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Sunil Gavaskar joins Virat Kohli in the defense of Anushka Sharma, terms people trolling the actress ‘frustros’

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has lambasted all those who troll Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma by linking her to Virat Kohli’s on-field performance after every India match, terming them “frustros” with no love in their lives. His comments come close on the heels of Kohli himself hitting out against social media trolls for targetting Sharma […]

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Italy appeals to international court for release of marine held in India

Italy asked an international arbitration panel Wednesday to order India to free a marine who has been detained since 2012 because of his alleged involvement in the shooting deaths of two fishermen during an anti-piracy operation. Italy’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Francesco Azzarello, told the Permanent Court of Arbitration that Sgt. Salvatore Girone should be

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PM Narendra Modi visits Maelbeek metro station, pays tributes to Brussels terror attack victims

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Maelbeek metro station in Belgium on Wednesday, the site of an Islamic State bomb attack last week where 20 people, including one Indian, were killed and over 100 men and women were injured. Modi paid tributes to the victims of the blast at the subway in the Belgium

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Neel Sethi, Jungle Book’s Mowgli, kickstarts India Tour in style!

When it comes to stories from ‘The Jungle Book’, Indians feel a deep sense of ownership as the timeless tale is set in India. After getting the impressive line-up of Indian talent to voice the iconic characters in Disney’s all-new, live-action epic film, ‘The Jungle Book’, Disney India now gears up to welcome Neel Sethi

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Salim Khan joins Twitter, son Salman Khan welcomes him

Superstar Salman Khan has welcomed his actor-scriptwriter father Salim Khan on Twitter. The 80-year-old made his debut on the micro-blogging website with the @luvsalimkhan handle on Tuesday. Salman tweeted on his father’s debut on social media: “Love you dad, welcome to twitter @luvsalimkhan (Salim Khan).” Luv u dad, wlcm to twitter @luvsalimkhan — Salman Khan

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Trump defends his campaign manager is charged with assault

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said he will not sack his campaign manager who has been charged for “intentionally” assaulting a female reporter, asserting that the accusation was false. “She was grabbing me,” Mr. Trump, said yesterday at a CNN organised town hall in Wisconsin as he strongly defended his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

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Pakistan Detains Hundreds As Militants Taunt PM Over Easter Blast

Pakistan has detained more than 200 people since the Easter Sunday park bombing which killed 73 people including many children, officials said Tuesday, as the militants behind the attack taunted the prime minister. The raids across the eastern province of Punjab were announced as parks reopened under tight security in the teeming provincial capital Lahore.

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‘Files on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose were destroyed by Congress governments’

The Central government on Tuesday released the latest set of declassified files on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. The papers revealed that several files on Netaji were either not “readily traceable” or were “destroyed”. As per a report in The Times of India, most of these files were destroyed in the 1960s and ’70s when Congress

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Jharkhand prof suspended for inviting ‘anti-national’ ex-JNU teacher

The Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) in Ranchi has suspended an assistant professor from her post on charges of inviting a former JNU professor, who authorities said had links to the recent ‘anti-national’ protests. Shreya Bhattacharji, who was also the dean of students’ welfare, was suspended on March 28 for inviting MN Panini, a retired

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Vijay Mallya offers to repay Rs 4,000 crore to banks by September

Businessman Vijay Mallya and Kingfisher Airlines Ltd on Wednesday submitted in a sealed cover a proposal for repayment of Rs 4000 crore to the consortium of banks, led by the State Bank of India, by September this year. Along with Mallya and Kingfisher, the proposal was also submitted by United Breweries (Holdings) Ltd and Kingfisher

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Baahubali’s National Award: Bollywood Supports Film’s Win Amid Criticism

Filmmakers including Hansal Mehta, Remo D’Souza and Ronnie Lahiri have supported the jury’s decision of honouring Baahubali with the Best Feature Film National Award after Chauthi Koot director Gurvinder Singh questioned its win. S S Rajamouli’s multilingual magnum opus Baahubali was the only regional film to win in the top category as Bollywood dominated the

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Hrithik Roshan’s “Affair With Pope” Tweet Gets Him into Legal Trouble

Looks like more legal trouble is in store for Hrithik Roshan. Sources say the actor has invited the wrath of a minority community over his tweet in January and has been slapped with a criminal notice for “hurting religious sentiments”. The tweet in question read, “Ther r more chances of me having had an affair

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Lava launches KKT Ultra+ Union with support for 22 Indian languages at Rs 1,500

Lava has launched the KKT Ultra+ Union, a feature phone priced at Rs 1500. The highlight of the device is the 22 Indian languages it supports including Bengali, Gujrathi, Marathi, Kannada, among others. This means users can overall send and receive messages in 23 languages including English. As expected, the KKT Ultra+ Union comes with

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Andhra Pradesh: CM announces 125-ft Ambedkar statue, 6 lakh houses for poor in Amaravati

Amaravati is set to be the new capital of Andhra Pradesh and Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has announced some new plans. He has already said that he wants to develop the capital as a tourist attraction due to its connection to Buddhism. Now he wants to build a 125-foot statue of BR Ambedkar to mark

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Virat Kohli posts selfie with Dhoni’s daughter, fans go ‘awww’

India’s cricket poster boy, Virat Kohli, today posted a selfie with Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s daughter, Ziva, on his Facebook page. The picture went viral over the social media with Virat and Ziva both attracting a lot of affection from scores of people. “With Baby Dhoni. She is too cute and adorable!,” Kohli said

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SC approves guidelines to protect saviours of accident victims

The Supreme Court on Wednesday approved a Central government notification that provides protection to Good Samaritans or those who help victims of road accident by taking them to a hospital or reporting about the incident. ‎A bench headed by justice V Gopala Gowda approved the notification that also provides protection to witnesses in road accident

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Uttarakhand floor test: Congress may take legal recourse for allowing nine MLAs to vote

Pointing out that separately counting or allowing the nine rebel Congress MLAs to vote is an error, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Wednesday said the party might take legal recourse in the matter. “Separately counting or allowing the nine MLAs to vote is an error and we may take legal recourse. The rest of

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Would like to see deeper cooperation with India on nuclear issues: US

The US would like to see “deeper bilateral cooperation” with India on nuclear issues, the White House has said, ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington this week which will be attended by world leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “We are certainly looking forward to Prime Minister Modi’s visit (to attend the summit),”

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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says Iran must change its ‘behaviour’

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Sunday that Iran must change its “behaviour” towards his country if it wants normal ties with the oil-rich Sunni kingdom. Jubeir, speaking at a joint news conference with his South African counterpart, said Riyadh “wants to have peaceful relations” with Tehran and that it had tried to forge

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US offers help to Pakistan in probing Lahore attack

Strongly condemning the terror attack in Lahore, the US today called for global unity against fighting extremism and offered assistance to Pakistan in investigation. “The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this terror attack at a childrens park in Lahore yesterday. Its grotesque, and the fact that you have an extremist organisation targeting

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