A former police commissioner of New Delhi, Neeraj Kumar, has claimed in his book that part of the funding for 9/11 attacks in the United States (US) had emerged from India, according to report published on The Times of India website. The former police officer, who served in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and […]
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Authorities cleared both Air France flights bound for Paris from the U.S. that had to be diverted Tuesday night because of anonymous threats received after they had taken off. Air France Flight 65 from Los Angeles International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport, Air France
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The second test between India and South Africa ended in a draw Wednesday after a fourth consecutive day of play was washed out due to rain. The final day’s play was called off after an inspection at 11.30 am local time with several sections of the outfield still wet from the continuous rain during this
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Fresh firing has been reported in the Saint Denis area of northern Paris early on Wednesday as special police forces launched an operation to catch one of the suspects from Friday night’s shooting in the French capital. Few policemen have also been injured during the operation, French TV station BFMTV reported. The operation took place
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Much to the relief of people of Tamil Nadu, the fury of North East monsoon has subsided with only a few districts experiencing rains and life has been gradually limping back to normal. The death toll in rain-related incidents across Tamil Nadu stands at 79. Tiruvallur district along with some areas around Madurai had experienced
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal will be missing in action at the Hong Kong Open due to an injury and in her absence P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will lead the Indian charge at the USD 350,000 Super Series event starting on Wednesday. The 25-year-old Saina finished runners-up last week at the China Open
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It’s the post-lunch session on the second day of the First Ashes Test in Brisbane, 2013. In the 37th over, Michael Clarke asks Mitchell Johnson to go round the wicket to Michael Carberry: Johnson steams in and darts a short delivery into his rib cage. Carberry looks to fend it away, but misses and is
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Russian air force intensified military operation against Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria, shortly after the Kremlin said that a passenger plane that crashed in Egypt last month was brought down by a bomb. Russian Federal Security Service said on Tuesday that the downing of the plane in Sinai was the result of a terrorist
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Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has predictably shot down chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s trial balloon of a mahagathbandhan to take on the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Though politics is known as the art of impossible, to expect Mayawati and Mulayam Singh to contest the election together would have been equivalent to the
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It has started heavily once again early this morning in Nellore in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, just to the North of Chennai, as a huge bank of thunderclouds hung over the region. The southern flanks of the cloud band are grazing Tirupathi, which is cloudy, as is Chennai, further to the South-Southeast. Both areas may witness
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Against the backdrop of last week’s Beirut and Paris terrorist strikes, India has renewed its call for international action to deny finance and space to organisations like the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LeT) and the Islamic State (IS). The two attacks highlight the international failure to finalise the Comprehensive Convention Against International Terrorism (CCAIT), which would require countries
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French police hunted for a second terrorist believed to have escaped after the bomb and gun massacres in Paris, while a US official revealed that the suspected mastermind was part of an Islamic State cell that American intelligence agencies had been tracking for months. Meanwhile, France and Russia unleashed a new wave of airstrikes against
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the death of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Ashok Singhal, whom he described as a “force behind several noble deeds and social work”, and said his demise was “deep personal loss” for him. Singhal, who rose to prominence playing a leading role in the Ram Janambhoomi movement in the late
Jammu & Kashmir CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Monday cautioned BJP leaders to “rein in loose cannons in the party”. He was speaking at the BJP-backed ‘India Ideas Conclave’ in Goa. Showering praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said, “I have worked with former prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, but Narendra Modi has
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Vice President Hamid Ansari on Tuesday said there was a reason for concern about “emergence of a propensity for intolerance of diversity and dissent” and pitched for evolving a social consensus around equality, justice and empowerment. Respect for human rights includes acceptance of diversity and not merely tolerance of it, Ansari said. “It is necessary
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Cracking the whip on mass bunking by students, authorities at SN Medical College in Jodhpur have taken strict action against 250 of them in the first-year MBBS programme who went on Diwali leave a week before it officially began. Stating that what the students had done amounted not only to gross disrespect of the college
Home Minister Rajnath Singh will travel to China on Tuesday, the first trip by an Indian Home Minister to the country in a decade, during which he will discuss ways to boost security ties and also talk about the smuggling of arms to Northeast militants. Singh’s six-day visit comes in the backdrop of steady improvement
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U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that, following the attacks on Paris, he wanted Moscow to shift its focus from propping up Syria’s government to fighting Islamic State and would discuss this with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr. Obama, who is in Manila to attend the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, also said
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A CBI team is likely to visit Faridkot for investigating the alleged sacrilege incidents in the area, that led to massive protests in the state and killing of two youth. Punjab government had on 1 November handed over the probe into the sacrilege incidents in Bargari village at Faridkot, to the CBI. “In pursuance of
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Four children were killed due to a wall collapse in Kadapa district in Andhra Pradesh, taking the toll of rain-related deaths in the state to eight, police said. Shivakumar (12), Vasu (10), Ganesh (8) and Ganesh (6) were killed in Rothu Kunta village when they were playing in an abandoned house and one of its
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Two Air France flights that took off from the United States on Tuesday were later diverted after bomb threats, US and Canadian media said. One flight, from Washington DC to Paris, was diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia, while the other, from Los Angeles to the French capital, was diverted to Salt Lake City, according to
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Harbhajan Singh, who got married to Bollywood actress Geeta Basra on October 29, is turning out to be a match-maker of sorts for top Indian cricketers. The India off-spinner, who was the first to hint about Yuvraj Singh’s engagement with Hazel Keech, said Zaheer Khan is ‘next in line’ to get hitched. Harbhajan, who is
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Indian e-tail major Flipkart has been hit by another scam, this time by one of its own vendor. The online giant has accused a Bengaluru-based vendor of cheating the company for over Rs. 1.5 lakhs. The suspect, Ramesh Kumar, who was arrested by police was selling car accessories through Flipkart. However, the products he delivered
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has vowed to find and punish the attackers who brought down a plane with 224 people on board in Egypt’s Sinai last month, after he was informed by the country’s security chief that it was a “terror act.” Mr Putin has also offered a 33 million pounds (around 330 crores) reward
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You wouldn’t believe but Puneet has made some rather shocking revelations about BB9 in an EXCLUSIVE conversation with BollywoodLife… Every weekend we come across eliminations wherein the contestant who happens to get the least number of votes, leaves the show. The format has been penned this way since all the past seasons of Bigg Boss
No point in beating around bush. The truth is , Priyanka completely out-dances Deepika in the Pinga item!! How did that happen? What was Deepika thinking? And if her excuse for not lookingMaharashtrian enough in the song is her unfamiliarity with traditional Maharashtrianculture then let me remind the beautiful Padukone that Priyanka is Punjabi. Put
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The second Test between India and South Africa in Bangalore was headed for a tame draw after bad weather washed out play for the second successive day on Monday. The umpires called off the scheduled third day’s play, without a ball being bowled, during the lunch break as incessant rain left large puddles of water
France’s president has said its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier would be deployed to the eastern Mediterranean to boost operations in Syria as Paris intensifies a bombing campaign against the Islamic State group there. The latest move follows attacks in the French capital, claimed by the jihadist group, which left 129 people dead and hundreds
Harvard University said on Monday it received “unconfirmed” bomb threat which prompted the university to evacuate four buildings on its campus. “We received an unconfirmed bomb threat affecting the Science Centre, as well as Sever, Emerson and Thayer Halls on the Cambridge campus,” the university said on its website. A warning was first posted on
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Governors across the US have threatened to stop accepting Syrian refugees following last week’s attacks in Paris, even as experts counter they lack legal authority to block the relocations. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama, whose administration recently pledged to accept about 10,000 Syrian refugees, argued Monday that the United States needs to allow them because many
