Actors Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt were shooting for an advertisement in Mumbai recently and pictures from the shoot went viral on social media. One picture shows Alia, dressed in a taxi driver’s uniform with aviators to go, sipping cutting chai as Ranveer, dressed in kurta pyjama complete with a geeky look, approaches her with […]
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Officials in the ministry of rural development are a happy lot these days. Finance minister Arun Jaitley agreed to practically every demand they made during Budget discussions. Even the prime minister sat through some detailed presentations, according to a senior ministry official. The result: rural development and agriculture have been the central theme of Jaitley’s
Mahindra & Mahindra’s (M&M) on Monday forayed into the agricultural equipment rental services with the launch of Trringo, an organised rental service, with plans to invest over Rs 10 crore on the startup enterprise. “Farm Equipment Sector (FES), a part of Mahindra group, has forayed into the agricultural equipment rental services with Trringo that will
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The General Command of the UAE Armed Forces announced on Monday the martyrdom of two of its soldiers in Yemen. The two, Pilot Zayed Ali Al Kaabi, and First Lieutenant Mohammad Obaid Al Hammoudi, were martyred while performing their national duty as part of the Armed Forces’ involvement in Operation Restoring Hope, being carried out
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A typo by China’s state news agency over the weekend resulted in President Xi Jinping being referred to as China’s “last” leader in a report on the annual session of the rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC). Xinhua, a key media propaganda tool for the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), made the rare
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Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has decreed a two-month extension on emergency powers meant to help shore up the country’s crippled economy. The presidential decree, published in an official gazette released on Monday, is meant to “protect Venezuelans from economic warfare,” it says, and expands the socialist government’s powers. Maduro regularly blames US and local
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Brandon Stanton, an American photo-journalist and founder of well known Facebook page- ‘Humans of New York’, has in his open letter staunchly flaked US presidential candidate Donald Trump for encouraging hatred and violence for his political goals. Brandon, placed among the ’30 under 30 world changers’ by Time magazine, mentioned in his letter that his
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Responding to opposition’s inquiries in the wake of RSS’s statement that affluent classes do not need reservations, the government on Monday reiterated that there was no rethink on current social and caste based quotas and that it would continue. Though the RSS statement could be placed in the context of recent demands by Jat and
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Upset over Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan sending a complaint against its vice-president Rahul Gandhi to the House Ethics Committee, Congress on Monday accused finance minister Arun Jaitley of tipping off liquor baron Vijay Mallya to leave the country when they met in the Parliament House on March 1. Rahul was put on notice on
Party workers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Bharatiya Janata Party clashed at Kattayikonam under the Pothencode police station limits here late on Monday, with several activists, including former BJP State president V. Muraleedharan, and a few policemen sustaining injuries. The BJP has called for a hartal in the district on Tuesday.
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Rejecting RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s suggestion for infusing patriotism, AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi has said he will not chant ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ even if a knife is put to his throat. Owaisi’s assertion days after Bhagwat said the new generation needs to be taught to chant slogans hailing mother India drew sharp condemnation from
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The Supreme Court on Monday said there should be a “credible mechanism” for intra and inter-country adoption of children and asked the Centre to frame rules and regulations to facilitate it within three months. A bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur, however, said the new mechanism should lay down rules and regulations similar to
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India and New Zealand will face off in Match 13 of the ICC T20 World Cup 2016 at Nagpur on Tuesday. The two teams have locked horns in only five Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) till date, with New Zealand winning four of them while the fifth produced no result. As such, India have a 0 per
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President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that “the main part” of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war. Damascus rejected any suggestion of a rift with Moscow, saying President Bashar
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A high level internal inquiry committee, constituted to probe the February 9 incident where allegedly ‘anti-national’ slogans were raised during an event on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, has in its report recommended rustication of two JNU students and imposition of fines on at least 21 students. Twenty-one JNU students were also served a show-cause
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In an airfield in southern India, seven planes of the failed Kingfisher Airlines rust away — relics of a former billionaire’s ambition and emblems of the complex regulations that hamper Indian aviation. The decaying aircraft, damaged by floods in Chennai late last year, were part of the fleet of India’s once second-largest airline. As authorities
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“I think the favourites for this tournament are India, simply on the fact that they are very good in home conditions”: England captain Eoin Morgan. “No doubt India will be favourites to win the title”: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson. “India are favourites to win the title for the home condition advantage”: South Africa captain
“Shocked and hurt” by Shahid Afridi’s comments that Pakistan’s cricketers were loved more by Indians than the fans here, former captain Javed Miandad has said that players making such statements should be “ashamed” of themselves. “These cricketers should be ashamed of themselves for saying such a thing. Shame on you,” Miandad said on the ‘Aaj
Flamboyant opener Rohit Sharma on Monday won the prestigious Maruti Suzuki ESPNCricinfo award for the third year in a row with recently-retired New Zealand legend Brendon McCullum winning the newly constituted ‘Captain of the Year’ award. The awards were given for stand out performances across three formats for the year 2015. Rohit, who has won
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Five militants, including the commander of a banned terror outfit, were arrested by Bangladesh’s elite security force which also seized a huge cache of explosives possibly aimed at disrupting the country’s Independence Day celebrations next week. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), acting on a tip-off, laid down a trap and arrested the members of outlawed
The Myanmarese Union Parliament will vote on Tuesday to elect a new president of the country, it was announced in parliament on Monday. There are three nominees for the post — U Htin Kyaw and U Henry Van Htee Yu of the National League for Democracy, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, and
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The Japanese government will team up with experts in the United States and France to develop brand new technologies to collect melted fuel from crippled reactors at Fukushima, an official said on Monday. Removal of the melted rods at the nuclear plant, which was wrecked by a tsunami five years ago, is one of the
Pakistan Prime Minister’s Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj may meet on the sidelines of a Saarc ministerial-level meeting in Nepal this week, according to a media report today. Quoting diplomatic sources, The Express Tribune reported that India and Pakistan were exploring the possibility of a meeting between
In the wake of a massive row over anti-national slogans allegedly raised in JNU, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Monday said such sloganeering cannot and will not divide the country. “In Kashmir, raising anti-national slogans is normal. Such slogans cannot and will not divide the country,” he told reporters on the
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Health Ministry has banned 344 fixed dose combination drugs, including cough syrups compositions, saying they involve “risk” to humans and safer alternatives were available. The ban on the drugs comes into immediate effect and the ministry has come out with a gazette notification regarding the matter. “Altogether, 344 such fixed dose combinations have been banned.
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The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money will monitor the probe into the alleged over Rs 1,000-crore scam in export of high-quality Basmati rice to Iran which was fraudulently diverted mid-sea to Dubai. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), which has unearthed the scam, has shared relevant details of the case with
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He might have grabbed a hat-trick against West Indies in the World T20 warm-up but Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood has hinted it would not be enough to get a place in the playing XI, saying there is lot of competition for every spot and he is just trying to grab every opportunity to perform with
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Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor believes comparing him with others in the industry is “unfair” as each talent is different. “We all are different and it’s not fair to compare. That just takes away the USP of who you are. I am excited to be doing good work. I have just started and still learning on
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India today successfully test-fired its indigenously built nuclear-capable intermediate range Agni-I ballistic missile, capable of hitting a target 700 kms away, from a test range off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army. The surface-to-surface, single-stage missile, powered by solid propellants, was test-fired from a mobile launcher at 9.15 AM from
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Boxing star Vijender Singh has dedicated his fourth successive professional triumph to the Indian Armed Forces personnel who were martyred in the Pathankot terror attack. The 30-year-old from Haryana state knocked out Hungary’s Alexander Horvath in under three rounds last night, in what was to be a six-round contest. “I dedicate this win to the
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