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China may have quietly moved tonnes of w...

China may have quietly moved tonnes of war gear into northern Tibet, claims...

may have quietly moved tonnes of military gear while it was conducting military exercises in the remote mountainous Tibet region, the PLA Daily, the official mouthpiece of Chinese military, has claimed. The PLA had conducted 11-hour long live-fire exercises at an altitude of 5,000 meters on the... read more »

18th IIFA Awards 2017: Why Dangal Was Ig...

18th IIFA Awards 2017: Why Dangal Was Ignored In The Nominations

When the nominations for the 18th edition of the International Indian Film Academy or IIFA Awards were announced in May, the Internet swiftly fixated on the gaping Dangal-shaped holeNEW DELHI: Aamir Khan’s well-known disdain for award shows appears to have kept Dangal out of the IIFA list.... read more »

Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan’s poe...

Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan’s poetic tweet hints at entry into polit...

Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan set his Twitter followers and others wracking their minds with a Tamil poem that sounded like signaling entry into politics. “Let us criticise as nobody now is the king. We will stand up as we are not a king like you. Defeated and dead then militant. If I decide,... read more »

Why ‘fair’ is handsome, questions Munna ...

Why ‘fair’ is handsome, questions Munna Michael actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui...

Sanjay Chouhan, the casting director of Babumoshai Bandookbaaz had apparently said that after Chitrangada Singh walked out of the film, they wanted an actress who would look suitable opposite Nawazuddin Siddiqui as “you can’t cast fair and handsome people with Nawaz.” Nawazuddin... read more »

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Andhra assembly stalled over Telangana bill

Andhra assembly stalled over Telangana bill

Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh assembly was adjourned for an hour Monday as the opposition parties stalled the proceedings over the bill for the formation of separate Telangana state sent by... read more »

Government not serious about utilising Nirbhaya fund: BJP

Government not serious about utilising Nirbhaya fu...

New Delhi – As the Rs 1,000 crore Nirbhaya fund remains untouched even after a year, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi... read more »

Sis Ram Ola to be cremated with full state honours in R...

Sis Ram Ola to be cremated with full state honours in Rajasthan today

New Delhi – The mortal remains of Sis Ram Ola will be consigned to flames with full state honours at his native village, Ardawata in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan... read more »

Path clear for President’s Rule in Delhi?

Path clear for President's Rule in Delhi?

New Delhi – Delhi seems to be heading towards President’s Rule as it faces political deadlock and subsequent re-election in May. With the last... read more »

Tejpal case: Police probe into Lekhi Twitter leak begin...

Tejpal case: Police probe into Lekhi Twitter leak begins

Panaji – Goa Police have started a preliminary investigation against Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi, accused of leaking the Tejpal... read more »

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Pakistani to head UN economic, social body for Asia, Pacific

Pakistani to head UN economic, social body for Asia, Pacific

United Nations – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday announced the appointment of Shamshad Akhtar of Pakistan as the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social... read more »

Russia not to dispute Canada's claim on North Pole

20,000 could be pardoned under Russian amnesty

Moscow – About 20,000 people could be granted amnesty to mark the 20th anniversary of the Russian constitution, the head of the country’s... read more »

Nepal makes diplomatic efforts to remove EC’s fli...

Nepal makes diplomatic efforts to remove EC's flight ban

Kathmandu – Nepal is making diplomatic! efforts to persuade the European Commission to revoke its recent decision to ban all Nepali airlines from... read more »

Police clash with protesters in Ukrainian capital

Police clash with protesters in Ukrainian capital

Security forces clashed with protesters as they began tearing down opposition barricades and tents set up in the centre of the Ukrainian capital early... read more »

UN Security Council extends sanctions on Liberia

UN Security Council extends sanctions on Liberia

United Nations – The UN Security Council Tuesday extended by another year the sanctions on Liberia in connection with the country’s civil war. In... read more »

Former PM Deve Gowda begins hunger strike on farmers’ suicide issue

Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Monday began a hunger strike here demanding discussion in Parliament on the farmers’ suicide in the country. Flanked by party MPs, MLAs, and... read more »

To fullfill Sardar Patel's unity dream, ways of violence will not work: Modi

PM Modi Meets Ministers Over Punjab Attack

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and other senior ministers over a terror attack in a Punjab town that left nine people dead. Finance Minister... read more »

Afghanistan: 21 dead, 10 wounded in wedding gunfight

KABUL: A shootout at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan has left 21 people dead and another 10 wounded, an official said Monday. Jaweed Basharat, spokesman for the governor of Baghlan... read more »

Delhi on high alert after Gurdaspur attack, security stepped up

Authorities sounded high alert across Delhi on Monday with hundreds of policemen deployed at railway stations, railway stations, shopping malls and crowded markets in the wake of a... read more »

At least 13 dead in al Shabaab attack on Somali hotel

The Somali militant Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a Mogadishu hotel on Sunday, driving a car packed with explosives through the hotel gate and killing at least 13 people, a first responder and... read more »