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Stern words: Israel PM Netanyahu warns Gaza militants of retaliation with greater force

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the Islamic militant group Hamas that rules Gaza that his country will retaliate with “greater force” than deployed in the 2014 Gaza war if cross-border tunnels are used to attack Israel. Hamas has built a sophisticated network of tunnels that it has used to penetrate Israel in order […]

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Pakistani authorities sealed 182 ‘madrassas’ since Peshawar school attack: Report

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Pakistani authorities have sealed 182 ‘madrassas’ since the deadly Peshawar school attack in 2014, in a countrywide crackdown on religious seminaries allegedly involved in extremism, a media report said on Monday. The madarassas were closed in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of their involvement in promoting extremism and other suspicious activities, the Associated Press

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Hamid Ansari begins 5-day visit to Brunei, Thailand for bilateral talks

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Vice President Hamid Ansari on Monday left on a five-day visit to Brunei and Thailand, where he will hold bilateral talks with the leadership of the two South East Asian countries besides participating in a number of other events. His visit to Brunei at the invitation of crown prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah is the first

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Selfie turns fatal for Chennai boy after he was run over by speeding train

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A ‘selfie’ moment ended in a tragedy for a 16-year-old student who was run over a speeding train while trying to click a picture of himself besides the train. Dinesh Kumar, a Class XI student, was walking along the railway track with a friend at suburban Vandalur on Sunday evening when the incident happened, police

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Men can visit graveyards, why not us? ask Muslim women

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Even as the debate over access to women in the inner sanctum of Haji Ali Dargah rages, several members of the Muslim community have started questioning the practice of disallowing women in graves and graveyards. “No religious scripture bars women from visiting graves. Prophet Muhammad himself regularly visited the graveyard and recommended people to do

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Madhya Pradesh govt to construct 35,000 new homes for policemen in the next 5 years

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Madhya Pradesh government will construct 35,000 new homes for its police force in next five years, including 10,000 this year. “The government is making earnest efforts to ensure that all police families are provided houses and will construct 10,000 houses for them this year and another 25,000 in next five years,” Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister

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Pak to seek more proof from India on Pathankot attack: Report

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With no headway made in the probe into the Pathankot terror attack, Pakistan plans to seek more evidence from India, a media report said today, days after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the outcome of the investigation into the assault would be made public soon. A Pakistani government team investigating the Pathankot airbase attack will

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Moto X Force with shatterproof display to be launched in India today

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Motorola is all set to launch the Moto X Force smartphone in India today. A few days ago, the device was listed online on Amazon, without any details regarding price and availability. The main USP for the device is its ‘ShatterShield’ display. At its thinnest, the device measures 7.6mm and sports a 5.4-inch AMOLED QHD

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Sydney schools evacuated and locked down after bomb threats

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Several schools in Sydney were evacuated and locked down on Monday after reportedly receiving bomb threats leading to police operations in Australia’s largest city. At least eight operations are underway at Sydney schools and among those affected are Hunters Hill High, Sydney’s Girls High School, Randwick Girls High, Mosman High, Riverside Girls High, James Ruse

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New dawn: Myanmar house begins new session dominated by Suu Kyi party

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Hundreds of lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League of Democracy were sworn into Myanmar’s parliament on Monday, with enough seats to choose the country’s first democratically elected government since the military took power in 1962. The NLD won some 80 percent of elected seats in November’s historic vote, catapulting it to power as

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Shashi Tharoor may have to take lie-detector test soon

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Suspects in the murder case of Sunanda Pushkar are being questioned afresh by investigators. Among those being questioned again are Shashi Tharoor’s driver and help Bajrangi and Narain Singh. Tharoor’s family friend Sanjay Dewan and the doctor who had examined Sunanda were also questioned. Tharoor is soon going to be called in for questioning and

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Boko Haram Burns Kids Alive In Nigeria, 86 Dead: Officials

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A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists. Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night’s attack on

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Bernie Sanders, Citing Email Controversy, Questions Hillary Clinton’s Electability

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US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday took a jab at rival Hillary Clinton’s electability, pointing to the controversy surrounding her use of a private email server as evidence of potential damage to the front-runner’s campaign. “In terms of what people are going to get slapped with, look at the front pages today in

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Road to the White House: Turnout will be key factor in Monday’s leadoff Iowa caucuses

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Democratic and Republican presidential candidates scrambled across Iowa on Sunday to close the deal with the first voters to have a say in the 2016 race for the White House, urging their supporters to take part in Monday’s caucuses in which outsiders Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are pinning their hopes on a large turnout.

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Islamic State bombings near Syria Shiite Sayyida Zeinab shrine kill 71

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Bombings claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group killed 71 people and wounded dozens more on Sunday near a revered Shiite shrine outside the Syrian capital Damascus, a monitor said. The blasts, which came as the UN’s Syria envoy struggled to convene fresh peace talks in Geneva from which IS is excluded, tore a massive

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Yashwant Sinha says his ‘Modi govt may meet same fate as Indira’ remark was misinterpreted

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Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha contended his remarks made in Goa on Sunday had been “completely misunderstood” and misinterpreted but the comments he made at a conference indicated that he was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, without naming him. At a panel discussion in the ‘Difficult Dialogues’ conference in Dona Paula on Sunday, Sinha

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Vijayvargiya clarifies his ‘small incident’ remark on Rohith’s suicide

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Senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya clarified his “small incident” remark on Rohith Vemula’s suspension from the Hyderbad university hostel that led to his suicide, accusing media of distorting his comment on the Dalit scholar’s suicide. On Saturday, Vijayvargiya had said: “The suicide of Vemula is unfortunate. He was a courageous youth who had a zeal

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Ending months of Govt-Guv tussle, Justice Sanjay Mishra sworn in as UP Lokayukta

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After a delay of nearly two years, Uttar Pradesh got a Lok Ayukta on Sunday with Governor Ram Naik swearing in Justice Sanjay Mishra as the new ombudsman. Though the name of the former Allahabad High Court judge figured on the shortlist of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, he was never seen as the front-runner, even

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Karan Johar: I related to each and every character in Aligarh

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After watching Hansal Mehta’s critically acclaimed film `Aligarh’, Karan Johar reacted spontaneously and said, “I related to the film; I related to each and every character. I was upset by the treatment meted out to the character by certain people, which means that the film was made well……More than having my sympathy, it had me

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India has potential to grow faster at 8-9 per cent, says Arun Jaitley

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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has stressed that structural reforms addressing infrastructure, irrigation, farm productivity and manufacturing can help boost growth by about 1-1.5 percentage points. India has the potential to grow at between eight and nine per cent, Mr. Jaitely said while addressing delegates at a global business summit. A higher economic growth can end

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‘Airlift’ Soars In India As ‘Mastizaade’ And ‘Saala Khadoos’ Splutter On Take-Off

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Mastizaade, a sex comedy featuring a former porn star, and Saala Khadoos, a boxing drama based on real events, squared off in Indian cinemas last Friday. Neither, however, could lay a glove on the reigning box-office champ Airlift. Pundits were not surprised by the rankings after Airlift, director Raja Krishna Menon’s drama inspired by the

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Third attack in a week: 50 killed as Boko Haram hits Nigeria village

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Around 50 people were killed when Boko Haram fighters armed with guns and explosives attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria, medics and local residents said on Sunday. It was the third deadly attack to hit Nigeria’s restive northeast since Wednesday, after suicide bombers killed at least 24 people in two separate attacks on towns to

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In India, govt aid helps carmakers go green and cheap to fight smog crisis

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Carmakers are gearing up to launch affordable hybrid and electric cars for India in the next few years, executives said, lured by government incentives for fuel-efficient vehicles as the country accelerates efforts to cut worsening air pollution. As the industry descends on smog-bound New Delhi for India’s biggest car show, starting Wednesday, foreign firms like

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Kapus in Andhra set 6 train bogies, 2 police stations ablaze for quota

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An agitation by the Kapu community for quotas in government jobs and educational institutions in Andhra Pradesh turned violent with the agitators setting fire to two police stations and at least six compartments of a train in East Godavari district on Sunday. Thousands of people blocked the arterial Chennai-Kolkata national highway and railway lines bringing

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