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LeEco sets new smartphone industry record; sells 200000 units in less than 30 days

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After garnering thousands of orders via its hugely successful flash sales, LeEco has set yet another record. The Chinese electronics giant that recently set foot in India managed to sell 2,00,000 LeEco smartphone in less than 30 days. This is an achievement for a brand that was until a few months ago, relatively unknown in […]

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Noida: After Snapdeal employee’s abduction, a fashion designer goes missing

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Days after Snapdeal employee Deepti Sarna was abducted and found, a woman fashion designer has gone missing from Noida under mysterious circumstances. Shipra Malik left her home on Monday afternoon for Chandni Chowk. The last call made by the victim’s mobile phone was to 100. Her last location was found to be Lajpat Nagar in

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‘Modiji’s Fair And Lovely Yojna To Convert Black Money,’ Says Rahul Gandhi

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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi addressed lawmakers in Lok Sabha, attacking the Modi government over black money among other issues. He said Modiji brought a ‘Fair and Lovely Yojna’ to convert black money into white and blamed him of destroying UPA’s work against insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir and terrorism. Here are the highlights of Rahul

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Facebook Exec Jailed in Brazil as Court Seeks WhatsApp Data

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Brazilian police arrested a senior Facebook Inc executive on Tuesday as a dispute escalated over a court’s demand that the company provide data from its WhatsApp messaging service to help in a secretive drug-trafficking investigation. Court officials in Sergipe state confirmed that a judge had ordered the jailing of Facebook Vice President for Latin America

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Gulf nations declare Lebanon’s Hezbollah a terrorist group

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A Saudi-led bloc of six Gulf Arab nations formally branded Hezbollah a terrorist organization on Wednesday, ramping up the pressure on the Lebanese militant group fighting on the side of President Bashar Assad in Syria. The move by the Gulf Cooperation Council comes less than two weeks after Saudi Arabia announced it was cutting $4

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Pakistan to Resume Talks With India After Pathankot Probe Team’s Visit

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Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that talks with India are likely to resume after a team visits Pathankot in the upcoming days, to investigate into the deadly attack on the Indian Air Force Base. According to the Dawn, an official transcript released on Tuesday quoted Aziz as saying that the

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Supreme Court to Maharashtra government: Grant licence to dance bars by March 15

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Maharashtra government to grant licences to dance bars by March 15. The Court also refused to allow the state government’s demand that there be a live feed from a dance bar to the nearest police station. The court said that CCTV coverage of the performance area would be

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India vs Pakistan in Dharamsala: Since when is Congress behaving like Shiv Sena?

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It’s bad enough that the tickets for the World Cup were delayed inordinately and there was so much confusion over whether Delhi would pass the test as a venue. But this latest twist in the cricket pretzel with Dharamshala backing off its responsibility to host the Indo-Pakistan tie on 19 March is certain to cause

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‘I felt my flow was back’: Yuvraj Singh on his 18-ball 35 against Sri Lanka in Asia Cup

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The highlight of India’s five-wicket victory over Sri Lanka on Tuesday was not the team’s third consecutive, comfortable win in Asia Cup, it wasn’t Virat Kohli’s Man of the Match-winning half-century, it was not even making the finals, it was Yuvraj Singh turning back the clock. Yuvraj produced a power-packed innings, hitting 35 runs off

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India has approached Japan, Russia, UK for documents on Netaji

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India has approached several countries, including Japan, Russia and the UK, for handing over of documents relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and some of them have responded, Rajya Sabha was told on Wednesday. Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said the issue of handing over documents relating to Netaji had been taken

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Philippine officials say China blocking access to disputed South China Sea atoll

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China has stationed several ships near a disputed atoll in the South China Sea, preventing Filipino fishermen from accessing traditional fishing grounds and raising tensions in the volatile region, Philippine officials said on Wednesday. China had deployed up to seven ships to Quirino Atoll, also known as Jackson Atoll, said Eugenio Bito-onon Jr, the mayor

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Navigation app Waze denies sending Israel troops into harm’s way

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Google-owned traffic app Waze hit back on Wednesday at suggestions its directions led Israeli soldiers into a Palestinian refugee camp where they were attacked, sparking bloody clashes. Two Israeli soldiers were said to be using the app when they mistakenly drove into the Qalandiya refugee camp overnight, sparking clashes as security forces deployed to rescue

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Telangana may invite Dalai Lama to inaugurate ‘Buddha Vanam’ project

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The Telangana government is planning to invite spiritual leader Dalai Lama for the inauguration of ‘Buddha Vanam’ (Buddha garden) project in the city. K T Rama Rao, IT and Panchayat Raj Minister said this during a meeting with an official of Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative values from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),

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Paracels Tough New Front In US Battle To Rein-In South China Sea Ambitions

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The United States and China are risking a tit-for-tat escalation over the Paracel Islands as Beijing asserts its authority over one of its most tightly-held assets in the South China Sea and Washington challenges a growing military build-up. Both Chinese and foreign security experts say Beijing won’t compromise over the Paracels, and it views its

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MIT’s Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative Values to open in Hyderabad

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The renowned Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative Values which is based at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, is set to open its South Asia Centre in Hyderabad. The director of the Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative Values Tenzin Priyadarshini informed the Telangana IT Minister K.T.Rama Rao and Tourism Minister

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Check out the menacing look of Deepika Padukone in ‘XXX: The Return of Xander Cage’

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In the new instalment of the set images from Deepika Padukone’s XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, Bollywood diva looks all menancing filming an action sequence. Deepika plays Serena opposite to Vin Diesel’s Xander Cage. All tatted and clad in leather hot pants and strapped boots, Deepika is standing opposite a stuntman, ready to strike,

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Thousands attend funeral of Pakistani man who killed governor Salman Taseer

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Tens of thousands of Pakistanis chanting anti-government slogans on Tuesday attended the funeral of a police officer executed the day before for assassinating a secular governor in 2011 over accusations of blasphemy. As a precaution against violence, authorities closed all schools and stepped up security in Islamabad and the adjacent city of Rawalpindi, where the

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HC seeks reply as Army strips youth for exam

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The Patna high court on Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of pictures published in a newspaper showing candidates taking an Army recruitment exam in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur on Sunday in undergarments. Altogether 1,159 candidates wrote the test, which the Army Regional Office (ARO) in Muzaffarpur conducted for recruitment of clerks. After advocate Dinu Kumar mentioned the

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Sunanda Pushkar death case: Delhi Police asks DG health services to form board to examine evidence

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Delhi Police has written to the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) to form a special team comprising doctors and forensic scientists to examine the medical reports and evidence in Sunanda Pushkar’s death. A letter was sent to the DG Health Services after the Special Investigation Team probing the case failed to draw any conclusion

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Missing: Rs1 trillion lost somewhere in India’s 1,500-page budget

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One of the biggest mysteries in India’s budget is how much Prime Minister Narendra Modi allocated for a once-in-a-decade pay hike for government employees. Economists covering India have spent the last few days scouring through some 1,500 pages of budget documents to discover funds for a roughly Rs.1 trillion wage increase proposed by a government-appointed

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Budget session: AIADMK disrupts Parliament, protests against P Chidambaram, son Karti

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Budget session: AIADMK members disrupted both houses of parliament on Tuesday demanding action against former home minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti over corruption charges. The protesting members shouted slogans in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha against the former Congress minister and his son. Soon after the Lok Sabha met for the

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Asia Cup 2016: India crush Sri Lanka by 5 wickets to reach final after another Virat Kohli show

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India stormed into the final of the Asia Cup T20 cricket tournament on Tuesday with another comfortable five-wicket victory over Sri Lanka, riding on Virat Kohli’s unbeaten half-century. It was their third successive victory, clinching a berth for the summit clash as they now stand on the cusp of their sixth continental championship trophy. After

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