Does your boyfriend call you a pest for picking up Facebook fights with all his friends, when they tag him in a mocking but harmless picture? Do you control your subordinates because you think you own them? Well, chances are you need to get a life because you seemingly have traits of a control freak […]
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Left to nurse her Achilles tendons for more than six months, top shuttler Saina Nehwal in Tuesday said it was the most challenging phase of her career and exuded confidence that she is in a good shape now and looking forward to defend her title at the India Super Series. Saina had suffered an injury
A day after coach Waqar Younis’ public apology, Pakistan’s under-fire cricket captain Shahid Afridi also sought forgiveness from the people of his country for failing to live upto their expectations during a shambolic World T20 campaign in India. “I don’t care what other people say about me, but I am answerable to you (people of
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
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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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
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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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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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 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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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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The core group of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday met in Jammu over the issue of government formation in the state and demanded equitable distribution of power. “Our numbers are the same as that of the PDP. It is not wrong to expect that we have the same numbers like them. The representation
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The investigation into the 2002 and 2003 bomb blasts in the city was an education for our law-enforcers. The Crime Branch team that worked on the case, which came to an end on Tuesday, with 10 convictions and three acquittals, learnt many valuable lessons about terror, investigating officials said, shortly after the verdict was announced.
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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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Manipuri rights activist Irom Sharmila was acquitted by a Delhi court on Wednesday, in a 2006 case of attempt to suicide during a fast until death at Jantar Mantar . The 42-year-old Sharmila has been on a hunger strike since November 2000, demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, which grants special
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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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Bollywood actress Lara Dutta will be seen playing a no-nonsense lawyer in the upcoming sports -biopic ‘Azhar’ and says her role in the film is challenging. Last seen in ‘Fitoor’, Lara portrays the role of public prosecutor Meera, in the biopic based on the life of the former Indian international cricketer, Mohammad Azharuddin. “It’s a
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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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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 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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A man who posted a smiling photo with the EgyptAir hijacker and which went viral on the social media has been identified as a 26-year-old Briton, the media reported on today. Benjamin Innes, who is from Leeds but lives in Aberdeen, was held hostage along with 56 passengers on EgyptAir MS181 flight by Seif El
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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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It looks like the DMK and Congress are on the brink of striking a deal as to seat-sharing in the upcoming Tamil Nadu elections. A report in The New Indian Express quoted sources as saying that Congress could get about 33 seats to contest in the TN assembly elections in May. Reportedly, Congress would get
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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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Haryana Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a Bill to provide reservation to Jats and five other communities in government jobs and educational institutions, ahead of the April 3 deadline set by the community which had launched a violent agitation last month. Congress members did not attend the session today as they were demanding revoking the
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Htin Kyaw, a confidante of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, was sworn in Wednesday as Myanmar’s president, ushering in the first democratically elected government into office after decades of military rule. The 70-year-old Htin Kyaw took the oath of office in a joint session of Myanmar’s newly elected parliament with his two vice presidents
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The domestic airport police station on Tuesday evening registered a case against self-styled godwoman Sukhwinder Kaur alias Radhe Maa. Earlier this month the Andheri metropolitan magistrate had ordered the police to lodge an FIR under the Arms Act against her for carrying a sharp ‘trishul’ (trident) on a flight last year. DCP of the area
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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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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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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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