Security personnel have foiled a bid to blow up a section of the railway tracks between Guwahati and Kokrajhar in Assam. The operation was conducted jointly by the Army and Assam Police. An Improvised Explosive device (IED) weighing about 7 kg was recovered. Militants belonging to the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation or KLO are suspected to […]
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Army veterans were pushed around at Delhi’s famous Jantar Mantar — the massive and centuries-old sundial which is also the designated spot for protests — as city officials tried to clear all demonstrators from the heart of the capital ahead of Independence Day for security reasons. Former servicemen are resisting moving out; for a group
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Rockets hit several districts in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar Assad, on Thursday, killing two civilians and wounding 13, the state-run news agency reported. It said the rockets were fired by “terrorists” — a term Syrian authorities use to refer to all rebels fighting to topple Assad. Explosions are rare
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Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly is bowled over by Virat Kohli’s exuberance and passion to cricket and compared the Test captain to legendary footballer Diego Maradona. “One of my favourite sportsmen was Diego Maradona and every time I saw him play football you could see the passion in the heart. You see the same thing
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Radhe Maa, who calls herself a godwoman, will be questioned today by the Mumbai Police on a dowry harassment complaint by a woman. Radhe Maa was denied anticipatory bail by a court in Mumbai on Thursday. A 32-year-old woman has alleged that she has been “mentally and physically tortured” by her husband’s family at the
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At least 50 people are believed to have lost their lives and 700 hospitalised, after two massive explosions caused by flammable goods ripped through an industrial area in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin late on Wednesday, according to the city’s municipal government. According to the official Xinhua News Agency, among the victims are
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Actress Jacqueline Fernandez, who will be next seen in action-drama film “Brothers”, says she is keen on doing a full fledged action role. Her co-stars in the Karan Malhotra movie, Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra, have done hard core action sequences in the film. “I felt so left out. I was sitting at home and
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With Bajrangi Bhaijaan currently trending owing to its record breaking success, fans are eagerly awaiting the second film of Salman Khan this year, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. Considering that filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya is not only the mentor for this actor but the two have also delivered many hits before, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo has high
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India must occupy the crease and score as many runs on Day 2 of the Galle Test against Sri Lanka on Thursday. India start at their overnight score of 128 for two and need another 55 runs to go past the Lankans. Get live updates here. 12:00: That’s lunch – What a sterling session for
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US warplanes on Wednesday carried out their first air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria after taking off from a Turkish base, kicking off a key new phase in the campaign against the jihadists. A US drone had last week executed a single lethal air strike against an IS target in Syria but
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A mild quake measuring 4 on the Richter Scale rocked Nepal early this morning, triggering panic among the people who rushed out of their houses. The epicenter of the tremor was at Kathmandu and it was recorded at 1.49am today, according to the National Seismological Centre. A total of 476 aftershocks with 4 or more
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At least 11 people were injured in a grenade explosion in a mosque compound in Kashmir’s Shopian district on Thursday, an official said. “Eleven people were injured in a grenade explosion when they came out of the Jamia Trenz mosque in Shopian after offering morning prayers. “The ‘Nimazis’ (those who offer daily Muslim prayers) discovered
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Ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the Line of Control continued for the fifth day today with firing and shelling targeting scores of Indian posts and civilian areas in three districts of Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch. The Army has opened retaliatory fire. Officials have said the latest escalation by Pakistan is aimed at helping militants to
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Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal and other Republican presidential candidates have pounced upon Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton as her email saga took a new turn. Amid reports that Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state was under investigation, Mr Jindal on Wednesday mocked Hillary Clinton with a prison
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Looking to turn Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s charge of money-making against foreign minister Sushma Swaraj on its head, finance minister Arun Jaitley took a hard dig at Congress’s first family saying it was perhaps not aware that children of most families had to work for a living. Responding to the suggestion that employment of Swaraj’s
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A 23-year-old man died of an electric shock on Wednesday after coming in contact with a robot at a factory in Manesar near Gurgaon, police said. “G. Ram was working in the robot area of the SKH Metals factory when he accidentally came in contact with a robot and received an electric shock,” said Kuldeep
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A fortnight after the Dina Nagar attack, the Border Security Force (BSF) is yet to locate any physical evidence to establish that the three terrorists from Pakistan entered the country through the Punjab border. Sources in the BSF said the force has checked the entire border in the Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Amritsar regions but has
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Offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin picked up three quick wickets as India blew away Sri Lanka’s top half and reduced them to 65 for 5 at lunch on the opening day of the first Test at Galle on Wednesday. Captain Angelo Mathews was batting on 26 at the break after his decision to bat first backfired, with
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The long-completed Manoj Bajpayee-starrer ‘Traffic’, which was stuck in the cans, might just see light of day in October thanks to its subject. The film, that faced production issues, now has an echo in the recent endeavours of traffic cops to create green corridors for quick transport of harvested organs for emergency transplant surgeries. The
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Directed by Vikas Bahl, ‘Shaandaar’ is a romantic-comedy featuring Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt in the lead roles and at the end of the film’s trailer, Alia is seen donning a pink bikini. “We (Shahid and I) both were training…he was training just for his usual self, as he likes to stay fit. I was
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Ghajini actress Asin will soon be tying the knot with Micromax co-founder, Rahul Sharma after wrapping up all her assignments, according to a report Asin’s co-actor in ‘Khildi 786’ Akshay Kumar played the cupid in their love story. Akshay and his wife Twinkle were the first brand ambassadors of Micromax, and the actor happens to
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A man set himself on fire today outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul during a protest to demand Tokyo’s apology for forcing women into military brothels during World War II. Witnesses said other protestors and emergency responders moved quickly to douse the flames and the man was taken from the scene by stretcher. His precise
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Tiger deaths persisted in the country despite the Union and state governments’ efforts towards conservation. The country lost close to 41 tigers from January until August 9 this year, similar to the count in the same period in 2014, reveals fresh data from National Tiger Conservation Authority and TRAFFIC-India, the wildlife trade monitoring network. The
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The consumer affairs department on Tuesday filed a complaint against food major Nestle India with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) seeking damages of Rs 640 crore alleging that the company sold unsafe and hazardous products – Maggi noodles – to millions of consumers endangering their health. It has also alleged the company indulged
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Senior police officials including IG Lok Nath Angra, DIG Kunwar Vijay Partap, SSP Bakhshi and about 200 personnel of police and the Army cordoned off Ladeti village of Dhar block here. Police and Army personnel on Sunday launched a massive search operation in Dhar block and nearby areas, close to Gurdaspur district which witnessed terror
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Activist Anna Hazare has received a threat letter saying he would be “bumped off” if he does not dissociate himself from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. “The letter is dated August 7 and is mostly written in English,” a police official told the Press Trust of India. The letter warns that Mr Hazare, 78, will
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The Islamic State terror group, also known as IS or ISIS, plans to take over large parts of the world, including almost the entire Indian subcontinent, by the next five years, according to a chilling map that features in a new book on the dreaded terror group. According to the map, said to be issued
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Somebody offered this wicked gem on twitter: Put Radhe Maa and Asaram Bapu in the same cell. Both parties would be happy. They belong in the same league, if not the cell. Apart from the roles they have appropriated for themselves–beatific maai-baap to us Indians–both Asumal Sirumalani and Sukhvinder Kaur have a lot in common.
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India-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of Google on Tuesday by the company’s founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin in course of a re-organization that created a mother company called Alphabet. Pichai, 43, a Chennai native who went to IIT Kharagpur and later to Stanford and Wharton, will take charge of a slimmed down Google
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The ground shook in Delhi and Srinagar after an earthquake hit northern Afghanistan. No damage has been reported so far in India. The quake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, struck at 3.30 pm 140 miles deep beneath the Hindu Kush mountains and close to the Wakhan Corridor, the narrow strip of far northeastern Afghanistan
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