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Shani Shingnapur Temple row: Now the ball is in Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis’s court

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The ongoing row over the entry of women in the Shani Shingnapur Temple at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra is likely to come to an end after both the parties on Saturday agreed to accept the decision of Mahasrashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on the issue. Following the meeting with Ahmednagar district administration, activist Trupti Desai , […]

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In global crackdown on Islamic State activity, Twitter shuts down 125,000 ‘terrorism-related’ accounts

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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

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NIA arrest madrassa owner for allegedly planning terror attacks

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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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Thookna mana hain: Maharashtra to introduce anti-spitting bill in Budget session

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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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World T20 squad: Inclusion of Pandya, Negi suggests India have learned their lesson from 2012

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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,

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Sushma co-chairs India-Sri Lanka Joint Commission meeting

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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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Arvind Kejriwal has no reputation, character in his own eyes: Arun Jaitley tells court

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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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Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved Ltd becomes India’s biggest FMCG advertiser this week; outnumbers Cadbury, Parle

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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),

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Assange tells UK, Sweden to let him go after UN finding

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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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How Saudis sending ground forces into Syria will affect the civil war

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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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Mumbai Sessions’ court set to hear Indrani Mukerjea’s bail plea

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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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Tanzanian woman assaulted: Contempt for Africans has always been part of our narrow mindset

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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.

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Arunchal Pradesh crisis: SC questions Governor’s order to advance assembly session

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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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Siachen avalanche: Chances of finding 10 missing personnel very remote, says army

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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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Ghayal Once Again movie review: Sunny Deol’s super hit returns 25 years on, but times have changed

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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

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Muslim personal law can’t be subjected to scrutiny by Supreme Court: Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind

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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 reviews Indian Navy fleet off Vizag shore from INS Sumitra

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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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Earthquake measuring 6.4 hits Taiwan: Three killed, 221 rescued from rubble

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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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