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Himachal Pradesh tragedy survivors blame laxity of safety measures as cause of deaths

Mandi/ Hyderabad, June 13 (ANI): Survivors of the Himachal Pradesh river tragedy which swept away 24 students blamed negligence of safety measures at the site Beas River as the cause of deaths. The survivors said besides the college authorities, state tourism department were also responsible for lack of caution signs at the site. Meanwhile, two more bodies were recovered on Thursday and were flown to their home town. Rescuers stepped up search operations for the missing students of the engineering college who were swept away by water released from a dam while the group was taking photographs at the river bank near Thalot on Manali-Kiratpur Highway in Himachal Pradesh Jun 13, 2014
An employee counts rupee notes at a cash counter inside a bank in Kolkata.

Rupee Falls Flat due to Forthcoming CPI and IIP Release

Rupee declined at early trade on Wednesday at 59.32 per dollar against previous day's closing value of 59.29 a dollar. The fall can be attributed to increased demand for American currency at Interbank Foreign Exchange market and absence of major inflows. Jun 11, 2014
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FM-Banks Meet: Uday Kotak stresses on mutual fund rather than gold and property investment

New Delhi, June 10 (ANI): Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of a leading private bank, Kotak Mahindra, Uday Kotak said on Tuesday that there needs to be a significant boost for India s financial savers and it is important to move people away from property and gold investments to mutual funds. Banking Secretary GS Sandhu said the government is examining all suggestions put forth by the banking institution heads. Chairman and Managing Director of Central Bank of India, Rajeev Rishi, said the discussions were mostly on funding for bank infrastructures and capitalisation and infrared ink issue was discussed in detail. Jun 10, 2014
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Suspected ISIL militants seize Iraqi City of Mosul

Iraq, June 10 (ANI): Insurgents, reportedly fighters of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) assumed full control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city on Tuesday. According to sources, after seize of Mosul, Terrorist organization ISIL took control over all of Mosul's government facilities, airports, central bank holding billions of Iraqi currencies. The seize came after days of heavy clashes with government forces, wherein at least 30 people were killed in a double bombing which targetted the offices of a Kurdish political party in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato on Monday itself. A car bomb blew up at a checkpoint near the local headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party, before a truck packed with explosives was detonated beside a wall late Monday. Jun 10, 2014
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Virbhadra Singh orders probe after students go missing

Shimla/ New Delhi/ Hyderabad, June 09 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh CM, Virbhadra Singh, on Monday ordered probe against the authorities for releasing water from a dam without issuing a warning which swept away 24 students. The engineering students of a private college, VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology of Hyderabad went missing on Sunday when they were standing on the bank of Beas river near Thalot on Manali-Kiratpur Highway to click photographs. The water of the river suddenly increased following its release from the reservoir of 126 MW Larji hydropower project. Teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were rushed to the spot to help with rescue operations. Jun 9, 2014
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Devotees throng banks of Ganga to celebrate Ganga Dussehra

Varanasi/ Allahabad/ Haridwar, June 08 (ANI): Thousands of devotees converged at banks of holy river Ganges to offer prayers to mark Hindu festival, ‘Ganga Dussehra’, which commemorates birth of the river on earth. Devout Hindus in Varanasi took a holy dip in River Ganges and prayed for their ancestors. Priests performed traditional Hindu rituals and chanted hymns on the banks of the river. Women and girls offered prayers for the well being of their families. Devotees assembled on banks from the crack of the dawn to take a holy dip and sought the blessings of the Hindu goddess Ganga to get rid of their sins. A local priest, Mahant Brijmohan Das, said this festival brings peace and prosperity to everyone and cleanses souls. Jun 8, 2014