Actor Imran Khan, who is making a comeback to the silver screen after almost two years with Nikhil Advani’s “Katti Batti”, says shooting the “Lip to lip” song with Kangana Ranaut for the movie, left him “exhausted” and describes it as the “most physically demanding thing” he’s ever done. Released on Friday, “Lip to lip”, […]
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Distance runner Lalita Babar, who created a piece of history in Beijing yesterday by becoming the first track athlete from India to reach the final round in the IAAF World Championships, says her excellent timing in the heats gave a big boost to her confidence for the final. “Getting to the final was a great
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Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii on Friday, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans — a pilot, an architect, a doctor/journalist and a soil scientist. They
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Another hockey dream has bloomed, it’s time to say Chak De India to women’s hockey in the country. India’s women hockey team has qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, claiming their berth thanks to the England team who defeated Spain in the semifinals of the EuroHockey Championships in London on Friday.
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Rain forced an early end of the first day’s play of the third cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) here on Friday, with just about one hour’s play possible. India were 50/2 against Sri Lanka when rain interrupted play before lunch. Opening batsman Cheteshwar Pujara (19 not out)
President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday greeted the nation on the occasion of Hindu festival Raksha Bandhan. In his message, Mr Mukherjee said: “The thread of Rakhi (sacred thread) binds sisters and brothers in an inseparable bond of love and trust. May we all pledge to dedicate ourselves to the well-being
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Happiness, prosperity and love are what Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Farhan Akhtar, Riteish Deshmukh and Bipasha Basu wish for friends and fans celebrating the harvest festival of Onam on Friday. Here’s what they tweeted: Amitabh Bachchan: T 1976 – A very happy Onam to all .. festival predominantly celebrated with gusto in
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Two new teams for the next two editions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in place of the suspended Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) franchises was among the two proposals put forward by the IPL Governing Council in its meeting in Kolkata on Thursday. “One suggestion is to have two new teams
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has dismissed top officials in the wake of a recent standoff with South Korea, state media reported Friday, a move that suggests the young leader holds them responsible for allowing the confrontation to nearly spin out of control. The rival Koreas earlier this week threatened strikes against each other before
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As regional leaders met on Thursday to tackle Europe’s refugee crisis, a gruesome discovery unfolded a short drive from the Austrian capital. An abandoned truck was found with at least 20 — and possibly up to 50 — decomposing bodies of migrants piled inside. It was the latest tragedy in a year that has seen
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On Monday Facebook notched up probably its greatest achievement so far. The service was used by over 1 billion people in the single day on that day. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg, in a wall post on the social media, said this is first time the company saw such usage figures. “We just passed an important milestone.
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With talks on One Rank One Pension or OROP breaking down again on Thursday night, upset veterans are boycotting celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of India’s successes in the 1965 war against Pakistan. The golden jubilee celebrations begin today with a function to mark India’s capture of the Haji Pir Pass on August 28,
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The BSE Sensex and Nifty surged on Friday, after global markets extended rally amid positive US economic data and easing fears about China. At its day’s high, the Sensex rose over 450 points to 26,687.33 while Nifty hit 8,091. Here are top 10 developments: 1) Asian shares extended a global rally on Friday after upbeat
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India will seek to clinch their first series win on Sri Lankan soil in 22 years as they go into the third and final cricket Test against the hosts tomorrow in what promises to be a thrilling duel between the two young teams. Virat Kohli managed to register his first Test victory as captain after
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) D6 which carried India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-6. The 29-hour countdown for this launch began at 11.52 am on Wednesday after the Mission Readiness Review (MRR) committee and Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) cleared the starting of the countdown. The launch itself
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Was the case of Sheena Bora’s ‘murder’ an accidental discovery by the police? Or did they know all along that there was something suspicious about the disappearance of a girl from a high profile Mumbai family but were being cautious about it? Investigators say they came to know about details of the case following the
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President Pranab Mukherjee will on Friday pay homage to the martyred soldiers to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 India-Pakistan war. The President will lay a wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti memorial to the Unknown Soldier at the India Gate here. The war saw aircraft of the Indian and Pakistani air forces engaging
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In a major success, army on Thursday captured a Pakistani terrorist after killing his four associates in a two-day operation in Kashmir, about weeks after Naved from Pakistan was caught alive in Udhampur. The arrested terrorist, identified as 22-year-old Sajjad Ahmed from Muzaffargarh in south west Pakistan, was literally smoked out from a cave in
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Three civilians were killed and nine injured on Friday in heavy and indiscriminate shelling by Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. However, TV channels are reporting that the number of injured may rise. Subhash Chander, 45, and Bimla Devi, 42, both residents of Sai Khurd village, and Pawan Kumar, 55, who lived in Abdullian
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“Jazbaa” director Sanjay Gupta says that there is an intention to take the film across the borders and that is why it is being dubbed in numerous international languages. “I don’t want to make any claims that we’re making the film to cross the borders. But there is an intention in place. There are cuts
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John Abraham has quashed rumours of his divorce with wife Priya Runchal, saying everything is beautiful in his marital paradise. Gossip mills are abuzz with reports that all is not well between the newly married couple. Priya and John have reportedly been living separately for a couple of months. Priya is in US pursuing her
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Bollywood youngsters, Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Shetty have what it takes to make them the ‘IT’ couple. From the time the trailer of their debut film Hero, produced by Salman Khan and Subhash Ghai was launched, onlookers have always had something complimentary to say about their incredible chemistry. Their camaraderie on and off screen is
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Tintu Luka crashed out in the first round heats of the women’s 800m race in the World Athletics Championships with a disappointing seventh-place finish but qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games with a season-best effort on the fifth day of competitions here today. The 26-year-old, the reigning Asian champion and national record holder, clocked
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Two television journalists were shot to death by a co-worker during a live broadcast from a strip mall in a small Virginia town, a stark reminder of America’s familiar problem with guns and racial tension as well as the physical dangers that reporters face. The co-worker gunman later shot himself dead after a police chase.
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AB de Villiers continue to shatter records in ODIs. The South African added one more feather to his cap when he became the fastest to reach 8000 ODI runs during the third ODI against New Zealand in Durban on Wednesday. De Villiers went past 8000 runs in just his 182nd innings, 18 innings quicker than
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Violence in Nepal continued unabated on Tuesday as thousands of people protesting the proposed new Constitution clashed with police in which one person was killed, taking the death toll to 11 and prompting authorities to deploy army in a riot-hit district bordering India. A curfew imposed on Monday in Tikapur in Kailali district, where an
Expressing dissatisfaction over the restoration work of a Hindu temple in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the provincial government to hire a renowned architect for rebuilding the shrine destroyed by fanatics in 1997. A three-judge Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Jawwad S Khawaja on Tuesday asked the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa authorities to come up
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A British hacker who US and European officials said became a top cyber expert for Islamic State in Syria has been killed in a US drone strike, a US source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. It was the second reported killing of a senior Islamic State figure in the last eight days. Islamic
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In a shocking incident, an infant undergoing treatment at the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Government General Hospital (GGH) here was bitten to death by rats on Wednesday. The rodents bit the left eye and fingers of the 10-day-old baby boy in the early hours of Wednesday. His face was also scratched. In
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Sanjay Dutt is out of jail again on a parole for 30 days. The actor was spotted at his residence on August 26, 2015. He was allowed to leave prison as his daughter is having a nose surgery and he wanted to be present for the same. However, Sanjay Dutt has been criticised in the
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