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JUST IN: Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy ends his dharna
23:36
A criminal court ordered the authorities to detain former Maldivian president Abdulla Yameen in connection with a money laundering case.The prosecutor general's office sought a court order to take Yameen into custody following which he was summoned for a hearing which was scheduled on short...
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US President Donald Trump has issued an angry response after a TV interview on Sunday alleged that officials had held discussions to have him removed.Trump tweeted of illegal and treasonous behaviour and an illegal coup attempt.In the interview, ex-acting FBI chief Andrew McCabe said talks had...
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra told party workers from Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand region that they should not expect a miracle from her and the party's performance depends on its booth-level organisation.  The AICC General Secretary Uttar Pradesh East warned the party workers...
22:14
Veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh doesn't want India to play Pakistan in the upcoming ODI World Cup in the aftermath of the ghastly terror attack in Pulwama. Harbhajan said India are strong enough to win the World Cup even if they decide to forfeit the match against Pakistan in Manchester on...
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India should focus on redrawing its anti-terrorism policy rather than blaming Pakistan without evidence for the Pulwama attack and holding China responsible for blocking efforts to list JeM chief, Masood Azhar, as a terrorist at the UN also without proof, Chinese state media has said.India has...
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BJP's association with the Shiv Sena goes beyond politics and is bound by a desire to see a strong India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday after the two parties agreed to contest the Lok Sabha and Maharashtra assembly elections together. He said the decision to contest together...
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While several Kashmiri students from different cities have been slapped with sedition charges for allegedly supporting the Pulwama terror attack, two colleges in Dehradun have decided not to admit those from the Valley, with students here saying they were in a state of fear after the...
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Dehradun Police on Monday said to have registered a first information report against former JNU Students’ Union leader Shehla Rashid for allegedly trying to incite “a community to commit offence, indulging in wanton vilification and provoking someone to breach peace” in the wake of Pulwama terror...
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BJP president Amit Shah met Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Monday and following that announced that the two sparring allies will retain the tie-up for the ensuing election. Addressing the media after their meeting, Maharashtra's CM Devendra Fadnavis said, We have had our differences,...
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The ministry of law and justice have revealed the number of cases pending before the apex court.Â
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It is improbable that Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a motor car driving licence. And it is an intelligent guess that even if he did possess one, Modi will not emulate Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan by driving the car from Delhi airport bearing the visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin...
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Asserting that the entire country was fed up with the senseless killings of Indian soldiers in Kashmir, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday called for coercive action against Pakistan, which, he suggested, could be military, diplomatic or economic, or a combination of all the...
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India on Monday tore through the opaque proceedings of Pakistani military courts which try civilians against the international norms, saying the judges, who tried Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, are not required to have judicial or legal training or even a law degree.  India's plea at the...
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PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday expressed condolences to the families of soldiers killed in the Pulwama encounter, saying the bloodshed will only stop when the Centre overhauls its approach to Jammu and Kashmir. Deepest condolences to the families. This bloodshed will only stop when GoI...
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DIG South Kashmir Amit Kumar has been hit by a bullet in the Pulwama encounter.Kumar was hit by a bullet in his leg and was shifted to Army hospital, the police said.His condition is said to be stable.A lieutenant colonel and a captain have also been injured in the Pulwama encounter, they are...
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The dreaded architect of the attack on CRPF jawans, Maulana Masood Azhar, was an easy man to handle in custody and he got shaken up on the first slap from an army jawan prompting him to blurt out details of his movements, says a former police officer who interrogated him after his arrest in...
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At ICJ, The Hague, the government of India's agent Deepak Mittal, Joint Secretary, MEA and Pakistan's AG Anwar Mansoor Khan before the proceedings in Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice. Proceedings have been adjourned for tomorrow. India on Monday said the trial of its...
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BJP president Amit Shah will visit Shiv Sena's chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence Matoshree in Mumbai on Monday evening.Senior Sena leader Sanjay Raut said Amit Shah and Uddhav Thackeray will announce the alliance for the Lok Sabha and assembly elections in a joint press conference at 6:30...
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Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu who is facing flak for his recent comment on the Pulwama terror attack, said he is firm on his stand and reiterated that the country's fight is against terrorism and perpetrators of terror.I am firm on my stand. Terrorism will not be tolerated. People who are...
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Banned terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists have moved from their hideouts to locations near populated areas fearing retaliation from security forces, Indian Army sources said.Sources revealed that the Army is constantly briefing Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and other senior...
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The commonly used anti-theft remote alarms or keys used in motorcycles and vehicles are being increasingly used by terrorists to trigger IEDs in Jammu and Kashmir, a possibility suspected in the recent Pulwama attack on a CRPF convoy that killed 40 personnel, a latest report has revealed. ...
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A four-day public hearing in the case of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage has begun at the ICJ. India moved the ICJ in May in 2017 against the farcical trial by the military court of Pakistan against 48-year-old Jadhav....
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Kamran alias Ghazi Rasheed, the mastermind of the Pulwama terror attack on February 14, has been killed in an encounter with security forces in a fresh encounter today, say reports. Reports say he was cornered by security forces along with two more terrorists in an encounter that started in the...
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Over 300 Kashmiri students reached Mohali from Uttarakhand and Haryana on their way to their homes, a student body arranging their stay in the Punjab town said Monday, amid reports of harassment of students from the Valley in Dehradun after the Pulwama terrorist attack. Some Kashmiri youths...
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India’s oral arguments in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case at the International Court of Justice, Hague, begins. The three-hour hearing will be split into two -- one and a half hour sessions -- preceded by the swearing in ceremony of Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Hussain Jilani as an ad...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Monday the Pulwama terrorist attack has showed that the time to talk about tackling terror is over and the world is now required to unitedly take concrete action against terrorism and those behind its spread.After talks with Argentine President Mauricio Macri,...
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The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by lawyer Alakh Srivastava seeking a court-monitored inquiry into the Mirage aircraft crash in Bengaluru which claimed the lives of two pilots.We dismiss the petition. The petition has no merit, said an apex court bench...
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Samajwadi Partychief Akhilesh Yadav sought to corner the Narendra Modi government on Monday over the death of soldiers, asking why the government is waiting and watching.  Till when will the three day period of mourning keep getting extended? Everyday we get news of the brave martyrdom of our...
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Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has undergone a surgery for hernia at a hospital in Mumbai. Gehlot, 67, who was operated upon on Sunday, appealed to people to keep a keep a tab of their health issues and get timely treatment for it. I have been successfully operated for hernia here in...
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The All India Cine Workers Association announces a total ban on Pakistani actors and artists working in the film industry in the aftermath of the Pulwama attack.
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The Supreme Court Monday refused to allow reopening of Vedanta's Sterlite plant in Tamil Nadu's Tuticorin, which was at the centre of massive protests over pollution concerns, but granted the company liberty to approach the high court. A bench headed by Justice RF Nariman allowed Tamil Nadu's...
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Update on the Pinglana, Pulwama encounter: One AK-47 rifle and one pistol have been recovered. Identification of the bodies of the two terrorists killed during encounter are yet to be confirmed. The search operation continues.Four Army personnel, including a major, and two Jaish terrorists were...
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The Pakistan Cricket Board has said it will take up with the BCCI the regrettable removal of pictures of its former players at a couple of venues in India, owing to the Pulwama terror attack, during an ICC meeting next month. In a statement issued late Sunday night, the PCB's Managing Director...
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The Secretary of the National Rifle Association of India, Rajiv Bhatia, on Monday confirmed that India would be granting visa to the Pakistani players to participate in the forthcoming Shooting World Cup, scheduled to be New Delhi later this month.Bhatia said that the Indian Home Ministry has...
11:48
Omar Abdullah tweets: Zee TV will sponsor & promote Pakistani bands a day after the Pulwama attack but because it's in Dubai it's all kosher in the mean time the airwaves will be used to drive hyper-nationalism back home.
11:42
A 100-feet high national flag installed at the Raipur railway station. All for nationalism and respecting the tricolour, but let's hope the station has essentials like escalators, elevators and ramps to enable senior citizens to change platforms with ease.Â
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Update on the Pulwama encounter: A top Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) commander linked to the Pulwama terror attack is believed to be trapped in the ongoing encounter in which four Indian Army personnel, including a Major, were killed and another sustained injuries. Two terrorists have been killed...
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BJP MP Kirti Azad joins the Congress party in the presence of Rahul Gandhi. Azad, who was suspended by the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2015, on Monday joined Congress. The MP from Bihar's Darbhanga joined the grand old party in the presence of Congress president Rahul Gandhi. A...
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In the end, it ceased to quite matter which side lost and which won the evening. Resonating insistently above the feisty jousting between combatants was the suzerainty of the Idea of India as a pluralist, inclusive, secular democracy. But alongside prevailed a rider to it too -- the sense that...
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Few people understand the unrest in the Kashmir valley and its intersection with Pakistan-sponsored terrorism as Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd) does.As commander of the XV Corps based in Srinagar, General Hasnain conceived the 'Hearts Doctrine' in Kashmir. The general has been...
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Instead of being hoisted in pride, the tricolour is now being used more for wrapping the mortal remains of slain security personnel, the Shiv Sena said on Monday. The remark comes nearly five days after 40 CRPF personnel lost their lives in the Pulwama terror attack.It is unfortunate that despite...
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Within hours of the latest -- and bloodiest -- terror attack in Kashmir that left 40 jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force dead, the information and broadcasting ministry issued an advisory to all private satellite TV channels about the coverage of the tragedy and its aftermath. It asked...
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Moved by the Pulwama terror attack, the Lok Janshakti Party, an ally of the ruling BJP at the Centre, has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to strike at the roots of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. In a letter written to Modi, LJP parliamentary board chairman Chirag Paswan pleaded that the drive...
10:12
The cross-LoC bus service from Poonch in Jammu & Kashmir to Rawalakot (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) has been suspended for today.Â
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Thousands of people on the streets of Dehradun for the funeral procession of Major Chitresh Singh Bisht. Slogans of 'Amar Rahe' raised as people pay last respects to the 31-year-old Major, with almost the entire town on the streets to pay their last respects. He lost his life on 16 February...
09:46
The literary and arts community of Pakistan has expressed disappointment over veteran Indian actress Shabana Azmi and her lyricist-writer husband Javed Akhtar cancelling, in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack, their Karachi visit to attend Kaifi Azmi's birth centenary celebrations.Shabana and...
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Four soldiers including a Major were killed in an encounter between terrorists and security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.A cordon and search operation was launched late last night by army, police and Central Reserve Police Forces personnel after a tip off that terrorists were...
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Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday likened the Pulwama terror incident, in which 40 Central Reserve Police Forces personnel were killed, to the attacks of Mughals. The chief minister was addressing a public rally of the Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha Lakhimpur in presence of...
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Veteran West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has announced that he will retire from one-day international cricket after the World Cup slated to be held in England and Wales later this year.Yes, I'm looking to draw the line after the World Cup, he said. Or should I say cut the string? Definitely, in...
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Amidst fresh Indo-Pak tensions, top legal eagles of the two countries will present their arguments in the high-profile Kulbhushan Jadhav case before the International Court of Justice in The Hague from Monday during four days of public hearings.Jadhav, a retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced...
