German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday around 3,000 refugees were returning to Iraq from Germany every month and that the number was on the rise. Many are living in shelters and are frustrated with a slow asylum process in a country struggling to work through a backlog of asylum applications after 1.1 million refugees […]
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US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Islam of hating the western world. Trump had previously called for a ban on Muslims entering the US. “I think Islam hates us,” Trump told Anderson Cooper on CNN, after the host asked him whether Islam was at war with the West. “There is a tremendous
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Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) has proposed a close friend of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as its presidential candidate, ending a four-month wait for the identity of a president expected to rule in her name. The NLD put forward Htin Kyaw, who joined the party just two months ago, as its lower
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US police launched a manhunt on Thursday after a brutal shooting at a backyard barbecue in Pennsylvania killed six people, including a eight-months pregnant woman and her unborn child. Police said they were searching for at least two suspects, asking witnesses to come forward about the massacre late Wednesday in the town of Wilkinsburg, six
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Describing the union budget as a ‘name changing exercise’, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said there are “alarming contradictions” as the budget tries to satisfy the interest of Modi as well as rating agency Moody’s. “This budget falls between two stools, between sending reassuring signals to the rating agencies abroad and sending even more reassuring signals
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In a huge relief to owners of non-Karnataka registered private vehicles, the Karnataka High Court on Thursday declared as “unconstitutional” the new law that compelled them to pay lifetime tax if they use such vehicles in Karnataka beyond 30 days. Justice Anand Byrareddy delivered the verdict while allowing petitions filed by Jagadev Biradar of Pune
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In a decision that radically alters the election scenario in Tamil Nadu which has been polarized between the formations led by the Dravidian majors, DMDK chief Vijayakanth on Thursday appeared to steer clear of al the other parties to take on the might of the ruling AIADMK. The Captain’s stand also appeared to be a
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Continuing her tirade against the Left Front and Congress alliance, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday dubbed the electoral understanding a “rainbow coalition” and said in the upcoming electoral contest her party would surpass all the political rivals. “CPI(M) , you believe in the ideas of Marx, Lenin, Ho Chi Min and Mao,
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Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra has revealed her “wild child” tendencies that attracted her to her new TV show. The actress and former Miss World takes on the role of FBI recruit Alex Parrish in drama Quantico, her first big role outside of her native India, where she is a household name for her starring turns
If you don’t know what this exactly means, let me tell you that Satellite Rights is the legal permission given by the producer of a film to a Television channel to show or broadcast a particular movie on TV. It might be for a limited time period or for lifetime. So after Salman Khan, Ajay
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Political leader Sadhvi Prachi has hit a new controversy by giving a dare to actor Anupam Kher to send her and BJP lawmaker Yogi Adityanath to jail. Recently, while addressing a programme in Kolkata, Anupam Kher had said that some people in the party (BJP), should be put behind the bars and also should be
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India’s to-be first women fighter jet pilots have reportedly been advised by the Indian Air Force not to get pregnant for at least four years from the day they are commissioned in June. A report in the Hindustan Times quoted IAF vice chief Air Marshal BS Dhanoa as saying that the women trainees have been
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today had a dig at Congress saying the party which got the country its Independence is today taking the help of poll strategist Prashant Kishore for the next Assembly elections. “The party which claims that it got the country its Independence is today taking help of a PR agency,”
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The Bihar government is bringing a bill to award capital punishment for manufacturing illicit liquor once prohibition comes into effect in the state from April one, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday. The government would bring a legislation in the ongoing budget session of the Assembly against liquor sale in which there would be
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U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump called for raising tariffs on foreign-made goods on Thursday, in a further break from his party’s long-standing free-trade philosophy ahead of nominating contests in big industrial states hit hard by globalization. The billionaire businessman has harnessed working-class anxieties about immigrants and trade to supercharge his bid to become the
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Only a day remains for Art of Living’s founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to honour the order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to pay a fine of Rs 5 crore for causing ecological damage to Yamuna floodplains for the upcoming World Culture Festival. Will he pay or will he not? If he does, it’ll
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who faces pressure to repay nearly a billion dollars owed to banks by his collapsed airline, tweeted early this morning that he is “not an absconder” and would comply with the law. In a series of tweets, Mr Mallya also alleged a “witch-hunt” by the media. I am an international businessman.
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The Pathankot Civil Hospital has requested the Punjab Government authorities to shift the bodies of four terrorists killed in the attack on the Air Force base, citing lack of space in the mortuary. The terrorists’ bodies have been lying in the hospital’s mortuary for the last two months. Civil Surgeon Ajay Bagga told ANI that
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Fomer pacer Shoaib Akhtar on Monday hit back at Virender Sehwag for the remarks he made with regards to Pakistani cricketers. During an interview with comedian Vikran Sathaye last week, Viru said that Akhtar was praising Indian players due to commercial and business interests. “Shoaib Akhtar became a really good friend because he wanted to
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Lalu Prasad’s son and deputy Bihar Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav has hit out at Raj Thackeray over his remarks on non-Marathis getting autorickshaw permits in Maharashtra. Thackeray, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, had yesterday asked his partymen to burn auto-rickshaws of non-Marathis. Reacting sharply to Thackeray’s comment, Tejaswi said Thackeray should know that “Maharashtra is
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After a bitter battle for the custody of children, the actress Karisma Kapoor is all set to get a divorce from her husband Sanjay Kapur this March end. Karisma and Sanjay had got married in 2003 and in 2014, after the couple had two kids, their marriage turned sour. Karisma moved to Delhi to start
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Actress Kangana Ranaut, has confirmed that a video depicting her temper tantrum at a crewmember, which went viral on social media, is authentic. The video showed Kangana in conversation with a crewmember who insisted that she use a body double for a particular sequence during a shoot. An angry Kangana then responded, “Why do I
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After actress Alia Bhatt stated in a recent interview that she loves Sidharth Malhotra and the news went viral, she again hinted at loving her Kapoor & Sons co-star. Recently, at a press meet for the promotions of the film, Kapoor & Sons, Alia sported shoes with ‘life’ written on the left shoe and ‘love’
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Researchers are now saying that the iceberg that RMS Titanic hit, causing it to sink on April 14, 1912, was a whopping 100,000 years old! According to experts, the massive block of ice responsible for sinking the ocean liner had probably originated in southwest Greenland. Expert Grant Bigg of Sheffield University, UK, collected data from
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Hardening its stance, Pakistan on Wednesday deferred the departure of its cricket team to India demanding “explicit” security assurances. “Pakistan is still waiting for an explicit assurance from the Government of India about security of its team and Pakistan spectators. Without that Pakistan team is unlikely to participate in the Twenty20 ICC World Cup,” a
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch its sixth navigation satellite IRNSS-1F on Thursday at 4 pm. The satellite will be launched into orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. This system aims at developing an independent regional navigation satellite system for India just like
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Bollywood’s dimpled beauty Preity Zinta has a beautiful gift for all those who complained that her marriage was a concealed affair. The ‘Soldier’ actress has shared her first selfie post marriage. The 41-year-old actress recently took to her Twitter and Facebook handles to post the photo with a beautiful message, “All I want to say
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She’s gorgeous, funny and extremely bubbly. Sumona Chakravarti is someone any guy would like to marry. The lady is making news with reports of her upcoming marriage with Samrat Mukherjee doing the rounds. However, the actress denied it saying that marriage is nowhere on her mind right now. She said that she is used to
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Tens of thousands of documents containing the names, addresses, phone numbers and family contacts of jihadis who joined the Islamic State group have been given to the UK’s Sky News, the broadcaster said Wednesday. Sky reported that a disillusioned former member had handed over the documents on a memory stick that had been stolen from
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Bollywood actor Salman Khan appeared before the Jodhpur chief judicial court on Thursday and recorded his statement in the 1998 Arms Act case. His lawyers later said that the actor told the court that he has been falsely implicated in the case, according to a report in ANI. During the course of hearing on Thursday,
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