The election to Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation (GMC) has resulted in a tie as both the BJP and Congress won 16 seats each out of the total 32 in the counting held on Tuesday. A lottery system will now decide which party will rule over the GMC. “The poll result ended in a tie as both […]
The news about Shahid Afridi‘s younger daughter’s death that has been circling around is false. The news broke last night that his daughter has passed away and in no time it started spreading across in different sectors of social media. There is no confirmation on the news of the death of his daughter from the
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After the success of Special 26 and Baby, Akshay Kumar and director Neeraj Pandey have joined hands again, this time for a romantic thriller titled Rustom. Based on real life incidents, the film marks the debut of director Tinu Desai, who assisted Neeraj in Special 26. Set in late 1950s, Rustom has Ileana D’cruz as
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An assistant professor in the department of history at the Women’s College in BHU, allegedly committed suicide by hanging from a ceiling fan at her home in Badi Gaibi area here on Sunday. Police recovered a suicide note from the room of deceased Swasti Pandey in which she had written about being in distress after
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Pakistan on Tuesday said it was making efforts to promote peace in Afghanistan and denied providing shelter to Taliban members as claimed by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. “Pakistan has made sincere and consistent efforts to promote lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan,” Efe news quoted Pakistani foreign ministry spokesperson Nafees Zakaria as saying. Zakaria said
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned on Monday the execution of a Canadian hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, calling it “an act of cold-blooded murder.” John Ridsdel, 68, a former mining executive, was captured by Islamist militants along with three other people in September 2015 while on vacation on a Philippine island.
The ICC said that certain comments and actions by some of the West Indies players after clinching the World T20 were “inappropriate, disrespectful and brought the event into disrepute”. After clinching the World T20 on April 3 following a thrilling last-over win over England in the finals, West Indies skipper Darren Sammy had launched a
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Punjabi singer Diljit Dosanjh ‘s popular number ‘Patiala Peg’ is already a hit and has been watched over 2.5 crore times on Youtube. But a new version of the same song by a group of African students has also gone viral on social media. The video shows a group of these students sitting at roadside
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As the movie wrapped up last week Sidharth Malhotra recently organised a grand celebration for the cast and crew of his next movie Baar Baar Dekho. But astonishingly, his girlfriend Alia Bhatt was not present in the bash. Karan Johar, Katrina Kaif, Aarti Shetty, Nitya Mehra and Shakun Batra attended Sidharth Malhotra’s celebration. Based on
Ukraine prepared on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system. In the early hours of April 26, 1986, a botched test at the nuclear plant in then-Soviet Ukraine triggered a meltdown that spewed deadly clouds
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Deploying central forces at the National Institute of Technology in Srinagar will not result in the alienation of Kashmiri youth, the government said on Tuesday. “Deployment of central forces was not a suo motu decision of the central government. It was done only after the students and the NIT administration made a demand (in this
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He has played his cricket aggressively and is known to speak his heart out. So when Gautam Gambhir was asked if it was right for the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to name Salman Khan as the Indian Olympic contingent’s Goodwill Ambassador, while he didn’t name the superstar, the Kolkata Knight Riders skipper said: “I would
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Mumbai Indians played their seventh match of IPL 2016 on Monday, becoming the first side to reach the halfway point, and despite there being more downs than ups for this side, they have still somehow managed to keep themselves afloat. And though they are just one or two defeats away from elimination, one cannot rule
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The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up BCCI for “monopolizing” cricket in the country and said several youngsters wanting to be Dhonis and Kohlis are not given equal opportunity if they are not on the right side of the cricket body. “Several youngsters in the country want to make their career in cricket and want
The Bombay High Court granted anticipatory bail to producer Rahul Raj Singh on Monday, who was accused of abetting the suicide of actress Pratyusha Banerjee, after observing that prima facie there is no evidence to show that the accused “instigated or intended” the suicide. “From the statements of witnesses, it is clearly seen that harassment
After a small hiatus, television’s most popular Bhabi is all set to make a comeback tonight on &TV. While both Tiwari (Rohitash Gaud) and Vibhuti (Aasif Sheikh) have been waiting with bated breath for Angoori, their prayers have been answered, and Angoori will soon step back into their lives. Popular actress Shubhangi Atre will now
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Seems like Katrina Kaif feels Salman Khan and controversy go hand-in-hand. When the 32-year-old actress, during the wrap up party of ‘Baar baar Dekho’ last night, was asked about her former boyfriend’s recent Olympic controversy, she said, “What is new with Salman Khan being entangled in a controversy.” Controversy kicked off when the 50-year-old actor
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A bomb was detonated on board a train pulling out of Maelbeek station, close to the European institutions, in the morning rush hour on March 22. The attack followed suicide bombs at Brussels airport which also killed 16 people. “We will overcome this too. You get emotional when you come here. You feel it inside.
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Eyeing to become the first woman president of the US, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has said that if elected to the White House half of her Cabinet would be comprised of women. “I am going to have a cabinet that looks like America, and 50 per cent of America is women, right?” Ms Clinton said
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Two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death Monday at an apartment in Bangladesh’s capital, police said, the latest deadly attack on minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Maruf Hossain Sorder said at least six men entered the seven-storey building, saying they were there to deliver a parcel to the home
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Former home minister P Chidambaram on Monday reacted for the first time in the wake of new revelations in the Ishrat Jahan case claiming he could not recollect that he had seen the first affidavit despite the fact that records seem to indicate he had signed two contradictory affidavits within 45 days in 2009. “The
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Hitting out at the Centre, the Shiv Sena in its editorial mouthpiece Saamana said that the promotional film showing good works by Modi government won’t work, as country’s 33 per cent area is facing drought-like situation and the govt has been unsuccessful in providing them with relief. The party’s mouthpiece targeted Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah
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The US military conducted “freedom of navigation” operations against 13 countries last year, including several to challenge China’s claims in the South and East China seas, according to an annual Pentagon report released on Monday. The operations were against China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Libya, Malaysia, the Maldives, Oman, the Philippines and Vietnam, the report said.
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It appears that Dawood Ibrahim is suffering from an advanced stage of gangrene and is unlikely to be cured fully, reports. Docs treating the underworld don believe that the reason behind gangrene is caused due to the loss of effective local blood supply due to high blood pressure and blood sugar. The report goes on
A CANDIDATE was allegedly attacked, a three-year-old girl injured when her home was ransacked and at least two bombs flung near polling booths. Despite these incidents, described by police as “stray”, voting took place briskly and in relative peace at North-24 Parganas on Monday — the fourth phase of the ongoing Assembly elections in West
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The Special MCOCA Court’s verdict discharging nine accused has partially removed the terror stain from the collective consciouness of Malegaon’s Muslim community, which lives in a ghetto where, like other Muslim ghettos, development is slow to reach. When the powerful bombs placed in bicycles rocked Malegaon’s Hamidiya Masjid and Bada Kabrastan on September 8, 2006,
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Adarsh Shetty, president of AHAR (Association of Hotels and Restaurants), said that they are hopeful that the government will finally start issuing licences without frivolous conditions after the Supreme Court order. “My phone was flooded with thank you calls from bar dancers who have been jobless for the last 11 years. The government abruptly closed
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The Aam Aadmi Party’s best efforts to put lawmakers into following its odd-even rule on the first day of the Parliament session elicited little response. A Member of Parliament Special Bus Service, launched by the Delhi government, to drop lawmakers to Parliament on Monday morning had few takers. Taking into account the Parliament session and
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India’s star batsman Virat Kohli said on Monday (April 25) he is looking forward to watching the biopics of iconic Indian cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, Mohammad Azharuddin and Mahendra Singh Dhoni which are scheduled to be released soon. Batting legend Tendulkar has recently released on his social networking sites the teaser of his biopic, “Sachin: A
A poster of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati depicting her as Goddess Kali slaying Union Minister Smriti Irani with Prime Minister Narendra Modi shown in a miniature form has surfaced here, triggering a blame game between political rivals in Uttar Pradesh. While BSP denied that it has any association with the controversial poster, BJP
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