The Indian Air Force has some new weapons in its armoury. No, they are not hypersonic cruise missiles, nor bunker-bursting ‘smart’ bombs. Instead, they are innocuous looking tablets called ‘Go/No-Go’ pills. And they are said to pack quite a punch. IAF fighter pilots are now increasingly using these “authorised” pills to boost alertness levels and […]
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With elections in five assemblies take centre stage and the polls in largest state Uttar Pradesh (UP) just a year away, the ruling BJP and main Opposition Congress are competing to reach out to Dalits, weaker sections and rural India. Cashing on the suicide of Hyderabad’s Dalit student Rohith Vemula Congress has planned ‘Dalit conclaves’
Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) secretary and former India team manager Sunil Dev on Sunday denied claiming that the fourth Test between MS Dhoni’s side and England, which was played in Manchester in 2014, was fixed. “It is all rubbish. I am planning to sue this hindi daily and will seek legal recourse against
Rescuers raced Sunday to free more than 120 people buried under the rubble of an apartment complex felled by an earthquake in southern Taiwan that left 28 confirmed dead, as an investigation began into the collapse. The death toll rose as emergency workers dug for survivors of the 6.4-magnitude quake that toppled the 16-storey complex
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After some of its leaders crossed over to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab Congress is set to pay back the favour. Known faces from AAP and even Shiromani Akali Dal are set to join the Congress this week. Among these politicians are SAD’s Deepinder Singh Dhillon and Harry Mann and former AAP leader Punjabi singer
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North Korea’s latest rocket launch may kick off a rapid buildup of US missile defenses in Asia, according to US officials and missile defense experts, something that could further strain ties between the United States and China. North Korea says it put a satellite into orbit on Sunday, but the United States and its allies
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Former CIA employee, Edward Snowden has said that he has evidence showing that Osama bin Laden, who was supposedly killed in Pakistan in 2011 by U.S. special forces, is still alive and well. In an interview with the Moscow Tribune, Snowden saidOsama was living in the Bahamas, on the payroll of the CIA. He told
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A small board at the Siachen Base Camp reads: “Snout of the glacier was here on 10 April 2005.” Today the snout, the starting point of the Siachen glacier, has moved about a kilometre ahead from that point. It is a testimony to the accelerating pace of human-induced climate change and is the likely culprit
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In a tragic incident at Shamli, an 8-year-old boy was killed in firing by supporters of a Samajwadi Party-backed candidate at a victory procession here on Sunday. Relatives of the boy, Shami, blocked the Panipat-Khatima highway in protest after the incident. Although police and administrative officials reached the spot, the blockade had not been lifted
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India will release data on Monday showing it remains one of the fastest growing economies in the world, but economists are struggling to reconcile that rosy picture with ground realities like weak exports, investment, and flat corporate order books. The median estimate from a Reuters poll of economists put GDP annual growth at 7.3 %
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Investigators have raised serious doubts about the number of terrorists involved in last month’s deadly attack on Punjab’s Pathankot air force station. The National Security Guard (NSG) which led the counter-terror operation maintains it killed six militants. “After neutralising four terrorists, the second ‘encounter’ with ‘two more terrorists’ took place on the ground floor of
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The United Nations Security Council on Sunday condemned North Korea’s latest rocket launch and vowed to take “significant measures” in response to Pyongyang’s violations of UN resolutions, Venezuela’s UN ambassador said. “The members of the Security Council strongly condemned this launch,” Venezuelan Ambassador Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, president of the council this month, told reporters.
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Fitoor actress Katrina Kaif is in Delhi for the promotions of her upcoming film ‘Fitoor’. During her stay in the capital the actress decided to go shopping at the famous market for women wear ‘Janpath’. Most of the girls in Delhi come here to shop. Apart from promoting her films at high-end hotels and interacting
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Pakistan today called for collective efforts to persuade maximum number of Taliban groups to join Afghan peace dialogue, as the US, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan launched third round of talks here aimed at adopting a roadmap for reconciliation in the war-torn country. “We believe our collective efforts at this stage, including through supportive CBMs have
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With rebel forces facing the prospect of a crushing defeat by Syria`s Russian-backed regime, their allies Saudi Arabia and Turkey may send in limited numbers of ground troops, analysts say. Riyadh on Thursday left open the possibility of deploying soldiers, saying it would “contribute positively” if the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) jihadist
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The ongoing row over the entry of women in the Shani Shingnapur Temple at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra is likely to come to an end after both the parties on Saturday agreed to accept the decision of Mahasrashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on the issue. Following the meeting with Ahmednagar district administration, activist Trupti Desai ,
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Twitter Inc has shut down more than 125,000 terrorism-related accounts since the middle of 2015, most of them linked to the Islamic State group, the company said in a blog post on Friday. Twitter has said it only takes down accounts when they are reported by other users, but said that it has increased the
A self-proclaimed cleric has been arrested by NIA officials for allegedly planning terror attacks in the country. Abdus Sami Qasmi, a resident of Seelampur, was arrested from Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district. He has been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into the conspiracy to form a terror organisation and to launch terror attacks in
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Concerned over the sharp rise in infectious disease like tuberculosis, Maharashtra government will introduce a bill banning spitting in public places in the upcoming state Legislature Budget session scheduled next month. State Health Minister Deepak Sawant had last year at a function on World Cancer Day mooted the idea of a law banning spitting in
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The death toll in the mishap involving a Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) bus at Navsari in South Gujarat has climbed to 41, police said on Saturday. Among the dead are 21 women, five children and 15 men, they said. The Gujarat government announced a compensation of Rs 4 lakh to the next of
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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon as module pilot on the record-setting Apollo 14 mission in 1971, has died at the age of 85, the U.S. space agency said on Friday. Mitchell died in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, on the eve of the 45th anniversary of the lunar
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South Africa, 2007. It remains the only time India have won the World T20. It makes for some wonderment what the selectors had in mind when picking a side for that tournament, a format unknown to the Men in Blue until they played their first match in South Africa in 2006. Nearly nine years later,
Actress Sonam Kapoor says the makers of her forthcoming film ‘Neerja’ are not trying to sell the film to the audience, but only intend to inspiring people with the story of Neerja Bhanot, who lost her life while saving others on a hijacked flight. On Friday, Sonam visited St. Xavier’s College, where Neerja studied, and
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US President Barack Obama has angered China after warmly acknowledging Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and calling him “a good friend” at a national prayer breakfast in Washington, media reports said on Saturday. Obama did not directly meet the Dalai Lama who was seated among the audience at the annual White House National Prayer
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The ninth session of the India-Sri Lanka Joint Commission was held here on Friday, co-chaired by Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Sri Lankan counterpart Mangala Samaraweera. “Reviewing a multi-faceted partnership. EAM @SushmaSwaraj & FM Samaraweera Co-Chair 9th India-Sri Lanka Jt Commissio”,” external affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup tweeted. The India-Sri Lanka Joint
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Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal “does not possess either a reputation or character” in his own estimation, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley told a Delhi court on Friday. Kejriwal had earlier told the court that Jaitley’s defamation case against did not hold water as the Union minister had “lost by a margin of more than
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Meet India’s biggest FMCG advertiser — at least for now — the Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. For the seven days to January 29, TV commercials (TVCs) of products under the Patanjali brand outnumbered those from big consumer goods brands such as Cadbury, Parle and Pond’s. The data is from Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC),
Dildo throwing is not a good look for New Zealand and an “appalling way” to behave on the country’s national day, Prime Minister John Key said today , angered by an attack on a senior government minister. Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce was hit in the face by a pink dildo thrown at him by
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Friday urged Britain and Sweden to let him walk free from Ecuador’s embassy in London after a UN panel found that the anti-secrecy campaigner was “arbitrarily detained.” Addressing a press conference via video link from the embassy, where he sought refuge in June 2012 and was later granted asylum, Assange hailed
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The sending of ground forces by Saudi Arabia into Syria will have immense ramifications for the country’s civil war and the wider region. The question, however, is whether it will actually take place. The Saudi announcement comes at a time when prospects for peace have faded with the collapse of the Geneva talks and the
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