Around 50 people were killed when Boko Haram fighters armed with guns and explosives attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria, medics and local residents said on Sunday. It was the third deadly attack to hit Nigeria’s restive northeast since Wednesday, after suicide bombers killed at least 24 people in two separate attacks on towns to […]
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Carmakers are gearing up to launch affordable hybrid and electric cars for India in the next few years, executives said, lured by government incentives for fuel-efficient vehicles as the country accelerates efforts to cut worsening air pollution. As the industry descends on smog-bound New Delhi for India’s biggest car show, starting Wednesday, foreign firms like
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A little before 10 pm on Saturday, motorman Munesh Kumar Kulshrestha, piloting a Churchgate-bound slow local, was about to pull in at Elphinstone Road station when he spotted some movement on the tracks. Worried that it might be a person, he hit the brakes. His hunch was right. Standing in the train’s path was a
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An agitation by the Kapu community for quotas in government jobs and educational institutions in Andhra Pradesh turned violent with the agitators setting fire to two police stations and at least six compartments of a train in East Godavari district on Sunday. Thousands of people blocked the arterial Chennai-Kolkata national highway and railway lines bringing
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Dhanush is on a new high after signing his first Hollywood film. Elated to sign my first Hollywood film @The__Fakir,directed by Marjane Satrapi. A big thank you to all for the warm wishes keeps pushing me! — Dhanush (@dhanushkraja) January 28, 2016 The actor is currently shooting in Pollachi near Coimbatore for his film Kodi,
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Is everyone really serious about grounding Airlift? It is just a flipping Bollywood movie, not a documentary for the record. And now even the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) have their knickies in a twist about their being shown in a poor light. So they should be. No one fetched up from India for 12
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Looks like Bollywood is hit by shortage of love. Even before the shocking news of divorce between Farhan Akhtar and Adhuna Akhtar could sink in, another marriage of a star couple—Malaika Arora and Arbaaz Khan—is in the news for reported cracks in the relationship. “A split between the ‘power couple’ Malaika Arora Khan and Arbaaz
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It’s been a great day for India Down Under. And we are not talking about MS Dhoni’s men beating Australia at the MCG to go up 2-0 in the T20I series. A victory of far greater import was pulled off earlier at the same venue by the Indian women’s cricket team to record a never-before
All-rounder Shane Watson will lead the Australian team in the third and final Twenty20 match against India, in Sydney on Sunday, in the absence of injured skipper Aaron Finch. Finch had damaged his left hamstring during the 27-run loss in the second match at the MCG on Friday. Watson’s appointment followed a recommendation by the
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A shooting at a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia killed three people and wounded others Friday during prayers, security officials and a witness said, in the latest violence to strike the region. The attack struck the Imam Reza Mosque in the neighborhood of Mehasin, an area popular with Shiite workers of the state-run Saudi
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Ten people drowned while 43 others were rescued after a boat carrying migrants to Greece sank off Turkey’s western coast, Turkish news agency Dogan reported on Saturday. More than one million refugees and migrants arrived by land and sea in the European Union last year and some 3,600 died or went missing. The Turkish coast
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A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed within 12 nautical miles of an island claimed by China and two other nations in the South China Sea on Saturday, in an operation the Pentagon said aimed to challenge efforts to restrict freedom of navigation. China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5
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Syria’s main opposition group agreed to travel to Geneva, where the United Nations on Friday opened peace talks to end the country’s five-year-old war, but said it wanted to discuss humanitarian issues before engaging in political negotiations. On the ground, opponents of President Bashar al-Assad said they were facing a Russian-backed military onslaught, with hundreds
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Four people were killed and 18 wounded on Friday when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Shiite-populated eastern Saudi Arabia, state media said. The Al-Ekhbariya news channel quoted an interior ministry spokesman as giving the new toll, up from two dead and seven wounded earlier. Residents said the mosque belonged to the minority Shiite
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The Narendra Modi-led Centre is planning to make all government services available to the people on mobile phones. The move has been proposed to give a push to the Digital India initiative and ensure that people can avail nearly every service at the touch of a button. This will help eliminate the need to visit
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After successfully forcing the central government to withdraw amendments in the Land Acquisition Bill, main Opposition Congress is now out to cash in on the guidelines and circulars issued over past 18 months aimed at synchronizing the Forests Rights Act (FRA) with “ease of business”. Under the new guidelines, degraded forests can be handed over
The NDA government carried out a major reshuffle at the top bureaucratic level on Friday, bringing in new Secretaries to steer the crucial Ministries of Agriculture, Telecom and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, indicating a willingness and determination to change course based on performance. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra
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As the country pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 68th death anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called on the nation to observe two minutes of silence in the memory of those who were martyred in India’s freedom struggle. “Salutations to beloved Bapu on his Punya Tithi. Let us as a nation stand
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The sublime touch that he is in, Virat Kohli can bat even at midnight without switching on the lights and still score runs, Sunil Gavaskar said on Friday, eulogising the young Indian batsman. A rampaging Kohli continued to torment the Australians, hitting another quick-fire half-century in India’s second win in the Twenty20 series on Friday.
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India has sought consular access for a city engineer, who is in Pakistan army’s custody, and asked Islamabad to ensure his safety and security, eternal affairs minister Sushma Swaraj said on Friday. Hamid Nehal Ansari, who was missing for over three years, was later found to be in custody of Pakistan army and facing trial
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Madhya Pradesh high court on Friday issued notices to the government of India, Information and broadcasting ministry, censor board besides directors and actors of film ‘Bajirao Mastani’ over its release without showing script to decedents of the royal family. Tamkeen Ali Bahadur, a descendant of ‘Bajirao Mastani’ has moved Jabalpur bench of the court claiming
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday differed with his party’s decision of imposing President’s rule in Arunachal Pradesh. While making his displeasure public, the Patna Sahib MP took a dig ta the “great” advisors who advised ‘dynamic’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi to opt for President’s Rule in the northeastern state. Sinha who
A strong 7-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Russia on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake struck 109km (67 miles) north of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, USGS said. It struck at a relatively deep 153km. There were no initial reports of damage or casualties. The National and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers said there was no risk it had
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Bajrang Dal activists tonsured a youth and paraded him on a donkey in a Uttar Pradesh village for allegedly converting another man to Christianity without his consent, police said. Police added they were probing the claim of one Sangam Jatav who alleged that the accused Avdhesh Savita had forcefully converted him to Christianity without his
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Underlining the achievements of the NDA government, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said recognition of yoga at the global level and India’s standing among comity of nations has gone up after Prime Minister Narendra Modi assumed office. The senior BJP leader, who arrived here on a two-day visit, met individuals from various strata of
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The solar scam is stirring the political cauldron in election-bound Kerala. As the Left and BJP cashed in on the corruption allegations against chief minister Oommen Chandy in the solar scam, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is understood to have asked for papers and details related to the case. Senior party leader AK Antony, who was
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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi rejoined protesting students at the University of Hyderabad on Saturday, barely hours after the interim vice-chancellor went on leave overnight in a new twist to the controversy over the suicide by a Dalit scholar. It was the second visit to the university by the Congress leader following the death of research
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Ahead of the Budget, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan today warned against generating economic growth through additional debt saying that any deviation from the fiscal consolidation path will hurt the stability of the economy. Rajan said that macroeconomic stability during the global turmoil cannot be risked and the government and RBI should continue to bring down
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Bollywood dreamgirl Hema Malini’s plans to start a dance academy on a plot of land in Mumbai’s Andheri area hit a roadblock on Thursday, as an RTI activist accused her of land-grabbing. Exactly a month ago, the Maharashtra government had allotted a prime 2,000-square-metre plot to the Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha member in the
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Mastizaade Director: Milap Zaveri Cast: Sunny Leone, Sunny Leone, Tusshar Kapoor, Vir Das Rating: 0/5 Mastizaade isn’t even a movie. For almost the entirety of its run time, it feels like getting screamed at by a pissed off plastic clown. It’s as pointless as a punctured condom. It’s as ghastly as a bad boob job.
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