With the Congress now reduced to holding power in just seven states – a historic low – the party leadership is scrambling to quell dissidence by opening a communication with MLAs, lest these states too follow the path of Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh. On Monday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi interacted with Himachal Pradesh chief minister […]
Hindus in the US are up in arms against suggestions mooted by California’s Department of Education to make changes in textbooks which they allege not only distort India’s history but ignore facts on Hinduism. Following protests from Hindus across the nation, the California Education Department has decided not to go ahead with some of the
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over a memorial service for Infosys techie Raghavendra Ganesh, the only Indian victim of the Brussels terror attack, as well as other victims during his stay in Brussels on Wednesday. Raghvendran Ganesan, 31, who had been missing since the twin terror attacks that shook Brussels on March 22, was
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Comparisons with Sachin Tendulkar are given when a batsman like Virat Kohli turns in performances like the one he showed against Australia on Sunday. Of the 22 players on the field, he was playing in a different zone, on a different planet – so much so, that at one point the game looked to be
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Ouster of Congress governments in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand in span of two months due to intra-party factionalism and open revolt by a section of its legislators should worry Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. In Arunachal Pradesh, leader of the breakaway faction of the Congress party Kalikho Pul now heads the government and is supported
Whether you are healthy, overweight, frail or athletic, regardless of your physical state, knee complaints in today’s time are pretty much ubiquitous. In all possibility you have experienced a slight discomfort or aches or creaks in your knees, the pair who carry your weight around, literally! This is where Functional Manual Therapy (FMT) comes into
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What you may not realise is that it’s the hundreds of complex chemicals found in chocolate that keep us coming back for more. Not only do they give chocolate its delicious taste and smooth texture, but they also have powerful effects on the human brain to make us feel happy and alert. It’s no wonder
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With ICC T20 the biggest event going on in the country and every cricket fan glued to the television, going for a holiday, a family dinner or clubbing is something that most cricket enthusiasts are avoiding. However, if you really want to spend time with your cricket-crazy partner or friends, then hosting a cricket party
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This is a popular Chettinad style Egg Curry (Muttai Kuzhambu). Typically served with hot rice, it can also be served as a side dish with idli, dosa or chapati. Ingredients Eggs – 6 to 8 Sambar Onions (Shallots) – 200 gms, chopped Green Chillies – 4 to 5, chopped Tomatoes – 4 to 5, chopped
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After a long tiring day at work, a nice long soak in a hot tub with bath salts is just the ticket to relieving your senses again! Not only do bath salts come in a variety of soothing fragrances — they also offer many other benefits including some healing properties What is salt therapy? Salts
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Couples who are married or have entered into a civil partnership are more likely to be happy, new figures show. A higher proportion of married couples report a “very high rating” of life satisfaction compared with others in relationships and single people, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures, which cover the
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Remember the time when you forgot to put your phone on ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode and woke up to a stinker email by your boss? You had a mini heart attack and couldn’t even carry on with your daily routine after that. You ended up screaming at people on the road, not responding to your
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Easter is symbolic of new beginnings and marks the end of Lent, a six-week period of abstinence. So it isn’t surprising that, across the world, a variety of sweet treats are served during Easter. We take a look at some of them. Dish: Pashka From: Russia This is a pyramid-shaped dessert made out of cheese.
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The Congress Party on Sunday criticised the BJP-led NDA Government’s move to permit Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to visit the country to probe the deadly terrorist attack on the Pathankot Air Force Base and said, this is an abject surrender of country’s national interest. Congress leader Manish Tewari told ANI it’s unfortunate that the
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Filmmaker Kabir Khan is ecstatic that his Salman Khan starrer ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, a film which promoted bonhomie between people in India and Pakistan, has been named the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment at the 63rd National Awards announcement. “Thank you everybody for all your love. We are really happy that ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ got the
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Actress Athiya Shetty feels it is a great time to be a part of Bollywood with meaningful roles being written for women, adding that girls are “making a mark not only on screen but off screen as well”. Asked whether there is a dearth of meaty roles for female stars, Athiya, who stepped into showbiz
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Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party called a nationwide strike Monday to protest a legal move to scrap Islam as the state religion. Jamaat-e-Islami said the case, due to open on Monday, was a “deep-rooted conspiracy” against religion in the Muslim-majority nation. “Bangladesh is a 90 percent Muslim nation,” said a statement from the group, whose top
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China seems to taking a hard-line stance on exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama, saying that he is “making a fool” of Tibetan Buddhism. The Chinese official wrote his propositions — he may not reincarnate, or reincarnate as something inappropriate, and the faithful are not buying it. Describing the spiritual guru as a violent separatist who
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Even as India mulls over what fighter aircraft to invest in following Prime Minister Modi’s purchase of 36 French Rafale jets in January, a U.S. expert on India’s air capabilities has said that the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) “falling end strength and problematic force structure, combined with its troubled acquisition and development programs, threaten India’s
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India had said since day one that it is convinced that the Pathankot air base attack was carried out by the dreaded Jaish-e-Mohammad. The outfit headed by Maulana Masood Azhar thrives on a hate India policy and the Pathankot attack was another way of conveying that message. When the NIA holds discussions with the Joint
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Blown away by Virat Kohli’s power-packed knock that took India into the World Twenty20 semi-finals, former captain Sunil Gavaskar has said that the marauding right-hander is currently the world’s best batsman and “beyond phenomenal”. Kohli’s unbeaten 82-run effort was the highlight as India chased down 161 in a tense group encounter against Australia in Mohali
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Virat Kohli slammed trolls targeting his former girlfriend Anushka Sharma on social media on Monday. The cricket star, who has been having a storied innings in the ongoing World T20 tournament, took to both Instagram and Twitter to ask people to stop harassing Anushka. Virat said that people who were having a go at the
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India and Pakistan on Monday began formal discussions on investigations into the terror attack at the Pathankot IAF base, making it the first-ever visit of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from the neighbouring country that included an ISI official. The five-member Pakistani JIT is headed by Chief of Punjab’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Muhammad Tahir
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South Korean activists today launched tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea for the second time in three days, amid heightened military tensions on the divided peninsula. The conservative activists, including many North Korean defectors, used gas-filled balloons to float 100,000 leaflets criticising North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un over the heavily militarised border.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has cancelled his visit to Britain following the deadly Easter Sunday suicide attack in a Lahore city park that killed at least 70 people and injured over 250, a media report said. According to a spokesman at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Sharif was scheduled to leave for Britain on Monday
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A defining moment in the dissidence drama in Uttarakhand that brought down the state government on Sunday was BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya garlanding the nine Congress rebels. Dissidence in rival camps is often watched cautiously, that too, from a distance. But Vijayvargya’s style of politics has little space for such nuanced steps. His gesture,
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Bollywood hottie Anushka Sharma has been working round the clock for the past few months. The actress is busy shooting for two major projects, one is Salman Khan’s Sultan and the other is Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. Two days ago, the NH10 actress flew down to Mandawa and Nawalgarh in Rajasthan to shoot
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As prime minister Narendra Modi prepares to make his first visit to Saudi Arabia, the focus will be on enhancing the security and investment components of the bilateral relationship. Saudi Arabia is now India’s top energy supplier, displacing Iran during the height of the sanctions. More important, the security relationship has expanded beyond expectations. India
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Shahid Kapoor, who tied the knot with Mira Rajput a few months back, is currently shooting for Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon and his reel name seems to have inspired his new nickname. Sources claim that Shahid will be seen essaying the role of a Muslim character named Nawab Malik in the film and Mira, who seems
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It’s that time of the year again when the best in cinema across the country in various languages is honoured. The 63rd National Film Awards are back and the winners have just been announced. From the main set of awards, S S Rajamouli’s ‘Baahubali’ has won for Best Film, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Best
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