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The US-led coalition conducted 28 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq, a joint statement said. Twenty of the attacks were in Iraq with six of them concentrated near the city of Al Huwayjah. Air strikes also were carried out near eight other Iraqi cities, hitting tactical...
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JUST IN: Meeting of I&B officials, FTII students has been rescheduled to October 7 in Mumbai
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Indrani Mukerjea, who was brought to JJ Hospital in Mumbai after complaining of chest pain, is in a serious condition, said Dr TP Lahane, the dean of the hospital. He said that she was unconscious since 2 pm and that they suspect she had overdosed on pills. We will take 24 hours to assess and...
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The Taliban claimed Friday to have shot down a US military transport plane in eastern Afghanistan in a crash that killed 11 people, as the battle for Kunduz raged after the emboldened militants briefly seized the city.The Taliban's stunning success in Kunduz, their biggest tactical success since...
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An armed person has been reported on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth Universityin Richmond, US, according to multiple media reports. Police are responding and are urging students and staffers to avoid the area. Police have described the suspect as a male, wearing a square military-style...
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The West Bengal government has a reputation of being proactive in their efforts to support the transgender community. From setting up helplines for the transgenders to appointing a Manabi Bandopadhya, a transgender, as the principal of an institution, they have gone that extra mile in upgrading...
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Syrian woman refugees in Jordan's relief camp might never wrap their heads around 'Arunachalam Muruganantham,' but the sanitary pads, which the Coimbatore-based inventor pioneered at the turn of the century, may be a different matter.An American non-governmental organisation, Loving Humanity,...
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Indrani Mukerjea, the accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, which rocked the media, has been rushed to JJ Hospital in Mumbai. She was taken to the hospital after she complained of chest pains. On Tuesday, the CBI registered a case against her, her former husband Sanjay Khanna and her...
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Former UP Chief Minister Mayawati has been questioned by the CBI in connection with the NRHM scam earlier this week. The NRHM scam surfaced in 2010 when the UP government was accused of bungling funds of around Rs 10,000 crore from the NRHM scheme. Mayawati was the chief minister at the...
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Opposition parties hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his silence on the killing of a man in Dadri over rumours of his family having eaten beef, saying he should have condemned the incident or at least offered his condolences. Questioning Modi's silence on the lynching incident...
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Nepal PM Sushil Koirala announces his resignation in Parliament, will submit his resignation to the President shortly. Koirala, a Nepali Congress leader, was elected as the prime minister of Nepal on February 10, 2014. Reports state that Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, chairman of the...
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India will soon get a single emergency contact number -- 112 -- similar to 911 in the United States. The Department of Telecommunications has approved the proposal of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for a single emergency number across the country. The existing emergency numbers -- 100,...
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Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel inaugurated a mobile museum on Mahatma Gandhi's life and times at his birthplace Porbandar from where the museum-on-wheels will start its journey for Delhi from tomorrow. The mobile museum has been built on a mini truck by ministry of external affairs...
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Documents seized from an accused under arrest for the murder of social activist Govind Pansare indicate a link to the killings of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and eminent scholar MM Kalburgi, reports said Friday. The Hindu reported that investigating agencies are working on several...
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Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik, along with several party leaders and activists in Srinagar was arrested today ahead of a rally. The police arrested Muhammad Yasin Malik, Showkat Ahmed Bakhshi, Mushtaq Ahmed Dar, Bashir Ahmed Kashmiri, Muhammad Ameen Mugloo...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel could win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the influential Bild newspaper said, as the leader is lauded worldwide for her courage in opening her country's doors to refugees fleeing war and persecution. Chancellor Angela Merkel has a good...
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A ceremonial Border Personnel Meeting between India and China was held near Bumla in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh on the occasion of Chinese National Day, weeks after a face-off between the two along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh. The Indian delegation was led by Brigadier D S...
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Two people have been shot dead near NSW Police headquarters in Parramatta with one witness reporting a man in a black gown and wielding a gun among those killed.There are reports one victim of the shooting was a public servant working for NSW Police.He was shot before the shooter was killed...
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Images have emerged of a local BJP leader in Gujarat showering bucket-full of currency notes on a famous Gujarati singer at a function held in outskirts of Vadodara recently. However, the leader says it was for a good cause, to be used for the protection of cows BJP leaders were special...
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Mahatma Gandhi championed the issue of sanitation by voicing his strongest opposition to the employment of manual scavengers from select scheduled castes in 1917. Yet, almost a century later, the practice of manual scavenging is still going on. Read more HERE
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FYI: The toss coin for the India-South Africa cricket series, starting today, will have the images of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela.
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Eleven people, including six American servicemen, were today killed when a US transport plane was reportedly shot down by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan as the hostility between NATO forces and militants escalated over the control of a key northern Afghan city. An Air Force C-130 J...
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Remembering Mahatma Gandhi on the 146th birth anniversary, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and indirectly held him responsible for the assassination of the Father of the Nation. In a tweet posted on Friday, Lalu said, Question: Who follows Godse?...
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Submitting its 'climate action plan', India has pledged to cut its carbon emission intensity by 33-35 percent and increase the share of renewable energy by a massive 40 percent in its total energy mix by 2030. The announcement was made by India in its Intended Nationally Determined...
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A 15-year-old boy committed suicide in Telangana's Karimnagar district after he was allegedly punished in school for not paying fees. The teen also left behind a chilling video message detailing the 'humiliation' that led to him taking the drastic step. The incident happened in Peddapalli...
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Lynching a person merely on suspicion is absolutely wrong, the antithesis of all that India stands for and all that Hinduism preaches. Violence of this kind in a state like UP affects national goals. India is on the path to rediscovering itself through an all-inclusive development mission, whose...
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The Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has returned from United States where he had gone to attend the Aspen conference. The Gandhi scion reached his residence here today morning.The Congress vice president's latest visit to the US had led to an intense war of words between Bharatiya...
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A 90-year-old Dalit man died after he was brutally attacked with an axe and set on fire for trying to enter a temple at Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Friday.The victim, identified as Chimma, had gone to the Maidani Baba temple with his wife, son Durjan and brother on Wednesday...
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All India Itthadul Majlis-e-Itthadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi met the family of Mohammed Ikhlaq who was lynched over rumours of eating beef. Criticising the state and the central government for 'inaction', Owaisi claimed that the incident was a pre-planned murder. The killing...
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On the first anniversary of one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project -- the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan -- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, asking, One year of swachh Bharat. Which streets got cleaned as a result of this campaign? How much budget spent on it? Time to question...
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It's October. A powerful hurricane is lashing the Bahamas. The whole system is threatening to head straight north to the United States.You can't blame the people along the East Coast if they're having a Superstorm Sandy flashback when it comes to Hurricane Joaquin. Read this...
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Calling for a comprehensive and equitable climate change agreement at Paris summit later this year, India today said developing countries can do more if they are enabled in their efforts with the provision of finance, technology transfer and capacity building support from developed countries.As...
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In a major security breach, a 22-year-old man allegedly shot himself with a country-made gun at the crowded Rajiv Chowk Metro station in New Delhi tonight.The person, identified as Sridesh Adhikari, a native of a village in Uttar Pradesh, was rushed RML Hospital, where he was being operated upon,...
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CNN reports:Earlier, authorities told had said they were responding to reports of an active shooter at the Roseburg college campus.We arrived to find multiple patients in multiple classrooms. Law enforcement was on scene and had the shooter neutralised, Douglas County Fire Marshal Ray Shoufler...
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At least 15 people were reportedly killed after an active shooter was spotted at Oregon's Umpqua Community College.Preliminary information indicated 10 people were killed and more than 20 were injured, Oregon state police spokesman Bill Fugate told CNN.TV station KATU later reported 15...
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2 gold plates, $1 million seized in poll-bound BiharSome contract diarrhoea if they don't abuse Hindus: VHP on Dadri lynchingBJP MP says Modi a 'saint' like Mahatma GandhiCourt extends Somnath Bharti's police custody till October 4Centre seeks report from UP govt on Dadri lynching
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A police constable was killed today allegedly by Maoists in the insurgency-hit Bastar district of Chhattisgarh.Constable Manaru Ram Banjam was shot dead by Naxals this evening while he was attending prayer rituals in a temple at Burgum village under Kodenar police station limits, a senior police...
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