| Khurshid on 'cameo', party and Rahul Gandhi |
NEW DELHI, July 14: Cornered on what he meant by “cameo”, union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Saturday said he knew the word to mean “something brilliant, like a gem, something that stands out” when he used it to describe Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s role in the party.
Speaking to journalists at his annual Aam Dawat party at his residence her... |
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| Men in khaki leave UP Government red-faced |
LUCKNOW, July 14: Voted to power on promises of bringing Uttar Pradesh’s crime graph under control, the Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP) Government now has a new headache — the police. Already reeling under a spate of criminal incidents, the police brass is battling the acts of shame by its own men. In the last three months, police personnel have failed the force more than a... |
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| Resolve differences through dialogue: Dalai Lama |
SRINAGAR, July 14: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who is visiting Jammu and Kashmir, said on Saturday that differences must always be resolved through dialogue.
“Mob violence will lead nowhere. Differences and disagreements should be resolved through dialogue. Mob violence can solve nothing. Instead, it can create more problems,” he told a group of school children ... |
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| BJP for Vice-Presidential contest, to seek NDA nod |
NEW DELHI, July 14: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said it will contest the August 7 Vice-Presidential poll but failed to decide its candidate due to lack of consensus in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the issue.
“We have decided to contest the vice president election,” BJP leader Ananth Kumar told reporters after the party’s core group met h... |
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| Would desperate Mamata be able to save face in another battle? |
KOLKATA, July 14: After Dada episode, Didi is heading into yet another tussle between the Trinamool Congress and its estranged ally the Congress.
Confrontation over the presidential election is not yet over, and Mamata Banerjee is apparently venturing into another battle as she is reluctant to support the Congress’s proposal for a second term for Hamid Ansari as the Vice-President... |
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| Sharad Yadav for action against caste panchayats |
NEW DELHI, July 14: Slamming Taliban-style diktats by a caste panchayat in Uttar Pradesh against women, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Sharad Yadav demanded action against such “unconstitutional” groups. Talking to journalists here, Yadav called the caste panchayat a “slur on the face of society”. “How the khap (caste) panchayat can put a ban on women visiting market... |
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| Pakistan needs to come clean on terrorism, says Germany |
NEW DELHI, July 14: Germany on Saturday made it clear to Pakistan that it needs to “come clean” over terror allegations, whether those are true or not, as this will be in its best interests. German ambassador to India Michael Steiner, who took over this week, told reporters here that it did not matter whether the terror charges are proved in a court of law or not, but it was necessary ... |
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| Business-friendly Gujarat appeals to US firms |
WASHINGTON, July 14: Leading American businesses on the US East coast have greatly appreciated Indian State of Gujarat’s business-friendly approach to economic development and are upbeat about investment opportunities in the State. An outpouring of support from US business community came at two events in New York and Washington hosted by the US India Business Council (USIBC), the official &l... |
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| It also happens here: Women in India fight indifference |
NEW DELHI, July 14: In an India that prides itself on the surge towards a more modern tomorrow, a reality check is in order. And it came again - as it always does with tragic regularity - with a panchayat in Uttar Pradesh decreeing that women should not be allowed to use mobile phones, a teen in Guwahati being molested by a mob in public and a young acid attack victim in New Delhi pleading for ... |
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| Kingfisher pilots go on strike, 40 flights cancelled |
MUMBAI, July 14: A section of debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines’ pilots on Saturday went on strike over non-payment of salaries and other dues for the past five months, leading to the cancellation of 40 flights across its network, an airline official said. Twelve flights from New Delhi, six from Mumbai and three flights from Bangalore have been cancelled apart from many other flights from C... |
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| Bollywood condemns Guwahati molestation |
MUMBAI, July 14: “Disgusting” and “shameful” is how Bollywood celebrities Amitabh Bachchan, Bipasha Basu and Farhan Akhtar have dubbed the molestation of a teenager by a mob in Guwahati.
The 17-year-old had gone to a pub with another girl Monday night. She was looking for an auto when 11 men pounced on her. The other girl escaped.
A video clip of the girl... |
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| India's forex reserves plunges by $336 million |
MUMBAI, July 14: India’s foreign exchange reserves (forex) plunged by $336.5 million to $287.62 billion in the week ended July 6, data from India’s central bank showed. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) did not provide any reasons for the decline, but it is understood the central bank has sold dollars from the reserves to curb the slide in the value of rupee.
The Indian rupee... |
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| Sikhs demand ban on Kuldip Nayar's book |
SRINAGAR, July 14: Dozens of Sikhs protested here on Saturday against writer Kuldip Nayar’s remarks on Jarnail Singh Bindranwale and demanded a ban on his new book Beyond the Lines. Shouting slogans against Nayar and the Central Government, the demonstrators said the book had hurt the feelings as he had described Bhindranwale a terrorist. “Such writings not only hurt the sentiments of ... |
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| Kabir Khan says no ban on Ek Tha Tiger in Pakistan |
MUMBAI, July 14: A few days back, there had been media reports that Kabir Khan’s upcoming film Ek Tha Tiger starring Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif had been banned in Pakistan because of the references to Pakistan’s secret intelligence agency ISI in the film. However, Kabir Khan recently rubbished such rumours and clarified that there is no official ban as such on the movie in Pakistan. ... |
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| Madhuri denies rumours about approaching BMC for land |
MUMBAI, July 14: A couple of days after starlet Bhairavi Goswami lashed out at comeback diva Madhuri Dixit for allegedly asking the BMC for land to set up a dance academy, the dhak dhak dame cleared the air by claiming that nothing could be further from the truth. Madhuri was quoted saying that she has no idea where such rumours are coming from as she had just conducted a class for her son’s... |
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| Sunny Leone to judge India's Got Talent |
MUMBAI, July 14: Canadian reality television star Sunny Leone, who is making her debut in the Pooja Bhatt film Jism 2, has been roped in as the guest judge on India’s Got Talent. The show will be hosted by Manish Paul and Cyrus Sahukar, and her co-judges will be Riteish Deshmukh and Kirron Kher. Sunny will be replacing Sonali Bendre as the judge. She is expected to arrive in India to being s... |
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| Filmmaker in search of Divya Bharti's look-alike |
MUMBAI, July 14: Director Vikram Sandhu denies that his movie Dream is a biopic on Divya Bharti, but admits he is scouting for a look-alike of the late actress to play the lead role in his project. Divya Bharti shot to fame at a very young age with films like Shola Aur Shabnam and Deewana. She died at a tender age of 19 in 1993, and the cause of her death remains a mystery. It has a connect with S... |
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| Ranbir Kapoor wants to do sports-based movie |
MUMBAI, July 14: His body of work boasts of an impressive range of roles - from a romantic saga to a musical to a touching story of a deaf and dumb boy in Barfi!. And now Ranbir Kapoor is also keen on doing a sports-oriented film. “I would love to do a film on football, hockey, boxing, kabaddi or anything as long as it has an interesting story build upon it,” said Ranbir. “A film... |
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