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Nita Ambani, SBI’s Bhattacharya on Forbes Asian women power list

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Reliance Industries director Nita Ambani and State Bank of India chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya have been ranked top two in Forbes’ “Asia 50 Power Businesswomen 2016” list, which acknowledges the inroads women are making in the business world, despite gender inequalities. Including Ambani and Bhattacharya, eight Indian businesswomen have made the cut in the latest list […]

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JKNPP, JPPF call for Jammu bandh today over NIT Sringar clashes

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Several organisations including JKNPP, JPPF and Sri Ram Sena called for Jammu bandh on Thursday in protest against the alleged police action on outstation students at NIT in Srinagar. “We unanimously decided to observe complete Bandh in Jammu on April 7,” said Jammu Province People’s Forum (JPPF) Working President M S Katoch. Katoch appealed to

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‘No proof I consumed alcohol’: Six statements made by Salman Khan in SC affidavit

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Details from Salman Khan’s 83-page affidavit filed in the Supreme Court with regard to his 2002 hit-and-run case, were accessed by media houses on Wednesday. Their reports reveal that Salman has contested all the charges against him, and further, accused the state of tampering with evidence to incriminate him. The superstar’s affidavit raises some very

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‘Wil miss the laughs, intensity and the kohl’: Shah Rukh Khan announces wrap of ‘Raees’

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The shoot for director Rahul Dholakia’s upcoming film Raees starring superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Pakistani talent Mahira Khan and actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been wrapped up. The Chennai Express star says he will “miss the laughs, intensity and the kohl”. He even praised his unit from the film. Finished Raees. Maybe a bit of patchwork

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IPL 9: Ashish Nehra’s comeback motivated me to get back to training, says Zaheer Khan

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Former India fast bowling great Zaheer Khan feels that IPL should not be used as a yardstick to select bowlers for the rigours of Test cricket and also ODIs as they require different skills set. The 37-year-old, who has 311 Test and 282 ODI wickets, made it clear that for Test series bowlers should be

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India takes up Masood Azhar’s veto case with China ‘at a fairly high level’

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New Delhi has taken up with Beijing at a high level the issue of China vetoing a UN bid to declare Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad’s leader Masood Azhar a terrorist. “We have taken it up with the Chinese at a fairly high level,” Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said at the launch of Carnegie India, the sixth international

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Rajnath Singh greets UP girl who is part of Zika virus decoding team

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Home Minister Rajnath Singh today congratulated a doctoral student hailing from Uttar Pradesh who is part of a team in the US which successfully decoded Zika virus, saying the entire country was proud of her achievement. “Congratulations to Ms Devika Sirohi from Meerut, who is part of the US team that has successfully decoded Zika

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‘Just go out there and smash’: Gujarat Lions captain Suresh Raina on his goal for IPL 9

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Suresh Raina, appointed captain of the new Indian Premier League franchise Gujarat Lions, has made his intentions for the upcoming season clear: He just wants to go out there and ‘smash’. Raina did not have the best of times in the recently concluded World T20, scoring just 41 runs from four matches at an average

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3 Pak terrorists in Swift Dzire may target Delhi, Mumbai, Goa

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Three terrorists from Pakistan, allegedly traveling with explosives and a suicide belt in a Maruti Swift Dzire car, are on the move and may target Delhi, Mumbai and Goa, police have alerted. According to reports, the car has the license plate, JK-01 AB-2654. A ‘local’ from Punjab is also allegedy believed to be traveling with

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Kolkata police arrest another IVRCL official in flyover collapse case

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Kolkata police on Wednesday arrested the head of IVRCL’s east India operations, the company responsible for the construction of the flyover that collapsed last week in Kolkata, taking the count upto nine. Ranjit Bhattacharya was booked by police for the Vivekananda Road flyover collapse that killed almost 30 people and injured dozens more. About a

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WT20: West Indies players back Marlon Samuels for his outburst against Shane Warne

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West Indies players and coach have defended batsman Marlon Samuels over his controversial outburst against legendary legspinner Shane Warne after his 85* helped WI win the ICC World Twenty20 on April 3 beating England in a dramatic final at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Samuels, who was Man-of-the-Match in the final, took aim at the

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Mumbai triple blasts: Three get life sentence for bombings that claimed 13 lives

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A special POTA court here today sentenced to life three of the 10 convicted in the multiple blasts that rocked the metropolis between December 2002 and March 2003, killing 13 people while key accused Saquib Nachan was given a 10-year jail term. Special Pota Judge P R Deshmukh said that convict Muzammil Ansari (who had

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Excise on jewellery is an assassination attempt on small businessmen: Rahul

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Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday joined jewellers protesting against the imposition of excise duty on non-silver jewellery, saying the government’s proposal was to crush small businessmen in India. “We would stand with you for your cause. I am not here to make speeches. I feel your pain, I stand with you,” Gandhi Gandhi

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Maharashtra drought: Bombay High Court raps cricket body; says people are more important than IPL

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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday rapped Maharashtra Cricket body for the wastage of water for IPL matches. The Court was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the government and cricket boards to not water the pitches during the forthcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) crickets season, starting from April 9. Questioning the

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China sets up lighthouse on contested South China Sea reef in a bid to gain more control

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China has expanded its presence in the contested South China Sea by switching on a lighthouse atop a reconstructed reef also claimed by Vietnam and the Philippines, state media said. The 55-meter-high (180-foot) facility on Subi Reef in the Spratly chain contains technology to monitor passing ships, the official Xinhua news agency reported late Tuesday.

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‘We are trying to take a responsible attitude’: UN defends itself against Modi’s charge of ‘irrelevance’

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The UN has defended its stance against terrorism, saying it is “certainly” trying to take a responsible attitude in dealing with the menace, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised the world body over the issue. “We certainly are trying to take a responsible attitude in terms of dealing with terrorism and the spectre of

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Destroying Islamic State group my ‘top priority’: Barack Obama

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US President Barack Obama has said that destroying the Islamic State (IS) group remains his “top priority” at a time when the jihadist group continues to lose ground in Iraq and Syria. “We continue to take on their leadership, their financial networks, their infrastructure,” Obama said yesterday at a meeting with senior military officials in

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HRD Ministry sends team to Srinagar NIT following scuffle in campus, Kejriwal condemns police action

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The HRD Ministry is sending a two-member team to NIT Srinagar campus today which has been gripped by tension following clashes among students over the Indian cricket team’s loss against West Indies in the T20 World Cup last week. “The Ministry has decided to send a two-member team comprising a Director and a Deputy Secretary

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Now, Google launches health cards for quick access to information

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Search engine giant Google on Tuesday launched new health cards in Knowledge Graph with which anyone in India searching for health information can now access it quickly and easily. Now when people ask Google about common health conditions, they will see information cards with typical symptoms as well as details on how common the condition

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NIA officer’s murder: Sleuths zero in on personal enmity angle

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The Uttar Pradesh police probing the killing of National Investigation Agency (NIA) officer Mohammad Tanzil Ahmed believe personal enmity to be the motive behind the murder on Tuesday, as they released photographs of two unidentified guests at a wedding the cop attended as prime suspect. A police officer said the investigation team has important leads

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HC refuses to grant interim protection to Virbhadra’s children

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The Delhi High Court today refused to grant any interim protection to Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s two children, who have challenged the Enforcement Directorate’s provisional attachment of some of their assets in a money laundering case. “We will give them (ED, Ministry of Finance) an opportunity to file response and then we will

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Tobacco packets not bearing the prescribed pictorial warnings would be seized: Officials

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While the Centre has made 85 per cent pictorial health warnings mandatory on both sides of tobacco products from April 1, 2016, the Union Health Ministry has alerted all the government departments to strictly implement the rule. Officials said the tobacco packets not bearing the prescribed pictorial warnings would be seized by the concerned authorities

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PM Narendra Modi’s Saudi Arabia visit may unnerve Pakistan: US expert

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia could unnerve Pakistan as economic and strategic opportunities are bringing India closer to the oil-rich gulf nation, a top US expert has said. “After years of considering Saudi Arabia as a major ally and economic benefactor, Pakistan may be on the verge of losing its erstwhile

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Rebels abduct Kozhikode techie in Libya, says family

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An unidentified militia group in strife-torn Libya abducted an IT engineer from Koorachundu in the district, according to information received here. Regi Joseph (43) was reportedly abducted by suspected anti-government militia group on March 31 from his workplace at Souk al Jumaa near the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Three other people, reportedly Libyan nationals, were also

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