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President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance in the White House press room on Tuesday to thank press secretary Josh Earnest during his final briefing with reporters.Obama entered though the sliding door next to the briefing podium after Earnests introductory remarks and heaped praise on his...
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Mukesh Ambani @ World Economic Forum summit in Davos: Creation of wealth shouldn't be constrained as it is precursor to distribution of wealth; favours free market economy.Demonetisation proves India ready for 4th industrial revolution, especially today with a strong leader in Narendra...
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A Nigerian state official says an Air Force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists has mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing more than 100 refugees and wounding aid workers. The Borno state government official is helping to coordinate the evacuation of wounded. The...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is accusing the outgoing US administration of trying to undermine President-elect Donald Trump by spreading fake allegations.Putin, speaking at a news conference today, described a dossier on Trump as part of efforts by President Barack Obama's administration to...
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Rahul Gandhi today took a jibe at BJP for approaching the Election Commission to demand freezing Congress' poll symbol by alleging that he had violated the model code of conduct by linking his party symbol hand with religious figures during a speech. Dear BJP, daro mat (Dear BJP, don't be...
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Bihar police on Tuesday claimed to have unearthed a suspected ISI link to target the railways with arrest of three persons in East Champaran district of the state.Police claimed the trio had confessed to having worked for a Nepalese contact suspected to be connected to Pakistan's ISI to target...
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Donald Trump's inauguration theme will be same as his campaign slogan, Make America Great Again in order to focus less on the real estate mogul and more on the place, on the people, media reports said. The President-elect and Vice President-elect Mike Pence will participate in an over 200...
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Congress party to gherao Reserve Bank of India's 25 offices across country tomorrow over demonetisation
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi told 65 nations participating in the flagship geo-political conference Raisina Dialogue that will deliberate on strategic issues including new challenges and cyber security.Here are highlights from his speech:-- It's a great privilege to speak to you at the...
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British Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled her 12-point plan to leave European Union, saying she wants the Brexit deal within two years, but implementation would be 'phased' to avoid a cliff edge.In her much-anticipated speech in London today, May also said that the both houses of the British...
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A day after the Election Commission ruled in favour of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in his claim for Samajwadi Partys symbol, the party chief met party patriarch and father Mulayam Singh Yadav today at the latters residence amid expectations of a climbdown from the senior Yadav.At...
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Radhika Vemula, who has been appealing for support seeking justice for her son Rohith Vemula which in turn has spiraled into a movement in the last one year, on Tuesday, said the University of Hyderabad authorities have 'imprisoned' the bust and stupa erected in memory of her son inside the...
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Muslims are welcoming Lindsay Lohan to Islam after the actress deleted her Instagram account and changed her bio on the social media site, reports the Daily Mail. Over the weekend, Lohan got rid of every single photo on her Instagram page, leaving nothing but her profile picture and a bio that...
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In an unusual move, Pakistani authorities have decided to exhume the bodies of the crew of a plane that crashed last month killing 48 people to see if any of them were under the influence of drugs. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-661 crashed in a hilly area in Havelian near...
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US President Barack Obama family's move from the White House appears to be underway after a large number of vans carrying his belongings were sighted outside his new eight-bedroom home today, according to a media report.The images of moving van outside the Obamas' new home in the upscale...
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The Supreme Court today reserved its judgement on the issue of whether to shift controversial RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin from Siwan jail to any prison outside Bihar.However, a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy said the petitioner's request to direct lodging of FIR against...
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With the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) heading steadily towards a possible alliance ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday asserted that the entire development reeked of sheer desperation especially on the part of the grand...
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Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin filed a plea in Hyderabad High Court after Hyderabad Cricket Association rejected his nomination for the post of president in HCA. Azharuddin's application was rejected by returning officer K Rajiv Reddy who was not sure whether the BCCI has lifted...
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Sheena Bora murder case: Indrani Mukerjea informs the trial court she wants divorce from husband Peter Mukerjea and seeks permission to file a case. The judge tells Indrani there is no need to take permission from the trial court.A special CBI court today framed charges of murder and criminal...
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A BJP delegation will meet the Election Commission today at 3:30 pm to complain against Congress VP Rahul Gandhi for his speech comparing Lord Shiva's hand with the symbol of the Congress.On January 12, at a Congress convention at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi, Gandhi claimed that he saw the...
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... He points out, for instance, that the fiction of Junot Daz and Jhumpa Lahiri speaks to a very particular contemporary immigration experience,' but at the same time tell stories about longing for this better place but also feeling displaced -- a theme central to much of American...
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Forty days after the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, her niece Deepa Jayakumar on Tuesday confirmed that she would foray into Tamil Nadu politics. Confirming her political ambitions, Jayakumar announced that a landmark announcement' would be made on February 24, which...
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VK Sasikala's husband Natarajan, the master strategist of the AIADMK in a post Jayalalithaa era was in New Delhi for two days last week. In Delhi, he met Congress leaders, but his visit was not political. It was to understand the progress of the disproportionate assets case filed against Sasikala...
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The Delhi High Court today sought the response of the Ministry of Home Affairs on a plea seeking its status report on alleged poor quality food being served along the LoC as claimed by a BSF soldier on social media. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal also issued...
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President Pranab Mukherjee has been informally telling BJP ministers including Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh that he would like to append his approval and seal his signature on the the Goods and Services Tax bill when it is submitted to him for approval in the June. The GST Bill most likely is...
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Vice President Hamid Ansari is being tipped as the next Presidential candidate from the Opposition. The election is likely to take place in early June and informal talks have just begun at the highest level.Our sources tell us that talks of the presidential polls will gain momentum once the Uttar...
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Just in: #SheenaBora murder case: CBI files a chargesheet against Indrani Mukerjea - prime accused in the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora - along with husband Peter Mukerjea and ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna. All three accused have been charged with murder and criminal conspiracy. All the...
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There will be Congress and SP alliance in the upcoming UP elections, announces Congress senior leader and UP in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad. Highlights... Details about the alliance will be decided in the coming days, for now we can say there will be Cong-SP alliance under the leadership of...
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Aamir Khan reaches out to Zaira Wasim a day after she was allegedly trolled for meeting J-K CM Mehbooba Mufti. Aamir who plays Zaira's father in the blockbuster Dangal, posted on Facebook: I have read Zaira's statement, and I can understand and imagine what lead her to make that statement. Zaira,...
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Former Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa's niece Deepa Jayakumar (42) is likely to launch her own party today. I will begin the work left by the late M G Ramachandran from tomorrow (Tuesday), she said in a statement. Jayalalithaa's niece bears a striking resemblance to her aunt and has used the...
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Search for Malaysian plane MH370 that disappeared in 2014 with 239 on board is suspended. The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has come to an end with passengers' families being informed that the effort to find the plane has been suspended.Next of kin were told in an emailed...
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Delhi HC seeks response of MHA & paramilitary forces on plea against alleged poor quality food being served to troopers.
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Earthquake tremors felt in various areas of Karachi: Pakistan media.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav interacts with Samajwadi Party workers at his official residence, 5 Kalidas Marg.
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Capt Amarinder Singh on the upcoming Punjab elections: This is my last election and I will defeat Badal on his home seat. There is no deal behind Sidhu's joining. He himself said his father was in Congress and that it's his 'ghar wapsi'.
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Tata Sons Chairman-designate N Chandrasekaran on Monday stressed on the need to focus on social entrepreneurship programmes and suggested students to do a number of social projects, synthesising the real problems using artificial intelligence and machine learning. He was in Hyderabad to...
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Just in: A Special CBI court in Mumbai will frame charges against Indrani Mukherjee and others in the Sheena Bora murder case. The CBI has said that Indrani Mukerjea killed Sheena Bora, her daughter from a previous relationship, with the assistance of her ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna and driver...
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Only 15 people of Indian origin have won the coveted prize.Hoping to correct this situation, reports Pallav Bagla, India has embarked on the most intense dialogue with the Nobel Foundation till date. Read more
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Socialism had its golden age after World War II. Taxes in the belligerent countries had gone sky-high during the War; people had got used to paying high income taxes. Governments had no use for the revenue once the enemies were defeated; what better use for it but to improve the conditions of the...
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The two-day winter session of the Delhi Assembly will begin today.The session comes in the wake of newly appointed Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal returning file to the Delhi Government on slashing of DTC bus fares. The issue is likely to figure during the two-day session.Meanwhile, Leader of...
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Among many other musicians and bands, popular Bruce Springsteen cover group called 'B-Street Band' has also decided to stay away from the 'storm' that is hitting up President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural function.Will Forte, the group's 63-year-old keyboardist, manager, agent and...
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By saddling up the bicycle, Akhilesh Yadav has won a race that Indira Gandhi could not decades ago. The cycle would catch up with Indira years later while she was fighting her second battle for political survival but - after almost losing out in long-distance translation - the now-familiar...
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Hours after the Bharatiya Janata Party released six more names for the Punjab assembly polls, its state unit chief Vijay Sampla expressed his displeasure over the ticket distribution, and offered to step down from the post of party's state unit chief as well as that of cabinet minister.According...
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M Natarajan, husband of AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala, has accused some sections in the BJP of trying to split the AIADMK and get the state government dismissed. They are trying to break the AIADMK and dismiss our government. They are trying to besmirch our government....
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HBO's programming president Casey Bloys has hinted that the final season of the network's popular series Game of Thrones might feature more than six episodes. It was earlier reported that the creators of the popular fantasy drama David Benioff and DB Weiss were ready to end the show...
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Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh is all set to fight the assembly elections against the Shiromani Akali Dal head and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal from the latter's home turf Lambi.The Congress, in a press release, made his nomination...
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A first information report has been lodged against All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi for violating the Model Code of Conduct in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur.Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Singh said apart from Owaisi, AIMIM assembly poll candidate Talat Khan...
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Turkish police has caught the gunman who killed 39 people, including two Indians, in an Istanbul nightclub during New Year's celebrations.The suspect was caught in a special operations police raid on a house in a housing complex in Istanbul's Esenyurt district, the Turkish media reported.Agency...
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Indian-American Balaji S Srinivasan, a successful Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and CEO of a bitcoin startup, is under consideration for Trump Administration's pick to lead the Federal Drug Administration after he met the US President-elect.Balaji Srinivasan met Trump at the Trump Towers in...
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As civil rights leaders and activists gather at sites across the country to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr, the slain civil rights leader's daughter is encouraging Americans to fight for his vision of love and justice no matter who is in the White House.Bernice King addressed more...
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India's ministries focusing on children, health, education and technology plan to join forces with charities and police to stem a surge in images of children being sexually abused on the internet, the Indian government said on Monday.The ministry of women and children said one of the aims of the...
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Mulayam loses to son, Akhilesh-led SP to ride 'cycle' in UP assembly pollsRIL Q3 net rises 3.6% to Rs 7,506 crorePost demonetisation, IMF cuts India's growth to 6.6%Pak Senate passes resolution condemning Mod'is 'mothership of terror' remark3 HM terrorists killed days after video of them enjoying...