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Refugee crisis: Angela Merkel says 3,000 Iraqis returning home every month

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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Nobel laureate Suu Kyi’s party nominates her former driver for Myanmar president

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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Budget tries to satisfy interest of Modi, Moody’s: Tharoor

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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Law taxing out-of-State vehicles unconstitutional: High Court

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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Left Front-Congress deal a ‘rainbow alliance’: Mamata

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 on her authority issues, her ‘wild child’ nature and her move to TV

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

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Delay pregnancy for four years: IAF advise to trainee women fighter jet pilots

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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Akhilesh Yadav takes dig at Congress on roping strategist Prashant Kishore

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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Capital punishment for making hooch in Bihar, bill coming soon

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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GOP Debate: Trump asks for more tariffs on foreign-made goods

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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Why Sri Sri going to jail is only empty talk; AOL is not even directly involved in culture fest

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

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Vijay Mallya Tweets, ‘Did Not Flee, Am An International Businessman’

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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Hospital urges Punjab authorities to shift bodies of Pathankot terrorists

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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Shoaib Akhtar calls Virender Sehwag ‘immature’, then deletes tweet!

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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Maharashtra not your ‘baap ki jaagir’: Lalu’s son Tejaswi hits back at Raj Thackeray

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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Hint, hint: Alia Bhatt says she loves ‘Kapoor and Sons’ co-star Sidharth Malhotra

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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The Iceberg That Took Down The Mighty Titanic Was Nearly 100,000 Years Old!

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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Pakistan demands ‘explicit’ security assurance, defers cricket team visit

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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ISRO’s sixth navigation satellite IRNSS-1F: All you need to know

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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Preity Zinta shares first selfie post ‘hush-hush’ marriage

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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Names of 22,000 Islamic State group members leaked to news channel: Report

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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