It’s bad enough that the tickets for the World Cup were delayed inordinately and there was so much confusion over whether Delhi would pass the test as a venue. But this latest twist in the cricket pretzel with Dharamshala backing off its responsibility to host the Indo-Pakistan tie on 19 March is certain to cause […]
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The highlight of India’s five-wicket victory over Sri Lanka on Tuesday was not the team’s third consecutive, comfortable win in Asia Cup, it wasn’t Virat Kohli’s Man of the Match-winning half-century, it was not even making the finals, it was Yuvraj Singh turning back the clock. Yuvraj produced a power-packed innings, hitting 35 runs off
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India has approached several countries, including Japan, Russia and the UK, for handing over of documents relating to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and some of them have responded, Rajya Sabha was told on Wednesday. Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary said the issue of handing over documents relating to Netaji had been taken
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China has stationed several ships near a disputed atoll in the South China Sea, preventing Filipino fishermen from accessing traditional fishing grounds and raising tensions in the volatile region, Philippine officials said on Wednesday. China had deployed up to seven ships to Quirino Atoll, also known as Jackson Atoll, said Eugenio Bito-onon Jr, the mayor
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Google-owned traffic app Waze hit back on Wednesday at suggestions its directions led Israeli soldiers into a Palestinian refugee camp where they were attacked, sparking bloody clashes. Two Israeli soldiers were said to be using the app when they mistakenly drove into the Qalandiya refugee camp overnight, sparking clashes as security forces deployed to rescue
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The Telangana government is planning to invite spiritual leader Dalai Lama for the inauguration of ‘Buddha Vanam’ (Buddha garden) project in the city. K T Rama Rao, IT and Panchayat Raj Minister said this during a meeting with an official of Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative values from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
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A 35-year-old CISF constable posted at the Ratnagiri Gas and Power Plant Ltd unit at Anjelwal, Dabhol has allegedly shot dead an Assistant Sub- Inspector and a colleague using his service rifle. The incident occured on Tuesday between 9.30pm and 10.15pm. The accused Jawan had an alleged tiff off with the victim ASI whom he
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Afghanistan and Indian security forces on Wednesday killed a team of suicide bombers who targeted the Indian consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, following an attack in which at least six people were wounded, officials said. A bomb in a car driven by one of the attackers was detonated near the Indian consulate, shattering
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The United States and China are risking a tit-for-tat escalation over the Paracel Islands as Beijing asserts its authority over one of its most tightly-held assets in the South China Sea and Washington challenges a growing military build-up. Both Chinese and foreign security experts say Beijing won’t compromise over the Paracels, and it views its
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Ties between India and the US are blossoming as the two countries, after 12 years of talks, are closer than ever to signing an agreement to share military logistics, said a Pakistani daily. An editorial “US-India relations” in the Daily Times on Wednesday said that two weeks ago, India was up in arms about the
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The renowned Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative Values which is based at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, is set to open its South Asia Centre in Hyderabad. The director of the Dalai Lama Centre for Ethics and Transformative Values Tenzin Priyadarshini informed the Telangana IT Minister K.T.Rama Rao and Tourism Minister
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Amid the furore over former undersecretary RVS Mani’s revelations in the Ishrat Jahan case, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday told her party MPs that former home minister P Chidambaram has already explained his position, adding that the grand old party has been targeted since it has been in the government. “Chidambaram ji has already
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In the new instalment of the set images from Deepika Padukone’s XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, Bollywood diva looks all menancing filming an action sequence. Deepika plays Serena opposite to Vin Diesel’s Xander Cage. All tatted and clad in leather hot pants and strapped boots, Deepika is standing opposite a stuntman, ready to strike,
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Pakistan has vowed to take action against all terrorist groups, including the Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT), and not let its territory be used by such outfits to destabilise other countries. The LeT is said to be behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, which killed 164 people and wounding at least 308. Islamabad’s commitment to target all terrorists
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Tens of thousands of Pakistanis chanting anti-government slogans on Tuesday attended the funeral of a police officer executed the day before for assassinating a secular governor in 2011 over accusations of blasphemy. As a precaution against violence, authorities closed all schools and stepped up security in Islamabad and the adjacent city of Rawalpindi, where the
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The Patna high court on Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of pictures published in a newspaper showing candidates taking an Army recruitment exam in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur on Sunday in undergarments. Altogether 1,159 candidates wrote the test, which the Army Regional Office (ARO) in Muzaffarpur conducted for recruitment of clerks. After advocate Dinu Kumar mentioned the
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Delhi Police has written to the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) to form a special team comprising doctors and forensic scientists to examine the medical reports and evidence in Sunanda Pushkar’s death. A letter was sent to the DG Health Services after the Special Investigation Team probing the case failed to draw any conclusion
One of the biggest mysteries in India’s budget is how much Prime Minister Narendra Modi allocated for a once-in-a-decade pay hike for government employees. Economists covering India have spent the last few days scouring through some 1,500 pages of budget documents to discover funds for a roughly Rs.1 trillion wage increase proposed by a government-appointed
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Budget session: AIADMK members disrupted both houses of parliament on Tuesday demanding action against former home minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti over corruption charges. The protesting members shouted slogans in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha against the former Congress minister and his son. Soon after the Lok Sabha met for the
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India stormed into the final of the Asia Cup T20 cricket tournament on Tuesday with another comfortable five-wicket victory over Sri Lanka, riding on Virat Kohli’s unbeaten half-century. It was their third successive victory, clinching a berth for the summit clash as they now stand on the cusp of their sixth continental championship trophy. After
Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey. Their Soyuz capsule parachuted onto the central Asian steppes and ended a science-rich mission at the International Space Station that began last March and
In a letter apparently written by Osama bin Laden, the late al-Qaida leader denounced the corporate interests supposedly driving politics in the United States and hailed the courage of the country’s Founding Fathers. Yes, you read that right. The letter is part of a tranche of more than 100 documents released Tuesday by the office
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The Delhi Police said on Tuesday they have charged The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) executive vice-chairman RK Pachauri with sexual harassment, following a complaint by a former colleague last year. A chargesheet was filed before metropolitan magistrate Shivani Chauhan. In the 1,400-page document, the police have charged Pachauri with four counts including sexual assault,
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With veteran actor Kabir Bedi congratulating Preity Zinta on her marriage, social media was abuzz with reports that the Bollywood actress has already said “I do” to her American beau Gene Goodenough in a hush-hush ceremony in Los Angeles. The virtual world had a flood of speculations that the Kal Ho Naa Ho star had
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Bhatkal town was tense after several Muslim organisations condemned the inflammatory statement made BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde and demanded action against him. In a memorandum submitted to Uttara Kannada SP C. Vamsi Krishna, Majlise-Islah Wa Tanzeem, Bhatkal, general secretary, Altaf Kharuri said Mr. Hegde’s statement was malicious. It was aimed at creating a law and
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Facing strong opposition from different quarters over the proposal to tax 60 percent of withdrawals from provident fund, the government issued detailed clarification on the matter on Tuesday evening. At the same time, it has also hinted at a partial rollback of the proposal. Speaking at an event ‘Budget Verdict’ jointly organised by CNBC-TV18 and
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Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up a series of big primary wins on Tuesday, as the two presidential front-runners looked to take command of their party nominating battles on the 2016 campaign’s biggest night of voting. US networks projected Trump won five states and Clinton won six states on Super Tuesday, when
The one thing that Yuvraj Singh cannot be faulted with is a failure to evoke emotion. The Punjabi star has always stirred up passions every time he donned his cricket gear. His trademark aggression on and off the field, an intrusive father, a doting mother and his indulgence with life meant that the press was
Pakistan today said the proposed US sale of F-16 fighter jets to the country would strengthen its ability to carry out counter-terrorism operations and promote regional stability. “We appreciate the public assessment of the US leadership in response to Congressional inquiries that Pakistan has used the F-16s effectively against the terrorists in the region,” Sartaj
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The Haryana police continued to deny the allegations of gangrape by Jat protesters in Murthal in Sonepat district in its status report submitted before a bench in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday. The status report was filed before a division bench comprising of justices SK Mittal and HS Sidhu, with the police
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