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Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor take us back to 90s in Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’s title track

Picture this – a grand palace, opulent sets, horse-drawn chariots, actors clad in full traditional regalia, hundred of background dancer, riot of flying colours and flowers. One might mistake it for a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film, but it’s actually the title track from Salman Khan-Sooraj Bharjatya’s reunion project Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. The song features […]

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Who Was The First Prime Minister Of India? Google Thinks It’s Narendra Modi

Ask any school kid who India’s first prime minister was and they’d all answer “Jawaharlal Nehru.” But, Google – the world’s most-used search engine – thinks otherwise. Though a Google search for ‘India’s first prime minister’ shows the name ‘Jawaharlal Nehru’, and carries a snippet from Wikipedia about him, but with a photo of current

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India to launch six Singapore satellites in December

India would launch six satellites from Singapore, including a dedicated 500 kg earth observation spacecraft, in mid-December, a top space official said on Friday. “The 500 kg dedicated satellite (TeLOS-1)will be a commercial launch for Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd while five other smaller satellites are from Singapore universities,” Indian space agency’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation

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2,000 Iran-backed fighters in Syria to help Assad: US officials

As many as 2,000 Iranian and Iran-backed forces are currently in Syria helping Bashar al-Assad regime troops in an offensive near Aleppo that is being coordinated with Russia, a US official said on Friday. “We are now seeing a coordinated effort between Iran and Russia to assist Assad with fighting opposition groups,” the official said,

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Palestinians set fire to Jewish shrine; Israeli soldier stabbed

Palestinians set fire to a Jewish shrine in the occupied West Bank, and an attacker disguised as a journalist stabbed an Israeli soldier on Friday as tensions ran high after more than two weeks of violence. Shortly after the arson attack on the tomb of biblical patriarch Joseph, Palestinian protesters threw stones over the border

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Relief for Manmohan Singh: Court dismisses Koda’s plea to summon ex-PM in coal scam case

A special court on Friday refused to summon former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as an accused in a coal scam case, observing that sufficient evidence was not there to call him and held ex-Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda’s plea in this regard as “devoid of any merits”. Dismissing Koda’s plea in which he had sought

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Dance bars will lead to exploitation of women, trafficking: Former Mumbai cop Vasant Dhoble

Vasant Dhoble, the face of the police’s offensive against immoral activities during his tenure in the Social Service Branch of the Mumbai police, is not happy with the Supreme Court’s stay on the 2014 amendment to the Maharashtra Police Act banning dance performance in bars. The court’s move paves the way for reopening of dance

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Did Jawaharlal Nehru govt snoop on Netaji’s letter mentioning an ‘illegitimate child’?

So you thought the government might have snooped on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose only because it was concerned about his political influence or because of the Indian National Army? Turns out, these were not the only things that the government was interested in. According to a DNA report, documents reveal that the government had even

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Opposition parties slam Haryana CM Khattar for statement on Muslims and beef

Hours after Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar stirred a controversy by reportedly telling a newspaper that ‘Muslims can live in this country but they will have to give up eating beef because the cow is an article of faith here’, the Haryana government has moved into the damage control mode. The chief minister’s office

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Guru Granth Sahib desecration: Badal suspends senior police officer for ‘lapse of duty’

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday ordered the suspension of Moga Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Charanjit Sharma for alleged lapses in duty. “The suspension has been ordered following a recommendation of the special investigation team formed after sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib in Faridkot district a few days ago,” a Punjab

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13 killed, 10 injured in truck-bus collision in Andhra Pradesh

Thirteen people, including three children, were killed and ten others sustained injuries on Saturday when a mini truck carrying a marriage party collided with a bus near Kandukur town in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. Police said a mini truck carrying a marriage party coming from Kandukur collided with the bus coming from the opposite

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India’s indigenous cruise missile Nirbhay fails test

India’s indigenous surface-to-surface cruise missile Nirbhay nose-dived midway after it test fired in Odisha on Friday. According to Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) sources, the missile was launched from the Chandipur Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Balasore district at 11.38 a.m. Although the take off was successful amid repeated disruptions of countdown, the missile

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‘Heartbroken’ Rishi Kapoor Fell For Neetu Singh After Tiff With Girlfriend

Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor, who has been married to actress Neetu Singh for over 35 years now, will share the secret about how he fell in love with her while appearing on actor Anupam Kher’s TV show. Rishiji, who has son Ranbir Kapoor and daughter Riddhima Kapoor with Neetu, will be seen on The Anupam

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UFO Sightings Daily claims sighting of Buddha statue on Mars

Scientific efforts are being made to find the possibility of life at Mars and while NASA’s announcement of liquid water on the planet was deemed as one of the most important discoveries so far, there are organisations with absolutely bizarre findings. UFO Sightings Daily, involved in researching on aliens, claims that there is a giant

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Gujarat fisherman hurt in Pakistan firing near IMBL, 24 in captivity

At least one fisherman from Gujarat was injured in firing on Thursday by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (MSA) which also captured 24 fishermen and seized four of their boats near the International Maritime Boundary Line off Gujarat coast. However, the MSA later released the injured fisherman, identified as Dhanji Bamaniya, on humanitarian grounds along

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‘Quantico’ gets Priyanka Chopra into the first round of People’s Choice Awards nominations

Priyanka Chopra has been nominated in the first round of voting for the Favourite Actress In A New TV Series category at the People’s Choice Awards for her debut American thriller series, Quantico. Excited by the news, the actress, who plays Alex Parrish, a rookie FBI recruit with a mysterious past, said that she feels

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Zaheer Khan will prove to be an excellent bowling coach: Laxman

Terming Zaheer Khan’s ability to read a match situation as “one of the best” among contemporary Indian cricketers, former India batsman VVS Laxman feels that the just-retired left-arm pacer would prove to be a “great bowling coach” because of his vast knowledge on the subject. Even the BCCI top brass have already started thinking as

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Sylvester Stallone has shradh performed in Haridwar for dead son

Sylvester Stallone reportedly had ‘shradh’ ceremony performed for his son Sage, who died in 2012. According to a newspaper report, Sylvester called up a vedic scholar from Rishikesh that he still sees his dead son and was very disturbed. The 36-year-old was found dead at his apartment in Los Angeles three years ago. While it

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Banned in India, ‘India’s Daughter’ gets Meryl Streep’s backing for Oscar

A film banned by Indian authorities about the deadly rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi has opened in the United States to acclaim, with Hollywood star Meryl Streep saying it deserves to win an Academy Award. Depicting the rape and murder of a medical student in 2012 that sparked violent

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Pakistan raising Kashmir at UN is ‘clear interference’ in internal affairs, says India

India has strongly dismissed Pakistan’s raising of the Jammu and Kashmir issue at multiple fora in the UN, asserting that the references are “totally out of context” and constitute a “clear interference” in its internal affairs. India also asserted that Kashmir is, has always been and will remain an integral part of India. In one

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