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DEALS OF THE WEEK: From half-price personalised pillows to free eye tests and discounted coffees

This week's deals include: half price personalised pillow costing £17.50, 50p off the cost of a coffee at Pret a Manger, a free eye test at Specsavers and a 'free' audiobook from the Amazon service Audible.




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Eon lost HALF A MILLION customers in 2019 as households switch

Despite losing customers, Eon said its total earnings before tax and interest increased to £2.9bn in 2019, and it expects earnings to increase again in 2020.




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Roll out of smart meters halted to protect customers during pandemic

Trade body Energy UK says its members have stopped installing or repairing smart meters, except in emergencies, in line with G­overnment guidance.




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From the GoPro to the SmartHalo: The best bicycle accessories for London cyclists

Cycling in London can be one of the most incredible experiences a person can have. However, to get the most out of cycling in the capital, you need the right kit. Here are some of the best accessories for it




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Schalke star Rabbi Matondo admits his struggles in lockdown Germany

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY MATT BARLOW: Rabbi Matondo was among the wave of fearless young British footballers who set out to forge their futures in Germany.




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QPR 2-1 Derby: Goals from Grant Hall and substitute Ilias Chair

JACK BEZANTS AT LOFTUS ROAD: London has been a miserable place for Derby to visit this season and an error from captain Wayne Rooney compounded their travel sickness against QPR.




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Derby County 0-3 Manchester United - FA Cup: Ighalo hits brace to ruin Rooney's night

Wayne Rooney is the star attraction as the Derby County player-coach comes up against his former side Manchester United in the FA Cup. Follow all the updates here with Sportsmail.




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Derby County 0-3 Manchester United: Odion Ighalo notches a brace as Red Devils cruise into quarters

CHRIS WHEELER AT PRIDE PARK: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was right about Wayne Rooney. There is still fight in the old dog. The problem for Rooney is that Man Utd have a bit of bite themselves.




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Home moves halted in lockdown and property viewings are banned

Agents have called for more guidance as those due to move home, whether completing on a purchase or having committed to a rental are left unsure what will happen. 




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Prime Minister meets Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain [ph]Photo Courtesy: Lalit Kumar[/ph]





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Prime Minister meets King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain at Al Gudaibiya Palace in Manama [ph]Photo Courtesy : Lalit Kumar[/ph]





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Prime Minister meets Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of Bahrain at Al Gudaibiya Palace in Manama[ph]Photo Courtesy : Lalit Kumar [/ph]





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Prime Minister meets Battulga Khaltmaa, President of Mongolia in Vladivostok [ph]Photo Courtesy : Naveen jora[/ph]





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Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia arrives in New Delhi [ph]Photo Courtesy : Chandan Kumar Shah[/ph]




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President and Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia witness Signing of Agreements at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi [ph]Photo Courtesy : Hemant Joshi[/ph]




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President meets Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi [ph]Photo Courtesy : PHOTO RB[/ph]




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Prime Minister and Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia remotely unveil Buddha statue at Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar during State Visit of President of Mongolia to India





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Vice President and Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia hold delegation level talks at Hyderabad House, New Delhi[ph]Photo Courtesy : Chandan Kumar Shah[/ph]




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Vice President meets Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia at Hyderabad House, New Delhi[ph]Photo Courtesy : Chandan Kumar Shah[/ph]




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Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia pays floral tribute at the Samadhi of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat in New Delhi[ph]Photo Courtesy : Photo Division[/ph]




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Minister of State for External Affairs calls on Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi[ph]Photo Courtesy : Chandan Kumar Shah[/ph]




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Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia inspects Guard of Honour during Ceremonial Welcome at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi[ph]Photo Courtesy : Chandan Kumar Shah[/ph]




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External Affairs Minister meets Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait on the sidelines of NAM Summit 2019 in Baku[ph]Photo Courtesy: Gajendra Singh, Photo Division[/ph]





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External Affairs Minister meets Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs of Qatar in New Delhi [ph]Photo Courtesy: Chandan Kumar Shah[/ph]





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WHO Responds to U.S. Halt in Funding

The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urged solidarity in the global response to the coronavirus pandemic and said they regret the Trump administration’s decision to suspend funding to the WHO. Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi/Shutterstock




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PM Modi, Palestinian President discuss COVID-19 challenges

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held a telephonic conversation with President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas and the two leaders discussed challenges posed by the COVID-19.As per an official release, "the two leaders discussed the challenges posed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and apprised each other of the steps being taken in their respective countries to control the situation."Prime Minister Modi also appreciated the measures taken by Abbas' authorities to protect their population from the virus and assured all possible support from India for these efforts.The two leaders will stay in touch over various issues regarding the global pandemic. Palestine has so far reported 308 confirmed cases of coronavirus and two deaths so far.




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Trump halts US funding for World Health Organization

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has instructed his administration to halt World Health Organisation's funding while a review is being conducted in the WHO's "role in severely mismanaging and covering up" the spread of coronavirus after it emerged in China."Today I'm instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization. We will redirect global health and directly work with others. All of the aid that we send will be discussed at very, very powerful letters," Trump said during a press conference.The US President has been critical of the world health body stating that the organisation was aware of the dangers of the coronavirus months before it took action.The United States has been the worst-hit country from the coronavirus. The virus has killed over 25,000 people in the country since the outbreak. There are at least 594,207 cases of coronavirus in the US.The US President also said the funding would be suspended while officials conduct a review "to




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The Challenging Calculus of Figuring Out Who Gets to Vote

The litigants in a recent Supreme Court case suggested using the American Community Survey, an annual sample of 2.5% of U.S. households that asks about citizenship, to estimate the citizen voter-age population.




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Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials: Catchall Groupings

Generational groupings are attractive to academics who want to measure social and cultural change. They’re coveted by marketers looking to capitalize on evolving consumer tastes. And they appeal to others seeking to exploit the perceived psyche of the different groups.




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Modi's $222-billion Make in India haul masks challenges to come

Right now, the campaign launched in 2014 is best known for its logo - a lion made of cogs - that has shown up on billboards from Hanover to San Francisco




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COVID-19: China's socialist political system has shown it can overcome any challenge: Prez Xi

Mounting a strong defence of the ruling Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping has said the COVID-19 fight has once again shown that the CPC leadership and the country's socialist political system can overcome any challenge. Xi's comments came as China faced global criticism for its initial inaction to act against the novel coronavirus, which according to Chinese officials emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year. Pressure is also mounting on Beijing to agree for an international probe on the origins of the vicious virus, including from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), as claimed by the US leadership. China curbed the spread of the coronavirus in over a month and brought COVID-19 under control at its first epicentre in Wuhan in about three months, Xi, also the General Secretary of the CPC, said at a symposium held on Friday to get suggestions from non-ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) parties on COVID-19 prevention and control. He termed the




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'Death Cap' mushrooms behind death of six in Meghalaya

The poisonous mushrooms that killed six people at a remote village in Meghalaya's West Jaintia Hills district have been identified as Amanita phalloides, commonly known as the 'Death Cap', a senior official said on Saturday. Six people, including a 14-year-old girl, of Lamin village along the India-Bangladesh border in Amlarem civil sub-division died after consuming wild mushrooms they collected from a nearby forest late last month. The wild mushroom has been identified as Amanita phalloides and is hepatotoxic as it directly affects the liver, state Director of Health Services (MI) Dr Aman War told PTI. He said it has been established after an investigation that the cause of the deaths was the poisonous mushrooms. At least 18 persons from three families were taken ill after consuming the mushrooms. The symptoms after consuming the poisonous fungus include vomiting, headache and unconsciousness, the senior doctor said. Most of those taken ill, including a pregnant woman, .




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PM Modi remembers reformer Gokhale on birth anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday remembered reformer Gopal Krishna Gokhale on his 154th birth anniversary, recalling his contribution towards education and social empowerment. "Remembering Gopal Krishna Gokhale on his birth anniversary. A remarkable personality blessed with immense wisdom, he made outstanding contributions towards education and social empowerment," Modi wrote on Twitter. Gokhale, the prime minister said, also provided exemplary leadership to India's freedom movement. Gokhale was born on this day in then Bombay Presidency.




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One more person tests COVID-19 positive in Meghalaya, total 13

One more person has tested positive for COVID-19 in Meghalaya, taking the total number of cases in the state to 13, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said on Saturday. Of the total 13 COVID-19 cases, only two are active including the fresh case in Shillong. "Unfortunately we have another positive case in Shillong. Its a person working in the same house. As a precaution health department was retesting all the primary contacts and in the process we found this positive case. The person is safe and healthy and showing no symptoms," the chief minister tweeted. Senior Health department officials said the person had tested negative twice in the past. Meghalaya has reported 13 COVID-19 cases till date with one death. Ten persons have recovered from the disease. The first COVID-19 positive case in the state was Dr John Sailo Ryntathiang, who tested positive on April 13. The 69-year-old doctor died two days later and eight of his family members and two of his domestic help have also ..




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14 days institutional quarantine mandatory for returnees in Arunachal Pradesh

The Arunachal Pradesh government has made institutional quarantine for a period of 14 days mandatory for people returning to Arunachal Pradesh from across the country, a senior minister said on Saturday. Among the returnees, students will also have to go into institutional quarantine for the same duration, he said. Earlier a group of six students, lodged in a quarantine centre, was allowed to go home after five days when their swab samples had tested negative. People are coming back after the Centre allowed those stranded across the country in view of the lockdown to return to their respective states. The state cabinet headed by Chief Minister Pema Khandu at a meeting also decided to make RT-PCR test for detection of COVID-19 compulsory for the returnees, including the asymptomatic ones, state Home minister Bamang Felix told reporters here on Saturday. "We have decided to segregate returnees on the basis of green, orange and red zones and make arrangements ...




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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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Man held for raping, blackmailing 17-year-old in Rajasthan's Jhalawar

A 23-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a girl on multiple occasions, recording the act and using it to blackmail her in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district, police said. The incident took place in a village under the Khanpur Police Station limits and the arrest was made on Friday, they said. The 17-year-old girl and her father had approached the Jhawalar SP with their complaint on Thursday, following which a First Information Report (FIR) was lodged under sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, DSP and Circle Officer Bhanwar Singh Hada, who is investigating the case, said. The accused, identified as Saddam Hussain Pinjara, was on Saturday produced before a Jhalawar court which sent him to two days' police remand. In her complaint, the minor alleged that the accused, who is her neighbour, took her to an isolated place around three months ago and raped her at knifepoint and also clicked her pictures and recorded the




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How Tesla’s Stock Jumped 200% in Half a Year

WSJ’s Tim Higgins explores how CEO Elon Musk turned Tesla into the most valuable U.S. auto maker of all time. Photo: Philip Pacheco/Getty Images




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The half-life of justice and common sense


After one round of public scrutiny and an adverse order from the Supreme court, UCIL's plans for uranium mining in Nalgonda seemed to be defeated. But the company now proposes to continue down the same path, apparently unmindful of local opposition or legal strictures. Sunita Dubey reports.




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River basin studies: A half-hearted attempt


Impact assessment studies to understand the consequences of large dam projects have been de-linked from the actual implementation of the projects, thus diluting their value, writes Shripad Dharmadhikary.




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Muslim women fight patriarchal Sharia laws


Several women’s groups are now fighting the age-old gender bias perpetuated by Sharia law and finding ways to help Muslim women who have suffered due to its patriarchal dispensations. Pushpa Achanta reports on some of these, including one which proposes a codification of such law, reinterpreted.




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The 'invisible' half


Almost one in every two children under three years of age is hungry. This is the invisible half of our population, people who disappear from our consciousness until they die in large numbers, writes Kalpana Sharma.




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WSJ's Financial Inclusion Challenge Winner: Hope Credit Union

The Wall Street Journal's first Financial Inclusion Challenge in the U.S. concluded with three finalists facing a panel of judges to answer questions about the impact and sustainability of their work. Hope Credit Union, based in Jackson, Miss., received the evening's top honors for its efforts to provide banking services in underserved regions of the American South. Video/Photo: Clara Ritger for The Wall Street Journal




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Himachal power project under scrutiny


Kanchi Kohli reports from the public meetings on a Hydro Electric Project that involves diverting a river tributary near Manali in Himachal Pradesh.




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Massive dam plans for Arunachal


The laying of the foundation stone by the PM for a project that is not even legally cleared is an indication of the mood in which the current dam building spree is being pushed, especially in Arunachal Pradesh, which has most of the untapped hydel potential. Shripad Dharmadhikary reports.




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Shallow understanding of deep risks


Shale gas and oil reserves are being eyed hungrily by an industry that is looking at the sunset of conventional reserves. But fracking is full of risks, and we must address those first, writes Shripad Dharmadhikary.




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Are too many ‘gramasabhas’ posing a challenge to governance?


As the Kerala government takes steps to re-inspire citizens to engage in grassroots level governance, P Mohammad Nizar draws attention to certain critical issues that must be addressed for the Panchayati Raj Institutions in the state to be effectively revitalised.




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Can India provide a new lens to the ISIS challenge in Syria?


Is military combat the only way to deal with the Islamic state and its likes? Firdaus Ahmed ponders about the role India can play in making the ongoing temporary ceasefire in the five-year old Syrian civil war a more permanent one.




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Why Bihar’s child is different from Himachal’s


The Integrated Child Development Services scheme was launched to address the nutrition, health and learning needs of all children below six years of age. Ankita Aggarwal shares findings from a survey that point to the huge variations in implementation and effectiveness. 




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CAG finds gaps in Arunachal education


While the infusion of SSA funds has helped the State make considerable progress on many counts, there is still much to be done, to ensure all the necessary inputs flow to the schools. Himanshu Upadhyaya reports.