Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said India is the most secular country in the world despite its diversity and the fact that people of all faiths live here. “If there is any secular country in the world, it is India,” the home minister told the Rajya Sabha while responding to a calling attention […]
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Around three dozen farmers in Bihar’s Vaishali district have refused to reap their standing wheat crops to make space available for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s function on 12 March, officials said on Thursday. Farmers of Sultanpur near Hajipur, the district headquarters of Vaishali and about 30 km from Patna, have been protesting against attempts by
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the Ministry of Transportation dispatched ships to salvage a fishing vessel that had run aground near Jackson Atoll in late 2015 and which posed a risk to navigation. During the operation, Chinese ships “persuaded fishing boats to leave the waters in an effort to ensure safety
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The honourable Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has launched the ‘Narendra Modi Mobile App’. The Narendra Modi Mobile app has been launched to facilitate CBSE students to share their experiences, tensions and problems pertaining to examinations. The Narendra Modi Mobile app can be downloaded by the students by giving a missed call to 1800
A 25-year old software professional was reportedly stabbed to death near Secunderabad in the early hours of Thursday. A report in The New Indian Express states that the techie was identified as Sanjay Junge, an employee of Sutherland Global Services in Hitec city. It was reported that the murder took place around 4.30 a.m when
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Britain will contribute around 20 million euros in extra funding to boost security at the French port of Calais where thousands of migrants have camped out hoping to cross the Channel, France’s minister for European affairs said on Thursday. Britain has already contributed more than 60 million euros and “there will be around an extra
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is taking her role in Sarbjit rather seriously! The glamorous diva has gone all out to shed that image and adopt a more realistic and earthy persona, more in fitting with the role she has sought to play in the biopic of the Indian farmer accused of espionage. As Dalbir Kaur, sister
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If you thought 2016 was a year full of adorable couples starting from Ranbeer Kapoor and Katrina Kaif to breaking up, you need to calm down! After all 2016 s not as jinxed as your imagined, the India-Pakistan Asia Cup match has seen to have done some god to the most likable couple Virat Kohli
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Gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli has been granted furlough by the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court. The bench, however, asked the state government to decide the duration of the furlough. The former MLA, currently lodged in the Central Prison here and serving life imprisonment in a murder case, had filed a petition before the bench on
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The NASA headquarters has made a startling revelation about the claims of Sataparna Mukherjee, the 18-year-old girl from West Bengal who said she had bagged the prestigious NASA Goddard Internship Programme (GIP) under the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). In a clarification sent to dna on email, NASA said, “We have no record of
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Is Jacqueline Fernandez the sexiest cover girl in Bolylwood currently? Well, she seems to look hotter than Katrina Kaif does on her magazine covers. Just check out Jacqueline, who starred with Katrina’s then boyfriend Ranbir Kapoor in Roy, on the Hello! magazine cover for March 2016! The leggy lass proves she can look classy and
In the first 20-odd years of his Bollywood screen life, Akshay Kumar seemed content being the quintessential mainstream action hero. The ‘khiladi’ tag that he earned pushed his box-office equity to an all-time high. However, in the last six years his whole attitude to work has seen a sea of change. Not content with just
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Two years ago, when Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa decided to release all the seven convicts of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case serving jail terms in Tamil Nadu, it aroused considerable hope and excitement. But, when she does a repeat of the same move now, the general response is that of scepticism and indifference.
Five tourists were recently injured — two of them severely – after falling off a cliff while clicking selfies at Anjuna village in Goa, police said on Thursday. The Goa police have asked a sub-divisional magistrate to record the statement of two of the women who were seriously injured in the incident. The five people
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A ship carrying military personnel and search and rescue officials was dispatched on Thursday to check on remote island communities in western Indonesia a day after a powerful earthquake, as strong aftershocks rattled the region. The 7.8 magnitude, shallow undersea quake hit late on Wednesday off Sumatra, Indonesia’s main western island, sending panicked residents fleeing
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The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to toughen sanctions on North Korea after its fourth nuclear test in January. The resolution called for “inspecting all cargo going in and out of the country, banning all weapons trade and expanding the list of individuals facing sanctions,” reported The New York Times. Hours after
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sent Letters Rogatory to Islamabad seeking investigation by a competent agency there into the evidence collected by it on the Pathankot attack, pointing to its origins in Pakistan. Among the evidence cited in the letters rogatory are Pakistani phone numbers contacted by the terrorists, intercepts of their conversations with
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Three Hizb-u- Mujahideen militants were killed in an overnight encounter in Tral area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, an Army official said on Thursday. The official said the security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Dadsara area of Tral last night, following information about the presence of militants in the area. The militants
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Rajya Sabha on Thursday witnessed a spat between treasury and opposition benches when Congress leader Anand Sharma raised the issue of alleged land scam in Gujarat. Making a Zero Hour mention, Sharma said Parliament has passed laws and there is a separate ministry to protect endangered wildlife. “Now we have a situation…(where there is) serious
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The issue of illegal migrants aka Bangladeshis is a mischievous myth or grim reality depending on which side of the political fence one is on. It has dominated the political discourse during every assembly election in Assam since the controversial one in 1983 during the anti-foreigners’ agitation. Mandate 2016 is shaping up to be no
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Google on Wednesday started rolling out the stable version of Chrome 49 on OS X, Windows, and Linux. The new browser version includes several bug fixes along with number of developer APIs and new user-facing features. One of the key new features of the Chrome 49 is smooth scrolling functionality. Users would now experience a
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Actor Salman Khan has taken it upon himself to resolve the differences between his brother, actor-filmmaker Arbaaz Khan and his wife, actor Malaika Arora Khan. The two have been in news after reports surfaced that their marriage is troubled. Malaika has allegedly moved out of Arbaaz’s house with their 14-year-old son. According to entertainment website
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A hunk of suspected aircraft wreckage found off the east African coast will be sent to Australia where experts will examine whether it is a new piece in the puzzle of missing flight MH370, officials said today. The fragment was reportedly found near Mozambique and could provide clues in the huge and costly Australia-led investigation
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The Delhi government is contemplating to file a criminal case against TV channels for allegedly tampering the videos of the controversial Jawaharlal Nehru University event on February 9. The move comes as the Aam Admi Party government is convinced that the JNU incident cannot be a sedition case. Even the forensic lab report states that
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Why are we asking this now? On Super Tuesday, Donald Trump took a large stride nearer towards the Republican nomination when he won seven of the eleven states where Republicans were voting. Senator Ted Cruz one three states, and Marco Rubio just one. For those within the Republican establishment who who hate and despite Trump
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China’s mammoth Asian connectivity venture through belt and road and on land and sea met its most compelling counter by India on Wednesday. Foreign secretary S Jaishankar outlined the Indian vision of Asian connectivity as a “consultative process” rather than “unilateral decisions”. In his opening address to the Raisina Dialogue, an international conference on geopolitics
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In yet another bid to release the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, the Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday wrote to the Centre seeking its views on its decision to free them. In a letter to the Union Home Secretary, State Chief Secretary K. Gnanadesikan said the State government has decided to remit
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New Zealand batting legend Martin Crowe, who died on Thursday after a long battle with cancer, once said that the only time he truly felt content was at the crease with a ball rocketing towards him. The 53-year-old, a cousin of Hollywood star Russell Crowe, rewrote the New Zealand record book during a 13-year Test
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The conditional bail for JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar may have been a minor victory for students demanding his release, but the content of the order of Justice Pratibha Rani delivers them a sobering message. The bail comes with several conditions, directives to JNU faculty and some serious observations on the exercise of freedom
Political strategist Prashant Kishor, who played a key role in victories of Narendra Modi-led BJP in general elections and JD(U)-RJD-Congress alliance in Bihar, on Wednesday attended a meeting with Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi to craft the party’s strategy for Uttar Pradesh polls. Congress leaders from the state confirmed Kishor’s presence during the meet and said
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