Twitter Inc has shut down more than 125,000 terrorism-related accounts since the middle of 2015, most of them linked to the Islamic State group, the company said in a blog post on Friday. Twitter has said it only takes down accounts when they are reported by other users, but said that it has increased the […]
A self-proclaimed cleric has been arrested by NIA officials for allegedly planning terror attacks in the country. Abdus Sami Qasmi, a resident of Seelampur, was arrested from Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district. He has been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into the conspiracy to form a terror organisation and to launch terror attacks in
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Concerned over the sharp rise in infectious disease like tuberculosis, Maharashtra government will introduce a bill banning spitting in public places in the upcoming state Legislature Budget session scheduled next month. State Health Minister Deepak Sawant had last year at a function on World Cancer Day mooted the idea of a law banning spitting in
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The death toll in the mishap involving a Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) bus at Navsari in South Gujarat has climbed to 41, police said on Saturday. Among the dead are 21 women, five children and 15 men, they said. The Gujarat government announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the next of
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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon as module pilot on the record-setting Apollo 14 mission in 1971, has died at the age of 85, the U.S. space agency said on Friday. Mitchell died in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, on the eve of the 45th anniversary of the lunar
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South Africa, 2007. It remains the only time India have won the World T20. It makes for some wonderment what the selectors had in mind when picking a side for that tournament, a format unknown to the Men in Blue until they played their first match in South Africa in 2006. Nearly nine years later,
Actress Sonam Kapoor says the makers of her forthcoming film ‘Neerja’ are not trying to sell the film to the audience, but only intend to inspiring people with the story of Neerja Bhanot, who lost her life while saving others on a hijacked flight. On Friday, Sonam visited St. Xavier’s College, where Neerja studied, and
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US President Barack Obama has angered China after warmly acknowledging Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and calling him “a good friend” at a national prayer breakfast in Washington, media reports said on Saturday. Obama did not directly meet the Dalai Lama who was seated among the audience at the annual White House National Prayer
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The ninth session of the India-Sri Lanka Joint Commission was held here on Friday, co-chaired by Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Sri Lankan counterpart Mangala Samaraweera. “Reviewing a multi-faceted partnership. EAM @SushmaSwaraj & FM Samaraweera Co-Chair 9th India-Sri Lanka Jt Commissio”,” external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeted. The India-Sri Lanka Joint
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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal “does not possess either a reputation or character” in his own estimation, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley told a Delhi court on Friday. Kejriwal had earlier told the court that Jaitley’s defamation case against did not hold water as the Union minister had “lost by a margin of more than
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Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has added another mid-range smartphone to its Desire range of smartphones. Thy’ve launched the Desire 626 dual-SIM with a price tag of Rs 14,990. It will be available in Blue Lagoon and White Brich colours across all retail stores in the country. Specifications on the smartphone include a 5-inch HD display, a
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Meet India’s biggest FMCG advertiser — at least for now — the Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. For the seven days to January 29, TV commercials (TVCs) of products under the Patanjali brand outnumbered those from big consumer goods brands such as Cadbury, Parle and Pond’s. The data is from Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC),
Dildo throwing is not a good look for New Zealand and an “appalling way” to behave on the country’s national day, Prime Minister John Key said today , angered by an attack on a senior government minister. Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce was hit in the face by a pink dildo thrown at him by
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Friday urged Britain and Sweden to let him walk free from Ecuador’s embassy in London after a UN panel found that the anti-secrecy campaigner was “arbitrarily detained.” Addressing a press conference via video link from the embassy, where he sought refuge in June 2012 and was later granted asylum, Assange hailed
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The sending of ground forces by Saudi Arabia into Syria will have immense ramifications for the country’s civil war and the wider region. The question, however, is whether it will actually take place. The Saudi announcement comes at a time when prospects for peace have faded with the collapse of the Geneva talks and the
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Hearing on prime accused in Sheena Bora murder case, Indrani Mukerjea’s bail plea will begin in the Mumbai Sessions’ court on Saturday. Indrani had, earlier, moved the sessions’ court seeking bail on medical grounds. In her 17-page bail plea, Indrani has said that her medical condition was deteriorating and she was suffering from frequent blackouts.
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In a U-turn that is sure to rile groups fighting for gender equality, the Kerala government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was duty bound to protect the centuries-old tradition banning entry of women between the ages of 10 and 50 years into Sabarimala temple, which also had constitutional sanction as a religious
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No campus erupted in shrill protest against the mob that stripped a Tanzanian student in Bengaluru and paraded her. Because she is black. No Women’s association called for a dharna and demanded action. Because she is black. The great social platforms of Twitter and Facebook received no trains so to speak. Because she was black.
Fuel trucks were spotted at North Korea’s main satellite centre, according to a US think tank, however the group says it is unlikely Pyongyang has begun fuelling the rocket it plans to launch in the coming weeks. The satellite images of the North’s Sohae complex on Wednesday and Thursday showed the trucks at fuel and
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Two small planes collided in mid air and plunged into the ocean off Los Angeles harbour in the United States on Friday. According to an Associated Press report, the planes collided at 3:30 pm local time and went into the water about two miles outside the harbour entrance. US Coast Guard and other officials confirmed
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The Supreme Court on Friday questioned Arunachal Pradesh Governor J P Rajkhowa’s decision to advance the assembly session to December last year from this January, asking what difference would it have made if the sitting was held as originally scheduled. “What would be the change or the difference if the assembly proceedings would have taken
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More than a day after an avalanche buried 10 Army personnel when it hit a high-altitude military post in Siachen Glacier, chances of finding any survivors were very remote even as rescue efforts were on Thursday scaled up with induction of specialised teams, sniffer dogs and equipment. “Rescue teams are braving adverse weather and effects
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Amid tight security and a tension-filled atmosphere in this village in East Godvari district, Kapu leader Mudragada Padmanabham began his indefinite hunger strike along with his wife Padmavathi seeking the inclusion of Kapus in the BC list in Andhra Pradesh. Minutes after the couple started the hunger strike at 9 am, tension gripped the area
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Ghayal Once Again movie review: The frenzied thrusts and parries of Sunny Deol’s Ghayal Once Again, a vengeance drama constructed as a hackneyed tale of an anti-corruption crusader, reeks mostly of the past. That isn’t surprising. This film is after all a follow-up to a super hit of a quarter century ago. It isn’t just
In a heartening story of triumph in the face of adversity, a Khagaria welder’s son, Vatsalya Chauhan, has bagged a 1.02 crore per annum job at IT giant Microsoft. A final year computer science student at IIT-Kharagpur, Vatsalya was picked by Microsoft during a campus placement drive in December 2015. “I still remember the interview
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Powerful body of Muslim cleric, Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind on Friday opposed the Supreme Court decision to take up the matter relating to marriage and divorce rights of Muslim women. Raising objections over Supreme Court hearing a plea on Muslim women rights, Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind claimed that Muslim personal law flows from the Holy Quran and therefore, it cannot be
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President Pranab Mukherjee conducted a fleet review of the Indian Navy ships amid a glittering ocean off Vizag shore on Saturday. The President, embarked on the INS Sumitra, inspected the fleet along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi from INS Sumitra, an off shore patrol vessel. The upper deck of the ship has been modified to
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Security arrangement has been tightened by the Odisha Police at three different places as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to come on a one-day whirlwind tour to Odisha on Sunday. While Mr. Modi will dedicate 15 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) oil refinery at Paradip and the National Institute of Science Education and
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Rescuers in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan pulled out 221 people and three dead from a residential high-rise complex that collapsed when a shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck before dawn Saturday, leaving still others trapped inside. Firefighters and soldiers scrambled with ladders, cranes and other equipment to the two towers that folded like an accordion
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Veteran Yuvraj Singh and rookie all-rounder Pawan Negi could be among those who trigger a bidding war when 351 cricketers go under the hammer in the Indian Premier League (IPL) players’ auction on Saturday. Negi, who has just been named in the Indian team for the World T20 and is known to hit big sixes
