The professor of a government college in Srinagar was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday evening for setting a question paper 'with anti-India content'.The lecturer, Noor Mohammad Bhat, who teaches English in Gandhi Memorial College was picked up by the police after the authorities learnt about the contents of the paper which the lecturer had set for first-year students.The college teacher was picked up by the police from his downtown residence on Friday.
At least 38 people, including a former parliamentarian, were killed and nearly 50 others injured in a suicide attack on a mosque and two bombings across northwest Pakistan on Monday, marking a spurt in militant violence after a relative lull over the past few weeks.
Sajjad Ahmed Khan, 27, a resident of Pulwama is also suspected to be involved in the conspiracy of Pulwama attacks.
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New Zealand's worst peacetime mass killing rippled through the country's top-class sports on Saturday with two high profile events cancelled and the first class cricket title being decided without a ball being bowled in the final round of matches.
"Our heartfelt condolences go out to the families and friends of those affected by the shocking situation in Christchurch. A joint decision between NZC and the @BCBtigers has been made to cancel the Hagley Oval Test. Again both teams and support staff groups are safe," the New Zealand cricket board tweeted on their Twitter handle.
While the Mumbai police are on the lookout for the four alleged members of the Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Tayiba, who sneaked into the city, the cops released a sketch of one of them. The four alleged militants have been identified as Abdul Kareem Moosa, Noor Abu Ilahi, Walid Jinnah and Mahfooz Alam.
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Yuvraj Singh, on 19, completed his 500 runs in T20Is. He thus became only the second Indian batsman to do this after Gautam Gambhir, who has aggregated 556 runs from 20 appearances.
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'Every Muslim is painted with the same brush. We are one day linked to SIMI, the next day to Al Qaeda, to Pakistan-based terrorists and now ISIS.'
A major fire on Friday broke out in a three-storeyed residential building near Byculla railway station injuring two persons but 20 other occupants were safely rescued, a Fire Brigade official said.
One of the two photojournalists killed in a 2007 attack by a US helicopter gunship in Iraq was being rescued when the gunship's crew fired on the van to which he was being carried, according to a CNN footage posted online on Monday.
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The inmates at the relief camp said the rioters were all locals and not outsiders. They also said they will only return when authorities assure them of safety.
Municipality employees kicked, punched and beat Khan with a stick, which led to his death.
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'I am Punjabi at heart.' 'Even my nature is larger-than-life, which is a very Punjabi trait.'
The fund is being set up in association with two off-shore partners -- HSH Nordbank, (HSH) Germany and Noor Financial Investment Company of Kuwait. HSH Nordbank is a major financier in the transportation sector especially in shipping and aviation. In India, it has participated in debt financing for the modernisation of the Delhi airport. Noor is the financial arm of NIG Group, a conglomerate.
'Does a thousand-year-old sculpture worshipped in a thriving religion belong to a foreign museum or the temple from which it was extracted?' Congress MP Shashi Tharoor asked angrily. 'They legitimately belonged to India and people of past, present and future generations are interested in re-possessing them,' a central information commissioner declared last month.
From its inception in 1971 till 1978, the World Cup was held every alternate year. Then it was made a once-in-four years affair, beginning with the 1982 edition.
Bharatiya Janata Party member of Legislative Assembly Suresh Rana, who was arrested for his alleged role in fanning communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, was booked on Thursday under the National Security Act.
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An aide to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud, Maulana Noor Saeed, has rubbished reports of him being killed by a United States drone strike last Wednesday, and said that he is alive, but ill.
There are 60 MPs below 39 in the current Parliament of 543 elected members.
Noora, the brother of gangster Dawood Ibrahim has died in Karachi, police sources said on Wednesday. As per information received Noora was reportedly suffering from a kidney ailment and died in Karachi where he has been buried, they said.
Afghanistan's controversial campaign, marred by poor on and off-field decisions, has gone from bad to worse. They now face the onerous task of squaring off against a galaxy of world class players, whose performance graph is on the upswing.
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Five-time champions India ended their campaign in the Asia Cup with a consolation eight-wicket victory over debutants Afghanistan, in Mirpur, on Wednesday.
Sabbir Khan son of lyricist Noor Devasi is not new to Bollywood. After Sabbir finished his graduation he assisted Mahesh Bhatt on Ghulam and David Dhawan on Mujhse Shaadi Karogi. Now he is all set to make his debut in Bollywood as a director with the film Kambakkht Ishq starring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards, Brandon Routh, Aftab Shivdasani, Amrita Arora, Javed Jaffrey, Boman Irani, Kirron Kher. Sabbir about the film and directing Sylvester
Outside Rampur, Azam Khan's name may be an alias for controversy. But Rampur's voters believe that all the improvements in their constituency has been accomplished only by the man they have elected 8 times to the state assembly.
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Neesham, a batting all-rounder, rocked the Afghanistan innings by his incisive bowling and in the process returned with his career-best figures of 5/31 from his 10 overs. His earlier best was 4/42.
A number of royals have thrown their hat in the ring in the high-voltage Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
The swine flu death toll in the country has risen to 10 with the death of a seven-year-old girl in Vadodara. Earlier, a woman in Maharashtra succumbed to the dreaded virus.
'It is a diamond which has a very long competitive history.'
A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Aftab Alam also issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation, on a petition filed by Zakhir Hussain Noor Sheikh, who was sentenced to death by the Mumbai Terrorist And Disruptive Activity (prevention) court.The petitioner contended in his appeal that the TADA court had failed to appreciate that there was no evidence against him, showing his involvement in the conspiracy.
Veteran director Shyam Benegal is having a tough time finding producers for his ambitious project Spy Princess in the recession hit film industry. The film has been adapted from a book of the same name by Sharabani Basu. Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of Tipu Sultan, was a British-Indian princess who served as a spy during World War II and was captured and shot dead by German forces, who failed to extract any information from her.
Licensed porters could not believe their luck when Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav offered them jobs in his organisation, but now they are finding themselves in a lurch.
No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the blasts. The police have cordoned off the area and are conducting searches.
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