Extending their incredible unbeaten record, Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis today lifted their eighth trophy of the season and fourth in a row, winning the WTA China Open on Saturday. The top seeds faced stiff resistance from sixth seed Taipei girls Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan before winning 6-7 (9) 6-1 10-8 in the final […]
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India’s Vijender Singh made his professional boxing debut with a bang, defeating Briton Sonny Whiting through a technical knock out in the third round at the Manchester Arena here Saturday. The Olympic and world championship medallist began well, attacked through the middleweight bout, and finished off the fight in the penultimate round when the referee
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For the majority of the chase at Kanpur’s Green Park in the first ODI, it seemed as though India were firmly in control. Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane were cruising along, but once their 149-run partnership came to an end, the brakes were applied and the chase started getting nervy. Rohit continued to up the
Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters blocked the main street in the Moldovan capital during the morning rush hour, demanding the resignation of the government. Some 400 protesters led by the leader of the pro-Moscow Our Party, Renato Usatii, parked dozens of cars on the Stephen the Great Boulevard before dawn Monday, bringing traffic to a halt.
India will continue to extend unwavering support for separate statehood for Palestine while also engaging with Israel to forge an independent and long-standing bilateral relationship, President Pranab Mukherjee said here on Sunday. The president also lauded Jordan’s humanitarian support in sheltering 1.4 million Syrians, called for a concerted global action for a peaceful resolution of
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Two male suicide bombers carried out the devastating twin bombings this weekend in Ankara, the office of the Turkish prime minister said on Sunday, as the toll rose to 97 dead. “Work is continuing to identify the corpses of the two male terrorists who carried out the suicide bombings” on Saturday, the office of Prime
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Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an airstrike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group’s reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them, residents of the town and hospital sources said. Iraq said on Sunday its air force had hit the meeting and had
Five members of NATO’s international support mission in Afghanistan were killed and five injured when a British military helicopter crashed in the capital, Kabul, officials said on Monday. NATO’s Resolute Support mission, which gave the casualty figures but did not identify the nationalities of the dead and injured, said the crash happened on Sunday afternoon
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Former top diplomat Sudheendra Kulkarni said on Monday that Shiv Sainiks smeared black ink or paint on his face to protest the launch this evening of a book on foreign policy by Khurshid Kasuri, Pakistan’s former foreign minister. Police have registered a case against 6 people, in Sion police station, for the attack on Kulkarni.
The Bihar election now moves on from Lalu Yadav’s controversial beef statement to a sting exposé, released 12 hours before the first phase of polling. The video depicts a top-ranking minister of the Nitish Kumar government, Awadhesh Prasad Kushwaha, accepting Rs four lakh as an advance bribe from a ‘Bombay-based firm’ for favours, which he
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday described Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal as the ‘Nelson Mandela of Independent India’. The remark attracted a lot of ridicule on the social media. Addressing a gathering during Loktantra Prahari Abhinandan-a programme organised to commemorate the 113th birth anniversary of Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan in the Capital-the prime
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Summit talks between Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan should not take place without any “proper preparations”, said former Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, adding the only way to end the post-Ufa deadlock is to begin secret back-channel parleys. The secret talks should be conducted in the same way both sides very nearly finalised
Khaki, olive green and black – these are the dominant colours in the landscape of south and central Bihar ahead of the polls. On the eve of the first phase of polling the entire Maoist belt – ‘The Red Corridor’ from Banka to Kaimur – has virtually turned into a war zone with the presence
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The high-stake Bihar Assembly election began on Monday with voting starting at 7 AM in 49 seats, spread over 10 districts, in the first of the five phases of elections amid elaborate security arrangements. A total number of 1,35,72,339 electorate will cast their votes in the 49 Assembly seats for which 583 candidates, including 54
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Describing the Emergency imposed from 1975-77 as the “biggest blow” to democracy in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that it gave birth to a new generation of political leadership that was ready to “live and die for the country”, and not just “for TV screens”. “Leadership born during Emergency was not one
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Three persons, including a policeman, received burn injuries when a Kashmir bound truck was allegedly attacked with a petrol bomb in this district of Jammu and Kashmir. “Three persons including a policeman, co driver and conductor received burn injuries when an unknown man first broke the front glass of the truck and later threw a
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Veteran actor Prem Chopra, best known for his negative roles in films like “Kati Patang”, “Dostana”, “Kranti” and “Phool Bane Angaarey”, says films nowadays don’t feature “purely dark villians” as they are showed in more of “grey shades”. “There are no more purely dark villains. Like heroes, the negative character are also in the shades
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A local court in Indore on Friday directed actor Aamir Khan, film director Raju Hirani and script writer Abhijeet Singh to appear before the court for controversial content and dialogue in the film PK. Additional sessions judge, BS Rawat issued the directions following a review petition alleging that PK had hurt the religious sentiments of
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Doing Sanjay Gupta’s Jazbaa has been a life-changing experience for Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The film taught her the importance of balancing home and career. In what could be termed a glorious comeback, Aishwarya dazzles in this week’s release. The compliments flow, though for now, the one opinion that matters to her is yet to come.
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Former Bihar Chief Minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad has set off another round of name calling as campaigning for the first phase of Assembly elections ends on Saturday. In a controversial remark, Lalu described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as ‘brahm pisach’ (a dangerous ghost), and BJP president Amit Shah a ‘narbhakshi’
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The BCCI said on Friday it will address the concerns raised by Pepsi, the title sponsor of its flagship tournament, the Indian Premier League (IPL) but Pepsi is not amused. It’s notice to the Board, laid bare by The Indian Express, has a tone that is sharp and unambiguous. In its notice to the board,
Former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is undergoing treatment for acute deep vein thrombosis at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, was given a surprise visit by none other than former Indian captain and his ex-teammate Mohammad Azharuddin on Friday. Sidhu has been making steady recovery and doctors say no surgery or intervention has been
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President Barack Obama, in a ritual that has become both familiar and frustrating to him, travelled to Oregon on Friday to console families of the victims of a community college shooting that once again sparked a push for US gun reform. The president, a Democrat who tried but failed to tighten firearms laws after previous
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China has completed the construction of two lighthouses in the disputed South China Sea, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as tensions in the region mount over Beijing’s maritime ambitions. A completion ceremony was held for the lighthouses on Huayang Reef and Chigua Reef in the Spratly islands, Xinhua said late on Friday. The United
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An Indian ISIS recruit from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, disillusioned and fearing for his life, wants to break free from the terror group and return home from his crusade in Iraq and Syria. Intelligence agencies got a whiff of his plan while trailing his Indian handler. The man, whose identity has been kept under the
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A diplomat at the Saudi Arabia embassy in New Delhi has been booked for rape while his wife and daughter have been booked for torturing domestic helps in this Millennium City, Haryana Police said Tuesday. But the Saudi embassy, dismissing the charges as “completely false” and “contrary to facts in our possession”, said they would
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Indian offspinner Harbhajan Singh on Friday said he would definitely want to comeback to the Eden Gardens ground and play cricket. The third and final T20 International between India and South Africa, scheduled to be held at the iconic venue on Thursday, was called off owing to a soggy outfield after half an hour of
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During the Shooting of ” Force 2″ film Bollywood actor John Abraham injured, so with that reason the Film was delayed by the crew because the doctor hardly advised for bed rest,because thees is Blood clot on the knee and doctor will remove this clot in few days after. The director of this movie is
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Akshay Kumar’s latest Bollywood outing, Singh Is Bliing, has been going quite strong at the box office ever since it was released. The film opened to a fabulous response at the ticket windows, with the first day pouring in Rs 20.67 crore. The second and third days saw a business of Rs 14.5 crore and
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by Neelam Katara seeking enhancement of sentence to death for Vishal and Vikas Yadav who have been convicted for murdering her son Nitish Katara in February 2002. An apex court bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice R Banumati said that while it was a murder
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