Karnataka on Wednesday announced Rs. 5 crore for relief and rescue operations in flood-hit Chennai. “As a humanitarian gesture, we are also rushing relief materials to Chennai for the people affected by flood waters,” an official told IANS after Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced in New Delhi the Rs. 5-crore aid to Tamil Nadu. With air, […]
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The youngest of the six men who gang-raped and tortured a student on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, will walk out of a special home on December 22 but won’t be “freed”, say sources. The convict, now 21, will be in the custody of an NGO for a year and take vocational training,
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As many as three heavily armed attackers opened fire on a banquet at a social services center for the disabled on Wednesday, killing 14 people and seriously wounding more than a dozen others “as if they were on a mission,” authorities said. The attackers escaped, setting a large region east of Los Angeles on edge,
Two persons were killed, while at least 20 sustained injuries in a chain of road accidents involving two trucks, two buses and a car that occurred in Kathunangal due to the dense fog that engulfed the region on Wednesday morning. The deceased have been identified as Sunny Vohra (50), a resident of Pathankot, and Angrez
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A day after the Border Security Force (BSF) Punjab Frontier inspector general rubbished the Punjab Police theory that the terrorists who attacked the Dinanagar police station on July 27 came into India from the Punjab border, Punjab Police stuck to its stand. A senior police officer involved in the Dinanagar attack investigation said, “The BSF
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Pakistan on Wednesday hanged four militants linked to a Taliban massacre at a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, the first time it has executed anyone convicted in the attack, which killed more than 150 people. “Four militants involved in the attack on the APS school were hanged this morning in Kohat prison,” a
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Thousands of protesters gathered in central London in an effort to stop Britain joining air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, a day before a parliamentary vote on the move. A crowd of around 4,000 marched yesterday from the Houses of Parliament in Westminster to the headquarters of the ruling Conservative party and main
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Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi discussed the smooth transfer of power to her party with President Thein Sein on Wednesday, the first time the two have met since her National League for Democracy (NLD) swept a November election. When the new administration is sworn in early next year, it will be the first
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Much is being read into the short meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Paris. The brief meeting led to speculations about a more structured dialogue later. But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were at pains to describe the meeting as one-off unplanned tête-à-tête. The point however is that
Chronic problems with a faulty rudder system and the way pilots tried to respond were among a string of factors contributing to the crash of an Indonesian AirAsia jet last year that killed all 162 on board, investigators said on Tuesday. The Airbus A320 crashed into the Java Sea on Dec. 28, less than halfway
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The Bharatiya Janata Party is ahead in five of the six municipal corporations, but the Congress is making huge inroads in rural areas of Gujarat as votes in local body elections are being counted on Wednesday. Latest available updates show the Congress trending in 14 and the BJP in 13 district panchayats out of a
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Tamil Nadu cannot free Rajiv Gandhi’s killers without consulting the Centre, the Supreme Court said today. A Constitutional bench said that the Tamil Nadu government has no power to release the convicts on its own as the case was investigated by the CBI or Central Bureau of Investigation. “In cases where the state tries a
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The buzz around superstar Rajinikanth’s Robot 2 (Endhiran 2 in Tamil) is getting bigger by the day. Last week Rajinikanth, accompanied by his daughter Aishwarya Dhanush, was in Los Angeles for the pre-production of the film. Sources say that a special makeup test and a body scan were done for him. Weta Workshop, the team
Ranbir Singh and Deepika Padukone may have been together a few years ago but the past is firmly in the past now. So much so, Deepika’s now-boyfriend Ranveer Singh is happy to praise Ranbir, calling him an “inspiration and a stellar performer”. Praising Tamasha and its lead pair, Ranveer said, “Tamasha is absolutely brilliant, extraordinarily
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After the success of Quantico, Priyanka Chopra has plans to go where no Bollywood star has gone before — to become a de facto international star. The actor is managing her career both in India and America with aplomb and already making plans for the future. Abroad she is busy with her American show Quantico
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Talk about birth announcements: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife say they’ll devote nearly all their wealth – roughly $45 billion (roughly Rs. 2,99,318 crores) – to solving the world’s problems in celebration of their new baby daughter, Max. Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, gave birth to a 7-pound, 8-ounce daughter last week. But the
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Weekend newspapers in Madhya Pradesh were full of pull-outs singing paeans for Shivraj Singh Chouhan who just completed a decade in office. The print media made substantial cash — while Chouhan made handsome goodwill capital — on the occasion. The government could not loosen its purse strings due to a severe financial crisis. But many
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In a nearly hour-long speech peppered with citations from B R Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Granville Austin, Max Mueller, Kabir, Dharmashastras and indirectly even Edmund Burke, Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck a cordial note in the wake of a divisive public debate over “rising intolerance”, stating that “there is no need to prove patriotism morning and
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Former Union minister P Chidambaram today hit out at the government as raids were conducted on two firms in Chennai, one of which had links to his son Karti. Calling it a “malicious onslaught,” Mr Chidambaram said if the government wished to target him, it should do so “directly”. The raids were conducted by the
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India face a fine of up to £9,950 after the pitch in Nagpur used for the third Test against South Africa was rated “poor” by the International Cricket Council match referee. Forty wickets fell in three days at the VCA Stadium as India won by 124 runs to take an unassailable 2-0 series lead. Visiting
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Back in time when Liam Neeson wasn’t playing an assassin or saving his kidnapped kin, he featured as a central protagonist in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar winning drama Schindler’s List (1993). Now more than a couple of decades down the line, Akshay Kumar is playing a similar part in a similar setting for the film Airlift.
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Fifteen persons developed serious eye infection after undergoing cataract surgery at a charitable hospital in Ambala on November 24. Admitted to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 14 patients are reported to have been responding well, while Sharda Devi, a resident of Kachcha Bazaar in Ambala Cantonment, is in a serious
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Tripura marked the World AIDS Day on Tuesday with school children, security forces, NGOs, health workers, clubs and people living with HIV/AIDS and rehabilitated drug addicts carrying banners on AIDS awareness walked in a rally from the Umakanta Mini Stadium of Agartala. The main aim of the rally was to mark World AIDS Day and
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Questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “silence” on occasions when controversial remarks were made by BJP ministers and partymen, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi tore into the government Tuesday, asking the Prime Minister whether he will “stand by and watch as his colleagues trample the voice of this country”, whether he will let the country “sing”
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Non-stop torrential rains have been pounding several parts of Chennai and north Tamil Nadu overnight triggering a deluge completely disrupting normal life. Airport director Deepak Shastri said that all operations at the Chennai airport have been stopped for rest of the day and all flights stand cancelled. About 30 people have so far been rescued
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“The pitches have spoilt the series”, wrote Harsha Bhogle in The Indian Express after the 3rd India-South Africa Test. “This wicket is diabolical, nine legitimate wicket chances in the first hour with three plays and misses every over! #day2 #minefield”, tweeted Glenn Maxwell on day 2 of the Nagpur Test. “Baffles me why our great
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A week after Aamir Khan spoke about growing intolerance in the country, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan has said that one does not need to prove his patriotism . Extending a hand of support to Aamir, he also said that he will now be addressing only those issues on which he has detailed knowledge, reported
Fans are not always logical. They love everything about their screen gods and goddesses. They love who their idols love and they go after anyone who they consider an enemy of their idols. Cases in point: Ranveer Singh loves Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor fans love Katrina Kaif and Kareena’s fans love Saif Ali Khan. On
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Former captain Imran Khan on Monday said that Indo-Pak bilateral cricket series should happen despite the prevailing political and diplomatic tensions between the two countries. “Bilateral cricket ties will benefit both countries. Because playing against each other helps groom the players to handle the pressure situations well,” Khan said during a visit here in connection
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India has been ranked a low 131 out of 167 nations on a global index that measures the level of information and communication technology access, even as the number of households with Internet and computer has increased in the country over the last five years. UN International Telecommunications Union’s flagship annual Measuring the Information Society
