Anupam Kher was recently seen at Munmun Ghosh’s novel ‘Thicker Than Blood”, book launch event. He was here to support and speak a few words about Munmun Ghosh’s novel and to share his few thoughts about the novel and also about the whole chaos behind Jawaharlal Nehru University. He said, “…it angers me, shocks me […]
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Sonam Kapoor says that ‘Bandini’ and ‘Guide’ are among her favourite female-oriented films and she now hopes that her own ‘Neerja’ also joins this list. Present at the FLO Film Festival, Sonam was asked in a media interaction about her three favourite female-oriented films to which she replied: ‘Bandini’, ‘Guide’ and hopefully ‘Neerja’.” ‘Bandini’ (1963)
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Fighting at a United Nations compound sheltering people fleeing conflict in South Sudan has killed 18 people, including two Medicins Sans Frontieres workers, the international medical aid group said. South Sudan descended into civil war in December 2013 when a row between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar ended with fighting that
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With no deal on the contentious issue of welfare handouts for migrants from European Union countries, but a possible compromise being mooted, British Prime Minister David Cameron is rolling over his EU renegotiation bid into 2016. But time is running out — particularly if Cameron wants to hold Britain’s long-awaited in-out referendum on membership of
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Defence minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said the government was reconsidering denial of one rank, one pension (OROP) scheme to all military personnel who opt for premature retirement (PMR) from service. “I want to differentiate between voluntary retirement for better prospects and PMR in the interest of the Army,” Parrikar told a television channel, adding
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Who is nationalist? Who is ‘anti-national’? Indians are largely debating over the two questions since the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) tried to organise an event on ‘Afzal Guru’ where ‘anti-national’ slogans were heard. While the saffron brigade is branding anyone and everyone who is criticising the government as ‘anti’national’, many including renowned journalist
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Unconfirmed reports on Friday suggested that gangster Kumar Pillai has been detained in Singapore by the authorities there. The Mumbai crime branch sleuths were still in the process of checking the information through their sources at the time of going to press. According to the crime branch sources, if the information is found to be
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In less than a year, CPM’s much touted Vizag line – no electoral alliance with Congress – has been abandoned. The party’s central committee (CC) has decided to electorally cooperate with “democratic forces”, a new coinage for Congress, in West Bengal. TOI on Wednesday had reported that a divided politburo and CC will find a
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NCP leader Tariq Anwar has accused the BJP-led government of pursuing double standards in categorising violent incidents, which he says is a dangerous trend. “Jihad and terrorism are two different things, like the two banks of a river that could never meet,” Anwar said. “But the government today, as a matter of policy, categorises the
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According to the Gregorian calendar, February 19 is celebrated as Shivaji Jayanti, a date fixed by the previous Congress government. The Shiv Sena however disagrees and celebrates it according to the Hindu calendar. The fight over Shivaji’s legacy is interesting because there seem to be two different Shivajis that are celebrated. While one Shivaji has
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The cliche that India is an extremely price conscious market seems to have been proved, yet again! With a smartphone selling at Rs 251 (nearly Rs 300 if you add in the Rs 40 shipping price included), an unknown phone company Ringing Bells has turned into the biggest news maker in the tech and business
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The police in Pakistan have filed a complaint in the Pathankot airbase attack, a move that records the first official acknowledgement in the country that the attack was executed from Pakistani soil. An FIR or First Information Report has been registered by Pakistan’s anti-terror police but it is against “unknown persons”. The Interior Ministry Deputy
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Facing dissent from its grass-root workers, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has decided not to forge any pre-poll alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the ensuing Assembly elections. The tenure of state Assembly ends on June 5. AGP workers from across the states gathered outside the party headquarter in Guwahati on Wednesday ahead of
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Hittig out at the Narendra Modi government over the JNU controversy, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday the NDA government has formed a new definition of Indian Penal Code (IPC), under which any opposition to BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha (RSS) is the biggest crime now. “Centre’s new IPC- it’s not a crime
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Shairf is likely to meet his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in Washington next month on the sidelines of a nuclear summit hosted by US President Barack Obama, a media report said on Friday. Sharif and Modi have both accepted President Obama’s invitation to attend a nuclear summit he is hosting in
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So far silent on the JNU issue, the human resources development ministry found a novel way to instil patriotism among students. At a conclave of central university vice-chancellors on Thursday, a resolution was passed that “at a central place at every university, the national flag will be flown prominently and proudly”. Initially, there was talk
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General Secretary of AICC and Incharge of Telangana, Mr. Digvijay Singh reviewed in Hyderabad about the defeat of Congress party in GHMC and Narayankhed elections. He expressed his displeasure for not campaigning jointly. He sought suggestions for appointment of Presidents of Congress Party for Greater Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy Districts. He would inaugurate the head
After sharing screen space in T-Series’ music video titled ‘GF BF’, Jacqueline Fernandez and Sooraj Pancholi are keen on collaborating for a film. Both the stars have expressed their wish to work with each other. On being asked about the possibility of featuring in a movie together, Jacqueline said in a statement, “I hope so.
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Sunny Deol’s Ghayal Once Again may not have worked with the critics but few denied the action drama credit for its slick stunts and crisp action sequences. The presence of Hollywood stunt coordinator Dan Bradley, who worked on the film for over six months, obviously showed, although it caused the budget to shoot up by
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Former Delhi Metro chief Dr E Sreedharan on Thursday said that he was not in favour of bullet train at present, instead emphasized on the need for the Indian Railways to improve the existing facilities. “This is not the right time for bullet trains in the country but there is a need for improving existing
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Asserting that there has been a sea change in US-Cuba relationship, the White House today said President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Havana next month will help in concretizing the progress made in bilateral ties. “As we considered whether to go this year to Cuba, the President’s judgment was that, number one. Going to Cuba
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JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday took the unusual step of filing a writ petition in Supreme Court seeking bail, saying violence unleashed by a section of lawyers in the Patiala House Courts complex had disrupted the justice delivery mechanism and posed a grave threat to his life. The petition will be heard on Friday.
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K P Oli on his maiden visit to India as Nepal’s PM from Friday for six days will not only just engage in political dialogue with his host but also hold parleys with business honchos and Bollywood besides a visit to the Tehri power Project in Uttarakhand with an eye on boosting quake-hit fledgling economy.
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Violence broke out during Jat agitation for quota in Rohtak on Thursday leaving at least 15 persons injured even as Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar convened an all-party meet on to find a way out of the impasse. Police and the paramilitary troops staged a flag-march to get the town roads cleared from protesters who
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In an apparent outreach to India at a time when the Pathankot attack has soured bilateral ties, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday accepted that former Indian PM A B Vajpayee was justified in believing Pakistan’s Kargil “misadventure” in 1999 was a stab in his back. Pakistani army regulars, in the garb of militants, occupied
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The BJP MP from Gurdaspur, Vinod Khanna, who landed in his constituency after a long time, has come under attack from opposition parties for not being here during the terrorist attack at the Pathankot Air Force Station. Khanna visited the constituency a couple of days ago. While the MP visited the families of two martyrs
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Pakistan will “soon” ask India to allow its team of investigators probing the Pathankot terror attack to visit the site of the assault, the country’s Interior Minister said onTuesday. “We will soon ask India to let our special investigation team experts to visit Pathankot’s attack place,” Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told in Taxila
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The Uttar Pradesh government would bear the treatment expense of commando Rajesh Singh, who was injured in the terror attack in Pathankot. This was stated by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who also announced a financial assistance of Rs one lakh to Singh, who hails from Ghaziabad district, an official spokesman said here. Singh was injured
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Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Shahryar Khan on Wednesday admitted that if the national team was unable to participate in next month’s World Twenty20 in India, the body could be fined by the ICC. Khan told reporters that in case Pakistan pulls out of the World Cup, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) would have to pay
Neanderthals may have been mating with modern humans 100,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new study based on several different methods of DNA analysis has found. Scientists provide the first genetic evidence of a scenario in which early modern humans left the African continent and mixed with now-extinct
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