PM Narendra Modi will be staying at New York’s iconic Waldorf-Astoria hotel this year, after US president Barack Obama refused to stay there. While Barack Obama is apparently unwilling to run the risk of possible “bugging”, after Astoria was bought by a Chinese insurance company in 2014 even it means overturning a decades-old tradition, Modi […]
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Last year, the news of Hrithik-Sussanne ending their 14-year-long relationship shocked every cinema follower to the core. While the media was still not over their break-up, the other surprising rumour of Sussanne Khan marrying Hrithik’s close friend has recently chirped in. According to the reports, Sussanne has decided to move ahead in life and get
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Seven coaches of a local train from Andheri to Churchgate in Mumbai derailed on Tuesday morning between Vile Parle and Andheri station. Traffic on Mumbai’s western suburban rail line was disrupted after the train derailed. No casualty has been reported, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Western Railway, Sharat Chandrayan said. The train coming from Borivili
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Gujarat, the state Prime Minister Narendra Modi ran for more than a decade, is India’s best place for conducting business, the World Bank said on Monday, in a report that ranks the country’s states in an effort to encourage them to cut red tape. The report, prepared with support from KPMG on the request of
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AR Rahman has dismissed a fatwa issued against him in a strongly-worded Facebook post in which he defends religious freedom and writes about why he composed music for a film named Muhammad: The Messenger of God. A Sunni Muslim group allegedly issued a fatwa recently against Rahman and the film’s director Majid Majidi, reports Variety.
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On Friday, when Rahul Gandhi met little Sasmita Rana at a hospital in Odisha’s Cuttack, she was too ill to speak but somehow communicated that she wanted him to console her mother. A day later, the seven-year-old died of aplastic anaemia. Expressing grief, the Congress vice president described Sasmita as the “bravest girl I ever
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Shocking scenes were witnessed on the national tv today when two guests on a live show used expletives, slapped and grappled with each other, leaving the audience aghast and prompting the channel to condemn the incident. A self-styled godman Om Ji of the Hindu Mahasabha and and woman astrologer Rakhi Bai were seen having sharp
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Aamir Khan, who will next be seen as wrestler Mahavir Phogat in the Nitesh Tiwari-directed sports biopic Dangal, flew to Amritsar a few days ago to start work on the movie. The 50-year-old actor has generated several headlines because of the weight he’s put on to play Mr Phogat, which has had his family worried.
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Two female topless activists from the self-proclaimed “sextremist” group Femen were violently dragged away after storming the stage at a conference on women and Islam near the French capital of Paris, the media reported on Monday. A video footage showed the two topless women race on to the stage as two Imams were giving a
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To protest against the lack of basic amenities, a local non-government organisation (NGO) has given a call to the residents to start a ‘new non-cooperation movement’ against the municipal corporation and the administration by refusing to pay several levies and taxes like the property tax, the value-added tax and other sundry charges levied in the
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Scientists believe that about 4 billion years ago, during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, the Moon took a severe beating, as an army of asteroids pelted its surface, carving out craters and opening deep fissures in its crust. Such sustained impacts increased the Moon’s porosity, opening up a network of large seams beneath
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Japanese researchers have revealed that Saturn’s F ring and its shepherd satellites are natural outcome of the final stage of formation of Saturn’s satellite system. According to the latest satellite formation theory, Saturn used to have ancient rings containing many more particles than they do today, and satellites formed from spreading and accretion of these
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Social factors such as marital status, insurance status, and income may affect the chances of survival in young patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. For the study, the researchers analysed data from 5,541 patients younger than 65 years. They found that AML patients who were single or
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Marijuana users are more likely to have prediabetes – the state of poor blood sugar control that can progress to Type-2 diabetes – than those who have never used the drug, new research has found. The findings suggest that marijuana use may adversely affect a person’s metabolic health in the long term. “Marijuana use was
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The lure of Bollywood is unstoppable even in the remotest parts of the world and the last place you expect to see this is in Timor-Leste, one of the world’s newest nations perched between Indian Ocean and the Pacific. Not many Indians have heard of this little island, also known as East Timor, but Bollywood
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Ayushmann Khurrana is one of the most versatile actors that Bollywood has seen in the recent years. From acting to singing and hosting, Ayushmann has done it all with a different streak and quirky style. Ayushmann, who shot to fame by winning the physically and mentally exhausting ‘MTV Roadies Season 2’, proved his versatility at
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced that all rural households and rural local bodies would be provided with internet connections at a low cost. She also announced that internet protocol television (IPTV) would be provided to all rural households and local bodies through Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable Corporation. A new company
SRINAGAR: The bodies of three youths were found on Monday in an orchard in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said here. Agitated locals said the bodies bore bullet injuries and torture marks. “The bodies of three youths have been found in an apple orchard in Chour (Dangerpora) village in Baramulla district. They were aged between
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The BJP and its three regional allies on Monday arrived at a consensus on sharing seats in the Bihar assembly elections and said there is no tug of war in the NDA. Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah announced that his party will contest 160 of the 243 seats in Bihar, Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok
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Tension gripped parts of the town after the management of Sri Guru Harkrishan Public School, Mission Road, reportedly razed a gurdwara on the school premises in the wee hours of Friday. Even as the management — later in the day — claimed that it would construct another gurdwara at a cost of Rs 2 crore
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An investigational new drug from a naturally occurring compound found in foods such as red grapes, raspberries, dark chocolate and some red wines may stop progression of Alzheimer’s disease, shows results of a clinical trial. In people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease, high-dose of the compound resveratrol stabilised a biomarker that declines when the
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Lucky sky-watchers in Antarctica and southern Africa will get a treat this weekend when the moon’s disk glides across the face of the sun creating a magnificent partial solar eclipse just after sunrise on Sunday, September 13. The Earth crosses between the moon and the sun every month, but the three celestial bodies don’t always
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Chandigarh: Two people are feared dead and at least eight others injured after a narrow gauge train derailed near Kalka this afternoon, a senior railway official said. “The accident occurred when the train was about 3.5km away from Kalka. The accident site falls in Himachal Pradesh. “Preliminary reports received from the site said that two
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Hero Direction: Nikhil Advani Actors: Sooraj Pancholi, Athiya Shetty, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Aditya Pancholi Rating: 1/5 There are three motives that drive a remake: when the original film is so good that it just has to be retold for new audiences; when the industry has run out of ideas and wants to make a quick buck;
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Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday said that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s stature is nowhere as compared to that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that?s why the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) will emerge victorious in the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls. “Bihar has come beyond caste politics, now the issue is of good governance,”
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At least 82 people were killed and about 150 injured when an explosion ripped through a packed restaurant near a bus stop in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district on Saturday. The reason for the blast was not immediately clear but sources said it may have been triggered by gelatine sticks, used for mining, that were stored
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Mecca, Saudi Arabia: This year’s hajj pilgrimage will go ahead despite a crane collapse which killed more than 100 people at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, a Saudi official told AFP on Saturday. “It definitely will not affect the hajj this season and the affected part will probably be fixed in a few days,” said the official,
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Rather than the typical culture of working hard all morning only to take a lunch-hour or mid-afternoon break, a respite earlier in the workday replenishes more resources – energy, concentration and motivation – interesting research has revealed. The study also found the frequent short breaks are better than longer breaks and people who take “better
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This week Nikhil Advani tries to rejig the 1980s masala for the diet cola generation and has come up with a contraption high on fizz, low on substance. It is a kind of film where the hero makes an entry on a bulldozer and the villain bamboozles with his punchlines; a film where the heroine
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