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South China Sea: Australia involved in Balikatan war games amid warnings

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Australian military personnel, including special force commandos, are taking part in three-nation war games near the flashpoint waters of the South China Sea that have riled China. China’s state newsagency Xinhua warned “outsiders” against interfering in South China Sea territorial disputes as the 12-day exercises got underway in the Philippines. Xinhua warned that tensions in […]

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Xi Jinping’s family and Panama Papers: China blocks internet search terms, removes stories

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China has moved to limit coverage of the massive leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm that may have exposed financial wrongdoing by some of the world’s rich and powerful, blocking some search terms and removing certain stories online. The “Panama Papers” revealed financial arrangements of politicians and public figures including friends of Russian

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‘Stand up India’ to promote entrepreneurship among women: PM Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi who will launch the ‘Stand up India’ scheme and its web portal at Sector 62 in Uttar Pradesh’s (U.P.) Noida city today, said that the initiative will promote entrepreneurship among women, SC and ST communities. “Today the ‘Stand up India’ initiative will be launched. This initiative will promote entrepreneurship among women,

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Don, politician, ex-cricketer, industrialist in Panama Papers Part II

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A now-deceased underworld don, a politician, an industrialist and an ex-cricketer are among those with alleged off-shore links, even as the agency that helped them set up the entities stonewalled New Delhi’s probe efforts, the Indian Express reported on Tuesday. In a series of articles under “Panama Papers Part 2” — as part of the

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Pak Probe Team Says Pathankot Attack Staged By India: Pak Media Report

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A Pakistani newspaper has claimed that the country’s Joint Investigation Team or JIT that visited Pathankot last month to inquire into the January terror attack has called the incident staged and accused India of using it to spread “vicious propaganda” without any solid evidence. The Pakistan Today has quoted a member of the JIT as

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Priyanka Chopra tried to commit suicide many times, says former manager Prakash Jaju

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Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra attempted suicide three times during her struggling days including in 2002 after the death of her alleged former boyfriend Aseem Merchant’s mother, her ex-manager Prakash Jaju claimed. In a series of tweets, Jaju said the 33-year-old Quantico star was extremely close to Merchant’s mother and did not take her demise well.

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Suspected Islamic State attacks in Iraq leave 17 dead, 64 injured

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Four suicide bombings targeting Iraqi security forces and civilians and mortar fire that struck houses near Baghdad killed at least 17 people on Monday, security and medical officials said. The morning attacks also wounded at least 64 people, the sources said. In the deadliest single attack, a suicide bomber struck a street in the southern

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PM Modi returns to India after three-nation tour of Belgium, US and Saudi Arabia

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned home on Sunday night after wrapping up his final-leg of five-day three-nation tour of Belgium, the US and Saudi Arabia. The Prime Minister had arrived in Riyadh on Saturday from Washington and on Sunday, he held wide-ranging talks with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud during which they agreed

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Muslims living in harmony with other religious communities in India: Imam of Kaba Shrine in Mecca

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The Imam of Kaba shrine in Mecca, who is on a visit to India, has condemned acts of terrorism around the world and said that Muslims in the country are living with love and harmony with other communities. Amid an intolerance debate, Imam Sheikh Saleh Bin Mohammad Bin Ibrahim Aal-e-Talib expressed his views while speaking

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Bangladesh: Police seize grenades, firearms and bullets from village after an explosion

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Police seized at least 10 grenades as well as firearms and bullets Monday from a home in a northern Bangladeshi village where an explosion left two suspected militants with fatal injuries. Authorities suspect the home in the Sherpur area of Bogra district was occupied by members of a banned Islamist militant group called the Jumatul

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Panama papers: Putin claims he was involved in no wrongdoing; media making him the ‘main target’

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The spokesman of Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is the “main target” of the media investigation into offshore accounts, but that he was not implicated in any wrongdoing. The documents published by more than 100 media outlets alleged that Putin’s friends, including a leading cellist, were engaged in an offshore scheme. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry

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Uttarakhand crisis: High court to hear pleas on imposition of President’s rule on 6 April

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Congress and BJP are anxiously awaiting the high court’s decision on two major petitions related to imposition of President’s rule in the state which would be heard on 6 April even as they work to keep their flock together. A division bench of the high court would resume hearing on the Centre’s petition challenging the

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Pratyusha Banerjee’s Friends Reveal Details of Relationship With Fiance

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In the case of the alleged suicide of television actress Pratyusha Banerjee, her friends claimed that her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh “cheated on her” and used to “slap” her in public as well as in parties. The 24-year-old Balika Vadhu star was found dead at her home in suburban Goregoan in Mumbai on April 1,

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Furious Air France staff threaten mutiny over headscarf compulsion for flying to Tehran

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After Air France told its female cabin crew they had to put on headscarves before flying into Iran, outraged staff are threatening mutiny. Staff have accused the airline of attacking individual freedoms after a new dress code was announced ahead of the resumption of flights to Tehran in April. An internal email said “Female cabin

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Panama Paper leaks: Nawaz Sharif’s family park unaccounted wealth in offshore tax havens

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Secret files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that have leaked into the public domain indicate that Pakistan’s first family — the Sharifs — are the world’s powerful who have established offshore tax havens to park their unaccounted for wealth. In a data dump that is described as being larger than the leaked US

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Rains, floods kills 57 in northwest Pakistan, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

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At least 57 people were killed and 27 others injured as flash floods triggered by torrential rains swept away houses across northwest Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), officials said on Monday. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was worst-hit in the downpour that began last night and caused flash floods in several districts, a Pakistani national disaster management

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Delhi University professor Saibaba, arrested for Maoist links, gets bail

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Delhi University professor Dr GN Saibaba, who was arrested for links with Maoists, was granted bail by the Supreme Court today. The wheelchair-bound professor was arrested in May 2014. He was granted bail July 2015 but it was cancelled by the Bombay High Court in December last year. Saibaba, a professor of English at Delhi

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‘If not for law, we’d have beheaded those not saying Bharat Mata ki Jai’

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Yoga guru Ramdev has said he would have decapitated all those who refuse to say “Bharat Mata ki Jai” if the country’s laws did not stop him from doing so. Ramdev, who was addressing a Sadbhawana rally in Rohtak on Sunday, also said any religion prohibiting someone from saying ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ is against

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In Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa Names Constituency, Just 7 Seats For Allies

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Tamil Nadu has entered unhindered election mode, with the two major competing teams deciding how to divide up seats among themselves, and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa announcing that she will run for office from the constituency that elected her after she was acquitted in a major corruption case. Ms Jayalalithaa, 68, will ask for another

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Tamil Nadu polls: DMK, Congress finalize seat-sharing pact

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The Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) finally struck a seat-sharing deal for the upcoming Tamil Nadu assembly elections on Monday. “We have assigned 41 seats to the Congress party and the rest will be distributed. Of course the major share will go to DMK,” senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said after completing

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Coal scam: Court sentences JIPL directors Rungtas to 4 years in jai

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A special court on Monday sentenced Jharkhand Ispat Pvt Ltd’s (JIPL) directors RC Rungta and RS Rungta to four years in rigorous imprisonment in the coal block allocation scam that rocked the UPA-II dispensation. Awarding the first sentence in the coal block allocation cases, the court also imposed a fine of Rs 25 lakh on

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