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  • Singapore Autumn Festival

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  • Govt committed to growth: Sushma

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      External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Saturday said the Narendra Modi government was firmly committed to bring back growth and has clear policies to facilitate business environment in India. Addressing around 400 delegates comprising overseas Indians as well as business and industry leaders from Bahrain at the Diaspora Engagement Meet here, Sushma Swaraj stressed on…

  • Jaguar word cloud sculpture

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    Jaguar and London Design Museum revealed a unique aluminium word cloud sculpture in the shape of the new Jaguar XE sports saloon. Installed in the Design Museum’s ‘Tank’, the design piece marks the start of the global launch of the new Jaguar XE due to be unveiled in London early next week. Jaguar design collaborated…

  • Kejriwal demands fresh election

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      AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal met President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday and submitted a memorandum requesting him to announce fresh elections in the national capital. The Delhi assembly has been in suspended animation since Feb 2014 after Kejriwal quit as chief minister. “Media reports suggest that the Lt. Governor of Delhi has recently sent a report…

  • South Africa deny visa for Dalai Lama

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      South Africa Saturday requested Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to defer his visit to Cape Town for this year only, his private office said here. “We had a meeting with officials of the South African High Commission and foreign ministry here (in Delhi) and they requested his holiness to defer his visit to…

  • World Of Sports

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  • Sonam, Rhea & Fawad @ ‘Khoobsurat’ music launch event

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    Actors Sonam Kapoor and Fawad Khan with Sonam’s sister and producer Rhea Kapoor during the music launch of their forthcoming film Khoobsurat in Mumbai. Sonam Kapoor and Fawad Khan hosted the music launch of their forthcoming movie ” Khoobsurat” in Mumbai recently. Keeping in tone with the fun and groovy music of their upcoming film,…

  • World News In Pictures

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  • Al Qaeda’s gift to Hindu right wing

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    How dangerous are Ayman al Zawahiri’s exhortations to Muslims on the sub continent? There is an expression in Hindi, “Soney pey suhaga”, suhaga being the powder which makes gold shine. In a volatile social situation, where communal polarization is an electoral requirement until key state elections are out of the way, the Zawahiri slogan may have…

  • ‘British IS fighters want to return home’

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    A number of “disillusioned” Britons fighting for the Islamic State (IS) have approached a British university to regret their decision of travelling to Syria and Iraq to join the Sunni militant group, a media report said Friday. Professor Peter Neumann of King’s College London said his department has been in contact with a number of…

  • Jammu flood toll rises

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      The toll in the Jammu flood, triggered by incessant downpour for the last five days, has risen to 120 following the death of 14 people in a landslide. The Met Office Saturday said the “worst is over”. Fourteen people died Friday in Thanamandi area of Rajouri district when a landslide buried them, officials said.…

  • ‘ISI targeting India, Pak PM’

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     Suggesting that Pakistani army and its spy agency ISI were targeting India and their own Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a dangerous game, a former CIA analyst has advocated greater US-India intelligence cooperation.Release of a new Al Qaeda videotape of its leader, Ayman Zawahiri, announcing the creation of an Al Qaeda franchise in India had…

  • Ex-CIA analyst warns of ISI plans

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    Suggesting that Pakistani army and its spy agency ISI were targeting India and their own Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a dangerous game, a former CIA analyst has advocated greater US-India intelligence cooperation. Release of a new Al Qaeda videotape of its leader, Ayman Zawahiri, announcing the creation of an Al Qaeda franchise in India…

  • Special Report: Street theatre in Kashmir

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    Sheikh Qayoom explorig the chances of the survival of street theatre  in Kashmir Traditional Kashmiri street theatre, which once occupied centre stage as the most powerful medium of mass communication in Kashmiri society, seems to be dying a silent death. In ‘Bandh Pather’ artistes dressed in colourful attire move from village to village highlighting social, economic and…

  • Asian Lite Bookshelf

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    Let’s rewrite the history of our universe, look at terrorism financing, read a modern classic and find your true calling. These varied themes make it to Asian Lite ‘s  bookshelf this week. Take a look. 1. Book: One Hundred Days: Her Quest, My Cure; Author: Shweta Modgil; Publisher: Tara; Pages: 150 Can one afford to just…

  • World mayors’ meet in Hyderabad

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    Mayors from 60 countries expected for Hyderabad conference Mayors and experts in urban management from 60 countries will attend the Metropolis conference scheduled in Hyderabad next month. Around 2,000 delegates including commissioners, town planning Officers and experts in municipal administration will attend the four-day conference, beginning Oct 7. It has been called by Metropolis, the…

  • REVIEW: Modi’s Pied Piper act in Japan

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    Biswajit Choudhury says Modi seen as Pied Piper for Japanese investments in India India Inc sees a big leap in Japan’s business interest in India, with the commitment of $35 billion in infrastructure a case in point, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned home Wednesday after a five-day visit to this East Asian nation. This…

  • GOA: Lessons to learn from Bali

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    Francisco de Braganca says Goa should look east, emulate Bali’s success  Goa should look east and learn from the transformation of Indonesia’s Bali province from a backward region with poor infrastructure in 2001 to a beautiful, thriving beach tourism paradise. As things stand now, Bali, as a tourism destination, is far ahead of Goa. We…

  • Microsoft’s innovation hub

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    Microsoft to set up innovation hubs in India With a plan to catalyze the country’s technology startup ecosystem, GenNext Ventures, the venture investment management arm of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), Friday signed a three-year partnership with Microsoft India, through Microsoft Ventures in India, to set up GenNext Innovation Hubs, an official statement said here. The…

  • Indian speaker in Geneva

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    Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said men and women should participate equally for inclusive growth’ Men and women should participate equally in the development process as it contributes to inclusive growth, sustainable development and long-term prosperity, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said at an event in Geneva. Participating in the Ninth Annual Meeting of Women Speakers…

  • Kamal introduces Jayaram son

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    Oru Pakka Kathai’ will mark the debut of Kalidas, the son of veteran actor Jayaram. Thespian Kamal Hassan introduced theyoung actor at a Muhurt. The director had watched a mimicry performance of Kalidas in a recent award function has impressed Balaji and he has cast the young talent reportedly in the lead role.

  • Holland to lead European Hindus

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    For the first time in the History of the umbrella for Hindus of Europe, the presidency has slipped from the hands of the British. Mr Radj Bondoe, president Emeritus of the Hindu Raad Nederlands has been voted in as President, This makes him the third president of the organisation. The first two were both British. The…

  • India, Australia to sign nuclear pact

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      Australia and India are to sign a nuclear agreement Friday allowing the latter to purchase uranium for civilian nuclear use, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said here. “Prime Minister Modi and I will today sign a nuclear cooperation agreement that will finally allow Australian uranium to India,” he said while addressing a meeting of…

  • ‘Missionaries of Charity’

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  • Modi spells out nation building

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said that nation building should become a national movement and every individual should be associated with it.Addressing students here on Teachers’ Day, Modi said if every individual associates himself with the task of nation building, “we can go very far”. He said people who had achieved something in life and…

  • Britain pledges troops

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      Britain has pledged to contribute 1,000 military personnel to a proposed NATO force that could be deployed anywhere in two-five days, BBC reported Friday. Speaking on the second day of the NATO summit in the Welsh city of Newport, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the “multinational spearhead force” would be part of a…

  • NATO agrees on collective defence

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    NATO leaders Friday agreed on a readiness action plan to strengthen the bloc’s collective defence and deal with any challenge, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. The NATO allies face a security environment which is more unpredictable than ever, including Russia’s “aggression” against Ukraine, violent extremism in the Middle East and instability in North…

  • UK concern over Pak situation

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    Britain asks citizens to review travel plans to Pakistan The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has advised its citizens to review their planned trips to Pakistan in view of the volatile security situation in the country. “There is a high threat of terrorism, kidnapping and sectarian violence throughout Pakistan,” Dawn online quoted an FCO…

  • REVIEW: Mary Kom

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    Subhash K. Jha says Mary Kom is a motivational masterpiece  Film: “Mary Kom”; Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Darshan Kumar, Zachary Coffin, Robin Das, Shakti Singh; Director: Omung Kumar; Rating: ***** It’s that life-defining moment when a character on screen transforms totally into a real life personality. We’ve seen Seema Biswas, Ben Kingsley and Farhan Akhtar metamorphose…

  • Diet quality gap in the US

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     Diet quality gap between rich and poor widens in US Led by reduction in the consumption of trans fats, the quality of diet in the US has shown modest improvement in the last decade, but the gap in overall diet quality between the rich and the poor has widened, says a study. “The study provides…

  • Wardrobe & Health Risks

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    Naveen Ram looks in to the link between stylish wardrobes and health issues Do not follow fashion trends blindly. Consider the long and short-term health risks associated with the latest fashion trends, says leading Orthopaedic Surgeon, Simon Moyes. As a specialist sports injury orthopaedic surgeon, Moyes is no stranger to the aches and pains of professional athletes that…

  • Family dinner – Stressful?

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    Ishaq Mohin says even as benefits of home-cooked meals gain currency among parents, researchers have found that home cooking and family meals place a significant stress on many families – and are simply impossible for others “This idea of a home-cooked meal is appealing, but it is unrealistic for a lot of families,” said study…

  • INTERVIEW: Parineeti Chopra

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    Not doing anything startlingly glamorous: Parineeti told  Subhash K. Jha  Bollywood’s favourite girl-next-door Parineeti Chopra says she will wear a bikini only when she is in the right shape, but not right now. Yash Raj Films is known for presenting their heroines in the most glamorous avatar on the screen. However, the 25-year-old, who has done…

  • REVIEW: Sin City

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    ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ – visually brilliant, but confusing says Troy Ribeiro  Film: “Sin City: A Dame To Kill For”; Cast: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Stacy Keach, Jaime King, Christopher Lloyd, Jamie Chung, Peremy Piven, Christopher Meloni, Juno…

  • REVIEW: Life of Crime

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    Troy Ribeiro says Life of Crime is  an oft-seen double-cross drama  Film: “Life of Crime”; Cast: John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey, Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, Isla Fisher, Mark Boone Junior and Will Forte; Director: Daniel Schechter; Rating: **1/2 If you’re expecting a heavy duty, crime-laden, back alley action film, this is not it. Set in 1978 in…

  • Currency Corner by Vatsal

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    Vatsal Srivastava in his weekly column Currency Corner says ECB has gone all out to fight Europe’s economic woes  It’s official – the zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) era is here to stay. After the US Federal Reserve, Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, ECB president Mario Draghi made it clear that it too would undertake…

  • Sonam’s ‘oh my god!’ moment

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    “Oh my god,” exclaimed Sonam Kapoor when she was offered a chance to romance Salman Khan in the forthcoming film “Prem Ratan Dhan Payo”. She says it was also a bit weird to work with director Sooraj Barjatya and Salman, whose romantic sagas she was hooked on to while growing up. “Working with Soorajji and…

  • New York Fashion Week 2015

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    Models present creations from the Spring/Summer 2015 Desigual collection during the New York Fashion Week in New York, the United States.

  • A PLATEFUL OF NONSENSE?

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    Daily Dose by Bikram Vohra How it all began was the other night we were invited to this swank restaurant (sometimes it does happen) where the stewards have fake accents and are better dressed than you are and the menus are the size of hoardings and you could covert them into tents for a family…

  • Woman Found Beheaded in London

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    A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after an 82-year-old woman was beheaded in broad daylight in a suburban back garden. Palmira Silva, a widow believed to be of Italian descent, was found at an address in Edmonton, north London just after 1pm after police received reports of a man with a…

  • E-Cigarettes Could Save lives: Report

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    E-Cigarettes could potentially save 54,000 premature deaths  every year in the UK if all smokers switched to e-cigarettes, experts say. Researchers in London have dismissed recent health warnings over e-cigarettes as “misleading,” saying they have the potential to save tens of thousands of smokers every year. For every million British smokers who give up tobacco products…

  • Indian girls among the most abused: Unicef

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    Indian mothers and step-mothers are those mostly likely to subject their daughters to “physical violence,” according to a Unicef report that raises the issues of corporal punishment and discipline. Among Indian girls 15 to 19 years of age, 41 percent experienced physical violence at the hands of their mothers or step-mothers, while only 18 percent…

  • Floods ravages Kashmir

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      Hundreds of people abandoned their homes and fled to safety as the flood situation worsened in the Kashmir Valley Friday. The flood situation became serious with unprecedented heavy downpour continuing in the region for the fourth day Friday. The administration here is finding it difficult to reach the inundated areas. Reports from all the…

  • ‘the sarod project’

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    Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and his sons, Ayaan and Amaan, will undertake a concert tour of the US through October. The concert and Khan’s teaching stint at Stanford is part of what he calls ‘the sarod project’, an attempt to make more Americans aware of the sarod, a musical instrument, which has so…

  • Supermassive dinosaur unearthed

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    At 85-feet long and weighing about 65 tonnes, scientists have discovered a new supermassive dinosaur species with the most complete skeleton ever found of its type. Found in southern Patagonia in Argentina, Dreadnoughtus schrani is the largest land animal for which a body mass can be accurately calculated. “It weighed as much as a dozen…

  • US concerned over Al Qaeda

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     The US has expressed concern over the reported creation of a new Al Qaeda wing in the Indian subcontinent but said it did not regard it as an indication of any new capabilities by the terror group. The US had not been “able to verify those reports yet,” State Department spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters…

  • Rahul ridicules Modi’s Drum Spirit

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    Congress leader said Modi is playing drums in Japan, people battling problems here Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Thursday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he was playing the drums in Japan while people in India were battling power cuts, price rise and lack of roads and water supply. “The prime minister…

  • Cameron talks of new Russia sanctions

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    Russia might face more economic sanctions unless it ceases its attempts to destabilise Ukraine, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday. In an interview with the BBC, Cameron said the measures taken against Russia, which is accused of supporting separatist insurgents in eastern Ukraine with weapons and uniformed Russian troops, were beginning to show results.…

  • Dr. Alon Ben-Meir’s Special Report on Middle East

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    Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU, comments on the latest developments on Israel-Palestine issue – Reckless Policies, Dire Consequences The Netanyahu-led government’s announcement of its decision to annex nearly 1,000 acres of Palestinian land in the West Bank between the Etzion settlement block and Jerusalem amounts to nothing less…