A new law passed in France that makes it an offence to pay for sex and moves the punishment from prostitutes to clients, has been hailed as revolutionary by activists who hope it will help stamp out sex trafficking. Under the law, passed on Wednesday, those who pay for sex will face fines of up […]
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What happens when a chief minister has a team of men allegedly taking cash for work…well…the CM keeps apologising for their deeds. In the first of its kind apology and a statement that echoed a definite shift from the Trinamool Congress’ (TMC) usual confident undertone, party chief Mamata Banerjee accepted that there have been a
A city court on Thursday issued a non-bailable warrant against Union minister YS Chowdary in a case of alleged default on repayment of loans. The XIIth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate issued the NBW as the minister again failed to appear in the court despite the summons. The minister of State for Science and Technology, Chowdary,
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Amid his hectic poll campaign on Thursday morning, cricketer S Sreesanth, the BJP candidate in Thiruvananthapuram, got a chance to aim for the stumps once again. Youngsters playing cricket on a ground at Arannoor invited the former Indian pacer to bowl when he passed by with BJP workers. He promptly said yes and joined them.
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The Human Resource Development Ministry on Thursday announced that the aspirants for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for premier engineering institutes from 2017 onwards will be required to score 75 percent marks in their Class 12 board exams. However, Class XII marks will not be a factor for determining rankings in the JEE for admissions
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Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is facing legal proceedings for alleged default of loans worth over Rs 9,000 crore from various banks, was directed by the Supreme Court to disclose the total assets owned by him and his family in India and abroad by April 21. The apex court also sought an indication from him
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India and the United States will conclude talks on three vital defence pacts during the three-day visit of Defence Secretary Ashton Carter beginning in Goa from Sunday. The three agreements are the Logistics Support Agreement (LSA) on military cooperation, Communication Inter-operability and Security Memorandum of Agreement (CIS MO A) on transfer of technology, and the
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Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju today called upon the personnel of Assam Rifles to keep up the good name of the armed force through their hard work and dedication. “Keep the Assam Rifles’ flag flying high in the true spirit of Sentinels of the Northeast and Friends of the Hill People”.
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A European Union official threatened Thursday to sanction Panama and other nations if they don’t cooperate fully to fight money laundering and tax evasion, after a leak of data showed the small country remains a key destination for people who want to hide money. The 11.5 million documents from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca
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It is in the realm of an exhibition tennis match. More sulky in texture than displaying substance. Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basit was clearly given the mandate from Islamabad to nobble the Indo-Pak peace talks for now but, at the same time, to lob the ball pointlessly at the relatively low diplomatic level rather than
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A 28-year-old Bangladeshi law student, who was critical of radical Islamists, has been hacked to death in Dhaka by machete-wielding militants, the latest in a series of attacks on secular bloggers and activists in the Muslim majority country. Nazimuddin Samad, a masters student of the state-run Jagannath University’s law department, was killed by suspected Islamist
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In a boost to the ruling Congress-led UDF ahead of May 16 Assembly elections in Kerala, Election Commission has given its nod for implementing the free rice supply scheme which the state government had announced in its 2016-17 budget. The EC had earlier restrained the government from rolling out of the scheme under which 25
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Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma’s relationship went kaput after the Dil Dhadakne Do actor refused the cricketer’s marriage proposal. The gossip mills are abuzz with the rumours of Virat and Anushka’s break-up. Their split came as a shock for the B-Town celebs. And since then, the gossip mills have been churning out stories around their
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India continues to find itself in choppy waters. Facing an existential crisis in the Supreme Court vis-a-vis implementing the Justice Lodha panel recommendations, another hurdle now confronts the beleaguered body, threatening to affect the IPL. Hearing a PIL filed by an NGO against wastage of water during IPL
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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders will appear before a Delhi court on Thursday in criminal defamation case filed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Besides Kejriwal, AAP leaders Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha and Deepak Bajpai have been asked to appear before the court. The court
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Several local deities are going thirsty, following the total prohibition of manufacture, sale, and consumption of liquor in Bihar. There are many temples in the state where country-made liquor, toddy, and even IMFL (Indian-made foreign liquor) was mandatorily offered to the gods. With total prohibition in force, shrines of Dak Baba, Masan Baba, Goraiya Baba,
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The Supreme Court wants loans defaulter Vijay Mallya to declare all his assets by April 21 and by that same date inform the court when he can appear before its bench. The court on Thursday also told Mallya – who owes more than Rs 9,000 crores to as many as 17 banks – to deposit
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To aid scientists on Earth in studying microgravity and space life sciences, China sent a retrievable scientific research satellite into space in the early hours of today. Named SJ-10, the satellite was launched from a space craft at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China’s Gobi Desert. According to Xinhua, the mission hopes to
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Bollywood star Salman Khan has told the Supreme Court that he was not driving his Toyota Land Cruiser when it killed a man in Mumbai in 2002 but police were trying to implicate him in the case. Claiming that his driver Ashok Singh was at the wheels, Salman said in an affidavit filed on March
For weeks now, we’ve seen speculation after speculation and rumour after rumour sparking up in what can easily be called the ugliest legal battle B-Town has ever seen, that of Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut’s. Despite all the gossip that has surrounded the case, neither Kangana nor Hrithik have ever commented on the matter, though
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Television actor Pratyusha Banerjee’s suicide has made many women, who have allegedly been cheated by her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh, come out with their stories. As Rahul Raj Singh continues to be hospitalised in Mumbai for the third consecutive day, women from the TV industry have come out and indicted him of cheating them. Three
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India moved up one spot in the global rankings to reach the sixth position in 2015 for military spending, according to a study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). SIPRI monitors developments in military expenditure worldwide. According to the study released on Tuesday, India had 3.1% share of world military expenditure of the
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Donald Trump’s Republican rivals, reinvigorated by his loss in Wisconsin’s primary, doubled down on Wednesday on their efforts to block the billionaire front-runner from capturing the party’s presidential nomination. Ted Cruz’s emphatic victory in Wisconsin on Tuesday night dealt momentum to his once long-shot bid to force a contested convention in July by blocking Trump
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A new round of United Nations sanctions on North Korea has a lot of loopholes, and China is only enforcing those that hit at Pyongyang’s weapons-making capabilities. The rogue nation, that is once again making nuclear threats, is using its hostage population as a human shield in order to get Chinese oil and food. In
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The number of known executions worldwide went up by more than 50 percent last year to at least 1,634, the highest figure recorded since 1989, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The surge was largely fuelled by Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the London-based human rights organisation said in its annual report on death sentences and executions
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In a significant judgment aimed at giving the convicts a taste of the suffering caused to the victims and dependents of the deceased, a special Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court, hearing the 2002-03 triple blasts case, on Wednesday, sentenced Muzammil Ansari, who planted the bombs, to suffer life imprisonment until death. This is the
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Union human resource development minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday promised a fee waiver for all SC/ST, Dalit and physically challenged students of the 23 branches of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). A formal announcement to this effect will be made soon. “Besides a complete fee waiver for these students, those with a family income of
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Deepika Padukone continues to be attempting to use the Salman Khan for your greatest period. The actor was within the race for starring Khan. For the best period lovers have been dying to determine Salman Khan and Deepika Padukone discuss the identical framework and seem like the delay is not under. Following the super-successful Bajrangi
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The Army on Thursday claimed to have killed two Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Shopian district, South Kashmir. Among the slain militants one has been identified as Naseer Ahmad Pandit. He was a former police constable and was deputed as a guard at the residence of former Roads and Buildings Minister, Altaf Bukhari. He escaped along
Google’s doodle on its homepage today pays tribute to sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. Designed by Kevin Laughlin, the doodle remembers the sitar virtuoso on his 96th birth anniversary. Describing the concept behind the doodle design, Google writes, “It has two bridges, one for the “drone” strings and the other for the melody strings. Laughlin’s
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