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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Four rockets were fired towards the new parliament building of the Afghanistan Parliament on Monday morning. According to initial reports, one rocket has hit the building. The incident took place as senior security officials were on the way towards the building to brief lawmakers, reports TOLO News. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The
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In chilling footage from Bengaluru, a Mercedes crashes into several vehicles before speeding off, leaving a two-wheeler rider dead on the spot. The police say the man driving the car is a surgeon, who was allegedly drunk. Dr NS Shankar has been arrested and charged for the accident, which took place on Sunday afternoon when
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Classes resumed in Hyderabad Central University after being suspended since March 23, amid a fresh boycott call given by Joint Action Committee for Social Justice (JAC) which is leading the protest on Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide issue. “Classes have resumed from today…. The Vice-Chancellor has also appealed students to attend the classes,” HCU
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Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out a thrilling draw with Anish Giri of Holland and inched himself up to seven points after his 13th and penultimate round game in the Candidates Chess tournament now underway here. The draw might just be the end of Anand’s aspirations for the next World Championships as the Indian
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Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza on Sunday blamed the ICC’s suspension of two of its key bowlers for illegal actions for his side’s exit from the World Twenty 20. Bangladesh was bundled out of the tournament after four straight losses in the Super 10 group stage. But Mortaza said the team was hobbled by the ICC’s
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Afghanistan defeated West Indies by 6 runs in their final group league encounter of the World Twenty20 to sign off with their first of the Super 10 stage. The Windies, unbeaten in their first three, were restricted to 117 for eight after being set a target of 124. The defeat changes little in the final
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Year 2016 hasn’t been a good one for celebrity couples who have been in a long committed relationship. Since January, we have seen a number of couples heading towards splitsville. And according to the latest buzz, Sushant Singh Rajput and Ankita Lokhande have broken-up. Nonetheless, neither Sushant nor Ankita have spoken about any “trouble” in
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President Pranab Mukherjee will honour 56 eminent personalities with Padma awards on Monday. The first list of awardees includes founder of Reliance Industries, late Dhirubhai Ambani, Jammu and Kashmir governor Jagmohan, actors Anupam Kher and Ajay Devgn, badminton star Saina Nehwal, Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, renowned dancer Yamini Krishnamurthy, former Comptroller
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A man suspected of laundering money for jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was detained in southwestern Mexico, and faces extradition to the United States, Mexican authorities said on Sunday. Juan Manuel Alvarez, who was arrested in Oaxaca state, has ties to an international money-laundering network that spans Mexico, Colombia, Panama and the United
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Belgian riot police have deployed water cannon to the Place de la Bourse in Brussels in a bid to disperse a right-wing march that has disrupted a peaceful rally. Hundreds of people had assembled informally in the large public square to remember the 31 victims of last Tuesday’s terror attacks when dozens of men, some
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Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his criticism of NATO, a cornerstone of US foreign policy for decades, and called for the alliance`s overhaul days before world leaders convene in Washington. President Barack Obama will host the Nuclear Security Summit on Thursday and Friday with 56 delegations in attendance. While preventing
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It’s end game for the top honchos of state Congress as V M Sudheeran is all set to launch his Brahmastra – criteria for candidature. And the arena shifts to Delhi. Though KPCC president V M Sudheeran wanted to impose the conditions for candidate selection at the state-level screening itself, the move was strategically nipped
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An Air India flight made an emergency landing today at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport due to smoke in the undercarriage. Timely action by pilots of the AI620 Hyderabad-Mumbai flight following the incident saved the lives of 120 passengers on board. Emergency chutes were deployed immediately after smoke was noticed in the undercarriage. Following the
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In the latest addition to Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh’s ever expanding political family tree, his youngest daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav was on Sunday declared the party’s candidate from Lucknow for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Ms. Yadav will fight from the prestigious seat of Lucknow (Cantontment), currently held by the Congress’ Rita Bahuguna Joshi.
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said to instill the feeling of patriotism, everyone should chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. “We want the whole world to chant Bharat Mata Ki Jai. We want to make Bharat rich, free from exploitation and full of self-respect. For that we will have to live that
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After months of are-they-are-they-not, actor Malaika Arora Khan and husband Arbaaz Khan have confirmed that they have separated. In a joint statement issued to DNA, the star couple maintained that while they have walked their separate ways, there is no truth to the fact that Malaika is seeing anyone or has approached a divorce lawyer.
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In a country whose cities are synonymous with chaos Chandigarh is rated an exception. Its residents will say unprompted that this is the only planned city in India, a monument to local ingenuity built as a patriotic gesture post-independence. A perfect grid running to cardinal points may not be the most original idea but most
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The rupee fell 23 paise to 66.87 against the US dollar in early trade on Monday, in line with weakness in other Asian currencies, after data suggested the US economy strengthened in the December quarter, more than what was previously thought. The GDP growth for US economy has been revised upward to 1.4 per cent
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When Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept into power in 2014, he did so with an ambitious mandate to reboot the economy, stamp out corruption and lure foreign investment by streamlining the country’s convoluted regulatory regime. The leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the election by the biggest margin in three decades, and it
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A powerful blast ripped through a public park in Lahore where Christian families were celebrating Easter on Sunday, killing 69 people and wounding over 250, mostly women and children. The blast, apparently caused by a suicide bomber, occurred in a parking lot at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, one of the largest parks in Lahore, the capital of
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A team from Pakistan, including officials of its Inter Services Intelligences or ISI, will meet with National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers in Delhi as it begins its inquiry today into the terror attack in the Pathankot air base at the start of this year. The five-member joint investigation team, which includes Pakistan’s military intelligence and
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The Centre imposed President’s Rule on Sunday in politically fragile Uttarakhand while citing a “constitutional breakdown”, a day before the state’s Congress-led government was slated to prove its majority in the assembly. The decision sparked a political storm, with the rebellion-hit Congress calling it “murder of democracy” and pointing to a pattern after the party’s
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It’s India vs Australia. A do or die match for qualification. Australia have put up a competitive total on the board on a tricky wicket. In response, India have gotten off to a bad start. Things look difficult but there is this man at the crease. There is confidence. Hope. He starts well with a
Eating right -that should be your mantra if you want to lose weight and maintain it. Sometimes we just stop eating some foods thinking they are harmful for us. But the truth is that we should eat everything in moderation, and not avoid certain foods unless of course, the doctor tells us to. Always have
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Turmeric, an essential ingredient that spices up an Indian curry, may help fight drug-resistant tuberculosis, new research has found. In Asia, turmeric is already used to treat many health conditions and it has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and perhaps even anticancer properties, the study pointed out. Researchers have now found that by stimulating human immune cells called
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The World Health Organisation has said the economic burden attributable to tobacco-related diseases is a staggering Rs 1,04,500 crore annually in the country and has pitched for large size warnings on packs to control tobacco consumption in a cost-effective manner. “The economic burden at tributable to tobacco-related diseases is a staggering Rs 1,04,500 crore annually
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Today women are juggling their work, family and social life; with most of them feeling constantly worn out and stressed. Even the weekends are spent doing mundane jobs that are left unattended during hectic weekdays. Some feel drained even after a good night’s sleep, others succumb to daily fatigue and stress. And in playing multiple
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From slumping in front of the TV after a long day, to hunching over our computer screens; we spend an extraordinary amount of our lives sitting down. Check out these useful posture tips. Beat those posture problems: Walking in high heels High heels can cause all sorts of issues, from slipping vertebrae to lower back
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From optical illusion to colour schemes and fine art, there are plenty of ideas to dig into for a more spacious-looking living space 1. Don’t clutter with furniture “People tend to have too much furniture in their house in a bid to show off their taste. This doesn’t give a feeling of lightness, but only
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