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Cane growers block Jalandhar-Pathankot highway, rail tracks

Thousands of farmers blocked the Jalandhar-Pathankot national highway and Jalandhar-Jammu railway track at Mukerian on Thursday to protest against nonpayment of sugarcane crop of last year and the announcement by private mills that they would not crush cane in the coming season. The blockade started in the morning and continued till evening. Farmers, mainly cane

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Today’s Big Releases: Manjhi – The Mountain Man, All Is Well

Filmmaker Ketan Mehta’s Manjhi – The Mountain Man, featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Radhika Apte, releases today. Manjhi – The Mountain Man is a biopic based on the life of Dashrath Manjhi, popularly known as the ‘Mountain Man’, who lived in Gehlaur village, near Gaya, in Bihar. He carved a road through a mountain in 22

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Akshay Kumar: Movie About a Sardaar Doesn’t Have to Be Directed by Punjabi

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, who plays the role of a ‘sardaar’ in Singh Is Bliing, said that religion has no bearing on a person’s skill as a director, while talking about the film’s director Prabhu Deva, who hails from south India. This is the second movie after Rowdy Rathore in which Prabhu Deva and Akshay

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‘It’s justified’: Kangana on being the highest paid female actor in Bollywood

Rumours that post Queen and Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Kangana has signed a film for INR11 crore, have been doing the rounds. At an event, where Kangana and her Katti Batti co-star Imran Khan were present at a radio station, she was asked about being tagged as the ‘highest paid actress’. To that, Kangana said:

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Time Running Out for Under-Fire Harbhajan Singh After Galle Test Failure

As the beleaguered Indian cricket team start picking up pieces after a ‘Shocking Saturday’, the spotlight is firmly fixed on team’s senior-most pro Harbhajan Singh whose unimpressive show in the 63-run defeat has raised question marks about his future. In a match, where all 40 wickets fell, five specialist spinners from either side accounted for

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India Sacrificed ‘Nice-Guy’ Ajinkya Rahane at No. 3, Says Sunil Gavaskar

India’s decision to send Ajinkya Rahane at the crucial number three position in the second Test against Sri Lanka drew sharp reactions from Sunil Gavaskar, who felt it was a harsh move. Rahane, who usually bats at No. 5, walked in after the fall of Murali Vijay, only to be dismissed for four. (Scorecard |

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Islamic State destroys Syrian monastery, moves Christian captives: Monitor

Islamic State militants have demolished a monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Thursday, in a strategically located town the jihadist group wrested from government control earlier this month. The group has also transferred several dozen Christians, captured during its offensive, to a location near its stronghold in northeastern Syria,

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UPSC aspirants who didn’t appear in 2011 to get extra chance

Central Administrative Tribunal has come to the rescue of those civil services aspirants who applied but did not take the premilinary examination in 2011 due to the introduction of CSAT, by asking UPSC to provisionally allow them an additional attempt this year. Owing to last year’s protest by UPSC aspirants demanding change in the Civil

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92% of Muslim women in India want oral triple talaq to go: Study

Should unilateral, triple talaq be banned? An overwhelming number of Muslim women in the country think so. In a first of its kind study, the women have unequivocally voiced their dissent against the discriminatory practice of triple talaq with 92.1% seeking its ban. Oral talaq delivered through new media platforms like Skype, text messages, email

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Cane growers block traffic on Jalandhar-Pathankot highway

An estimated 5,000 sugarcane growers from across Punjab gathered at Mukerian in Hoshiarpur district and blocked the Jalandhar-Pathankot national highway on Thursday afternoon to protest the proposed closure of sugar mills and the non-clearance of their outstanding payments. Farmers also held a dharna on the Jalandhar-Pathankot rail track, disrupting train traffic in the region. Hoshiarpur

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Aamir Khan: Twinkle Khanna expert at insulting people

Actor Aamir Khan, who worked with actress Twinkle Khanna in Dharmesh Darshan’s directorial “Mela” in 2000, says the latter, who has found popularity as a columnist, is an expert at insulting people. Aamir, along with Karan Johar, was present at Twinkle’s debut book launch here on Tuesday. Her book “Mrs. Funnybones” was launched with a

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Kangana Ranaut: ‘Katti Batti’ is a romantic thriller

National award-winning actress Kangana Ranaut says that despite being a love story, Katti Batti unfolds like a thriller that would raise the curiosity of the audience. As part of the film’s promotion, Kangana and actor Imran Khan visited a radio station and interacted with the media. “From the promos, what people are feeling is obviously

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Indigenous protesters chase off police in Ecuador town

Indigenous protesters wielding spears in southeastern Ecuador have sent police and soldiers fleeing in a clash that Interior Minister Jose Serrano says injured eight security force members. The estimated 200 Shuar and Achuar peoples who chased off police and soldiers in the Amazon town of Macas on Wednesday are upset with President Rafael Correa’s refusal

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Pakistan protests ceasefire violations, summons Indian diplomat

Pakistan summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner on Wednesday for the second time in a week to lodge a strong protest against the continuous “unprovoked ceasefire violations” by Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir. “The Indian Deputy High Commissioner was called in by the Director General (South Asia and SAARC) at the Foreign Office

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Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities

Islamic State militants beheaded a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his mutilated body on a column in a main square of the historic site because he apparently refused to reveal where valuable artefacts had been moved for safekeeping. The brutal murder of Khaled al-Asaad, 82, is the latest

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Vyapam redux: MP university picks professors without written test

A university here has filled key teaching positions in manner reminiscent to the Vyapam scam. Barkatullah University filled 30 posts including those of professors and assistant professors through interviews which lasted no more than 60-100 seconds without any written test to judge candidates’ proficiency. Some male candidates even gave interviews for posts reserved in women’s

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