Days after stunning the sports world by announcing she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open in January, Maria Sharapova thanked her fans for their “wonderful words” that put a smile on her face. The Russian faces a ban of up to four years pending an investigation by the International Tennis Federation after […]
Researchers are now saying that the iceberg that RMS Titanic hit, causing it to sink on April 14, 1912, was a whopping 100,000 years old! According to experts, the massive block of ice responsible for sinking the ocean liner had probably originated in southwest Greenland. Expert Grant Bigg of Sheffield University, UK, collected data from
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Hardening its stance, Pakistan on Wednesday deferred the departure of its cricket team to India demanding “explicit” security assurances. “Pakistan is still waiting for an explicit assurance from the Government of India about security of its team and Pakistan spectators. Without that Pakistan team is unlikely to participate in the Twenty20 ICC World Cup,” a
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch its sixth navigation satellite IRNSS-1F on Thursday at 4 pm. The satellite will be launched into orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. This system aims at developing an independent regional navigation satellite system for India just like
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Bollywood’s dimpled beauty Preity Zinta has a beautiful gift for all those who complained that her marriage was a concealed affair. The ‘Soldier’ actress has shared her first selfie post marriage. The 41-year-old actress recently took to her Twitter and Facebook handles to post the photo with a beautiful message, “All I want to say
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She’s gorgeous, funny and extremely bubbly. Sumona Chakravarti is someone any guy would like to marry. The lady is making news with reports of her upcoming marriage with Samrat Mukherjee doing the rounds. However, the actress denied it saying that marriage is nowhere on her mind right now. She said that she is used to
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Tens of thousands of documents containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of jihadis who joined the Islamic State group have been given to the UK’s Sky News, the broadcaster said Wednesday. Sky reported that a disillusioned former member had handed over the documents on a memory stick that had been stolen from
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Bollywood actor Salman Khan appeared before the Jodhpur chief judicial court on Thursday and recorded his statement in the 1998 Arms Act case. His lawyers later said that the actor told the court that he has been falsely implicated in the case, according to a report in ANI. During the course of hearing on Thursday,
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the spiritual guru with a worldwide following, today told NDTV that “We have not done anything wrong…we will go to jail but not pay a penny.” This afternoon, India’s top green court was informed that the 59-year-old’s organisation has so far not deposited the five-crore penalty judges have ordered ahead of
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Trying to push the government on the backfoot, a combative Rahul Gandhi on Thursday asked how it allowed liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who owes over Rs 9,000 crore to banks, to leave the country and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley have failed to answer this question in their speeches. The
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Samsung has finally put the rumours to rest and made official its Galaxy J1 smartphone. The smartphone has been announced for markets in the Philippines and is currently listed on Samsung’s Philippines website with no details about availability and more importantly, its price. The Samsung Galaxy J1 mini packs in a 4-inch TFT LCD display
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Prosecutors in Sao Paulo state have filed money laundering charges against former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is accused of hiding his alleged ownership of a seafront penthouse in the city of Guaruja. Silva has denied he owns the apartment, which belongs to constructor OAS. OAS is one of the biggest targets
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Top Islamic State commander leader Omar al-Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, was “seriously injured” in a recent strike in northeastern Syria but not killed despite US suggestions to the contrary, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that according to its sources the March 4 strike had indeed
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A Pakistani militant carrying a bounty for his role in Udhampur attack last year, Abu Okasha, has been killed in an encounter in Pulwama district but a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander and four other ultras managed to escape the security ring due to alleged connivance of locals. NIA had announced a reward of Rs five
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Ever since Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley made the startling claim on 11 February this year about the 2004 Gujarat encounter, the already murky Ishrat Jahan case has become even murkier. The Lok Sabha is likely to discuss on Thursday the raging controversy over the affidavits filed in the Ishrat Jahan encounter killing case when it
Vishal Bharadwaj’s upcoming film ‘Rangoon’ has been in news ever since it has been announced. The movie brings together three stellar performers namely Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Kangana Ranaut. In a new set of pictures that have surfaced on the internet, Shahid was recently spotted filming some crucial scenes at the Komli Ghat.
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Actress Sonam Kapoor recently took to the social media to slam the body shamers and got the support from none other than Anushka Sharma. The 30-year-old ‘Khoobsurat’ actress tweeted, “Fat shaming or skinny shaming.. It’s still body shaming!” Anushka was quick to catch the wind of it and retweeted Sonam’s comment, writing “Word” along with
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At least five people were killed and several injured on Wednesday in a shooting near Pittsburgh, with police and paramedics rushing to the scene, media said. Four women and one man were shot and killed in a residential neighborhood in Wilkinsburg, about 8 miles (13 km) east of the city, news station WPXI said, adding
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The Balkan trail from Greece to northern Europe used by floods of migrants was blocked on Wednesday after a string of nations slammed shut their borders, hiking pressure on the EU and Turkey to nail down a “game-changing” grand bargain. Slovenia and Croatia, two of the countries along the well-trodden route, said late on Tuesday
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Republican leaders opposed to Donald Trump becoming the party’s US presidential candidate warned on Wednesday that the billionaire businessman could become unstoppable if he wins two crucial nominating contests next week. One of Trump’s fiercest critics in the Republican Party, US Senator Lindsey Graham, said that if the billionaire businessman extends his winning streak into
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US Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called for sanctions against Iran after the Islamic Republic brushed off US concerns and test-fired two ballistic missiles that it said were designed to be able to hit Israel. Iranian state television showed footage of two Qadr missiles being launched from northern Iran, which the Islamic Revolutionary
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Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has proposed a close friend of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as its presidential candidate, ending a four-month wait for the identity of a president expected to rule in her name. The NLD put forward Htin Kyaw, who joined the party just two months ago, as its lower
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Vietnam has identified an extremely rare case of bi-paternal twins — twins with different fathers — a professor at a DNA testing lab in Hanoi told AFP Tuesday. A set of twins born to a Vietnamese couple, whose names have not been released, were recently taken for testing because of stark differences in the children’s
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JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is out on bail in a sedition case, is facing ire of the BJP’s youth wing for his remarks on the security forces in Kashmir. Speaking on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act or AFSPA, Kanhaiya said, “No matter how much you try to stop us, we will
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The Church in India has identified ‘growing intolerance’, ‘narrow, culture-based interpretation of nationalism’ and ‘saffronisation of the education system’ as main challenges facing it. The key challenges were identified at the 32nd plenary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI), which ended here on Wednesday. The ambiguous stand of the Central government on the
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice on a plea to initiate contempt action against the Delhi and Tamil Nadu governments for allegedly defying an apex court judgment barring the publication of Chief Ministers’ photographs in government advertisements. The petition was filed by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan. The
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the states and the local bodies to take steps to sterilise and vaccinate nuisance-causing stray dogs, under the provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. The bench, headed by Justice Dipak Misra, observed that there is a need to balance compassion for animals and the existence of
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It was recently reported that filmmaker Siddharth Anand is ready to reboot the ‘Rambo’ franchise in Hindi, sparking off speculations over the casting. “Hrithik (Roshan) is always on top of my mind, but I haven’t finalised anyone as yet. It can be a new actor as well,” he had said. But now sources working on
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Wednesday became special for the city when Punjabi singer Jazzy B showed up to launch his cricket team ‘Chandigarhiye Yankies’ which would be competing in the upcoming north region’s biggest sports entertainment show and Punjab’s first ever unisex celebrity cricket show Box Cricket League-Punjab. Though this is the last team to be launched for this
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his five party colleagues, who were named as accused in the criminal defamation case filed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, have been summoned for a court hearing on April 7. The move comes after the court observed that the remarks made by the six were derogatory in nature. The
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