As per the report released by the UNDP on Monday, the Human Development Index (HDI) rank of Bangladesh and Pakistan was 142 and 147, respectively. India has made improvements in life expectancy at birth which has increased to 68 years in 2014 from 67.6 in the previous year and 53.9 years in 1980. Gross National […]
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Food inflation, which inched up to 6.08% in November, is the main story in Monday’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) data. Lentils were the main culprits for the rise. Inflation in pulses and pulses products rose to a high of 46.08% since the new series has been released. Inflation in the prices of pulses has been
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Ushered into a logjam owing to the National Herald case that has put the Congress top brass in a dock, threat now looms large on the Winter Session in Parliament and it might just be another washout. Worse, the Goods and Services Tax Bill won’t see the light of the day and it is well
Rohit Sharam became the latest Indian player to join the newly wedded band-wagon after Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina marriad earlier this year. Rohit got married to his long time girlfriend Ritika Sajdeh on Sunday. The wedding ceremony took place at a five star hotel in Bandra and was attended by cricketers, Bollywood stars
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Rohit Sharma might be an integral part of India’s limited overs side but his Test career has been a roller-coaster ride so far. With competition growing for places in the starting eleven, it was a perfect chance for Rohit to seal his place in side with the chances he got against South Africa but he
The Sikh community will never forgive the Congress for “hatching” the conspiracy of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said on Sunday. “The wounds of 1984 Sikh carnage will remain afresh in the psyche of every Sikh, and the Sikh community will never forgive Congress for hatching the conspiracy of this dastardly
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Legendary actor Dilip Kumar was on Sunday honoured with Padma Vibhushan, the country’s second highest civilian award, by Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The 93-year-old cine icon was bestowed with the honour at his residence here just two days after his birthday. Dilip Kumar close friend Udaya Tara Nayar and compiler of the actor’s autobiography, “The
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Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time on Saturday in local council elections and also stood as candidates, a step hailed by some activists in the Islamic patriarchy as a historic change, but by others as merely symbolic. “As a first step it is a great achievement. Now we feel we are part of
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A Russian destroyer in the Aegean Sea on Sunday opened fire to avoid a collision with a Turkish fishing boat, the defence ministry said, as a bitter dispute over the shooting down of a Russian warplane raged on. “The crew of the Russian patrol ship Smetlivy which was located 22 kilometres (13.7 miles) from the
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Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front collapsed in French regional elections Sunday, failing to take a single region after dominating the first round of voting, pollsters projected. The conservatives surged against the governing Socialists, changing the political map of France. The failure of the National Front to gain any of the six regions where it
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A bomb blast ripped through a crowded bazaar in a mainly Shi’ite area of Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region Sunday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. “This is revenge for the killing of Muslims by the Syrian President and Iran,” said Ali bin Sufyan, spokesperson for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), an Islamist group
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After a month of incessant rains and flooding, schools and colleges in Chennai have reopened on Monday. However, 29 government and government-aided schools will remain shut. Most of the schools served as relief shelters for thousands of people who were displaced by the floods. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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With a day to go until the impending release of the juvenile convict in the 16 December gang rape case, the victim’s parents today feared that he might be a “threat to society” and demanded that his mental condition be assessed before setting him free. The convict, then aged under 18, is said to have
Rallies are still seen as the best medium by our leaders to send across political messages. On Sunday, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje organised a grand rally in Jaipur to mark her two years in power. BJP president Amit Shah, who was on his maiden visit to Rajasthan after taking over, was the chief guest
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The National Herald case that has hit Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, may have one unintended consequence. It could push even further Rahul’s anointment as party chief and prune the role Sonia envisaged for him as the party’s face for all seasons. Rahul’s elevation as party chief has been in the
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Actress Deepika Padukone, who will be seen with her rumoured boyfriend Ranveer Singh in upcoming film Bajirao Mastani, said that the latter is very “sensitive” and “emotional” in real life unlike his onscreen image. “A lot of people say to me that you are so lucky (to have Ranveer) as 24 hour entertainment and livewire.
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Akshay Kumar says that the story of massive evacuation of Indians from invaded Kuwait in 1990 on which his upcoming film Airlift is based should be in textbooks. “If you browse through the Guinness Book of World Records, the biggest air evacuation was done by our beloved country, India. And this is why I selected
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The tense town of Abohar in Punjab limped back to normality after three days of disquiet triggered by the brutal murder of a man at liqour baron and Shiromani Akali Dal leader Shiv Lal Doda’s farmhouse. Markets opened on Sunday, although Doda’s liquor shops remained closed and heavy police deployment was seen in and around
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External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is set to make a statement in both houses of Parliament on Monday on her two-day visit to Pakistan and the resumption of bilateral talks. “I will make a statement on my recent visit to Islamabad tomorrow at 11 am in Rajya Sabha and at 2 pm in Lok Sabha,”
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“These officials are not humans. They are animals,” was Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s reaction when he saw the remains of the thousands of flattened jhuggis in Shakurbasti station area on Saturday night. Referring to the Railways’ officials, who carried out the demolition drive to clear way for a railway terminal, Delhi Government opened another
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The bodies of well-known painter and installation artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani have been found packed inside cardboard boxes lying near a drain in suburban Mumbai, the police said on Sunday. The duo had been reported missing since Friday. The bodies of Hema, 43, and the 65-year-old lawyer, were recovered on Saturday
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Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that don’t. The “Paris agreement” aims to keep global temperatures from rising another degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) between now and 2100, a
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“These photos of Parineeti Chopra will inspire you to hit the gym” “Parineeti Chopra’s smokin’ hot new avatar!” “Parineeti stuns all with sexy figure” These are headlines across all news portals about Parineeti Chopra’s much hyped, new, fit avatar. On Wednesday afternoon, we were presented with several images of a fitter, stronger, grungy-er looking Chopra
There is enough betting going on between two of the biggest films in Decemeber —Dilwale and Bajirao Mastani. Makers of both the films have let all their marketing arsenals loose, and have set aside a big share of their budget to woo the audience to secure their collection on the releasing weekend, 18th December. Kajol,
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Amitabh Bachchan has hero-worshipped Dilip Kumar from the time he decided to become an actor. We can see traces of the Tragedy King’s style in the Bachchan’s early performances in Saat Hindustani, Anand and Parwaana. Later in Ramesh Sippy’s historic Shakti, he got an opportunity to share screen space with his idol. In a chat
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The first Canadian government plane carrying Syrian refugees arrived in Toronto late Thursday where they will be greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is pushing forward with his pledge to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of February. The arrival of the military flight carrying 163 refugees comes amid an intense debate in
A statement of a psychiatrist has helped the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) build its case against Bollywood actor Sooraj Pancholi who has been charged with abetement to suicide of his former actor girlfriend, Jiah Khan. “The statement of the doctor has been recorded under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) before
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The Islamic State group’s finance chief has been confirmed killed in a coalition air strike last month, US officials said Thursday. Abu Saleh was killed in late November, US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a videoconference from Baghdad, calling him “one of the most senior and experienced members” of the group’s financial network.
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The Delhi HC judgment rejecting application filed by Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others to quash the summons issued to them by the trial court in the National Herald case has created perhaps the biggest political storm in recent years. Many eminent individuals have already explained the National Herald case in an elaborate manner and,
A day after the arrest of an ISIS recruiting agent from Jaipur, who was working as a manager IOC official, initial reports suggest that he wanted to create a women squad of fighters in the Rajasthan. Quoting Alok Tripathi, ADG (ATS/SOG) , Rajasthan Patrika reported that the arrested Mohd Sirazudin was in search of recruits
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