2016

Sydney: Battered and bruised after four successive hammerings, India will make a last-gasp effort to avoid the embarrassment of being whitewashed by an unrelenting Australia when the two sides clash in the fifth and final cricket one-dayer…
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Srinagar: 17-year-old Aquib Bashir, who had allegedly joined Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), has been arrested from Shopian district in south Kashmir. Acting on a tip-off, a joint party of army and police from Khuadpora area of Shopian arrested…
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Srinagar: Army has unearthed a militant hideout near the Line of Control in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir and recovered five IEDs, a police official said today. The troopers of 12 Maratha Regiment of the Army unearthed the…
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Los Angeles: A former police office from the state of Oklahoma was sentenced to 263 years prison for raping and sexually abusing African-American women while on duty. Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty in December of rape and oral sodomy in…
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Faizabad: Owaisi's MIM has decided to field a Dalit candidate from Muslim-dominated Bikapur constituency of Faizabad for the February 13 Assembly bypoll. Pradeep Kori, a Dalit youth, is the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) candidate from…
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Chandigarh: The Punjab government has decided to enable the teaching of the Punjabi language online as part of efforts to popularise it around the world. Towards that end, a comprehensive roadmap is being chalked out in association with…
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La Quinta (California): Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri got off to a flying start on his tournament- debut, firing eight birdies in a blemish-free opening round to grab a share of the lead at the PGA Tour's Career Builder Challenge in…
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Mumbai: "Wazir" star Amitabh Bachchan has become the first Bollywood celebrity to have 19 million followers on popular micro-blogging site Twitter. The 73-year-old megastar beaten his contemporaries Shah Rukh Khan (17.5 million), Aamir…
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Davos: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday met US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew here at the World Economic Forum and discussed the upcoming Economic and Financial Partnership summit between the two countries. Jaitley also met the…
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New Delhi: The first three working days after the end of the odd-even scheme saw rapid worsening of air quality with levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) registering a jump of more than 57 per cent on the first working day itself,…
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