A fire and explosion in a Bucharest nightclub killed 27 people and injured 155 during a rock concert that featured fireworks late on Friday, Romanian government officials and witnesses said. In one of the capital’s worst disasters in decades, about 400 people, mostly young adults, stampeded for the exit as the club filled with smoke. […]
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On the eve of one year of their alliance, the Shiv Sena and the BJP are back to squabbling and Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has threatened to withdraw support to the Maharashtra government if the BJP does not shed its arrogance. The rift between the parties comes just ahead of the Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the ‘Run For Unity’ in New Delhi today on 140th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and urged people to take inspiration from his life and work for the country’s unity and integrity. Addressing the people at Rajpath after paying floral tributes at Sardar Patel statue on Parliament Street,
Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar left for Moscow on 30 October for a three-day visit before he travels to Malaysia for the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM-Plus). The takeaway from this trip, however, is the fact that all measures are in place for India to acquire the world’s most advanced anti-ballistic missile system — the
Nearly two years after Esther Anuhuya, a techie from Andhra Pradesh, was murdered by a man in Mumbai, a special women’s court has given the convict, Chandrabhan Sanap, the death sentence. The decision on sentencing came two days after the court held him guilty for Esther’s rape and murder. While giving the death sentence, the
A PTI spokesman made an announcement on Imran Khan’s official Facebook page. Ms Khan also confirmed on Twitter that they had decided to part ways. The pair got married in January at Mr Khan’s home. The former cricketer was previously married to British journalist and activist Jemima Goldsmith. PTI spokesman Naeem Ul Haque asked for
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Dear Kapil Paaji, First things first. You are not the first person to criticise Sachin Tendulkar. Over the years, all of us have heard people find faults with his batting. People have said he played for personal milestones, that he slowed down when he was nearing a landmark, that he made centuries only when India
An Alabama police officer used a too violent technique, like “somebody cutting down a tree”, to slam an Indian grandfather to the ground, an expert witness testified in the retrial of the cop. Former Madison Officer Eric Parker did not use a takedown consistent with prevailing national police standards for Sureshbhai Patel, who had arrived
Shaandaar has turned out to be one of the biggest commercial failures of 2015. There have been flops in the last 10 months but nothing really matches the kind of fall that the Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt starrer took when compared to the opening day. If one looks at the biggest disaster of 2015,
A former German rapper who participated in propaganda videos for Islamic State and sought to lure foreigners to the militant group has been killed in a US airstrike in Syria, two US officials said on Thursday. Born in Berlin, Denis Cuspert was once a popular rapper known by the name ‘Deso Dogg.’ But he turned
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China abandoned its decades-old one-child policy Thursday to confront a looming slump in the economy’s workforce that it is probably powerless to prevent, analysts say. All couples will be allowed to have two children, China’s official Xinhua news agency announced as the Communist Party brought an end to decades of strict, sometimes harsh enforcement of
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday stirred memories of the Soviet-era Pioneer movement by setting up a state-backed organisation for schoolchildren. The Kremlin strongman signed a decree establishing the Russian Movement of Schoolchildren to help “build characters based on the system of values of Russian society”, according to the text published online. Russian media immediately
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A student in China has discovered a 120 million-year-old fossil that belonged to an ancestor of the modern long-horned grasshopper. The fossil, found in Yumen in Gansu province, preserved a 3-cm section of the ancient insect’s wing. “Most insects only have their wings preserved in the fossils,” Wang He, who unearthed the fossil was quoted
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A week before the Myanmar elections, the National League for Democracy (NLD) rally was attacked by men with machetes, injuring a lawmaker and two other people. NLD campaign manager Aung Myo Oo who also witnessed the horrific incident on Thursday night told Reuters that one of the accused came and started yelling at the vehicle.
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In a move which may further fuel the debate over slaughtering of certain bovines in the country, the defence ministry has asked the army to stop the practice of ritual killing of buffaloes carried out by some of its units. According to an ET report on Friday, the ministry has instructed the army to put
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Like a stylus stuck in the groove of a vinyl, Rahul Gandhi is still talking about suit and boot in Bihar. Is it then a big surprise that when almost the entire country is talking about the election in Bihar, not many care about the Congress vice-president’s campaign? Rahul was in Motihari on Friday to
Days after an arson attack in Faridabad district left two Dalit children dead, Haryana forensic experts have concluded that the “origin and source of fire was from inside the room and not from outside”. According to Reports, experts have also found a kerosene oil plastic bottle, which is half-burnt, under the partially burnt bed. A
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In a move widely believed to be an attempt at reviving the sagging public image of his government, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday undertook a major reshuffle in his team, dismissing eight ministers and withdrawing the departments from nine ministers. It’s also being seen as a move from Akhilesh to move out
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Hard-line faction of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) led by Syed Ali Geelani has announced that Hurriyat would organize a “million march” in Srinagar on November 7, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public rally here. “Over a million people will participate in the march and it will be a clear referendum that
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Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday called Russia an “all weather friend” of India ahead of his visit to Moscow, where he is expected to discuss several key deals. In an interview to Russian news agency TASS, Parrikar said India-Russia relationship should be enhanced. “I have always seen Russia as an all-weather friend for India
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With just two rounds of voting left in the five-phase Bihar assembly polls, BJP president Amit Shah said Thursday that if his party loses the elections “by mistake… crackers will be burst in Pakistan”. Launching a frontal attack on the Nitish Kumar government at a rally in Raxaul on the border with Nepal — Shah
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is personally taking on India’s notorious red tape to clear tens of billions of dollars worth of stalled public projects, hoping that his hands-on intervention can bend a vast, dysfunctional bureaucracy. Once a month, PM Modi holds a meeting with top state and federal bureaucrats to check why projects have not
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will distribute enhanced compensation cheques of Rs. 5 lakh each to the families of 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims, as announced by the Centre, in West Delhi’s Tilak Vihar area on Sunday. According to a senior official, there are around 2,600 families of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims. Government has estimated expenditure
India cricketer Harbhajan Singh and Bollywood actress Geeta Basra finally tied the knot on Wednesday in Jalandhar. The 35-year-old off-spinner and Basra completed the wedding after a long relation. The couple chose traditional attires for the ceremony. Sachin Tendulkar was also seen at the wedding in Jalandhar with Muskesh and Nita Ambani’s son Akash. Their
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After the huge success of her american television show Quantico, Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra has apparently been offered to host a celebrity talk show by the American television network ABC. With already so much on her plate (including two Bollywood films Bajirao Mastani and Jai Gangajal), the celebrity talk show could be something Chopra can
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Actor Abhishek Bachchan had a Twitter showdown with stand-up comic Karan Talwar late Wednesday night. Karan Talwar, who goes by the name Bollywood G***u, has made a career out of being rude about Bollywood stars and fired this unprovoked salvo at the 39-year-old Dhoom actor: Life is not about answers but questions. Where is my
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Hockey India (HI) has entered into a historic three-year partnership with Sports Authority of India (SAI), extending its commitment towards helping the sport regain its position in the country. This would mark the beginning of a new era for Indian hockey under the aegis of HI, enabling SAI to invest in innovative programs developing India
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Revealing that he wanted to retire at the top of his game, veteran batsman Virender Sehwag on Wednesday said that it was iconic cricketer Sachin Tendulkar who stopped him from calling it quits after the swashbuckling opener was dropped from the Indian team in 2007. Sehwag finally retired on his 37th birthday on 20 October,
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The Chinese and U.S. navies are set to hold high-level talks over tensions in the South China Sea after a U.S. warship challenged Beijing’s territorial assertiveness in the disputed waterway this week. The U.S. chief of naval operations Admiral John Richardson and his Chinese counterpart Admiral Wu Shengli would hold an hourlong video teleconference on
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Pakistan lost its bid Tuesday to be re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council when its current term ends this year. It polled just 105 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. Pakistan was considering running for the Council’s presidency next year, according to diplomatic sources, and had been putting out feelers. The defeat deals Islamabad
