The U.S. on Thursday thanked the army chief of Pakistan for his support to the counter terror cooperation between the two countries. Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif is on a visit to the US and it is the second time in less than a month that the US expresses appreciation of Pakistan’s […]
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Hussam al-Roustom lost everything in Syria. After fleeing the horrors of war, he’s working 12-hour night shifts in a bakery, learning English and watching his children flourish in America. After resettling in Jersey City as a refugee, he now has a message for the country that gave him a second chance. “Syrians are not terrorists,”
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A Palestinian fatally stabbed two people in a Tel Aviv office building and three other people were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli police and the army said. In the latest attack near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank, a police commander said a Palestinian drove
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Maharashtra will be the first state in the country to enact a law against social boycott of individuals or families by caste panchayats. A draft of the said act called as the ‘Maharashtra Prohibition of Social Boycott Act, 2015’ which was published on the state government’s website on Wednesday has termed any action of social
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There seems to be no respite from flooding in Chennai as rains lashed the Tamil Nadu capital Thursday night. The situation is expected to worsen with authorities deciding to release water from a lake outside Chennai. There is imminent danger for those living in low lying areas of Chennai as 5000 cusecs water is set
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Days after BJP’s Subramanian Swamy’s questioned his nationality, an aggressive Rahul Gandhi hit back, daring Prime Minister Narendra Modi to put him in jail if he had committed any wrongdoing. “Modiji, it is your government. You have the agencies. Get a probe done against me within six months and send me behind bars if you
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The Islamic State terrorist group in a new video released on Thursday threatened to bomb the White House and launch more attacks in Paris. The six-minute video titled “Paris Before Rome” was produced by the IS in the Dijlah province of Iraq, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute based in Washington, Xinhua reported.
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Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist and 26/11 Mumbai attacks convict David Coleman Headley would testify before a TADA court in Mumbai through video conference, his attorney indicated on Thursday. “I have seen the reports (about TADA court asking that he be produced via video-conference on December 10. Mr Headley will comply with the terms of his
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The Seventh Pay Commission has handed a financial bonanza to Central government employees and sent a strong message to dismantle the present hierarchy that is heavily loaded on the side of seniority over performance. The report says “Civil servants today need to be focused on outcomes, not processes, and have to be more accountable for
The Sheena Bora murder case took another twist on Thursday night with the CBI arresting Peter Mukerjea — media baron and husband of one of the main accused Indrani Mukerjea. He was booked under Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, which relates to causing the disappearance of evidence of offence, or providing false information.
Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Nitish Kumar will take oath on Friday as Bihar’s chief minister again, watched by a galaxy of national leaders ranged against the BJP. He will head the first JD-U-RJD-Congress coalition to rule Bihar where a lethal cocktail of communal politics after a road accident turned violent in the last 48 hours.
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It’s all about Indian girl power all the way! Making a mark on the global map, seven Indian celebrated personalities including singer Asha Bhosle, tennis star Sania Mirza and veteran actress Kamini Kaushal have made it to BBC’s list of 100 most aspirational women. The list was announced on Wednesday, read a statement. Each year,
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In the recent trailer of his upcoming movie Airlift, Akshay Kumar can be seen talking about world’s biggest human evacuation, which lasted from August to October 1990, making it a promising edge-of-the-seat thriller. The movie is based on the true story of how Air India carried out the operation of evacuating more than 1 lakh
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Bigg Boss asked Sanchalak Rimi to name the contestant whose performance was the poorest in the ‘Shararti Bachche’ task. The actress, who had no choice but to give her verdict in the confession room, named Mandana – 1) for not participating in the task on the first day and 2) for failing to complete the
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A Chola era bronze sculpture of Shiva and Parvati stolen from Tamil Nadu and smuggled into the US at the behest of New York’s infamous Indian art dealer Subhash Kapoor is set for eventual return to India. Known as a Festival Bronze of Shiva and Parvati, the religious relic has been transferred to the US
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Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed has challenged the Pakistan government’s decision to ban media coverage of his outlawed organisations Jammat-ud-Dawah and its front Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation in the Lahore High Court. Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority which comes under the Federal Information Ministry on 2 November had asked all broadcasters to refrain from covering 72 banned
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If you ever considered making a list of the most embarrassing things a policeman can do during his career, here’s a candidate for the top five at least. At a time when the entire world is on edge after the devastating Paris terror attacks, shots were fired “accidentally” by a Delhi Police constable outside Prime
At least two Naxals were killed on Thursday by security forces following a major gun-battle in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Sukma district. “The operation was launched collectively by CRPF’s elite Commando Battalion for Resolute Action’s (CoBRA) 208 battalion and two teams of state’s District Reserve Group (DRG) under Bhejji Police Station limits,” Inspector General of Police, Bastar
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While relations between the Nato allies have been strained in the past by disputes over territorial borders in the Aegean Sea and the partition of Cyprus, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Greece’s Alexis Tsipras have recently held regular telephone discussions, particularly about migration issues. “There is a window of opportunity right now over the
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The suicide bomber exploded as truckers were tucking into dinner at the bustling marketplace where vendors urged them to buy sugar cane. At least 34 people were killed and another 80 wounded in Yola, a town packed with refugees from Nigeria’s Islamic uprising, emergency officials said Wednesday. Later Wednesday, two more suicide bombers killed at
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A forensic report has confirmed that that the remains of a body found in Raigad forest outside Mumbai in August, are those of 24-year-old Sheena Bora who was murdered in 2012. A team from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences conducted the forensic test and shared the report with the Central Bureau of Investigation
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Colonel Santosh Mahadik, the 38-year-old Indian Army Officer who died in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, will be cremated with full military honours including a 21-gun salute in his home town Satara in Maharashtra today. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, many politicians and retired armymen will attend the last rites of
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Referring to the recent Paris attacks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday stressed the need for economic sanctions to curb terror financing from varied criminal activities such as smuggling of narcotics, bank robbery, vehicle thefts and fake notes or from state-sponsored activities in failed states. “The dastardly acts committed in Paris a few days ago
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Justice Tirath Singh Thakur, who had led the Supreme Court bench which delivered a verdict on reforming the Indian Cricket Board, was on Wednesday appointed the Chief Justice of India. He will take oath on 3 December. The senior-most judge of the apex court, 63-year-old Justice Thakur will take over from incumbent Justice HL Dattu
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What he did in Bihar, he will try in Uttar Pradesh — an even bigger electoral prize. Prashant Kishor is in talks with Congress to be its election strategist in UP polls in 2017. Kishor helped Nitish Kumar defeat Bharatiya Janata Party comprehensively. Two people close to Kishor and a senior Congress leader confirmed to
The Islamic State group said Wednesday it had killed two hostages, one Chinese and a Norwegian, as French and Russian air strikes on its Syrian stronghold reportedly left 33 fighters dead. The jihadists’ English-language Dabiq magazine featured graphic photos of two bodies that appeared to be Chinese hostage Fan Jinghui and Norwegian Ole-Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad. A
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The Islamic State’s official magazine Dabiq carried a photo on Wednesday of what it said was the improvised bomb that brought down the Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month, killing 224 people on board. The photo showed a can of Schweppes Gold soft drink and what appeared to be a detonator and switch
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Nearly 150 Indians are on the radar of intelligence agencies for actively following Islamic State propaganda and engaging on social media with pro-IS elements, according to government sources. A majority of those under surveillance are from the southern states, sources said. Though agencies are not planning any action or crackdown on the youth who may
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Heavy rains and deadly flooding in south India, a region that saw a killer heat wave this summer, are weather patterns that appear to fit the scenarios of climate change in India, IMD chief Laxman Singh Rathore has said. “They (emerging weather patterns) fit the larger picture of climate change predicted by Indian scientists as
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The man accused of masterminding the Paris attacks that left almost 130 people dead has reportedly been killed during a pre-dawn raid on a flat in the French capital. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, believed to be 27, was thought to have been the focus of a raid on a Paris flat earlier today. Gunfire and seven explosions
