Breaking his silence on ongoing war with Kangana Ranaut, superstar Hrithik Roshan today said he resorted to legal recourse only to resolve the dispute even as he termed as “breach of ethics” by the actress to reveal contents of the private legal notice he had served on her. The ‘Bang Bang’ star underlined that an […]
IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore has written to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, intimating them about Vijay Mallya’s resignation from the post of Director of Royal Challengers Sports Private Limited (RCSPL). According to reliable sources, top BCCI officials in the IPL governing council received an e-mail on March 7 from franchise official
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Bollywood actress Shraddha Kapoor has dismissed reports that she has been approached to play the female lead in a film starring Sanjay Dutt. There were reports that the Aashiqui 2 actress has been signed to play the lead in the film directed by Siddharth Anand. Starring Mr Dutt, the action film is said to revolve
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Three hours east of New Delhi, in the village of Piplera, recently married Abhilekh Swami has stopped to refuel his first automobile, a Hyundai hatchback, at an Indian Oil filling station. Late model SUVs and Mercedes also ply the potholed roads and dusty lanes of the small gathering of dwellings in Uttar Pradesh. “Earlier I
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The Bombay High Court on Thursday commuted, to life imprisonment, the death sentence of IM operative Mirza Himayat Baig after acquitting him any involvement in the February 13, 2010 German Bakery blast but upholding his conviction for possessing explosives and forged documents. Baig was the lone accused who was convicted for the blast at the
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North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile today, which flew about 800 km (500 miles) before hitting the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, as the isolated state stepped up its defiance of tough new UN and US sanctions. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said the missile was likely a medium-range
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In reply to a question on whether homosexuality should remain a criminal offence as considered under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Joint General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Thursday said that sexual preferences are a personal matter and the organisation has no view on it. Speaking at the India
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A BJP legislator accused of brutally beating up a prized Uttarakhand Police horse and breaking its leg was arrested on Friday morning, a day after the animal underwent an operation to replace the damaged limb with a temporary prosthetic one. Mussorie MLA Ganesh Joshi was facing three separate police cases for allegedly breaking 14-year-old Shaktiman’s
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PM Modi used the forum of a world Sufi meet on Thursday to declare terrorism as “anti-religion” and state that India can accommodate minorities, including “micro minorities” like Parsis, and has the space for “believers and non-believers”. Holding up the example of Sufi saints like Amir Khushro, Moinuddin Chisti etc, he said Sufism is the
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised Islam for its message of peace and harmony and described Sufism as one of its greatest contributions. He said this while addressing a global audience on the opening day of the World Sufi Forum in New Delhi on Thursday. Terrorism dominated the discussion at the three-day event in which
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The makers of MS Dhoni: The Untold Story have been feeding fans little glimpses of the film — we’ve had two posters released so far, both of which showed Sushant Singh Rajput portraying Dhoni’s early look, from the time he worked as a ticket collector. Now, a new teaser released by the makers builds on
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Swashbuckling West Indian batsman Chris Gayle, whose unbeaten hundred today helped his side thrash England in a World T20 cricket match, attributed his sensational knock to strenuous practice and preparation in the run-up to the ICC event. “The preparation has been really good, it’s all about practising and then doing it in the middle,” Gayle
Indian shuttlers H S Prannoy and Sameer Verma continued their winning run in the men’s singles competition to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the USD 120,000 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold in Switzerland. In late night matches, 13th seed Prannoy beat Germany’s Lars Schaenzler 21-16 21-13 in a little over half an hour match to
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A glider crashed into a residential area near Tokyo on Thursday, killing the two men on board, said local police and fire officials. In the incident shortly after noon (0300 GMT), the light aircraft rammed onto the roofs of two houses in a densely populated neighbourhood near Narita airport east of Tokyo, local police said.
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Meir Dagan, a former head of Israeli spy agency Mossad who worked to thwart Iran’s nuclear programme while also opposing a military strike against it, died on Thursday at 71, the government said. Dagan, who battled liver cancer and had undergone a transplant, led the Mossad from 2002 through 2010. He was reportedly tasked with
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At least five militants were killed in clashes with security forces in Pakistan’s northwest tribal area of Khyber Agency on Thursday, an army statement said. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the mouthpiece of the Pakistani army, said in the statement that the militants attacked a check-post of the security forces in Daroodrab area of Khyber Agency,
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In view of recent terror attacks along the border districts, Jammu and Kashmir Police has issued advisory to schools in Kathua to strengthen security through measures like installing CCTVs, gates and constructing boundary walls. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kathua, Neeva Jain asked schools to take extensive measures to strengthen security of the institutions in
Two students were arrested for allegedly cheating e-commerce retailers, Amazon and Flipkart, by ordering electronic gadgets and replacing them with sand and returning parcels here, police said. On credible information Commissioner’s Task Force, Central Zone Team arrested Yahiya Mohammad Ishaque and Mohammad Shahroz Ansari on Thursday, a release from Hyderabad Police said. The accused, who
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A Delhi court will hear on Friday the arguments on the bail application moved by former DU lecturer SAR Gilani, arrested under sedition charges in connection with a Press Club event. Additional Sessions Judge Amit Bansal posted the matter for tomorrow after noting that the judge concerned was on leave today. Gilani, who is in
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Two flights bound for Nepal and Bhubaneswar were on Thursday grounded just before taking off after security agencies were alerted of a bomb threat call on the two airliners at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here. Officials said passengers on board the two aircraft —— Royal Nepal Airlines (Delhi-Kathmandu) and Air India (Delhi-Bhubaneswar ——
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Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt’s upcoming Bollywood urban thriller ‘Love Games’ will have a complete English soundtrack. While a lot of films have songs with Hinglish — mix of Hindi and English — lyrics, Bhatt has as many as seven soundtracks in English. Bhatt has also turned lyricist with the film and all the English tracks have
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Some important portions of superstar Rajinikanth-starrer Tamil actioner ‘2.o’, a sequel to the blockbuster ‘Enthiran’, will be shot at the popular Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here from today. “Some high-octane action sequences will be shot in this schedule, which will last for over a month. Some key portions will be shot at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
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Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma’s Sultan has been a topic of buzz for some time now. Every piece of news about the film makes way to the headlines easily. Recently, we heard that Anushka Sharma would slap Salman Khan for a scene in her upcoming film. Buzz is that The NH10 actress was apparently prepping
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A video surfaced on Thursday appearing to show a missing Japanese journalist, reportedly held by an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, reading a message to his family and country. “Hello, I am Jumpei Yasuda. Today is my birthday, 16 March,” the bearded man said on the video, posted on Facebook. The man, sitting at a
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The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on April 5 the plea of Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) along with other petitions seeking ban on circulation of jokes about the Sikh community and said it may act if people are commercially exploiting the jokes. A bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice
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As MIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi stirred a controversy after saying he would not chant ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’, political reactions have flown thick and fast in Maharashtra as well as outside the state. As would be expected, the Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece Saamana wrote a strongly-worded editorial on the controversy saying that the citizenship of those who
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On Monday night, Kareena Kapoor Khan held a private screening of her upcoming film Ki And Ka at her residence and invited her friends Amrita Arora Ladak, Sonam Kapoor, Karan Johar and sister Karisma Kapoor to watch it. After the film, everyone was in a mood to party and they did till the wee hours.
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Heineken (HEIN.AS) is likely to ask Vijay Mallya, who owes creditor banks more than $1 billion, to step down from the board of United Breweries (UBBW.NS), India’s largest brewer, three people with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters. They said such a move would likely be a prelude to the Dutch drinks firm raising
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Leaders of the European Union meet in Brussels on Thursday to agree on a deal to offer Turkey the following day that would secure Ankara’s commitment to a scheme intended to halt migrant flows to the Greek islands. A year into a crisis in which more than a million people have arrived in chaotic misery,
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The National Investigating Agency (NIA) which is probing a case relating to an ISIS module in India has detained a youth from Hooghly. According to ANI report, the man, identified as Ashiq Ahammed is from Hooghly. He will be produced before NIA court in New Delhi today. in February this year, NIA had busted in
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