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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has committed to US President Obama that India would join the United States of America-led international coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State (IS),…
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JAMMU: The Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) is elite sports unit and the shooting node of the Indian Army. It trains top army shooters for National and International Shooting Competitions. The shooters of AMU have won 437 medals in…
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Hyderabad, Sep 29 (PTI) Software giant Microsoft's Chief Executive Satya Nadella today visited the company's office here and addressed employees. Nadella visited this morning the India Development Centre (IDC), the biggest campus outside…
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Kabul: Just before Ashraf Ghani was to take oath as the new Afghan President at Kabul's presidential palace, a suicide blast targeted a security checkpoint near Kabul airport, killing four, reports said. According to Massoud Hossaini ,…
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Kabul, Sep 29 (AP) Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn today as Afghanistan's new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country's first democratic transfer of power since the 2001 US-led invasion toppled the Taliban. Moments after Ghani…
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New York, Sep 28 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today used the metaphor of cost of travel by auto in Ahmedabad to the expenditure incurred in the landmark Mars Orbiter Mission which India accomplished in the very first attempt. "A…
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New York, Sep 29 (PTI) In a rare meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and discussed a wide range of issues including defence cooperation and the…
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NEW YORK: Addressing a rapturous crowd of NRIs here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi affirmed today that India will move ahead at a rapid pace and lead the 21st century world. At a unique event at the Madison Square Garden in the heart of…
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NEW YORK: Pakistan has admitted that the timing of its high commissioner's meeting with the Hurriyat leaders in New Delhi ahead of the foreign secretary-level talks was "perhaps not totally right". India called off the foreign…
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Beirut, Sep 28 (AFP) The US-led coalition destroyed three makeshift oil refineries in jihadist-controlled territory in Syria early today as it pressed efforts to deny Islamic State militants funding, a monitoring group said. The…
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