Krishna Thadarai, former medical assistant of dentist Rajesh Talwar, has allegedly said in a video that he was asked by the CBI’s former joint director Arun Kumar to own up to the double murder of Talwars’ daughter Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj. The video was purportedly recorded during a narco analysis test conducted on […]
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday kept up his attack on India and warned that Pakistan will have to take “credible deterrent” measures in the face of Indian “arms build-up” and “dangerous military doctrines”. “While refusing dialogue, India is engaged in a major arms build-up, regrettably with the active assistance of several powers. It
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Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms on record, struck Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday, threatening to inflict catastrophic damage as emergency teams scrambled to evacuate thousands of people from homes and popular beach resorts. Blowing winds of almost 165 miles per hour (266 km/h), the Category 5 hurricane had western Mexico on high
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Pakistan Rangers on Saturday started unprovoked firing on the international border in Samba district of Jammu region, targeting BSF border posts, an official said. “Pakistan Rangers targeted nine BSF border outposts in Samba district in overnight firing,” a BSF source told IANS in Jammu. “Pakistan Rangers have used mortars during the ceasefire violation.” “They targeted
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Bollywood singer Labh Janjua (57), best known for his songs ‘London thumakda’ from movie Queen and ‘Jee Karda’ from Badlapur, was found dead in his Goregaon rental flat on Thursday. The matter came to light when Janjua’s domestic help came to work at around 10am on Thursday and found him not responding to her repeated
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For the last one week, communal tension has been simmering in Punjab on the issue of desecration of a ‘bir’ of Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs, at Bargari village in Faridkot district. As many as 110 pages of the book were found torn off. The ‘bir’ was stolen from the Burj
Bollywood playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya has been booked for allegedly misbehaving with a woman at an event in Mumbai, police said on Friday. The alleged incident took place on Thursday night during the programme at Lokhandwala in Mumbai’s Andheri suburb where Abhijeet was present as one of the event organisers while the victim was an
There’s a scene in Shaandaar during which an entire wedding party, high on magic mushrooms and pot brownies, lose their minds temporarily and start doing strange things. It’s a fitting scene in a film that appears to have been made under similarly mind-altering influences. Yes, there’s no polite way to say this: Shandaar is a
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Narendra Modi’s forthcoming visit to Britain is still weeks away but it has already become a subject of heated debate in Cambridge University with the vice-chancellor facing pressure to withdraw his invitation to the Indian prime minister to address the Senate, its most important academic body. A group of students and faculty members have written
Twenty protesters were arrested by the British police after a Sikh demonstration outside Indian Embassy in London against alleged police brutality in Punjab turned violent, leaving one policeman injured. Hundreds of demonstrators of a group called ‘Sikh Lives Matter’ gathered for a sit-in protest on Thursday against the alleged police brutality against Sikhs in Punjab,
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Restrictions were imposed on Friday in parts of Srinagar city and Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir to prevent separatist-called protests over the fatal petrol bomb attack on a local youth on October 9. Senior separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Miwaiz Umer Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik and others were placed under house arrest to prevent
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Nearly 100 writers took out a peaceful march in Delhi on Friday to protest against increasing intolerance in the country. Writers from across the country gathered at Shri Ram Centre near Mandi House and marched towards Sahitya Akademi in the capital, wearing black ribbons on their heads as a sign of protest. The writers said
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Indian politicians have long been known for putting their feet in the mouths. Joining these illustrious people is the former Chief of the Army and present Union Minister VK Singh. While absolving the Central government of so much as a sliver of responsibility in the death of two Dalit children in Haryana, Singh added a
A suicide bombing at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque killed at least 10 people in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan on Thursday, officials said, raising fears of more sectarian attacks during the upcoming Shi’ite holiday of Ashura. Fears of violence have been heightened this year after Taliban splinter groups pledged allegiance to the Syria- and Iraq-based
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President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday invoked Dussehra festivities to once again denounce rising incidents of intolerance and appealed to people to maintain India’s unity and integrity and focus on nation building, leaving aside their differences. “Dussehra is a symbol of our ancient culture and we should forget our differences and work towards nation building. That
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One day after Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said that crimes like the murder of Dalit children at Sunped village in Faridabad won’t happen again as the state is a ‘peaceful’ one, a 15-year-old Dalit boy, who was accused of stealing a pigeon, was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Haryana’s Gohana town. According
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India has called on the international community to be vigilant on non-state actors and terrorist groups seeking and using chemical weapons and said the use of such weapons anywhere and by anyone must be condemned. “The use of chemical weapons anywhere and by anyone must be condemned and the international norm against the use of
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Days after the killing of a 16-year-old trucker Zahid Rasool Bhat in Kashmir sparked outrage in the state, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the attackers were provoked by a beef party organized by independent MLA Engineer Rashid in the state. Senior PDP leader Peerzada Mansoor Ahmad said that the beef party hosted
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Praising centurion Virat Kohli for his superb batting in the side’s series-levelling win against South Africa, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday said that it was the first game in which his team did well in all the three departments. Electing to bat, India rode on Kohli’s brilliant 138 to post 299 for eight
The ‘stoning dogs’ remark by General VK Singh, our minister of state for external affairs, has dominated news coverage throughout a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was laying the foundation stone for Amaravati, the nation’s 29th state capital. And for the second time in recent times, a day for the Centre to be proud,
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American and Kurdish commandos raided an Islamic State prison in Iraq on Thursday, freeing about 70 captives believed to be facing “mass execution” and leaving one U.S. soldier dead, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. It was the first time a member of the U.S. military had been killed in a combat situation in Iraq since
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In a sharp attack against the BJP, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Thursday that ink attacks carried out by his party workers did not defame India, but the lynching of a person in Dadri did. “What is this uproar over beef? If you are so concerned about people eating beef in India, why
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The US has categorically ruled out any role for itself in Indo-Pak peace process unless both the countries jointly ask for it, according to a senior official who asserted that the best way to resolve issues is through direct dialogue between the two neighbours. “President (Barack) Obama and his interlocutors discussed with the Prime Minister
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“A decent girl won’t roam around at 9 o’clock at night” – certainly not with a man who is not her father or brother. That’s what Mukesh Singh, interviewed in Tihar Jail in Delhi in Leslee Udwin’s documentary, “India’s Daughter,” says about the young woman he and his friends picked up in their bus on
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Pakistan on Thursday committed to take “effective action against United Nations-designated terrorist individuals and entities, including Lashkar-e-Taiba and its affiliates, as per its international commitments and obligations,” after Washington held its feet to the fire on the terrorism issue affecting India, while backing Islamabad’s efforts to re-engage New Delhi. The commitment, contained in a joint
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Pakistan’s cricket team for January’s Asia Cup for the blind has pulled out from the tournament to be hosted in India. The Pakistanis are worried about the security threat to their players, it is learnt. Pakistan have already expressed security concerns after Shiv Sena activists stormed the Board of Control for Cricket in India offices
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Deepika Padukone has chosen to give Kangana Ranaut a royal ignore. Yes, the two leading ladies of Bollywood have been fighting a rather interesting battle. After Deepika accepted a popular award for best actress last year, and dedicated it to her contemporary (Kangana) for an exemplar performance in Queen a heated fight broke out in
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Mahesh Bhatt’s son Rahul Bhatt is in Ludhiana for Aamir Khan’s physical training in Nitesh Tiwari’s Dangal. The invitation, says a source, came directly from Aamir. “He knows Rahul from the time he (Rahul) was a child hanging around on his dad Mahesh Bhatt Saab’s set of Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin. Rahul grew up
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Bollywood actress Koena Mitra’s residence in Oshiwara was robbed on Sunday in which the actress lost jewellery worth Rs 1.20 lakh. The actress has lodged an FIR against her trusted housemaid who later detained by cops. The actress in her complaint to Oshiwara police mentioned that, she suspected that her housemaid, who working at her
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There’s no easy answer to the question of whether politics should influence sports or not, but India and the BCCI seem to take special pleasure in muddling up the issue as much as possible. The BCCI and state machinery in Rajkot could handle the threat from activist Hardik Patel, who threatened to disrupt the third
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