Nepal’s parliament elected a 54-year-old women’s rights activist as its first female president Wednesday, just weeks after the country established a new constitution in September. Bidhya Devi Bhandari was the country’s defense minister from 2009 to 2011 and is currently the vice-chair of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML), reports said. Bhandari […]
Iran on Wednesday accepted an invitation to attend a broad new round of negotiations to resolve the Syrian war, sitting with longtime adversaries including the United States and Saudi Arabia who once sought to bar the Iranians from any role in Syria’s future. The inclusion of Iran in the talks represented the first time that
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The need for UN Security Council reform featured in almost all bilateral meetings Prime Minister Narendra Modi had with African leaders on Wednesday, with the leaders dubbing the world body’s current structure as “outdated”. India and Africa were “on the same page” on the Security Council reform, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup told reporters
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Captain Amarinder Singh looks set to become the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee chief. After Singh held another round of meeting with Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Wednesday, party sources said it was just a matter of time before PCC chief Pratap Singh Bajwa is replaced with Singh. It will be a signal that the
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday emphasised the importance of a surging Africa saying African initiatives are replacing old fault lines with new bridges of regional economic integration during a summit in New Delhi. “Africa and India are two bright spots of hope and opportunities in the global economy,” Modi said in his speech to
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Much more is at stake in the US decision to challenge China by sending a destroyer near islands it built in the South China Sea than a handful of rocks, even if they sit on major shipping lines and deposits of natural resources. China, analysts say, is seeking to establish a sphere of influence in
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The third phase of Bihar’s staggered assembly polls ended on Wednesday evening, with 53.20 percent of the 14.5 million electorate voting in 50 constituencies across six districts. Additional Chief Electoral Officer R. Lakshmanan said the exercise passed off peacefully, including in areas where Maoists are active. There were only minor clashes between rival political activists.
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BJP member Gajendra Chauhan, whose appointment as FTII chairman triggered protests by the institute’s students, on Wednesday lauded their decision to end the 139-day strike. The students called off the strike, but said they will continue to protest against Chauhan in a “peaceful and democratic manner”. “I’m realising my responsibillties now. I would also like
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Chhota Rajan, the most-wanted gangster arrested in Bali on Sunday, has said that he wants to return to India. Rajan, who has 71 cases of murders, extortion and drug trafficking against him in Mumbai, had earlier told the Bali Police that he wanted to go to Zimbabwe and was afraid that he would be killed
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Political parties and security experts on Wednesday reacted sharply to former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf acknowledging that his country supported and trained terror groups like LeT saying the truth is finally out and demanded that wanted terrorists be handed over to India. Both BJP and Congress were together in attacking Pakistan for aiding terrorists against
Top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Abu Qasim, accused of masterminding the Udhampur attack, was killed in an encounter with security forces on Thursday in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir. According to the army, Qasim was killed in the early hours of the morning after security forces launched an operation in Khandipora village of Kulgam following information
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Tourism and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma has been allotted the bungalow of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, a move severely criticised by AAP, which said Centre has “insulted” the late President by not converting his residence into a ‘Knowledge Centre’. Kalam was staying at 10 Rajaji Marg residence in Lutyen’s zone after his eventful term
Archaeologists unearthed a 3,500-year-old unlooted grave of a warrior in Peloponnese peninsula in “the most impressive discovery of prehistoric funerary wealth in Greece in the past 65 years,” according to the Greek Culture Ministry. The excavation led by a team of archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati in recent months, unearthed about 1,400 artifacts, including
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Actor Manoj Bajpayee says he didn’t hesitate to play a homosexual professor in National Award winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta’s critically acclaimed film Aligarh, which is based on a true story. “As a person, I’m very fearless. Nothing really scares me apart from travelling in a plane. When it comes to experimenting with films or roles,
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South Indian music director Yuvan Shankar Raja is now headed to Hollywood! After AR Rahman, he is the second Tamil music director to be signed on for a Hollywood film. Yuvan will score music for the animated movie Woolfell which has been written and directed by Indian filmmaker Prabhakaran Hariharan. Hariharan has confirmed to the
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Having seen the fate of old construction works undertaken by the Pathankot municipal corporation, which have been of low quality and have hardly lasted long, the residents have become more vigilant now. They could be seen coming to the construction site in their locality in large number and questioning the contractors and their workers, who
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The Freedom ODI series between India and South Africa was action-packed, hard-fought and for the majority of the five matches, thoroughly entertaining. But for MS Dhoni and his men, it marks a second consecutive loss in an ODI series following the defeat in Bangladesh. India produced just one complete game – in the fourth ODI
Shah Rukh Khan as of late proclaimed that he would do three movies in a year on a normal after he finishes his 50th birthday on 2 November. SRK has obviously been occupied in the later past attributable to his generation wanders however now his birthday determination is by all accounts to do upwards of
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The India-Africa Forum Summit, one of New Delhi’s most ambitious diplomatic outreach events in over two decades, is underway in the capital though the gathering of heads of states is slated for the 29-30 October. This is not the first meeting of the India-Africa Forum. The UPA began it at a modest scale with the
The United States announced Tuesday that Iran may take part in talks to end the civil war in Syria and warned of increased military action against the Islamic State. On the military front, the Pentagon said it may launch more air strikes and even direct ground attacks by special forces against jihadists seeking to carve
Rescuers were struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday as officials said the combined death toll from the previous day’s earthquake rose to 339. According to Afghan and Pakistani officials, 258 people died in Pakistan and 78 in Afghanistan in the magnitude-7.5 quake, which was centered deep beneath the Hindu Kush
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An Indian grandfather slammed to the ground by an Alabama police officer last February told him “no English” five times and said “India” three times, according to US prosecutors. Sureshbhai Patel, who had arrived days earlier from India to the US to take care of his grandson, also pointed to his son’s home and kept
The United States defied China Tuesday by sending a warship close to artificial islands the rising Asian power is building in disputed waters, prompting Beijing to summon the US ambassador and denounce what it called a threat to its sovereignty. The USS Lassen passed within 12 nautical miles — the normal limit of territorial waters
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will host a townhall meeting at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi today where around 900 students will get a chance to interact with him in a question and answer session. Announcing his plan earlier this month, Mr Zuckerberg had posted on his official page that he was looking forward
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A plea by three infants in the Supreme Court for a ban on firecrackers during Deepavali has been strongly objected to in the Supreme Court by various organisations, one of them contending that “crackers are burst on Deepavali to celebrate the victory of good over evil” and a ban will “affect the traditional and customary
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s aspiration to turn India into one of the world’s top investment destinations got off to a positive start as India climbed four places in the “Ease of Doing Business” rankings (2016) compiled by the World Bank. Last year, PM Modi had said that he wanted India to be among the top
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A day after returning to India from Pakistan where she was stranded for years, speech and hearing impaired Geeta met President Pranab Mukherjee — who called her “a symbol of India-Pakistan unity” — and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and took a ride on Delhi Metro. “You are the daughter of both our countries, a symbol
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BSF on Tuesday lodged a strong protest with Pakistan Rangers over its “unprovoked” cross-border firing which killed one civilian and injured 14 in Jammu and Kashmir over past few days and warned that such acts or any other misadventure will not be tolerated at any cost. The protest was conveyed at the Sector Commander level
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Former president Pervez Musharraf has admitted that Pakistan supported and trained groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in 1990s to carry out militancy in Kashmir. “In 1990s the freedom struggle began in Kashmir…At that time Lashkar-e-Taiba and 11 or 12 other organisations were formed. We supported them and trained them as they were fighting in Kashmir at
Aiming to bolster its presence along the India-China border, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police has said it will create over 50 new posts and deploy about 8,000 fresh troops along the sensitive frontier even as it disapproved of becoming “warmongers” in the wake of several incursions taking place. ITBP Director General Krishna Chaudhary, during the annual
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