Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan made a shocking allegation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi figures in the list of top 10 criminals of the world. “If Modi ji can be the Prime Minister, then why can’t I? Have you seen in Google whose name is there in world’s ten top criminals? […]
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the central government to prepare a memorandum of procedure that will be followed by the apex court collegium in the appointment of judges to the higher judiciary. Pronouncing the order, the apex court constitution bench headed by Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar said that the government will prepare the memorandum
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Baahubali: The Conclusion, which is slated to hit the big screens by 2016 December, has now been postponed till 2017. Fans, who are eagerly waiting for the sequel, has to suffer a bit longer. Due to some technical problems ,the shooting is postponed for today and the shooting schedule is likely to start very soon.
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The Supreme Court banned, on Wednesday, the registration of new diesel-guzzling luxury cars and SUVs with an engine capacity of over 2000 cc until March 31, unveiling a raft of measures in a bid to clean up the Capital’s filthy air. The decision effectively stops the sale of popular vehicles such as Toyota’s Innova, Mahindra
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Purab Kohli will be seen in a never-seen-before avatar in Akshay Kumar starrer Airlift. Kohli has shed his chocolate boy image for the movie and will be seen sporting a rugged look. Talking about his role in the film, Purab said “The character I play is Ibrahim Durani and unlike most of the parts I’m
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today said his recent meetings with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yielded “encouraging results” with both countries agreeing to resume the comprehensive bilateral dialogue. Mr Sharif said this during his meeting with Premier Li Keqiang in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou where he
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Pakistan has successfully conducted test launch of the Shaheen 1-A ballistic missile on Tuesday. According to Dawn, the test fire was conducted in order to re-validate various design and technical parameters of the weapon system. The Shaheen 1-A is capable of delivering different types of warheads up to a range of 900 kilometers. Today’s launch,
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Iran’s firing of a medium-range ballistic missile in October violated UN sanctions banning the Islamic Republic from launches capable of delivering nuclear weapons, UN experts said in a new report. The report submitted to the UN Security Council and seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday said the launch used ballistic missile technology banned under
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An evaluation of the National Air Quality Index (NAQI) data maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) released on Tuesday has revealed that as many as 15 out of the 17 cities that are being monitored fail to meet the ambient air quality standard by a considerable margin. The evaluation, done by Greenpeace India,
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A furious Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today accused the Centre of targeting him in daylong CBI raids that began a little after 9 am and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “coward and psychopath”. Declaring that he would not “spare his own son if he were corrupt”, Mr Kejriwal said the real reason for
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The CBI’s raids on Delhi government offices took centre-stage in Parliament Tuesday after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged he was the target. Leader of the House Arun Jaitley clarified the action wasn’t against Kejriwal but against a bureaucrat in his office, but the Opposition took up the raids — besides the Arunachal Pradesh governor’s alleged
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The US city of Los Angeles ordered all public schools closed Tuesday due to an unspecified electronic threat targeting the school system and its 640,000 students, officials said. New York City officials say they received the same threat that led to the closure of the Los Angeles school system but quickly concluded that it was
Uttar Pradesh continued to reel under an intense cold wave on Tuesday, with the night temperature dropping to three degrees Celsius in Kanpur – the lowest in 44 years – the Met office said. Foggy weather and icy winds blowing through central Uttar Pradesh continued to add nip in the air. Meanwhile, the state government
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Team Pune: MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Steve Smith and Faf du Plessis Team Rajkot: Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner and Dwayne Bravo 12: 12: Dwayne Bravo, the West Indian all-rounder, is the final pick of the draft. He will play for Rajkot. 12: 07: Final picks are in. Faf du
After terrorist attacks at home and abroad, more Americans than ever – but still less than half – support sending US ground troops to fight the Islamic State, according to a new Associated Press-GfK Poll. A large majority also want a clearer explanation from President Barack Obama about his strategy to defeat the group. The
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A bus carrying Argentine border patrol officers blew a tire and tumbled from a bridge into a dry river bed in the northern province of Salta on Monday, killing 43 and injuring eight, authorities said. The vehicle was part of a three-bus convoy carrying officers of Argentina’s gendarmerie, which patrols the country’s borders. Salta borders
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Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that 34 nations have agreed to form a new “Islamic military alliance” to fight terrorism with a joint operations center based in the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh. The announcement published by the state-run Saudi Press Agency said the alliance will be Saudi-led and is being established because terrorism “should be fought
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Typhoon Melor carved through the central Philippines today bringing heavy rain and strong winds that left millions without power and at least three people dead, officials said. One person died of hypothermia while two others drowned in floods in the poor fishing town of Catarman in Northern Samar province in the Visayas region south of
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AIADMK general secretary and Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced that the elected representatives — MPs and MLAs — of the party will contribute one month’s salary towards flood relief work in the state. In a statement, Jayalalithaa said her government had been extending all kinds of support to the flood-affected people.
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The juvenile convict in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case may walk free on December 20 unless the Delhi high court intervenes in support of the Centre’s concerns, expressed through a secret Intelligence Bureau assessment that claimed he had been radicalised. On Monday, the Delhi government’s department of women and child development (WCD) unveiled a
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A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale today shook some parts of Jharkhand and Bihar. The earthquake, with its epicentre at Deogarh in Jharkhand, was felt at around 8 am and lasted for a few seconds. There has been no report of any loss to life or property so far. State Meteorological
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Top quotes from Sushma Swaraj speech in Parliament – “Nothing has changed on the ground. We cannot assure uninterruptible dialogue.” – “We would like to ensure we are not provoked by saboteurs who want to stop the dialogue process at any cost.” – Level of talks on terror have been “elevated.” – “Now talks related
The new song of upcoming film Dilwale is out and actors Shah Rukh Khan and Varun Dhawan watch Kajol and Kriti Sanon Tukur Tukur, go upbeat with their thumkas. Tukur Tukur is the first song from the film which features the quartet together. Previous songs Gerua and Janam Janam were about Shah Rukh and Kajol’s
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A circular pit containing the skeletons of seven people placed on a bed of severed arms is shedding new light on violent conflicts 6,000 years ago. Experts claim the gruesome discovery tells the tale of a devastating raid on a settlement in eastern France that may have wiped out an entire family. It is even
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that a “third force” like the “third eye of Lord Shiva” has risen in Kerala politics as an alternative to the recurring phenomenon of UDF and LDF rule every five years. Addressing party workers in Thrissur, Modi said the people of Kerala have recognised the rise of the
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A two member Hurriyat delegation of SAS Geelani led All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) met Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit in New Delhi on Monday to discuss in detail the implications of the fresh thaw in relations between India and Pakistan during recent Pakistan visit of external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj. During her two-day visit
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Hours after a demolition squad razed 1,000 homes in a west Delhi slum, leaving families in the open in the rising cold, a baby was born under a tarpaulin sheet. “She came into the world without a roof over her head…There were no clothes to swaddle her in,” said a woman who helped her mother
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President Barack Obama on Monday said the US-led coalition is making progress against Islamic State militants in both Iraq and Syria, as he delivered an update on the campaign aimed at reassuring Americans worried about the spread of extremism-fueled terrorism. “We are hitting ISIL harder than ever,” Obama said, using the shorthand for the Islamic
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A cartoon published in a leading Australian daily today depicted Indians as starving and eating solar panels, drawing rebuke with many condemning it as “racist”. The cartoon appeared in the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Australian in response to the Paris climate conference. The cartoon shows an emaciated Indian family breaking up solar panels and one person
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Bollywood is a home to several talented artists who have been ruling the hearts of millions. But amidst this brigade of talented actors, there are three Khans – Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan who are believed to be indispensable pillars of the industry. The three Khans turn out to be a tough
