A combative Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to reach out to the Opposition for passage of key legislations, including the Goods and Services Tax Bill, while making a series of comments that appeared to critique Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi without naming him in his reply to the motion of thanks to the President’s address in […]
In a harrowing incident, a man raped his own daughter for four months in Satara, following which both the father and the minor girl were thrashed by the panchayat, reports The New Express. The panchayat of the Panchwad village in Satara, Maharashtra beat up both daughter and father with a cane ten times. The man
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Two Tibetans — a monk in China and a teenager in India — set themselves on fire on the same day to protest Beijing’s ironclad control of the Himalayan region, a rights group and reports said on Wednesday. Kalsang Wangdu self-immolated in front of his monastery in a Tibetan area of Sichuan province on Monday,
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The Opposition parties led by Congress and Samajwadi Party on Friday created a storm in Rajya Sabha over alleged government interference in the autonomy of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), forcing adjournment of the House till noon. Opposition members trooped into the Well, raising slogans against alleged threat to the minority status of the university and
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Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli were very much in love and considered to be one of the most prominent Indian couples, only a few months ago. However, the two young superstars had broken up with each other a couple of months ago. However, good news might come soon for fans of the Sharma-Kohli fans who
Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Thursday there had been no breakthrough in Paris talks aimed at getting a fragile peace deal back on track, repeating that until security was restored there could be no election in the rebel-held Donbass region. For months, as progress in implementing the Minsk peace deal for eastern Ukraine has stalled,
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Turkish police shot dead two female militants on Thursday after they fired shots and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus in Istanbul, local media and the city governor said. A radical leftist group claimed responsibility for the attack, in which two police officers were lightly wounded, Governor Vasip Sahin said in televised comments.
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China today announced that it will hike its defence Budget by seven to eight percent this year from about USD 145 billion last year amid the growing confrontation with the US in the disputed South China Sea. “China’s military Budget will continue to increase. But the increase will be smaller compared to last year. It
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With Congress and CPI(M) yet to formally announce a tie-up for the West Bengal Assembly poll, the final outcome of the discussions for an alliance is likely to be clear by next week. “Consultations are being held in a cordial and positive atmosphere. And the discussions are being held in a positive atmosphere. We hope
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called a meeting of its legislature party on Monday to take a call on its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) amid the ongoing uncertainty over government formation in Jammu and Kashmir. The party’s MLAs will also elect their new legislature party leader. PDP sources said the delay
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the government is putting in all efforts to build infrastructure, especially rural roads, in a comprehensive manner. “Veins give strength to our body. Similarly, infrastructure will give speed and strength to the development of India. There will be progress if we focus on building road and railway network,
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took the Congress head-on for ‘obstructing’ key Bills, such as those on waterways, whistleblower protection, and the Goods and Services Tax (GST), but skirted issues, such as Rohith Vemula’s suicide, JNU and black money, which were raised vociferously by Rahul Gandhi a day earlier. “You keep saying it’s ours,
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India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday said they will have to dish out a “big performance” against Bangladesh in the summit clash of the Asia Cup Twenty20 cricket tournament if they desire to lift the trophy on Sunday. A dominant India today maintained their all-win record by producing yet another resounding performance to thrash
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The documents also revealed that the Al-Qaeda leaders were increasingly anxious about spies in their group, drones patrolling the skies and secret devices tracking their movements. Osama bin Laden was planning more attacks on the US just days before his death in order to mark the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, it has emerged. The
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When Honda launched the Amaze back in 2013, it went on to become the top selling Honda. Its diesel variant especially took Honda’s sales figures to a new high, quite literally. In just sixteen months, Honda sold over one lakh Amazes in India. But in recent months, the car saw a slump in its sales
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A lower court judge in Erode has served a memo on a 47-year-old Dalit court staff seeking an explanation about why she did not wash undergarments at his house. The memo from Judge D Selvam asked why a disciplinary action should not be taken against the staff as she failed to wash the undergarments and
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Former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma passed away, ANI reported on Friday. According to reports, Sangma died of a heart attack at his Delhi residence. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and other members of the House today condoled the passing away of Sangma and hailed him as a very popular mass leader. Purno Agitok
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The Election Commission (EC) is set to announce on Friday the schedule of elections for five state assemblies—Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry. The terms of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal governments end in May, while that of Assam and Puducherry end in June. The upcoming state elections are politically crucial given
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday summoned Nalini Chidambaram, the wife of former finance minister P. Chidambaram in the Saradha chit fund scam case. Nalini has to be present at CBI Kolkata office on March 10. Earlier, the CBI had named Nalini, in the sixth supplementary chargesheet filed in the Saradha scam. Nalini
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Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Fair and Lovely’ barbs at the government have been described as “racist” by a lawmaker of the ruling BJP who wants his apology in Parliament. The Congress Vice President could also be asked to apologise for his remarks on Veer Savarkar, the freedom fighter who is counted among the BJP’s biggest icons. On
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The trial court hearing a case of alleged illegal possession of arms against Bollywood actor Salman Khan in connection with black buck poaching has summoned him for recording his statements on March 10. The District and Session Court gave this order after rejecting an application of the defence seeking recalling of a prosecution witness for
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After receiving the thunderous response in previous editions of CT Half Marathon, CT Group of Institutions has once again come up with this noble ‘Race for Charity’ event. In this mega event, everyone from sports persons to senior citizens to Olympians, artists, players and also to physically challenged persons has joined for the noble cause.
Former US presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked 2016 Republican front-runner Donald Trump as “a fraud” on Thursday and urged primary voters to keep the outspoken New York billionaire from getting the nomination, paving the way for possible horse trading at a party convention in July. In an unusually harsh speech, party elder Romney warned that
West Bengal resident Sataparna Mukherjee’s claim that she had won a US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) scholarship appears to be a hoax, and the papers that she produced are most likely forged, as Nasa does not have such a scholarship at all in the first place. It was revealed during the investigations of
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A US Commission scheduled to visit India to discuss and report on the conditions of religious freedom in the country has been denied visa by the Indian government. A three-member delegation of US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) was schedule to leave for a one-week visit to India starting today to meet with government
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his country to be ready to use its nuclear weapons at any time and to turn its military posture to “pre-emptive attack” mode in the face of growing threats from its enemies, state media said on Friday. The comments, carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency, marked
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will move a notice in the Parliament against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for using the phrase ‘fair and lovely’ as it believes the remarks as racially discriminatory. On Wednesday, addressing the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi slammed the Modi Government over black money among other issues. Picking on the one-time compliance
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Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday night said they never demanded freedom from India — “We demanded freedom within India,” he said while addressing a gathering of thousands of students on the campus after spending days in Tihar jail on sedition charges. “We never demanded azadi (freedom) from India. We want
Cricket is more than just a game in India — you have probably heard that a million times before. But every now and then, something so out of the ordinary happens to drive home the point just how far an Indian cricket fan’s love for the game can take him. Meet Amir Hussain, a differently-abled
Indian ace shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Parupalli Kashyap advanced to the pre-quarterfinals after notching up contrasting victories in the men’s singles competition of the USD 120,000 German Grand Prix Gold. World No. 10 Srikanth, who clinched the Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold at Lucknow in January this year, struggled past qualifier Erik Meijs of The
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