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And Shiv Aroor tweets his colleague Saurabh Singh's stunning tribute to the former president.
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And this beautiful tribute to the former president by the Press Trust India:
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President Pranab Mukherjee has condoled the passing of former president Adbul Kalam.Dr Kalam was a people's president during his life time and will remain so even after death, Mukherjee said.
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Here is President Pranab's full statement on former president Abdul Kalam's passing:The passing away of former President of India, Bharat Ratna Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is a deep personal loss for me. I will always cherish my long association with him. As President of India, Dr. Kalam was...
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Columnist Girish Nikam pays tribute to his beloved Kalam Saab:Its bizarre, just four days back I got a call, asking it seems Kalam has passed away, is it? I was driving to Parliament, and immediately called the Rajya Sabha office to check. The clerk there was taken aback.I immediately...
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Mohan Guruswamy recalls an anecdote with the former president:In mid 2003, I wrote a paper The Economic Strangulation of Bihar which was first published in EPW and then expanded into a booklet. I sent a copy to former PM, Chandrashekhar, who was the one who introduced me to Bihar and with whom I...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined in other senior leaders in condoling the passing of former president A P J Abdul Kalam.Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoles former President A P J Abdul Kalam's death, describes him as marg darshak (guide).Deeply saddened at sudden demise of former president...
21:49
The driver of Punjab Roadways bus, which was targeted by the terrorists in a pre-dawn attack in Dinanagar town in this district, showed tremendous presence of mind and helped save lives. Nanak Chand remained calm and composed as the terrorists armed with sophisticated weapons fired at the...
21:39
Government to declare national mourning for seven days to condole the passing of former president A P J Abdul Kalam, says Union Home Secretary L C Goyal.The 84-year-old A P J Abdul Kalam, a popular head of state between 2002 and 2007, died on Monday after he collapsed during a lecture in Shillong.
21:32
The three suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants involved in the Gurdaspur terror attacks made every attempt to hide their identity and had even removed tags on their clothes including underwears.There were no markings on the combat uniforms and even innerwears worn by them, official sources...
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A 38-hour bandh beginning from 5 am tomorrow has been called in Manipur protesting against the state government's failure to punish those behind the killing of a student during the July 8 agitation for implementation of the Inner Line Permit Systerm in the state.The bandh would coincide with the...
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Former president A P J Abdul Kalam has passed away.The former president had been admitted to a hospital in Shillong following a sudden illness on Monday.Kalam passed away at 6.40 pm.Kalam, 84, collapsed at a function in IIM and was rushed to Bethany Hospital, M Kharkrang, SP Khasi Hills, said....
20:15
A high alert has been sounded across the country including Delhi, Haryana and Uttarakhand in the wake of fidayeen attack on a moving bus and a police station in Gurdaspur district of Punjab today in which seven persons, including an SP, were killed.In the national capital, Delhi police beefed up...
19:57
The ministry of home affairs has stated that the three terrorists who opened fire in Gurdaspur on a moving bus before taking over a police station in Dina Nagar town belong to the Pakistan-based Laskhar-e-Tayiba. Earlier, some speculated that the terrorists behind the attacks could have...
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The alertness and bravery of a bus driver saved several lives as terrorists launched an attack in Dina nagar in Punjab on Monday. Punjab Roadways driver Nanak Chand did not panic even when the terrorists fired at the bus and instead scared the terrorists by driving towards them.As the...
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JUST IN: It is a very serious terror attack, says NSA Ajit Doval at the North Block before his meeting with top officials
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The Pakistani government has condemned the deadly attack today that left five cops and three civilians dead at Gurdaspur in Punjab. The foreign office said Pakistan condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and extended heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the government and...
18:59
Unfazed by the row over subsidised foods in Parliament canteens, a parliamentary committee today decided against raising the rates, saying it would mostly affect Parliament employees. The committee headed by TRS leader A P Jithender Reddy unanimously decided to recommend continuation of the...
18:39
DGP Punjab on the Gurdaspur terror attack: Terrorists had grenades with 'Made in China' marking, sophisticated weapons, military clothes, GPS units. Were well trained.
18:31
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's choice for chief of the women's rights commission has been approved by Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.Jung, who had earlier rejected the appointment of Swati Maliwal as the chief of the Delhi Commission for Women, has believed to have accepted the...
18:25
As India counts its dead in the wake of the Gurdaspur terror attacks today, Anurag Thakur, BCCI secretary has said that Cricket and terror cannot go hand in hand. Thakur, who is a BJP MP, was reacting to India's scheduled series against Pakistan in December this year.Internal security of the...
18:13
Cricket series cannot happen along with terror attacks: Anurag Thakur, BCCI Secretary, when asked about possibility of Indo-Pak cricket matches.
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MHA: Three civilians, five police personnel, and three militants killed in the Gurdaspur attack. The militants are suspected to be a part of LeT or Jaish-e-Mohammed.Victory chants raised by Punjab SWAT team after Gurdaspur attack ended.
17:57
Leave B Raman aside, 50 eminent personalities have written about commuting his death sentence. Even a retired judge of the Supreme Court has written about it.Shyam Keswani was the first lawyer to defend 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, whose appeal for commuting his death sentence is...
17:32
Pakistan denies hand in Gurdaspur terror attack. Pakistan says it is not aware of reports that Gurdaspur militants were from Pakistan. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who had to cut short his trip to Madhya Pradesh where he was scheduled to attend the Raising Day ceremony of the CRPF, said any peace...
17:25
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, NSA Ajit Doval and senior Home Ministry officials to attend Home Minister Rajnath Singh's meeting.
17:12
TV reports say four terrorists have been killed in the gunbattle in Gurdaspur, Punjab.
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The perpetrators of today's terror strike in Punjab are suspected to have sneaked into India from Pakistan through the unfenced border between Jammu and Pathankot or Chak Hira in Jammu district to launch the brazen assault about which central agencies had intelligence inputs. Union Home Ministry...
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Home minister Rajnath Singh will meet PM Modi at 7 pm on the Gurdaspur.
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Just in: Operation to flush out terrorists at the Gurdaspur police station is over. A swat team from Jammu and Kashmir are now inside the police station for sanitising ops. In the first major terror strike in Punjab in eight years, heavily-armed terrorists in army uniform on Monday sprayed...
16:52
The government, under attack for a draft bill that reduces the central bank's independence to set interest rates, has signalled its willingness to retreat. Read more
16:50
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan names Congress member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for action for insult to Chair after he banged placard on her table in the Lok Sabha.
16:06
ED moves special PMLA court seeking issuance of non- bailable warrant against former IPL chief Lalit Modi in connection with a money laundering case.
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Former Union Minister P K Thungon was today awarded a four-and-a-half year jail term by a Delhi court in connection with a case lodged in 1998 pertaining to misappropriation of Rs 2 crore released by the Centre. Besides the prison term, Special CBI Judge Ajay Kumar Jain also imposed a total fine...
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Several activists of the Shiv Sena today burnt the Pakistani flag in Phagwara, Punjab, to protest the Pak-sponsored terror attack at Dina Nagar area of Gurdaspur district. The protest, led by the party's state Vice President Inderjit Karwal, prompted authorities to divert the route of one of the...
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The Lok Sabha secretariat has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra to explain his Facebook post on the Parliament disruptions. This comes after a privilege notice was moved in Parliament against Vadra on Thursday.Some ruling party members had raised a storm in the House...
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If you've just joined us, this is the big story of the day. In the first major terror strike in Punjab in eight years, heavily-armed militants in army uniform today sprayed bullets on a moving bus and stormed a police station, killing six persons, including an SP, and injuring eight others in...
15:29
A 16-year-old wrestler was stopped by four terrorists in a Maruti car and was shot in his shoulder on Monday early morning. Read more
15:21
Terror in the markets as well. Markets continued to trade sharply lower in late noon trades amid a sharp sell-off in Chinese shares even as the Finance Minister allayed fears about the Special Investigative Team's stringent norms on participatory notes (P-notes). Further, muted earnings from...
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ANI reports that a live bomb has been recovered from MG Road in Nashik, Maharashtra; Bomb disposal squad at the spot, more details awaited.
14:52
Congress MP Shashi Tharor, who recently faced Sonia Gandhi's ire, was today seen in Lok Sabha engrossed in an animated discussion with Rahul Gandhi who was playing an active role in guiding his party's protesting members in the House which saw some business despite the din. The Congress Vice...
14:49
The Gujarat High Court today adjourned to August 4 the final hearing of Zakia Jafri's appeal against a lower court order upholding the clean chit given by special investigation team to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others for their alleged roles in 2002 riots.
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Nationalism has been defined for us. It is what the BJP and Modi bhakts decide, not me, you or Salman Khan. If you don't agree with their views, you are a Pakistani agent and an anti-national. Period. No argument. The discussion ends there, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com.Read
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PMO denies reports of PM Narendra Modi being disappointed with Rajnath Singh for going to MP while the Gurdaspur operation is underway.Home Minister Rajnath Singh says he will make a statement in Parliament tomorrow on Gurdaspur terror incident. The terrorists struck a moving bus at Dinanagar...
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J&K SWAT team reaches the Gurdaspur terror attack site.
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Home Minister Rajnath Singh says he will make a statement in Parliament tomorrow on Gurdaspur terror incident: Pic: Punjab SP Baljit Singh who was martyred in the Gurdaspur terror attack
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Two of three terrorists killed in the Gurdaspur gun battle. Intermittent firing still on. One more to go. The death toll so far is six -- three civilians, three policemen from the Punjab force. The Congress was isolated in the Lok Sabha today with MPs from many parties demanding a statement from...
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Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the Gurdaspur terror attack: We want peace with Pakistan, but not at the cost of national honour. We will not be the first to strike, but if we are hit, we will give a befitting reply. I can't understand why time and again cross border terror incidents are taking...
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The Supreme Court has postponed the hearing on 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon's final plea challenging the death warrant against him to 10:30 am tomorrow. Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao, yesterday, held consultations with Home and Law Department officials over the...
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Supreme Court to resume Yakub Memon's mercy plea tomorrow at 10:30 am. It couldn't be decided today.
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@ANI_news says injured security personnel say that there is a woman terrorist among the other attackers in the Gurdaspur terror attack.
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So, what are the similarities between Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha? According to the MPs from both parties, both are a pain in the neck for their leadership.Sinha, for instance, became an almost-open rebel by meeting with Nitish Kumar on the evening of the day...
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Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal on the Gurdaspur attack: This is very sad, but militancy is a national problem, not state problem. On being asked if there was a security lapse and whether the government had missed out on intelligence inputs, Badal says, What input? Terrorists didn't come from...
12:43
The Bombay High Court to start hearing Salman Khan's appeal against conviction in the hit-and-run case on July 30. Ironically, this is the date, that 1993 Mumbai blasts convict is to be hanged. Salman, who was sentenced to five years in jail by the sessions court earlier this year in the...
12:31
Conversation in the Central Hall of Parliament on Monday all about the terror attack in Gurdaspur with different concerns being voiced by different parties. Congress MPs from Punjab were of the opinion that such attacks will have a negative impact for the Congress. But they were also...
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Just in: Alert sounded in Parliament premises, security forces at spot.
12:03
The Supreme Court issues a notice to Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa on Karnataka's appeal against her acquittal in an assets case.
11:50
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today expressed confidence about the ongoing operation against the terrorists in Gurdaspur district of Punjab and said that the situation is under control. I am confident about the operation which is underway and the situation is under control, the home minister...
11:45
Panic gripped Dina Nagar town here in Gurdaspur district following an attack on a bus and a police station complex by four heavily armed terrorists wearing army uniform here which left five persons, including a policeman, dead. As the news of attack spread, people living near Dina Nagar police...
11:35
Twenty years ago women were not keen on having intercourse until they were much older. Since women are now more open about the idea of having intercourse, boys are only too happy to take advantage. Arguably India's most famous sexologist, Dr Mahinder Watsa sheds light on how young (and old)...
11:29
Meanwhile, Rajya Sabha is adjourned for the day and the Lok Sabha till noon. Read Aakar Patel's column on the Parliament logjam: Blocking Parliament brings attention to a party that has poor speakers like Rahul Gandhi. It is unlikely to shine in debates, assuming we were a nation that enjoyed...
11:19
Updates on the Gurdaspur attack. -J&K on high alert. -The national highway at Pathankot is closed. -This appears to be a fidayeen attack.-The terrorists are still holed up at the spot. -Special forces have been called in.
11:12
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is shortly set to meet top ministers and Union Home Secretary LC Goyal regarding the Gurdaspur terror attack. Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju had earlier said that no hostage situation in the Gurdaspur attack has been reported so far. The attack...
11:06
Sixteen years after the Kargil war, questions on army-air force coordination and and preparedness arise. Read
11:00
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, filmmaker Ava DuVernay and Kylie Jenner among others paid tribute to Bobbi Kristina Brown, following her death at the age 22. Bobbi Kristina died on Sunday at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Atlanta, Georgia, nearly six months after she was found unresponsive in a...
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Four persons were killed and five were injured in suburban Santacruz in a tree collapse incident early today.The tree collapsed on a wall in Vakola area and the wall crashed on the shanties built next to it, crushing those inside, Fire Brigade said.Four persons were killed and five were injured...
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The Supreme Court will on Monday hear 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon's final plea challenging the death warrant against him at 11 am.Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao, yesterday, held consultations with Home and Law Department officials over the petetion.CM Devendra...
10:01
The Gujarat high vourt is expected to start the final hearing on Monday on a plea filed by 2002 riots victim Zakia Jafri against a lower court's clean chit to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and 58 others in connection with a 2002 riots case.Jafri's husband, former lawmaker Ehsan Jafri, had...
09:57
M I Khan reports from Patna: Reports of stopping of trains and road blocks are coming in from Patna following the bandh called by the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar against withholding of the caste-based census data by the central government.Thousands of RJD workers and supporters took to streets,...
09:04
Even as the encounter in Gurdaspur continues, five live bombs have been recovered from the Dinanagar-Pathankot railway track.The bombs are believed to have been planted by the terrorists before they went on a shooting spree in Dinanagar town.Visual courtesy: ANI
08:40
Three persons have been killed and four injured in a gun battle, confirmed by the Home Ministry as a terror attack, in Punjab's Gurdaspur district.The gunmen, who are believed to be in army uniform, targetted the Dinanagar police station.According to reports, three or four attackers came in a...
08:14
Scaling up the controversy over a reply on farmers' suicide by the Government, the constituents of erstwhile Janata Parivar will press for the resignation of Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh and give a privilege notice against him in Parliament today.While JD-U will give the privilege...
08:11
Rahin Memon, the wife of Yakub Memon, the only death-row convict in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, has appealed to the judiciary and the government to commute her husband's capital punishment to life term.I have full faith in the judiciary. I ask the Government of India for pardon for Yakub so that...
08:09
Country's largest paramilitary force, the Central Reserve Police Force, will celebrate its 76th foundation day at its cradle in Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh today with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh taking salute from the marching contingents brought here from across the country.Neemuch is a...
08:07
The Amarnath yatra, which had been suspended from the Baltal route following the cloudburst, is expected to resume from today.After the restoration of Srinagar-Baltal road, the yatra is expected to resume (with) vigour and momentum, from today onwards, if there were no unforeseen...
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