Negotiations for India to buy 36 French Rafale fighter jets are almost at the close, the defence ministry said, with sources saying the price will be set at around $9 billion (approx Rs 65,000 crore). Both sides had hoped to wrap up the strategic order during President Francois Hollande’s visit for India’s Republic Day celebration […]
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Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday assumed charge as state BJP President and set an ambitious target of having an absolute majority by winning 150 seats in the 224-member House in the 2018 Assembly polls. Taking over the mantle of Presidentship for the fourth time, he termed the Congress a “sinking ship”
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Hero Cycles patriarch Satyanand Munjal, 99, passed away at his residence in Model Town in Ludhiana on Thursday, his family said. Popularly known as ‘Mahatma’, Munjal was a much-respected figure in business and social circles. He is survived by six children — five sons and a daughter. A devoted Arya Samajist, Munjal was the eldest
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A police jawan was injured in a gunbattle between security personnel and Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, police said on Thursday. The face-off took place in a dense forest of Idwaya village under Orchha police station limits on Wednesday evening, a senior police official told PTI. A joint team of Special Task Force (STF), District
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Hrithik Roshan says living Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone is his inspiration and the Bollywood actor will only meet him as a ‘true fan’ and not as a star. Hrithik, who often indulges in a conversation with his fans and well-wishers on Twitter, was asked by a Twitter user about who inspires the ‘Bang Bang!’ star
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The trailer of ‘Sarbjit’ has finally arrived and it has all that it takes to leave you heart-broken with its utter realism. ‘Sarbjit’ has Randeep Hooda playing the title role of Sarbjit, who accidently lands across the border in Pakistan and is later jailed for illegally crossing the border in an inebriated state. On the
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If there is a movie being made on Sachin Tendulkar, these legendary words from Tony Greig had to – HAD TO – be there in the video that was eagerly awaited by cricket fans. The teaser for Sachin: A Billion Dreams’ is here and there is only one word to describe it. Goosebumps. A journey
The renaming of Gurgaon to Gurugram may have been a shock to its two million residents but the name has been used for years by local members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. The RSS office ‘Madhav Bhawan’ at sector 12-A has used Gurugram in its address for a long time and Gurgaon’s deputy mayor Parminder
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Former Indian opening batsman Virender Sehwag trolled his famed rival Shoaib Akhtar on Twitter. Taking advantage of India’s record-breaking 5-1 win over Pakistan at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in hockey, the Nawab of Najafgarh showed his humorous side by mocking the former Pakistan pacer. When India and Pakistan face off on the field, everybody
While tributes are pouring in for Veenu Paliwal -India’s ace woman biker killed in a road accident in Vidisha district – 100 km from Bhopal, on Monday evening, a panel of four doctors who conducted autopsy concluded that she died due to a blunt abdominal trauma rupturing liver. Fellow biker Dipesh Tanwar had alleged that
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Glowing projectiles lit up the Philippine sky from an advanced US long-range missile system on Thursday, in war games aimed at boosting their military alliance in the face of an increasingly assertive China. The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) was the star of a simulated assault exercise by 5,500 US and Philippine soldiers, unleashing
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ON WEDNESDAY, 76-year-old Nagappa Narsingappa Lamzane, a resident of Prakash Nagar in Maharashtra’s Latur district, walked two kilometres in the summer heat to turn up at a well, metres from the Latur railway station. “They should fill this well up to the brim. Our eyes will then well up with tears,” he said, turning emotional
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Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, has said that he did not need Priyanka to enhance his life. “I didn’t need my wife Priyanka to enhance my life. I have enough, I have always had enough. My father gave me enough. I have been educated enough to sustain in all types of
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BSP chief Mayawati said on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not do anything for the Dalits in two years of his government, but is now making several promises to Dalits and backwards as the elections in UP are approaching. She said while there were lakhs of people who came to Lucknow on Thursday
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Curfew-like restrictions continued for the second day in parts of Kashmir and mobile internet services were on Thursday suspended in some areas as tension prevailed in the valley following killing of four persons in action by security forces during violent protests since Tuesday. Strict restrictions have been imposed in Kupwara town, Kralgund, Handwara, Magam and
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India has reportedly conducted a secret test of the nuclear-capable undersea ballistic missile, code named K-4. As per a report published in The New Indian Express last week, the submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) was test-fired from INS Arihant at an undisclosed location in the Bay of Bengal. The report quoted a source as saying that
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At least 18 people were killed and 18 others injured on Thursday when a 80-tonne crane collapsed on a temporary structure during a thunderstorm in southeast China. The gantry at a factory in Dongguan city in Guangdong province fell on the two-storey building made of containers during the thunderstorm, which brought with it winds of
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North Korea has deployed one or two intermediate-range ballistic missiles on the east coast, possibly preparing for launch on or around Friday, the anniversary of the birth of the country’s founder, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. A mobile launcher was spotted carrying up to two Musudan missiles, Yonhap said on Thursday, citing multiple South
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In the wake of a fire tragedy at a temple in Kollam, the world-famous Thrissur Pooram festival, known for its colorful parade of caparisoned elephants and spectacular firework display, is likely to be abandoned. With the Kerala High Court banning the use of high-decibel fireworks in the night at places of worship across the state,
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The messiah of Dalits had a language of his own. Each time Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar finished a book, he noted its conclusion in his language for reference. The fact has been noted in a book titled ‘Dr Ambedkar Ka Jivan Darhsan’ by A Lal, a faculty member at Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad. In
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Branding the present government as the most corrupt-ever in Tamil Nadu, BJP president Amit Shah said here on Wednesday that corruption was at its peak in the state. He alleged that there was no proper tendering process for any scheme in the state and projects were awarded based on bribes. Shah was here to introduce
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The mother and brother of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, who committed suicide at Hyderabad Central University in January, converted to Buddhism on Thursday. Today is the 125th birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Dalit icon and the principal architect of the Indian Constitution. Rohith’s mother and brother were given “deeksha” by Buddhist monks at
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After the makers unveiled Shahid Kapoor’s first look in Abhishek Chaubey’s upcoming film Udta Punjab, it has been revealed that Shahid’s ex-flame Kareena Kapoor Khan will portray the role of a doctor in the film. Clad in a simple salwar kameez, a white coat and a stethoscope, the 35-year-old actor looks determined in the first
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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS threatened to carry out ‘guerrilla attacks’ in India with the help of its fighters in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif, the ‘amir’ of ISIS fighters in Bangladesh, in an interview carried by the Dabiq magazie – mouth piece of the terror outfit, vowed to implement
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At least two people have lost their lives and more than 70 have been injured in Assam after an earthquake measuring 6.8 at the Richter scale rocked eastern and north eastern parts of India on Wednesday evening. A strong earthquake epicentred in Myanmar shook parts of Bihar, West Bengal, northeastern India and Delhi-NCR on Wednesday,
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The Bombay High Court on April 12 granted interim protection from arrest till April 18 to actor-producer Rahul Raj Singh, who has been booked for abetting the suicide of his girlfriend and TV star Pratyusha Banerjee. Justice Mridula Bhatkar also directed Singh to appear before the Bangurnagar police station in suburban Goregaon in India’s western
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In a politically provocative move, the government today dissolved the board of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts or IGNCA, set up by Rajiv Gandhi, and announced a new chief. The premier arts body was founded in 1985 in the memory of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and inaugurated by her son and then
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While the current narrative of online conversation has been largely dominated by Shah Rukh Khan’s Fan and Salman Khan’s Sultan, take a couple of minutes to watch the trailer of Traffic. The film stars Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill and Divya Dutta in pivotal roles and the trailer is heart-rending. Literally. Directed by the late Rajesh
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A strong earthquake struck Myanmar on Wednesday night and was felt in parts of eastern India and Bangladesh, but an official said Thursday that there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or major damage in Myanmar. The magnitude 6.9 quake struck at a depth of 135 kilometers (84 miles), 396 kilometers (246 miles) north
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Following the poverty line based on the Tendulkar formula coming under attack across the spectrum, the NITI Aayog has decided not to use poverty line to identify the poor but to track them for extending benefits under various government schemes and programmes. “We have taken a position that poverty line should not be used for
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