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The United Nations Security Council is expected to adopt a binding resolution this week that would require nations to bar their citizens from traveling abroad to join terrorism organizations, part of a US-led effort to galvanize the international community against what Obama administration...
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The Enforcement Directorate today conducted searches on the premises of a former board member of an accused firm in connection with its money laundering probe in the Rs 3,600 crore Agustawestland chopper deal. Officials said the agency searched two premises of Gautam Khaitan in Delhi and...
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Congress and NCP were driving a hard bargain today as the two prepared for a crucial meeting tomorrow that was likely to finalise seat-sharing arrangement for October 15 Maharashtra assembly elections.Racing against time, both sides gave positive signals on working out a deal to salvage their...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will witness the crucial Mars Orbiter Insertion at the Spacecraft Control Centre at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore on Wednesday.Yes. The prime minister will be present at the centre on Wednesday when the operation is going on. This is the...
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Against the backdrop of ongoing incursions by Chinese troops in Ladakh, the army has raked up the issue of bringing the Indo-Tibetan Border Police under its operational control along the China border.The matter, which was taken up at a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence,...
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A woman lawyer from Chhattisgarh, claiming to be a victim of gang-rape allegedly by her husband's family members, today broke down before a Supreme Court bench and sought justice.As a bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha was about to rise for the day after completing the day's list of...
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JUST IN: BJP's Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that the party has sent a fresh proposal of 130 seats to Shiv Sena for the Maharashtra assembly polls and that they were awaiting their ally's response.
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Apple said it sold more than 10 million of its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices during the first weekend of sales, a new high for the company even though the devices have yet to go on sale in China.Sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded our expectations for the launch weekend, and we...
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Rajiv Pratap Rudy, BJP: Proposal given is for 130 seats, such seats which Shiv Sena has not won in last 30 years, the proposal given is very liberal.
18:29
There seems to be no end to The Times of India (TOI)-Deepika Padukone battle that has been going on around for over a week now. However, this time there seems to be discontent brewing within the media organisation itself. Read
18:20
Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti met Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel.
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NCP Core Committee meeting ends. Senior party leader Praful Patel says that the NCP and the Congress will sit together and decide the seat sharing issue tomorrow. Congress leaders are in Delhi. We will hold talks tomorrow tomorrow. The Congress has said we will discuss seat sharing together. We...
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Here we go again. Gangster Ravi Pujari has made an extortion call to Shilpa Shetty's husband and IPL team Rajasthan Royals owner Raj Kundra. Pujari has demanded Rs 3 crore from Kundra. A case has been registered and security has been upped at Kundra's Juhu residence. Pujari was in the news in...
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Legendary runner Milkha Singh today said that the current crop of Indian track and field athletes have the potential to do well at international level but they need commitment to come on top at the highest stage. Our youngsters do have the potential to do well at highest level. All they need is...
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Meanwhile at Jadavpur University, a notice to students to return to their classes immediately. JU Vice Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti has also offered to talk to the students at some other venue, but the students have turned down the offer. Students demand his resignation. -- Indrani Roy.
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Olympian shooter Abhinav Bindra announces his retirement. Tomorrow will mark the end of my professional shooting life ! I will however still shoot , compete as a hobby shooter training twice a week, he tweets. This will be his last Asian Games.But then there is this googly: Bindra tweets: And yes...
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Jadavpur University issues a notice to students to return to their classes immediately.
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Just in: A probe has been launched against the five-star hotel in Ahmedabad that hosted Chinese president Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, for asking its staff from the northeast to keep away from the venue.News reports said that the police did not want anything or anybody to make a bad...
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Obama, Biden will host dinner/lunch, but NaMo will eat nothing. Read
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Indian tennis fans will be able to watch one of the best, if not the best player of all-time in the flesh -- Roger Federer -- who has been signed by the India franchise for the International Tennis Premier League. Federer will team up with Pete Sampras and Sania Mirza.
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In this season of alleged 'love jihad', a story of the lone Muslim student to have returned to his school in one of Muzaffarnagar's worst riot-hit villages and his three Hindu classmates. Pritha Chaterjee on how the four are trying to rediscover lost friendships and childhood in a changed, aged...
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Girl, 8, calls on Islamic youth to back jihad. Read
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Proud moment for ISRO!@isro MarsOrbiter Main Liquid Engine test firing successful!
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ISRO successfully test fires the Mars Orbiter's main liquid engine. This is the Orbiter's final test before entry into the Mars orbit on Wednesday. Isro launched the Mangalyaan on November 5 to find evidence of life on Mars. If the spacecraft makes it, India will be the fourth after US,...
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The figure for households without toilets is 47 per cent for Hindu households as against 31 per cent for Muslims and 16 per cent for Christians and Sikhs, according to NSS data. Extensive new evidence shows that building toilets alone will not eliminate open defecation in India as not everyone...
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The West Bengal Government today announced a five-member committee to investigate the alleged harassment of a girl student in Jadavpur University and will submit its report 'as soon as possible'. Calcutta University Vice Chancellor Suranjan Das would the chairman of the committee, state Higher...
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Rediff.com's Indrani Roy reports that Jadavpur University has constituted a neutral five-member committee to probe the 'alleged' molestation case. JU authorities will also bear the expenses of treatment of five students injured during police 'operations'.Thousands of students had marched through...
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Jadavpur University authorities will withdraw police cases against 37 students who were arrested last Wednesday, university sources tell Rediff.com.
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In a setback to CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider a plea for hearing allegations levelled against him without knowing the name of the whistleblower in a case relating to controversial entries in the visitors' diary at his residence.
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So is this why the stalemate between the BJP, Shiv Sena hasn't ended? Sagarika Ghose tweets: So apparently, reportedly, no decision on Sena-BJP alliance until the Pitru-Paksh ends...24th. The astrology of politics!
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India were today knocked out of medal contention in both the men's and women's tennis team events after losing their respective quarterfinal clashes to Kazakhstan in the 17th Asian Games in Incheon. Both the teams lost by a similar 1-2 margin to the Kazakhs, seeded top in men's and second in...
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Even as its alliance with BJP appeared teetering on the brink, Shiv Sena today endorsed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's praise for Indian Muslims, saying he has initiated a new chapter by giving a guarantee of the community's love for its motherland. Modi has lauded Indian Muslims for their...
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Nude photographs purported to be of the singer Rihanna were leaked online last night, weeks after hackers released similar naked images of other Hollywood stars. Read
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Coup leader Voreqe Bainimarama was sworn in as Fiji's new Prime Minister today, five days after the South Pacific nation held its first general election since 2006.
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Will new ISI chief practice what he preached?@acorn: In his US Army War College dissertation, Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar wrote that Pakistan must aggressively pursue rapprochement with India
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And the BJP-Sena stalemate over seat sharing continues in Maharashtra. BJP president Amit Shah Monday called Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and urged him to reconsider his stand on seat sharing in upcoming Maharashtra poll.The two parties, which have been alliance partners for nearly 25 years,...
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Man hangs himself live on Skype: Shocking suicide emerges of young Russian who invited users to watch - who egged him on. Read
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Major General Rizwan Akhtar was named new Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief on Monday, after being promoted to Lieutenant General's position, Express News reported. Akhtar had worked as DG Rangers Sindh in the past. The new chief will take charge once DG ISI Zaheerul Islam...
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Just in: Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar is the new DG ISI in Pakistan.
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Must read: My Time with Charles Sobhraj, the Bikini Killer.
12:53
India's last viceroy Lord Mountbatten weds Edwina, 18 July 1922 at St. Margaret's, Westminster Abbey.
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Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York and address its annual session on Friday. State-run Associated Press of Pakistan said the prime minister will leave for the US on Wednesday to address the UN General Assembly session.
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Political advice is hard to offer to a Prime Minister who managed to win a landslide victory. It would be presumptuous, to say the least. In fact, his instincts have been unerring on how to treat a humiliated Congress with its ruling dynasty finally on the ropes. Read
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Arun Jaitley, who was admitted to hospital again for post-surgery check-up, will be discharged by tomorrow afternoon.
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1985: Time Magazine, USA interviews PM Rajiv Gandhi, New Delhi. At the table is also a very young Mani Shankar Aiyar, who when this interview was being conducted was Head of Americas Division, and Joint Secretary to the Prime Minister.
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The West Bengal government would not replace Jadavpur University Vice-Chancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti, and if the students are not happy with him, they can leave the university. This terse and straightforward response comes from state education minister Partha Chatterjee.Speaking to The Indian...
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Just in: Finance minister Arun Jaitely hospitalised. Jaitley had been admitted to a private hospital in New Delhi on September 1 for bariatric surgery to manage a long-standing diabetic condition.
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With Gujarat hoping to boost trade ties with China after President Xi Jinping's recent visit, more and more Gujaratis are thronging institutes here imparting training in various foreign languages especially to learn Chinese with a view to explore business opportunities in the neighbouring...
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I was about to quit journalism a decade back': Arnab Goswami. Read Sigh.
11:32
In drawing attention to the plight of the widows of Vrindavan, the BJP's Member of Parliament from Mathura, Hema Malini, got hold of the wrong end of the stick.Many of the Vrindavan widows are without any means of sustenance, and forced to beg to supplement their meagre earnings from singing...
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In controversial comments, Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress MP and nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, today questioned whether the student protests in Jadavpur University were due to banning of drugs and liquor inside the campus.Is this protest due to the banning of drugs, liquor and...
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The Shiv Sena on Monday urged Indian Muslims not to let down Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he praised the community for its patriotism and love for the country in an interview.Modi has lauded Indian Muslims for their patriotism...He has initiated a new chapter by giving a guarantee of...
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The benchmark BSE Sensex dipped below the 27k-level by falling over 166 points in early trade today as funds and retail investors engaged in reducing positions amid a weak trend on other Asian bourses. The 30-share barometer, which shed 21.79 points in the previous session, fell by 166.32 points,...
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Indrani Roy, our correspondent in Kolkata, tells us that police have entered Jadavpur University again.
11:02
Prashant Bhushan moves application before SC seeking withdrawal of its prior order to disclose name of whistle blower in 2G case.
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The interim vice-chancellor at the centre of the Jadavpur University storm was talking to The Telegraph at his home this afternoon when the conversation was interrupted. A maid had rushed into the first-floor room to say: Dada, kara jeno gate-y eshechhe college theke, hatey ki shob...
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At least two persons were killed and several others injured in a series of explosions in China's restive Muslim-dominated Xinjiang province. Explosions hit at least three locations in Xinjiang's Luntai County last evening, the Tianshan news portal, run by the regional...
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Veteran Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Mumbai for chest infection, doctors attending on him said today. The 76-year-old actor was admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital last evening after he complained of acute cough and...
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Times NOW reports: BJP President Amit Shah called Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray this morning and urged him not to break the alliance. The alliance must continue, Shah reportedly told Uddhav. He also told the Sena chief that his last proposal was not practical.The Sena-BJP alliance is facing...
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Former Union minister Salman Khurshid hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his comments on the Muslims and said that the community in India doesn't need a certificate from him to prove its patriotism, reports CNN-IBN. Khurshid said, It's as if Modi just discovered that Muslims are...
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has arrived in the Mars's orbit after traveling 442 million miles in the course of 10 months to get there.It won't land on the red planet but instead study Mars' atmosphere from above to answer questions about its climate change, according to NASA.MAVEN craft will live up...
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Uddhav meets Sena leaders to finalise candidates' listChinese pitch 7 tents in Chumar; standoff continuesIndia can rise again, I have a clear road map: ModiUddhav's final offer: 151 for Sena, 119 for BJPMars mission: ISRO geared up for a crucial manoeuvre on MondayYesterday's live commentary
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