With the start of the new year, the UN on Friday ushered in the ambitious 2030 Sustainable Development Goals that aim to end poverty, hunger and assure gender equality while building a life of dignity for all over the next 15 years. The 15-year cycle of the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) came to an […]
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Hundreds of thousands of even-numbered vehicles went off the roads in the Indian capital on Friday as Delhiites embraced a novel odd-even vehicle restriction policy aimed at curbing alarming levels of pollution. Eight hours after the 8 a.m.-8 p.m. scheme got underway, authorities had issued challans to 117 motorists – a small number compared to
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Security forces killed two terrorists following an attack on the Indian Air Force (IAF) Station in Pathankot district in north Punjab early on Saturday. According to CNN-IBN reports, a jawan was also killed in the gunbattle. The gunfire started at around 3.30 am, police have cordoned off the area and army have been called. Number
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Extraordinary security precautions were taken in Jammu on Friday after sealing the Pathankot-Jammu national highway following terror attacks in neighbouring Punjab. Union railway minister, Suresh Prabhu, who arrived in Jammu on Friday, is scheduled to inaugurate a multi-facility complex at Jammu railway station on Saturday. “Pathankot-Jammu national highway has been sealed to ensure that no
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Unidentified armed persons wearing army uniforms forcibly hijacked vehicle of SP Gurdaspur Salwinder Singh who was in Pathankot to pay obeisance at a local Sikh temple Baada Sahib, police sources said. Salwinder Singh according to the police sources was on his way back to home around 4 pm when heavily armed persons hijacked his vehicle
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Defeating their rivals convincingly in the quarterfinals, Sabhi Cricket Club Pathankot and Vicky Cricket Club Hoshairpur sealed berth in the semifinals of the ongoing 6th Police Martyrs Memorial Inter-Club NZ T20 Tournament, being played at Sports Stadium, here. In the 3rd quarterfinals played today, Vicky Club defeated Bala Ji XI Kurukshetra by 2 wickets. Batting
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Rumour has been abuzz that popular television show Comedy Nights With Kapil will go off air with Comedy Nights With Krushna coming in the forefront. Speculation is rife that Krushna Abhishek will be replacing Kapil on the show Comedy Nights With Kapil and it will be called Comedy Nights With Krushna. Kapil is bidding adieu
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Two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Pulwama district of south Kashmir. Security forces cordoned off Gursoo area in Pulwama district last evening following information about the presence of terrorists in the area. The security forces launched house to house search to arrest them, a police official said. “At
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Bollywood’s golden couple Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif were recently spotted being every bit the loved-up couple they have been claiming to be in the face of reports of an imminent break-up. Kat, who had been shooting a special song sequence for her upcoming romance-drama, ‘Fitoor’, in Film City on Tuesday, was welcomed home after
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Aashiqui 2 co-stars Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur have been roped for the Hindi remake of Mani Ratnam’s Tamil hit O Kadhal Kanmani. The upcoming movie is being produced by filmmaker Karan Johar and will be directed by Shaad Ali, who has earlier helmed “Saathiya”, which was the Hindi remake of Ratnam’s Alaipayuthey. “Honoured
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This is not the first legal case that Salman is a part of (sorry we had to) but it’s most certainly the funniest. On his 50th birthday, Salman unveiled an online shopping platform called khanmarketonline.com with presumably the noble cause of extending his merchandise to the digital space. One of Delhi’s oldest and most popular
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Legendary opener Virender Sehwag admitted that he was “hurt” after being dropped in the middle of the 2013 Test series against Australia without any “communication from team management or selectors.” Sehwag was dropped after the second Test against Australia in Hyderabad but the ‘Nawab of Najafgarh’ felt that selectors should have given him an option
Sri Lanka borrowed parts of New Zealand’s successful formula to win the third one-day cricket international by eight wickets on Thursday and kept alive the five-match series which New Zealand leads 2-1. Sri Lanka restricted New Zealand to 276-8, in which Williamson’s 59 was the highest score, and a blazing 65 from 45 balls by
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At least 16 people were killed and 30 wounded by explosions in three restaurants in the northeast of Syria, a monitoring group said, in attacks claimed by the Islamic State group. At least one of the blasts in the city of Qamishli was caused by a suicide bomber, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
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Bill Cosby was charged on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman after plying her with drugs and alcohol in 2004, the only criminal case against a once-beloved entertainer whose father-figure persona has been marred by dozens of similar misconduct accusations. A frail-looking Cosby, 78, walking with a cane and accompanied by two lawyers, appeared for
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Flanked by shaggy-haired gunmen, commander Ghulam Farooq peered out from a hilltop at the biggest military prize of his storied career as a warlord — a mud-walled Afghan village captured after five years of Taliban control. The village of Qara Ghoily in the remote northwestern badlands bordering Turkmenistan offers a rare glimpse into life under
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China`s top official in charge of relations with self-ruled Taiwan warned on Thursday of “complex changes” ahead in ties with the island, which is likely to return the independence-leaning opposition to power in mid-January polls. Defeated Nationalist forces fled to Taiwan after losing the Chinese civil war with the Communists in 1949. Beijing has never
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More than one million refugees and migrants braved the seas in 2015 seeking sanctuary in Europe, nearly five times more than in the previous year, the United Nations’ refugee agency said on Wednesday. About half of the 1,000,573 men, women and children who made the perilous journey came from war-torn Syria, while Afghans accounted for
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Communists don’t make progress by merely adopting resolutions. This was the general feeling among delegates present in the CPM’s four-day organizational plenum on Wednesday afternoon.They wanted the party politburo to do some introspection over its activities before setting guidelines for the party’s primary unit. Fact is that nearly 50% of the 16-member CPM politburo members
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More Indians, and not just students but tourists and businesspersons, have been deported by the US in recent days, the external affairs ministry said on Wednesday. The first reports about US deportations were about Indian students headed for two California universities. Some of them were turned away from Dubai, and the rest from San Francisco.
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If after more than three decades of Chinese growth, Beijing recorded high air pollution levels, then New Delhi achieved the ignominy in much lesser time sans the growth. In Delhi too, like many other cities, vehicular emissions, road transport in particular, add to the high air pollution levels. Emulating other countries—Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, China—we will
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Delhi has become the hub of pre-activated SIM cards, which are available at a premium rates and are being used for criminal activities like spying, extortion, harassment, baking fraud and other high-tech scams, the police said. The revelation comes after the Crime Branch of Delhi Police arrested a 28-year-old man from Delhi and seized 205
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The Delhi and District Cricket Association on Wednesday decided to file a defamation case against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, suspended Bharatiya Janata Party MP Kirti Azad and other Aam Aadmi Party functionaries for making “wild and baseless” allegations of corruption against it, reported PTI. Addressing a press conference, acting president Chetan Chauhan said the
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With just two days until the start of the election year, Donald Trump has shifted his focus away from his primary opponents and onto the Republicans’ likely foe in the general: Hillary Clinton. Speaking at a rally in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Tuesday afternoon, Trump called the former Secretary of State “theatrical” and said,
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The Union Home Ministry on Thursday termed the suspension of two DANICS-cadre officers by the Delhi government as null and void. Two senior civil service officers of the Home Department were on Wednesday suspended by the AAP government for refusing to sign on a Cabinet decision file, following which around 200 DANICS-cadre officers went on
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Sleuths zeroed in on the identity of McNaught Damini, the “pretty woman” who the airman Ranjith KK was talking dirty with for the past several months on Wednesday, even as the arrested IAF employee told the police that he had given details of operation Inderdhanush – an India-UK joint bi-lateral exercise held in the United
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The decision of the Union cabinet to provide Rs 5,000 crore for residential and institutional solar rooftops in the next five years will give major fillip to renewable energy, provided power distribution companies ensure speedy payment to consumers. The new scheme, providing capital subsidy of 30% to general category states and 70% to special category
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A ministerial panel on national education policy has recommended altering the current no-detention policy introduced by the UPA government in schools, and suggested that students be screened at the Class 5 and 8 levels. “We have given our recommendations on the no-detention policy to 22 states, of which 18 have agreed to the change. We
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An overnight gunfight in south Kashmir’s Pulwama between holed up militants and security forces in district left two separatist guerrillas dead. “Two militants including Manzoor Ahmad Dar of Samboora (Pulwama) and a Pakistani national have been killed in Gusoo village encounter,” said a senior police officer. Security forces including troops of 53 Rashtriya Rifles, 183
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Ten people were killed and at least 15 others injured when a rashly driven private bus rammed into a “gharuka” (motorised cart) on Mehta-Amritsar road near Chogawan village here on Wednesday evening. All deceased–six women, three men and a seven-year-old-girl–were travelling in the “gharuka”. Police said a total of 25 people were travelling in the
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