The Indian squad for the tour of Australia to play One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals against the host country in January 2016 is to be picked in Delhi on Saturday. “The squad for Australia would be selected (by the selection committee headed by Sandeep Patil) at Delhi on December 19th,” said a Cricket Board source […]
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Finance ministers from the 15 nations on the UN Security Council will meet on Thursday to adopt a resolution aimed at disrupting the outside revenue that the Islamic State extremist group gets from selling oil and antiquities, from ransom payments and other criminal activities. The Islamic State group is already subject to UN sanctions under
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Islamic State militants have attacked a training camp in Iraq for fighters battling the extremist group, killing three Iraqi Sunni fighters and wounding 10 people, including four of their Turkish trainers, officials said. The former governor of the northern Ninevah province, Atheel al-Nujaifi, told The Associated Press that the camp in the Bashiqa region near
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Kuwait Airways is scrapping flights between New York’s JFK airport and London Heathrow after US authorities threatened legal action over its refusal to sell tickets to Israelis. The US Department of Transportation (DoT) in September sent a letter to the airline warning it to end what it said amounted to discrimination. The DoT confirmed to
Pakistan’s leader called Wednesday for vengeance under portraits of children killed by Taliban bullets as the country marked the first anniversary of a school massacre that left 151 people dead in its worst-ever extremist attack. Families of the victims along with military and political leaders attended an emotional ceremony at the army-run school in the
India on Wednesday put into orbit in copy book style six Singaporean satellites that will hover about 550 km above the Earth for up to five years. It was the Indian space agency’s 50th launch from here. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle’s Core Alone (PSLV-CA) variant — standing 44.4 metres tall and weighing 227 tonnes
India’s flag carrier Air India is investigating a freak accident in which one of its technicians got sucked into the running engine of an aircraft at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday. The aircraft has been isolated and its engine is being dismantled to recover the body. The technician, Ravi Subramaniam, was pulled into the engine
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A ceasefire between Yemen’s Houthi group and a Saudi-led alliance was in danger of collapse on Wednesday, each side accusing the other of violating the truce, as peace talks went into a second day in Switzerland. Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri of the Saudi coalition said the Iran-allied Houthis had repeatedly broken the ceasefire supposed to
US Secretary of State John Kerry will chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday to push efforts to end the conflict in Syria, the State Department said on Wednesday. While in New York, Kerry will also host a meeting of the International Syria Support Group to discuss “efforts to foster a
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President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday a UN watchdog’s closure of investigations into Iran’s past nuclear activities is a political victory for the country, lifting the main obstacle to implementing Tehran’s deal with world powers. The 35-nation governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency passed a resolution on Tuesday ending the IAEA’s 12-year-long inquiry
The search for a new Lokayukta in Uttar Pradesh ended in an unusual manner on Wednesday 16 December with the Supreme Court appointing Justice (retired) Virendra Singh on the post. With this, the nine-year term of the incumbent Justice (retired) NK Mehrotra came to an end. Even though the move itself is unprecedented as the
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India is willing to participate in military operations against the Islamic State (IS) if it is a United Nations-sanctioned operation carried out under the U.N. flag, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Wednesday in the first formal response of the Narendra Modi government on the issue. “We have made it clear that if there is
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The Congress is planning a grand show on Saturday, when Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi and five other leaders are appearing before a magistrate’s court here in the National Herald case. They party has summoned all its chief ministers, state party presidents and MPs to the AICC headquarters at 24 Akbar Road
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The Supreme Court ban on diesel vehicles in Delhi will hurt companies like Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), Toyota Kirloskar and luxury car makers like Mercedes Benz, which have a sizeable portfolio of vehicles in the diesel segment. The Supreme Court has ordered a temporary ban on the sale of large diesel cars in Delhi to
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Rumours were rife that either Hrithik Roshan or Neil Nitin Mukesh will step into the shoes of Arnold Schwarzenegger after he opted out of the sequel to Robot, starring Rajinikanth. The film, now titled 2.0- Sequel of Robot will instead have Akshay Kumar playing the main villain. Yes, you heard it right. Akshay who will
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US President Barack Obama today spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanking him for his leadership, saying India played a “critical role” at the climate change summit in Paris which ensured the event was a “historic success.” During the telephone call, “The US President, Mr. Barack Obama, has thanked Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi for
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The crisis in Arunachal Pradesh deepened Wednesday after unprecedented scenes were witnessed in the state assembly over a motion to remove the Speaker and the role of the Governor in the entire episode. Supporters of Congress Chief Minister Nabam Tuki — their count dwindled to 26 in a House of 60 after 21 MLAs rose
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Two suspected operatives of Al-Qaeda have been arrested in the National Capital and Odisha and Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a module of the terror group’s Indian sub-continent wing operating out of the country. Mohammed Asif (41), believed to be one of the founding members and the Indian head (amir) of Al-Qaeda
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the testing of Maggi noodles samples as directed by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) will now be undertaken by the Mysuru-based Central Food Technological Research Institute lab. The bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C Pant said the local commissioner shall collect samples of Maggi
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With the Congress cold shouldering parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu’s late evening call on Tuesday to meet afresh for talks on the GST bill, the government appeared reconciled to miss the April 1 deadline to roll out the ambitious tax reforms. “GST is an idea which I have no doubt, if not today, tomorrow
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The iconic Sachin Tendulkar was an expected pick for the No.4 slot while Sourav Ganguly was preferred in the leadership position in Australian spin legend Shane Warne’s greatest Indian Test XI. Warne, who has been naming his preferred XIs from different countries on his Facebook page, turned his attention to India in the latest post.
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If you swapped the five players the new Pune Indian Premier League franchise bought at the auction on Tuesday with the five the new Rajkot franchise bought, it is likely neither franchise would be too upset. Both teams picked big names and big talents while spending their entire kitty of Rs 39 crores. But when
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At least 39 civilians have been killed in suspected Russian air strikes on two markets in northern Syria, a monitoring group said. The raids killed 16 civilians at a market for fuel in Maarat al-Naasan yesterday, a village in Idlib province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Another 23 civilians, including five women,
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The White House celebrated the birth anniversary of Sikhism’s founder Guru Nanak with top aides of President Barack Obama assuring the community of his full support. “President Obama stands with, he stands behind you and he stands in solidarity with you. And we all have a responsibility to remind Americans what makes us great” Obama’s
An Australian military surveillance plane has flown near disputed areas of the South China Sea, it emerged on Wednesday, with the crew heard warning China’s navy it was on a freedom of navigation mission. Tensions in the region have mounted since China transformed reefs in the South China Sea into small islands capable of supporting
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Setting herself in contrast from the Republican presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton stated that that United States can stop home-grown terrorism and outlined a plan to battle radicalization on American soil. Her statement comes weeks after two Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) sympathisers killed 14 people is a mass shootout in California. According
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India on Wednesday said it can undertake operations against the ISIS terror group under a UN flag if the global body adopts a resolution in this regard. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who has returned after a crucial meeting with his US counterpart Ashton Carter in Washington, also said that India has been sharing intelligence on
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Two suspected operatives of al-Qaeda, who were allegedly planning to carry out attacks in the national capital during Christmas and New Year, were detained by the Special Cell of Delhi Police on Tuesday. The two suspected operatives are believed to be natives of Sambhal district in Uttar Pradesh. According to special cell, two year ago,
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The political climate of the capital abruptly turned hot on Tuesday morning when a team of CBI officials swooped at Delhi government’s secretariat ostensibly on a complaint against principle secretary to the chief minister, Rajender Kumar. Also, the news of alleged horse-trading of MLAs in the far-off Arunachal Pradesh also faded the last hope of
