Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the development of eastern parts of India is a core priority for his government and small towns must have employment opportunities. Inaugurating two projects in Dibrugarh at Assam, Modi said, “The development of eastern parts of India is a core priority for our government because that is […]
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An engineer from Visakhapatnam wrote an open letter to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and sent a demand draft (DD) of Rs 364 asking Aam Aadmi Party chief to buy a pair of shoes. Sumit Agrawal wrote an open letter asking Arvind Kejriwal to buy new shoes so that he won’t wear sandals on important
Randeep Hooda has lost 18 kgs in 28 days and is almost unrecognisable as Sarabjit Singh in Omung Kumar’s upcoming biopic. The 39-year-old Haryanvi Jat, who likes his alu ki sabzi and choorma, had to go on a starvation diet, closely super vised by his sister and a doctor. “He cut down on his meals,
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Islamic State has as many as 25,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq, down from a previous estimate of up to 31,000, according to a US intelligence report revealed by the White House on Thursday. US officials cited factors such as battlefield casualties and desertions to explain the roughly 20 percent decrease in fighters, and said
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Tens of thousands of Syrians were apparently streaming towards Turkey on Friday as regime troops pressed a major Russian-backed offensive around Aleppo, while Moscow and Ankara traded barbs over the escalating crisis. Turkey`s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking at a conference in London where donors pledged more than $10 billion in aid for Syrians, said
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In a big breakthrough for the security agencies, Delhi Police’ Special Cell on Friday arrested a suspected Islamic State sympathiser Mohsin from the Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT) in national capital. Mohsin, a resident of Mumbai, was also carrying Rs 85,000 when the security officials nabbed him. The arrested ISIS sympathiser was trying to reach
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The upcoming bypoll to Maihar Assembly seat, a part of Satna Lok Sabha constituency in Madhya Pradesh, is not only crucial for opposition Congress but also for BJP following its drubbing in the Bihar state elections. For Congress, the Maihar bypoll, slated for 13 February, is a prestige issue as it won the seat in
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More than 40 passengers of the Bengaluru-bound Kanyakumari-Bangalore City Express were injured after its four coaches derailed in Vellore district, around 170 km from here, according to reports. The Southern Railway in a statement said the coaches derailed at 4.15 a.m. between Somanayakkanpatti and Patchur of the Bangalore Railway Division. No lives were lost in
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A song that Salman Khan wanted to use for ‘Tere Naam’ has been included in “Sanam Teri Kasam”, co-directed by his “Lucky: No Time for Love” makers Vinay Sapru and Radhika Rao, who say it was a way to add the superstar’s ‘lucky charm’ to their film. On Wednesday, Salman Khan tweeted: “Directors of my
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Snapdeal has decided not to renew Bollywood star Aamir Khan’s contract as brand ambassador of the e-commerce company, two persons with knowledge of the development said. The one-year endorsement deal ends later this month. “It was extendable by a year but the company decided against it,” said one of the persons. Snapdeal may not replace
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Deepika Padukone’s Hollywood debut has been the talk of the town for a while now. Deepika recently flew down to the US to begin the shoot for her first Hollywood film XXX The Return of Xander Cage. She will be seen opposite Vin Diesel in the action flick, directed by DJ Caruso. Vin, who plays
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An eighteen-year old was sent to judicial custody for fourteen days in Uttar Pradesh for trying to click a selfie with the district magistrate of Bulandshahr. Farad Ahmad was charged for “getting too close” to the DM B Chandrakala . He was arrested on Monday and released on bail on Thursday. According to reports the
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Google parent Alphabet Inc said Wednesday that Amit Singhal, the longtime chief of its Internet search business, will retire. As one of Google’s earliest search pioneers steps down and the company’s leader in artificial intelligence takes his place, analysts say the move signals the company’s desire to make its search engine more sophisticated. Singhal will
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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday left for Colombo on a two-day visit during which she is expected to discuss the fishermen’s issue and rights of minority Tamils with the top Sri Lankan leadership. Ms. Swaraj and her Sri Lankan counterpart Mangala Samaraweera will co-chair the 9th Joint Commission meeting to discuss key bilateral
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A 17-year-old boy, released from a juvenile home for “good behaviour” just two months after he had kidnapped and killed a child last September, has now been accused of murdering an elderly woman who was found dead in her home in south Delhi’s B K Dutt Colony on Monday. Police said the juvenile strangled 65-year-old
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Passengers of a chartered flight were pleasantly surprised when Sonu Nigam gave an impromptu performance on the plane’s address system recently. The flight, however, didn’t end well for the flight’s crew after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation took a strict view of the performance and asked the airline to take action. The regulatory body
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Ten army soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer, are feared dead after an avalanche ripped off their post at 19,600ft in one of the world’s highest battlefield between India and Pakistan, Saichen in the northern glacier sector of the Ladakh region on Wednesday. The army, late on Thursday, ruled out any possibility of missing soldiers
A member of the BJP is one of the accused in the mob attack on a young Tanzanian woman, who was allegedly stripped, assaulted and paraded naked last week, HT has found. Lokesh Bangari, a sitting member of the Chikkabanavara Gram Panchayat, was among the five suspects arrested by the police in the incident that
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The father-son duo of Dharmendra and Sunny Deol is famous across the borders. Recently this superhit jodi were in Delhi for the promotions of their upcoming sequel to the 1990 hit film ‘Ghayal’, ‘Ghayal Once Again’. Present at the event were also Rishabh Arora and Shivam Patil playing an important role in the film. Dharmendra,
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Bangladesh on Wednesday recalled batsman Mohammad Mithun and all-rounder Nasir Hossain in their 15-member squad for the ICC World Twenty20 trophy that begins in India next month. Mithun and Nasir were not part of the Bangladesh squad that drew 2-2 with Zimbabwe in the recent series in Khulna. Chief selector Faruque Ahmed said they have
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Actor-producer John Abraham, who is known for producing content-driven films, says he would go broke but will not produce an adult comedy through his production house, John Abraham Entertainment. “There is a market for adult films, as they have the potential to do well. But as an actor I would definitely not do it. Not
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In awe of Virat Kohli’s meteoric rise, Indian Team Director Ravi Shastri today said the swashbuckling batsman seems like a mirror-image of West Indian great Viv Richards and “wields his willow like a fencer does to his sword.”http://www.aboutpathankot.com/wp-admin/tools.php “Some of his (Kohli) batting reminded me of Viv — like the way the great man dominated
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The clean sweep in the T20 series against Australia has lessened their dilemmas but selectors will debate whether new find Manish Pandey is better-suited than Ajinkya Rahane for the number seven spot when they name the Indian squads for the World T20 and the Asia Cup in New Delhi on Friday. While most of the
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An Egyptian court has decided on Wednesday to overturn death sentences for 149 pro-Islamists, according to an official source and reported by AFP. An Egyptian appeals court overturned on Wednesday death sentences for 149 pro-Islamists accused of killing policemen in a mob attack on their station, a judicial source said. The court ordered a retrial
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Two suspected US drone strikes killed 12 Islamist militants overnight in southern Yemen, residents said on Thursday, including a top al Qaeda commander who may have been the new leader of Islamic State in Yemen. One strike killed six men in a car travelling in al Rawda city in Shabwa province, a remote desert area
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Filmmaker SS Rajamouli said that he is getting a lot of offers from Bollywood after his blockbuster film Baahubali: The Beginning and said that there is a possibility that he might collaborate with Karan Johar for a movie. Baahubali: The Beginning starred Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah and Anushka Shetty in pivotal roles. The Hindi version
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Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that the opposition parties will “see reason” and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill which is held up in Rajya Sabha, will become a reality soon. “GST has been supported by most political parties and I am sure others will also see reason and this law will
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The Sri Lankan government will “protect” its soldiers in the investigations into the alleged human rights violations during the civil war with the Tamil Tigers, President Maithripala Sirisena vowed on Thursday. “We will face it while protecting the integrity of the nation and the security forces,” Sirisena said. In an apparent criticism of his predecessor
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The Budget session of Parliament will commence on February 23 and the general budget will be presented on Feb 29. But there will be no curtailment of the session or the recess period on account of assembly elections in five states due shortly. This was decided at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary
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The Maharashtra Governor on Thursday sanctioned the Central Bureau of Investigation to prosecute former chief minister and the state Congress president Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society case. Chavan, who resigned from his post after the scam surfaced, was among the 12 who were charge sheeted by the investigation agency for allegedly grabbing
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