Top Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was handed over to French authorities on Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Belgium said. Abdeslam, a French national of Moroccan origin who grew up in Belgium, is believed to be the last surviving member of the terror squad that killed 130 people in the French capital in November. “Within the […]
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North Korea on Wednesday formally set 6 May for the opening of a landmark ruling party congress — the first in nearly four decades and an event many fear will be preceded by a fifth nuclear test Anticipation over the congress, last held in 1980, has been mounting since the North signalled its intentions to
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Filmmaker Kabir Khan was in Karachi, Pakistan to speak at the Marketing Association of Pakistan’s annual marketing conference, MARCON. Before leaving for Pakistan, the ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ filmmaker had tweeted about how excited he was about visiting the neighbouring country. However, in a shocking turn of events, Kabir was hounded and verbally attacked by a mob
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Did you ever wonder how plants are able to do similar things repeatedly season after season? An Indian biologist has unveiled that plants also have memory cells in a strange form that help them to memorise things. Three years of research and analysis of over 20,000 plants has led to the discovery of special proteins
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Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who will soon be seen in the Omung Kumar-directed ‘Sarbjit’, said she thinks Cannes is the best platform for showcasing of the biopic. “I do not know if the team will be able to make the opportunity possible on that platform as well because Cannes will be happening in the last
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Police on Wednesday detained Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front(JKLF) chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik hours ahead of the funeral prayers in absentia for party founder Amanullah Khan, who died in Pakistan on Tuesday. “Ahead of Gayibana Nimaz-i-Jinaza (funeral prayers in absentia) for JKLF supreme leader Amanullah Khan, Malik was arrested by police,” a spokesman of the JKLF
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Abhey Singh Sandhu, the nephew of Bhagat Singh, on Wednesday said the controversy over the legendary freedom fighter being labelled as ‘revolutionary terrorist’ in a Delhi University textbook is extremely unfortunate as even the Britishers described him as a ‘true revolutionary’. “This is a very sad precedent that even after 68 years of Independence such
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Serial killers rarely leave fingerprints at crime scenes they touch. But they do leave something even more distinctive: their modus operandi. In every murder they commit, they use the exact same pattern in going about their morbid and deluded work. That’s how crime fighting agencies eventually catch them, but for them, patterns are everything. In
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The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday confirmed a visit of its leaders to Pakistan. A three-member delegation had arrived in Islamabad from its Qatar-based office on Monday to discuss with Pakistan the possibility of the peace talks, diplomatic and official sources said. “Since the Afghan people have close relations, long border and commercial transactions with neighbouring
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Rewinding fast backward reveals that when the Kyoto Protocol was opened for signature 18 years ago, on March 16, 1998, only six countries signed it on the opening day. Four of them were small island countries. When the Paris climate deal was opened for signature at UN headquarters on Earth Day, 22 April, 2016, a
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While Farhan Akhtar and ex-wife Adhuna Bhabani seem to share cordial relationship and even showed up at the same event on Monday, the Bollywood actor does not want to answer question about his relationship. Farhan and Adhuna were both present at the wrap party of Baar Baar Dekho starring Katrina Kaif and Sidharth Malhotra. The
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Shock, disbelief and anger sums-up the mood in the separatist camp after Pakistan openly snubbed their leaders by not inviting them for a meeting with its visiting foreign secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry in New Delhi. “You should ask them (why they have not invited us),” retorted Ayaz Akbar, spokesman of hard-line Hurriyat Conference led by
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Manoj Bajpayee after being showered with accolades for his role in Aligarh is all set for his next release Traffic. After the recent trailer launch of the film, superstar Salman Khan had expressed his wish to watch Traffic on a microblogging site. Khan’s post boosted the team’s morale and Manoj Bajpayee, the protagonist plans to
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Indian athletics legend Milkha Singh on Tuesday hit back at Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan by saying that the movie industry hasn’t done any favour by making a film on him. Salim has tried to defend his son’s appointment as the goodwill ambassador of the Indian contingent for the Rio Olympic Games. The
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No, it’s not beau Ranveer Singh, who flew all those air miles to be with girlfriend Deepika Padukone. Instead, this time around, it’s DP’s parents, Prakash and Ujjala Padukone, who are in Toronto to visit their beti where she is shooting for her first Hollywood venture xXx. They will spend around eight days in Deepika’s
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Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut’s murky public spat has reached a point where it is hard to discern fiction from fact. A day after a leaked pic of the two Bollywood stars hugging each other went ‘viral,’ with her supporters claiming that it proved an ‘intimate’ relationship between the two, his lawyers have termed the
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Patanjali Ayurved, co-founded by televangelist Ramdev, is targeting Rs 10,000-crore revenue in 2016-17, after sales grew 150 per cent in the previous financial year to Rs 5,000 crore. The revenue target, if achieved, will put Patanjali Ayurved ahead of multinationals like Nestle, Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble in India. Delhi-headquartered Patanjali Ayurved has four business
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The Brazilian Senate’s special commission on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff approved at its first meeting that it will vote on May 6, on whether the process should continue or not. If the commission votes and makes its recommendation, a full Senate vote could take place on May 11, the commission’s rapporteur Antonio Anastasia
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The Joint Entrance Examinations Mains (JEE Main 2016) exam results will be declared by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday. Those who had appeared for the for the JEE Main 2016 can check their results on – jeemain.nic.in, cbseresults.nic.in Steps to check JEE Main results 2016 results: 1. Visit either of the two
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on Monday night with fever and chest congestion, is likely to be discharged on Wednesday. She was reported to be recovering well by Tuesday evening. “She is recovering well,” a sources in the External Affairs Ministry, adding
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The Jawaharlal Nehru University students union on Tuesday rejected “outright” the punishment meted out to its students, based on the recommendations of the High Level Enquiry Committee (HLEC). The union termed the enquiry committee “casteist” and “anti-reservation”. The students, along with JNU teachers’ association members, burnt the pages of the HLEC report. Opposing the punishment
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Union Minister Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will release the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s vision document for Assembly elections in Kerala here on Saturday. The vision document will encapsulate the front’s agenda for wholesome development of the State, according to Kummanam Rajasekharan, president of the state unit of the BJP. He told newspersons here that Central
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India’s batting superstar Virat Kohli is eagerly awaiting the release of the biopic of his idol Sachin Tendulkar and admits that that he got into cricket because of the batting legend. The India Test captain was in the financial capital Mumbai to launch a new initiative called Virat Fanbox – to connect with his fans
With its gaze fixed on the Assembly polls in Punjab next year, the Aam Aadmi Party in its fifth national council meeting on Wednesday is set to adopt a resolution to spread the word about its “Delhi model of governance” across the country and hold out a promise to replicate it in Punjab. The draft
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In shocking revealation it has been found that underwold don Dawood Ibrahim, who is wanted in India for his role in 1993 blasts, has been in touch with Indian politicians. According to a report in a leading English news channel, Dawood’s call records show that he frequently dialled Indian numbers. In fact, they revealed that
India’s Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, held informal talks in New Delhi on Tuesday. India has conveyed to Pakistan that former naval officer Kulbushan Jadhav, arrested on charges of being an Indian spy across the border, was abducted and sought immediate consular access for him claiming that he was
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A huge fire broke out at a biodiesel unit near the port city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night. There are no reports of casualties. Around 40 fire engines were sent to control the blaze that started in the facilities of a company called Biomax in the Duvvada Special Economic Zone around 7:30
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On Tuesday evening tweet, the Congress party’s Twitter account was busy. UPA ordered a CBI probe against AgustaWestland, Modi Govt invited them for 'Make in India' pic.twitter.com/ZHg7H3X5Z7 — INC India (@INCIndia) April 26, 2016 By then it had become clear that the ghost of the Italian AgustaWestland VVIP helicopter deal had come back to haunt
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Donald Trump says that the Republican nomination contest is “over” as he turned his focus to his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. He said of the Republican nomination contest: “it’s over. As far as I’m concerned it’s over.” In a front-runner’s rout, Republican Donald Trump roared to victory Tuesday in five contests across the Northeast, keeping
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Enjoy the Kapil Sharma Show while you can because it will reportedly go off air after only 13 weeks. According to a leading daily, Kapil said that for this new show, they have sorted a 26-episode series spanning over the next 13 weeks, unlike Comedy Nights with Kapil, which was extended due to its extreme
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