A cache of leaked “surveys” given to would-be jihadis joining ISIS show the 23 questions that make up the terror group’s rigorous “entrance interviews”. The documents ask new recruits to detail a host of information in 23 fields, including their birth date, nationality, blood type and “previous jihadi experience”. Tens of thousands of the forms, […]
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Nat’l Green Tribunal slaps Rs 5 crore fine on Sri Sri’s foundation, asks 2 govt bodies to pay Rs 6 lakh for negligence, before giving its nod. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday gave its green signal to Art of Living (AOL) Foundation’s three-day World Culture Festival on the banks of the Yamuna, but
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The real estate bill slated for passage in the Upper House on Thursday after the Congress indicated its support for the legislation, seeks to set up a Real Estate Regulatory Authority in states and federal territories to oversee real estate transactions. It will help regulate sector and bring in clarity in terms of who governs/monitors
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Women employees of Kingfisher Airlines have written an open letter to embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, saying exploitation is in his blood and that is why he talked about one time settlement with banks and not with the employees. ”Because we are weak and vulnerable due to our system? Coincidentally today being’ “women’s day” we
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Ovarian Cancer among women of reproductive and growing age has become one of the common problems in India. Development of cancer cells in ovary accounts for about 4% per cent of all cancers in women. However it is a highly aggressive cancer and is one of the leading causes of women’s death. Dr. Archana Dhawan
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Here’s a list of the most common beauty mistakes that you make in the course of your day. – Going to sleep without washing your face If you haven’t worn makeup in the day, you tend to go to bed without following a cleansing routine. But what you don’t realise is that throughout the day,
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Put a dish of cocktail peanuts in front of us and we’ll consume the entire bowl without even realising we started. We are only human. But do we really know what we’re eating? If you have ever slowed down to crack a peanut in half, you’ll notice a little nub inside (and if you’re smart,
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If you are wondering if observing International Women’s Day is relevant today, here are some facts that might just answer a few questions on gender disparity and its existence: – World over, women do 66% of the world’s work and produce 50% of the food. They earn just 10% of incomes and own 1% of
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Below are the 10 rights every Indian woman should know… Free legal aid Under the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987, all female rape victims have the right to free legal aid. “Whenever a rape victim is unable to hire a lawyer, it’s mandatory for the station house officer to inform the city’s legal services authority
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Body odour is the last thing you want to be the cause of your embarrassment. It stinks! No matter how regular we are with our bathing routine (we’re going to assume you bathe, at least often?), there comes a point when we are left wondering what in the world is causing that stink in me!
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Samsung Electronics has launched its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, just 15 days after their global launch on February 21. The handset maker has priced the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, at Rs 48,900 and Rs 56,900, respectively. One will get a chance to pre-book the device between 8-17
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Most Wanted Munda is a peppy and cheerful song from Arjun Kapoor’s upcoming film Ki and Ka. The song talks about Arjun Kapoor aka Kabir’s skill sets and abilities and why he is the most desirable husband of the generation. He is good-looking, loving, he can cook, look after the house and what not. He
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big clash awaits the big screens and box office in May this year. It is none other than the Bollywood queen Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s ‘Sarbjit’ competing with her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘T3EN’ on May 20. The release date of Sarbjit has been announced today and surprisingly it will release on the same day as her
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Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha today remembered the women who left an impact on their lives as they lauded the role of those in the defence forces on the occasion of Women’s Day. Parrikar said his mother gave him several lessons when he was child, and though it was difficult
The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld death sentence for Mir Quasem Ali, former Al-Badr and Jammat-e-Islami Party leader, for being involved in atrocities against Bangalis during the Liberation War in 1971. Al-Badr was a paramilitary wing of the West Pakistan Army, which operated in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) against the Bengali nationalist movement during
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Iran test-fired several ballistic missiles from silos across the country on Tuesday, the official website of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said, defying recent US sanctions on its missile program. The test was intended “to show Iran’s deterrent power and also the Islamic Republic’s ability to confront any threat against the (Islamic) Revolution, the
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A worker of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS was pulled out of the autorickshaw he was driving in Kerala’s Kannur this morning by a group of men, who then attacked him with sharp weapons. Huddled inside the autorickshaw and watching in fright were four children from class 1 and 2 who the RSS worker,
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DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday denied stalemate in alliance talks with Vijayakanth’s DMDK. Addressing a press meeting at the DMK headquarters Anna Arivalayam here, Karunanidhi said he was confident of a poll tie-up with the DMDK alliance for the election in Tamil Nadu. In response to a question on status of talks with Vijayakanth’s
It was a sight not seen often when woman MP Ranjeet Ranjan today rode to Parliament on an orange Harley-Davidson motorcycle to make a statement on Women’s Day. The 42-year-old Lok Sabha member belonging to Congress from Bihar’s Supaul, wearing a blue attire with helmet and sunglasses, rode around the Parliament complex before entering the
The BJP-led NDA Government today hit back at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and said the grand old party’s hall mark all these years has been ‘words for the poor, deeds for the rich’. “The Congress vice-president says that the government may attack him personally but don’t attack the poor. I want to tell him that
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Making cane products, paper bags and radio jockeying were part of prisoner number C-16656 Sanjay Dutt’s daily routine at the Yerwada Central Jail in Maharashtra. But apart from these what kept him busy was writing about his life experiences. The 56-year-old Bollywood actor, who recently walked out a free man after serving jail term following
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Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday announced the rollback of proposed tax on withdrawals from employees’ provident fund. “The purpose to tax EPF withdrawals was to encourage a pensioned society. However, In view of representations received, the government would like to do a comprehensive review of this proposal and therefore I withdraw the proposal,” Jaitley
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Crediting Salman Khan for his success in the film industry, music director-actor Himesh Reshammiya says the superstar is nothing less than a “messiah” for people, who want to make big in Bollywood. Himesh made his debut as a composer with Salman’s ‘Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya’ and went on to create music for many of
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On International Women’s Day, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha announced that the nation will see its first batch of female fighter pilots on June 18 this year. “As of now three women trainees have volunteered to join the fighter stream. They are under the second phase of their training. Once they complete their training and
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The Narendra Modi government has decided to withdraw their plan to tax the corpus accumulated by investing in the Employees’ Provident Fund(EPF). As the finance minister Arun Jaitley said in the Lok Sabha today: “In view of representations received, the government would like to do a comprehensive review of this proposal and therefore I withdraw
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South Korea on Tuesday unveiled a series of fresh unilateral sanctions against North Korea, which include asking citizens to boycott North Korean restaurants abroad. The new measures imposed over the North`s recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch also blacklist scores of North Korean individuals and entities and bans any vessels previously docked in North
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International Women’s Day has marked the plight and achievements of women for more than a century -but is now looking ahead another 15 years to the world’s gender equality goals. Themed this year around “Planet 50-50 by 2030”, the United Nations-backed event will be celebrating women’s rights in more than 40 countries. It will look
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Dozens of Islamist fighters stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan border on Monday, attacking army and police posts in a raid that killed at least 53 people, including civilians, the government and residents said. Local television broadcast images of soldiers and police crouched in doorways and on rooftops as gunshots
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Hillary Clinton’s vow to regulate oil and gas fracking almost out of existence was met with skepticism Monday, failing to convince either industry or environment groups that she would – or could – end the controversial drilling practice if she becomes president. The front-runner for the Democratic party nomination used a debate in Flint, Michigan
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Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, posted on Twitter on Tuesday morning that CBI has issued an ‘informal’ summons to his staff to in relation to the raid conducted at Delhi Secretariat on December 15 last year. “CBI summons Delhi CM’s staff “informally” on phone without notice. Staff of other ministers called earlier like this,” (sic)
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