New Delhi, Jan 31 – State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Monday raised aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices by 4.5 percent, which now stands at Rs.50,958.79 per kilolitre in Delhi. This is the eighth straight ATF rate hike since October 2010, when international oil prices took an upward swing. Crude oil prices, which were $79 a barrel during June, soared to a two-year high of about $90 a barrel last Tuesday, before settling at $88.5 per barrel.
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Ghaziabad, Jan 31 – A local court here Monday sought the presence of Utsav Sharma, who attacked murdered teenager Aarushi’s father Rajesh Talwar outside a court here last week, before it with the magistrate saying he will talk to the youth himself to ascertain his mental status. Hearing Utsav’s lawyer, S.P. Chaudhry’s request to the court to grant Utsav bail and send him to a specialised hospital for a treatment, the chief judicial magistrate said he will decide on the plea only after he personally verifies Utsav’s mental situation by talking to him.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – A day after India strongly condemned the radio tagging of Indian students duped by a fake university in San Francisco, the US Monday vigorously defended the practice, saying it was a ‘standard procedure’ for a variety of investigations and did not imply guilt or suspicion of criminal activity. The US also assured its department of homeland security was probing the closure of Tri-Valley University in San Francisco. Some 1,555 students of the university, 90 percent of them from India, mostly Andhra Pradesh, face the prospect of deportation following the closure of the university in Pleasanton on charges of selling student visas.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – Delhi Police Monday arrested a 21-year-old man on charges of murdering his associate over a financial dispute. Jabbar Singh from Uttar Pradesh has been charged with murdering Ram Avtar (45), whose body was recovered from a junkyard in Okhla in south Delhi Jan 29, a police official said. Avtar had injuries on the forehead and face and appeared to have been hit by some heavy object, said the official.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – Delhi Urban Development Minister A.K. Walia Monday expressed concern over the lack of maintenance of infrastructure built during the recently concluded Commonwealth Games. Peeling paint, loose grilles, potholes on roads, dirty foot over bridges, broken flower pots, debris on roadsides, uneven and shabby landscaping, broken signages, and non-functional traffic lights and street lights are some of the many problems plaguing the city, he said in a statement here.
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Berlin, Jan 31 – Kim Clijsters moved into second place of the women’s tennis rankings with her Australian Open title Saturday while runner-up Li Na reached a career-high number seven in the latest WTA list issued Monday. Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark maintained first place with 8,655 points although Li ended her latest attempt to finally win a Grand Slam in the Melbourne sims. The Belgian Clijsters is in striking distance with 8,515 points as the former number one moved up one place at the expense of Russian Vera Zvonareva, down to third with 7,405 points.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – The capital’s Blueline buses, dubbed ‘killer buses’ because of their reckless drivers, have earned a fresh lease of life. They were to be withdrawn from the roads Monday. Nearly 800 privately-owned and run Blueline buses will continue to run in Delhi in February after the Delhi High Court Monday directed the Delhi government not to ban vehicles whose permits had not expired.
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Mumbai, Jan 31 – Nearly 300 child labourers from all over Maharashtra Monday demanded inclusion of agriculture as a hazardous form of work in the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986. ‘We want to play in the fields, not to work,’ they said at a public hearing by a social organisation, Save The Children. Social groups, prominent citizens and the children themselves, took part in the programme on ‘Child Labour In Agriculture’.
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Beijing, Jan 31 – China has ordered journalists to train in how to avoid ‘false news’ and has urged state media to beware of online ‘manipulation’ of news, reports said Monday. Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said the six-month training to ‘eradicate false news, enhance social responsibility and strengthen the professional ethics of journalism’ would effectively teach them self-censorship. ‘In short, to make journalists themselves actors in censorship,’ Reporters Without Borders said of the training that state media said began in November.
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