2016

Baghdad: The Islamic State group has released a video purporting to show a French-speaking jihadist threatening attacks against the West and executing so-called apostates and spies in Iraq. The footage, posted on jihadist websites…
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Beijing: China strongly condemned the United States after a US warship deliberately sailed near one of the Beijing-controlled islands in the hotly contested South China Sea to exercise freedom of navigation and challenge China's vast…
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Washington: Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton have narrow leads over their respective opponents in Iowa, the crucial state which formally kicks off the American presidential elections with the beginning of the primaries…
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New Delhi: Vice President Hamid Ansari will leave on a five-day tour of Brunei and Thailand beginning tomorrow to carry forward India's bilateral engagements with the two South East Asian countries as part of its Act East policy. He will…
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New Delhi: Maoists-hit states witnessed lowest violence in six years with casualties and incidents coming down substantially in 2015. While nearly one lakh paramilitary personnel continued to be deployed in left wing extremism-affected…
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New Delhi: JD(U) and RLD are exploring the possibility of an umbrella alliance with Congress and some smaller parties in Uttar Pradesh for the 2017 Assembly elections after the JD(U)-RJD-Congress coalition inflicted a humiliating defeat on…
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New Delhi: The government has started reviewing an over 50-year-old law dealing with specific fulfilment of a contract as part of its ease of doing business policy, days after commercial courts were established and arbitration law amended…
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Ramanathapuram (TN): Two Sri Lankan nationals were today detained here for questioning for staying beyond their visa period, police said. Lamudin of Mannar in Sri Lanka and Mohammed Jasmin had come to India on labour visa and were staying…
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Mumbai: Amid rumours of his romance with Alia Bhatt, actor Sidharth Malhotra insists they are "great friends". "We are great friends and colleagues, and soon we have a film coming up called 'Kapoor and Sons'," Sidharth told PTI. "We (Alia…
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New Delhi: Extending support to striking MCD workers demanding dues, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today hoped that "some solution" will emerge after the High Court hears the matter next week. "I support demand of protesting MCD…
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