Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Shahryar Khan on Wednesday admitted that if the national team was unable to participate in next month’s World Twenty20 in India, the body could be fined by the ICC. Khan told reporters that in case Pakistan pulls out of the World Cup, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) would have to pay […]
Neanderthals may have been mating with modern humans 100,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new study based on several different methods of DNA analysis has found. Scientists provide the first genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with now-extinct
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With the JNU row continuing unabated, Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday said people are free to criticise the government but cannot abuse the nation. In a Facebook post, Rijiju said a group of people in Jawaharlal Nehru University have taken a “despicable vow to break India into pieces” and declared Parliament attack convict Afzal
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The ICC World T20 2016 is impending and the cricket fraternity is busy picking their favourites. MS Dhoni’s Team India are red-hot favourites because it is shaping up well, for being on a roll after two consecutive series wins; while the Australians are not being spoken about much following their poor show. There are worries
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There was a lot riding on Suryakumar Yadav even before he set his foot on the lush green turf in Cuttack to take on Madhya Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy semi-final. The former Mumbai skipper created a stir with a critical tweet on team selection, ruing opener Jay Bista’s exclusion for the semis. Mumbai’s chief
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With a “no-vacancy” sign plastered on India’s top order and his utility in the middle questioned by his own captain, Ajinkya Rahane suddenly finds his consistency with the bat means very little. The 27-year-old Mumbai batsman has forced his way into the final 15 for next month’s World Twenty20 on home soil but is unlikely
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Kapil Sharma and his production team are currently in a terrible fix. The popular comedian who quit Colors’ Comedy Nights With Kapil last month is currently trying to figure out a way to feature the same characters on his new show, reportedly on Sony Entertainment Network, without getting into legal trouble with Colors. According to
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The Nadigar Sangam or South Indian Artistes’ Association is gearing up to raise funds for building their new office. Actor Vishal who is the General Secretary of the Nadigar Sangam told media that in order to raise funds they were planning to have a star cricket match. The cricket match will also see Superstar Rajinikanth
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Unfolding an inspiring and struggle filled journey of a visually impaired IAS officer, a book “I: Putting the Eye in IAS” reflects the author’s life but is not an autobiography. Having cleared the Civil Services examination in the year 2006, Singh was appointed as an IAS after a long legal battle and intervention of the
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After drawing flak for his remark that farmers? suicides have become a ‘fashion’, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Maharashtra Gopal Shetty on Thursday clarified his stand, saying there is a competition among the state governments to give compensation to the farmers who commit suicide. The BJP MP from North Mumbai said that he erroneously
A 32-year-old police officer was found hanging in Chennai this morning. N Harish, who was in the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption, was found dead in his room at the officers’ mess. The police say no suicide note has been found. Mr Harish, a 2009 batch IPS or Indian Police Service officer, was from Karnataka.
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Furious about North Korea’s recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch, South Korea vows to hit back hard and says the shutdown of a jointly run factory park in the North will only be the start. But what’s next for Seoul as it looks to make its nuclear-armed northern neighbor hurt? Some experts say South
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U.S. President Barack Obama is likely to make a historic visit to Cuba next month — the first sitting American president to go to the island nation in 80 years — as the two Cold War-era foes make efforts to normalise their ties, a media report has said. The news was first reported by ABC
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The Republican race for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination erupted into a four-candidate crossfire on Wednesday over who has the proper experience and is the most conservative, days before South Carolina voters put their stamp on the campaign. In TV interviews and campaign events, front-runner Donald Trump threatened to sue U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of
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The United States and the European Union warned China on Wednesday that it should respect an international court ruling expected before May on its dispute with the Philippines over territory in the South China Sea. China claims virtually all the South China Sea and rejects the authority of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the
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India would utilise the opportunity to drive home the point on timely completion of Delhi-funded projects in Nepal under the current and previous Line of Credits and the need for a balanced Constitution when PM KP Sharma Oli arrives here on a six-day visit. Even as Oli arrives here on his maiden trip abroad as
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The United States’ decision to sell eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan will only amount to rewarding the country for its ‘bad behaviour’, a US-based Hindu advocacy group has said. “The Obama administration announced the move, despite its own assessment that the Pakistani government, directly and by proxy, supports Islamist terror groups that target its
Bollywood celebrities like Sunny Leone, Madhur Bhandarkar and Mika Singh have congratulated Priyanka Chopra over her Hollywood debut film ‘Baywatch’ and say that they “can’t wait” to watch the actress in the film. Priyanka, who will star alongside Hollywood actor Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Zac Efron in “Baywatch”, will be seen playing the villain
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I saw her getting shot. She was shot in the head, point blank. Sitting in the sixth row from the front, I saw her during her last moments,” said Dr Kishore Murthy, recalling the fearless Neerja Bhanot. A survivor of 1986 Pan Am hijack, Murthy shuddered as the dreadful moment flashed before his eyes. Though
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) is the third most followed leader on photo and video sharing website Instagram with 1.7 million followers, behind Barack Obama’s campaign account (@BarackObama) which is followed by more than 6 million people and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (@damedvedev), who has more than 2 million followers, said a new
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The AIADMK government will on Tuesday present Tamil Nadu’s interim budget for 2016-17 in the poll-bound state. Finance Minister O Panneerselvam is slated to make his budget speech after which the Business Advisory Committee will decide on the duration of the session, where the budget will be discussed and debated. Since polls are due in
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Hrithik Roshan has romanced most of the leading ladies of Bollywood on screen but is yet to work with Deepika Padukone. If the latest buzz is anything to go by, then the handsome actor may soon team up with the dimpled hottie in Sajid Nadiadwala’s next. According to a report in DNA, Sajid is apparently
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President Obama is insistent: He doesn’t want to endorse a candidate in this year’s Democratic primary contests. At least not quite yet. The only problem with that? The comments he has been willing to make sound sort of like an endorsement of Hillary Clinton. It makes a certain amount of sense that Obama would gravitate
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An Indian teacher who runs a not-for-profit school in Mumbai for girls from the city’s red light areas was on Wednesday named in the top 10 short-list for a global prize for teachers. Robin Chaurasiya, founder of Kranti, will compete with teachers from the UK, US, Nairobi, Palestine, Japan, Finland, Australia and Pakistan to win
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There were many speculations in Srinagar, but no one had any idea that BJP general secretary Ram Madhav would visit Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti so soon. Jammu and Kashmir, which has been under Governor’s Rule for over a month since January 7 when then chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away, saw the
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In an apparent attack on Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for his support to the protesting Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students, Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Thursday said that association with anti-nationals is treachery, adding that the political leaders should go beyond vote bank politics and should not compromise with the nation’s sovereignty and unity. “It
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A little-known company from Uttar Pradesh launched the world’s cheapest smartphone, which will cost Rs 251 for a device with a 4-inch display, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory and dual-SIM option. But the launch by Ringing Bells, an agro-commodity trading company, was mired in controversy right from the word go. Alleging unfair price
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At least 28 people were killed and 61 wounded Wednesday by a car bomb targeting the Turkish military in the heart of the capital Ankara, the latest in a string of attacks to shake the country. The blast struck a convoy of military vehicles, said Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, confirming the latest toll. It
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The sedition case against Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Kanhaiya Kumar appears to be an afterthought, relying mostly on a TV report. When the station house officer (SHO) of a nearby police station visited the JNU campus on February 9, he saw students at an evening rally commemorating the anniversary of the execution of 2001
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Organic milk and meat contain about 50 percent more beneficial omega-3 fatty acids than conventionally produced equivalents, according to a pair of large-scale studies published Tuesday. Previous research has linked omega-3 with reduced rates of cardiovascular disease, improved neurological development, and better immune function. A team of two dozen researchers led by Carlo Leifert, a
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