Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump spoke about India for the first time after he entered the presidential race, saying that the country is doing great and no one is talking about it. “India is doing great,” Trump told the CNN in an interview on Monday. After hitting the presidential campaign trial, this is for […]
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Senior Punjab Police officer Salwinder Singh, who is being questioned by the National Investigation Agency in connection with the Pathankot terror strike, has been given a clean chit after the tests, including a lie-detector test, found nothing against him, according to official sources. Mr Singh, a Superintendent of Police-rank officer, has been questioned multiple times
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The dirty linen-washing on the Kapoors’ doorstep is a sad and sorry indication of how sour celebrity relationships are sometimes allowed to get when the partners in a marriage belong to different worlds. All of this mess with those embarrassing accusations in a legal public domain thrown at the daughter of one of the most
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Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 should inspire the Censor Board to introduce a new rating to the existing lot: J for Juvenile. Seriously, A for Adults Only is an insult to all those over-18s in this country with an iota of maturity and common sense. Tusshar Kapoor and Aftab Shivdasani play buddies Kanhaiyya and Rocky
Airlift is a film that talks about a mass evacuation that left everyone proud to be an Indian. These days, we hardly get an opportunity to feel that way for our country for there hasn’t been any incident to feel so. Akshay Kumar‘s taut thriller has given us a reason to holler that even India
Going by her onscreen persona, Sunny Leone comes across as a bold and outgoing woman in real life but the actress says she is a shy person. “When I am at an event or at a function or award show I get really shy. I am sure it is hard for people to believe that
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After Irrfan, Anil Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Om Puri, Sonu Sood and Gulshan Grover found suitable roles in the West, actor Dhanush is all set to cross over. He is set to make his Hollywood debut with Uma Thurman and Alexandra Daddario (of San Andreas fame) in The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir Who
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The Sydney Thunder gave captain Michael Hussey the perfect send-off from Australian cricket when they beat the Melbourne Stars by three wickets to win the Big Bash League on Sunday. After Hussey won the toss and sent the Stars in to bat at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the home side reached 176 for nine thanks
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Let us do a basic calculation. The Sydney ODI was India’s last one until the 2016 IPL season. The Men in Blue are scheduled to play three T20Is at home against Sri Lanka after returning from Australia, and then fly away to Bangladesh to play the Asia Cup (T20 format this time around). Thereafter the
The most expensive buy in the previous IPL auction, Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh, along with 11 others, have quoted the highest base price for this year’s auction to be held on February 6 in Bangalore. According to a report in ‘ESPN Cricinfo’, apart from Yuvraj, England swashbuckler Kevin Pietersen and in-form Australian all-rounder Mitchell Marsh
The first flight in three days took off from the South Korean resort island of Jeju on Monday after the biggest snowfall in three decades shut the airport and stranded nearly 90,000 people. Known as the Hawaii of South Korea for its beaches and usually warm climate, Jeju took the brunt of a week-long cold
As the Sunni-Shia conflict in West Asia escalates and threatens to engulf the energy rich region, India and many other countries are caught in a bind over which side to support. Some have made their choice clear. France and most Western democracies back the Sunni states: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Jordon. US, a friend of
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Iraq summoned the new Saudi ambassador on Sunday after he suggested Iranian-backed Shite militias were exacerbating sectarian tensions and should leave the fight against Islamic State to the Iraqi army and official security forces. Baghdad’s move underscores the depth of enmity between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslim powers as sectarian conflicts rage in Syria, Yemen and
A large chunk of metal that could be from an aircraft washed ashore in southern Thailand, but Malaysian authorities have cautioned against speculation of a link to a Malaysia Airlines flight missing almost two years. The location on the eastern side of Thailand where the debris was found also means it is highly unlikely that
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The first white British man to join terror group ISIS has been identified, according to The Sunday Times report. As per the reports, 20-year-old Jack Letts joined the Islamic State group and travelled secretly to Syria two years ago. Originally from Oxford in United Kingdom, Letts apparently converted to Islam and started attending the Madine
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A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck remote southern Alaska early on Sunday, unleashing shudders felt several hundred miles (km) from the tremor`s lakefront epicenter near on the far end of Cook Inlet from Anchorage, the state`s largest city. No injuries were reported, but several neighborhoods in the town of Kenai – roughly halfway between the
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National Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar was admitted to a private hospital on Sunday evening for ‘minor kidney problem’ and ‘water retention,’ hospital authorities said. “He (Pawar) just had minor kidney problem and water retention. However, he is doing absolutely fine,” said Dr Parvez Grant, managing trustee and chief cardiologist of Ruby Hall clinic, where
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As a large number of parents and students thronged the Villupuram hospital, demanding action against the management of a private medical college where three girl students committed suicide on Saturday, the contents of their suicide note continued to evoke shock and anger. On Sunday, District Collector M Lakshmy sealed the college and hostel, where the
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Too many challenges are in store for Amit Shah as he is set to head the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the next three years. While the poll results of Delhi and Bihar still haunt the BJP, upcoming Assembly elections in the four states and one Union Territory will be a major challenge. Barring Assam,
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Reiterating his commitment to fighting terror, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that ‘India and France stand united in fighting enemies of humanity’. Speaking at India-France Business Summit here, PM Modi and French President Francois Hollande said that both countries have been victims of terror attacks and need to work together to prevent similar
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India’s Rohit Sharma jumped eight spots to claim a career-best fifth position in the ICC batsman rankings after a stellar showing in the recently concluded series against top-ranked Australia. Man of the Series Rohit, who registered 441 runs in the five matches, struck two centuries and a match-winning 99 in the consolation win for the
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In the third such incident in the national capital region, the car of an army officer was stolen from a south Delhi area on Sunday sending alarm bells ringing in the capital ahead of the Republic Day parade which will be attended by top Indian leaders and French President Francois Hollande. The national capital is
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Three Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU) students started an indefinite hunger strike to pressure the Centre into taking action against Union ministers Bandaru Dattatreya, Smriti Irani and University of Hyderabad vice-chancellor Appa Rao Podile for allegedly abetting the suicide of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula. The hunger strike by students is a part of the action
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ISIS has released a video in which it appears to threaten David Cameron and the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow. The 17-minute recording purportedly shows several of the terrorists who attacked Paris in November, killing 130 people, including the so-called mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was killed in the city by French police
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Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday said he “felt sad” for ordering firing on ‘karsewaks’ in Ayodhya in 1990 but it was necessary to save the religious place. Mulayam, who was the then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, had ordered firing on karsewaks in Ayodhya in 1990 in which 16 people were killed.
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday said India has given fresh leads relating to the Pathankot terror attack and Pakistan is verifying the facts to bring the perpetrators to justice. “I have received fresh leads from India on the Pathankot attack and we will look and examine those evidences given by India. We could have
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R Madhavan is a man on a mission. It has been four years since his last Tamil film Vettai (Hunt), which released on January 14, 2012. The actor is now on a hunt to get that elusive hit with a Tamil-Hindi bilingual, Irudhi Suttru (Final Round)/Saala Khadoos directed by Sudha Kongra releasing on January 29.
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Noted film-maker Mahesh Bhatt while appreciating Karan Johar on Friday for his bold statement on “intolerance” in India warned that the producer should now be ready to face the backlashes his comments will trigger. “I think it’s very brave of Karan to say. He is a public figure; he is a big star and he
The first thing you see on screen are two oranges. Lemons and oranges are the oldest tricks in the trade for attempting adult humour at a woman’s anatomy. You yawn and wait for the banana in the third installment of Ekta Kapoor’s Kya Cool Hain Hum 3. Instead you see crows and parrots and dogs
Spin great Erapalli Prasanna feels time has come to make Virat Kohli the India captain in all three formats and MS Dhoni, whose leadership skills are on the wane, can continue playing as a wicketkeeper-batsman in the limited-overs format. Though it has already been announced that Dhoni will lead India in the World T20 in
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