News Headlines -Saturday 7th July 2018

1. Scrap all transactions of Navi Mumbai land, Nirupam to Maha CM
2. Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam  today demanded that all transactions related to the Navi  Mumbai land in the midst of an alleged scam be scrapped and  not just stayed as ordered by Maharashtra Chief Minister  Devendra Fadnavis.
3. Humboldt penguin lays egg at Mumbai zoo
4. Two years after seven Humboldt  penguins made the Byculla Zoo here their home, a  four-and-a-half-year old female among them has laid an egg.
5. BrahMos test-firing aimed at life extension planned this month
6. A test-firing of supersonic cruise missile BrahMos, aimed at increasing its life, has been planned this month, a senior defence ministry official said today.
7. At JD(U) meet tomorrow, Nitish likely to spell out party's stand on multiple issues
8. Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar is likely to articulate his party's position on a host of issues, including the upcoming assembly and Lok Sabha polls, at its national executive meeting here tomorrow amid a strain in its ties with the BJP.
9. Foreign currency notes worth Rs 37 lakh seized
10. Foreign currency notes  worth Rs 37 lakh were today seized at the airport here and  three persons detained in this connection, officials said.
11. SIB offers Rs 1 Cr for 4th edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale
12. Kerala-basedprivate sector lender  South Indian Bank has offered Rs 1 crore for the fourth  edition of art event Kochi-Muziris Biennale, starting in  December this year, organisers said here.
13. Two die of drug overdose in Amritsar
14. Two people died of drug overdose in Amritsar district here today, police said.
15. HP govt bans use of thermocol cutlery
16. The Himachal Pradesh government
17. Stop promoting elephant safaris: NGO to govt
18. An animal protection body has asked the government to stop promoting elephant safaris, asserting that the jumbos being used in the rides need to be retired in a suitable rehabilitation facility.
19. Indian lifter bags bronze medal in junior world championships
20. Indian lifter Jhilli Dalabehera bagged the bronze medal in the 2018 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships at Tashkent today.
21. 14-year-old lad impresses with facile win in 1st race
22. Fourteen-year-old Chennai lad  Mohammed Mukail impressed with a facile win in the first race  of the CBR 150R class in the IDEMITSU Honda India Talent Cup  in the Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the  MMRT track at Sriperumbudur, near here.
23. Singareni Q1 coal revenues up by 17 pc to Rs 5,567 Cr
24. : State-owned Singareni Collieries  Company Limited today said it registered 17 per cent growth in  coal revenues to Rs 5,567 crore during the first quarter of  the current fiscal.
25. Ajay Kumar Tripathi sworn in as chief justice of Chhattisgarh
26. Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi today  took oath as the new Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High  Court.
27. Unnao rape case: CBI files charge sheet against 5 accused, including BJP MLA Sengar's brother
28. The CBI filed its first charge sheet today against the brother of Unnao BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and four others in connection with the killing of a person, whose daughter was allegedly raped by the lawmaker, in prison, officials said.
29. Syndicate Bank hikes lending rate by 0.1 pc
30. State-run Syndicate Bank today increased its marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) by 0.1 per cent for various tenors of loans.
31. 2010 Mirchpur violence: Khattar lays foundation stone of project to rehabilitate displaced families
32. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today said cooperation and unity among people was important to promote social harmony and growth.
33. 1 dead, over 100 rescued from Chinchoti waterfall near Mumbai
34. A picnicker today died and a  rescue operation was on for 12 others stranded at Chinchoti  waterfall in Vasai in neighbouring Palghar district, police  said.
35. Karna Dty CM writes to Cong ministers asking them to be
36. Taken to task by Speaker  K R Ramesh Kumar over ministers being absent during the  crucial discussion on state budget, deputy chief minister  G Parameshwara today wrote to Congress ministers in the  coalition government asking them to be present in the House.
37. Learn etiquettes: Khattar tells journalist
38. Seva Dal gets makeover
39. Salman, 5 kin get forest dept notice for 'illegal' construction at farmhouse
40. The Maharashtra forest department has served a notice to Salman Khan and five other members of his family for what it claimed were illegal construction at the Bollywood star's farmhouse at Panvel.
41. 2 die in wall collapse; more rains predicted
42. Two persons died in a wall  collapse at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district as heavy rains  continued to lash the district and neighbouring places for the  second day today, police said.
43. BJP, Cong stay away from law panel consultations on simultaneous polls
44. The ruling BJP and the main opposition Congress today stayed away from day one of consultations by the Law Commission on feasibility of holding Lok Sabha and assembly polls together even as regional parties expressed apprehensions that simultaneous elections would allow national players and issues to  dominate the polls and put smaller parties at a disadvantage.
45. No black cloth allowed at PM's rally
46. People wearing black or carrying any black cloth on them were kept out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally here today.
47. Telangana to plant 100 crore saplings from next year
48. Telangana Chief Minister  K Chandrasekhar Rao today instructed officials concerned to  take measures to plant 100 crore saplings from next year.
49. Punjab CM dismisses Badal's call for united fight against drug abuse
50. Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today dismissed SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal's call to de-politicise the fight against drug abuse in the state as a "political gimmick", even as the government machinery continued to figure out its appropriate response to the curb the menace.
51. 4 held for poaching tiger in Assam forest
52. Four poachers were arrested  today for allegedly killing a tiger in the Rajiv Gandhi Orang  National Park in Udalguri district of Assam, forest officials  said.
53. Tribal woman, lover paraded naked in Rajasthan, 9 arrested
54. Nine people have been arrested for parading a tribal woman and her lover naked in Rajasthan's Udaipur district, the police said today.
55. NEET, JEE to be conducted online, twice a year
56. The engineering and medical entrance exams  JEE and NEET  would now be conduced online and twice a year by the newly formed National Testing Agency (NTA), HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said today.
57. Providing infrastructure for courts is top priority: Fadnavis
58. Providing  infrastructure to judiciary is the state government's top  priority, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today  said.
59. Soldier injured in Pak sniper firing along LoC in JK
60. An Army jawan was injured when he was reportedly hit by a Pakistani sniper firing from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir today, officials said.
61. Online friend cheats Meghalaya woman of Rs 2.5 lakh
62. A woman has lodged an  FIR saying she was cheated over Rs 2.5 lakh by one person whom  she had met on social media, the police here said today.
63. Temperatures stay close to normal limits in Pb, Hry
64. Maximum temperatures were recorded close to normal levels at most places in Punjab and
65. Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district declared ODF
66. Seraikela-Kharswan district of  Jharkhand has been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), a top  official today said.
67. Malankara case: NCW records woman's statement
68. The National Commission  for Women today recorded the statement of a married woman  whose husband had recently accused five priests of the  Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of using his wife's secret  confession to blackmail and sexually abuse her.
69. Veteran journalist J N Sadhu passes away
70. Veteran journalist J N Sadhu passed away here this evening after prolonged illness.
71. Rise in crime against women: BJP MP blames Internet, smart
72. Young people getting easy access  to obscene content through the Internet and smart phones is  leading to the rise in crime against women, a BJP MP from  Madhya Pradesh has said.
73. Grand alliance of oppn parties imaginary: BJP
74. The "grand alliance" being proposed by opposition parties to oust the BJP from power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is "imaginary" as there is nobody to lead it, BJP national spokesperson Nalin Kohli said today.
75. Vietnam expecting 1,70,000 visitors from India
76. Ambassador of Vietnam Ton Sinh  Thanh today said the number of Indian tourists to his country  has increased "very fast" and it is expecting 1,70,000  visitors this year.
77. Statups from Ker, Delhi win Global Impact challenge
78. Kerala-based startup  Ajna and Brun Health from Delhi won the Global Impact  Challenge (GIC), jointly organised by the Kerala Startup  Mission (KSUM) and US-based Singularity university, atthe  "grand finale" here today.
79. Pro-Pak, pro-China BNP should not be allowed to operate in India
80. A close aide of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today described the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as "pro-Pakistan and pro-China" and urged India not to allow it to operate in the country.
81. MP Pappu Yadav threatens to disrupt LS proceedings in support
82. Lok Sabha MP Rajesh Ranjan alias  Pappu Yadav's Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) today observed bandh in  the state in support of demand to accord special category  status to Bihar.
83. UPCC announces 14-member media team