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With a recent NASA study confirming presence of water on Mars, Indian-origin scientist working with the US space agency Amitabh Ghosh today said that a few other planets in our solar system too may have water,increasing the possibility of finding life there.Ghosh, who leads 'Science Operations...
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One person has died following a shooting near the campus of Texas Southern University, police confirm.The shooting happened at the Courtyard Apartments on Blodgett at Canfield around 11:30 a.m.One person was taken to the hospital in critical condition, and the other person was listed in stable...
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In a change of its policy in Syria, the US today said it is abandoning the training of moderate rebels and instead focusing on providing equipment packages and weapons to a select group of vetted leaders to fight the Islamic State group.(Defence Secretary Ashton) Carter is now directing the...
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The US is to end its efforts to train new Syrian rebel forces and says it will shift to providing equipment and weapons to existing forces.Its $500m programme was heavily criticised after it emerged that US-trained rebels had handed vehicles and ammunition over to extremists.It emerged last...
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Daljit Nagra has been appointed the first Poet in Residence by the BBC, a role through which the Indian-origin poet will curate a weekly programme for the corporation to tell a new story about the 20th century poetry. Nagra, the son of Sikh immigrants from India who came to Britain in the late...
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Hours after he was sacked from the Delhi cabinet over corruption charges, a surprised and shocked AAP MLA Asim Ahmed Khan today said there was a big conspiracy against him which prompted the government's move.Without elaborating further, Khan promised to expose the conspiracy tomorrow. Claiming...
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Ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh today called BSP chief Mayawati 'nithalli' (one who has nothing to do) in response to her attack on the state government over Dadri attack.The former UP chief minister had slammed the UP government for not taking action against local BJP leaders for their...
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JUST IN: The BARC's Shekar Basu has appointed as secretary, Department of Atomic Energy and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.He will be replacing Dr R K Sinha.
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The sessions court in Mumbai today convicted a city-based film professional for flinging chemical at his former girlfriend and sentenced him to five years' imprisonment.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on Jerrit John, which will be paid to the victim, said Public Prosecutor Kalpana...
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Bollywood superstar Salman Khan'slawyer today argued in the Bombay High Court that in accident cases, there is no legal provision to draw blood from the accused to detect the presence of alcohol unless there is evidence to show that it was required for the purpose.The argument was advanced by...
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Refusing to accept Lalu Prasad's denial on the beef remark, Union Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said the RJD supremo had indeed made the controversial remark deliberately to cater to votebank politics.Prasad had indeed made the remark that Hindus too...
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Pakistan Opposition leader Imran Khan has accused Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of making $60 million through sugar trade with India in 1990s, a charge rejected by the Premier who said that he will drag the former cricketer to court. Attacking the prime minister, the Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf chief...
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A National Democratic Front of Bodoland-Songbijit militant involved in the December 2014 carnage of Adivasis was apprehended by a joint army and police team in Bongaigaon district of Assam today, a defence spokesman Based on specific intelligence, the army and the Assam police launched an...
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The Bombay high court allowed the transfer of Himayat Baig, the lone convict in the 2010 Pune German Bakery blast case, from Nagpur Central Prison to Arthur Road Jail here pending disposal of the appeal filed by him challenging his death penalty. Baig is at present lodged in Nagpur jail and the...
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Humans will be living and working on Mars in colonies entirely independent of Earth by the 2030s, NASA has said. The US space organisation released its plan for establishing permanent settlements on the red planet, setting out in detail plans to create 'deep-space habitation facilities' which...
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He has grappled with some of the biggest questions about the universe but Professor Stephen Hawking has revealed one mystery still baffles him - women.Making the comments during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session, the eminent physicist said the opposite sex is 'life's most intriguing mystery,' but...
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Award-winning author Shashi Deshpande today resigned from the Sahitya Akademi General Council expressing a sense of strong disappointment over the literary body's silence on the killing of Kannada writer M M Kalburgi. In her letter to Akademi chairperson Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari, the 77-year-old...
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One person is dead and three others are wounded following an early morning shooting at Northern Arizona University. School public relations director Cindy Brown says the suspected shooter is in custody. The shooting occurred in a parking lot outside Mountain View Hall dormitory at the northeast...
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Veteran music director Ravindra Jain passed away on Friday, ANI reported. He was 71.Jain had been admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai following ill-health.The music composer had been suffering from a urinary infection causing a problem in his kidney, sources said.Jain was shifted from...
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In an unprecedented move, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal sacks Food and Civil Supply Minister Asim Khan over corruption charges. During a presser, the Delhi CM said, There is a complain of corruption against a minister in Delhi government. We won't tolerate corruption no matter who is involved. He...
16:28
Former venture capitalist Iftikar Ahmed is believed to be hiding in India after stealing $65 million (or Rs 420 crore) from the US firm where he was employed for many years, according to a report in Wall Street Journal.The IIT-Delhi and Harvard Business School-educated Mr Ahmed fled from the US...
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Former venture capitalist Iftikar Ahmed is believed to be hiding in India after stealing $65 million (or Rs 420 crore) from the US firm where he was employed for many years, according to a report in Wall Street Journal.The IIT-Delhi and Harvard Business School-educated Mr Ahmed fled from the US...
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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Mohammed Nisham in the Chandrabose murder case.The apex court, while rejecting the bail plea, said that Nisham did not value the life of poor people.The accused does not value lives of the destitutes. Arrogance and impudence were observed in...
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JUST IN:Â EC asks all political parties to maintain high standard in Bihar campaign and desist from using derogatory language.
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John Lennon would have turned 75 on Friday.He was two months past his 40th birthday when he was murdered as he entered his apartment building, the Dakota, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, on Dec. 8, 1980.Absent from the music business for five years -- most of it spent living the quiet life...
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The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet.Announcing the award the committee says the Quartet is honoured for its work in helping ensure Tunisia's post-Arab Spring direction was broadly peaceful and democratic. It is directly comparable to the peace...
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The RJD today moved the Election Commission against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his 'shaitan' remarks, accusing him of using disparaging and insulting language against party chief Lalu Prasad and Yadav caste and urged the poll panel not to allow him address further rallies. The RJD...
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Union Minister Maneka Gandhi today decried attempts to politicise the Dadri lynching incident and attacked Uttar Pradesh government, saying it was attempting to mislead the people.Condemning the incident where a Muslim man was lynched by a mob over beef eating rumour, the Woman and Child...
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The Supreme Court today refused to consider a plea seeking the death penalty for Nitish Katara's killers Vikas and Vishal Yadav. In February this year, the Delhi High Court had sentenced them to 25 years of rigorous imprisonment for the 2002 murder.Neelam Katara, Nitish's mother, had moved the...
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In a shocking incident, a man allegedly beheaded his wife and walked with her head on the streets of Pune on Friday.Reports say that the 60-year-old Ram Chavan alias Ramu was spotted on the streets with his wife's head and an axe.It is being believed that Chavan, a security guard by profession,...
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Karnataka Home Minister K J George on Friday sought to clarify his controversial remarks on rape that triggered a furore on social media.On being quizzed by the media about the alleged gangrape of a 22-year-old call centre employee by two men at knife point in their moving van after they offered...
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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Anita Bose Pfaff will not attend the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week.I am not planning to come to join the members of my family in their meeting with the Prime Minister on October 14, Pfaff told PTI from Berlin.Pfaff said she had requested...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is addressing a rally in Sasaram, Bihar.Here are highlights of his speech:* You gave this corrupt govt 60 years.Give NDA only 60 months,and we promise to erase this degradation Bihar has fallen into* Give us two-third majority and ask me for 'hisaab' after 60 months....
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JUST IN: SC expresses satisfaction over CBI probe in Vyapam scam cases after lawyer Kapil Sibal alleges no arrests made in any of these cases.
12:48
Want to win a Nobel Prize in literature? Just go to journalism school. In Minsk. Case in point: Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature. The Guardian's Marta Bausells described her as the Belarusian writer whose oral histories have recorded thousands of individual...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday told the Supreme Court that men are to be blamed for the rise in pornography on the web, reports Abraham Thomas in the Pioneer newspaper, its affidavit stating that the increase of porn in Indian cyberspace is on account of the domineering male...
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The Supreme Court on Friday indicated that it will impose an environment compensatory charge ranging from Rs 700 to Rs 1,300 on commercial vehicles entering Delhi as a transit route for their onward journey.The apex court bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Adarsh...
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After writer Nayantara Sahgal and poet Ashok Vajpeyi, Urdu novelist Rahman Abbas announced that he would be returning the Maharashtra State Urdu Sahitya Academy Award, which he won in 2011 for his third novel Khuda Ke Saaye Mein Aankh Micholi. Abbas' action is in protest against the 'growing...
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Home Minister Rajnath Singh: There are limitations to central government; law and order of a state is responsibility of the respective government, we cannot directly interfere.BJP never indulges in communal politics. It might be that some people communalise an issue to gain political mileage. But...
11:01
Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali has agreed to perform in Delhi in December this year.The singer, whose concert in Mumbai was cancelled following protests by the Shiv Sena which warned that no artiste from that country will be allowed to perform in the city till terror emanating from across the border...
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Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya on Friday, in a series of shocking tweets, supported the ban of Pakistani ghazal singer Ghulam Ali from performing in Mumbai, saying that 'nation and patriotism' took priority over music and branded the maestro as a 'dengue artist'.These shameless people have no self...
10:42
Kannada actress Maria Susairaj has been arrested for an alleged fraud of Rs.2.11 crore by cheating 1200 Haj pilgrims for whom her Mumbai-based travel firm failed to produce air tickets. 35-year-old Maria, who was convicted in 2008 Neeraj Grover case, has been arrested by the Ahmedabad Crime...
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RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav to move Election Commission against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over comments he made in his speech on Thursday.Speaking to media persons on Friday morning, Lalu said: Narendra Modi PM banne kay layaka nahin hain. Thu thu kar raha hai saara desh. (Narendra Modi is not...
10:11
Mohammad Ikhlaq was lynched by a mob here last week for allegedly keeping beef in his house. However, it has now turned out that the meat was mutton, not beef.A forensic test has established that it was mutton that had been stored in Ikhlaq's house. And the test results lend support...
09:55
The Indian Express reports: Beverage giant PepsiCo has written to the Indian cricket board informing the latter about its intention to withdraw from the Indian Premier League as title sponsor, stating the controversy surrounding the spot fixing case. Sources told the newspaper that the company...
09:50
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on women fighter pilots: In principle, we support this except where there are operational or training problems.Procedure is on, many difficulties arrive & keeping that in mind we will announce a policy soon.
09:34
Indian Express reports: When a person of Om Puri's stature takes centrestage and says something, people are bound to sit up and take notice. So, when he says that the country needs a benevolent dictator to set it right, the statement carries enough weight and reason for its utterance. Don’t get...
09:14
The death toll of Indians in the Haj stampede has risen to 101 even as scores of nationals are still missing after the September's tragedy, worst to hit the annual pilgrimage in 25 years.External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted, Saudi authorities have identified more pilgrims who died in...
09:08
DMK leader MK Stalin was caught on camera while allegedly slapping an autorickshaw driver who tried to click a selfie with him near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu earlier on Thursday. As the video was shared virally on WhatsApp and other social media platforms, Stalin's managers said the politician...
09:03
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday expressed outrage over reports of a Saudi sponsor chopping off an Indian maid's hand.We are very much disturbed over brutal manner in which Indian lady has been treated in Saudi Arabia. This is unacceptable. We have taken this up with Saudi...
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Fox News reports: Some senior US officials involved in implementation of the Iran nuclear deal have privately concluded that a key sanctions relief provision -- a concession to Iran that will open the doors to tens of billions of dollars in US-backed commerce with the Islamic regime -- conflicts...
08:39
Indian Army's new recruitment campaign, titled 'Join the Indian Army and Live a Life Less Ordinary' will be launched across the country today. The campaign projects Indian Army as a full-fledged working organization that offers exciting career in different sectors for young Indians who otherwise...
05:30
For the third time since records have been kept, the world is experiencing a global coral bleaching event.It's a major environmental incident, predicted by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and now confirmed as underway by teams of scientists and reef mappers across the...
05:27
Sitting on a shabby green sofa somewhere in the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul, Iraq, the militants laugh and joke as one of them films their excited chatter.Today is the female sex slave market day, which has been ordained, explains a skinny, black-clad Jihadi, gesturing at the camera.With...
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Amid a wave of violence, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday urged Arab and Israeli leaders to stay away from one of the country's holiest sites, in an effort to keep tensions from getting out of hand.In a televised speech, Netanyahu asked Jewish and Arab political leaders to...
04:22
After playing James Bond in the last four films of the successful franchise, including the forthcoming Spectre, the British actor told Time Out London he's ready to put the role behind him.Craig has implied as much in previous interviews. But this time, he left no doubt when asked, Can you...
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Just weeks ago, US Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone was tending to stab wounds after famously helping thwart a gun attack on a European train, feted internationally as a hero.On Thursday he was in serious condition at a California hospital, having been stabbed again -- this time during a night out...
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The next two Avengers films, Infinity War Part One and Two, are rumoured to have a combined production budget of one billion dollars.And of that, the above the line costs, that paid to the screenwriter, director, producers and principal actors will be a cool four hundred million dollars alone.And...
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A number of cruise missiles launched from a Russian ship and aimed at targets in Syria have crashed in Iran, two US officials told CNN Thursday.Monitoring by US military and intelligence assets has concluded that at least four missiles crashed as they flew over Iran. One official said there may...
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NASA reveals stunning images of blue skies on PlutoMuzaffarnagar riots and Dadri killing linked, claims MulayamShocking! Saudi employer chops off Indian maid's hand
