News about JNU protests was all over the internet about a month ago. Just when we thought the whole issue was fading into thin air, Yatra.com, brought it alive in their latest ad. The commercial features a Kanhaiya Kumar lookalike delivering a passionate speech where he demands for ‘Azadi’ to choose a window seat in […]
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Virat Kohli was named Player of the Tournament for his sensational run during the ICC World Twenty20. Even though India were handed a six-wicket defeat by eventual champions West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium, Kohli stood out with 273 runs from five matches. (West Indies lift second World T20 title | Highlights ) Kohli’s sequence
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Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan has denied the speculated reports that he has signed a movie with actress Sunny Leone, Indian media reported. There have been reports that “Delhi Belly” fame director Abhinay Deo had signed Leone opposite Aamir, 51, for a dark comedy. When asked, at an event here, if he is doing a movie
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A demonstrably calibrated step-up in the political attacks on the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu by its long-perceived ‘natural ally’, the BJP, in the run-up to the May 16 Assembly polls, has not come a day too soon. From suave articulation of the Narendra Modi government’s position at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris in
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Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted by a terror group in Yemen, is “safe” and efforts are underway for his early release, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told a delegation of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), the organisation’s spokesman said on Sunday. Father Gyanprakash Topno, spokesman of CBCI, told PTI that a five-member delegation
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More than 24 hours have passed since the National Investigation Agency (NIA) officer was gunned down by two unknown assailants on Sunday early morning near Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, the high-profile investigation of UP Police STF and NIA has failed to find any leads. Mohd Tanzil Ahmad, a NIA officer, probing terror cases related to
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In a veiled attack on Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over his remarks that “those unwilling to say ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ have no right to stay in the country”, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said a chief minister should not take a stand as he represents all sections. “CM’s position does not belong
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Karisma Kapoor was spotted with her alleged boyfriend Sandeep Toshniwal at a party thrown by sister and actress Kareena Kapoor to celebrate the release of her new film, R Balki’s ‘Ki and Ka’. Soon after Karisma filed divorce with estranged husband Sunjay Kapur, reports floated that she has found solace on Sandeep Toshniwal, a 35-year-old
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This is very exciting, after very successful films like Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Jab Tak Hai Jaan, superstar Shahrukh Khan and Anushka Sharma will be again seen together in the upcoming directorial film of Imtiaz Ali. The film is untitled yet, but as per sources it is a comedy drama. Shahrukh plays a
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Congress will contest in 41 seats in Tamil Nadu in the May 16 assembly election in alliance with DMK, both parties agreed on Monday. The parties struck the deal at a meeting senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mukul Wasnik had with DMK chief M Karunanidhi at his Gopalapuram residence here in the morning.
Naagin story just took a new turn which was loved by the most of the audience. The story of Naagin has changed to Sesha and Shivanya fighting for Hrithik together to Sesha getting attracted to Hrithik. Sesha calls up her touch and first meeting with Hrithik and thinks it’s wrong as she is a Naagin
Last year, it was Swiss Leaks, a global list with over 1,100 Indians with secret bank accounts in HSBC Geneva, which shaped the debate over black money parked overseas. Now come The Panama Papers. More than 11 million documents from the secret files of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm headquartered in tax haven Panama, known
India’s seven-wicket defeat to West Indies in their 2016 ICC World Twenty20 continues to grab headlines with former players and pundits still giving their comments on the key aspects of the match. On Saturday, former India captain Sourav Ganguly said he wouldn’t have given Virat Kohli the final at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday. West
The poll-bound Uttar Pradesh government has announced a relief package for drought-affected Bundelkhand region, promising monthly free ration to 2.30 lakh families in the affected districts. The state announced the extension of the package after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav undertook a two-day tour of the region that has been reeling under a long spell of
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With PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti set to take oath as first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, uncertainty still remains over council of ministers. The 57-year-old Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief, who will replace her father late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, as 13th chief minister of politically sensitive state, hasn’t given any indications
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You could see this coming from Darren Sammy. There was a hint when Chris Gayle had an uncharacteristic outburst at West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) last year after pulling off a sensational assault on South Africa. Expressing his pain and anguish over the axing of Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard, Gayle said at the post-match
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Millions of confidential documents have been leaked from one of the world’s most secretive law firms, exposing how the rich and powerful have hidden their money. A massive leak of 11.5 million tax documents has exposed the secret offshore dealings of aides to Russian president Vladimir Putin, world leaders and celebrities including Barcelona forward Lionel
For the first time since Partition, there is a glimmer of hope that the 300-year-old Gurdwara Bhai Biba Singh in Peshawar, Pakistan, would be opened to Sikhs from India. After opening the gurdwara, Evacuee Trust Property Board chairman Siddiq-ul-Farooq informed TOI over the phone that the gurdwara would be opened to Indian Sikhs only if
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The Congress Party on Saturday criticised both the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband for indulging in ‘petty politics’ in the name of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and said both sides are trying to divide the nation. “All those who try and do petty politics in the name of ‘Bharat
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The Indian Railways aims to beat its speed record after a gap of 28 years with the inaugural run of the Gatimaan Express on Tuesday. Gatimaan Express, India’s first semi high-speed train, will cover the 184 kilometre-distance from Hazrat Nizamuddin station to Agra in 100 minutes, clocking a maximum speed of 160 kmph. The Bhopal
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Riyadh on Saturday on his maiden two-day visit to the oil-rich Saudi kingdom as both countries are set to firm up a raft of pacts to bolster their strategic partnership besides exploring ways to enhance security and counter-terror cooperation. Combating threat of terrorism and radicalisation are expected to figure
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Major cigarette manufacturers including ITC, Godfrey Philips and VST have decided to shut all their factories and stop manufacturing with effect from Friday in the wake of larger pictorial warnings covering 85 percent of the packaging space coming into force. The companies, which are members of Tobacco Institute of India, who account for more than
Four CRPF personnel were on Saturday injured in a series of IED blasts carried out by Naxals in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand. Officials said the incident occurred near Topchanchi-Jitpur axis when bike-borne troops of the force were out on patrol in the Left Wing Extremism affected areas of the district. “Four troops have been injured
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The superintendent of a district jail in Varanasi was taken hostage while his deputy was seriously injured as inmates clashed with prison staff on Saturday and took control of a section of the prison barracks. The inmates went on the rampage in the morning after two of their prison mates were allegedly beaten up by
Indian Railways will transport water to drought-affected areas in the country, said an official statement from the Railway Ministry, issued on Friday. Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has directed the railway administration to make necessary arrangements in this regard in Maharashtra, the statement added. Rlys will transport 2750000 litres/rake drinking water in the drought-affected areas
Stephen Fleming. the Rising Pune SuperGiants coach, minced no words in backing MS Dhoni as his choice to lead the Pune IPL team. While addressing a press conference at JW Mariott hotel in Pune on Friday (April 1), Fleming was asked how he was going to handle three skippers of their respective squads – Faf
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So what is so different about Emraan Hashmi’s next movie ‘Azhar’? There is no kiss shared by him and his co-star Lara Dutta. In ‘Azhar,’ Emraan will be seen playing former cricketer Md Azharuddin and Lara Dutta will be portraying a lawyer fighting his ‘match fixing case.’ At the trailer launch of the movie yesterday
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A CBI special court on Saturday allowed retired Gujarat IPS officer D G Vanzara, a key accused in the Ishrat Jahan and Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter cases, to return home to Gujarat. The court modified the bail condition that had confined Vanzara to Mumbai for the past one year. Special judge SJ Raje pronounced the
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Deepika Padukone, who will make her Hollywood debut with XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, was recently seen chilling with her co-star Nina Dobrev. Director DJ Caruso shared a picture of the 30-year-old actor and Dobrev hanging out together in between shots. He captioned the picture, “#xxx3 #xandercagereturns Becky#ninadobrev and Serena #DeepikaPadukone in between setups.”
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A 33-year-old Delhi-based businesswoman was allegedly raped by a man whom she had met over lunch to discuss business dealings at a hotel in Connaught Place area on Friday afternoon. The police said that the accused was known to the victim as she claimed to have met him a few times earlier in Chandigarh. According
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