The Shiv Sena on Monday said that the questions raised by National Conference leader Omar Abdullah and AAP leaders — about whether Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister-designate Mehbooba Mufti will chant ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ — were legitimate. “The BJP has never got along with Ms Mufti. Her anti-national statements and her affinity with separatists […]
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In a shocking case of extreme violence over a trivial issue, a man was tied to a train’s window and beaten up by three men after he drank water from their bottle. The incident occurred on March 25 when a youth named Sumit boarded Patna-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express at Jabalpur at around 11 pm.
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Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan says her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan’s every performance deserves an award. Asked for her reaction to Amitabh winning the National Award for ‘Piku’, she said: “It’s not the first time and we are very proud of Paa… he has won his award yet again. His every performance deserves to be celebrated. Thank
Virat Kohli on Monday stepped out of his crease to wallop Anushka Sharma trolls, who blame the actor for everything that may have ever gone wrong in his life. This comes after the Indian cricketing superstar’s apology tweet on Women’s Day to women for all the atrocities they face. The reinvention of Brand Virat Kohli
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The rupee extended its gains for the second day on Monday against the U.S. currency, moving up by 7 paise to close at 66.57 a dollar even as stock markets fell. Fag-end selling of dollars by banks and exporters in view of persistent foreign capital inflows helped the Indian currency extend gains, dealers said. The
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This Telugu director started his career in 2008 with Gamyam and with his sixth film, has bagged the National Award for Best Telugu Film for Kanche. In an exclusive chat, director Krish talks about the award, Kanche and more. How do you feel after winning your first National Award? I feel it is a pat
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Undeterred by strong opposition from influential Islamic bodies to judicial scrutiny of Muslim personal law practices, the Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine the legality of triple talaq by entertaining a Muslim woman’s petition that this mode of divorce be declared unconstitutional as it allowed Muslim men to treat women like “chattel”. “Muslim women
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Nitin Chawla and Priyanka Kapoor’s marriage was doomed from the start. A clash of lifestyles often led to arguments and even violence. Chawla struggled to cope with his wife. Sources said Priyanka, who frequented night parties before marriage, started feeling suffocated after Nitin asked her to stop drinking and settle down as a homemaker. Nitin
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With the Congress now reduced to holding power in just seven states – a historic low – the party leadership is scrambling to quell dissidence by opening a communication with MLAs, lest these states too follow the path of Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh. On Monday, Congress president Sonia Gandhi interacted with Himachal Pradesh chief minister
Hindus in the US are up in arms against suggestions mooted by California’s Department of Education to make changes in textbooks which they allege not only distort India’s history but ignore facts on Hinduism. Following protests from Hindus across the nation, the California Education Department has decided not to go ahead with some of the
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over a memorial service for Infosys techie Raghavendra Ganesh, the only Indian victim of the Brussels terror attack, as well as other victims during his stay in Brussels on Wednesday. Raghvendran Ganesan, 31, who had been missing since the twin terror attacks that shook Brussels on March 22, was
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Comparisons with Sachin Tendulkar are given when a batsman like Virat Kohli turns in performances like the one he showed against Australia on Sunday. Of the 22 players on the field, he was playing in a different zone, on a different planet – so much so, that at one point the game looked to be
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Ouster of Congress governments in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand in span of two months due to intra-party factionalism and open revolt by a section of its legislators should worry Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. In Arunachal Pradesh, leader of the breakaway faction of the Congress party Kalikho Pul now heads the government and is supported
The Congress Party on Sunday criticised the BJP-led NDA Government’s move to permit Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to visit the country to probe the deadly terrorist attack on the Pathankot Air Force Base and said, this is an abject surrender of country’s national interest. Congress leader Manish Tewari told ANI it’s unfortunate that the
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Filmmaker Kabir Khan is ecstatic that his Salman Khan starrer ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, a film which promoted bonhomie between people in India and Pakistan, has been named the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment at the 63rd National Awards announcement. “Thank you everybody for all your love. We are really happy that ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ got the
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Actress Athiya Shetty feels it is a great time to be a part of Bollywood with meaningful roles being written for women, adding that girls are “making a mark not only on screen but off screen as well”. Asked whether there is a dearth of meaty roles for female stars, Athiya, who stepped into showbiz
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Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party called a nationwide strike Monday to protest a legal move to scrap Islam as the state religion. Jamaat-e-Islami said the case, due to open on Monday, was a “deep-rooted conspiracy” against religion in the Muslim-majority nation. “Bangladesh is a 90 percent Muslim nation,” said a statement from the group, whose top
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China seems to taking a hard-line stance on exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama, saying that he is “making a fool” of Tibetan Buddhism. The Chinese official wrote his propositions — he may not reincarnate, or reincarnate as something inappropriate, and the faithful are not buying it. Describing the spiritual guru as a violent separatist who
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Even as India mulls over what fighter aircraft to invest in following Prime Minister Modi’s purchase of 36 French Rafale jets in January, a U.S. expert on India’s air capabilities has said that the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) “falling end strength and problematic force structure, combined with its troubled acquisition and development programs, threaten India’s
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India had said since day one that it is convinced that the Pathankot air base attack was carried out by the dreaded Jaish-e-Mohammad. The outfit headed by Maulana Masood Azhar thrives on a hate India policy and the Pathankot attack was another way of conveying that message. When the NIA holds discussions with the Joint
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Blown away by Virat Kohli’s power-packed knock that took India into the World Twenty20 semi-finals, former captain Sunil Gavaskar has said that the marauding right-hander is currently the world’s best batsman and “beyond phenomenal”. Kohli’s unbeaten 82-run effort was the highlight as India chased down 161 in a tense group encounter against Australia in Mohali
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Virat Kohli slammed trolls targeting his former girlfriend Anushka Sharma on social media on Monday. The cricket star, who has been having a storied innings in the ongoing World T20 tournament, took to both Instagram and Twitter to ask people to stop harassing Anushka. Virat said that people who were having a go at the
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India and Pakistan on Monday began formal discussions on investigations into the terror attack at the Pathankot IAF base, making it the first-ever visit of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from the neighbouring country that included an ISI official. The five-member Pakistani JIT is headed by Chief of Punjab’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Muhammad Tahir
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South Korean activists today launched tens of thousands of anti-Pyongyang leaflets into North Korea for the second time in three days, amid heightened military tensions on the divided peninsula. The conservative activists, including many North Korean defectors, used gas-filled balloons to float 100,000 leaflets criticising North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un over the heavily militarised border.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has cancelled his visit to Britain following the deadly Easter Sunday suicide attack in a Lahore city park that killed at least 70 people and injured over 250, a media report said. According to a spokesman at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Sharif was scheduled to leave for Britain on Monday
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A defining moment in the dissidence drama in Uttarakhand that brought down the state government on Sunday was BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya garlanding the nine Congress rebels. Dissidence in rival camps is often watched cautiously, that too, from a distance. But Vijayvargya’s style of politics has little space for such nuanced steps. His gesture,
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Bollywood hottie Anushka Sharma has been working round the clock for the past few months. The actress is busy shooting for two major projects, one is Salman Khan’s Sultan and the other is Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. Two days ago, the NH10 actress flew down to Mandawa and Nawalgarh in Rajasthan to shoot
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As prime minister Narendra Modi prepares to make his first visit to Saudi Arabia, the focus will be on enhancing the security and investment components of the bilateral relationship. Saudi Arabia is now India’s top energy supplier, displacing Iran during the height of the sanctions. More important, the security relationship has expanded beyond expectations. India
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Shahid Kapoor, who tied the knot with Mira Rajput a few months back, is currently shooting for Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon and his reel name seems to have inspired his new nickname. Sources claim that Shahid will be seen essaying the role of a Muslim character named Nawab Malik in the film and Mira, who seems
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It’s that time of the year again when the best in cinema across the country in various languages is honoured. The 63rd National Film Awards are back and the winners have just been announced. From the main set of awards, S S Rajamouli’s ‘Baahubali’ has won for Best Film, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Best
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