taller than China’s Spring Temple Buddha, the world’s current tallest statue at 502 feet. The Sardar Patel statue will be almost twice as high as the Statue of Liberty in New York, which is 305 feet tall. The Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, checking in at a mere 170 feet height, is almost tiny when compared to the new wonder in Gujarat.

The Statue of Unity surely deserves a place in the history of the world. It joins an impressive list of manmade structures that have earned the admiration of the world through generations. The Tower of Jericho came up on the West Bank in about 8000 BC. It was 28 feet high, but was at that time the tallest structure made by man in the world. Mankind progressed significantly over the next 5,000 years. The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt that was constructed in 2560 BC was 481 feet tall. 

 In the modern era, the distinction for heights obviously belongs to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, currently the tallest building in the world, at 2,722 feet high. By comparison, the Washington Monument in Washington DC is 555 feet high; the Eiffel Tower in Paris is 986 feet high; the Empire State Building in New York is 1,250 feet high. Not all the comparisons are apple-to-apple but the Statue of Unity is surely a marvel of Modern India and puts India on the tourism map of the world. 

The massive Statue of Sardar Patel has cost somewhere in the vicinity of Rs 30 billion. There has been much debate about whether the money spent in celebrating and commemorating the memory of India’s Iron Man (Business Standard) could have been better spent on other projects more directly beneficial to the common man. But history shows that once-in-a-lifetime structures such as the Statue of Unity create opportunities around them especially in terms of tourism, that create a positive return on investment in just a few decades.

Statue of Unity: Villagers write open letter to protest PM

The headmen of 22 villages situated near the Sardar Sarovar Dam Monday wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that villagers would not welcome him at the inauguration of the Statue of Unity on October 31.

 Latest News| Local tribal leaders have also announced a boycott of the function citing destruction of natural resources due to the memorial. The Statue of Unity, a memorial to Sardar Patel, is situated on an islet here and, at 182 metres, is touted as the world’s tallest statue.

“These forests, rivers, waterfalls, land and agriculture supported us for generations. We survived on them. But, everything is being (Business Standard) destroyed now and celebrations are also planned. Don’t you think its akin to celebrating someone’s death?  We feel so,” the letter, having common content and signed by sarpanchas of 22 villages, stated.

“We all villagers want to tell you with extreme grief that we will not welcome you on October 31. Even if you come  |BS| here like an unwanted guest, you are not welcome here,” it added. They alleged that people’s hard-earned money is being wasted on projects like Statue of Unity though several villages of the area are still deprived of basic facilities like schools, hospitals and drinking water.

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UIDAI allows banks to use Aadhaar eKYC to authenticate DBT users

The UIDAI wrote to banks after it received legal opinion on the matter, in the wake of a recent Supreme Court verdict

The UIDAI has clarified to banks that Aadhaar eKYC can be used to authenticate beneficiaries of government subsidies and welfare schemes while for other customers physical Aadhaar card can be used for verification, a source said.

The Aadhaar-issuing authority Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) wrote to the banks last week clarifying the instances and modes in which Aadhaar can be used, and a copy of the same  BS)was also sent to the Reserve Bank of India, a senior UIDAI official told PTI. The UIDAI wrote to banks after it received legal opinion on the matter, in the wake of a recent Supreme Court verdict that restricted the use of Aadhaar by private entities but cleared it for welfare schemes.

The UIDAI informed the banks that they can use Aadhaar authentication for beneficiaries of government subsidies and welfare schemes, and listed various ‘options’ for the use of  (Business Standard) Aadhaar (such as Quick Response or QR code and offline Aadhaar) for other banking customers in the light of Supreme Court judgement in the Aadhaar case, said the official who did not wish to be named. Physical Aadhaar card can be used for verification in an offline mode if produced voluntarily, it clarified.

When contacted UIDAI CEO, Ajay Bhushan Pandey told PTI, “There are viable and completely paperless and digital options (Aadhar eKYC) available through digitally signed electronic form of Aadhaar which allows identity to be verified online without pinging our server. And through such methods the services can be seamlessly and digitally offered by banks for non-DBT customers”. He also confirmed that UIDAI’s views have been sent to banks but did not elaborate on details.

Indonesia’s Lion Air plane crashes near Jakarta, 188 on board feared dead

The aircraft was reported to be a Boeing 737 MAX 8, a model only in use since 2016

A Lion Air flight with 188 people on board crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia’s capital on Monday. Indonesia’s disaster agency posted photos online of a crushed smartphone, books, bags and parts of the aircraft fuselage that had been collected by search and rescue vessels that have converged on the area.

Spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the aircraft, on a 1 hour and 10 minute flight to Pangkal Pinang on an island chain off Sumatra, was carrying 181 passengers, including one child and two babies, and seven crew members. Indonesian TV broadcast pictures of a fuel slick and debris field. The National Search and Rescue Agency said the flight ended in waters off West Java that are 30 to 35 meters (98 to 115 feet) deep.|Lion Air

The agency’s chief Muhammad Syaugi told a news conference that divers are trying to locate the wreckage.The Boeing 737-800 plane departed Jakarta, about 6.20 a.m. for Pangkal Pinang. Data for Flight 610 on aircraft tracking website FlightAware ends just a few minutes following takeoff.

Indonesian TV showed dozens of people waiting anxiously outside the Pangkal Pinang airport and officials bringing out plastic chairs.The crash is the worst airline disaster in Indonesia since an AirAsia flight plunged into the sea in December 2014, killing all 162 on board.  A report to the Jakarta Search and Rescue Office cited the crew of a tug boat which had reported seeing a Lion Air flight falling from the sky.

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Asian Hockey Championship 2018: India and Pakistan declared joint winners

The Final of the Hero Asian Champions Trophy 2018 between India and Pakistan has been forfeited due to bad weather conditions

SPORTS| The Final of Asian Men’s Hockey Champions Trophy 2018, Manpreet Singh’s India and Pakistan are declared joint winners as the match was called-off due to bad weather at Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat today. The rain pour in heavily 10 minutes before the scheduled start of play. Now India and Pakistan have won the Asian men’s hockey Champions Trophy thrice each. India had clinched the title in the inaugural edition in 2011 as well as in 2016, whereas Pakistan won the 2012 and 2013 editions. Earlier, in the round-robin stage, India defeated Pakistan 3-1 after going one goal down in the first minute of the match. In the 2018 Asian Hockey Championship, India scored 28 goals while Pakistan able to beat the opponent’s goalkeeper 18 times.

How India won the 2016 Asian Champions Trophy

The last edition of the tournament saw India remain undefeated as they defeated Japan 10-2, drew 1-1 with South Korea, beat Pakistan 3-2, China 9-0 and Malaysia 2-1 in the pool stages. In the semi-finals, India had beaten South Korea 5-4 in penalty shootout while in final India defeated Pakistan 3-2 at Kuantan, Malaysia

Asian Hockey Champions Trophy: India edge Japan 3-2 to seal final berth

India secured their passage to the final of the men’s Asian Champions Trophy 2018after they defeated Japan 3-2 in their semi-final fixture at the Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex on Saturday.

The world number five team faced tough competition from the Japanese team, but held their nerve to score three goals via Gurjant Singh (19′), Chinglensana Singh Kangujam (44′) and Dilpreet Singh (55′); while Hirotaka Wakuri (22′) and Hirotaka Zendana (56′) scored for Japan in the fierce encounter.

The defending champions started the match on the front-foot, creating a number of opportunities inside the first 10 minutes, although, failing to convert them to a score. World number 16 Japan played well to deny the Indians and ended the first quarter with scores tied at 0-0.

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Is Virat Kohli the greatest batsman India has ever seen? 47% agree: BS Poll

Virat Kohli broke icon Sachin Tendulkar’s record, becoming the fastest player to reach 10,000 ODI runs

SPORTS |Virat Kohli on Wednesday became the fastest batsman to reach 10,000 runs in one-day internationals (ODI). He reached the milestone while playing against the West Indies in Visakhapatnam.

With this, Kohli surpassed fellow Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar, who earlier reached the milestone in 259 innings in 2001, becoming the fifth Indian to reach the 10,000-mark in ODIs.

Business Standard yesterday conducted a poll asking users across Twitter, Facebook and its website whether Virat Kohli’s 10,000 runs in ODIs make him the best batsman India has ever seen.|  India Vs West Indies 

Here are the results of the 24-hour poll:

The YES club: Of over 1,200 votes received across all platforms, around 580 or 47 per cent were of the view that Virat Kohli’s 10,000 runs in ODIs make him the best batsman in India. The NO club: As opposed to previous votes, around 528 or 43 per cent people were of the view that despite Kohli’s 10,000 runs, he is not the best Indian batsman.

Can’t say: Around 10 per cent said that they weren’t sure whether Kohli is the best batsman India has ever had. Individual result recorded at Business Standard website, Twitter anf Facebook.

The table above shows that while poll-takers on Twitter and Facebook consider Virat Kohli as the best batsman India has ever seen, poll-takers on the BS website seem to disagree by a large margin.

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ISL 2018-19: NorthEast United FC look for win at home against Jamshedpur FC

NorthEast United FC and Jamshedpur FC have faced each other twice with Jamshedpur winning one match and the other one ending in a draw

 ISL 2018 – 19| NorthEast United FC would look to continue their resurgence under head coach Eelco Schattorie when they host Jamshedpur FC in an Indian Super League clash in Guwahati on Thursday.

Schattorie’s men did well to hold FC Goa 2-2 in their opening match at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium here before notching up an impressive solitary goal win over 10-man ATK in Kolkata. They then made heads turn with their sensational comeback to defeat defending champions Chennaiyin FC 4-3 in their own den.(SPORTS)

Jamshedpur’s start to the season was steady with a 2-0 away victory against Mumbai City followed by draws against Bengaluru FC and ATK. Under Cesar Ferrando, the Spanish revolution is well and truly underway at Jamshedpur with Mario Arques being the standout addition so far. What Ferrando will want on Thursday is for marquee signing Tim Cahill to get off the mark.

SQUAD: Nigerian forward Bartholomew Ogbeche will be the biggest threat to Jamshedpur, having scored four goals already, including a stunning hat-trick against Chennaiyin.

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Muzaffarpur shelter home rapes: SC calls case details ‘horrible’, ‘scary’

 Latest News|The Supreme Court on Thursday termed as “horrible” and “scary” details placed before it about the investigation into the case of Muzzafarpur shelter home where several girls were allegedly raped and sexually abused.

A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur perused the status report filed by the CBI and said “what is this going on? This is horrible”.| Business Standard 

The apex court also took note of allegations referred by the CBI against shelter home owner Brajesh Thakur and issued notice to him to explain why he should not be transferred to a jail outside the state.| BS

The CBI in its report had alleged that Thakur is an influential person and a mobile phone was recovered from him inside the jail where he is currently lodged under judicial custody. The bench also comprising Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta noted that Thakur is an influential person.

Google makes it easier to review, delete search data: Here is how to use it

The feature is currently available for desktop and web platforms; it will be available in the Google app for iOS and Android in coming weeks, and in Google Maps from next year

Technology | Search engine and technology giant Google has now made it easier for users to review and delete their search history. The company has rolled out an update for its Google Search platform that enables a new ‘Your data in Search’ option where a user can review and delete recent Search activity, get quick access to the most relevant privacy controls in Google Account, and learn more about how Search works with data. The update is currently available for desktop and web platforms; it will be available in the Google app for iOS and Android in the coming weeks, and in Google Maps from next year.

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Google collects several data when you make a search using Google Search platform. This data includes the terms you search for, links you interact with and other information like your current location when you search. Until now, the information related to search history was available under Google Account. To review and delete search history and other data, users had to visit their Google account, but now it has been integrated within the search itself, making it easier to review and delete search history data.

Google is also providing quick access to the privacy controls in Google Account that are most relevant. For example, to control the ads you see when you search, the company now gives access to manage Ad settings. Additionally, you can also access your Activity Controls to decide what information Google saves to your account and uses to optimise its products.

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“We’re always working on making it easier for you to understand and control your data so you can make privacy choices that are right for you. Earlier this year, we launched a new Google Account experience that puts your privacy and security front and centre, and we updated our Privacy Policy with videos and clearer language to better describe the information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can control it. Today, we’re making it easier for you to make decisions about your data directly within the Google products you use every day, starting with Search,” said Google in a statement.

India vs West Indies 2nd ODI LIVE: Ind vs WI last ball thriller ends in tie

India scored 321/6 in their 50 overs and in its reply, West Indies too scored 321 runs

SPORTS | Virat Kohli’s 157 runs, Ambati Rayudu’s 73 runs for India, Shai Hope’s 123 runs and Hetmyer’s 94 runs for West Indies — all fell short to get their respetive teams a victory in the second ODI match between the two teams.

India scored 321/6 in their 50 overs and in its reply, West Indies too scored 321 runs, losing seven wickets. It was a last ball thriller as West Indies needed 5 runs in just one ball, Umesh Yadav bowled the ball and Hope smashed it for a boundary, with that, it was all over, it all ended in a tie.

Virat Kohli’s day, filled with milestones was marred by West Indies’ resilient performance today, especially with the bat as the latter managed to tie the match with India in a last-ball nail-biter, India Vs West Indies | 

After today’s tie, India still lead the 5 match series 1-0. It looked just another India vs West Indies match during the first innings and even during the initial overs of the West Indies batting but Shai Hope and Hetmyer’s combined efforts denied India another victory.

It was a double delight for India captain Virat Kohli who completed 10000 runs in ODI format taking just 205 innings to do so and then hitting his 37th ODI century. Kohli was also adjudged man of the match for his prolific performance with the bat, scoring 157 runs including 13 fours and 3 sixes.

Virat Kohli also became the fastest player to score 10,000 runs in ODIs, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar’s record. However, Windies marred Kohli’s milestone day as Shae Hope scored 123 runs not out and nearly took the match away from India but the last over confusions proved costly to the team.

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Train 18, India’s first engine-less train, set to hit tracks on Oct 29

The swanky 16-coach prototype without a locomotive (engine) will cut travel time by 15 per cent compared to the Shatabdi

Train 18, the country’s first engine-less train which is being regarded as a successor to the 30-year-old Shatabdi Express, is set to hit the tracks for trials on October 29. Driven by a self-propulsion module sans a separate locomotive, the train, capable of running at a speed of up to 160 kmph, comes with technical features for enhanced quick acceleration.

The swanky 16-coach prototype without a locomotive (engine) will cut travel time by 15 per cent compared to the Shatabdi. Developed by the city-based Integral Coach Factory in 18 months, the full AC train is designed in such a way that passengers can have a look at the driver’s cabin.

ICF General Manager Sudhanshu Mani told PTI that it cost nearly Rs 1 billion to build the prototype and subsequent production would bring down the cost. “It will be unveiled on October 29, then it will do three to four days of trial outside the factory and then will be handed over to Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) for further trials,” he said.

The self-propelled train, fitted with CCTV cameras, would have two executive compartments in the middle with 52 seats each, whereas trailer coaches would have 78 seats each. It has a potential to travel up to the speed at 160 kmph as against 130 kmph of Shatabdi and would result in the travel time being reduced by around 15 per cent once the tracks are fit to suit Train 18’s speed.| Read More