PM Narendra Modi on Sunday touched the feet of a 104-year-old woman from a village in Chhattisgarh’s Dhamtari district who sold her goats to build two toilets at her home. Felicitating Kunwar Bai from Kotabharri village at the launch of ‘Rurban Mission’ in the state’s Naxal-hit Rajandgaon district, Modi said her efforts to make her […]
Veteran actor Dharmendra visited the sets of Comedy Nights With Kapil spin-off Comedy Nights Live with his two actor-sons Bobby Deol and Sunny Deol recently. The show shared pictures from the sets on social media, which also feature singer Mika Singh, show host Krushna Abhishek and comedian Bharti Singh. The Ghayal Once Again actor was
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Kabir Khan says if he gets the right script, he would love to collaborate with Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone amid reports that the two stars are teaming up with the director for his next. The “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” director called Hrithik and Deepika two of the biggest stars of Hindi film industry and expressed his
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AFTER STEALING THE show with her empathic portrayal of Kashibai in Bajirao Mastani, Priyanka Chopra is back as a tough cop in Jai Gangaajal and the actress says she is consciously opting for roles in Bollywood that represent the modern Indian woman. She has established herself as one of the best performers of her generation
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A $16 billion pay rise for India’s public servants and costly food and farm programmes could force the country’s finance minister to cut capital spending in its annual budget, officials and economists say. The spending pressure on finance minister Arun Jaitley threatens to worsen imbalances in India’s $2 trillion economy as consumption outpaces investment, undermining
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Smartphone rivals Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and LG Electronics Inc unveiled their latest flagship devices on Sunday, seeking to revive sales momentum and buck slowing industry growth. Phone makers face another tough year in 2016 as subdued global growth and persisting currency weakness in key emerging markets sap consumers’ spending power. A push by Chinese
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Ahead of Budget 2016 Parliament session on 23rd February, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s inner strength lies in its spiritual tradition, which has held together its people — irrespective of communities — in an inseparable bond. “Our strength lies not only in our rituals, or religious books or preaching. Our strength lies in our
Umar Khalid, one of the six students accused of raising anti-national slogans at the JNU on February 9, late on Sunday said he was “not a terrorist”, adding the BJP government “needed an excuse to target the campus”. “My name is Umar Khalid and I’m not a terrorist,” Khalid, who fled the campus after the
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A Michigan man who worked as an Uber driver was under arrest on Sunday in the fatal shooting of six people in Kalamazoo, as police investigated reports he may have driven customers of the car-hailing service the night of the rampage. Prosecutors alleged that Jason Dalton, 45, opened fire, apparently at random, in parking lots
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Captain Tushar Mahajan of the army’s 10 Para special forces laid down his life fighting three-to-five holed up terrorists at Pampore in Jammu and Kashmir. Injured on Friday while leading his team in the smoke-out operation, the Udhampur captain died on Sunday at 92 Base Hospital. He was son of Udhampur educationist and retired principal
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Bombings claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group in the Syrian cities of Damascus and Homs killed nearly 130 people on Sunday, highlighting the threat posed by the extremists as the country’s warring factions fight for the northern city of Aleppo and world powers chase an elusive ceasefire. The blasts came as Secretary of State
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Family members of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is facing a sedition case, asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “break silence” over the row, saying “a lot was expected” from him. Expressing concern over the attack on Kanhaiya at Patiala House Courts, roles played by a section of lawyers, media
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Amit Rathi remembers his father distributing sweets when the Haryana government declared Jats in the state as Special Backward Class, giving them 10% reservation in jobs under government bodies and educational institutions in January 2013. But the joy was short-lived for Rathi and people of his community as by mid-2015, the Punjab and Haryana high
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As many as 24 students had a narrow escape on Friday when the school bus they were travelling in overturned here. The bus belonged to Partap World School and it was on way to the school from Sundarchak area. After picking students, when the bus reached near Pangoli Chowk at Kahnpur village, the driver lost
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India blanked Sri Lanka 3-0 at home recently, following their triumph Down Under, which has given the team hope of regaining the trophy it won in its inaugural edition in 2007 under the leadership of Dhoni. The 34-year-old said, “We have played T20s in Australia and the at home in recent times. The team is
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Noida-based company Ringing Bells Pvt Ltd said on Saturday it has closed online booking of Freedom 251, touted as the “world’s cheapest smartphone”, well before it was scheduled to end on February 21. “Till 11am on Saturday, a total of 7.35 crore people have booked the Rs 251 smartphone. We had to shut down online
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Desi Girls Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone are giving some Bollywood touch to Hollywood clearly, and we are loving it! The actresses are all over the news lately especially because they have made their way to Hollywood and the country just cannot stop going gaga over it. While Deepika has been keeping fans posted with
Sounds of explosions caused South Korean residents of a front-line island to prepare to evacuate early Saturday, but it was later determined the noise came from a North Korean artillery drill across the rivals’ disputed maritime border, officials said. The false alarm was indicative of the high anxiety between the Koreas in the wake of
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Flights to and from Fiji were cancelled on Saturday as the country braced itself for the arrival of Cyclone Winston. Winston was forecast to pass between the two main populated islands on Saturday night. Many domestic and international flights were cancelled as authorities urged people to secure their homes and not venture outside. Fiji’s prime
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Brussels for the EU-India summit on March 30, which is being held after a long gap of four years that have also seen the suspension of talks on the Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA), sources confirmed to The Hindu. Officials say they hope that the visit by
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A day after a new government was sworn in Arunachal Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today extended best wishes to it and expressed hope that the new dispensation would fulfill the aspirations of the people. “My best wishes to the new Government of Arunachal Pradesh in fulfilling the expectations & aspirations of the people,” Modi
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Pune-Mumbai Expressway witnessed a massive traffic jam today after an oil tanker toppled blocking the busy road route between the two cities. Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Pankaja Munde tweeted a photo of the expressway advising people to avoid the route. “Plz avoid Pune Mumbai travel on Expressway. Huge traffic jam,” Munde tweeted. An oil tanker
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“The University of Hyderabad (UoH) has turned into a police camp,” said Srikanth K., member of the Ambedkar Student Association in UoH, to which research scholar Rohith Vemula also belonged. The statement ironically came during a discussion on ‘Democratic campuses for education’ organised by the Karnataka Vidhyarthi Sanghatane on Wednesday. Mr. Srikanth, a PhD scholar
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Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi, who is facing a lot of flak for his handling of the JNU row and the eventual clashes at the Patiala House Court complex, today fell for a parody Twitter account of NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar and responded to it. This was reportedly the second time in a fortnight that
Shoot-at-sight orders have been issued in Rohtak and Bhiwani in Haryana and curfew clamped down Friday in these two violence-hit districts and Jhajjar too. Three people have been killed, reports IANS even as the Army was rushed in Friday night across eight districts. Security forces opened fire after large-scale violence by Jat community protestors on
Fishermen from eight coastal districts in Tamil Nadu have decided to ‘lay siege’ to the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission at Chennai on February 29, demanding release of 29 fishermen from the state, lodged in prisons in the island nation. They have also demanded release of 78 fishing boats. A decision to this effect was
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After nearly two months, the Indian cricket Board has decided to express its reservations over the implementation of recommendations of the Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee. The BCCI, which has been maintaining that it had an obligation to implement the Committee’s recommendations and fully respected the directives of the apex court during the special general meeting
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Indian cricket has a definite dearth of fast bowlers. But selecting an unfit player in Mohammed Shami in the hope that he’d fire on all cylinders in next month’s ICC World T20 championship is either taking a huge leap of faith or scraping the bottom of a barrel. Take your pick. Consider the facts: The
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For India, the roadmap is going perfectly to plan. Their build-up to ICC World Twenty20 (WT20) will hit the home straight in Bangladesh. After conquering Australia Down Under and Sri Lanka at home, Asia Cup will be the perfect precursor to the big-ticket WT20. A series win over possibly their biggest challengers and the defending
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Kainat Soomro was 13 years old and on her way to buy a toy for her newborn niece when three men kidnapped her, held her for several days and repeatedly raped her. Eight years later, she is still battling for justice. She sits on a steel-framed bed in her parents’ three-bedroom home, and holds her
