Senior police officers describe him as “a man who single handedly finished the dreaded Hizbul Mujahideen”. They say his photo is in the United Jihad Council (UJC) office in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and that the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI and the UJC would call him ‘Altaf laptop’. Such was his stature that the National […]
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The Indian Air Force is celebrating its 83rd Air Force Day with a large parade and air display at the Hindon air base near Delhi today. The highlight of this year’s event will be the re-constituted Surya Kiran Aerobatic Team (SKAT) which will be showcased for the first time. The squadron was disbanded four years
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address four rallies in poll-bound Bihar on Thursday, with the BJP banking on its ‘star campaigner’ for a push ahead of the first phase of the elections on October 12. Modi will address back-to-back rallies in Munger, Samastipur, Begusarai and Nawada. The BJP plans to virtually carpet-bomb rivals
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The proposed live concert of Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali scheduled for 9 October in Mumbai was cancelled on Wednesday after Chitrapat Sena, the Shiv Sena’s film wing, met the authorities at Shanmukhanand Hall, the venue of the concert, and handed them a letter asking them to cancel the event. “Through this letter, we want
There’s a famous song sequence in every Sooraj Barjatya film; one in which the whole extended family gets together to sing, dance and celebrate their togetherness. You’d think that’s pretty much the plot of any Barjatya film, but this special song/scene is marked usually by loud, garish clothes, lots of flowers, a stage and the
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Kerala Blasters FC got their campaign off to a rollicking start, recording a convincing 3-1 win over NorthEast United FC in their Indian Super League (ISL) match in Kochi on Tuesday. After a goal-less first half, Kerala Blasters, with their superstar co-owner Sachin Tendulkar cheering them from the stands, opened the scoring in the 49th
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India’s master blaster Sachin Tendulkar who is eyeing America as the next target in his mission to spread cricket, said he would like to see more Americans picking up cricket bats along with baseball bats. “You’ll only learn things if you give them a try,” said Tendulkar who will lead a ten-day, three-city cricket all-star
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Alarmed by the crowd trouble that marred the second Twenty20 International between India and South Africa in Cuttack, the Kanpur police has barred fans from bringing water bottles and tiffins in the opening one-dayer here on October 11. The crowd trouble in Cuttack resulted in a couple of stands being vacated for the match, which
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At least 19 Islamic State terrorists were killed in Syria in airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force, according to a rights group. At least 15 people were killed in al-Karma and its surroundings in eastern areas of al-Raqa province, an IS stronghold in Syria, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The other
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A supporter of Islamic State militants has issued a threat against Fox News contributor Rob O’Neill, the former US Navy SEAL who says he fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden, and also posted the ex-commando’s purported home address in Montana on-line. Undersheriff George Skuletich of the Butte-Silver Bow Law Enforcement Department said on
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Hitting out at Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan for seeking UN’s intervention to look into the “miseries” of minorities in India, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday said by doing so the senior Samajwadi Party leader has done a great disservice to the nation and demanded his ouster from all constitutional posts. “If (SP Chief) Mulayam
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Terming the upcoming visit of Pranab Mukherjee as a “historic milestone”, Israel has said the President’s three-day stay in the Jewish State will deepen the friendship and strengthen the bilateral ties between the two countries. Mukherjee is scheduled to visit Israel from 13 to 15 October as part of his six-day-long trip to West Asia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday sought to give a new direction to bilateral ties by strengthening economic and business links as Indian and German companies signed five agreements and automotive giant Bosch announced Rs.650 crore investments in India. Modi exhorted German industry to invest and ‘Make in India’ for
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Uttar Pradesh is no longer considered “safe to live” by the family members of Akhlaq, the 50-year-old man who was lynched in Bisahra village of Greater Noida. The family has decided to leave Uttar Pradesh forever as they will soon shift to Chennai. Akhlaq’s eldest son Sartaj, a technician with the Indian Air Force, has
The central government has turned down the military’s request to expand the acquisition of 36 fighter planes from Dassault Aviation SA to plug vital gaps, officials said, nudging it to accept an indigenous combat plane 32 years in the making. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision, in line with his Make-in-India policy to encourage domestic industry,
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The Indian Navy on Tuesday commissioned the first indigenously-designed and built torpedo launch and recovery vessel INS Astradharini. Flag Officer Commanding-in-chief, Eastern Naval Command Vice Admiral Satish Soni commissioned the ship at an impressive ceremony held at the Naval Base Visakhapatnam. During his address at the event, Soni congratulated the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory
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Large-hearted Sikhs have taken their traditional community kitchen to one of the most dangerous places on earth today – Syria. Giving a twist to the concept of langar, a group of Punjabi NRIs has collaborated with locals to provide fresh bread to nearly 14,000 refugees daily in the strife-torn region for several months now. Langar
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It was a quintessential MSD response. After an embarrassing six-wicket loss in the second T20 at the Barabati Stadium here, ‘Captain Cool’ chose to dwell on the crowd trouble and used gallows humour to describe the response of the people to India’s mediocre performance. However, even with his phlegmatic attitude, he would know that he
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A week before the Bihar election begins, another opinion poll has given the victory to the BJP-led NDA alliance. According to a pre-poll survey Lokniti-CSDS, exclusively conducted for The Indian Express, the BJP alliance, spearheaded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to surge ahead of the Grand Alliance by a margin of at least
Priyanka Chopra has taken America by storm. The Bollywood star debuted on her first network show Quantico whose first episode has so far has gotten rave reviews. Now, she’s also wowing audiences on the popular night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! The show premiered to 7.1 million viewers breaking ABC’s records for Brooklyn Nine Nine and
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Actor Irrfan Khan, whose two films earlier missed being India’s official entry for the 88th Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film category, says Chaitanya Tamhane’s Marathi film “Court” is a better choice than the last few “embarrassing” entries that the country sent to the Oscars. “‘Court’ is a good film. I don’t know about the
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Pakistan’s National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz on Monday ruled out a potential cricket series against India, saying he saw no chance of a revival of ties between the arch-rivals under “the current situation”. Aziz’s remarks come with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) awaiting a final response from their Indian counterparts on a series due to
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NATO on Monday called on Russia to stop air strikes in Syria and warned its violation of Turkish airspace during a raid risked inflaming tensions days after Moscow’s military intervention began. Turkey warned Moscow after its F-16 jets intercepted a Russian fighter that flew through its airspace near the Syrian border at the weekend. Two
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The Amar-Prem jodi of Bollywood i.e Aamir Khan & Salman Khan who are known for their friendship, seems to have undergone some bitterness & apparently developed a crack in their friendship. According to the latest reports, the word war between the two superstars took place when Aamir Khan invited Salman Khan & his other Bollywood
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Violence erupted in the temple town of Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of prime minister Narendra Modi, on Monday when saints and Hindu religious groups taking out a ‘Pratikar Yatra’ to protest against a lathicharge and ban on immersion of idols in Ganga, turned violent. Curfew was imposed in four police station areas. While the procession
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday thanked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the return of a 10th century statue of Durga that is originally from Jammu and Kashmir. Thanking Merkel in his media statement after talks here, Modi said the statue of Durga in her Mahishasurmardini avatar is a symbol of the victory of good
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German will be taught in Kendriya Vidyalayas as an additional foreign language while modern Indian languages will be taught in Germany, according to an understanding reached between the two countries today to put a lid on a controversy that had erupted about a year back. An MoU was signed between the two countries on the
Reeling from continuing blockade of entry points by Madhesi agitators, Nepal seems keen on reopening its trade routes to China across the Himalayas shut after the devastating earthquake of April last. This, despite the fact that trans-Himalayan passes cannot facilitate movement of goods and people the way roads between India and Nepal do. There are
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Afghan forces called in a United States air strike on a Kunduz hospital that killed 22 people, the top American commander in Afghanistan said Monday, after medical charity MSF branded the incident a war crime. General John Campbell’s statement marks the first United States military acknowledgement it was behind Saturday’s devastating raid in the northern
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UP police on Monday wrote a letter to Twitter Inc asking for removal of certain photographs and text uploaded on the social networking service said to be related to the Dadri incident in which Akhlaq (50) was lynched following rumours that his family had consumed and stored beef. IG (administration) Prakash D said the letter
