In the remaining three working days of the winter session of Parliament, the NDA government is hopeful of transacting some important business including passage of six bills. The government has reached a consensus with the main opposition Congress to pass the SC/ST bill, apart from the appropriation bills, the anti-hijacking bill, the atomic energy (amendment) […]
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Around 150 passengers in a Lucknow-bound Air India flight from New Delhi had a narrow escape after the windshield of the cockpit developed a crack mid-air on Sunday. According to reports, the flight AI 411 had taken off from IGI airport at around 7.15 am on Sunday. The aircraft was ascending when the pilot noticed
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In an apparent reference to the Gujarat riots, Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan on Sunday alleged attempts are being made to create “disturbing” conditions like in 2002, with an eye on upcoming elections in many states. “Attempts are being made to create disturbing conditions as those had emerged in 2002, with a dangerous inclination, keeping
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During the annual meet of the Director General of Police and Inspectors General of Police in the arid yet spectacular Runn of Kutch in Gujarat, the Indian government has once again red flagged the growing global concerns on ISIS (also known as the Islamic State, ISIL, Daesh etc). Home Minister Rajnath Singh highlighted the fact
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His career getting a fresh lease of life following the selection for next year’s Twenty20 matches against Australia, Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh said he cannot wait to be back in the dressing room after going through a “really terrible” phase. “The phase in life that I went through was really terrible and it can’t be
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A strong showing Sunday by a pair of upstart parties in Spain’s general election upended the country’s traditional two-party system, with the ruling Popular Party winning the most votes but falling far short of a parliamentary majority and at risk of being booted from power. Days or weeks of negotiations will be needed to determine
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British actor Orlando Bloom was on Sunday deported to the UK soon after his arrival here as his e-visa had been rejected, following which external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj came to his help to get a visa. The 38-year-old actor was invited by the Uttar Pradesh government for a state event. Bloom, who arrived in
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At least 91 people were missing on Monday, a day after a massive landslide buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The official Xinhua news agency said the landslide buried 33 buildings in the industrial park in Shenzhen, a major manufacturing center in Guangdong
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Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said he will bring a defamation suit against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his party’s allegations of irregularity in the Delhi cricket body. The minister had headed the DDCA for 13 years till 2013. Cases will also be filed today against Aam Aadmi Party’s Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh,
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A juvenile offender convicted in the December 16 gang rape case was officially released on Sunday amid massive protests in the Capital, a day before the Supreme Court was scheduled to hear a petition to block his release. Police sources said protection to the juvenile, now 20, was withdrawn officially after frantic last-minute efforts by
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Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) team and Pathankot XI defeated their rivals convincingly to advance in the ongoing 3rd Sant Gurbaksh Singh Danna Memorial Hockey Tournament, being organized by Santpura Danna Charitable Trust, Guru Nanak Nagar, Jammu, under the aegis of Hockey J&K at KK Hakhu Astroturf Stadium, here. In the first match, JKP defeated
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Gopalganj District Magistrate Rahul Kumar had lunch at the government school in Kalyanpur village of Barauli in the district on Friday along with scores of schoolchildren. The district magistrate, the senior-most government officer in the district, usually eats in his/her office in regal splendour. But DM Rahul Kumar was doing this with a purpose: to
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NATO allies have agreed to send aircraft and ships to Turkey to strengthen Ankara’s air defences on its border with Syria, the alliance’s chief says, a package that is partly designed to avoid any more shoot-downs of Russian planes. Envoys to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation approved the plan and must now decide what military
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Protests against ‘Bajirao Mastani’ across various cities have left the film’s lead actor Ranveer Singh disturbed. “The feeling definitely gets negative because someone is protesting when you never had any such intentions. You work with your heart to entertain people and to make a good film… you work with complete hardwork and determination, and then
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It was heartbreak for Mumbai as despite registering a comprehensive seven-wicket win over Hyderabad, they failed to qualify for the knock-out round from Group A of the Vijay Hazare Trophy One-Day cricket tournament, here today. Mumbai cruised to a seven-wicket win over Hyderabad, but Punjab’s three-wicket win over Services here meant the western outfit was
The world governing body should do more to prevent a repeat of the club versus country player crisis that threatens to turn the West Indies-Australia Test series into a farce, Michael Clarke said Saturday. The former Australian skipper said international cricket must remain the priority for players over participation in the raft of lucrative global
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Sri Lanka fought their way back into the second Test against New Zealand with a destructive burst by young quick Dushmantha Chameera on day two in Hamilton on Saturday. Chameera took his first five-wicket bag as New Zealand slumped from 81 without loss in reply to Sri Lanka’s first innings score of 292 to be
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China’s capital Beijing was bracing for four days of choking smog starting Saturday, but residents said the haze was less severe than forecast, with some questioning why the government had issued its highest air pollution alert. China had warned residents across a large part of its north on Friday to prepare for a wave of
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Yemeni peace talks in Switzerland have been halted after the country’s Shiite rebel delegation suspended all meetings with the internationally recognized government in protest over cease-fire violations, members of Yemen’s two warring sides said. The rebels, known as Houthis, said they would not resume talks unless the UN condemned the breaches by government forces of
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It’s not a big deal, says the unassuming, bespectacled 16-year-old girl with a slightly freckled face. “I was bored and I was sitting on this idea for a while now. It only made sense to pursue it.” Meet Siya Chandrie, an over-achiever who recently won an award under the Little Directors category at the 19th
Singer Remo Fernandes has been booked for allegedly threatening a minor girl at the state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital here, where she was undergoing treatment after being hit by his son’s car early this month, police said on Saturday. Agassaim Police Station booked the 62-year-old artist under stringent Section 8 of Goa Children’s Act
Delhi government has ordered shutting down of schools in the national capital for 15 days from 1 January during the trial period of odd-even vehicle formula and would run the school buses under the DTC fleet. “To make the new Scheme functional with least disturbance to our children and also to augment public transport during
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With no deal on the contentious issue of welfare handouts for migrants from European Union countries, but a possible compromise being mooted, British Prime Minister David Cameron is rolling over his EU renegotiation bid into 2016. But time is running out — particularly if Cameron wants to hold Britain’s long-awaited in-out referendum on membership of
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The number of people displaced by war and violence is set to hit a record high this year, the UN said Friday, warning one in every 122 people worldwide had been forced to flee their home. The UN refugee agency released a report showing rocketing numbers of people living as refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced within
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A rural Virginia school district canceled classes and a holiday concert after being flooded with angry messages over a school calligraphy lesson that involved copying a Muslim statement of faith in Arabic. Tens of thousands of emails and Facebook posts have been received, some “threatening and very profane in nature,” said Augusta County Sheriff Randall
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A group of 58 Rajya Sabha MPs moved an impeachment notice against Justice J.B. Pardiwala of the Gujarat High Court for his “objectionable remarks on the issue of reservation.” The MPs, in their petition, said Justice Pardiwala’s comments on reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, while giving a ruling in a case against Patidar
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Former Defence Secretary R.K. Mathur has been appointed the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC), breaking away from the convention of appointing the head from among the serving information commissioners. The post had fallen vacant after Vijai Sharma completed his tenure on December 1. “R.K. Mathur has been selected as Chief Information Commissioner,” Minister of State for
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Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor’s bill to decriminalise gay sex in India could not be introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday amid strong objections, with members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and even some from his own party walking out. There was no formal whip to Ruling party law makers but they were
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President Barack Obama on Friday commuted the sentences of 95 individuals charged mostly with drug offenses, an unusually large show of clemency that foreshadows a 2016 push to fix the criminal justice system. The White House announced Obama had pardoned two people and commuted sentences — ranging from cocaine to firearm possession — of 95
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Kriti Sanon is a rising star in Bollywood. She made her Bollywood acting debut with Heropanti and is now starring in a film that also stars SRK and Kajol. That is extremely impressive for a second film as Dilwale seems to be the biggest film of the year. Being in London to promote her second
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