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Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 12 : Congress President Sonia Gandhi said here today that the number of incidents of communal violence across the country has steadily increased since the formation of the BJP Government at the Centre.

Speaking at a Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) rally, Gandhi said that occurrence of communal violence has vastly increased since the new government came to power, something she claimed was of "great worry" to the Congress.

Washington, Aug 12 : Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate genes of parasite that causes malaria disease.

MIT biological engineers have now demonstrated that a new genome-editing technique, called CRISPR, can disrupt a single parasite gene with a success rate of up to 100 percent, in a matter of weeks.

Jacquin Niles, senior author of a paper, said that the approach could enable much more rapid gene analysis and boost drug-development efforts.

Washington, Aug 12 : Kate Upton, who's been dating baseball star Justin Verlander, jok

New Delhi: Married actresses not getting good roles is a thing of past in Bollywood, according to Kareena Kapoor Khan, who says her career did not suffer any setback after she tied the knot Saif Ali Khan and she still gets to work with top stars like Aamir, Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn.

The 33-year-old actress married Saif in 2012, and right after the wedding she starred opposite Aamir Khan in `Talaash`, did an item number in Salman-starrer `Dabangg 2` and was part of Prakash Jha`s `Satyagraha` with Amitabh Bachchan and Ajay Devgn.

New Delhi: Adani Gas-Indian Oil combine and state gas utility GAIL were among nearly a dozen firms that bid for licenses to retail CNG and piped cooking gas in 14 cites including Bengaluru and Pune.

Other firms that bid for city gas distribution licenses at the close of bidding yesterday included Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), Gujarat Gas and GSPC, sources said.

Mumbai - Shares of Tata Motors soared over 8 percent in morning trade on Tuesday after the company reported over 3-fold jump in consolidated net profit for the June quarter.

The auto major's scrip jumped 8.18 percent to Rs 484.00 on the BSE.

On the NSE, the stock climbed 7.93 percent to Rs 482.

Tata Motors was the best performer among the blue-chips on both the Sensex and Nifty during the morning trade.