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We all lied about Jaya's health condition: TN Minister
Tamil Nadu Minister for Forests C. Sreenivasan has sought people's apology for "lying" about the health condition of late Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa when she was admitted in Apollo Hospital.
Speaking at a public meeting in Madurai, around 500 km from here, on Friday night Sreenivasan said: "We would have told lies that she (Jayalalithaa) had idlis and people met her. The truth is that nobody saw her."
Sreenivasan said he is seeking apology from...
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Fuel prices will come down soon: Pradhan
Attributing the recent rise in fuel prices to a hurricane in the US, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan today said the rates will come down in the next few days.
"Fuel prices have gone up recently due to the hurricane in the US. As the prices reduce in the international market, they will come down here also," the Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister told reporters here.
The rates have already started to come down in the last three...
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Development, not votes, is our priority: PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today lashed out at his political rivals, saying for BJP, politics was not for the sake of votes as it considered the country's development as the top-most priority.
Addressing a public meeting after inaugurating a 'Pashu Arogya Mela' (cattle health fair) here on the second day of his two-day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi, he also promised to double farm income and provide homes to the homeless by 2022.
He...
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Senior journalist, mother murdered in Mohali house
Senior journalist K.J. Singh and his aged mother were found dead in their residence in Mohali town in Punjab, adjoining Chandigarh, on Saturday, police said.
Both victims were attacked by their assailants with a sharp-edged weapon in their house in Phase 3B2 of Mohali, 10 km from here.
Police said that Singh's mother, Gurcharan Kaur, 89, was strangulated.
Singh was stabbed in the stomach and his throat was also slit.
The bodies of the victims...
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3.5-magnitude quake rattles N Korea near nuclear test site
A shallow 3.5-magnitude earthquake hit North Korea near the country's nuclear test site today, US seismologists said, in what China's seismic service said was a "suspected explosion", but Seoul deemed a "natural earthquake".
The earthquake came after days of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's regime over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions raised international alarm.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck around 20-km away from...
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Does NKorean H-bomb threat push US closer to war?
Would exploding a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific, as North Korea has threatened, push the current war of words between the US. and North Korea closer to actual war?
As with much that has transpired lately in the U.S.-North Korea nuclear crisis, no one can be sure where this would lead or whether the North will even carry out its threat. It does, however, raise many questions, including: How would the North undertake such a...
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Beware of 'fake' samajwadis, Akhilesh tells party members
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav today cautioned his supporters against "fake samajwadis", signalling fresh strain in the party's top ranks.
The former chief minister was addressing the state convention, which unanimously re-elected Naresh Uttam as the party's president in Uttar Pradesh.
Akhilesh called on his party members at the meet, asking them to realise their responsibilities ahead of Lok Sabha bypolls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur, seats vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad...
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ED files charge sheet against Kashmiri separatist leader Shah
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today filed a charge sheet against Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah and a suspected hawala dealer in connection with a 2005 money laundering case filed against him for alleged terror financing.
The final report, filed before Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma, also named the alleged hawala dealer Mohammed Alsam Wani, who is in judicial custody along with Shah.
The case dates back to August 2005 in which the Delhi Police's Special Cell had...
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Swaraj to address UN General Assembly tonight
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is expected to raise issues like the global fight against terrorism, climate change and the Security Council's reform in her address to the United Nations General Assembly tonight.
When Swaraj, 65, takes the podium she would be addressing the UN General Assembly for the second consecutive time.
She is expected to deliver her speech in Hindi like the last year.
Swaraj, who arrived New York last Sunday, spent a major part of her...
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Pak shells border posts, hamlets; BSF jawans among 7 injured
Pakistani troops targeted Indian border outposts and hamlets in Jammu, Samba and Poonch districts in overnight firing and shelling, injuring two BSF jawans and five civilians, officials said today.
Continuous violations of the ceasefire by Pakistan along the International Border (IB) and the Line of Control (LoC) have forced hundreds of border residents to flee their homes.
Pakistan troops engaged in heavy firing and mortar shelling on villages and border outposts in Arnia, R S Pura and...
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Film producer Morani surrenders in rape case
Bollywood producer Karim Morani has surrendered to police here in connection with a rape case hours after the Supreme Court dismissed his bail plea, authorities confirmed on Saturday.
He surrendered at the Hayathnagar police station on the city's outskirts around midnight, the police said.
The "Chennai Express" producer will be produced before a court later in the day.
Morani is facing the charge of raping a Delhi-based woman. The 25-year-old aspiring actor alleged that he...
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India calls for global action to counter use of Internet for radicalisation
Responses to terrorism must be similar across geographies and cultures and differential standards must not be accepted, India has said, seeking global action to tackle the evolving threat of Internet being used by terrorists for radicalisation and terror financing.
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar made the remarks during a high-level meeting at the UN on 'Preventing Terrorist Use of Internet' hosted by the UK and Italy on Wednesday.
"Internet backbone, critical Internet resources and data centres should be...
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Britain's May asks for transition deal after Brexit
British Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a two-year transition after Brexit in which Britain would largely maintain its current ties with Brussels, in a charm offensive intended to unlock stalled negotiations with the European Union.
In a major speech in Florence yesterday, May promised to meet Britain's existing EU budget commitments until 2020 and outlined new legal guarantees for the rights of around three million EU nationals living in Britain.
She also committed to maintaining...
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Arvind Subramanian to continue as CEA, gets 1-yr extension
Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Srubramanian, whose term was due to end in October, has been given an extension of one year, the government said on Saturday.
"Subramanian will continue for one more year after completion of his three year tenure on October 16," Finance Ministry said in a tweet.
Earlier there were reports that the CEA had submitted his resignation to the government, which was denied by the ministry officials.
The officials had earlier...
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Iran tests new missile defying US warnings
Iran said today that it had successfully tested a new medium-range missile in defiance of warnings from Washington that it was ready to ditch a landmark nuclear deal over the issue.
State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which was first displayed at a high- profile military parade in Tehran yesterday.
It also carried in-flight video from the nose cone.
The broadcaster gave no date for the test although officials had said yesterday that...
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Subdued economic sentiment weighs heavy on equity indices
Saturday, 23 September 2017 | IANS | Mumbai
Subdued macro-economic sentiment, coupled with rising geo-political tensions in the Korean Peninsula and continuous outflows of foreign funds dragged the key Indian equity markets in the red last week.
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Our players can read spinners, says Australia's Warner
Saturday, 23 September 2017 | IANS | Indore
Australia vice-captain David Warner on Saturday dismissed the claims that his team is not reading India's spinners on the current tour.
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Saturday, 23 September 2017 | Kritika Dua
The iconic triangular-shaped building of Chanakya cinema was the place to catch a movie before the multiplexes took over. Old-timers talk to Kritika Dua about its newest avatar and the good times When curtains came down on the Chanakya cinema with the night show of Taare Zameen Par on December 27, 2007, it was the end of an era. People were disheartened by the closing of the iconic cinema hall which was built in 1970. Raj Kapoor’s Mera Naam Joker...
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