Dozens of wildfires, including the largest on record in Washington state, roared through parts of the bone-dry U.S. West on Monday with unusually warm weather and a return of high winds expected to heighten fire risk in the Pacific Northwest later this week. This fire season has brought unprecedented challenges with vast areas aflame simultaneously […]
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Railway services on Jammu-Pathankot route were resumed this evening after being blocked following derailment of a Jammu-bound goods train. Nearly 17 trains on Jammu-Pathankot rail route got delayed for several hours due to the derailment, officials said. Three bogies of the goods train, which was on its way from Delhi to Jammu, derailed soon after
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Two chain snatchers who were riding a stolen motorcycle jumped into Chakki river here when a police party and some locals gave them a hot chase. The snatchers first threw the bike and then themselves jumped into the river from a height of about 100 feet, police said today. However, the duo’s luck ran out
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A micro sculpture artist Sachin Sanghe has carved the face of megastar Amitabh Bachchan on a pencil lead. The actor says he is humbled by the artistic tribute. The sculpture got its actual form after eight hours of hard work and dedication. “Dear sir, a portrait sculpture on pencil lead for you! Eight hours of
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Multi-talented artist, Prabhudheva, says that he usually doesn’t like to direct and also choreograph for the same film, because he prefers to focus on one aspect of the film and excelling in it, giving his cent percent. Which is why for his directorial venture Singh Is Bliing, he has stayed away from choreography. A source
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Actress Preity Zinta says the only actor who can make her cry during an emotional scene is superstar Shah Rukh Khan. “The only actor who can make me cry at the drop of a hat in an emotion scene is @iamsrk omg! I have cried in so many scenes with him,” Preity, who has worked
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Madhya Pradesh wicketkeeper Naman Ojha and Karnataka batsman Karun Nair were on Sunday named as replacements for injured Wriddhiman Saha and Murali Vijay, respectively, for the remainder of India’s tour of Sri Lanka. “Saha has sustained a strain in his lower right hamstring and would require rehabilitation and strength training to recover completely,” the Board
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Most of us know that Sunil Gavaskar’s highest Test score is 236 (not out). But what I’m willing to bet few realise, or remember, is that Gavaskar batted at No. 4 in that innings. It was the only innings he would play in that position. In today’s hyper-connected media world, there would have been an
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North Korea had deployed twice as many artillery pieces as usual along the border with South Korea on Sunday, and most of its submarines had departed from their bases, as high-level talks between the two Koreas aimed at breaking a tense military standoff stretched into a third day Monday. Negotiators from both sides resumed talks
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A huge blaze broke out Monday at steel plant near Tokyo’s Haneda airport, a fire department official said, as television images showed plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting up into the air. “A fire broke out from a two-metre cooling tower,” the fire official said without elaborating. The site is owned by a
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Activists say Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple at Syria’s ancient ruins of Palmyra. News that the militants blew up the Baalshamin Temple came after the extremists beheaded Palmyra scholar Khaled al-Asaad on Tuesday, hanging his bloodied body from a pole in the town. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday night
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The water situation is grim as the total storage in 91 main reservoirs across the country has gone below the last 10-year average, says the report of the Central Water Commission (CWC). The reservoirs currently hold 91 billion cubic metre (BCM) water, which is 58% of their total live storage capacity. During the same period
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Rickshaw pullers, tea vendors, building labourers. These are some of the jobs that many of the 1,100-odd contractual workers at the Nestle plant in Rudrapur have been forced to take up after production ceased here following the three-month ban on Maggi in Uttarakhand. Forty-three-year-old Rajendra Singh who hails from a small village in UP recalls
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Pakistan has long claimed victory over India in the 1965 war, celebrating September 6 as the ‘Defence of Pakistan Day’, when most objective assessments have held that the war ended more or less in a draw. India was always more realistic, with its official war history recording that the 1965 war was more of a
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Besides preparing a list of 54 Pakistan-based fugitives wanted for offences committed in India, national security adviser Ajit Doval had intended to confront Islamabad on its shoddy investigation in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case. According to sources involved in preparation of the 26/11 dossier for the now-cancelled NSA-level talks, India had meant to tell Islamabad
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Six people, including a legislator from Karnataka, were killed and 20 others were injured when a truck hit a coach of train in Andhra Pradesh early on Monday, officials said. Karnataka MLA Venkatesh Naik is among the dead. The driver of the granite-laden truck lost control and hit a coach of Nanded Express at a
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An NRI has been booked for allegedly trespassing a private property and axing trees from the land here, police said today. The police said that the complainant and the owner of the property, Reeta Sharma, stated in an FIR that she had purchased land in 2013 near Sujanpur here which had large number of mango
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Curfew has been imposed and army staged flag march in Raya Morh, Jakh and Swankha Morh areas and along Jammu-Pathankot National Highway in Vijaypur tehsil of Samba district after the mob went on rampage over the issue of alleged sacrilegious act, this evening. At-least two dozen persons including nine cops were injured while half-a-dozen vehicles
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Actor Siddharth Malhotra says Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and Jacqueline Fernandes have the best bikini body in Bollywood. “I think in Bollywood, Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and Jacqueline Fernandes have the best bikini body,” Siddharth told reporters here at an event. Interestingly, Siddharth’s rumoured girlfriend Alia Bhatt will be seen wearing a bikini in her
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The members of Dashrath Manjhi’s family were happy like never before after watching ‘Manjhi-The Mountain Man’, a biopic based on Manjhi’s life, at a cinema hall in Bihar’s Gaya district. The Bihar government had exempted this film from entertainment tax. The idea was to get the maximum number of people to watch it, officials said.
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All is far from well with All Is Well, but this road trip dramedy has just about enough impetus not to be thrown completely off its chosen track by its occasional inertia. Director Umesh Shukla switches frequently from breezy slapstick comedy to intense family drama and does so relatively smoothly until about the last quarter
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President Barack Obama declared an emergency Friday for wildfire-ravaged Washington state, as Australia and New Zealand sent firefighters to help US crews struggling to contain deadly blazes across America’s drought-stricken West. Obama’s declaration releases federal funds to help in relief efforts in the northwestern state, where several fires are burning out of control and three
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Six people were killed while thousands fled to higher ground as powerful typhoon Goni brought torrential rains to the northern Philippines, triggering landslides and floods, officials said Saturday. Five people died in the highlands of Benguet and Mountain provinces after they were buried in rocks and mud. A man was killed in nearby Ilocos Norte
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The heads of Germany and France will meet Kiev’s pro-Western leader in Berlin on Monday for Ukrainian crisis talks most notable for their diplomatically-charged exclusion of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have put enormous political stakes on resolving Ukraine’s 16-month pro-Russian uprising and returning peace to the European
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Traders and stockists seem to be making a killing as onion prices have soared across the country in the past 2-3 weeks. The staple kitchen item was selling at around Rs 80 per kg in the market in Delhi, as a substantial jump in prices was reported from Delhi’s wholesale mandis. Prices of pulses have
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Skymet, the nation’s sole private weather forecaster, has started a social media campaign called #HelpTheFarmer, asking social media users to spread monsoon forecast to farmers who may not have access to the internet. As part of the campaign, Skymet has also prepared a gut-wrenching video about farmer suicides that has received over a million views.
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International crude oil prices slid towards the $40 barrel mark, amid growing worries about the health of the Chinese economy, and raised the prospects of a fresh round of cuts in kitchen and auto fuel prices in India in the coming weeks. Although US oil prices headed towards the eighth consecutive week of fall on
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Talks between India and Pakistan, scheduled for Sunday, are precariously placed, with both sides virtually daring each other to call off the dialogue of their National Security Advisors (NSAs). Pakistan has flatly refused to cancel a meeting with Kashmiri separatists in Delhi and has insisted that Kashmir will be a part of its agenda for
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The second day of the P Sara Test was almost a coming-of-age day of Test cricket for Virat Kohli’s India. They didn’t score hundreds of runs, they didn’t take tens of wickets, but they were persistent both with bat and the ball. When the runs didn’t come easily, their last four wickets ground out 74
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Confusion prevailed in the Bamyal sector on the India-Pakistan border when some residents of Sarval village mistook a group of Border Security Force (BSF) personnel for terrorists. The confusion arose when a driver of the Punjab police, who was carrying the BSF personnel in a vehicle, asked some local residents about the route to Narot
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