THE MINISTRY of External Affairs said on Friday that the Indian national arrested in Balochistan by Pakistani officials was a former Navy official but denied he was linked to the Government. The acknowledgement came a day after Pakistani officials accused the man, identified as Kulbhushan Jadhav, of “illegal entry” and “subversive activities”, and local media […]
In this cricket frenzied environment, Hindi film industry churning out not one, but two biopics on Indian cricket captains is certainly a treat considering our long-standing love affair with both, Cricket and Bollywood – the two aspects of pop culture that are nothing short of religion in India. So we have films on the life
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If you call a film Rocky Handsome, you had better deliver what the title promises: action that would do Sly Stallone proud plus a handsome man. Rocky Handsome does not fall short on those fronts. They say 1 Helen is the amount of beauty required to launch a thousand ships. The reference, of course, is
A total of 17 people have been detained in China following the publication of a letter calling on President Xi Jinping to resign. The letter was posted earlier this month on state-backed website Wujie News. Although quickly deleted by the authorities, a cached version can still be found online, BBC reported. In most countries, the
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Boko Haram gunmen have abducted 16 women in a remote area of northeast Nigeria’s Adamawa state, police, a lawmaker and locals told AFP on Thursday. “We received report of the kidnap of 14 women and two girls by gunmen believed to be Boko Haram insurgents near Sabon Garin Madagali village”, said Adamawa state police spokesman
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Expressing concern over India’s recent ballistic missile launch, the US has said such actions could potentially “increase” the risk to nuclear security and have an impact on regional security. “We’re concerned by any nuclear and missile developments that could potentially increase the risk to nuclear security risk or lower the threshold for nuclear use,” the
Congress leader and lawmaker from the parched Latur city constituency Amit Desmukh has been reportedly missing from his assembly constituency for the past week. This is at a time when the area is reeling under a severe water crisis, with drinking water being supplied to the residents at a shocking interval of 40 days, that
Actress Athiya Shetty, who stepped into showbiz with Salman Khan’s production ‘Hero’, says she is not sceptical about going sans make-up in front of the camera, saying that she “would love to” do de-glamourised roles. The actress, who has carved a name for herself in tinsel town for her acting skills as well as fashion
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Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt and Fawad Khan’s film Kapoor And Sons has received positive reviews from both the critics and viewers. The film hit the screens last Friday (March 18) and has an impressive first-week box office collection. Shakun Batra’s film has earned Rs 46.93 crore in its seven days of release. Trade analyst Taran
A day after Holi Sunny Leone found her name embroiled in a slapgate episode with reports emerging that the actress slapped a journalist for quizzing her about her charges for ‘night performances’. The incident is alleged to have occurred in Surat yesterday at a Holi event where Sunny Leone was one of the celebrity guests.
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After wooing audience in the song ‘Sab Tera’, the ‘Baaghi’ couple Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor have raised the temperature of dance floor in the latest peppy dance number ‘Let’s talk about love’ which was released today. The peppy number that is high on energy shows the 26-year-old actor and the 27-year-old actress showing flawless
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A bomb squad was rushed to Chakki Bridge area of Punjab’s Pathankot District on Thursday evening after a suspicious suitcase was found. The police, meanwhile, evacuated the area and took control of the situation. Earlier on Tuesday, three armed men hijacked a car at gunpoint in Sujanpur area of Pathankot District near the Jammu and
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Asserting that Kashmir was an ‘important element’ of the composite dialogue between New Delhi and Islamabad, Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Thursday said that India and Pakistan should move beyond the Pathankot terror attack and go ahead with talks. Speaking to the media after meeting Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit here,
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US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to intensify the drive for a political settlement in Syria but remained divided over Bashar al-Assad’s future. After four hours of talks at the Kremlin, Kerry said the United States and Russia had found common ground on the Syrian peace process
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North Korea Friday presented another American detainee before the media, nine days after it sentenced a US tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion. Kim Tong Chol told a press conference in Pyongyang that he had collaborated with and spied for South Korean intelligence authorities in a plot to bring down
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India today issued visas to Pakistan’s five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) which will reach New Delhi on Sunday to probe the Pathankot terror attack, believed to be the handiwork of terrorists from across the border. The Pakistani probe team comprises of Punjab Counter Terrorism Department officer Muhammad Tahir Rai, Lahore Deputy Director General of Intelligence
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A little after midnight on Thursday, a group of young men arrived at 40-year-old dentist Pankaj Narang’s house in west Delhi’s Vikaspuri, dragged him out on the road and beat him with hockey sticks, bats and rods till he died. Mr Narang fell to the ground and hit his head against the road, but the
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will meet top Australian leaders and investors next week and make a strong pitch for foreign investments in India from the country’s cash-rich sovereign funds. Indian High Commissioner Navdeep Suri said that during his four-day visit, the minister will meet New South Wales Premier Mike Baird, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Treasurer
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Salman Khan is a happy man these days! The actor has been at the end of receiving all the accolades for his performance in his last year’s release ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ and was even seen partying with best friend Shah Rukh Khan after an award show in Dubai. And when he came back to the city
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Holi has filled the PDP-BJP canvas with bright shades after Mehbooba Mufti was elected PDP legislature party leader setting a stage for her to become the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. The decision to anoint Mehbooba for the post of chief minister came after two-and-a-half months’ hiatus following the death of her
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Activist Trupti Desai was detained by police on Friday after she entered the Trimbakeshwar temple, which does not allow women devotees to offer prayers inside, in Nashik. “We offered prayers to Lord Shiva at Trimbakeshwar temple and prayed that women be allowed in the temple’s sanctum. We are inside the temple that is itself a
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An Indian-origin former faculty member at a US business school has been sentenced to over three years in prison and ordered to pay whopping USD 540,000 in restitution for defrauding his clients by using investor money to finance his personal expenses. Satyen Chatterjee, 65, of Seattle was sentenced to 40 months in prison, three years
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BJP today hit back at Congress for running down BJP-RSS ideologue VD Savarkar, saying the day is not too far when even Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel would “appear anti-national” to the opposition party. BJP MP Ravindra Kushwaha accused Congress of openly siding with anti-national elements. Yaqoob Memon and Afzal Guru had become Congress party’s
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Film actors Hrithik Roshan and Kangana Ranaut have been flooding the tabloids recently with their spiteful exchanges – no matter how ambiguously. The ‘Krrish 3’ co-stars have been facing a lot of difficult times with one another and the blame game had started a long time ago. They had even slapped legal notices on each
A Jet Airways aircraft brought back 242 Indians including 28 crew members, who were stranded following the deadly terror attacks on airport and metro station in the Belgian capital Brussels on Tuesday. The ‘recovery’ flight 9W 1229 from Amsterdam, which landed here this morning, also carried onboard the passengers who were bound for Mumbai as
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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) party chief Mehbooba Mufti is scheduled to meet governor NN Vohra on Friday to stake claim to form the government in Jammu and Kashmir, a day after PDP MLAs unanimously voted Mehbooba as leader of the legislature. Party leader Muzaffar Baig said the date for the oath-taking would be decided
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According to media reports, an Indian priest kidnapped in Yemen by unknown gunmen earlier in the month could be in the hands of ISIS. Tom Unzhunnalil was kidnapped from the Missionaries of Charity’s home for the elderly in Aden where he serves as a chaplain on March 4. There are rumours going around that he
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Emotions ran high on Wednesday night after India skipped a beat in Bangalore with a one-run win over Bangladesh to keep their hopes alive at the World Twenty20. There was chatter suggesting how the shocking defeat at the hands of the neighbours in the 2007 World Cup had finally been avenged. The world took note
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Pakistani-American terrorist-turned-approver David Headley said on Friday that a few weeks after his father died in Pakistan in December 2008, the then Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani visited his house. The former member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit was deposing before a Mumbai court on Friday from an undisclosed location in the US.
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The last time Ankita Lokhande and Sushant Singh Rajput made an appearance together, was at the Zee Cine Awards 2016. They walked the red carpet hand-in-hand, all smiles. Shortly after that. Sushant began making solo appearances everywhere. At first, this didn’t set off any alarm bells. But last week she wasn’t present at his birthday
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