The six fidayeen terrorists who struck at the airbase in Pathankot on January 2 had two specific objectives-to kill military personnel and destroy fighter aircraft and helicopter gunships. The attackers failed in their primary task of destroying aircraft parked in the frontline air force base because they were prevented from reaching the technical area. But […]
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Days after the Pathankot terror attack rocked India, the Punjab Police arrested a BSF constable, who was allegedly involved in helping a cartel of drugs and arms smugglers infiltrate heroin and weapons into India. On Monday, the Punjab Police busted a major cartel and arrested three notorious smugglers. Their interrogation then led the investigators to
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At a Parliamentary Standing Committee meeting on Friday in which members sought an explanation from the Tourism Secretary for replacing actor Aamir Khan with Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador of the Incredible India campaign, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari is learnt to have called Khan a “traitor”. According to a source, Tiwari, also a popular
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Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, while congratulating Priyanka Chopra for her win at the People Choice Awards for her first American show ‘Quantico’, has said the actress has brought pride to Bollywood and the country. Priyanka, 33, has won the best actress in a new TV series award for ‘Quantico’, becoming the first Indian to win
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CHIEF MINISTER Mamata Banerjee on Friday urged industry leaders to “not waste time” waiting for election results as her government would be voted back to power, and asked them to invest in West Bengal where the government would “work as their employee”. Speaking at the inaugural session of the Bengal Global Business Summit in Kolkata,
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Karnataka’s transport minister Ramalinga Reddy declared on Friday that helmets will be compulsory for pillion riders as well in the state from January 12. According to him, people of all age groups fall under this new rule. A report in Deccan Herald states that in the initial days, the police will have to enforce the
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Farhan Akhtar shares his birthday, on 9 January, with his cousin the choreographer and self-styled filmmaker Farah Khan. Except for their similar-sounding first names and the fact that they have hopped, skipped and jumped into direction from another vocation, I don’t know of any two people in the Hindi film industry who are more dissimilar
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Mumbai Police has downgraded security cover for superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan and scrapped it for some others following an audit on threat perceptions, an official said on Friday. Described as “routine”, the annual review of threat perceptions has concluded that some film celebrities did not warrant the kind of security cover accorded
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As a passionate cricket lover, I travelled thousands of kilometres with my son, nephew and their friends to watch ‘India’ play and win at one of the World Cup Finals. We bought and carried the National Flag all the way from Delhi. The kids also carried paints and tricolour stickers, with which they decorated their
The famous rivalry set to resurface, India’s star batsman Rohit Sharma says the upcoming limited overs series against Australia Down Under will be a case of “fighting fire with fire”. The five-ODI and three-T20 series begins here on 12 January and both Australia and India, after enjoying big wins against lacklustre West Indies and South
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Iraq’s joint operations command denied on Saturday that Turkish forces based in northern Iraq had been attacked by Islamic State or had clashed with the militants, refuting claims by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. “The joint operations command denies there was a terrorist attack on the position of Turkish forces in Bashiqa by the terrorist Daesh
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A man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group shot and seriously wounded a policeman in Philadelphia, opening fire multiple times at point-blank range with a stolen police gun before he was arrested, officials said on Friday. The apparent assassination attempt comes amid heightened security in the United States following last month’s assault by
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Pathankot in Punjab on Saturday for first-hand assessment of the situation at the Air base which was attacked by six terrorists last Saturday. Sources said the visit is expected to take place on Saturday morning and details of the trip are being finalised. Earlier on Thursday, security
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Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena marked his first year in office on Friday by pardoning a Tamil Tiger rebel convicted of plotting to murder him a decade ago. Sivarajah Jeneevan was sentenced last January to 10 years in jail for conspiring to murder Sirisena when he was irrigation minister in 2005. The president welcomed Jeneevan
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South Korea’s loudspeaker broadcasts aimed at North Korea push the rivals to the “brink of war,” a top North Korean official has told a propaganda rally, in the isolated country’s first official response to the sonic barrage across its border. North Korea’s fourth nuclear test on Wednesday angered both the United States and China, which
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The Army on Friday asked civilians to avoid wearing Army-pattern dresses and shopkeepers to refrain from selling combat clothes, as it issued fresh guidelines to the public to prevent terror attacks. The guidelines, to be followed across the country, come nearly a week after six terrorists infiltrated through the border and launched attack at the
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The situation remained tense but under control on Friday in the Purnea district of Bihar, a day after an irate mob ransacked Baisi police station while protesting the derogatory remarks made against the Prophet allegedly by Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari. The ‘peaceful’ protest march, taken out by a local minority wing of
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The Centre has lifted the four-year-old ban on poll-bound Tamil Nadu’s controversial bull-taming sport ‘jallikattu’ by altering its 2011 notification. The fresh notification also cleared other traditional bull-related events like bullock cart races in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana, Kerala and Gujarat. Soon after the notification was issued late Thursday, activists vowed to move the Supreme
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Lashing out at Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal over his fresh attack on the Modi government, BJP on Friday accused him of taking one unconstitutional step after another and asked him to be “ready to go to jail” in the defamation case filed by finance minister Arun Jaitley. The Kejriwal government has been a “complete
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After many speculations and long wait, finally Salman Khan’s upcoming film Sultan has got a leading lady. Yes, none other than Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma has been finalized as the lead actress opposite Salman Khan in Ali Abbas Zafar’s Sultan. The official handle of Sultan shared the much awaited news on micro blogging site twitter.
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A court in Andhra Pradesh on Friday issued non-bailable arrest warrant against Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni for allegedly hurting sentiments of Hindus by appearing as a deity on a magazine cover, a media report said. The case against Dhoni, 34, was filed by a VHP leader in Anantapur town for allegedly hurting religious sentiments
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Maulana Syed Anzar Shah, the 51-year-old cleric arrested by the Delhi Police special cell from Bengaluru, allegedly radicalised over 10 suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives who were among those accused of plotting the assassinations of several right-wing leaders in 2012, police sources said. Shah was operating a website www.ittagullah.com for motivating youths towards jihad and frequently
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The world’s most-wanted drug lord was recaptured in a daring raid by Mexican marines Friday, six months after he fled through a tunnel from a maximum security prison in a made-for-Hollywood escape that deeply embarrassed the government and strained ties with the United States. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced the capture of Joaquin “El
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She is all set to become the first woman CM of Jammu and Kashmir but the day after her father’s death Mehbooba Mufti remained closeted in her home, refusing to take oath as CM until the 4 day mourning period is over. The Mufti home on Gupkar Road is swarming with mourners, many in tears,
Condemning the Pathankot attack in one voice – for the first time following a terror strike in India, Pakistan’s civilian and military leadership on Friday promised full cooperation with New Delhi in eradicating the menace of terrorism from the region, a denunciation that would be reassuring for South Block. The decision was taken at a
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Indo-Canadian adult film star Sunny Leone, who will soon be seen in sex comedy film ‘Mastizaade’, says the film director made her feel so comfortable that she never felt “wrong” shooting for the movie. “Every actor and actress have their own dos and don’ts and in this film (‘Mastizaade’), there were lots of don’t but
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Iran on Thursday said Saudi warplanes had attacked its embassy in Yemen’s capital, a development that would exacerbate tensions between the major Shi’ite and Sunni powers in the region, and Riyadh said it would investigate the accusation. “Saudi Arabia is responsible for the damage to the embassy building and the injury to some of its
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In 1990, when his name was cleared in the Bofors scam by a London court, Amitabh Bachchan proudly claimed the “Bachchans do not manage contradictions, they expose them.” Bachchan has come a long way since the 80s. From the man who, according to former Prime Minister VP Singh, almost ran the Rajiv Gandhi government and
A police constable was shot dead by armed miscreants in the Mahishadal area of East Midnapore district on Thursday night, the police said. Two constables and an Assistant Sub-Inspector were on regular night patrol duty and were checking on some illegal lodges in the Kapas area of Mahishadal after getting a tip-off that some miscreants
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee did not quite plan it that way, but she is set to pull off a political coup. Her big business summit has on stage together Arun Jaitley and Arvind Kejriwal, now at war. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who has recently Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, is the keynote speaker
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