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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said in a democracy it is natural to have different views but one must strive towards unity.Interacting with National Cadet Corps cadets, National Service Scheme volunteers and tableaux artists, he asked them to take responsibility for social change and to fight...
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Shri Rajput Karni Sena today said it was ready to pay the money spent on making Padmaavat if it was handed over the film's rights and stressed that the organisation had nothing to do with the incidents of violence that happened over its release.Karni Sena's chief Lokendra Singh Kalvi said at a...
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Oxford Dictionaries has chosen 'Aadhaar' as the Hindi word of 2017.The word gained popularity due to Aadhaar card, which was in news last year and is likely to remain in highlight this year as well.The announcement was made at a session 'Oxford Dictionaries' Hindi Word of the Year' during the...
19:07
Saudi Arabia released billionaire Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal today nearly three months after his arrest in an anti-corruption drive targeting the kingdom's elite.He (Prince Al-Waleed) is out, a business associate of the Prince was quoted as saying by agencies.Prince Al-Waleed, dubbed the Warren...
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One person was killed and several others were injured in a firing, after an army patrol party came under heavy stone pelting from a mob in Shopian's Ganowpora village in South Kashmir on Saturday.Due to this, tension escalated in the area and clashes are still on.The incident comes days...
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu hits at snapping ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party.We are maintaining 'Mitra Dharma' with the BJP but if it does not want to continue with the alliance, we will go on our own, Naidu was quoted as saying by ANI.Naidu heads the Telugu Desam Party...
16:59
Fresh violence erupted in curfew-bound Kasganj city today with miscreants torching two shops and a bus, even as nine people were arrested in connection with yesterday's clashes that left a boy dead and injured two others, police said.The area remained tensed after clashes had broken out on...
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UPDATE: At least 40 people were killed and 140 injured when a bomb hidden in an ambulance was detonated at a police checkpoint in Kabul on Saturday.The incident occurred close to the gate of the old Ministry of Interior building in the city.There are foreign embassies and other government...
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the goods and service tax has stabilised in a very short time that provides an opportunity to widen its base and further rationalise the rates in the future.Also, he said the GST has brought about an entire change in the indirect tax system in the...
14:51
A Special Investigation Team has been constituted to investigate the violence that took place during the release of movie Padmaavat in Gurugram.'To investigate the cases of PS Bhondsi and Sadar Sohna incident, the SIT has also been constituted in which ACPs, Inspectors and ASIs are the...
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A huge blast rocked Kabul today, reporters and witnesses said, in latest apparent attack in the capital of war-torn Afghanistan.TOLONews quoted emergency hospital officials as confirming that at least 50 people have been wounded in the massive explosion that tore through the city late in the...
13:53
United States President Donald Trump declared before a full house at Davos that he has made '15 new friends' whom he did not know before at a dinner on Thursday night -- including three of Indian origin.After a 'band' welcome and a nearly 20-minute speech, Trump sat down for a brief question and...
13:26
Scores of diplomats including ambassadors of four of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council -- Russia, China, France and Britain -- attended one of the largest Republic Day receptions outside India at the UN headquarters, besides events across the United States as...
12:19
Censor Board chief Prasoon Joshi has said that he will not attend Jaipur Literature Festival this year.His statement comes after the Rajput Karni Sena threatened to disrupt his address at the Lit Fest, to protest clearance of the movie Padmaavat by the Central Board of Film Certification.'Will...
11:13
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen was accorded the ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in Delhi on Saturday.This is to be followed by a wreath laying ceremony at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial in Rajghat.Later in the day, External Affairs Minister Sushma...
10:55
More than a month after a 39-year-old man was accused of molesting a minor Bollywood actor on board an Air Vistara flight, the actor might withdraw the case against the accused.On December 9, 2017, Vikas Sachdev, a Mumbai-based businessman, was booked under Section 354 (assault or criminal force...
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A fire broke out in a commercial complex in Mumbai's suburban area of Goregaon this morning, civic officials said.The blaze erupted at Cama Estate around 8 am, an official of the Disaster Control Cell of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said.The fire brigade personnel rushed to the spot and the...
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With protests still continuing against Padmaavat, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said he saw the film along with a few others Rajput leaders and found nothing objectionable in it. A Rajput himself, Sisodia said that those opposing the film earlier were angry with themselves after...
09:28
Lockheed Martin, the US aerospace giant, rebutted a report that was widely published in the Indian media, that it had offered the state-of-the-art F-35 Lightning II fighter to the country. The F-35, a fifth-generation fighter, that is only now entering service in significant numbers, is superior...
09:05
The BJP today hit back at the Congress over the issue of sitting position of Rahul Gandhi during the Republic Day parade, saying in the past its chiefs were not even given seats in the VIP enclosure.Congress president Gandhi on Friday attended the annual event and took the designated seat in the...
08:53
At least 13 people were killed and two injured when a bus carrying 16 passengers fell into the Panchganga River at Kolhapur in Western Maharashtra last night, the police said.The accident took place at around 11:45 pm on the Shivaji Bridge when the driver lost control of the vehicle while...
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US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has termed as disgusting and offensive online rumours suggesting she is having an affair with US President Donald Trump and said such insinuations fit a pattern of attacks on successful women.The online speculation was instigated by 'Fire and Fury' author...
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