India have been dealt a major blow ahead of their Test opener against Sri Lanka in Galle after Murali Vijay was ruled out with a right hamstring injury on Monday. Vijay, who suffered the injury during India’s tour of Zimbabwe last month, has been benched for the first of three Test matches from Wednesday as […]
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A moonless evening could give stargazers a fantastic light show this week. The annual Perseid meteor shower, which is known for being among the brightest of meteor showers, is happening near the tail end of summer. The major meteor shower will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere. “If you see one meteor shower this year,
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A typhoon battered China’s east coast on Sunday, killing 14 people and forcing the authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands more. The 14 were killed after being washed away by flash floods or buried under collapsed houses or landslides, state news agency Xinhua said, citing authorities in Zhejiang province. Another four people were missing. Typhoon
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Self-defence classes organized by Delhi Police came in handy for 19-year-old Kritika on Saturday. Kritika, who had attended the classes in the past, put the lessons to good use, thwarting a biker’s bid to snatch her mobile phone and grabbing the man’s collar as he tried to escape. She will be felicitated by Delhi police
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Tattoos are a taboo for Army — it’s official now. The Army has decided to show zero tolerance to “offensive” tattoos during the selection of commissioned officers. According to a new policy approved by the Army authorities, a candidate appearing for an interview for commissioned officer will have to fill a separate form giving complete
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The surge in terrorist activity in Jammu & Kashmir in recent weeks coincides with an increasing number of local youth joining the ranks of the militants, say the Army and the state police. Seen with the evidence of extensive support for terrorists which helped Lashkar terrorist Naved and his accomplices remain undetected for several days,
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At least 11 people have been killed and 20 injured in a stampede near a temple in Jharkhand’s Deoghar, a town where similar incidents have taken place in the past. The stampede took place early this morning close to a temple of Goddess Durga, where thousands had lined up for a ritual. The police said
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Keeping in view the susceptibility of the national highway and repeated terror attacks in the vicinity of the international border in Jammu and Kashmir and more recently in Punjab, the Army is urgently seeking upgradation of the alternate road link from Pathankot to Udhampur. The Army, according to sources, is also mulling the establishment of
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The Pathankot Police on Sunday morning launched an intensive manhunt for two heavily armed suspected terrorists in areas encompassing Narianpur and Harha villages, 30 km from here on the Pathankot-Dalhousie road, after two locals claimed to have spotted them at Lodeti village. Brothers Ajay and Lalit, who are from Lodeti village, also claimed that the
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After two days of cricket, India have shown their dominant character and built a 342-run lead against Sri Lanka Board President’s XI. How many more runs will the team add before asking the hosts in Colombo to come out for the chase? And will Ishant Sharma once again rip them apart, after claiming a fifer
Typhoon Soudelor battered Taiwan with fierce winds and rain on Saturday leaving four people dead and a trail of devastation before heading for mainland China. After making landfall on the east coast in the early hours of the morning it swept across central Taiwan ripping up trees, snapping wind turbines and triggering a landslide in
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The US has said it is not aware of any planned visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House during his trip to the country to attend 70th annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York next month. “I’m not aware of any planned visits by Prime Minister Modi to the
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The Indian connection of Tom Cruise’s latest installment of Mission Impossible goes beyond just VFX artists working on the project. As per the actor-producer, a major stunt scene in the movie was inspired by local trains in Mumbai. The Hollywood actor took some time off from his busy promotion schedule to speak to Faking News.
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Five women have been killed in a village in Jharkhand, 45 kilometres from capital Ranchi, reportedly on allegations of witchcraft. The village falls under Ranchi’s Mandar block. The police have confirmed the incident and say they have not made any arrest yet and are investigating. The cops also say that prima facie it seems that
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India will boycott the meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, or CPA, in Pakistan unless the speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly is invited, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said today. The decision comes amid two terror attacks and repeated ceasefire violations in the state. The 10-day meeting will be held in Islamabad from September
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A student was beaten to death in a college in Sabang, West Midnapore, by alleged Trinamool Congress supporters when he refused to follow their diktat to felicitate a state minister on Friday morning. The murder is a fall-out of Trinamool muscle-flexing to gain control of campuses across Bengal, prompting the Left Front and Congress to
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Bollywood’s dimpled actress Preity Zinta will be the guest of honour at this year’s Miss India-Canada pageant on August 15th. This year marks the silver jubilee of the beauty pageant, which will be presented by Chevrolet in association with Air Canada. Preity will crown the new Miss India-Canada. The 16 finalists, who have been shortlisted
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Former India pacer S Sreesanth is all set to play the role of a hero in a big budget movie to be made simultaneously in Telugu, Malayalam and Tamil. The movie, to be directed by renowned filmmaker Sana Yadireddy, tells a spicy story of a cricketer and IPL. “The film will go on floors in
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Fashion label Satya Paul is collaborating with Gauri Khan again to come up with a sensuous collection that’s inspired by Dutch courtesan Mata Hari. The latest designs comprise seductive rose petal prints in a vintage colour palette and body art motifs with scripts and scribbles of Mata Hari’s mysterious letters, printed playfully on the saris
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Centurion Ajinkya Rahane said that his gameplan of playing a long innings before the start of the three-match Test series worked well for him in the solitary tour game on Thursday. Indians rode on Rahane’s unbeaten 109 to manage 314 for six at the end of the opening day’s play in the three-day practice game
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Stuart Broad could barely believe what he had done after his eight-wicket return took England to within sight of Ashes glory on a historic day at Trent Bridge on Thursday. Broad took a stunning eight wickets for 15 runs, including two in the very first over of the day, as England dismissed Australia for just
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Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest telecom operator, on Thursday sought to steal early mover advantage in the keenly watched 4G telecom space and announced a nationwide launch of high-speed data services, while bundling free voice facility in some of its offerings. Fourth generation or 4G service is several times faster than 3G and allows uninterrupted
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Security has been beefed up all over Chennai on the eve of the one-day visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to launch the First National Handloom Day. PM Modi would present Sant Kabir Awards and National Awards for handloom weavers on the occasion. Multiple layers of security have been put up for the high- profile
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Suspected militants tonight attacked a police post in a remote area of Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, injuring two special police officers (SPOs), a day after a terror strike there saw a Pakistani terrorist being captured by villagers. According to a senior district official, the militants attacked the post in the mountainous Basantgarh area
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Even as India and Pakistan wrangled over the nationality of a militant captured after a deadly attack in Udhampur, Hindustan Times spoke on Thursday to a Pakistan-based man who identified himself as the “unfortunate father” of the attacker. “I’ll be killed. The Lashkar is after us and the fauj is after us,” Mohammad Yakub told
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Most lodges and hiking trails near Mount Everest suffered only minimal damage during two devastating earthquakes in Nepal this year, according to a government-commissioned report that will offer some hope to a battered tourism industry. The quakes struck Nepal in April and May, triggering avalanches on the world’s highest mountain and killing 8,900 people, including
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Asserting that the country needs “a doer and not a talker”, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has said he will provide “real leadership” to America if elected president in the November 2016 elections. Mr Jindal, 44, whose parents immigrated to the US from Punjab before he was born, is the first Indian-American to ever run for
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A truck bomb exploded near an army compound in the centre of the Afghan capital today, killing at least eight people and wounding close to 200, police and health ministry officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion, which shook the centre of the capital and ripped through homes and shops.
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North Korea is creating its own time zone, moving its clocks back by 30 minutes to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese rule, the official KCNA news agency said on Friday. North Korea is in the same time zone as rivals South Korea and Japan, nine hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
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Justice Dipak Misra, who led the Supreme Court bench that rejected 1993 blasts convict Yakub Memon’s last legal appeal against his hanging, has received a threatening letter. The Delhi Police has registered a case and are investigating an anonymous letter sent to the judge. The short note addressed to Justice Misra allegedly says “irrespective of
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