The J&K Police today arrested notorious criminal Sunny Choudhary, alias Sunny Baba, at J&K-Punjab border in Pathankot, opposite Lakhanpur toll post, this morning along his accomplice Avneet Singh. Sunny Baba had fled from Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital on August 22 and the J&K Police had launched a hunt to nab him. Commending the performance […]
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Russia’s air force hit 60 Islamic State targets in Syria over the past 24 hours and killed around 300 militants, the Defence Ministry said on Friday, in Moscow’s most intense raids yet since it first launched strikes on Syria 10 days ago. In the previous updates, the Moscow had been reporting hitting about 10 targets
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Minor tremors were felt in parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region areas on Saturday after an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter Scale struck. The tremors were felt around 1:40am and remained for a few seconds. According to the Indian Meteorological Department website the intensity was slight and the epicenter was Delhi-NCR
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As tensions over Dadri lynching incident refuse to subside, a mob in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri on Friday almost lynched four men accused of killing and skinning a cow. Violence broke out in the area after some people were allegedly caught slaughtering a cow. People in Nagaria village set police jeeps on fire and damaged several
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Hearing a suit which alleged that the story of Salman Khan-starrer “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” has been plagiarised, the Bombay High Court on Thursday declined to give any interim relief by staying its world television premier on 10 October. Justice Gautam Patel, however, directed that all the proceeds of the film should not be touched and kept
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Makers of Salman Khan’s “Sultan” have released the first look of the film. The first look of Salman Khan in “Sultan” shows the superstar donning a tough look with a moustache and light beard. Salman, who will be seen as a wrestler from Haryana in the movie, shared the first look on Twitter. The picture
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Writer/director Sanjay Gupta needs to give a whole box of throat lozenges to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Apparently he is convinced and in turn has convinced the actress that that a tormented mother has to scream her guts out to show her distress over the kidnapping of her little daughter. If that’s not pathetic enough, she
The third and final T20 international between India and South Africa was abandoned on Thursday without a ball being bowled because of a wet outfield, allowing the visitors to clinch the three-match series by 2-0 margin. The abandonment of the game after just a passing evening shower again showed the poor drainage system of the
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Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg warned that Russia is testing “some of their most modern weapons” in Syria, while carrying out a great military deployment. “What is going on in Syria of course is of importance for Nato because we see that Russia is testing some of their most modern weapons,” Stoltenberg said on Thursday
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Indian and Chinese officials have held talks in Beijing to review measures to avoid stand-offs between their troops along the disputed border amid allegations by the PLA that removal of a surveillance hut by Indian soldiers last month was a violation of consensus to maintain peace. The Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China
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Three years after landing in a giant Martian crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover has found what scientists call proof that the basin had repeatedly filled with water, bolstering chances for life on Mars, a study published on Thursday showed. The research offered the most comprehensive picture of how Gale Crater, an ancient, 87-mile (140-km) wide impact
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India has finally warmed up to Maldives and its controversial regime of President Abdulla Yameen six months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled his scheduled trip to the Indian Ocean island country. As a signal of India’s rapprochement, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will be in the Maldivian capital Male this weekend. This was expected
Amid talks of restructuring Punjab Congress unit, party vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday met some legislators from the state and indicated that he was open to the idea of handing over the party reins to former chief minister Amarinder Singh. During one-to-one meetings with six legislators, Rahul sought their views on whom to hand
On the night of 28 September, 52-year-old Mohammad Akhlaq and his 22-year-old son Danish were dragged out of their home in Bisada village in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri district, and brutally attacked by a mob of 200 on the suspicion that the family had consumed beef. Akhlaq did not survive the attack and his son has
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The death toll of Indians in the Hajj stampede has risen to 101 even as 32 nationals still remain missing after the last month’s tragedy. “Saudi authorities have identified more pilgrims who died in Haj stampede. The toll of Indian pilgrims is now 101. We have 32 missing,” External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on
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A Saudi sponsor has chopped off an Indian maid’s hand, evoking strong condemnation from India which demanded that a case of attempted murder be lodged against the culprit. “We are aware of the plight of Kashturi Munirathinam, a domestic help who has suffered serious injuries allegedly inflicted by her Saudi Arabian sponsor. This is a
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched for communal harmony and brotherhood in the country, saying Hindus and Muslims should work together to fight the common enemy of poverty and ignore “irresponsible” statements made by politicians, even if he himself makes any. In his first comments amid communal overtones in the wake of Dadri lynching
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In a stunning announcement, IAF Chief Arup Raha said on Thursday said the Indian Air Force is now planning to induct women into the fighter aircraft stream. “We have women pilots flying transport aircraft and helicopters. We are now planning to induct them into the fighter stream to meet the aspirations of young women in
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Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday invited ustad Ghulam Ali to perform in Kolkata, only a day after a threat by Shiv Sena scuppered his October 9 concert in Mumbai. The ghazal maestro was touched and told : “Hum toh mohabbat ke liye aate hain… Unki yeh daawat hum zaroor kabul karenge (I come
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The Supreme Court on Thursday sought responses from the Centre, Delhi government and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on three toddlers’ petition seeking ban on bursting of crackers this Diwali, saying its fumes would turn the Capital’s already critically polluted air poisonous. A bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justices Arun Mishra and
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Renowned Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali’s concert in Mumbai has been cancelled after objections raised by the Shiv Sena, which co-governs Maharashtra with the BJP. “I’m not angry but very hurt. I have always got love in India,” Ghulam Ali told NDTV. “The concert was a tribute for Jagjit Singh. He was like a brother
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Bollywood superstar Salman Khan might have saved many damsels in distress in multiple films, but the actor couldn’t protect himself from getting robbed. According to a source, the incident took place at a nightclub in Mumbai, where four female fans came to chat with the 49-year-old actor and went away with his wallet, sunglasses and
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Kolkata, Oct 7 They might have lost the T20I cricket series to South Africa but Indian ace spinner Harbhajan Singh said it’s too early to write them off as the hosts are keen to turn around their fortunes in the last and final match on Thursday. “We have lost the series but we still have
Vladimir Putin marked his 63rd birthday on Wednesday with a focus on Syria, as supporters sang his praises — comparing him to a range of heroic figures from Buddha to Batman. The Russian president has been back in the international limelight since launching a bombing campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria last week,
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Russia’s Caspian Sea fleet on Wednesday launched a complex cruise missile strike against Syrian rebels from nearly 1,000 miles away, a potent exhibition of Moscow’s firepower as it backs a government offensive in Syria’s multi-faction civil war. The bombardment was the first naval salvo of Russia’s week-old military intervention in Syria, where it has already
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US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologised to Medecins Sans Frontieres for the deadly bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, while the medical charity pressed its demand for an international commission to investigate what it calls a war crime. MSF said that an independent humanitarian commission created under the Geneva Conventions in 1991 should
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A big throng of thrill-seeking tourists had a fright of their life when a new glass bridge built on the cliff of a 3,450-feet high mountain in China cracked setting off panic among the crowd. On Monday, hundreds of tourists flocked to the recently built glass bridge at the Yuntai Mountain walkway in China’s Henan
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Several BJP lawmakers today assaulted Independent legislator Sheikh Abdul Rashid in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, a day after he had hosted a beef party in Srinagar. As BJP lawmakers assaulted him, several Opposition lawmakers rushed to save him. The legislator from Langate had hosted the beef party in the lawns of MLA hostel in
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The Bombay high court reserved its order on a pre-arrest bail petition filed by controversial self-styled godwoman Radhe Maa in a dowry harassment case on Wednesday. Justice Revati Mohite Dere said she would deliver the judgement on Thursday. On August 14, the court had granted Radhe Maa alias Sukhvinder Kaur interim protection from arrest while
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Hardly 10 days after his wedding, an NRI man from Kerala has sent his 21-year-old wife a tripple Talaq message from Dubai on WhatsApp. The shocked woman, a BDS student and hailing from Chertala in Alappuzha district, has now approached the Kerala Women’s Commission for help. The young woman in her complaint said her husband
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