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Apple reveals it scans iCloud photos to check for child sexual abuse images 

Speaking at a panel at CES in Las Vegas, Jane Horvath from Apple said the company uses specialist software to automatically screen iPhone images backed up to iCloud.




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Police will use high-tech scanners to 'frisk' suspects without them knowing from up to 20 yards away

Police will soon be using a new high-tech scanner that can 'frisk' suspects without them knowing. The device can detect concealed weapons through a suspect's clothing 20 yards away.




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Lori Loughlin claims FBI told college admissions scam mastermind Rick Singer to lie about bribes

In a new Boston court filing, lawyers for Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli presented evidence that FBI agents told Singer to lie about whether parents knew they were paying bribes.




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Apple's upcoming iOS 14 may let users sample apps by scanning QR codes before they buy them

Acording to 9to5Mac, code examined in early builds of iOS 14 show that the operating system would allow users to sample parts of third-party apps without actually installing them.




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Oscar Wilde historian claims £4.50 photo she got on eBay is unseen snap of youthful author

Karen Ievers, from County Clare, Ireland, spotted the snap on auction site eBay listed as 'photo of a man in a hat with a cane c1860', and was struck by the resemblance to the famed playwright.




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Too Hot To Handle EXCLUSIVE: Harry Jowsey reveals details behind THAT scandalous oral sex scene

Harry Jowsey certainly wasn't shy on Netflix's dating series, Too Hot To Handle. The model broke many rules forbidding sexual contact, including being fined $6,000 for receiving oral sex




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Too Hot To Handle stars Francesca Farago and Harry Jowsey unveil matching finger tattoos

Francesca Farago and Harry Jowsey are still going strong after falling in lust with each other on the hit dating show Too Hot Too Handle.




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Scammers use Facebook and Instagram to market stolen personal details, consumer group Which? Reveals

A Which? investigation found 50 discoverable profiles, pages and groups advertising stolen identities. Scammers are using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to market stolen information.




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Too Hot To Handle's Harry hints he could PROPOSE to Francesca on the reunion episode

Too Hot To Handle highly-anticipated reunion episode airs on Netflix this Friday. And fans believe a proposal could happen between Aussie star Harry Jowsey and Canadian model Francesca Farago.




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Stranger Things star Joe Keery reveals season four will be 'a lot scarier' than previous outings

The actor, 28, teased what's to come in the forthcoming season in an interview with Total Film Magazine on Friday, as he chatted about his new film Free Guy.




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William Gallas admits he was SCARED of facing former Chelsea team-mate Didier Drogba

The pair enjoyed two hugely successful years together at Stamford Bridge, winning back-to-back Premier League titles between 2004 and 2006.




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A nation on fire: Astonishing graphic shows the true scale of bushfires across Australia

The brightest spots on the graphic are in New South Wales and Victoria, where more than 2,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed by the raging infernos.




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NASA satellite image reveals the true scale of bushfire devastation on Kangaroo Island 

The space agency released two satellite images of the South Australian island highlighting the horrific damage the bushfires have caused to the environment.




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Osteoporosis sufferers given hope with vibrating 'bathroom scales' developed by Nasa

Marodyne LiV - a vibrating device, resembling a set of bathroom scales - produces gentle vibrations that travel up through the legs, stimulating the growth of new bone cells




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Jeff Bezos tweets poignant '#Jamal' image amid Crown Prince hacking scandal

Jeff Bezos tweeted an image of himself alongside Jamal Khashoggi's fiancee Hatice Cengiz taken on the one-year anniversary of his murder by the Saudi state, amid fallout from the phone hack scandal.




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Manchester City star Sergio Aguero says players are 'scared' over return of the Premier League

The Manchester City striker admitted health concerns are at the forefront of minds among squads set to restart training next month despite the death toll from coronavirus staying high.




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The Quality of Madness: Marcelo Bielsa biography sheds light on Leeds boss' role in spygate scandal

EXCLUSIVE: Derby's Moor Farm training ground covers 50 acres of land on the outskirts of the city. Opposite is a housing estate; a place where people look out for each other.




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Best of BS Opinion: Covid-19, creating fiscal space for states, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day




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Best of BS Opinion: Fiscal outlook under pressure, Covid-19 crisis and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day




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Madagascar

Embassy of India, Antananarivo
4, Lalana Rajaonson Emile,
Tsaralalana, PO Box No.1787,
Antananarivo. [*Con. acc. as Amb to Union of Comoros (Moroni)].

Telephone: 00-261-20-2223334, 2227156
Fax: 00-261-20-2233790, 2260081
E-Mail:indesecamb@blueline.mg (Amb),amb.aanarivo@mea.gov.in (Amb),indembmd@blueline.mg (General), hoc.aanarivo@mea.gov.in (HOC),indcomsec@blueline.mg (Commercial)
Website:www.embassyofindia.mg

Ambassador- Designate
Manju Seth
Second Secretary and Cd'A, a.i.
Sukhvinder Singh




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Escape to the Chateau's Dick & Angel reveal tips for buying a property

Dick and Angel exclusively reveal their approach to buying a property that needs renovating, and turning it into a successful home and business.




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Stay with Dick and Angel at their Escape to the Chateau home

Dick and Angel Strawbridge are offering fans of Channel 4's Escape to the Chateau a chance to stay at their home as part of a new competition.




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External Affairs Minister meets Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Foreign Minister of Oman on his arrival in Muscat





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External Affairs Minister meets Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister of Oman in Muscat





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External Affairs Minister meets Sayyid Badr bin Saud al Busaidi, Minister Responsible for Defence Affairs of Oman in Muscat





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TONY HETHERINGTON: A huge payments scam - and Nationwide and Visa should be ashamed

I fell for a sales pitch from Easytrade.biz, and now am unable to withdraw any money. I have filled in several withdrawal forms, but it never happenes.




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ASK TONY: Scammers stole £3k but Tesco said I was too late to complain

I was contacted regarding potential fraudulent activity on my Tesco Mastercard in early October 2019. In total, £3,700.20 of illicit transactions were refunded.




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ASK TONY: I was scammed out of £170, so why isn't PayPal paying up?

I received two texts from PayPal in the early hours of August 6 about a suspicious transaction. It was for £170.94 to a company called Zalando SE. I replied at 10.21am to say it was unauthorised.




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Emission scandal: Volkswagen apologises to Indian customers

The company however reiterated that its cars follow the country's norms and the recall of 3 lakh vehicles is a voluntary step taken by it




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Scania to double manufacturing capacity in 4 years

Swedish commercial vehicle and engine manufacturer Scania today said that it will double the production capacity at its Karnataka-based plant to meet sales expectations




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Upcoming Maharashtra local body polls postponed amid coronavirus scare

The election commission also stayed the poll-related process




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Govt weighs fiscal stimulus in upcoming Budget to boost demand

Real annual GDP accelerated in Jul-Sept to 7.4% from 7%. But, growth of nominal GDP slowed sharply to 6%




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China continues to hide and obfuscate COVID 19 data from world Pompeo

China continues to hide and obfuscate COVID-19 data from the world, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday, asserting that he has seen a significant amount of evidence suggesting that a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan was underperforming and the virus could well have emanated from there. "I have seen a significant amount of evidence that suggests that the lab was underperforming, that there were security risks at the lab and that the virus could well have emanated from there," Pompeo told Ben Shapiro in an interview. "But I am happy to suspend the decision about that. What we need are answers. There are still people dying," he said. By Friday, more than 78,000 Americans had died and 13 lakh tested positive for the coronavirus. Globally, more than 273,000 people have died and 39 lakh tested positive for the disease. The American economy and those of the rest of the world have come to a standstill. "We have got an economy now that is really struggling and it is all a ..




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NASCAR's empty-oval return means lost races at three tracks

American stock car auto racing's comeback later this month from the coronavirus pandemic will cost three tracks their 2020 season races with more schedule adjustments coming soon. That was the word Friday from the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), the closed-cockpit series that is the most popular form of US auto racing. Races at Sonoma, California; Joliet, Illinois and Richmond, Virginia were named those moved to ovals without spectators this month to jumpstart the US revival of sport in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. Sonoma Raceway officials said the road course tried to find a new date to replace June 14 but couldn't "given the ongoing uncertainty around large events in California." It will be staged instead on May 27 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which will host a regularly scheduled race three days earlier in what will essentially be made-for-television events. A planned June 21 race at Chicagoland will be the May 17 comeback event at ...




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Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie in talks for M Night Shyamalan's next

"Little Women" star Eliza Scanlen and "Jojo Rabbit" breakout Thomasin McKenzie are among the actors in negotiations for M Night Shyamalan's next directorial feature. According to Variety, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff and Vicky Krieps are also in discussions for the filmmaker's top-secret project, which he will write, direct and produce. Though the details of the plot have been kept under wraps, it is rumoured that the movie might be connected with some of the other films by the director. The yet-to-be-titled feature will be released by Universal Picture. Scanlen, 21, is best known for starring in TV series "Sharp Objects" and Greta Gerwig's "Little Women" adaptation, while 19-year-old McKenzie broke out with Taika Waititi's Oscar-winning satirical feature "Jojo Rabbit". Krieps, 36, became popular after she starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's romance drama "Phantom Thread", opposite Daniel Day Lewis. Wolff, 22, is best-known for starring in movies such as Ari Aster's "Hereditary" and the two




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Panel needed to help states tide over fiscal crisis: CM to PM

: Chief Minister of Puducherry V Narayanasamy on Saturday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to appoint an expert committee to help states overcome the fiscal situation in the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown. He told reporters here that he had written a letter to the Prime Minister urging him to constitute immediately the expert committee to go into the poor fiscal condition of the states during the current lockdown and help mobilise funds to meet their commitments. The expert committee should be given a time-frame of one week to come out with its recommendations as to how the Centre could help the states wriggle out of the fiscal crisis and how States could rise to the exigency, he said. Narayanasamy hoped the Prime Minister would consider his suggestion and take appropriate action. "I am speaking candidly and making the suggestion for all states which no BJP-ruled state Chief Ministers will express,", Narayanasamy a former Central Minister, said. Already, he said, ...




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Sikkim govt rolls out austerity measures to tide over fiscal impact of COVID-19

The Prem Singh Tamang government in Sikkim has decided to reduce the salaries of the chief minister and ministers by 35 per cent for the next one year to mitigate the adverse impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the state's economy. As per decisions taken at a cabinet meeting presided over by the chief minister on Friday, utilisation of discretionary funds of the ministers have also been put on hold. The state government has decided to impose a ban on appointments under regular/work-charged/muster roll/adhoc/consolidated pay/ temporary basis for six months, a press release issued by the Information and Public Relations department said. The state government has also decided to impose a ban on replacement and purchase of new vehicles, computers and peripherals while the allocation under revenue expenditure in all departments will be curtailed by ten per cent. Among other things, there will be restrictions on advertisement or publication of notice inviting tender except ..




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Testing capacity for COVID-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day: Vardhan

The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The minister, who reviewed the status of COVID-19 in the northeastern states along with the measures taken for its containment and management, also stressed on the need to take concrete action to check the use of non-smoking tobacco and prohibiting spitting in public places which shall help in preventing the spread of the infection, according to a statement. During the high-level meeting with Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, Vardhan appreciated the dedication of all the states in combating COVID-19. "It is a huge relief and very encouraging to see green zones in most northeastern states. As of date, only Assam and Tripura have active COVID-19 cases. Other states are all in the green zone. ..




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COVID-19 challenges: TN forms panel under ex-RBI Guv Rangarajan to improve fiscal position

The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday set up a high-level committee headed by former Reserve Bank of India governor C Rangarajan to examine fiscal challenges facing the state owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and suggest the way forward to improve its fiscal position. The committee, which will also consist of Finance Secretary S Krishnan as coordinator, will submit its report to the government within three months, according to a Government Order. The committee, with 21 members, would assess the overall immediate and medium term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on different sectors of the state's economy including the impact of lockdown, additional costs and implications due to social distancing and their precautionary measures. Also, it would assess the opportunities and threats in the short and medium term, suggest measures required to help the important sectors of the economy to overcome the impact of the virus pandemic. Apart from identifying specific reform measures to ..




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Energy Journal: EU-China Solar Battle Escalates

By James Herron Here’s your morning jolt of news, insight and analysis on the global energy business. Send us tips, suggestions and complaints: ben.winkley@wsj.com and james.herron@wsj.com Click here to receive this morning email newsletter SOLAR WARS The usually tranquil world of European renewable energy just got exciting, as a plucky band of rebels led by […]




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Hill women no longer panic over water scarcity


In many part of rural India, women spend most of their time walking long distances to collect water for their household's needs. Nitin Jugran Bahuguna visits the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand where the women no longer have to worry about fetching water from long distances thanks to an intervention that has brought potable water right to their doorstep.




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Fiscal deficits and decentralization - II


In the second in a series of two articles, Jayaprakash Narayan discusses on the connection between the fiscal crisis and decentralization of political power.




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Local water: battle of scales


Top-down water supply and sanitation schemes have failed the poor time and again. But for decentralization and community involvement to work, local governments -- municipalities -- must improve. Surekha Sule reports on the findings of a global assessment that included India.




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The great Goan land scam


Goa's land allocation policy to SEZs has been indicted for massive irregularities by the Comptroller and Auditor General. The list of violations is more or less a case the fence eating the crop, finds out Himanshu Upadhyaya.




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The State is snooping: Can you escape?


Blanket surveillance of the kind envisaged by India's Centralized Monitoring System achieves little, but blatantly violates the citizen's right to privacy; Snehashish Ghosh explores why it may be dangerous and looks at potential safeguards against such intrusion.




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Carlos Ghosn Details Why He Escaped Japan

Former automotive executive Carlos Ghosn said he "fled injustice" in Japan. WSJ's Chip Cummins explains what Wednesday's crowded press conference in Beirut tells us about Mr. Ghosn's next steps. Photo: Maya Alleruzzo/Associated Press




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Danica Patrick Discusses Her Post-Nascar Life as an Entrepreneur

Retired Nascar driver Danica Patrick talks to WSJ's Lee Hawkins about her post-racing life as an entrepreneur, which has taken her into the wine, clothing, and cooking businesses, while also maintaining an endorsement relationship with GoDaddy.





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Photographer Illustrates a 'Disappearing Landscape'

Diane Tuft shows the front line of climate change, in her new book "The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape." Diane joins Lunch Break's Tanya Rivero to discuss her disturbingly beautiful images. Photo: Diane Tuft




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Anxiety Disorder: Is There an Escape?

The battle against anxiety disorders and panic attacks since childhood is the focus of Wall Street Journal contributor Andrea Petersen's forthcoming book, "On Edge." She describes fears of carrying out simple activities in life and traces mental illness through her family. Photo: Brian Stauffer