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Icing on the cake: Sania Mirza-Martina Hingis team named 2015 World Champions by ITF

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The formidable pairing of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis was on Tuesday named as Women’s Doubles World Champions by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in recognition of their stupendous success in season 2015. Hingis is an ITF World Champion 15 years after last being named World Champion in singles in 2000. Sania and Martina joined […]

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Indian Super XI: From Jeje to Izumi and Chhetri, here’s the ISL’s Indian team of the year

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It took a mere half an hour for Jeje Lalpekhlua to become the first Indian to get on the scoresheet in the second edition of the Indian Super League. In a season which has been dominated by foreign stars all across the pitch – from the likes of Apoula Bete in goal, Leo Moura in

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Super Steve Smith named ICC Cricketer of the Year, De Villiers adjudged best ODI player

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Steve Smith has become the fourth Australia player and 11th player overall to win the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after being named as the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2015. Smith follows in the footsteps of Ricky Ponting (2006 and 2007), Mitchell Johnson (2009 and 2014) and Michael Clarke (2013) to lift the coveted

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Goodnight, INS Godavari: India’s first indigenously-designed warship to be decommissioned

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India’s first indigenously designed and built warship INS Godavari will be decommissioned tomorrow in Mumbai, thirty-two-years after it was inducted into the Indian Navy. Over the past three decades, Godavari has successfully been deployed in numerous operations including Operation Jupiter – 1988 (Sri Lanka), Operation Shield and Operation Bolster – 1994 (de-induction of Indian Army

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Bigg Boss 9: Mandana Karimi creates yet another ‘tamasha’ over stolen chocolates; Prince is an ‘unfair’ captain

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Bigg Boss 9 is turning out to be quite a happening show with the drama in the house being escalated to another level! And Miss Hysteria aka Mandana Karimi has another issue that has made her (as indeed everybody’s life ) miserable! The issue is really serious! Guess what? Mandana cries hoarse over her stolen

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Amnesty report: Russia ‘directly targets civilians’ in Syria, killing at least 200 in possible war crimes

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Russian bombers have “directly attacked” and killed at least 200 civilians in Syria and its campaign of air strikes could amount to war crimes, campaigners say. In a major new report on Russia’s intervention in Syria, Amnesty International accused Vladimir Putin’s government of knowingly targeting residential areas in “indiscriminate attacks”, before covering up the evidence

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Ayodhya litigants want Modi to clear the air over arrival of stones for Ram temple

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The legal stakeholders in the long-standing Ayodhya land dispute have sought an explanation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi following the arrival of two trucks of stones for constructing a Ram temple at the site of the demolished Babri Masjid, and a Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader’s implication that the move had the Union government’s blessing. On

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Shenzhen landslide: Man found alive after being buried for more than 60 hours

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A migrant worker was pulled out alive Wednesday after he was buried for more than 60 hours in a massive landslide that swept through part of a major manufacturing city in southern China. Rao Liangzhong of the Shenzhen Emergency Response Office said that man, Tian Zeming, was rescued around dawn on Wednesday. He said Tian

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Pune: One of three missing youth suspected to have joined IS detained

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The Anti Terrorism Squad has detained a person in Pune suspecting that he was one of the three missing Mumbai youths suspected to have joined terror outfit Islamic State (IS), police said. Officials from Pune’s ATS unit detained the person, said the ATS official, adding that they would not disclose the youth’s name as they

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Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) 2015 – 2016 for Non Technical Graduates posts announced

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The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has announced notification to fill 18252 jobs in Indian Railways. The online applications are invited from Indian nationals for filling up various non-technical posts of various Railways /production units. Candidates who are willing to apply for these posts should apply on or before 25 January 2016. The detailed information of

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Donald Trump takes vulgar swipe at Hillary Clinton, also ridicules her for bathroom break

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump used a crude slang to describe Hillary Clinton’s loss to Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination and then ridiculed her taking a bathroom break during a recent Democratic debate. Trump’s vulgar comments about the Democratic front-runner at a campaign appearance on Monday night came a day after he

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Remarks On Intolerance Misconstrued, No Need To Clarify: Shah Rukh Khan

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More than a month after the controversy over his remarks on intolerance, actor Shah Rukh Khan today said his comments were “misconstrued” and that he did not say anything for which he should apologise. “What I want to say I speak. But lot of things I say are misconstrued, perhaps mispresented, perhaps misinterpreted sometime,” he

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All 10 on board killed as BSF aircraft crashes outside IGI Airport

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A Border Security Force aircraft crashed just outside IGI Airport, within five minutes of taking-off from there on Tuesday morning, killing all 10 on board including two pilots and eight technicians from the force who were headed for Ranchi to repair an Mi-17 V5 helicopter. The commander of the 10-seater, twin-engine airplane averted a bigger

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PM Modi To Visit Russia Today, Talks On Nuclear Energy, Defence On Agenda

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves for Russia today for a two-day visit that is part of the annual summit talks with President Vladimir Putin. After their meeting in Moscow on Thursday, the two leaders are expected to sign key agreements on defence and nuclear energy. “We expect to sign a number of agreements covering a

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