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Bangladesh Supreme Court upholds Jamaat leader’s death penalty

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The Bangladesh Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld death sentence for Mir Quasem Ali, former Al-Badr and Jammat-e-Islami Party leader, for being involved in atrocities against Bangalis during the Liberation War in 1971. Al-Badr was a paramilitary wing of the West Pakistan Army, which operated in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) against the Bengali nationalist movement during […]

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Iran conducts fresh ballistic missile tests: State media

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Iran test-fired several ballistic missiles from silos across the country on Tuesday, the official website of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said, defying recent US sanctions on its missile program. The test was intended “to show Iran’s deterrent power and also the Islamic Republic’s ability to confront any threat against the (Islamic) Revolution, the

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RSS Worker Stabbed As Schoolchildren Watch In Horror In Kerala’s Kannur

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A worker of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS was pulled out of the autorickshaw he was driving in Kerala’s Kannur this morning by a group of men, who then attacked him with sharp weapons. Huddled inside the autorickshaw and watching in fright were four children from class 1 and 2 who the RSS worker,

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Tamil Nadu election: Karunanidhi compares alliance talks with Vijayakanth’s DMDK to a ripening fruit

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DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday denied stalemate in alliance talks with Vijayakanth’s DMDK. Addressing a press meeting at the DMK headquarters Anna Arivalayam here, Karunanidhi said he was confident of a poll tie-up with the DMDK alliance for the election in Tamil Nadu. In response to a question on status of talks with Vijayakanth’s

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Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan rides on Harley-Davidson motorcycle to Parliament on Women’s Day

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It was a sight not seen often when woman MP Ranjeet Ranjan today rode to Parliament on an orange Harley-Davidson motorcycle to make a statement on Women’s Day. The 42-year-old Lok Sabha member belonging to Congress from Bihar’s Supaul, wearing a blue attire with helmet and sunglasses, rode around the Parliament complex before entering the

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Govt hits back at Congress, says your hallmark is ‘words for poor, deeds for rich’

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The BJP-led NDA Government today hit back at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and said the grand old party’s hall mark all these years has been ‘words for the poor, deeds for the rich’. “The Congress vice-president says that the government may attack him personally but don’t attack the poor. I want to tell him that

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Sanjay Dutt turned poet in prison, to release book soon

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Making cane products, paper bags and radio jockeying were part of prisoner number C-16656 Sanjay Dutt’s daily routine at the Yerwada Central Jail in Maharashtra. But apart from these what kept him busy was writing about his life experiences. The 56-year-old Bollywood actor, who recently walked out a free man after serving jail term following

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Arun Jaitley rolls back proposal to tax EPF withdrawal

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Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday announced the rollback of proposed tax on withdrawals from employees’ provident fund. “The purpose to tax EPF withdrawals was to encourage a pensioned society. However, In view of representations received, the government would like to do a comprehensive review of this proposal and therefore I withdraw the proposal,” Jaitley

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#EPFnotax: 6 reasons why taxing EPF was a stupid idea in the first place

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The Narendra Modi government has decided to withdraw their plan to tax the corpus accumulated by investing in the Employees’ Provident Fund(EPF). As the finance minister Arun Jaitley said in the Lok Sabha today: “In view of representations received, the government would like to do a comprehensive review of this proposal and therefore I withdraw

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South Korea issues new sanctions against North

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South Korea on Tuesday unveiled a series of fresh unilateral sanctions against North Korea, which include asking citizens to boycott North Korean restaurants abroad. The new measures imposed over the North`s recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch also blacklist scores of North Korean individuals and entities and bans any vessels previously docked in North

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International Women’s Day 2016: What is it, when is it and why was it set up?

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International Women’s Day has marked the plight and achievements of women for more than a century -but is now looking ahead another 15 years to the world’s gender equality goals. Themed this year around “Planet 50-50 by 2030”, the United Nations-backed event will be celebrating women’s rights in more than 40 countries. It will look

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Militants attack Tunisian forces near Libyan border, 53 killed

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Dozens of Islamist fighters stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan border on Monday, attacking army and police posts in a raid that killed at least 53 people, including civilians, the government and residents said. Local television broadcast images of soldiers and police crouched in doorways and on rooftops as gunshots

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Clinton’s pledge to curtail fracking falls on unconvinced ears

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Hillary Clinton’s vow to regulate oil and gas fracking almost out of existence was met with skepticism Monday, failing to convince either industry or environment groups that she would – or could – end the controversial drilling practice if she becomes president. The front-runner for the Democratic party nomination used a debate in Flint, Michigan

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Kejriwal tweets: CBI summoned staff ‘informally’ on phone

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Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, posted on Twitter on Tuesday morning that CBI has issued an ‘informal’ summons to his staff to in relation to the raid conducted at Delhi Secretariat on December 15 last year. “CBI summons Delhi CM’s staff “informally” on phone without notice. Staff of other ministers called earlier like this,” (sic)

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Narendra Modi has met his match in Kanhaiya Kumar: Nayantara Sahgal

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met his match in Kanhaiya Kumar, noted writer Nayantara Sahgal today said as she praised the JNUSU president for his speech at JNU after his release from jail and his subsequent “rational” interviews to the media. “Kanhaiya Kumar has electrified India with not only his speech in which much passion

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TB survivor Amitabh Bachchan: During KBC, I was in immense pain

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For Amitabh Bachchan’s audience, 2000 was the year of his second coming when he reinvented himself with Kaun Banega Crorepati. For the Bollywood superstar, it was time of immense pain as he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was on strong pain medication. The superstar revealed that he was diagnosed with the disease on the day

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Begone Priyanka Chopra! Zac Efron and The Rock just stole your thunder

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After Priyanka Chopra’s leaked on set sneak peek, it’s time for Zac Efron to showcase his hot shirtless body on the sets of Baywatch, which is currently shooting in Miami Beach. It seems the 28-year-old actor is quite aware of how notoriously good looking he is, at least his Instagram post says so, reports E!

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Virat Kohli Calls Mahendra Singh Dhoni ‘The Best Finisher In the World’

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Virat Kohli termed Mahendra Singh Dhoni the “best finisher in the world” after the India skipper made short work of Bangladesh with a flurry of sixes and boundaries in the final of the Asia Cup in Mirpur. “I think Shikhar (Dhawan) played himself in really nicely. My only aim was to keep going at the

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JNU professor exposes Kanhaiya Kumar on his ‘azadi’ speech

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Jawaharlal Nehru University professor Makarand Paranjape, Monday, took on Kanhaiya Kumar for quoting wrong facts, while delivering his speech at the campus after being released from Tihar Jail last week. Paranjape, poet and professor of English at JNU, made the comments while speaking at 15th edition of the speak-in at JNU: “India’s Uncivil Wars. Tagore,

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Eve First Look Poster: Amitabh Bachchan Starts Shooting Under Shoojit Sircar

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Big B Amitabh Bachchan is one of the most wanted actors in Bollywood and the legendary actor has been busy with multiple projects even after crossing his 70s. All his recent movies ended up impressing the audience along with critics. He made his debut in 1969 with the film Saat Hindustani and he has done

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Haryana must look at composite development, says Arun Jaitley

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Haryana must focus on composite development across all areas of the State, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said at the Happening Haryana Summit here on Monday. Stating that Haryana has many advantages such as an agricultural base, manufacturing facilities, emerging service sector economy, and proximity to national capital, Jaitley said: “There are several areas in

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Salman Khan and Malaika Arora Khan’s Light Banter: Is All Finally Well in the Khandaan?

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Just last week, the rumour mills went on an overdrive after power couple Arbaaz Khan and Malaika Arora Khan were spotted in public together amidst rumours of their separation and estrangement. When news of Arbaaz Khan and Malaika Arora Khan ending their 17-year-old marriage was making headlines, gossip columns also suggested that it was elder

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XXX The Return Of Xander Cage: Will Deepika Padukone be a one-film wonder in Hollywood?

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Sanjay Leela Bhansali would be a proud filmmaker today, as the two leading ladies of his last film, Bajirao Mastani, have crossed over to Hollywood. If Priyanka Chopra has a Baywatch to boast about, Deepika Padukone will star opposite Vin Diesel in XXX The Return Of Xander Cage. Bollywood’s two most-talented and glamorous women are

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