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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he and US President Donald Trump agreed on Saturday to meet early next month for broad-ranging discussions, while confirming the importance of the bilateral alliance.At the February 10 meeting, I would like to have a candid exchange of views on the...
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two Iraqis who had been granted visas to enter the US have filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the US government after they were detained when they arrived in New York Friday.According to court papers, both men legally were allowed to come into the US but were detained because of...
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On a day BJP released its manifesto for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, dissent over ticket distribution manifested into protests with two party workers from Ghazipur district allegedly attempting self-immolation at the party office.Unhappy over ticket allotment, BJP workers from...
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A group of students, affiliated to the 'Bastar Solidarity Network' in Chattisgarh, today disrupted a programme of Kanhaiya Kumar during the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet, opposing the student leader's participation in the event. Around 30 students abruptly disrupted the discussion on...
19:35
Google's India-born CEO Sundar Pichai today criticised President Donald Trump'scontroversial immigration order against people from sevenMuslim-majority countries, saying it will create barriers to bringing great talent to the US, as the Internet search giant ordered its travelling staff to return...
18:46
The differences between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress seemed to have been ironed out after it was announced that the latter would contest all 10 assembly seats in Amethi and Rae Bareli, the Lok Sabha constituencies represented by Sonia Gandhi and Rahul.Earlier, the two parties now in an...
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JUST IN: Former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior Congress leader SM Krishna resigns from Congress Working Committee and Congress party.
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JUST IN:Â All five soldiers trapped under snow in Jammu and Kashmir's Macchil sector rescued
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Rajeev Sharma tells us: AIADMK General Secretary Sasikala Natarajan's ascendance as Tamil Nadu's chief minister will take some more time.Her anointment as CM is unlikely to take place on Sunday, January 29, the date preferred by her.Knowledgeable sources say the past couple of weeks have been a...
17:36
Across the Muslim world, the refrain was resounding: President Donald Trump's freeze on refugee arrivals and visa requests from seven predominantly Muslim countries will have major diplomatic repercussions, worsen perceptions of Americans and offer a propaganda boost to the terrorist groups Trump...
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Nobel laureate Amartya Sen today termed note ban as an unguided missile fired unilaterally by the government without adhering to the democratic conventions.Every now and then we get missiles fired by the government unilaterally. Demonetisation one fine morning is of course just such a missile...
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Actress Deepika Padukone says she is in state of shock over the attack on director Sanjay Leela Bhansali during the shooting of his directorial venture Padmavati in Jaipur.The 31-year-old actress, who is playing the lead role of Rani Padmavati in the film, expressed her anger in a series of...
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BJP President Amit Shah has released the manifesto for Uttar Pradesh assembly elections which will take place next month. While releasing the manifesto called 'Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra' (Pledge for People's Welfare), the BJP president said the party will form government in Uttar Pradesh will...
15:31
Serena Williams, the world number 2, wins the Australian Open after defeating her elder sister Venus Williams in 2 sets. Serena won in an error-strew match 6-4, 6-4. With this win, Serena has also made history by winning a record 23rd Grand Slam in the Open Era, breaking Steffi Graf's record of...
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Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali has cancelled the shoot of Padmavati in Jaipur, Rajasthan and is returning to Mumbai, according to latest reports.This comes after director Bhansali was manhandled by members of a fringe outfit called Karni Sena on the sets of Padmavati yesterday in Jaipur....
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The world number 2 Serena Williams has held her nerves and won the first set in the finals of the Australian Open against elder sister Venus Williams. She took the first set 6-4. Serena is bidding for an Open Era record 23rd Grand Slam title - a seventh here in Australia, while Venus is looking...
14:42
The Election Commission of India has given green signal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's radio broadcast of 'Mann Ki Baat' despite the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand.The show came under scrutiny after the Election Commission's Code was applied...
14:26
RSS rebel Subhash Velingkar-led Goa Suraksha Manch and Shiv Sena in their joint manifesto for Goa polls have promised to ban Electronic Dance Music festivals in the coastal state even as it assured to discontinue government grants to English medium schools in a phased manner.The GSM-SS has also...
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An abandoned mortar shell was found in a park at Vasant Kunj (North) in south Delhi this morning, creating sensation in the area with police cordoning off the area and calling National Security Guard for defusing it.The locals spotted the mortar shell lying in the park of Kishan Garh locality in...
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Defending its action of vandalising the sets of upcoming Indian period drama Padmavati and assaulting its director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the Rajput Karni Sena on Saturday warned that they will not let the “history of their ancestors be tarnished,” adding that they would defend their Rajput...
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After deciding to go it alone in civic polls in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena today unleashed a stinging attack on BJP, saying it feels it had wasted a quarter century by being in an alliance with the saffron party for the sake of Hindutva and the interests of Maharashtra.The Sena also accused the BJP...
12:56
Five army personnel have been by an avalanche that struck an army post in Jammu-Kashmir's Kupwara district. Rescue operations by the army are underway.Several avalanches and landslides hit the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway on Friday even as the death toll in the series of snow slides that have...
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When M Durga Devi on Tuesday first narrated her experience of being caught in the blazing Ice House police station the previous day, she hadn't told the whole truth. On Thursday, the head constable held back nothing, revealing to a team of officers that many of those who set the building ablaze...
12:18
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is worried that President Donald Trump will go too far in his crackdown on immigration.In a post on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg urged Trump to keep the US borders open to refugees who need a safe haven.Trump signed an executive order Friday imposing new guidelines...
11:56
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student activist and Nobel Peace laureate, said she was ‘heartbroken’ by Donald Trump’s order on refugees and urged the US president not to abandon the world’s ‘most defenseless’. “I am heartbroken that today President Trump is closing the door on children,...
11:27
Condemning the attack on filmmaker Sanjay Lela Bhansali by Rajput Karni Sena workers, Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Singh Kataria on Saturday said that flouting law to express anger is not called for, adding that a probe would be initiated in the matter.In such case, anger is instinctive but it...
11:02
Actor John Hurt, the gravelly voiced British actor who garnered Oscar nominations for his roles in Midnight Express and The Elephant Man, has died at the age of 77, publicist Charles McDonald said on Friday, offering no other details, the CNN reported.Known for playing tormented characters, Hurt...
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Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have issued a high danger avalanche warning for the hilly areas of the Valley for the next 24 hours.An official spokesman said the warning has been issued for avalanche-prone slopes of Kupwara, Bandipora, Baramulla, Ganderbal, Kulgam and Budgam and Kargil district...
09:37
Ameya Karve/Business Standard reportsThe Sensex completed its steepest weekly advance in eight months on Friday as overseas investors boosted purchases of local shares.Lenders and power companies paced the rally.ICICI Bank and NTPC rose at least 3.6 per cent, pacing gains in the benchmark...
09:26
The district administration has imposed Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in parts of Rohtak district as a precautionary measure in view of the call given by a section of Jats for a fresh round of quota agitation from January 29.The assembly of five or more people in about 500 metres...
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Indivjal Dhasmana/Business Standard and PTI report:Central Board of Excise and Customs Chairman Najib Shah on Friday raised concerns over the proposed goods and services tax on behalf of excise and service tax officials on the same dais where Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was present.There is a...
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President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order which establishes new vetting measures to limit the flow of refugees and 'keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States'.I'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of...
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After having a chat for over an hour on the phone, US President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto have decided that neither parties will speak publicly for now about the payment of the wall proposed to be built by the Trump administration. The conversation came amid an...
