Sunil Gavaskar has hailed the extension of Ravi Shastri’s tenure as Team Director of Indian cricket and called it a step in the right direction. Shastri, who took over as the Team Director during India’s tour to England in 2014, has enjoyed success in the recent past. Gavaskar took aim at former India coach Duncan […]
Australian warplanes have carried out their first air strike against the Islamic State group in Syria, destroying an armoured personnel carrier, defence minister Kevin Andrews has revealed. “This is part of our logical extension in the fight against Daesh to operate not only over northern Iraq, but also to operate over eastern Syria, in order
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The powerful Saudi Binladin Group has been sanctioned by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman for the collapse of a construction crane at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, which killed more than 100 people days before the Haj pilgrimage. An investigative committee concluded that the company “was in part responsible” for Friday’s tragedy, which killed at least 107 people
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Actors Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone on September 15 launched the first song Gajanana from this year’s most awaited movie, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s magnum opus Bajirao Mastani. The song, dedicated to Lord Ganesha, was sung by Sukhvinder Singh and choreographed by Vaibhabi Merchant. Ranveer and Deepika did the maha aarti at the launch. “During Ganapati
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Inspired by actor Nana Patekar, now Bollywood star Akshay Kumar has reached out to Maharashtra’s drought-hit farmers who have committed suicide. As the state faces one of its worst droughts especially in the Marathwada region, Mr Kumar has earmarked a sum of Rs. 90 lakh to financially help 180 families of those farmers who killed
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North Korea Tuesday announced that it had restarted its Yongbyon nuclear reactor and was ready to use nuclear weapons “any time” against the United States. The announcement came less than a day after North Korea said it was preparing to launch a long-range rocket and will heighten fears that Kim Jong Un wants to celebrate
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Indian-origin British MP Seema Malhotra has been appointed as the shadow chief secretary for Treasury by the newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. 43-year-old Malhotra became MP for the London seat of Feltham and Heston in 2011 in a by-election following the death of Alan Keen (Conservative). In August 2014, she was given the newly-created
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After years of requests from its users, Facebook has confirmed it’s working on a “dislike” button. “People have asked about the dislike button for many years. Today is a special day, because today is the day I can say we’re working on it and shipping it,” Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said during a live
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A day after coming to an understanding with its allies about the seat sharing for Bihar elections, the BJP announced a list of 43 candidates — a move its ally Rashtriya Lok Samata Party promptly described as being against “coalition dharma”. Senior RLSP leader and its spokesperson Fazal Islam Mallik told the BJP’s move was
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At least two districts in Punjab – Ludhiana and Patiala – are quietly asking meat sellers to shut shop for the Jain festival of Paryushan on September 17. Patiala deputy commissioner Varun Roojam told TOI on Tuesday, “We have advised meat shop owners to stay shut for the Jain festival. We checked the records and
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The showstopper of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit later this month may well be his meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook in San Francisco. This could have implications far beyond the headlines it will generate. Apple, it is believed, is looking to invest in building manufacturing capacities in India, which could come as a
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The Pathankot police have taken Bhai Sukhjit Singh Khosa and 13 other Sikh youths into preventive custody alleging that “they were a threat to peace in the city”. These youths are members of the Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Committee and had came here to visit the premises where the Gurdwara Sahib had been demolished. Last
Superstar Amitabh Bachchan has distributed helmets to officials of the Mumbai Traffic Police at an event here. “… whenever I go abroad, I form an opinion about that country only after I experience the traffic there. And when I see the traffic is working well and in the right way, I feel a certain sense
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That title may be a bit childish, but they’re the exact words used by Kangana Ranaut in relation to her upcoming film Katti Batti and her rumoured rival Deepika Padukone. We’ve been reading stories about their rift since early this year. It all started with an awards ceremony and Deepika’s acknowledgment that the Best Actress
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Tripura cricket could be about to get a boost with former India captain Sourav Ganguly announcing on Monday that he would train junior teams from the state. “I would come here (Agartala) soon to coach the Under-16 and Under-19 cricket teams of Tripura,” Ganguly announced amidst huge applause at a function here on Sunday night.
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South-East Asia has suffered for years from annual bouts of smog caused by slash-and-burn practices in Indonesia’s Sumatra and Kalimantan islands, but governments in the region have failed to address the problem. Air quality dipped to “unhealthy levels” in Malaysia and Singapore this week. Malaysia’s education ministry has ordered school closures in Kuala Lumpur, three
Micromax head, Rahul Sharma and Bollywood actor, Asin are all set to tie a knot this year. This news is not new anymore, but do you know how did Rahul proposed Asin a year ago. According to a report , Rahul went down on his knees and proposed Asin with a 20 carat solitaire ring.
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PM Narendra Modi will be staying at New York’s iconic Waldorf-Astoria hotel this year, after US president Barack Obama refused to stay there. While Barack Obama is apparently unwilling to run the risk of possible “bugging”, after Astoria was bought by a Chinese insurance company in 2014 even it means overturning a decades-old tradition, Modi
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Last year, the news of Hrithik-Sussanne ending their 14-year-long relationship shocked every cinema follower to the core. While the media was still not over their break-up, the other surprising rumour of Sussanne Khan marrying Hrithik’s close friend has recently chirped in. According to the reports, Sussanne has decided to move ahead in life and get
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Seven coaches of a local train from Andheri to Churchgate in Mumbai derailed on Tuesday morning between Vile Parle and Andheri station. Traffic on Mumbai’s western suburban rail line was disrupted after the train derailed. No casualty has been reported, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Western Railway, Sharat Chandrayan said. The train coming from Borivili
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Gujarat, the state Prime Minister Narendra Modi ran for more than a decade, is India’s best place for conducting business, the World Bank said on Monday, in a report that ranks the country’s states in an effort to encourage them to cut red tape. The report, prepared with support from KPMG on the request of
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AR Rahman has dismissed a fatwa issued against him in a strongly-worded Facebook post in which he defends religious freedom and writes about why he composed music for a film named Muhammad: The Messenger of God. A Sunni Muslim group allegedly issued a fatwa recently against Rahman and the film’s director Majid Majidi, reports Variety.
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On Friday, when Rahul Gandhi met little Sasmita Rana at a hospital in Odisha’s Cuttack, she was too ill to speak but somehow communicated that she wanted him to console her mother. A day later, the seven-year-old died of aplastic anaemia. Expressing grief, the Congress vice president described Sasmita as the “bravest girl I ever
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Shocking scenes were witnessed on the national tv today when two guests on a live show used expletives, slapped and grappled with each other, leaving the audience aghast and prompting the channel to condemn the incident. A self-styled godman Om Ji of the Hindu Mahasabha and and woman astrologer Rakhi Bai were seen having sharp
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Aamir Khan, who will next be seen as wrestler Mahavir Phogat in the Nitesh Tiwari-directed sports biopic Dangal, flew to Amritsar a few days ago to start work on the movie. The 50-year-old actor has generated several headlines because of the weight he’s put on to play Mr Phogat, which has had his family worried.
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Two female topless activists from the self-proclaimed “sextremist” group Femen were violently dragged away after storming the stage at a conference on women and Islam near the French capital of Paris, the media reported on Monday. A video footage showed the two topless women race on to the stage as two Imams were giving a
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To protest against the lack of basic amenities, a local non-government organisation (NGO) has given a call to the residents to start a ‘new non-cooperation movement’ against the municipal corporation and the administration by refusing to pay several levies and taxes like the property tax, the value-added tax and other sundry charges levied in the
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Scientists believe that about 4 billion years ago, during a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, the Moon took a severe beating, as an army of asteroids pelted its surface, carving out craters and opening deep fissures in its crust. Such sustained impacts increased the Moon’s porosity, opening up a network of large seams beneath
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Japanese researchers have revealed that Saturn’s F ring and its shepherd satellites are natural outcome of the final stage of formation of Saturn’s satellite system. According to the latest satellite formation theory, Saturn used to have ancient rings containing many more particles than they do today, and satellites formed from spreading and accretion of these
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Ayushmann Khurrana is one of the most versatile actors that Bollywood has seen in the recent years. From acting to singing and hosting, Ayushmann has done it all with a different streak and quirky style. Ayushmann, who shot to fame by winning the physically and mentally exhausting ‘MTV Roadies Season 2’, proved his versatility at
