A Delhi court on Tuesday convicted Shiv Kumar Yadav, a driver with Uber, in the December 2014 rape case of a woman working with a finance company, reports said. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on 23 October. Yadav has been convicted under sections related to rape, endangering the life of a woman while […]
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A U.S. fighter aircraft came under fire while flying in eastern Afghanistan last week, a U.S. military official in the capital Kabul said on Monday. The F-16 encountered “small arms fire” in the province of Paktia on Oct. 13, which hit the aircraft’s stabilizers and damaged one of its munitions. “The pilot jettisoned two fuel
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Based on a request made by Geeta, the deaf-mute Indian girl stranded in Pakistan and set to return to India, Salman Khan-starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan will be dubbed into a sign language so that special people like her could watch and appreciate the movie. The dubbing will be undertaken by the help centre for persons with
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Amidst a wave of rising intolerance, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday expressed serious apprehensions over whether tolerance and acceptance of dissent are on the wane in the country. “Humanism and pluralism should not be abandoned under any circumstance. Assimilation through receiving is a characteristic of Indian society. Our collective strength must be harnessed to resist
In the second such incident in less than a month, a 22-year old student of IIT, Madras, allegedly committed suicide in his hostel room in Chennai on Monday, police said. Rahul Prasad, a final year B Tech student from Kerala, was found hanging from a ceiling fan, they said. The incident comes barely a month
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The rape of toddlers and minors is a ghastly matter. The plight of victims calls for empathy and a degree of introspection and self-reproach. When we chose to make it a topic of political point, scoring it only reflects how dehumanised we are. It shows we are trying to take malicious advantage of the misery
Zahid Rasool Bhat, the Kashmiri trucker injured in an arson attack at Udhampur (Jammu division), passed away on Sunday. The 18-year-old has fallen victim to an insidious and dangerous ideology that appears to have India enthralled. The proponents of this ideology hold that India is a ‘Hindu Rashtra’(Hindu nation) and other groupings in India(read Muslims)
Killing of Udhampur trucker just makes things more daunting for Indian Muslims Read More »
In the latest in the series of such acts by fringe Hindutva groups across the country, members of Hindu Sena attacked an independent MLA from Jammu & Kashmir, Engineer Rashid, at the Press Club of India in New Delhi and smeared black ink all over his face. The incident took place on Monday afternoon. Eye-witnesses
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Former Pakistani fast bowlers Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar, who are currently commentating in the ongoing India and South Africa ODI series, will return to Pakistan and won’t be available for the fifth and last match, according to reports. The development comes in wake of security concerns after the International Cricket Council (ICC) were forced
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Virender Sehwag, one of India’s greatest cricketers, on Monday hinted that he will draw curtains on his international career soon as he confirmed his participation in next year’s Masters Champions League, where only retired cricketers can play. He said that he would announce retirement once he returns to India from Dubai, where he was attending
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Bigg Boss has to be the ultimate baap of all reality shows. Some people come to Bigg Boss house for money and fame while some just want to cut off from their monotonous life. However, no matter how jazzy and comforting the Bigg Boss house looks from outside, contestants have a tough time inside the
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The Shiv Sena on Monday took a swipe on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for inviting Pakistan ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali to perform in the national capital. Sena in its mouthpiece Saamna said when a rape happens Kejriwal doesn’t want to take responsibility saying the police is controlled by the Centre but he has no
If Kejriwal can protect Ghulam Ali, why can’t he protect women in Delhi, asks Shiv Sena Read More »
From the crowded by lanes of old Delhi to a walk into the history at the ruins of the past to a ride on a Metro – different sides of Delhi have found their way onto the silver screen. And now, actress Deepika Padukone says her character in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s forthcoming film Bajirao Mastani
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Time and again, rumour mills get fresh wind with speculation on Salman Khan and his wedding plans. This time there are talks of Salman Khan and Romanian TV celebrity Lulia Vantur getting engaged! According to a report in Pinkvilla, Lulia Vantur has returned to Romania and her PR claims that she and Salman are engaged
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A Bollywood actor has been booked for allegedly raping a television actress, police said on Sunday. A case has been registered against actor Vishal Thakkar under relevant sections of rape and other offences yesterday, Charkop police station’s senior inspector Ramchandra Gaikwad said. The victim, an actress who has worked in several TV serials, has alleged
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One of the world’s most famous clock towers, the Big Ben, is set to fall silent for months as it undergoes urgent repair work which could cost up to 40 million pounds. The British Parliament’s landmark as part of the Palace of Westminster in the heart of London was completed in 1859 and has been
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The vibrant Indian community in Egypt celebrated Dussehra on 16 October. Over 600 persons attended the event, including several who travelled to Cairo from other cities like Alexandria, Port Said and Ismailia to join the celebrations. The event was organized by the Indian Community Association of Egypt at the grounds of Maadi British International School
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British parents worried that their 16 and 17-year-old children might travel to Syria or Iraq under the influence of militants will be able to apply to have their passports removed, Prime Minister David Cameron will say on Monday. The measure is aimed at disrupting a steady stream of young Britons lured by the Islamic State’s
Powerful typhoon Koppu ploughed into the northeastern Philippines before dawn on Sunday destroying homes and displacing 10,000 people and whipping up coastal surges four metres (12 feet) high, disaster agency officials said. There were no reports of casualties after the category four typhoon, with central destructive winds of 175 kph (109 mph), made landfall around
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Air strikes on a convoy of the Islamic State group killed at least 40 jihadists in central Syria at the weekend, a monitoring group said on Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said unidentified warplanes hit the 16-vehicles motorcade overnight between Saturday and Sunday in Hama province, killing the jihadists. The Observatory, which
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Few in India will have heard the name, Bilal el-Berjawi. A British citizen of Lebanese origin, he was radicalised in the post-9/11 wave of extremism – like hundreds of other young British Muslims lured by al-Qaeda’s growing appeal at the time. And then one day he was killed. Not in London but thousands of miles
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RAJKOT woke up on Sunday morning anticipating two contests. One obviously pitting India and South Africa in a crucial third ODI at the Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) Stadium, and the other between Patidar agitation leader Hardik Patel and the local authorities. Patel’s expected attempts at creating a scene during the match as a part of
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India’s 18-run loss in the third ODI against South Africa in Rajkot on Sunday has thrown up plenty of questions in India’s batting line-up. The inability of the lower-middle order to finish of games has flummoxed Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and he admitted during the presentation ceremony that India are still not able to
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The tenth and last accused in the incident of lynching of a Muslim man in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh has been arrested, police said on Monday. The accused Hari Om, was holed up at a relative’s house in Sardhana town of western Uttar Pradesh and was picked up by police late Sunday following a tip-off
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The Mumbai police has begun an investigation into allegations that policemen in Bandra police station beat up two Muslim teenagers on Saturday morning and told them to go back to Pakistan. The Deputy Commissioner of Police for Zone IX Satya Narayan Choudhary has started an inquiry and will talk to both sides, the publication quotes
RSS mouthpiece Panchjanya’s latest cover story defends the killing of Akhlaq Saifi, 52, in Dadri on the night of September 28 over what was allegedly beef in his refrigerator. The Indian Express reports that the RSS quotes Vedic texts to defend the shameful and brutal murder of an unarmed Muslim man who had just finished
With BJP under fire over controversial remarks of its leaders on Dadri and beef row, party chief Amit Shah has cracked the whip and warned them against making such remarks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed “extreme displeasure” on the comments. Shah has pulled up Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma,
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Late President A P J Abdul Kalam was a tad cautious about ‘Make in India’ campaign saying though it’s “quite ambitious”, it has to be ensured that India does not become the low-cost, low-value assembly line of the world. On Digital India, he felt it has the potential to activate the knowledge connectivity needed in
In his last book, Kalam expressed concern over ‘Make in India’, ‘Digital India’ Read More »
A toddler and a five-year-old girl were gang-raped here in separate incidents, leading to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who visited the victims in hospital on Saturday, questioning the measures taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lt Governor Najeeb Jung to protect women in the capital and demanding control over Delhi Police. The two-and-a-half-year-old, who
Separatist groups have called for a shutdown in Kashmir today to protest the death of a truck driver who was attacked with a petrol bomb in Udhampur following beef rumours around 10 days ago. Curfew has been imposed in parts of Srinagar after clashes broke out yesterday, hours after the news of Zahid Ahmad’s death.
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