Their fairytale partnership began last year at Indian Wells, with Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis going on to achieve an unprecedented level of success with 41 straight wins. Unfortunately, the duo failed to rekindle the magic and defend their US hardcourt title. The world No 1 Indo-Swiss pair suffered a shock upset in the second […]
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Lenovo has launched the Vibe K5 Plus in India today at a price of Rs 8,499. The device will be available in Champagne gold, Platinum silver, and Graphite Grey colour variants. Exclusively available via Flipkart, open sale begins from 23 March at 12PM. Registrations are not required. During the first sale, there would be an
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday its ballistic missiles were for self-defense and that recent tests condemned by the United States did not violate an historic nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers. Speaking in Australia, Zarif said that the missiles tested last week would never be used in aggression. The
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Indians studying in American educational institutions should not be kicked out as the country needs smart people like them, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said as he sought to set the record straight about his immigration policies. “Whether we like that or not, they pay, et cetera, et cetera but we educate a lot
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Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad had taken a jibe at the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), which recently changed its dress code. According to reports, the RJD chief said a jibe made by his wife and former Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi had actually prompted the the right-wing Hindu body to change its uniform from
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Yo! Yo! Honey Singh, 33-years-old today, has been back for a while now from his unannounced absence of almost two years but he has a number of blanks to fill. When the Angrezi Beat singer mysteriously disappeared from public life in 2014, rumour ascribed it to a stint in rehab where he was reportedly visited
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Punjab will witness rallies of two political parties on 15 March, the birth anniversary of Dalit leader Kanshi Ram. While one rally will be addressed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal who is looking at expanding his party’s base in the state, the other will be addressed by
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Pakistan media’s reaction to a statement made by the cricket team’s captain should come as little surprise; it has happened before and it will happen again in the future. A Pakistani captain isn’t merely considered the leader of the cricket team, he is supposed to be much bigger than that; he is seen as this
Baaghi leads Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor, who have been friends since school, couldn’t believe that they were actually doing a film together and found it a “surreal” experience. “When you go to school with someone, and then you grow up, and both of us have the dream to act, and you end up acting
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Actress Priyanka Chopra, whose international debut TV show ‘Quantico’ has got a renewal and whose Hollywood debut ‘Baywatch’ is already under production, says Indian movies have a “global demographic” and that she is used to having fans abroad. She says her fan base has expanded with the reach of foreign TV, and added that an
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Yo Yo Honey Singh is finally back after a long long disappearance. The rapper/singer, who made a striking impression on fans and attained the peak stardom with his killer songs suddenly made an exit from showbiz. A lot happened before Honey Singh silently left the industry starting from rumours mills suggesting his drug overdosage and
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While the current ‘King of the ring’ when it comes to hardware specifications is indeed the Vivo XPlay 5 Elite with 6GB of LPDDR4 RAM, something bigger seems to be coming our way indeed. Rumours coming from Chinese website MyDrivers claim that Meizu is preparing a smartphone that not only packs in 6GB of RAM
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After launching its Bingo 21 and Bingo 20 Android smartphones in India this year, InFocus on Tuesday launched its third ‘Bingo’ series smartphone, the Bingo 50. The handset comes with a price tag of Rs. 7,499 and will go on sale exclusively via Snapdeal starting March 21. Interested users can register for sales starting Tuesday.
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Russia’s move to begin withdrawing from Syria should be seen as a positive sign for the ceasefire, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said today. Speaking in Canberra after meeting with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop, Zarif underlined Iran’s stance on the need for a ceasefire and a political solution in Syria. “The fact that
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered an imminent nuclear warhead explosion test and multiple ballistic missile launches, just weeks after being slapped with tough, new UN sanctions, state media reported on Tuesday. The order came after Kim monitored the successful lab-test of the warhead re-entry technology required for a nuclear strike on the US
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A senior DANICS officer on Monday wrote to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claiming he was being “harassed” by Delhi government, an allegation that was refuted by the ruling dispensation. Kuldeep Singh Gangar, a 1990-batch DANICS (Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Services) officer, has marked copies of the letter to the President, Prime Minister’s Office,
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Myanmar lawmakers began casting ballots in a historic presidential vote today expected to confirm that a trusted confidant and anointed proxy of Aung San Suu Kyi will be the former junta-run nation’s first civilian leader in decades. Htin Kyaw, a respected writer and longtime close friend of Suu Kyi, is virtually guaranteed to sweep the
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Besides facing criticism for flouting environmental norms, the World Culture Festival organised by renowned spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living (AoL) foundation also saw Delhi Police registering over 70 cases of theft during the three-day event. According to reports, Delhi Police registered over 70 First Information Reports related to theft during the
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Chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ in public is a matter of choice, former Law minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid said today, in remarks that come against the backdrop of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s suggestion that the new generation needed to be taught to hail mother India. “It gives us pride when we sing national
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The police and the local administration in a South Andaman Island are caught in a situation where they have to decide between the constitutional perspective – “Nobody is above the law” and maintaining the “purity and sanctity of the society” of the isolated Jarawa tribe. The Jarawa’s are considered as India’s last remnant of a
The suspected honour killing of a Dalit man near Coimbatore on Sunday may have caused a nationwide uproar, but this is only the latest case of caste-based violence in a state with its own history of Dalit oppression. A group of unidentified men armed with hatchets and sickles hacked 22-year-old Shankar to death in the
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Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah urged the West Bengal government on Tuesday to look into reports that Kolkata Police was asking all city colleges to furnish details of Kashmiri students. “Dear @MamataOfficial can you please look in to this police order? Info gathering shouldn’t become harassment,” Abdullah tweeted following the police action
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Actors Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt were shooting for an advertisement in Mumbai recently and pictures from the shoot went viral on social media. One picture shows Alia, dressed in a taxi driver’s uniform with aviators to go, sipping cutting chai as Ranveer, dressed in kurta pyjama complete with a geeky look, approaches her with
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Officials in the ministry of rural development are a happy lot these days. Finance minister Arun Jaitley agreed to practically every demand they made during Budget discussions. Even the prime minister sat through some detailed presentations, according to a senior ministry official. The result: rural development and agriculture have been the central theme of Jaitley’s
Mahindra & Mahindra’s (M&M) on Monday forayed into the agricultural equipment rental services with the launch of Trringo, an organised rental service, with plans to invest over Rs 10 crore on the startup enterprise. “Farm Equipment Sector (FES), a part of Mahindra group, has forayed into the agricultural equipment rental services with Trringo that will
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The General Command of the UAE Armed Forces announced on Monday the martyrdom of two of its soldiers in Yemen. The two, Pilot Zayed Ali Al Kaabi, and First Lieutenant Mohammad Obaid Al Hammoudi, were martyred while performing their national duty as part of the Armed Forces’ involvement in Operation Restoring Hope, being carried out
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A typo by China’s state news agency over the weekend resulted in President Xi Jinping being referred to as China’s “last” leader in a report on the annual session of the rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC). Xinhua, a key media propaganda tool for the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), made the rare
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Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has decreed a two-month extension on emergency powers meant to help shore up the country’s crippled economy. The presidential decree, published in an official gazette released on Monday, is meant to “protect Venezuelans from economic warfare,” it says, and expands the socialist government’s powers. Maduro regularly blames US and local
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Brandon Stanton, an American photo-journalist and founder of well known Facebook page- ‘Humans of New York’, has in his open letter staunchly flaked US presidential candidate Donald Trump for encouraging hatred and violence for his political goals. Brandon, placed among the ’30 under 30 world changers’ by Time magazine, mentioned in his letter that his
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Responding to opposition’s inquiries in the wake of RSS’s statement that affluent classes do not need reservations, the government on Monday reiterated that there was no rethink on current social and caste based quotas and that it would continue. Though the RSS statement could be placed in the context of recent demands by Jat and
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