Four suicide bombings targeting Iraqi security forces and civilians and mortar fire that struck houses near Baghdad killed at least 17 people on Monday, security and medical officials said. The morning attacks also wounded at least 64 people, the sources said. In the deadliest single attack, a suicide bomber struck a street in the southern […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned home on Sunday night after wrapping up his final-leg of five-day three-nation tour of Belgium, the US and Saudi Arabia. The Prime Minister had arrived in Riyadh on Saturday from Washington and on Sunday, he held wide-ranging talks with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud during which they agreed
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The Imam of Kaba shrine in Mecca, who is on a visit to India, has condemned acts of terrorism around the world and said that Muslims in the country are living with love and harmony with other communities. Amid an intolerance debate, Imam Sheikh Saleh Bin Mohammad Bin Ibrahim Aal-e-Talib expressed his views while speaking
Police seized at least 10 grenades as well as firearms and bullets Monday from a home in a northern Bangladeshi village where an explosion left two suspected militants with fatal injuries. Authorities suspect the home in the Sherpur area of Bogra district was occupied by members of a banned Islamist militant group called the Jumatul
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The spokesman of Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is the “main target” of the media investigation into offshore accounts, but that he was not implicated in any wrongdoing. The documents published by more than 100 media outlets alleged that Putin’s friends, including a leading cellist, were engaged in an offshore scheme. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry
Top ministers on Sunday inaugurated what has been billed as the world’s first ‘White Tiger Safari’ in this district of Madhya Pradesh. White tigers are reported in the wild from time to time in India. The animal is a pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger and is believed to have originated in the former Rewa
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Congress and BJP are anxiously awaiting the high court’s decision on two major petitions related to imposition of President’s rule in the state which would be heard on 6 April even as they work to keep their flock together. A division bench of the high court would resume hearing on the Centre’s petition challenging the
In the case of the alleged suicide of television actress Pratyusha Banerjee, her friends claimed that her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh “cheated on her” and used to “slap” her in public as well as in parties. The 24-year-old Balika Vadhu star was found dead at her home in suburban Goregoan in Mumbai on April 1,
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After Air France told its female cabin crew they had to put on headscarves before flying into Iran, outraged staff are threatening mutiny. Staff have accused the airline of attacking individual freedoms after a new dress code was announced ahead of the resumption of flights to Tehran in April. An internal email said “Female cabin
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Secret files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that have leaked into the public domain indicate that Pakistan’s first family — the Sharifs — are the world’s powerful who have established offshore tax havens to park their unaccounted for wealth. In a data dump that is described as being larger than the leaked US
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At least 57 people were killed and 27 others injured as flash floods triggered by torrential rains swept away houses across northwest Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), officials said on Monday. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was worst-hit in the downpour that began last night and caused flash floods in several districts, a Pakistani national disaster management
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Delhi University professor Dr GN Saibaba, who was arrested for links with Maoists, was granted bail by the Supreme Court today. The wheelchair-bound professor was arrested in May 2014. He was granted bail July 2015 but it was cancelled by the Bombay High Court in December last year. Saibaba, a professor of English at Delhi
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Yoga guru Ramdev has said he would have decapitated all those who refuse to say “Bharat Mata ki Jai” if the country’s laws did not stop him from doing so. Ramdev, who was addressing a Sadbhawana rally in Rohtak on Sunday, also said any religion prohibiting someone from saying ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ is against
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Tamil Nadu has entered unhindered election mode, with the two major competing teams deciding how to divide up seats among themselves, and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa announcing that she will run for office from the constituency that elected her after she was acquitted in a major corruption case. Ms Jayalalithaa, 68, will ask for another
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The Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finally struck a seat-sharing deal for the upcoming Tamil Nadu assembly elections on Monday. “We have assigned 41 seats to the Congress party and the rest will be distributed. Of course the major share will go to DMK,” senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said after completing
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A special court on Monday sentenced Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd’s (JIPL) directors RC Rungta and RS Rungta to four years in rigorous imprisonment in the coal block allocation scam that rocked the UPA-II dispensation. Awarding the first sentence in the coal block allocation cases, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 25 lakh on
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Greece sent a first wave of migrants back to Turkey on Monday under an EU deal that has faced heavy criticism from rights groups. A small Turkish ferry, the Lesvos, and a larger catamaran, the Nezli Jale, left the island of Lesbos carrying 131 migrants, mainly from Pakistan and Bangladesh, said EU border agency Frontex,
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The controversy surrounding ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ reached a new height in Gujarat on Sunday. Till now the slogan was being equated with patriotism by those in favour of it while the ones against it quoted religious freedom or Indian Constitution to not chant it. An educational trust in Amreli — Shree Patel Vidhyarthi Ashram
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The Pakistani Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the Pathankot terrorist attack has finalised its report and will submit it to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ‘in the next few days’, Pakistan Today has learnt. A source privy to the details of the report said the JIT report has concluded that the Indian authorities had prior information
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News about JNU protests was all over the internet about a month ago. Just when we thought the whole issue was fading into thin air, Yatra.com, brought it alive in their latest ad. The commercial features a Kanhaiya Kumar lookalike delivering a passionate speech where he demands for ‘Azadi’ to choose a window seat in
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Virat Kohli was named Player of the Tournament for his sensational run during the ICC World Twenty20. Even though India were handed a six-wicket defeat by eventual champions West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium, Kohli stood out with 273 runs from five matches. (West Indies lift second World T20 title | Highlights ) Kohli’s sequence
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Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has denied the speculated reports that he has signed a movie with actress Sunny Leone, Indian media reported. There have been reports that “Delhi Belly” fame director Abhinay Deo had signed Leone opposite Aamir, 51, for a dark comedy. When asked, at an event here, if he is doing a movie
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A demonstrably calibrated step-up in the political attacks on the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu by its long-perceived ‘natural ally’, the BJP, in the run-up to the May 16 Assembly polls, has not come a day too soon. From suave articulation of the Narendra Modi government’s position at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris in
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Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted by a terror group in Yemen, is “safe” and efforts are underway for his early release, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told a delegation of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), the organisation’s spokesman said on Sunday. Father Gyanprakash Topno, spokesman of CBCI, told PTI that a five-member delegation
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More than 24 hours have passed since the National Investigation Agency (NIA) officer was gunned down by two unknown assailants on Sunday early morning near Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, the high-profile investigation of UP Police STF and NIA has failed to find any leads. Mohd Tanzil Ahmad, a NIA officer, probing terror cases related to
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In a veiled attack on Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over his remarks that “those unwilling to say ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ have no right to stay in the country”, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said a chief minister should not take a stand as he represents all sections. “CM’s position does not belong
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Karisma Kapoor was spotted with her alleged boyfriend Sandeep Toshniwal at a party thrown by sister and actress Kareena Kapoor to celebrate the release of her new film, R Balki’s ‘Ki and Ka’. Soon after Karisma filed divorce with estranged husband Sunjay Kapur, reports floated that she has found solace on Sandeep Toshniwal, a 35-year-old
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This is very exciting, after very successful films like Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Jab Tak Hai Jaan, superstar Shahrukh Khan and Anushka Sharma will be again seen together in the upcoming directorial film of Imtiaz Ali. The film is untitled yet, but as per sources it is a comedy drama. Shahrukh plays a
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Congress will contest in 41 seats in Tamil Nadu in the May 16 assembly election in alliance with DMK, both parties agreed on Monday. The parties struck the deal at a meeting senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mukul Wasnik had with DMK chief M Karunanidhi at his Gopalapuram residence here in the morning.
Naagin story just took a new turn which was loved by the most of the audience. The story of Naagin has changed to Sesha and Shivanya fighting for Hrithik together to Sesha getting attracted to Hrithik. Sesha calls up her touch and first meeting with Hrithik and thinks it’s wrong as she is a Naagin
