Poor. Well, that is one way to describe India’s capitulation against New Zealand in the ICC World Twenty20 opener. But that word has another association when it comes to Nagpur. For the second consecutive international cricket match in Nagpur featuring India, the 22 yards in the middle is hogging the limelight. Remember the recent series […]
After a 10-year hiatus, dance bars are set to reopen in Mumbai and Maharashtra state with activists warning women and girls could be trafficked and abused in these venues but bar owners arguing this is legitimate, needed work. Maharashtra in 2005 suspended the licences of hundreds of bars and hotels that featured skimpily dressed women
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At least 16 people, including three women, were killed and over 30 others injured on Wednesday when a powerful bomb ripped through a bus carrying government employees in this restive northwestern Pakistani city. The blast took place as a bomb placed inside the bus exploded when the vehicle packed with government employees reached Peshawar from
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A mob beat up four Kashmiri students at a private university in Rajasthan over rumours that they were cooking beef inside their hostel rooms in a campus that is vegetarian by policy. As reported in the Indian Express newspaper, the incident led to scuffles with Kashmiri students at Mewar University in Chittorgarh. There are around
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OnePlus has announced a price cut for its flagship device, the OnePlus 2. The 16GB version of the phone will now cost Rs 20,999, while the 64GB version will be priced Rs 22,999. The company justified the price drop saying: “Let’s just say that thanks to both timing and scale, our operations have sized up
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Myanmar’s parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the first head of state since the 1960s who does not hail from a military background. Suu Kyi led her National League for Democracy (NLD) to a landslide election win in November, but
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Turkish authorities arrested three academics on charges of “terrorist propaganda” on Tuesday after they publicly read out a declaration reiterating a call to end security operations in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Police also detained a British national at the courthouse that ordered the arrests after finding him with pamphlets printed by parliament’s Peoples’ Democratic Party
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The `King of Good Times’, liquor baron Vijay Mallya took Jet Airways flight 9W122 to London on March 2, as he was facing the heat from the lending banks, to whom he owes US$ 1 billion in debts. He was accompanied by a woman passenger, all media channels reported. The media channels also reported that
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The morning after Vladimir Putin ordered the surprise withdrawal of Moscow’s military contingent in Syria, Russia’s defence ministry said a first group of planes had left the Hmeymim airbase near Latakia. Putin’s announcement that Russia’s objectives had been “generally accomplished” after five and a half months of bombing raids came in a televised meeting on
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Ruling Congress and Opposition BJP in Utttarakhand today exchanged charges over the attack on a horse allegedly by BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi during a protest here even as the issue dominated the social media with people pouring their wrath on the Mussoorie legislator for showing cruelty to the hapless animal. Police has registered a case
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Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will contest from the Congress bastion of Titabar, according to the list of the first 65 candidates released by the party high command here on Tuesday. The party is fielding former union minister Pawan Ghatowar from Moran, while sitting member Rajib Lochan Pegu will take on BJP’s chief ministerial candidate
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A postgraduate student on Tuesday allegedly slit a 22-year-old female student’s throat before consuming poison at their college premises here, police said. The victim was a second-year BA at Shambhu Dayal Post Graduate College and allegedly in a relationship with the accused, Prashant, Superintendent of police (city) Salman Taj Patil said. Hearing the girl’s screams,
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The mystery surrounding Gumnami Baba, who many believe was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose living incognito in Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad district, turned deeper on Tuesday with old photographs of the Bose family retrieved from the district treasury. Apart from a family portrait, there’s a photograph of Netaji’s parents, Jankinath Bose and Prabhawati Bose, in the inventory,
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Belgian and French police investigating a suspected link with the November attacks in Paris stormed a Brussels house Tuesday after being fired upon, and killed a suspect armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, authorities said. Three Belgian and one French police officer were slightly wounded in the operation. “We had a lot of luck,” Belgian
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) announced a change in uniform, bringing in full length, coffee-brown trousers to its attire, but the khaki shorts era may not end just yet. The baggy shorts, held in place with a black belt, will continue during exercise sessions, if members prefer it. The decision to dispense with the shorts,
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Indian security forces claim to have killed three Pakistani terrorists who were suspected to be part of a 10-member fidayeen group that entered India from the border areas of Gujarat recently to carry out terror strikes across the country. Working on the intelligence shared by Pakistan National Security Adviser Naseer Janjua with his Indian counterpart
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The Nagpur pitch turned out to be anti-national. On a night when India were expected to canter to an easy win, after their bowlers and fielders had restricted New Zealand to a paltry 126 in their opening encounter of the T-20 World Cup on Tuesday, the Nagpur strip betrayed the favourites, teaching them, as Brian
US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump won a crucial nominating contest in Florida on Tuesday, knocking rival Marco Rubio out of the race, but lost Ohio to John Kasich in a mixed result that set the stage for a long, bitter fight. Trump, a businessman who hoped a sweep of five states would put him
Fair-skinned Indian women always had a problem with their freckles. But worry no more. A fun trend sees women painting faux freckles on their made up face, to give an effect of radiant, fresh, dewy, no makeup skin. Makeup artists in the west, like Sarah Lucero, actually added freckles as part of their runway look.
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While holidaying in Krabi Islands recently , actress Nidhi Subbaiah set her face on fire. No, she wasn’t involved in an accident. She voluntarily tried out the fire facial, which is a rage in the beauty industry .”The therapist performed a regular facial and for the final touch, covered my face with a cloth that
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We have all felt pain or got a catch, but how do you deal with body aches and pains? Do you give up on a regular routine and wait for the pain to subside, or do you worsen the pain by continuing weight bearing and hectic daily activities? You can experience body pain at home
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Many people don’t bother about a lunch break and eat at their workstations. But they end up paying a heavy price for it. If you’re reading this at your desk, sandwich in one hand and pen in the other, it seems you’re not alone. Don’t even bother with a lunch break, eating at our workstations.
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High in fiber and with a host of nutrients, green avocado has been named a superfood. It has vitamins C, E and k, which aid bone health and regulate blood pressure. A study has also found that those who ate a diet rich in avocados reported lower triglyceride levels. The fruit may be high in
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Books are easy to buy and easier to sell or pass on, but the ones that find space in your bookshelf are the ones that have touched you deeply. Interestingly, ardent book lovers can get a sense of people’s personality and influences just by looking at their bookshelves; it’s like a passage into their mind.
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Bollywood’s “Masakali” girl Sonam Kapoor, who is riding high on the success of ‘Neerja’ these days, has replaced beautiful Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as the new face of popular jewellery brand Kalyan Jewellers. In a statement, Ramesh Kalyanaraman, Executive Director, Marketing and Operations of the Kalyan Group has expressed his gratitude to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who
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The Kangana Ranaut and Hrithik Roshan saga seems to be getting murkier by the day. Now, these supposed exes have served legal notices to each other. Reports on Tuesday (March 15) morning said that Kangana and Hrithik had slapped legal notices on each other via their respective lawyers. However, Kanagana’s lawyer Rizwan Siddiquee has neither
PETA and a lot of Bollywood celebrities have voiced their anger at the Uttarakhand BJP legislator Ganesh Joshi, who brutally thrashed and injured a police horse. ‘The MLA is a “danger to society” and he must be sacked both from the legislature and the party’, the global animal rights group PETA said on Tuesday. “He
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Russia will keep its most advanced air defence system in Syria despite a planned withdrawal of the bulk of Russian forces from there, Sergei Ivanov, the Kremlin’s chief-of-staff, was quoted as saying on Tuesday. “In order to efficiently ensure security, including from the air, the most advanced air defence systems are needed,” the RIA news
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Mother Teresa, the nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor of Calcutta (now Kolkata), will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony on September 4. Pope Francis on Tuesday made the announcement at a meeting of Cardinals to give final approval to several sainthood causes. The announcement was
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Turkey’s military says at least 45 Kurdish rebels were killed in the air strikes it conducted in northern Iraq following the suicide car bombing in Ankara. Turkish F-16 and F4 jets raided Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK, positions across the border in Iraq yesterday, a day after the attack which killed 37 people. Turkish Prime
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