Gujarat Lions wrestled it back in the 24th game of the Indian Premier League against Rising Pune Supergiants in their own den and emerged victorious by three wickets. The injury to GL’s in form batsman, Aaron Finch, in the 19th game against Royal Challengers Bangalore paved way for Dwayne Smith to open the innings for […]
The Supreme Court will on Saturday hear the pleas of automobile companies like Mercedes, Toyota, Mahindra and General Motors that their high-end diesel cars with engine capacity of 2000 cc and above be allowed to be registered in the National Capital Region (NCR). The pleas by these companies is part of the scheduled full-fledged hearing
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“We direct the Union of India to forthwith demolish Adarsh building,” began Justice R G Ketkar, wasting not a second after he took a seat next to Justice R V More in the Bombay high court on Friday . His words came as a wrecking ball exactly at 3pm for the team of Adarsh cooperative
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Stung by all-round criticism, the government has rolled back its decision to lower interest rate on provident fund deposits to 8.7% for 2015-16 and agreed to fix it at 8.8%, the third EPF-related roll back since March. “I am happy that our Finance Minister has agreed for 8.8% interest to be given for EPF workers
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The makers of ‘Sultan’ have already created huge buzz by unveiling the smashing look of the male lead Salman Khan. His intense avatar as a wrestler left many speechless. Fans even expected to get a glimpse of Anushka Sharma through posters but that did not happen so easily. The teaser too released but we just
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We’ve reached that phase of the IPL where Mumbai Indians make a miraculous recovery following a series of losses. Just like it happened in the last couple of seasons, the defending champions again started poorly but have since turned things around with three wins in their last four games. As much as I do not
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A local court today issued a notice to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s production house in response to a suit filed by the son of the gangster Abdul Latif, claiming damages for defaming his late father. City civil court judge R T Vatsani issued notices to Red Chillies Entertainment Private Limited, Khan’s production house, and
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Tiger Shroff made his Bollywood debut with Sabbir Khan’s Heropanti opposite Kriti Sanon. Tiger’s debut film was loved by the masses for the actors killer action moves and his hot bod. Jr Shroff has teamed up with the filmmaker for the second time for Baaghi which also stars Shraddha Kapoor. The expectations from this action
China and Russia urged the United States on Friday not to install a new anti-missile system in South Korea, after Washington said it was in talks with Seoul in the wake of nuclear arms and missile tests by North Korea. The United States and South Korea have begun talks on possible deployment of the Terminal
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Army said on Friday said that a bullet-riddled body of a militant was recovered from Putshai village in Lolab of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, “The militant was killed in the exchange of fire last night between the security forces and the militant in the area, and the body recovered early morning today,” an army official
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Hailing the successful launch of navigation satellite IRNSS-1G, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday named the new system as ‘NAVIC’ (boatman) as he dedicated it to the people of the country and said SAARC countries can also take advantage of its services. PM Modi gave the expanded form of ‘NAVIC’ as ‘Navigation with Indian Constellation’.
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China passed a law Thursday tightening controls over foreign non-governmental organizations by subjecting them to close police supervision, a move officials say will help the groups but critics charge is the latest attempt by authorities to clamp down on perceived threats to the ruling Communist Party’s control. The law, adopted by the national legislature, states
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A major earthquake hit the Pacific nation of Vanuatu early on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami warning that was cancelled after locals reported no significant damage. The United States Geological Survey said the 7.0-magnitude quake — originally reported as 7.3, struck at a relatively shallow depth of 35 kilometres, some 209 kilometres from the capital
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Air strikes destroyed a hospital and killed dozens of people in rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Thursday, including children and doctors, in an attack that a US official said appeared to be solely the work of the Syrian government. The city of Aleppo is at the center of a military escalation that has undermined peace
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The FBI arrested three people on Thursday, including the older brother of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, on charges of marriage fraud and lying to investigators, authorities said. Syed Raheel Farook, 31, was arrested in the early morning at his home in the California town of Corona, along with his wife Tatiana Farook, also 31.
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The White House is in talks with Indian officials on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to the US, a presidential spokesman said on Thursday after House of Representative Speaker Paul Ryan announced that Modi has been invited to address a joint meeting of the Congress on 8 June. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest,
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Amid ongoing nationalism debate, the Centre has reportedly asked the Urdu writers to refrain from writing highly inflammatory anti-national content. According to a ToI report, the Centre has issued a new circular informing writers affiliated with the National Council for Promotion of Urdu (NCPUL) advising them not to produce content ”against national interest” or that
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It will be the celebration of Indian cinema in Spain when Bollywood stars like Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone and Sonakshi Sinha will perform at the 17th Edition of The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) in June. To be held in Madrid, capital of Spain, the four-day cinematic celebration will start on
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The reported failures come ahead of a major North Korean ruling party meeting next week at which leader Kim Jong Un is believed to want to place his stamp more forcefully on a government he inherited after his dictator father’s death in late 2011. The launches were believed to be the second and third attempted
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Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) led by Kuldeep Bishnoi on Thursday merged with the Congress in the presence of party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. However, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was conspicuous by his absence. The HJC was floated by Mr Bishnoi’s father and former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal in 2007 after parting
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Amid the ongoing political tussle over the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper bribery scam, a report has claimed that the defence firm in question has not returned the entire down payment made by India for the purchase of 12 such helicopters. NDTV reported on Friday that AgustaWestland, a UK-based subsidiary of Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica, has yet to
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UB Group chairman and former liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, who flew to the UK last month, has said he is in “forced exile” and bankers “are not getting any money” by taking his passport or arresting him. In a four-hour interview with the Financial Times, Mallya said he remains an Indian patriot, who is “proud
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Former chief coach, Waqar Younis has urged the cricket authorities to drop Umar Akmal from the Pakistan team and blamed Shahid Afridi for the side’s run of T20 defeats against England, New Zealand and in the Asia Cup and World T20. In a hard-hitting report on his two-year tenure as Pakistan coach, Waqar has directly
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Chinese activist Lu Jinghua, who alleges that she was about to board a flight to New Delhi at New York’s JFK airport on Monday when she was told that her visa had been cancelled, says India is the first country to deny her entry after China. “I 100 per cent believe it’s the Chinese government’s
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A 17-year-old IIT aspirant from Ghaziabad ended her life by jumping from the fifth floor of her apartment building in Kota on Thursday despite clearing JEE (Mains), the results of which were announced a day earlier, taking the total number of stress-related suicides this year by co aching students in the educational hub to five.
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Family members of the slain rationalists Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare on Friday asked whether the government was serious about the probe into two cases. While Dabholkar, an anti-superstition activist, was murdered in Pune in August 2013, CPI leader Pansare was murdered in Kolhapur in February 2015. Maharashtra police have arrested one person in Pansare
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The UN Security Council is weighing a response to North Korea’s failed test-firing of ballistic missiles, diplomats said Friday following emergency closed-door talks in New York. The consultations were urgently requested by the United States following North Korea’s unsuccessful launch of two missiles and as fears grow that the regime is preparing to conduct a
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The Defence Ministry on Thursday vowed to leave no stone unturned in pursuing all means to bring to justice the “corrupt” and the “wrong-doers” in the AgustaWestland chopper case. Refuting Congress party claims that the Anglo-Italian helicopter-maker was blacklisted by the UPA government, the Ministry said it was the NDA which put on hold prospective
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The apex court’s order directing the Medical Council of India to hold the National Entrance and Eligibility Test (NEET) from this year itself has put hundreds of medical aspirants from Maharashtra and other states in a fix. They are supposed to prepare for an exam which is not only based on a different syllabus, but
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Nargis Fakhri will be seen playing Sangeeta Bijlani in ‘Azhar’. Nargis will be seen sharing screen space with ‘serial kisser’ Emraan Hashmi in the film. In an interview with The Indian Express, the actress was quoted as saying, “After I signed the contract, I got to know he (Emraan Hashmi) was known as the serial
