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Modi fires up poll spirit with seaplane ride in Gujarat

On the last day of campaigning for the high-voltage Gujarat assembly elections, PM Narendra Modi raised the pitch by taking a seaplane in the state - leaving him under fire from some.




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Lawyer in Nirbhaya stuns court with 'bribe claim'

During the hearing of the plea, seeking a review of the death penalty confirmed by the Supreme Court in May, advocate ML Sharma accused the 'state and police of bribing the victim's mother and father.




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Girl found with throat slit in suspect black magic killing

The deceased, identified only as Kajol, was found murdered on the rooftop of her house.Family members searched and made enquiries about Kajol in every house in the area




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BJP return to power in Himachal Pradesh with huge majority

The saffron party is facing a peculiar situation in the state after the electorate voted for the party, but rejected the chief ministerial candidate Prem Kumar Dhumal to vote for his former aide.




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Anthony Joshua ready to 'rock and roll' with Tyson Fury

Current heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is ready to 'rock and roll' with Tyson Fury whenever the former champion wants to get in the ring with him. Fury has not fought since beating Wladimir Klitschko.




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HR McMaster: US can't coexist with nuclear North Korea

H.R. McMaster's warning followed President Donald Trump's declaration on Monday that the United States would take 'all necessary' steps to denuclearize Kim Jong-Un's North Korea.




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China 'stepping up its preparations for war with Taiwan'

Last week the Chinese jets carried out what was described as 'island encirclement patrols' around Taiwan and state media showed pictures of bombers armed with cruise missiles.




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ISIS supporters threaten New Year's Eve attack with poster

Two armed terrorists are making their way through a murky underpass holding multiple weapons on the billboard-type banner which carries the slogan: 'Wait for us on your year parties.'




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May cooperate on GST but have ideological differences with BJP: Mamata

The Trinamool has favoured passage of the GST Bill and also mentioned it in its manifesto during the 2014 Lok Sabha and 2011 assembly elections




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CPI(M) decision to align with Cong greatest blunder: Mamata Banerjee

Referring to charges of corruption against her party, she dubbed it as 'a propaganda by a section of media and that Bengal is a corruption free state'




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West Bengal Assembly polls: Many politicians who switched sides rejected by voters

Ajay Dey, who was previously elected from Santipur in Nadia district on Congress ticket, left the party to join Trinamool. But he was rejected by the voters this time




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John Terry opens up on difficult relationship with Rafa Benitez at Chelsea: 'We just didn't get on'

Benitez spent six months at the Blues in the 2012-13 season, winning the Europa League. Despite the trophy success, Terry admits he didn't get on with the Spaniard from the very start.




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Chelsea star Willian 'in negotiations with Liverpool about shock free transfer'

Chelsea winger Willian is out of contract in the summer having failed to agree a new deal and while his future remains unclear, reports emerged that he is 'in negotiations' with Liverpool.




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Hakim Ziyech free to join Chelsea in planned £36.6m move in July with Eredivisie set to be cancelled

Eredivisie clubs are expected to agree to finish their season early after the Dutch government extended a ban on all major events due to the coronavirus pandemic until September 1.




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Callum Hudson-Odoi admits he's desperate to link up with Jadon Sancho at club level

Blues winger Callum Hudson-Odoi spoke about the close relationship he has with the Borussia Dortmund star - having played together for England at various age groups.




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Joe Cole attempts to raise £1m to provide NHS staff with 1,700 PPE visors a day

Cole has become the latest name from the football industry to offer help to overworked NHS staff following the coronavirus outbreak. He is looking to raise £1million and create PPE equipment




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Chelsea plot free transfer move for Napoli star Dries Mertens with forward yet to agree new deal

Belgian striker Dries Mertens is a summer transfer target for Chelsea with the attacker out of contract with Napoli this summer, according to Sky Sports Italia.




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After bust-ups with Keane and THAT Hazard interview, Darrell Currie can't wait to get back to it

The 37-year-old has been the figurehead of BT Sport's coverage of the Scottish game for eight years and their impact has been akin to the Glasgow kiss of the city that produced him.




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Diego Costa reopens feud with 'suspicious' former Chelsea boss Antonio Conte

The pair fell out at Stamford Bridge which resulted in the now Atletico Madrid forward being tossed out of the club. Costa went AWOL just months after Chelsea won the league title in 2017.




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Barcelona at risk of losing Marc-Andre ter Stegen as talks with goalkeeper halt due to coronavirus

Barcelona are said to be at real risk of losing keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers on the planet. Salary cannot be agreed on, despite the player being a low earner.




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Frank Lampard 'makes direct contact with Dries Mertens' as he makes a new forward a summer priority

The Chelsea manager was unable to strengthen his attacking options in the January transfer window. He will make this a priority during the summer and is keeping tabs on Napoli's Dries Mertens.




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Hakim Ziyech reveals rapport with Frank Lampard convinced Ajax star to seal £37m move to Chelsea 

Hakim Ziyech has revealed his 'connection' with Chelsea manager Frank Lampard convinced him to leave Ajax to sign for the Premier League club.




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Tottenham are yet to strike a wage deal with their players a month after Daniel Levy opened talks

It's a month since chairman Daniel Levy called on all players to agree pay cuts to help football survive the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus.




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Chelsea star Willian says he's 'big friends' with Mourinho and would have no problems joining rival'

Chelsea winger Willian admitted he keeps in contact with Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho and would be open to a summer transfer as his contract with Chelsea is almost up.




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Kepa Arrizabalaga insists he has a good relationship with Frank Lampard and will STAY at Chelsea

Kepa Arrizabalaga is determined to make his Chelsea stint a success, and believes his relationship with Blues boss Frank Lampard will help him do it after a dreadful season.




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Erling Haaland picks Chelsea boss Frank Lampard as retired footballer he'd most like to play with

The striker burst on to the European stage this season after his impressive form for Red Bull Salzburg earned him a £17million transfer to Borussia Dortmund in January.




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Chelsea winger Willian 'has already sealed his reunion with Mourinho' at Tottenham

Chelsea winger Willian has already sealed his reunion with pal Jose Mourinho by agreeing to join Tottenham, according to beIN Sports.




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Manchester United and Chelsea 'in contact with agent of Timo Werner'

Manchester United and Chelsea have reportedly both been in contact with Timo Werner's agent about the possibility of signing the highly-sought after striker. 




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Chelsea 'open talks with Juventus over £35m Jorginho transfer'

Juve boss Maurizio Sarri is keen to link-up with the 28-year-old midfielder for a third time. Jorginho played under the Italian at Napoli before following him to Stamford Bridge in 2018.




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Chelsea and Man United dealt blow as Federico Chiesa insists his focus is solely with Fiorentina 

Chelsea and Manchester United are thought to have a strong interest in the winger with Juventus, Inter Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal also tracking him.




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Paris Saint-Germain 'target Tiemoue Bakayoko with Chelsea flop dreaming of move to French giants'

The 25-year-old has failed to make an impact at Stamford Bridge since joining for £40million and spent last season out on loan at AC Milan before re-joining Monaco, where he made his name.




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NASA's Christina Koch makes history again with the longest single spaceflight by a woman

On Saturday, Christina Koch officially broke the record for the longest single space flight by a woman after 289 days aboard the International Space Station, passing mentor Peggy Whitson.




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NASA says its has lost contact with mini-satellite probing nearby stars for unseen planets

NASA lost contact with its Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (ASTERIA), a briefcase-sized spacecraft designed to study planets outside our solar system.




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Satellite images shows New Zealand and South America are shrouded with Australia's bushfire smoke

Smoke from Australia's bushfires has drifted 2,000km across the Tasman Sea, shrouding New Zealand .




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Laura Tobin breaks down in tears as she achieves her 'childhood dream' with visit to NASA

Laura Tobin broke down in tears on Good Morning Britain on Friday as she fulfilled her 'childhood dream' by visiting NASA.




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NASA's next mission sends a spacecraft within 26 million miles of the sun in order to gather data

NASA and ESA are teaming up to send a the Solar Orbiter to the sun. The craft will study the massive star for seven years and gather data that will help experts better understand solar storms.




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AI spots a mysterious 'square structure within a triangular one' on the dwarf planet Ceres

In a comparison of human and artificial intelligence and its ability to interpret alien landscapes, an AI has detected a triangle on the surface of a dwarf planet, while humans mostly detected a square.




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NASA's Mars 2020 rover is fitted with a LASER that vaporizes rock to search for signs of life

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars 2020 rover is heading to the Red Planet armed with a high-powered laser that can vaporize rocks from up to 20 feet away to search for life.




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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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NASA executive and former cop, 52, charged with shooting and killing neighbor, 24, he fought

Michael Hetle, a NASA executive who also was a cop, was charged with fatally shooting Javon Prather, a neighbor he argued with over the years over poop that was left outside.




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Organic molecules discovered by NASA Curiosity rover are 'consistent with alien life'

NASA's curiosity rover has identified signs of thiophenes on the surface of the red planet and Washington State University astronomers believe they were formed by biological processes.




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Researchers are working with NASA to create a self-sustaining human colony on Mars 

A group of university researchers have partnered with NASA to build the technology for a self-sustaining, zero-waste human settlement on Mars, mostly running on recycled materials.




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Scientists untangle mystery of how ice forms on Mercury with surface temperatures over 750 degrees

A team of scientists from Georgia Tech have come up with a new explanation for how ice forms on Mercury despite scorching surface temperatures that can reach 750 degrees Fahrenheit.




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NASA engineer demonstrates how quickly germs spread with special glow powder

In his new YouTube video, Mark Rober, 40, sprinkled Glo Germ powder on a third-grade teacher and one of her students to show how germs can spread.




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NASA announces new mission to study solar particle storms with satellites the size of toaster ovens 

NASA has announced a new research mission that will send small satellites into orbit to study solar particle storms, which can cause geomagnetic storms on Earth and disrupt the electrical grid.




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Tom Cruise is in talks to shoot a movie in the cosmos with Elon Musk's Space X

Actor Tom Cruise and Elon Musk's SpaceX are working on a project with NASA to shoot an action film in outer space. The movie would be the first narrative feature film to be shot in outer space.




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Snapchat teams up with Damian Hirst to make virtual 'spin art' at home 

The hugely influential British artist partnered with snap to allow people to create their own virtual versions of his world-renowned Spin paintings.




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Apple launches an updated 13-inch MacBook Pro designed with a Magic Keyboard and double the storage

Apple's highly anticipated 13-in MacBook has been announced. The new device features a Magic Keyboard, powerful 10th-generation Intel processor and double the storage of its predecessor.




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Eta Aquariids meteor shower to fill the sky with dozens of shooting stars

Eta Aquariids are created from the debris left behind by Halley's Comet and happen every year from the middle of April until the end of May.




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Eta Aquariids meteor shower peaks TONIGHT filling the sky with up to 40 shooting stars an hour

This meteor shower is best viewed in the southern hemisphere, but should be visible from most places on Earth, weather permitting.