North and South Korean Red Cross officials kicked off talks on Monday on organising a rare and emotional reunion for families separated by the Korean War. The discussions at the border truce village of Panmunjom were the product of an agreement the two Koreas reached two weeks ago to end a dangerous military standoff and […]
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Despite Prime Minister Narandra Modi’s announcement on Sunday that pre-mature retirees (PMR) will be included under the One Rank, One Pension (OROP) scheme, protesting veterans called the earlier exclusion a “last minute mischief” and citied it as a reason to continue the relay hunger strike till the order to implement OROP was received in black
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Union Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore, quoted in an interview on “covert operations” to catch most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, today clarified in tweets. “Incorrect vers of my stmnts allegedly on Dawood attributed to me (sic),” Mr Rathore tweeted this morning. He also attacked a link to his interview and said he had spoken about “dossier diplomacy.”
India finally has an estimate of its most populous and elusive large predator, the leopard. The first ever count of India’s leopards, conducted alongside last year’s tiger census, has put the spotted cat population at 7,910 in and around tiger habitats across the country, except the northeast. The leopards were counted using the same methods
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The former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly is well known for his television show Dadagiri and now he is heading to host another show and this time the request came from none other than Didi — Mamata Banerjee to host – Egiye Bangla – apni jokhon entrepreneur. The show is being sponsored by Bengal government, as
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On Sunday, officials behind the ticket counter at Janpath Metro station were taken aback by an unusual commuter: the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi’s 50-minute journey was a lesson in affability as his security detail kept only the benches opposite the PM empty, letting commuters interact with him. The PM was originally scheduled to take a
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Within weeks of their imposing show of strength in the Gujarat capital where they agitated for reservation for Patidars, officials of the Patel lobby are now saying they are open to the idea of contesting civic body elections scheduled in October. As a matter of fact, the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti and Sardar Patel Group
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi released two commemorative coins of Rs 125 and Rs 10 in the memory of former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on Friday. On the eve of Teachers’ day, Prime Minister Modi released the coins at a function ahead of his interaction with central school students at Zorawar hall, Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi.
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Story: Two chastened goons Uday and Majnu want to get their sister married. But she ends up falling for a ‘bhai’. What follows is mayhem… Movie Review: Just when you thought Hindi cinema had evolved, comes Welcome Back, an indulgent potboiler. A sequel to Welcome (2007) by the same makers, here Majnu(Anil) and Uday(Nana) have
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Forty-five soldiers from the United Arab Emirates have been killed in Yemen while fighting Houthi rebels as part of a Saudi-led coalition, the UAE says. Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash said they had died when a rebel missile struck an ammunition depot. On his official Twitter feed, he said the “cowardly attack will not deter us”.
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The world’s shortest man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal, on Friday died in a hospital in Samoa Islands, a US territory, according to a media report. After falling sick, 75-year-old Dangi, who was touring Samoa Islands in the South Pacific, was admitted to a local hospital where he breathed his last at around 12:00 pm,
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Argentina’s cabinet chief said on Friday that the South American nation is willing to welcome more Syrian refugees fleeing their country’s civil war. Anibal Fernandez said that the government eased the entrance of Syrians through a program begun last year, but he didn’t specify how many of the refugees had arrived so far. He said
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Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal on Thursday squashed reports of retirement and said he would sit with the selectors to discuss his future. The 38-year-old’s career took a nosedive ever since he was banned from bowling in international cricket in September last year. He is now bowling with a remodelled action that was cleared by the
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Two international flights were called back while one which was preparing for departure from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi was taken to an isolation bay due to a bomb scare earlier today, sources said. At 01:30 AM a threat call was received at the Delhi Airport’s call centre in Gurgaon. The caller
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As monsoon begins to withdraw from northwest India, the grain bowl states of Punjab and Haryana head for yet another drought — the fifth and sixth, respectively, in the past 11 years. In what appears to be an alarming trend of the southwest monsoon in the past two decades, the two states have consistently received
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Looking to resolve a major bugbear that has defied resolution for decades, the Modi government is set to announce a one rank, one pension package for ex-armed forces personnel that will kick in from July 2014 and use 2013 as the base year for calculations. Though military veterans are insisting the pensions be revised at
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Music composer Aadesh Shrivastava (51), who was battling a cancer relapse, passed away at Kokilaben Hospital on Saturday at around 12.30am. He had successfully fought multiple myeloma (cancer of the plasma cells) when he was diagnosed for the first time in 2010. The hospital authorities confirmed that he passed away after battling the disease hard
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Acting on a tip-off, a bomb squad team today searched the passenger train from Amritsar to Pathankot for two hours looking for explosives of any kind. However, no dangerous substance was found in the train in a joint operation launched by GRP, CRPF and Punjab police personnel. “We had some specific information and accordingly the
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A Class 8 student of Government High School, Barth Sahib, in Pathankot district has accused her seniors of gangrape. The victim, 13, accused her three seniors — two from Class 10 and one from Class 9 — of raping her about 10 days back, but she hushed up the matter due to the shame. Police
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Television show host Manish Paul is known for his comic timing and sense of humour, but it seems Shahid Kapoor isn’t amused. According to the latest buzz on the grapevine, the duo exchanged some icy vibes on the set of ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’ when Manish made some “personal” comments about Shahid, who is judging the
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The family of Bollywood singer-composer Aadesh Shrivastava, who is battling with cancer, says they are not seeking financial help from anyone, but everyone’s blessings. His brother-in-law and composer Lalit Pandit, from the Jatin-Lalit duo, said that the family is not reeling under a financial crunch, as media reports are indicating. “We are not seeking help
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Sunny Leone has hit back at CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjan for saying that a condom advertisement featuring the actress would lead to an increase in rape cases in the country. Sunny has urged “people of power” to focus on helping those in need instead. “Sad when people of power waste their time and energy
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Five countries, including China, will reconstruct and develop Muzaffarabad city, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir which was devastated by the 2005 earth quake. The city is 125 km from Islamabad. Other countries involved are Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait and South Korea, which will build hydropower projects, schools, colleges, government offices, university and mosques in the
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees called Friday on the European Union to admit up to 200,000 refugees as part of a “mass relocation programme” that would be binding on EU states. “People who are found to have a valid protection claim… must then benefit from a mass relocation programme, with the mandatory participation of
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Migrants forced from a train in Hungary scuffled with helmeted riot police and some clung to railway tracks on Thursday, as politicians across Europe struggled to respond to public opinion appalled by images of a drowned 3-year-old boy. France and Germany said European countries must be required to accept their shares of refugees, proposing what
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After a lull, the Supreme Court on Thursday put the spotlight back on black money by asking the Centre to give details of action taken on the special investigation team’s (SIT) recommendations advocating stringent measures against irregularities in capitation fees, cricket, stock markets and trade-based money laundering. The SIT has recommended action against misuse of
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As many as 11 Indian nationals are under detention in the UAE since early August on charges of planning to join the Islamic State (IS) and recruiting, financing and providing logistics to those willing to joining the terror outfit. This is after two Indians hailing from northern Kerala, detained as part of the same group,
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The monsoon dried up early over north India this year and Delhiites are already facing the consequences. With rains gone, the air quality in the capital started deteriorating sharply and has been in the ‘poor’ zone since August 28 — almost a month ahead of the normal trend. The early surge in air pollution means
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As mortifying images of the lifeless body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi at the Turkish beach resort of Bordum went viral on Thursday, a furious Turkey President Recep Erdogan, hosting the G-20 meet of global business leaders, broke from summitteering to say Europe and “the rest of humanity” must bear the blame for the tiny child’s
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Thirty nine passengers were injured when five coaches of No 16859 Chennai – Mangalore Express train derailed near Puvanur station, a few kilometres from Vridhachalam, in Tamil Nadu in the early hours of Friday. The accident happened around 2am. Railway officials and fire and rescue services personnel rushed to the spot and rescue operations were
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