On the orders issued by additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM), Muzaffarpur, Ramchandra Prasad on July 4 , the Kazimohammadpur police lodged an FIR against Sunny Deol and others on Friday in connection with the alleged abuse of Hindu gods in their film ‘Mohalla Assi’. After some preliminary investigations and orders from higher police officers, the […]
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India A team is sitting pretty at 121/3 in their second innings against Australia A. This after Pragyan Ojha’s bowling (5/85) spun a web around the tourists during the third day’s play. With an entire day left to face off against each other, both teams will look to down each other in order to take
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Battling the Maggi controversy, global giant Nestle on Friday recalled its current India chief Etienne Benet to Switzerland head office and appointed Suresh Narayanan as his successor — the first Indian to get this position after a gap of over 16 years. Mr Narayanan will take charge as the new Managing Director of Nestle India
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Two minors have been killed and nine others are injured after flash floods triggered by a cloudburst late last evening washed away several tents near the Amarnath base camp at Baltal in Jammu and Kashmir. All pilgrims, headed to the Amarnath shrine, are reportedly safe; 780 have already been moved to an army camp. “Two
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The Supreme Court on Friday firmly declined to entertain the trend of flaunting religious beliefs to seek immunity from dress code, asking three Muslim girls and little-known Students Islamic Organization of India to follow the code prescribed by CBSE for the All India Pre-Medical Test. Buoyed by the Kerala high court’s recent order allowing two
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Terror struck the heart of Srinagar today with grenades being thrown at an Aircel showroom and a Vodafone tower in an attempt to disrupt public communications. In May, more than 50 communication towers were shut down in the Sopore area of Northern Kashmir, just 50 km away, after a string of attacks and threats by
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“Dushman ki goliyon ka hum samna karenge, Azad hi rahein hain, azad hi rahenge!” He had vowed that he would never be arrested by the British police and kept his promise by shooting himself in the head with his last bullet. He was Chandra Shekhar Azad. Azad was an Indian revolutionary who joined the revolution
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Ten-year-old Shubham Jaglan added another feather to his cap when he created history by winning the IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event in Las Vegas on Thursday. The son of a milkman from rural Haryana shot a three round score of 106 winning by a five-stroke margin, ahead of two Americans Justin Dang and
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The Supreme Court on Thursday said that live-in relationship has become accepted norm in society and it can not be termed as an offence. “In the present modern time live-in relationship has become an acxeptable norm. It is not a crime,” the court said. A bench of Justices Dipak Mishra and Prafulla C Pant made
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After Delhi’s east district roped in transgender people to advise women on safety in public transport last year, the Punjab government could become the first state to hire the third gender as conductors or safety officers in buses. Navdeep Asija, Punjab government’s traffic adviser appointed by the Punjab and Haryana high court on July 9,
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When the national selectors sit down here on Thursday to pick the Test squad for next month’s Sri Lanka tour, they would definitely take into account the trouble Pakistani leg-spinner Yasir Shah caused to the Island batsmen recently. That may prompt the selectors to go for a leg-spinner to complement the two offies – R
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Our ministers are masters of goof-ups. Forever politically incorrect, they just don’t miss an opportunity to make a fool of themselves. Faux pas after faux pas, Indians are now used to such incidents. But somehow, our politicians keep coming back, hit, after hit, after hit. Jharkhand Education Minister Neera Yadav gave a floral tribute to
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India is set to take part in joint naval exercises with Japan and the United States in the Indian Ocean in October, military and diplomatic sources said, a drill that so riled China eight years ago that Delhi has not since hosted such a multilateral wargame. The Indian Ocean has emerged as a new arena
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Following Sania Mirza’s Wimbledon doubles conquest with partner Martina Hingis last week, the sports ministry has plans to recommend the 28-year-old tennis star for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country’s highest sporting honour. Sania, who rose to the world No. 1 doubles rank in April this year, has not personally applied for the award,
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Curfew was clamped on Wednesday in Jamshedpur after group clashes over an alleged incident of eve teasing at Mango area on Tuesday night even as Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das appealed for peace. As tension prevailed, the authorities imposed curfew with immediate effect which will remain in force till further orders in the steel city
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For the 12 serial bomb blasts that terrorized Mumbai and India 22 years ago, killing 257 and injuring 713, Yakub Memon, the lone condemned accused and younger brother of absconding mastermind Tiger Memon, will hang. The execution will take place at 7am on July 30, which happens to be Yakub’s 54th birthday. The Supreme Court
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Congress chief Sonia Gandhi signalled that the party was set to persist with the aggression it displayed in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, telling her MPs that they needed to convey the message that the government was protecting the corrupt. Irrespective of the active support of other opposition parties, Congress is set to stall Lok
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If you needed more reasons to be head over heels in lust love with Milind Soman, look no further. The Bollywood actor and model just made the country proud by successfully completing the Ironman Triathlon held in Zurich, Switzerland on 19 July. The triathlon is considered one of the world’s toughest races and had 2,000
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Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon is set to be hanged after his final petition for mercy was rejected by the Supreme Court today. He is likely to be hanged on July 30. This will be the first execution related to the 1993 serial blasts, in which over 250 people were killed. Sources say an anti-terror
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Paris, July 20 (IANS) A statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh will soon be installed in a coastal town of France following years of efforts by a historian and descendant of a French officer who served under the Sikh king, a media report said on Monday. The statue will be installed at Saint Tropez along with
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Shiv Sena corporator and city mayor Snehal Ambekar created a controversy after hinting that Prime Minister Narendera Modi was “concentrating” all power with him and compared him to Hitler, in an interview to a city tabloid. She said that she admired Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray as he was “down-to-earth”. She added that she even
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The Indian Army has warned Pakistan today of “unexpected damages” if it continues to violate the ceasefire along the border in Jammu and Kashmir. “There are certain elements across the border who want to create trouble on the Line of Control… we have to give them certain unexpected damage to so that they don’t repeat
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Global gold prices suffered a big selloff on Monday amid a rising dollar, growing expectations of a rate hike from the US Federal Reserve and selling pressure in China. Globally, gold prices fell to their lowest level in five years while in India it fell to a two-year low of Rs. 25,700 per 10 gram.
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Three youths killed a 63-year-old woman in Assam on Monday after suspecting her to be a witch, police said. All three have been arrested. However, according to this report in The Hindustan Times, police have arrested seven people. The incident took place in Bhimajuli village near Biswanath Chariali around noon. Biswanath superintendent of police Manabendra
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Heavy firing started early Monday between the Indian and Pakistan troopers along the line of control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu region. “Pakistan army resorted to heavy unprovoked firing at our positions in Shahpur sector of the LoC around midnight,” a defence spokesman told IANS here. “They are using small arms and automatic weapons
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The franchise owners of Indian Premier League (IPL) teams Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings were suspended for two years by the Indian cricket board on Sunday for their role in an illegal betting scandal that erupted in 2013. The board followed the recommendation of a panel (Lodha committee) appointed by the Supreme Court on
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Shubham Jaglan, a 10-year-old son of a milkman from rural Haryana, scripted a scintillating one-stroke win at the Junior World Golf Championships being played at Welk Resort Fountain Course in California on Sunday. His three-day total of seven-under par 179 was better than rest of the field to become the Junior World Champion in his
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Chamu Chibhabha and Graeme Cremer played starring roles as Zimbabwe finally coalesced their different strengths into a functional, all-round performance to trip up India by 10 runs in the second T20 international. After Chibhabha’s 51-ball 67 helped Zimbabwe put up a total of 145 – one that seemed inadequate at the halfway mark – Cremer
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In a move aimed at boosting India’s defence sector, 200 helicopters will be manufactured in the country with Russian collaboration as part of intensification and diversification of their strategic ties. The agreement, reached recently, is one of the several new defence projects on which the two countries are working on, including under the ambit of
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Season’s maximum water was released on Saturday through the Ranjit Sagar Dam floodgates to manage the heavy inflow into its reservoir from the swollen Ravi river. The shepherds camping on the banks were persuaded to take their families and livestock to safety. The project authorities released 32,000 cusecs of water (which will fill an Olympic-size
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