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How Abdul Latif, Gujarat's dreaded gangster, was arrested

'When these fugitives flee to Karachi they don't have much to do, but twiddle their thumbs.''I have seen a number of criminals coming back to India because they realise they can meet more people......

Maha ATS detains 12 in Thane over SIMI links, terror probe

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Monday detained 12 persons after conducting searches in Thane district, including at the houses of some former office-bearers and members of SIMI, in......

Dhaka: 1971 war veterans jailed on terrorism charge

A Bangladeshi court on Friday sent 16 people, including several 1971 Liberation War veterans, to jail under the tough Anti-Terrorism Act, a day after a mob allegedly disrupted their scheduled......

Violence in UP town over construction on 'waqf land'

A violent clash broke out after a group of people opposed construction work on a plot of private land near a dargah in Jalesar town claiming it to be waqf property, officials said on Monday. Image......

'BJP Never Takes Any Election Lightly'

'They contest to ensure they win the election.' IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party supporters celebrate the party's electoral win. Photograph: ANI Photo The Bharatiya Janata Party has maintained......

Narayana Murthy on rupee rise, poverty

Infosys chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy on Friday said that rupee appreciation was a macro-economic issue and called upon corporates to become more efficient, productive and reduce costs. "I am......

Economics Nobel for India-born Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, M Kremer

The trio introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty IMAGE: The portraits of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kreme, who......

MIT congratulates Abhijit Banerjee, wife Esther Duflo

MIT, in a release, said the 'work of Duflo and Banerjee has emphasised the use of field experiments in research, to bring the principles of laboratory-style randomised, controlled trials to......

7 things you must know about Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee

On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer had won the 2019 Nobel Prize for economics "for their experimental approach to......

10 things to know about Gita Gopinath, IMF's new chief economist

On October 1 Indian-American Gita Gopinath was appointed chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. Announcing her appointment, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde hailed the......

Raees team gets legal notice from Abdul Latif's son

Rahul Dholakia's Raees -- in which Shah Rukh Khan plays a character apparently inspired by Abdul Latif, an alleged gangster who ran the illicit liquor business in......

Why the Raees trailer offends me

It reinforces the Muslim stereotype, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf. I wonder if you've heard of Wali Mohammed Wali? Before you Google his name, let me tell you something personal about 9/11 (For those......

Why you don't admire SRK in Raees

Raees does not have even a token sane Muslim character that has been a staple of Bollywood, says Mohammad Asim Siddiqui. A thin line separates the anti-hero of Hindi cinema from the villain. While......

PIX: SRK travels by train to promote Raees

Shah Rukh Khan takes a train to Delhi. On Monday, Shah Rukh Khan did something that he hadn't done since his stardom in 1992: travel by train! Shah Rukh boarded the August Kranti Rajdhani Express......

The Shah Rukh Khan confession!

Yes, Shah Rukh Khan likes being "a very bad boy" in real life. No, he does not "consciously" decide to "play the bad boy" in his reel life. Yes, he thinks everyone should have a little bit of a......

3 Para World records smashed in one morning!

IMAGE: Athletes during the Women's 5000m T54 final at the World Para Athletics 2025 at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, in New Delhi on Sunday. Photograph: ANI Photo/Amit Bulgaria's Ruzhdi claimed his......

Dempo, JCT atop I-League after four rounds

Last season's top two teams -- Dempo Sports Club and JCT -- again find themselves atop the I-League football championship points table after four rounds of matches. The team from Punjab thrashed......

JCT thrash Churchill 3-0

JCT kept up the pressure over table-toppers Dempo Sports Club with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Churchill Brothers in the fourth round of the ongoing ONGC I-League at the Guru Nanak Stadiumin......

Mashud replaces Bashar as captain

Former captain and wicketkeeper Khaled Mashud will lead Bangladesh in the third and final one-day international against New Zealand on Sunday in the absence of the injured Habibul Bashar.Bashar was......

Guru, Praneeth, Tarun-Sikki reach Singapore Open main draw

R M V Gurusaidutt. Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Commonwealth Games bronze medallist RMV Gurusaidutt and young B Sai Praneeth advanced to the main draw of Singapore Open Super Series......