Rachna Gupta, 22, has brought laurels not only to the town but the entire state after she succeeded in getting admission to the National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi, becoming the youngest student to make to the prestigious institution ever. Popularly known as Babu, Rachna was among 13 candidates out of 2,500 from across […]
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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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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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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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Abhishek Bachchan says veteran actor Rishi Kapoor, his co-star in the upcoming film ‘All is Well’, is not temperamental and rather is a fun-loving person. “Temperament… No not at all. I have known him all my life and I have done two films with him and he is never like that. He is opposite…he is
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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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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’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 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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Women are registering to vote in national elections for the first time in the history of Saudi Arabia. In what the kingdom’s officials describe as a “significant milestone in progress towards a participation-based society”, municipal elections will be held across the country later this year. And in a remarkable move for a country where women’s
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Actor Saif Ali Khan has described the decision of a Pakistani court to ban his upcoming film Phantom, set in the aftermath of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, as “bizarre.” The film, directed by Kabir Khan, has been banned in Pakistan by the Lahore high court after a petition was filed by 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
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India on Friday made it clear to Pakistan that it should not go ahead with the meeting of its NSA Sartaz Aziz with Hurriyat representatives here when he comes to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval, saying it will not be “appropriate”. In a clear message to the Pakistan high commission, which has
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India sent a message to the separatist Hurriyat on Thursday to discourage them from travelling to Delhi to meet Pakistani national security adviser Sartaj Aziz before he meets his Indian counterpart A K Doval on Monday, but saw the effort being undermined by the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed-led state government. J&K police deployed its personnel outside
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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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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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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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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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Actor Akshay Kumar says his forthcoming film Singh Is Bliing, in which he plays a Sikh character, is not a sequel to his past movie Singh Is Kinng. “You have seen me as a ‘sardaar’ in many films, be it ‘Namastey London’ or ‘Singh Is Kinng’, but it’s (this) not a sequel of ‘Singh Is
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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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They lost the first Test from a position of utter dominance. Their batsmen faltered against spin, again. They have lost one of their in-form batsman for the series. They are 1-0 down and trying to avoid a series loss. They are up against a team who is preparing to give its beloved son a grand
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A car bomb injured six Egyptian policemen on Thursday as it exploded in front of a police building in Cairo, the interior ministry said, the latest in a wave of militant attacks that has rocked Egypt. The powerful blast in northern Cairo’s district of Shubra came in the middle of the night, an AFP journalist
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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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Thailand has asked Interpol for help in tracking down the man they believe planted a bomb in Bangkok that killed 20 people, sending the international police organization an image of the suspected bomber. The military government was initially reluctant in asking for outside help in the investigation of the blast at a famous shrine on
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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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Love transcends class. One young principal at a government primary school in Bijnor took the adage rather literally when to spend some quality time with his lady love, the headmistress of another school, he dismissed class for that day and sent all the students packing home. The couple locked themselves in and declared the school
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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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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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Keen not to spurn the opportunity to confront Pakistan with evidence of its continued complicity in terrorism against India, the government has found a way around Islamabad’s latest manoeuvre to scupper the NSA-level talks. In a fresh provocation, Pakistan on Wednesday invited separatist Hurriyat leaders to a meeting with its NSA, Sartaj Aziz, in Delhi
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Seven people have been killed and several others trapped after a giant rock boulder hit the famous Gurudwara complex at Manikaran in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh. The boulder, which slipped from a nearby mountain, has smashed a rear portion of the Gurudawara damaging a few floors. The incident occurred in the afternoon. Kullu Deputy
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Kings XI Punjab co-owner Preity Zinta on Wednesday blasted media reports that she had accused several players of the Indian Premier League (IPL) team of match-fixing. A section of the media had reported on Wednesday that the actress had told Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials during an IPL working group meeting
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