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India, Pak should move beyond Pathankot: Umar Farooq

Asserting that Kashmir was an ‘important element’ of the composite dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad, Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday said that India and Pakistan should move beyond the Pathankot terror attack and go ahead with talks. Speaking to the media after meeting Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit here, […]

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Vivo Y31L With 4G Support, 5-Megapixel Front Camera Launched at Rs. 9,450

Vivo has launched its new 4G-enabled Y31L smartphone in India. Priced at Rs. 9,450, the Vivo Y31L smartphone is now available to buy in Black and White colours. The new Y31L smartphone is an India-specific model of the Vivo Y31A that recently launched in China. The Vivo Y31L is a dual-SIM supporting smartphone that runs

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US and Russia to intensify drive for political settlement in Syria

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to intensify the drive for a political settlement in Syria but remained divided over Bashar al-Assad’s future. After four hours of talks at the Kremlin, Kerry said the United States and Russia had found common ground on the Syrian peace process

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Pathankot attack: 5-member Pakistani probe team granted visa, to reach on Sunday

India today issued visas to Pakistan’s five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) which will reach New Delhi on Sunday to probe the Pathankot terror attack, believed to be the handiwork of terrorists from across the border. The Pakistani probe team comprises of Punjab Counter Terrorism Department officer Muhammad Tahir Rai, Lahore Deputy Director General of Intelligence

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Arun Jaitley to push for foreign investments during Australia visit

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will meet top Australian leaders and investors next week and make a strong pitch for foreign investments in India from the country’s cash-rich sovereign funds. Indian High Commissioner Navdeep Suri said that during his four-day visit, the minister will meet New South Wales Premier Mike Baird, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Treasurer

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Mehbooba Mufti set to become Jammu & Kashmir’s first woman CM

Holi has filled the PDP-BJP canvas with bright shades after Mehbooba Mufti was elected PDP legislature party leader setting a stage for her to become the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. The decision to anoint Mehbooba for the post of chief minister came after two-and-a-half months’ hiatus following the death of her

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Woman activist Trupti Desai detained for entering Maharashtra temple

Activist Trupti Desai was detained by police on Friday after she entered the Trimbakeshwar temple, which does not allow women devotees to offer prayers inside, in Nashik. “We offered prayers to Lord Shiva at Trimbakeshwar temple and prayed that women be allowed in the temple’s sanctum. We are inside the temple that is itself a

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Indian-origin former faculty member of US B-school jailed for fraud

An Indian-origin former faculty member at a US business school has been sentenced to over three years in prison and ordered to pay whopping USD 540,000 in restitution for defrauding his clients by using investor money to finance his personal expenses. Satyen Chatterjee, 65, of Seattle was sentenced to 40 months in prison, three years

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BJP hits back at Congress for running down VD Savarkar

BJP today hit back at Congress for running down BJP-RSS ideologue VD Savarkar, saying the day is not too far when even Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel would “appear anti-national” to the opposition party. BJP MP Ravindra Kushwaha accused Congress of openly siding with anti-national elements. Yaqoob Memon and Afzal Guru had become Congress party’s

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Hrithik Roshan may not be on good terms with Kangana Ranaut, but Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor love them!

Film actors Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut have been flooding the tabloids recently with their spiteful exchanges – no matter how ambiguously. The ‘Krrish 3’ co-stars have been facing a lot of difficult times with one another and the blame game had started a long time ago. They had even slapped legal notices on each

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Indians stranded after terror attack in Brussels return home

A Jet Airways aircraft brought back 242 Indians including 28 crew members, who were stranded following the deadly terror attacks on airport and metro station in the Belgian capital Brussels on Tuesday. The ‘recovery’ flight 9W 1229 from Amsterdam, which landed here this morning, also carried onboard the passengers who were bound for Mumbai as

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J-K: Mehbooba Mufti to meet Governor over govt formation today

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) party chief Mehbooba Mufti is scheduled to meet governor NN Vohra on Friday to stake claim to form the government in Jammu and Kashmir, a day after PDP MLAs unanimously voted Mehbooba as leader of the legislature. Party leader Muzaffar Baig said the date for the oath-taking would be decided

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Ex-PM Yousaf Raza Gilani visited my house in Pak: David Headley

Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Headley said on Friday that a few weeks after his father died in Pakistan in December 2008, the then Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani visited his house. The former member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit was deposing before a Mumbai court on Friday from an undisclosed location in the US.

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Belgium officials admit to intelligence failures; arrest six for involvement in Tuesday’s attack

Six people were arrested in a series of police operations in the Belgian capital, two days after jihadist attacks in Brussels left 31 dead. Meanwhile, the Belgium prime minister Charles Michel has refused to accept the resignations of his justice and interior ministers despite increasing evidence of failures by intelligence and law enforcement agencies to

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Brussels attacks: Six arrested in police raids, say prosecutors

Six people were arrested Thursday in a series of police raids in Brussels, federal prosecutors said, two days after jihadist attacks in the Belgian capital left 31 dead. The arrests come as Belgian ministers under fire for intelligence failings over Tuesday`s Islamic State-claimed suicide blasts admitted “errors” and offered to quit. Prime Minister Charles Michel

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Rahul Gandhi’s aggressive posture against Savarkar worries Congress leaders

Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s aggressive posture against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar has sent worries amongst many of party’s senior leaders, who are asking the top brass to show caution, because of public sentiments in Maharashtra. Though, Savarkar was not a member of RSS, Rahul and his team are using him to take on the BJP and

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Temperature reaches season’s highest on Wednesday

Mercury levels touched 38.2 degrees Celsius on Wednesday evening, almost 5.4 degree Celsius above normal-the highest recorded maximum temperatures this month so far. But Thursday saw a significant drop in maximum temperatures-33.5 degrees Celsius in Santacruz, which was 0.5 degrees above normal, and 31.6 degrees Celsius in Colaba, which was 0.3 degrees above normal. Weathermen

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Virat Kohli Era Has Started, He is The New Sachin Tendulkar: Sunil Gavaskar, Virender Sehwag

Virat Kohli’s rise and rise in international cricket has coincided with a purple patch for Indian team. Apart from a Test series win against Sri Lanka after 22 years, India also won a T20 series in Australia and the Asia Cup in Bangladesh. India also entered the 2016 World T20 as the No. 1 side

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J&K govt formation: BJP MLAs to meet Ram Madhav, Jitendra Singh today

With decks cleared for PDP president Mehbooba Mufti to take over as the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs will on Friday meet party national secretary Ram Madhav. Madhav and senior State BJP leader and Union Minister of State in PMO Dr Jitendra Singh will attend the meeting. Mufti

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Nigerian man assaulted with bats for protesting Holi balloon in Delhi

Two Nigerian nationals, including a football coach, were brutally assaulted with cricket and baseball bats after one of them protested and scolded a child for hurling a water-filled balloon on him in a West Delhi locality. They were attacked by a group of 12 young men soon after. The incident occurred in Sunday and police,

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Sheena case: Peter Mukerjea files another bail application

Media baron Peter Mukerjea, arrested in the Sheena Bora murder case, has filed a second bail plea, contending that the charge sheet doesnt have “reasonable grounds” to hold him guilty. The special CBI court here had rejected his first bail application in February. Peters lawyer Kushal Mor filed the second bail application in the special

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