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Punjab Cop Salwinder Singh Gets Clean Chit In Pathankot Attack Case: Sources

Senior Punjab Police officer Salwinder Singh, who is being questioned by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the Pathankot terror strike, has been given a clean chit after the tests, including a lie-detector test, found nothing against him, according to official sources. Mr Singh, a Superintendent of Police-rank officer, has been questioned multiple times […]

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Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 Review: This film doesn’t even try, maybe it’s our fault for watching its predecessors and making them hits

Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 should inspire the Censor Board to introduce a new rating to the existing lot: J for Juvenile. Seriously, A for Adults Only is an insult to all those over-18s in this country with an iota of maturity and common sense. Tusshar Kapoor and Aftab Shivdasani play buddies Kanhaiyya and Rocky

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Airlift box office collection: Akshay Kumar’s latest offering earns Rs 44.30 crore in the first weekend!

Airlift is a film that talks about a mass evacuation that left everyone proud to be an Indian. These days, we hardly get an opportunity to feel that way for our country for there hasn’t been any incident to feel so. Akshay Kumar‘s taut thriller has given us a reason to holler that even India

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Big Bash League: Sydney steal Pietersen’s thunder to defeat Melbourne Stars

The Sydney Thunder gave captain Michael Hussey the perfect send-off from Australian cricket when they beat the Melbourne Stars by three wickets to win the Big Bash League on Sunday. After Hussey won the toss and sent the Stars in to bat at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the home side reached 176 for nine thanks

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Australian Open: No stopping Sania-Martina as pair enter QF, Bopanna advances in mixed doubles

Indian tennis stars Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna advanced to the quarterfinals of the women’s and mixed doubles events respectively after notching up contrasting victories with their partners at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Monday. On a record winning streak, Sania and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis continued to rule the roost as they

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Has MS Dhoni played his last ODI for India? As captain perhaps, but he still has plenty to offer as a player

Let us do a basic calculation. The Sydney ODI was India’s last one until the 2016 IPL season. The Men in Blue are scheduled to play three T20Is at home against Sri Lanka after returning from Australia, and then fly away to Bangladesh to play the Asia Cup (T20 format this time around). Thereafter the

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IPL 9: Yuvraj, Pietersen list auction base price at Rs 2 crore; 714 players in contention

The most expensive buy in the previous IPL auction, Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh, along with 11 others, have quoted the highest base price for this year’s auction to be held on February 6 in Bangalore. According to a report in ‘ESPN Cricinfo’, apart from Yuvraj, England swashbuckler Kevin Pietersen and in-form Australian all-rounder Mitchell Marsh

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Airport reopens after biggest snowfall in three decades strands 86,000 on South Korea island

The first flight in three days took off from the South Korean resort island of Jeju on Monday after the biggest snowfall in three decades shut the airport and stranded nearly 90,000 people. Known as the Hawaii of South Korea for its beaches and usually warm climate, Jeju took the brunt of a week-long cold

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Sunni-Shia dilemma: With infra growth in mind, India in a bind on which side to support

As the Sunni-Shia conflict in West Asia escalates and threatens to engulf the energy rich region, India and many other countries are caught in a bind over which side to support. Some have made their choice clear. France and most Western democracies back the Sunni states: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Jordon. US, a friend of

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Iraq summons Saudi envoy Thamer al-Sabhan over ‘innacurate’ comments on Iran-backed militias

Iraq summoned the new Saudi ambassador on Sunday after he suggested Iranian-backed Shite militias were exacerbating sectarian tensions and should leave the fight against Islamic State to the Iraqi army and official security forces. Baghdad’s move underscores the depth of enmity between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslim powers as sectarian conflicts rage in Syria, Yemen and

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Earthquake of 7.1 magnitude shakes Alaska, shudders felt for hundreds of miles

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck remote southern Alaska early on Sunday, unleashing shudders felt several hundred miles (km) from the tremor`s lakefront epicenter near on the far end of Cook Inlet from Anchorage, the state`s largest city. No injuries were reported, but several neighborhoods in the town of Kenai – roughly halfway between the

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Sharad Pawar admitted to hospital for ‘minor kidney problem’

National Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar was admitted to a private hospital on Sunday evening for ‘minor kidney problem’ and ‘water retention,’ hospital authorities said. “He (Pawar) just had minor kidney problem and water retention. However, he is doing absolutely fine,” said Dr Parvez Grant, managing trustee and chief cardiologist of Ruby Hall clinic, where

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Tamil Nadu: Three suicides over fees but no rooms, teachers in medical college

As a large number of parents and students thronged the Villupuram hospital, demanding action against the management of a private medical college where three girl students committed suicide on Saturday, the contents of their suicide note continued to evoke shock and anger. On Sunday, District Collector M Lakshmy sealed the college and hostel, where the

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India, France united in fight against enemies of humanity: PM Modi

Reiterating his commitment to fighting terror, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that ‘India and France stand united in fighting enemies of humanity’. Speaking at India-France Business Summit here, PM Modi and French President Francois Hollande said that both countries have been victims of terror attacks and need to work together to prevent similar

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Dalit row: JNU students on indefinite hunger strike for Rohith Vemula

Three Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU) students started an indefinite hunger strike to pressure the Centre into taking action against Union ministers Bandaru Dattatreya, Smriti Irani and University of Hyderabad vice-chancellor Appa Rao Podile for allegedly abetting the suicide of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula. The hunger strike by students is a part of the action

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ISIS threatens UK in new propaganda video featuring Paris attackers’ ‘final messages’

ISIS has released a video in which it appears to threaten David Cameron and the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow. The 17-minute recording purportedly shows several of the terrorists who attacked Paris in November, killing 130 people, including the so-called mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was killed in the city by French police

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Feel sad for ordering firing on karsewaks in 1990: Mulayam Singh Yadav

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday said he “felt sad” for ordering firing on ‘karsewaks’ in Ayodhya in 1990 but it was necessary to save the religious place. Mulayam, who was the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, had ordered firing on karsewaks in Ayodhya in 1990 in which 16 people were killed.

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India has given fresh evidence on Pathankot attack, says Pak PM Nawaz Sharif

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday said India has given fresh leads relating to the Pathankot terror attack and Pakistan is verifying the facts to bring the perpetrators to justice. “I have received fresh leads from India on the Pathankot attack and we will look and examine those evidences given by India. We could have

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