One body was recovered on Tuesday from debris of the houses that collapsed in landslides which struck an industrial estate in China’s manufacturing hub of Shenzen as hundreds of rescuers mounted a massive operation to locate 85 missing people, including 32 women. One body was dug out around 6 am, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. […]
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Russian military officials said today they would call on more specialists to help decipher the damaged black box of a warplane shot down by Turkey after a first attempt to read the device failed. “Reading the memory cards is not yet possible due to internal damage,” said Sergei Bainetov, the deputy head of flight safety
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Two people were killed on Tuesday during an attack by Somali Shebab fighters on a bus travelling to Mandera in northeast Kenya from the capital Nairobi. the interior ministry said. Another six people were wounded in the attack at Elwak, some 150 kilometres (95 miles) south of Mandera and on the Somali border. The assailants
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A suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden motorcycle into a joint NATO-Afghan patrol Monday, killing six American troops in the deadliest attack on international forces since August. Two US troops and an Afghan were wounded. The attack happened as Taliban fighters overran a strategic district in southern Helmand province, the scene of some of the deadliest
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Moving to end the five-month standoff with agitating Madhesis which has crippled arterial supply lines to the country, the Nepal government has agreed to amend its new Constitution to address two key demands of the protesters regarding proportional representation and constituency delimitation. New Delhi welcomed Kathmandu’s decision and urged all political forces in Nepal to
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Suravi Bose, a city resident, has written to the President, Prime Minister and Union home minister, to include Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s name in Schedule 9 of the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 by way of an amendment. She had earlier moved Calcutta high court and the Supreme Court, alleging that
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Monday that prominent Trinamool Congress leader and sitting MP Suvendu Adhikary will contest from the Nandigram seat in the 2016 Assembly polls. “I want Suvendu Adhikary to become a Minister. He will take forward our developmental works in Nandigram,” said Ms. Banerjee at a government programme at
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Days after the release of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar’s autobiography on the occasion of his 75th birthday saw a galaxy of leaders gathering at Vigyan Bhawan, an even bigger show of strength was seen on the lawns of 7, Tughlak Road, the residence of JD(U) president Sharad Yadav on Monday. Leaders across
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Afghanistan’s intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security, has prevented a suicide-bomb assault on India’s consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad, along the border with Pakistan, government sources told. The strike was to have taken place as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the Afghan capital for the first time on December 25, sources said.
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THE HARYANA government has decided to order an inquiry into the allotment of a prime plot in Panchkula’s Sector 6 Institutional Area to Associated Journals Limited (AJL) by the previous Congress government. “The inquiry will be conducted either by the State Vigilance Bureau or the Central Bureau of Investigation,” Haryana Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma
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The teaser of ‘Aaj Mood Ishqholic Hai’, the first single to be rendered by actor Sonakshi Sinha for T-Series, has come online exclusively on UC Browser. Sonakshi joins actors Priyanka Chopra, Shraddha Kapoor, and Alia Bhatt among others who have created singles or albums with their music. The complete song will be released on 23
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Oil prices edged away from multi-year lows on Tuesday as the northern hemisphere moves into the peak-demand winter season, but mild weather and ballooning supplies mean that prices are expected to remain generally low well into 2016. The global crude benchmark Brent was at $36.46 per barrel at 0213 GMT. That was over $2 above
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A Jet Airways bus crashed into an Air India aircraft parked at the Kolkata airport this morning, damaging it badly. There were no passengers in the aircraft when the incident took place at around 6.30 am. The Jet bus apparently went out of control and hit the aircraft. The driver is being questioned and medically
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The agreement among MPs in the Rajya Sabha to consider the proposed amendments to the Juvenile Justice Act on Tuesday comes days after Opposition MPs, at an all-party meeting called by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari, had pressed for these amendments to be sent to a Select Committee. On Monday, however, the Trinamool Congress, the
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Air India on Sunday night stopped 19 Indian students from boarding its flight to San Francisco after being informed by US authorities that the two universities to which they had been admitted were under “scrutiny”. Air India said the move was aimed at preventing the students from being “inconvenienced”. A statement issued by the national
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The political brawl between finance minister Arun Jaitley and AAP moved to the courts on Monday with the minister going to the Patiala House courts to personally file a Rs 10-crore defamation case against CM Arvind Kejriwal and five other senior AAP members – the first time a Union minister has done so against a
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The Kandivali police on Tuesday arrested artist Chintan Upadhyay in the double murder of his estranged wife, noted artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambani, the additional commissioner of police North Region said. Officials said the arrest was made on the basis of new evidence which verified Chintan’s role in the double murder on
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Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, who will be seen together onscreen after a long gap in the latest episode of Bigg Boss 9, took a selfie together while shooting for the reality show. The duo even gave their signatures on the photograph which went viral on social media. The image, posted on
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Bajrang Dal activists stopped the screening of Shah Rukh Khan’s film “Dilwale” at theaters to protest against the Bollywood superstar’s comments on intolerance. Theatre owners stopped the screening in view of security concerns after Bajrang Dal activists entered the theatres and staged protests, police said. The movie, directed by Rohit Shetty, has been running to
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Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri’s advertisement on the front page of leading Pakistani Urdu newspaper Jang has created a stir over social media where people have condemned it by calling the advertisement ‘cheap’ and ‘absurd’. Many, including journalists, took to Twitter to condemn the ‘obscenity’ of the ad that simply shows Nargis Fakhri lying down with
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The Miss Universe pageant will crown a new international winner on Sunday, months after the annual beauty show was thrust into controversy when then-co-owner Donald Trump made disparaging remarks about immigrants. Contestants representing more than 80 countries will compete in Las Vegas at the 64th edition of the pageant. For the first time, viewers will
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After the endless debates on religious intolerance in India, one thing is for sure: Religious discord and intolerance still divides our nation and it isn’t something to be proud of. From meat bans to killing cows, Hindu-Muslim religious conflicts still continue to exist. Forget human beings, even animals like goats and cows have not been
Facing allegations of corruption, under-fire former Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) President Arun Jaitley today got the backing of the two biggest stars to emerge from the state– Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir. Finance Minister Jaitley, who headed DDCA for 13 years till 2013, has been accused of corruption by the Delhi Government during
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Two Katyusha-type rockets were fired from south Lebanon into Israel on Sunday, a Lebanese security source said, and in Israel the army said rockets had hit the north. “Two Katyusha rockets were fired from a Lebanese village five kilometres (three miles) from the border with Israel,” the Lebanese source told AFP. A statement from Israel’s
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Twelve Malaysian tourists and a Thai guide were killed after their bus crashed in northern Thailand on Sunday, police said. The bus, carrying 23 people, hit a car and ran off a curve in the road in the Doi Saket district, near the northern city of Chiang Mai, provincial police chief Major General Montri Sambunyanon
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Rescuers have pulled out 39 survivors and three dead from a passenger boat that sank in central Indonesia after being buffeted by high waves, and resumed efforts today to reach scores of others still missing. The fiberglass ferry was on its way from Kolaka in Southeast Sulawesi province crossing the Gulf of Bone to Siwa
Kenyan authorities are investigating the nature of a suspect device found in a toilet aboard an Air France flight from Mauritius that made an emergency landing at Kenya’s port city of Mombasa, its interior minister said on Sunday. Joseph Nkaissery told reporters at Mombasa’s Moi International Airport that Kenyan authorities were working with their French
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Ever heard of a gentleman called Mangal Sein? Try searching for a dozen people who have heard of him in Punjab. You would be lucky to find one. Try looking for him on Google. This is what you get on Wikipedia: Mangal Sein (1927-1990) was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Haryana and the
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Pakistani Marine Security Agency (MSA) on Sunday apprehended around 70 fishermen and seized their 11 boats from international waters off Jakhau coast of Gujarat, fishermen association said in Ahmedabad. “Pakistani MSA has today apprehended 70 fishermen from international waters off Jakhau,” National Fishworkers Forum secretary Manish Lodhari said. “The fishermen were in 12 boats, but
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Indian Test team captain Virat Kohli today came out strongly in support of Finance Minister and former DDCA President Arun Jaitley, who has been accused by AAP of turning a blind eye to the alleged financial irregularities during his tenure as head of the cricket body. Jaitley, who headed DDCA for 13 years till 2013,
