CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday announced that all rural households and rural local bodies would be provided with internet connections at a low cost. She also announced that internet protocol television (IPTV) would be provided to all rural households and local bodies through Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable Corporation. A new company […]
SRINAGAR: The bodies of three youths were found on Monday in an orchard in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said here. Agitated locals said the bodies bore bullet injuries and torture marks. “The bodies of three youths have been found in an apple orchard in Chour (Dangerpora) village in Baramulla district. They were aged between
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The BJP and its three regional allies on Monday arrived at a consensus on sharing seats in the Bihar assembly elections and said there is no tug of war in the NDA. Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah announced that his party will contest 160 of the 243 seats in Bihar, Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok
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Tension gripped parts of the town after the management of Sri Guru Harkrishan Public School, Mission Road, reportedly razed a gurdwara on the school premises in the wee hours of Friday. Even as the management — later in the day — claimed that it would construct another gurdwara at a cost of Rs 2 crore
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Lucky sky-watchers in Antarctica and southern Africa will get a treat this weekend when the moon’s disk glides across the face of the sun creating a magnificent partial solar eclipse just after sunrise on Sunday, September 13. The Earth crosses between the moon and the sun every month, but the three celestial bodies don’t always
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Chandigarh: Two people are feared dead and at least eight others injured after a narrow gauge train derailed near Kalka this afternoon, a senior railway official said. “The accident occurred when the train was about 3.5km away from Kalka. The accident site falls in Himachal Pradesh. “Preliminary reports received from the site said that two
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Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday said that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s stature is nowhere as compared to that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that?s why the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) will emerge victorious in the upcoming Bihar Assembly polls. “Bihar has come beyond caste politics, now the issue is of good governance,”
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At least 82 people were killed and about 150 injured when an explosion ripped through a packed restaurant near a bus stop in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district on Saturday. The reason for the blast was not immediately clear but sources said it may have been triggered by gelatine sticks, used for mining, that were stored
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Mecca, Saudi Arabia: This year’s hajj pilgrimage will go ahead despite a crane collapse which killed more than 100 people at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, a Saudi official told AFP on Saturday. “It definitely will not affect the hajj this season and the affected part will probably be fixed in a few days,” said the official,
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This week Nikhil Advani tries to rejig the 1980s masala for the diet cola generation and has come up with a contraption high on fizz, low on substance. It is a kind of film where the hero makes an entry on a bulldozer and the villain bamboozles with his punchlines; a film where the heroine
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A court in India’s western Mumbai city has found 12 men guilty for their roles in the 2006 bombings of commuter trains. The 12 men were accused of waging war against the nation, conspiracy and murder. One man was acquitted. The serial bombings on 11 July 2006 killed 189 people and injured more than 800.
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Joining the IPTL bandwagon, India Test captain Virat Kohli has become co-owner of the UAE Royals, which will be led by Swiss great Roger Federer. Federer had played for Micromax Indian Aces in the inaugural season and this season he will be joined by Goran Ivanisevic, 2001 Wimbledon Champion Ana Ivanovic, Daniel Nestor, Kristina Mladenovic
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The first song of Alia Bhatt-Shahid Kapoor-starrer Shaandaar was released with much fanfare on Thursday evening. Titled Gulaabo, it is a peppy number where we see Alia and Shahid having a midnight party amidst a countryside set-up after they sneak out of the wedding house. The song also features Shahid’s step sister Sanah Kapoor. Shaandaar
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SRINAGAR: At least two soldiers and two militants were killed in an encounter at Handwara in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, army said today. The encounter broke out in Laribal village of Zachaldara in Handwara, 100 kms from here, last night after security forces launched an operation, an army officer said. In the ensuing gunbattle,
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Former Pathankot SSP Rakesh Kaushal and two Deputy Superintendents have been felicitated for showing exemplary courage while fighting heavily-armed terrorists from Pakistan in Dinanagar and defusing bombs on rail track in Talwandi on July 27. Former Pathankot Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rakesh Kaushal and Deputy Superintendents of Police Prabhjot Singh Virk and Manoj Thakur
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Singer Sonu Nigam has shared that in his last conversation with late Bollywood music composer Aadesh Shrivastava, the singer had referred to him as a “younger brother”. Sonu took to Twitter and shared his Whatsapp conversation dated July 25. A snapshot of the conversation features an image of Mr Shrivastava on a hospital bed. With
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An elderly Sikh-American man was brutally injured and called “terrorist” and “bin Laden” in an apparent hate crime case in Chicago, just days before the US commemorates the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Inderjit Singh Mukker was assaulted on Tuesday when the assailant pulled up to his car yelling racial slurs, including, “Terrorist, go
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The city of Joso, north of the capital, Tokyo, was hit by a wall of water after the Kinugawa River burst its banks. Helicopter rescue teams have been plucking people from rooftops. One person has been reported missing in the region and at least 12 are injured. The rains come a day after Typhoon Etau
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As part of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war commemoration, the Indian Air Force on Wednesday organised an ultra marathon which would conclude on September 20. The marathon started from the local air force station in which 49 air warriors from various units participated in its first leg. A team of air warriors under group captain VS
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Newcomer Sooraj Pancholi says he is grateful to his mentor Bollywood superstar Salman Khan for considering him as a star and he wants to learn time management from him. Salman is launching Sooraj with “Hero”, the remake of Subhash Ghai’s directed 1983 film of the same name. “Hero”, filmed by Nikhil Advani, which also makes
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India on Tuesday slumped to their third successive loss in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers as they suffered a 0-3 thrashing at the hands of mighty Iran in a group match. Lacking in international exposure and vastly inferior in technique as compared to their more fancied rivals, the Indians put up a gritty fight
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India’s badminton queen Saina Nehwal and celebrated doubles player Jwala Gutta will miss next week’s Korea Open Superseries scheduled to be held from September 15 to 20. The 25-year-old, who clinched the silver medal at the World Championship and regained her World No 1 status last month, did not send her entry for the US
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Bollywood hunk Hrithik Roshan has roped in fellow actor Tiger Shroff to endorse his fitness and sportswear brand HRX. The brand is owned by Hrithik and Exceed Entertainment is based on the superstar’s ideology of empowering and inspiring people to become the best version of themselves. “The mission of our brand is to impact, transform
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Actress Rakhi Sawant, who was recently spotted at an event in Mumbai, said that Sunny Leone should be banned in India as her work incites people eventually leading to untoward incidents such as rape. “On one hand, she is doing advertisements issued in public interest and on the other she is doing sexy songs which
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a scathing attack on the Congress this morning, taking on Sonia Gandhi with words that played on her jibe at him earlier this week. He was addressing BJP workers in Bhopal. Lambasting the opposition party for obstructing key reforms like the Goods and Services Tax in Parliament, the Prime Minister
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Pakistan has assessed that India has enough fissile material for more than 2,000 warheads, a media report said on Thursday. The National Command Authority (NCA) on Wednesday concluded that India’s growing nuclear programme and absence of a conflict resolution mechanism were upsetting strategic stability in the region and the situation was forcing Pakistan to maintain
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The US on Wednesday welcomed the “fatwa” issued by more than 1,000 Islamic clerics against IS terming the actions of the dreaded terrorist group “un-Islamic and inhuman.” “We welcome reports that Muslim community leaders and clerics in India have condemned ISIL (also known as Islamic state (IS) and ISIS),” State Department spokesperson Helaena White told
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Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy preparations seems to have begun on a perfect note. They recently won the Buchi Babu tourney in Chennai, and as they began practice at MCA ‘s Bandra-Kurla Complex facility on Wednesday, a special, but familiar guest came calling. Launching the nets with a traditional ritual – breaking a coconut and garlanding the
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Amidst heightened tensions along the border and the Line of Control (LoC), India and Pakistan are on Thursday holding here director general-level talks between the border forces of the two countries. On Wednesday evening, a 15-member delegation of the Pakistan Rangers arrived in New Delhi for the talks. The team is led by Major General
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“Last four months were a curse for us. It was so ugly…we thought we were going to die in that house and our families would never even find our bodies,” said the 20-year-old woman from Nepal, who had been sexually abused for months. The woman and her 44-year-old mother were rescued from the Gurgaon residence
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