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The Morning Wrap: CAG Says Delhi Power Companies Claimed ₹ 8000 Crore As False Dues; Osama Once Preached Gandhigiri

The Morning Wrap: Delhi Power Companies Claimed ₹ 8000 Crore As False Dues; Osama Once Preached Gandhigiri
An Indian boy gestures as he stands near high tension electricity tower on a roadside in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. Factories and workshops across India were up and running again Wednesday, a day after a major system collapse led to a second day of power outages and the worst blackout in history leaving an estimated 620 million people without electricity. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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An Indian boy gestures as he stands near high tension electricity tower on a roadside in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. Factories and workshops across India were up and running again Wednesday, a day after a major system collapse led to a second day of power outages and the worst blackout in history leaving an estimated 620 million people without electricity. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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A bomb blast in Thailand has killed at least 27 and injured 78.

These plants that are engineered to grow in salt-water, in Tamil Nadu, may be the future of agriculture.

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction of Vikas Yadav, son of a politician in Uttar Pradesh; his cousin Vishal Yadav; and an accomplice, Sukhdev Pehelwan, in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case.

Two Indians have designed a garbage bin that gives free WiFi in exchange for using the receptacle.

Sidharth Balachandran ponders if having kids is worth it.

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Main News

In his address at Dubai, Modi made an indirect reference to Pakistan and terror.

The Comptroller and Auditor General in a report has accused Delhi's three, major private power distribution companies (discoms) for unfairly staking claim to Rs 8,000 crore-dues from consumers.

An Indian and a Pakistani have confessed to killing the elderly owners of a Brescia pizzeria in a mafia-style slaying that has shocked Italy.

An estimated 70 per cent of about 1.5 crore voters of Sri Lanka on Monday exercised their franchise in the eighth parliamentary elections.

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Rebuked for peeing on the road, a drunk driver rode his truck over eight, who were sleeping on a pavement and killed 5 of them.

Documents show that terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in a 1993 speech asked supporters to boycott American goods and invoked Mahatma Gandhi as an example of a similar struggle against the British.

Aditi Chauhan, who played for English football club West Ham Ladies, in an FA Women’s Premier League game, became the first Indian player to competitively play in England.

National Film Archive of India (NFAI), after decades of negotiation with Bangladesh, has finally succeeded in obtaining a rare, original print of the country’s first talkie version of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay classic novella Devdas.

Opinion

Mythili Sundar says that several Radhe Maa flourish in India because of religion's sway over people.

Ashok Desai delves into the early-20th-century history of matchboxes and their relationship to tax.

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