Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India will fulfil all its responsibilities with regard to climate change as he met US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the climate summit here. Modi, in his meeting with Obama, also appreciated the openness with which the US President addresses issues with him and said it […]
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A 13-year-old student in Hyderabad had a baby inside a school washroom on Saturday, leaving her teachers and other staff in shock. The girl is a class 9 student of a government school in the Madhapur area of Hyderabad, the city’s IT hub. She reportedly complained of a stomach ache, after which her teacher sent
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to order a CBI probe against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on his citizenship controversy. Holding a PIL seeking CBI inquiry as “frivolous and baseless”, a bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu and Amitava Roy summarily dismissed the plea. In fact, senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Harin Raval, appearing
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Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, President Barack Obama has not missed many opportunities to convey what a warm rapport he has forged with the Indian leader. There was the admiring essay about Modi that Obama wrote in Time magazine, and the image of them tete-a-tete at the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial
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A family of four members was forced to leave a cinema hall after they refused to stand up when the national anthem was played just before the movie’s screening. A video, which has gone viral both on YouTube and on microblogging site Twitter, shows some people arguing with the man who refused to stand when
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Six years ago, on a November morning, Tejaswi made his first-class cricketing debut at Ranchi’s Mecon ground. Another November, another debut awaits Tejaswi – this time on a different pitch though. RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s younger son and deputy chief minister Tejaswi is busy going though the rulebook for legislative business. He is also taking
President Barack Obama laid a single rose at a memorial for the victims of the Paris attacks on Monday shortly after arriving in the city, visiting the Bataclan, the concert hall where the deadliest attacks took place during the onslaught some two weeks ago. Obama, who is in town for international talks to curb climate
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Sourav Ganguly has come it in heavy praise of current Indian skipper Virat Kohli and believes the latter’s positivity is a great asset to the way India approaches it s cricket. Ganguly admitted that Kohli’s captaincy brought back to him memories of his own playing days. Ganguly is considered one of India’s most astute captains.
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“ISIS is not at all Muslims, rather these are people from other religion wearing masks and defaming Islam”, viewed Vice President of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat HRA Choudhury. Speaking to ANI at the sideline of a convention Choudhury said, “I understand that these people (ISIS) are not Muslims at all. They are not Muslims and
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World leaders will launch an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back the earth’s rising temperatures, urging each other to find common cause in two weeks of bargaining meant to steer the global economy away from dependence on fossil fuels. They arrive at United Nations climate change talks in Paris armed with promises and accompanied
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reportedly told British PM David Cameron in Malta that Islamabad was willing to start talks with India without “preconditions”. There has been no response from the Indian government in the 48 hours since the “offer” was made. Sources said there was unlikely to be one. For one thing, the comments
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Coinciding with India’s move to launch an International Solar Alliance of over 100 sunshine-rich countries, the world’s top industrialists including Bill Gates, Mukesh Ambani, Ratan Tata and Jack Ma will on Monday announce the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, an international group of 28 investors to bring companies that have the potential to deliver affordable, reliable and
“India would have gone on the lines of Pakistan, had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel become Prime Minister of India after independence in 1947,” said Dalit activist and author Kancha Ilaiah at the Times LitFest on Sunday. Ilaiah also said that Patel would have given the task of writing the Constitution to the ‘believers of Manusmriti’ instead
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Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday made it clear to the heads of departments that there would be no extension of the deadline for shifting of government employees to Vijayawada beyond June 1, 2016. During his meeting with the HoDs at the state secretariat here, a senior official brought to his notice the
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India could conceivably lose the Kashmir valley in the next 10 years unless a serious effort is made to resolve the situation, Radha Kumar, a former interlocutor on Jammu & Kashmir for the Indian government, warned at the Times LitFest, Delhi on Sunday. Kumar, who now heads a think-tank, Delhi Policy Group, made the remark
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Few political allies are as unlike each other as RJD chief and former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad and JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar, who recently took oath for the fifth time as the state’s chief minister. “The Brothers Bihari”, a book written by seasoned political journalist Sankarshan Thakur and published by Harper Collins, casts light
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to launch his ambitious International Solar Alliance on Monday, the first day of the Paris climate summit. The move is being seen by analysts as a strategic step for the country on the global stage. Experts say that the alliance, which would include around 50 African countries, would be
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Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan has revealed that he and his Dilwale co-star Kriti Sanon will enter superstar Salman Khan’s reality TV show Bigg Boss Nau on November 28, while Shah Rukh Khan will follow later. “Me and Kriti might actually enter the house a little early, we might do this on November 28 to launch
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Well, we are talking about a scene from a movie, but what’s real here is Akshay Kumar’s tears – glycerine free. He was shooting a scene for his next film Airlift, where the Indian flag was raised as the first flight took off from Kuwait with Indian evacuees, post Saddam Hussein’s invasion. We know that
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Tamil Nadu rains took centre stage on Sunday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi making a special mention about it on the eve of his departure to Paris for the climate change summit. In his ‘Mann ki Baat’ address over Akashvani (AIR) that was highlighted by all official media including Doordarshan, Modi spoke of the unprecedented
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This is an old story with an eternal moral. When Alexander defeated and captured Indian king Porus in the battle of Hydaspes, Roman historian Arrian writes, the invader asked: “What do you wish that I should do with you?” “Treat me as a king ought,’ Porus is said to have replied. “For my part, your
A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to the Opposition over the passage of the Goods and Services Tax Bill, Union minister for Parliamentary Affairs M Venkaiah Naidu on SUnday said the GST Bill will be rolled out in the next financial year. “The (GST) bill will be implemented next year as it
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The National Green Tribunal has directed the local commissioner, probing illegal felling of 4,000 trees in the Eco-Sensitive Zone near the Taj Mahal, to submit the final inspection report by 16 December. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar gave this direction to advocate M C Mehta, who was appointed as local commissioner
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“The speech given by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi today in Parliament on Constitution has importance of a historical inscription, an important stately document. I have not heard in my life such a democratic, inclusive, liberal and polite speech in my life, at least in such an effective manner. He spoke without any bias, so
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The Russian Information Centre in Panaji on Sunday dismissed media reports which claimed that India and Goa have been ‘struck off’ from the list of ‘safe’ travel destinations recommended for Russian citizens, saying its earlier statement was “misconstrued”. Issuing a clarification this evening, the Russian Information Centre (RIC) head Ekaterina Belyakova stated that the First
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Nepal on Sunday briefly detained 13 personnel of India’s Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), who allegedly entered the country with arms while chasing suspected smugglers near Jhapa district, bordering Bihar. Nepal’s Armed Police Force (APF) personnel deployed at the Border Account Post at Kechana Village in Jhapa district, bordering Bihar’s Kishanganj district, arrested the SSB jawans
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When Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted about a talkathon on climate change on Friday morning, he was not just promoting an online event; he was actually making a strong political statement — this time for an international audience. Criticised by many international bodies for cracking down on NGOs such as Greenpeace, the government of India
