Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal on Thursday squashed reports of retirement and said he would sit with the selectors to discuss his future. The 38-year-old’s career took a nosedive ever since he was banned from bowling in international cricket in September last year. He is now bowling with a remodelled action that was cleared by the […]
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Two international flights were called back while one which was preparing for departure from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi was taken to an isolation bay due to a bomb scare earlier today, sources said. At 01:30 AM a threat call was received at the Delhi Airport’s call centre in Gurgaon. The caller
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As monsoon begins to withdraw from northwest India, the grain bowl states of Punjab and Haryana head for yet another drought — the fifth and sixth, respectively, in the past 11 years. In what appears to be an alarming trend of the southwest monsoon in the past two decades, the two states have consistently received
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Krishna Janmashtami is the celebration of the birth of Lord Shri Krishna, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who is believed to have been born about five thousand years ago in Mathura in ‘Dwapar Yuga’. Krishna Janmashtami is also known as Ashtami Rohini, Srikrishna Jayanti, Krishnashtami, Saatam Aatham, Gokulashtami and sometimes simply as Janmashtami. It is
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Looking to resolve a major bugbear that has defied resolution for decades, the Modi government is set to announce a one rank, one pension package for ex-armed forces personnel that will kick in from July 2014 and use 2013 as the base year for calculations. Though military veterans are insisting the pensions be revised at
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Music composer Aadesh Shrivastava (51), who was battling a cancer relapse, passed away at Kokilaben Hospital on Saturday at around 12.30am. He had successfully fought multiple myeloma (cancer of the plasma cells) when he was diagnosed for the first time in 2010. The hospital authorities confirmed that he passed away after battling the disease hard
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Nook tablet with 8.00-inch 1536×2048 display powered by 1.3GHz processor alongside 3GB RAM and 8-megapixel rear camera. Key Specs [one_third]Display 8.00-inch Processor 1.3GHz Front Camera 2.1-megapixel[/one_third] [one_third]Resolution 1536×2048 pixels RAM 3GB OS Android 5.0[/one_third] [one_third_last]Storage 32GB Rear Camera 8-megapixel Battery capacity 4000mAh[/one_third_last] Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Nook detailed specifications General [one_half]Release
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Gionee S5.1 Pro smartphone with 5.00-inch 720×1280 display powered by 1.3GHz processor alongside 2GB RAM and 13-megapixel rear camera. Key Specs [one_third]Display 5.00-inch Processor 1.3GHz Front Camera 8-megapixel[/one_third] [one_third]Resolution 720×1280 pixels RAM 2GB OS Android 5.1[/one_third] [one_third_last]Storage 16GB Rear Camera 13-megapixel Battery capacity 2400mAh[/one_third_last] Gionee S5.1 Pro detailed specifications General [one_half]Release date Form factor Battery
Alcatel OneTouch Go Play smartphone with 5.00-inch 720×1280 display powered by 1.2GHz processor alongside 1GB RAM and 8-megapixel rear camera. Key Specs [one_third]Display 5.00-inch Processor 1.2GHz Front Camera 5-megapixel[/one_third] [one_third]Resolution 720×1280 pixels RAM 1GB OS Android 5.0[/one_third] [one_third_last]Storage 8GB Rear Camera 8-megapixel Battery capacity 2500mAh[/one_third_last] Alcatel OneTouch Go Play detailed specifications General [one_half]Release date Form
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ZTE Axon Elite smartphone with 5.50-inch 1080×1920 display powered by 1.5GHz processor alongside 3GB RAM and 13-megapixel rear camera. Key Specs [one_third]Display 5.50-inch Processor 1.5GHz Front Camera 8-megapixel[/one_third] [one_third]Resolution 1080×1920 pixels RAM 3GB OS Android 5.1.1[/one_third] [one_third_last]Storage 32GB Rear Camera 13-megapixel Battery capacity 3000mAh[/one_third_last] ZTE Axon Elite detailed specifications General [one_half]Release date Form factor Dimensions
While, we all complain of builders wasting spaces and the very fact that most houses in Mumbai are anything but spaced-out, not many people experiment with compact interior solutions. Big-size couches, antique dining tables that take up a lot of space and unnecessary shelves and cupboards that leave our homes with little place to walk,
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If mirrors fascinate you more than anything, here’s how using mirrors differently can make your home look playful and classy at the same time. Mirrors as art work Mirrors are not always a utility or random piece of decor that is just only used in wardrobes or dressing tables. Mirrors can be creatively used as
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Reducing the intake of sugary drinks by one serving a week for an year can increase “good” cholesterol levels in children, a new study has found. Researchers from Tufts University found there was an inverse association between sugary drinks and HDL (good) cholesterol increases. The results also showed that a higher intake of sugary drinks
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Wondering about the easiest way to load your body with maximum nutrients to stay healthy and fit? The answer is simple and straight: just play with various colours and add as many colourful foods in your diet as possible. If your main is goal to stay healthy and to prevent various chronic diseases, then it’s
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Worried about your child’s height? Include these tips to help them gain inches. Many teenagers are worried about their personality and height plays an important role in it. Right from young childhood to the teens – growing years are the best to help your child to increase their height and this can be done in
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Acting on a tip-off, a bomb squad team today searched the passenger train from Amritsar to Pathankot for two hours looking for explosives of any kind. However, no dangerous substance was found in the train in a joint operation launched by GRP, CRPF and Punjab police personnel. “We had some specific information and accordingly the
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A Class 8 student of Government High School, Barth Sahib, in Pathankot district has accused her seniors of gangrape. The victim, 13, accused her three seniors — two from Class 10 and one from Class 9 — of raping her about 10 days back, but she hushed up the matter due to the shame. Police
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Television show host Manish Paul is known for his comic timing and sense of humour, but it seems Shahid Kapoor isn’t amused. According to the latest buzz on the grapevine, the duo exchanged some icy vibes on the set of ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ when Manish made some “personal” comments about Shahid, who is judging the
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Online search engine giant Google was founded on this day in 1998. On this occasion, we present some interesting trivia on the internet juggernaut >> Founded by Larry Page and Sergei Brin, who were Ph.D. students at Stanford University at the time, Google has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data
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The family of Bollywood singer-composer Aadesh Shrivastava, who is battling with cancer, says they are not seeking financial help from anyone, but everyone’s blessings. His brother-in-law and composer Lalit Pandit, from the Jatin-Lalit duo, said that the family is not reeling under a financial crunch, as media reports are indicating. “We are not seeking help
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Sunny Leone has hit back at CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjan for saying that a condom advertisement featuring the actress would lead to an increase in rape cases in the country. Sunny has urged “people of power” to focus on helping those in need instead. “Sad when people of power waste their time and energy
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Five countries, including China, will reconstruct and develop Muzaffarabad city, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir which was devastated by the 2005 earth quake. The city is 125 km from Islamabad. Other countries involved are Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait and South Korea, which will build hydropower projects, schools, colleges, government offices, university and mosques in the
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees called Friday on the European Union to admit up to 200,000 refugees as part of a “mass relocation programme” that would be binding on EU states. “People who are found to have a valid protection claim… must then benefit from a mass relocation programme, with the mandatory participation of
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Migrants forced from a train in Hungary scuffled with helmeted riot police and some clung to railway tracks on Thursday, as politicians across Europe struggled to respond to public opinion appalled by images of a drowned 3-year-old boy. France and Germany said European countries must be required to accept their shares of refugees, proposing what
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You may be in your mid-20’s or early 30’s, but your heart could be ageing faster than you can imagine. Those prone to cardiac disease may be having a heart 10-15 years older than themselves, research shows. A recent survey conducted by the Center for Disease Control in US shows that heart age of most
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After a lull, the Supreme Court on Thursday put the spotlight back on black money by asking the Centre to give details of action taken on the special investigation team’s (SIT) recommendations advocating stringent measures against irregularities in capitation fees, cricket, stock markets and trade-based money laundering. The SIT has recommended action against misuse of
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As many as 11 Indian nationals are under detention in the UAE since early August on charges of planning to join the Islamic State (IS) and recruiting, financing and providing logistics to those willing to joining the terror outfit. This is after two Indians hailing from northern Kerala, detained as part of the same group,
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The monsoon dried up early over north India this year and Delhiites are already facing the consequences. With rains gone, the air quality in the capital started deteriorating sharply and has been in the ‘poor’ zone since August 28 — almost a month ahead of the normal trend. The early surge in air pollution means
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As mortifying images of the lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi at the Turkish beach resort of Bordum went viral on Thursday, a furious Turkey President Recep Erdogan, hosting the G-20 meet of global business leaders, broke from summitteering to say Europe and “the rest of humanity” must bear the blame for the tiny child’s
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Thirty nine passengers were injured when five coaches of No 16859 Chennai – Mangalore Express train derailed near Puvanur station, a few kilometres from Vridhachalam, in Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Friday. The accident happened around 2am. Railway officials and fire and rescue services personnel rushed to the spot and rescue operations were
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