Angry and disappointed spectators hurled missiles, mainly water bottles, into the cricket ground after India were bundled out for 92 against South Africa in the second T20 International at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. South Africa were 64/3 in 11 overs when play had to be stopped. Put into bat, India just lasted 17.2 overs, […]
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NASA posted a photo of the border between India and Pakistan as seen from outer space on Facebook on Sunday. The photo was taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station and shows the familiar outline of the north-western segment of India picked out in glowing lights. The astronaut who took the photo was
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Former India captain Anil Kumble made light of the cliche ‘its a team decision’ and said decision making always lies with the captain. “Ultimately it’s a captain who decides. He might take advise of a player or might lean towards one or two. In the end its his responsibility,” Kumble said while delivering the 7th
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At least 17 people died in flooding triggered by a powerful storm in France’s Cote d’Azur, where the deluge has affected a dozen cities and caused extensive damage, officials said. The toll could rise because four people are listed as missing, officials said on Sunday. This is the deadliest storm to hit France since 1990
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Bermuda was lashed on Sunday by gusting winds and pelting rains from a weakening Hurricane Joaquin as its spinning center tracked just west of the wealthy financial haven and tourist destination after plowing through the Bahamas as a major storm. Residents of the mid-Atlantic British dependency mostly hunkered down at home after securing patio furniture
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Syria’s President Bashar Assad said on Sunday that the air campaign by Russia against “terrorists” in his country must succeed or the whole region will be destroyed, stressing that the fight against terrorism must precede a political process. In the interview with Iran’s Khabar TV, Assad also accused Western nations of fueling the refugee crisis
Two militants of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit were killed and a soldier was injured on Sunday in an encounter in Pulwama district of Kashmir, police said. The encounter erupted after a joint team of police and army cordoned off Hari village in Tral in Pulwama and started a search operation following an intelligence input, police
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Since Priyanka Chopra made her debut on American television last week on ABC’s new show, Quantico (and on October 3 in India on Star World) – she plays Alex Parrish, a young FBI recruit implicated in a terror attack — her Twitter account has been flooded with applause. The actor, who won Miss India in
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Outraged over the lynching incident in Dadri, actor Farhan Akhtar on Sunday said the guilty should get strict punishment to send a strong message that such “kangaroo justice” will not be allowed. In an emotionally-charged post on Facebook, the filmmaker-actor also decried the political “circus” over the killing of a 50-year-old man by a mob
Vice-President Hamid Ansari’s departure from Indonesia to Brunei has been further delayed following shutting down of operations at the Bali airport due to spewing of ash from a rumbling volcano. Officials sources said that with the situation not improving, the vice-president’s visit to Brunei is likely to be cancelled. Ansari was scheduled to leave Bali
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As if deriding the self-proclaimed pro-poor credentials of the Telangana government, a 15-year-old schoolboy and son of a small farmer threw himself before a running train in Karimnagar district of Telangana after he was insulted by his teacher for not paying school fees. Before killing himself, the boy, Santosh Reddy, made his dying declaration one
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi or party vice-president Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to share the stage with RJD chief Lalu Prasad during Bihar election campaign. Congress and RJD sources said no joint election campaign of Lalu, Sonia or Rahul has been planned yet. “The two parties are trying to maintain distance from each other to avoid
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Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) established the world’s highest terrestrial centre at 17,600 feet above sea level at Changla near Pengong lake in Ladakh. The centre will serve as a natural cold storage for preserving rare and endangered medical plants for generations to come. The centre was inaugurated by Director General, DRDO Dr S
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German chancellor Angela Merkel will arrive in Bengaluru on Monday as part of her three-day visit to India to participate in the third Indo-German Inter-governmental Consultations hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On Tuesday, she will visit German engineering major Robert Bosch’s facility in Adugodi that will showcase its key innovative projects and the group’s
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As the mob approached menacingly, Mohammad Akhlaq frantically called up his childhood friend, Manoj Sisodia, for help. After immediately informing the police, Sisodia ran to his friend’s house. Both the police and Sisodia reached the scene of the crime within 15 minutes of the call, but it was too late. Akhlaq was dead by then.
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In a surprising find, a farmer has stumbled upon the partial skeleton of a woolly mammoth, which may have lived about 1 -13,000 years ago, in a field in Michigan. The remains of the adult male, probably in its 40s when it died, was discovered by farmer James Bristle who was digging in a wheat
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There are two questions that need answers, after you’ve watched Singh is Bliing — what the hell does Akshay Kumar eat for breakfast to fuel the insane energy he brings onscreen and where was Lara Dutta hiding her comedic talent all these years? Singh is Bliing’s opening credits roll against a remixed version of Sneha
After External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj rejected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s peace initiative, Pakistan hit back by giving ‘dossiers’ of alleged Indian support for terrorism in Balochistan, and Karachi, and the Pakistani Taliban, to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Pakistan’s permanent representative to UN, Maleeha Lodhi handed over three dossiers to Ban’s chief of staff
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Members of the Aam Aadmi Party , including Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, were stopped outside Bisada village when they went to visit Mohammad Ikhlaq’s family on Saturday. Ikhlaq was lynched by a mob on Monday night after rumours that he had consumed beef. An uneasy calm was shattered with reports of violence in the
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U.S. President Barack Obama warned Russia on Friday that its bombing campaign against Syrian rebels will suck Moscow into a “quagmire,” after a third straight day of air raids in support of President Bashar al-Assad. At a White House news conference, Obama frequently assailed Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he accused of acting out of
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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj gave a hard-hitting rebuttal to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech on Wednesday to United Nations General Assembly that largely dealt with India. In her speech, that was delivered from the same platform on Thursday, she told Islamabad point blank that a one-point programme was enough to turn around India-Pakistan
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Google Inc has morphed into Alphabet Inc. After US markets closed on Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company that will house Google’s search and Web advertising businesses, maps, YouTube and its “moonshot” ventures such as driverless cars. Google’s class A shares and class C shares will automatically convert into the same number
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Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today rued the lack of consistency on the part of his bowlers and said his side could have executed the game plans better in their seven-wicket loss to South Africa in the first T20 International cricket match here today. “There were periods where we conceded too many runs. That puts
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Rohit Sharma’s 66-ball 106 went in vain, as Jean-Paul Duminy and A.B. de Villiers played a blinder of an innings to steer South Africa to a comfortable seven-wicket win over India in the first Twenty20 International (T20I) at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium here on Friday. Duminy (68 of 34 balls, 1×4 7×6)
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Today the Father of our Nation, the Mahatma, celebrates his 146th birthday. Or we, the people of this nation, do. 146 years is a long time. Long to enough to (over) scrutinize one’s life, which has been the case of Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was at the forefront of the freedom struggle and lived in public
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pushed for universal enrollment under the ambitious Aadhaar project by the year-end. At a recent high-level meeting of PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation), Modi asked Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and chief secretaries of states such as UP and Bihar which are lagging behind to accelerate and complete
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Indian cricketer Harbajan Singh is all set to tie the knot with his long-time girlfriend Geeta Basra on October 29 in Punjab. The actress who was last seen in the movie Second hand Husband, which also stars Dharmendra, has been into a relationship with the cricketer for several years now. According to report, the couple’s
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Leading e-commerce portal Flipkart was taken for a ride by a Hyderabad youth, who is said to have duped the company for over Rs 20 lakh. The youth, Veera Swamy, 32, of Vanasthalipuram in the city allegedly duped the company by booking orders and returning the goods upon delivery. He would place the orders for
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There’s ‘double’ fun coming from superstar Salman Khan. After promising “double trouble” for contestants of reality show Bigg Boss 9, he said that his fans can expect to see him in “double size” in upcoming film Sultan. “Audiences will see me in double size. My training for Sultan has started; so I need to get
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Abhay Deol in a pathani suit and Diana Penty pondering over something in an ethnic attire with sneakers on — that’s the first visual impression of a new film titled Happy Bhaag Jayegi. Krishika Lulla of Eros Now shared the first look of the film on Twitter on Wednesday. “Here’s the first look of #HappyBhaagJayegi!
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