Defending champion Saina Nehwal sailed into the semifinals of the USD 700,000 China Open Super Series Premier after she saw off Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in straight games on Friday. A relaxed Saina didn’t break a sweat and her cool demeanour helped her to stave off the challenge from the World No. 10, notching up a […]
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told a delegation of British Sikhs that he would make sure that the so-called blacklist that barred some members of the community from visiting India was done away with. The PM also said he agreed in principle to the release of political prisoners who had served their terms, Jasdev
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Imran Khan, a 34-year-old mathematics teacher, who shot into the limelight after Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed him in his Wembley address on Friday for distributing 52 education apps for free, thanked the latter and said that it was a small step taken by him as a teacher. “It was a small step taken by
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One of the assailants in Paris Friday mentioned France’s intervention in Syria’s war to justify the attacks, said a witness who was at a concert venue where some 100 people were killed. “I clearly heard them say ‘It’s the fault of (French President Francois) Hollande, it’s the fault of your president, he should not have
Kurdish forces backed by US air strikes seized the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State on Friday, a Reuters witness said, in one of the most significant counter-attacks since the militants swept through the north last year. “ISIL defeated and on the run,” the Kurdistan regional security council said in a tweet, using
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A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Kyushu in southwestern Japan on Saturday, triggering a minor tsunami in the southern part of Kagoshima prefecture, Xinhua reported. The strong earthquake jolted about 160 km southwest of Makurazaki, Kagoshima, at 5:51 a.m. local time (20:51 GMT on Friday) at a depth of about 10 km, according
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Going by the numbers, the recent radical Sarbat Khalsa should have alarmed the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal, but it ended up helping the party latch on to the new catchword of “nationalist”. The naming of Jagtar Singh Hawara, convicted of assassination of former Congress chief minister Beant Singh, as the Akal Takht jathedar and the
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The OROP row escalated with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar terming attempts by veterans to burn medals as an insult to the nation and asked the protesting ex-servicemen to prove there was no political motive behind their stir even as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal voiced support to them. “If I say something, it will become
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Gunmen killed more than 120 people in a wave of attacks across Paris on Friday, shouting “Allahu akbar” as they massacred scores of diners and concert-goers and launched suicide attacks outside the national stadium. Four black-clad gunmen wearing suicide vests and wielding AK-47s stormed into the Bataclan venue in eastern Paris and fired calmly and
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The disqualification proceedings were initiated on the basis of a compliant filed by Kerala Congress (M) leader Thomas Unniyadan on July 21 seeking Mr. George’s disqualification. The hearing was completed on November 9. The Speaker’s verdict listed four major grounds which attracted disqualification. On April 17, Mr. George, who had won on the Kerala Congress
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Facing questions over Prime Minister’s silence on Pakistan during his Srinagar rally last week, chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Friday said Narendra Modi is not under “any pressure” to talk about it even as he observed that reconciliation with the neighbour is “my dream”. Sayeed said reconciliation with Pakistan is on the agenda of
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Those expecting fireworks in PM Modi’s speech saw them only in the sky. He came. He saw. But for once not everyone concurred even though the stereophonic rhetoric won the day. Prime Minister David Cameron set the standard high with a crowd pleasing speech replete with a clamour for India’s stake on the UN Security
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political problems in New Delhi seemed a long way away on Friday as he addressed an adoring crowd in a stadium daubed in the saffron, white and green of his country’s flag. They were 4,168 miles away, to be exact. The stadium was England’s national football ground, Wembley, and the
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CEOs from India and the U.K. on Friday pitched for a more transparent and consistent decision-making regime as also a uniform treatment of corporates across the world, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to work “ceaselessly” towards Indian economy’s integration with the rest of the world. A reconstituted India-UK CEOs Forum, during its first meeting,
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As news of bloodshed filtered through the crowd and police sirens wailed outside, thousands of soccer fans milled around the Stade de France, reluctant to leave the seemingly safe stadium. The spectators didn’t panic, despite hearing the sounds of explosions from outside part of the carnage unfolding in the city that left more than a
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Gunmen and bombers attacked busy restaurants, bars and a concert hall at locations around Paris on Friday, killing dozens of people in what a shaken President Francois Hollande described as an unprecedented terrorist attack. Police sources said at least 40 people were killed and 60 wounded in up to five attacks in the Paris region.
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Four Naxals, including a commander-rank cadre, were on Friday killed in a fierce gun-battle with police in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. “The operation was conducted by a team of the state’s District Reserve Group (DRG) this morning after they got a tip-off about movement of Naxals in Mirtur police station area of the district,” Inspector General
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Seven more persons lost their lives in rain-related incidents in Tamil Nadu, taking the death toll to 55 as the North East Monsoon continued to pound several parts of the state disrupting rail and road traffic. The government had on Thursday put the toll in rain-related incidents at 48, including 27 from Cuddalore district. According
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There is a scene in Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, where at it’s most romantic moment, Rajkumari Maithili (Sonam Kapoor) gives Prem Dilwala (Salman Khan) a huge, white feather pen and asks him to write on her back. She goes on to shut all the doors of the large palatial kitchen, signaling her surrender to Prem.
Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has reportedly got engaged to model-actor Hazel Keech in Bali on Wednesday evening. The 33-year-old’s private life has been subject of much speculation after Hazel had recently accompanied him to the wedding of his teammate Harbhajan Singh. “Finally, he found the right girl. This was the time when I felt he
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Shane Warne’s Warriors walloped Sachin Tendulkar’s Blasters by 57 runs to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match Cricket All Stars Series here today. Tendulkar’s decision to put the opposition in to bat backfired as game’s heavyweights Kumar Sangakkara (70 off 30), Jacques Kallis (45 off 23) and Ricky Ponting (41 off 16) tore
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Having served a one-Test suspension, India’s pace spearhead Ishant Sharma is raring to have a go at the South African batting line-up and is all set to replace Umesh Yadav in the playing XI for the second cricket Test, starting Saturday. Ishant’s counterpart Dale Steyn, however, is still battling against time to get fit for
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Defending champion Saina Nehwal emerged as the lone Indian survivor at the USD 700,000 China Open Super Series Premier after P V Sindhu suffered a close defeat in the pre-quarterfinals of the women’s singles competition here today. Top seed Saina, who had a 2-0 record against Tee Jing Yi ahead of the match, notched up
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Indian para shooter Rajeev Malik has suffered a setback before the IPC Shooting World Cup at Fort Benning, USA as the marksmen lost both his rifles during his travel. The 34-year-old handicapped shooter finds himself in a spot of bother as the airlines in which he travelled from Delhi to Atlanta has misplaced his two
Doctors at a Bangladesh hospital were treating a baby girl born with two heads on Thursday, medical officials and the newborn’s father said. The baby was born late on Wednesday and is now being treated for breathing difficulties after being shifted to the intensive care unit of the country’s largest hospital in Dhaka. “When I
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