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1. Eastern India’s first start-up accelerator takes shape
2. Eclat Health plans to raise $50 m this year
3. Economic Conditions Could 'Soon Warrant' Rate Hike: Fed
4. Edible oils industry body SEA has launched a pilot project in Gujarat to help farmers increase the productivity of castorseeds to 2,000 kg per hectare from the current average yield of 1,200-1,400 kg a hectare.
5. E-distribution platform Just Buy Live has partnered with over 2,500 Indian and international brands to become the largest distributor in business to business (B2B) space.
6. Editor In Chief
7. Eight Seriously Injured In France Train Crash
8. Elaine Thompson captured a magnificent Olympic sprint double for Jamaica as Brianna Rollins led a first ever clean sweep of medals for the United States in the 100m hurdles.
9. Elaine Thompson maintained Jamaica's incredible stranglehold on Olympic spr
10. Electronic Focal Point Branch account will be used by the government to receive non-tax revenue payments
11. Eleven of the greatest scientific hoaxes
12. Ellen DeGeneres criticised over ‘racist’ Usain Bolt tweet
13. Embattled real estate firm Unitech Ltd. was on Wednesday directed by the Supreme Court to deposit Rs. 15 crore principal amount by September-end to pay back investors who had bought flats in its Guru...
14. Embattled UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks has announced his intent to resign after enduring months of escalating criticism surrounding his handling of a variety of issues facing one of the nation's most prestigious public schools.
15. Eminent space scientist G Madhavan Nair has said India must take steps to undertake human space flight mission without delay, stating such a venture would give a new "life and vigour" to entire research activities in ISRO.
16. Employers who promote ethics should reward workers who exhibit them, study finds
17. Encouraged by the positive response that Congress president Sonia Gandhi got in Varanasi during her recent road show there, the Congress announced on Wednesday two more yatras to cover the poll-bound...
18. Encroachment of Lakes and Riverbeds Caused Chennai Floods: Parliamentary Panel
19. Energy Future Pushes Its Bankruptcy Exit Plan in Trial
20. Engineers have introduced a new way of communicating that allows power-constrained devices such as brain implants, contact lenses, credit cards and smaller wearable electronics to talk to everyday devices such as smartphones and watches.
21. English Premier League's reigning champions Leicester City have confirmed the signing of a new four-year contract with star winger Riyad Mahrez.
22. English singer Robbie Williams was reportedly given 1.6 million pounds to perform at Russian oil magnate Rashid Sardarov's daughter's wedding at Prague Castle.
23. Enhancement of Pension for Freedom Fighters under the SwatantrataSainikSamman Pension Scheme
24. Enhancing the Power of Teamwork
25. Environment and health discussion on “What You Don’t See is Worse Than What You See!”; keynote speaker: J.K. Dadoo, IAS, Additional Secretary, Govt. of India; Panelists: Ms Lesley...
26. Environment Minister Dedicates Facilities to People under Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana in Madhya Pradesh
27. EPFO members can fix pension without employers' attestation
28. EPFO members can fix pension without employers' attestation
29. Etsuro Honda said the central bank’s September policy review would support further stimulus to defeat deflation.
30. EU Official Calls Kremlin's Claims of Ukrainian Attacks in Crimea 'Unreliable'
31. Eurasia's Integration: North-South Corridor May Soon Replace Suez Canal
32. European Olympic official arrested over illegal Rio tickets sales
33. Everlight Electronics Co (億光) — the nation’s leading LED chip packager and lighting products supplier — yesterday said it has filed an invalidity complaint with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan over two white LED patents from Nichia Corp. 
34. Ever since freestyle wrestler Sakshi Malik gave India its first medal at Rio Olympics, the nation has been drenched in patriotic pride and the Twitter is flooding with regards and wishes.Among several others, the B-town celebrities also took the ...
35. Everyone who knows Simone Biles knows that she loves Zac Efron, so it was a huge deal when the actor flew to Rio to surprise her at the Olympics.
36. Evidence is mounting that a mysterious hacking group claiming to have stolen data from a spying operation linked to the National Security Agency is telling the truth.
37. Excessive public interest led to breakup with Pattinson: Kristen Stewart
38. Exercise Bold Alligator 2016 kicked off in Norfolk, Virginia. Pacific Partnership 2016 concluded its mission stop in Palau. Navy Week is going to Boise, Idaho.
39. Existing cross-strait pacts to continue: Chinese official
40. Explanation found for Alzheimer's risk gene gets
41. Explorers find 2nd-oldest confirmed shipwreck in Great Lakes
42. Exploring a new track
43. Exploring everything from the radars and camera to the Mario Kart easter egg, our roadtrip shows Tesla’s autopilot works well—but it's no self-driving wunderkind.
44. Expressing deep regret at the failure of Indian and Pakistani authorities to grant the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) access to Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan-administered Kashmir respectively, the UN rights chief today voiced concern about recent allegations of serious violations and reiterated a request for access to the region.
45. Expressing its "vulnerability", Maldives has sought India's assistance in key area of counter- terrorism and the chief of its National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) will travel to India from August 29 to discuss the specific requirements in this ...
46. Ex-TERI chief R K Pachauri allowed to travel abroad again
47. External Affairs Spokesperson Vikas Swaroop. File photo
48. Facebook's Grand Plan to Connect Every Corner of the World Takes Flight
49. Fact Checker: 4 Pinocchios for Trump’s claim that Clinton lacks stamina to be president
50. Family of Pakistani origin sues NY school over forced 'terrorist' confession
51. Farmer electrocuted, power officials face negligence case
52. Faulty sewage treatment plant: agency sacked
53. Federal Bank, Chillr join hands for cashless transactions
54. Federal Bank, MMTC tie up for distribution of Indian gold coins
55. Federal Bank partners Chillr for cashless transactions
56. Federal Bank today announced its partnership with Chillr, a mobile banking application, to provide cashless transactions.Chillr, India’s first and only multi-bank mobile application, allows users to ...
57. Federal Bank today announced its partnership with with Chillr, a mobile banking application, to provide cashless transactions.
58. Federal Reserve officials believed that near-term economic risks had diminished and conditions could soon warrant a rate hike. According to minutes of their July discussions, Fed officials were encouraged by a strong rebound in job growth in June
59. Federal Reserve officials were divided in July over the urgency to raise interest rates again, with some preferring to wait because inflation remained benign and others wanting to go soon as the labor market nears full employment."Several suggested ...
60. Fed officials split in July on whether rate hike needed soon
61. Fed officials talk up rate hike in 2016
62. Feel the Burn--New World Chilies Traced Back Nearly 17 Million Years
63. Female Wrestler Wins India’s First Medal at Rio Olympics
64. Ferocious wildfires leave devastation in southern California
65. Festival of Raksha Bandhan is being celebrated in different parts of the country today
66. Filipino gives birth to baby girl on plane
67. Filmmaker Neeraj Pandey's upcoming biopic "M.S. Dhoni - The Untold Story", which is set to be dubbed in Marathi, says he is excited with the local language release as the regional language film industry is booming.
68. Finally, the U.S. Men’s Basketball Team Is Playing to Win
69. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley applauded Sakshi for her historic feat.]]
70. Financial incentives aim to keep Cerritos College students in school
71. Financials continue to be the top gainers led by private banks
72. Financials were the top gainers lead by private lenders ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank
73. Financial windfall awaits Oly medallist Sakshi
74. Firms in the nation’s three major science parks reported an annual decline of 4.89 percent in aggregate revenue in the first half this year to NT$1.07 trillion (US$34.02 billion) as weak global economic recovery sapped demand, the Ministry of Science and Technology said yesterday.
75. First ever Olympic refugee athletes immortalized in Rio
76. Five doctors, including the CEO of L H Hiranandani Hospital, were today granted bail by a local court in connection with the alleged kidney transplant racket.
77. Five persons, including the driver, were killed when the car they were travelling in rammed onto a roadside tree on the Western Express Highway here on Thursday, a police official said.
78. Five-time world champion Dan of China edged World No.11 Srikanth 21-6, 11-21, 21-18
79. Five years after President Barack Obama first called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, the last American ambassador to that war-torn country issued a scathing criticism of U.S. policy.
80. Flagging off the "pardafash yatra" from the party office, State BJP president Ajay Bhatt said the effort was "to acquaint people" with the corruption cases against the government.
81. Flight Mode | Inside the NASA-Inspired Room That Guides 5,000 Airplanes
82. Flight of the £25million bum plane! World's largest aircraft finally takes to the skies for a successful maiden voyage 
83. Following a key program review, NASA approved the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) to proceed to the next phase of design and development for the mission's robotic segment. ARM is a two-part mission that will integrate robotic and crewed spacecraft operations in the proving ground of deep space to demonstrate key capabilities needed for NASA's journey to Mars.
84. Food: Indian woman wins US show Chopped
85. food science
86. For anyone who wants a Republican in the White House in 2017, the situation looks bleak.
87. For Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, the demands from China are growing and his bargaining chips are dwindling.
88. Ford Motor Co intends to have a fully driverless vehicle — no steering wheel, no pedals — on the road within five years. The car would initially be used for commercial ride-hailing or ride-sharing services, with sales to consumers coming later.
89. Ford planning to develop fully autonomous vehicle
90. Forecasters said the global average temperature 'was the highest for both the month of July and for any month in the since 1880.'
91. Foreign Office Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said India was referring to Balochistan to cover up its human rights violations in Kashmir
92. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) have emerged net buyers in the Indian stock markets for the year to-date, highlighting India as an attractive investment destination among emerging markets with a fa...
93. Foreign Secretary-level talks: Ball in Pak's court, says India
94. For men with hypogonadism, a condition in which the body does not produce enough testosterone, low sex drive and fatigue are common symptoms. For these men treatment with a 2 percent testosterone solution (T-sol) can be effective therapy. In a six-month open-label study of patients receiving T-sol, researchers noted improvement of low sex drive and low energy symptoms, and did not identify new safety concerns.
95. Former Australian cricketer Brett Lee, who is making his acting debut with
96. Former "Desperate Housewives" actor Jesse Metcalfe is engaged to his actress and fashion blogger girlfriend Cara Santana.
97. Former Domo Inc. manager Jay Biederman sued the tech startup Monday to obtain its financial statements. The lawsuit follows two legal actions that Domo filed against Mr. Biederman in June.
98. Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief General Ahmed Shuja Pasha is presently working as the chief advisor in a gas company.General Pasha, who served as the Director-General of the ISI from October 2008 until March 2012, joined WAK Gas as ...
99. Former ISI chief working as chief advisor in WAK Gas
100. Former Kerala bureaucrat and now BJP leader K.J. Alphons said on Wednesday that his appointment as administrator of the union territory of Chandigarh is "not going to happen".
101. Former Rajya Sabha MP from Rajasthan V.P. Singh Badnore, who has been appointed new Governor of Punjab, is a veteran parliamentarian who was elected to the Lok Sabha twice and was a member of the Raja...
102. Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is helping Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's re-election campaign through private donor outreach, CNN has learned, an effort that comes as the party's down-ballot candidates struggle to navigate a political climate dominated by Donald Trump.
103. Former Union Minister Najma Heptulla was today made Governor of Manipur while ex-Rajya Sabha MP V P Singh Badnore goes to Punjab in new gubernatorial appointments announced for four states with all of them being associated with the BJP.]]
104. For nearly a quarter of a century, this organization has championed a specific way of thinking about tomorrow. If it’s true, as the writer William Gibson once had it, that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed, then our task has been to locate the places where various futures break through to our present and identify which one we hope for.
105. For Raksha Bandhan this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached the children of Odisha in the form of a rakhi.At several kiosks selling rakhi in Berhampur, Modi rakhi is being displayed to attr...
106. For Sale No: 33 of the auction of Coonoor Tea Trade Association to be held on Thursday and Friday, a volume of 11.71 lakh kg has been catalogued. This is as much as 3.73 lakh kg less than last week’s...
107. For sensation-seekers, the color red can elicit rebelliousness, study finds
108. For Sruti Sreejith, a fourth standard student of Saraswathi Vidyanikethan, Chengamanad, Thursday will be a special day.When the world observes Sanskrit Day, the little girl will make her debut as a Sa...
109. For the second time in two months, Donald Trump has installed new leadership in his campaign. But here's a little secret: it ain't the staff. Never is.
110. Fortis Healthcare in focus ahead of SRL demerger plan
111. Fortune International to hold board meeting
112. Founders' other side: Hari Menon loves to sing when out of BigBasket
113. Four Indian companies-Godrej Industries, NHPC Ltd, Sutluj Jal Vidyut Nigam and Bharat Electron have moved out of ranking for being laggard
114. Four masked men opened fire, wounding the officer who died on the way to hospital, provincial police said in a statement.
115. Four persons including two children died on the spot when a lorry fully loaded with gas cylinders hit an autorickshaw near Bangarampeta of Vadapalli after Kovvuru mandal headquarters on Thursday. Thr...
116. Fourteen years after he killed his first wife, a Pakistani man has murdered his second wife by repeatedly stabbing her before slitting her throat with a knife, in the latest case of "honour killing" in the country.
117. Francis appointed the Irish-born Farrell on Wednesday as he formally created the new Dicastery for the Laity, Families and Life, which combines several Vatican offices into one.
118. Frank Wilczek bet Garrett Lisi that the Large Hadron Collider would see evidence of supersymmetry, a theory that goes beyond the standard model of particle physics
119. Frank Wilczek bet Garrett Lisi that the Large Hadron Collider would see evidence of supersymmetry, a theory that goes beyond the standard model of particle physics
120. Frantic sprints towards green traffic lights will soon be a thing of the past: Audi's new dashboard lets cars 'talk' to road signals to work out when they'll turn red 
121. Freak injury costs wrestler Vinesh in quarter final bout
122. Free access for Indians to library of cricket books
123. Free sports physicals reveal high rates of obesity in student athletes
124. Freestyle wrestler Sakshi Malik (23) won India’s first medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games by clinching the bronze in the 58kg category.
125. French seaside resorts one by one are joining the ban on burkinis, swimwear for Muslim women that covers the whole body except the face, feet and hands. French Prime Minister Valls supported the decision.
126. Fresca Juices to raise ₹100 cr to become a national brand
127. Fresh and overarching legislation should be passed to make the central government solely and wholly responsible for running Delhi
128. 'Friends' fame messed with my relationships: David Schwimmer
129. ‘Friends’ fame messed with my relationships: David Schwimmer
130. From Aamir to Amitabh, B-town hails achievement of Olympics medallist Sakshi
131. (From AP) A recent remark by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that America wrote Japan’s constitution is raising some eyebrows in Japan. A popular front-page column in the national Asahi newspaper said this week that the comment “was unprecedented in…
132. (From AP) A recent remark by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that America wrote Japan’s constitution is raising some eyebrows in Japan. U.S. Vice President ...
133. (From AP) Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will not raise long-simmering maritime disputes with China at a meeting of Southeast Asian nations in Laos next month, preferring to talk quietly with Chinese officials. Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image ...
134. (From Asahi Shimbun) One magical item of time-traveling cat Doraemon is the “dokodemo door” (anywhere door), which transports users to destinations beyond time and space. It seems that door is now being used by people from abroad to land at ...
135. From a site in Sweden, the BARREL team is launching a series of miniature scientific balloons to measure X-rays in Earth's atmosphere near the North Pole. These X-rays are produced by electrons raining down into the atmosphere from two giant swaths of radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen belts.
136. (From IANS) Fashion brand Satya Paul has roped in actress and style icon Malaika Arora as the face of their autumn-winter 2016 collection Star Struck. Talking about coming on board for the brand, Malaika said in a statement: “Satya Paul ...
137. From lunar eclipses to icy comets: Amateur photographer takes stunning space images from his garden
138. (From PTI) India’s agonizing wait for an Olympic medal at the Rio Games ended when Sakshi Malik made history by winning bronze in the 58kg freestyle bout beating Kyrgysztan’s Aisuluu Tynybekova. The 23-year-old from Haryana, a silver medallist at the ...
139. (From PTI) Pakistan’s powerful military is not prepared to bring down the civilian government but would maintain its dominating influence amid efforts to find a successor to army chief General Raheel Sharif, prominent US scholars have said. The chances of…
140. (From PTI) Pakistan's powerful military is not prepared to bring down the civilian government but would maintain its dominating influence amid efforts to find a ...
141. From Rohtak to Rio — the story of Sakshi Malik
142. (From RT) Three of the four militants killed by security forces in a St. Petersburg apartment block on Wednesday were terrorist leaders involved in high-profile ...
143. (From RT) Three of the four militants killed by security forces in a St. Petersburg apartment block on Wednesday were terrorist leaders involved in high-profile attacks in Russia’s North Caucasus, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) has said. Four suspects “received…
144. (From The Indian Express) Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”. Aarthi Sampath, now Chef de Cuisine at Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna’s Junoon restaurant in New York, was once a ...
145. From the strictest purist's perspective, no one at the Olympics is there to "compete clean."
146. From yearning to fly in an aeroplane as a kid to clinching a bronze in the Olympics, the biggest sporting stage of all, Haryana wrestler Sakshi Malik has come a long way in her fairy-tale journey to etch her name in the sporting history of the ...
147. FSSAI had banned Maggi in June last year by Bombay High Court citting hazardous and unsafe
148. Fulbright scholarship for AU scholar
149. Funding to VC-backed fintechs rises for 2nd straight quarter
150. Furious cat attacks seven startled pitbulls 
151. GAME PLAN: A flop show of Olympic proportions
152. Gammon India spurts 9 pc after bagging NHAI order
153. Gammon India spurts after new order win
154. Gammon India surged 10.62% to Rs 16.15 at 12:21 IST on BSE after the company won a new order Rs 869.99 crore order from National Highways Authority of India.
155. Gammon India wins Rs 869 crore road project from NHAI
156. Gen Dalbir Singh accuses ex-chief, alleges victimisation
157. General Dalbir Singh said VK Singh issued the showcause notice against him with the sole intention of denying him future promotion as army chief.]]
158. General Dalbir Singh was also briefed about Wednesday morning's terrorist attack in Baramulla that lead to the death of two Army men and a police personnel.
159. Georgitta Valiyamattam, doctoral scholar in psychology at Andhra University, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellowship 2016-17. Georgitta who is currently working under Prof...
160. German football champions Bayern Munich's midfielder Kingsley Coman has suffered an ankle injury.
161. German photographer Nora Bibel is in the city to capture on camera the people, heritage buildings and the way of life in Chala market
162. German striker Mario Gomez will return to the Bundesliga as he is set to join VfL Wolfsburg, the football club has confirmed.
163. Germany is expanding its Space Situational Awareness Center in Uedem, an installation that monitors objects flying through space - and the new threats it says are emerging each day.
164. Germany’s Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst defeated the Brazilian duo of Barbara Seixas and Agatha Bednarczuk in straight sets, spoiling what was supposed to be a joyous coronation on Copacabana Beach
165. Germany's plan to defend Earth against space junk