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  • Now, a corporate vote bank

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    Till now they were indifferent but now they want to stand up and be counted.People from Gurgaon’s corporate and cyber world, who were so far lost to Haryana’s politics, now want to give competition to local residents, especially from villages, when it comes to being part of the area’s democracy. More and more of these…

  • Imran seeks Nawaz resignation

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    Thousands of protesters gathered in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad as rally leaders Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri called for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down. They are alleging rigging in the 2013 elections, which saw the first civilian government transfer of power. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) chief Imran Khan demanded Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation. The PM’s…

  • No factionalism in Congress: Pilot

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    The Congress, which suffered one of its worst defeats in both the assembly and Lok Sabha polls, is now trying to regroup itself to fight the local bodies polls, with newly-appointed Rajasthan state party chief Sachin Pilot downplaying reports of factionalism.“There is no factionalism. There can be differences of opinion, but there is no factionalism.…

  • Church raps PM’s Mideast policy

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    The Church of England has attcked Prime Minister David Cameron’s Middle East policy, describing the government’s approach as incoherent, ill-thought-out and determined by “the loudest media voice at any particular time”. The criticisms are made in an extraordinary letter to the prime minister signed by the bishop of Leeds, Nicholas Baines, and written with the…

  • Special Report: India’s new foreign policy

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    Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, former High Commissioner of India to UK, writes on Modi’s foreign policy. The veteran diplomat, who also served in Nepal during the Himalayan country’s transition from a kingdom to a democracy, says Modi’s initiative is a good beginning in protecting India’s core national interests  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Nepal, the…

  • Dot Bharat to hit screens soon

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    Aparajita Gupta says Dot Bharat domain will hit screens soon India, with its existing 243 million Internet users, is all set to get a ‘dot Bharat’ domain name from this month that will help bridge the digital divide and accelerate e-governance. This will be soon followed by web addresses in six regional languages. In tandem with its…

  • Container tragedy: ‘Victims from Punjab’

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    Police launched a homicide investigation on Saturday after the death of one of 35 suspected illegal migrants who were found in a shipping container on board a cargo ferry at the port of Tilbury on the Thames estuary. The stowaways, believed to be 28 adults and seven children, were discovered on board the P&O-owned vessel that…

  • India to get .bharat

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     India, with its existing 243 million Internet users, is all set to get a ‘dot Bharat’ domain name from this month that will help bridge the digital divide and accelerate e-governance. This will be soon followed by web addresses in six regional languages.In tandem with its dream of ‘Digital India’ to connect with the people…

  • Tesco attcked for selling Israeli products

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    Police officers were attacked and stock was thrown around during a protest against the Gaza conflict at a Tesco store on Saturday. Demonstrators, who want the supermarket to stop selling Israeli food, entered Tesco in Hodge Hill, Birmingham, threw produce to the floor and shouted at staff and shoppers,” the Telegraph said. Pictures show a…

  • Saeed Naqvi on Modi’s I-Day speech

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    Outside of India I have seen men and women find privacy behind the sand dunes in, for example, the Sahara desert Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s courageous elaboration in his maiden Independence Day speech, on the nation’s need to build toilets had in it a touch of Acharya Vinoba Bhave. It also brought back a Devi…

  • Men too prone to breast cancer

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    Shweta Sharma says men are too prone to breast cancer Last November, Kunal Makhija (name changed) noticed a small swelling in his left breast. The swelling, which appeared as a “painless lump”, gradually increased in size within four months and was soon diagnosed as breast cancer – a disease more common among women. Though rare, incidents…

  • PICS: Janmastami

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    Girls performing in the dance competion during Janmastami celebrations by Hare Krishna Movement, at Sonaram field in Guwahati

  • PM wants to stop Isis reaching UK streets

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    The West is embroiled in a generational struggle against a poisonous brand of Islamic extremism that will bring terror to the streets of Britain unless urgent action is taken to defeat it, David Cameron warned. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, the Prime Minister says the world cannot turn a blind eye to the creation of…

  • UK toughens stance on IS jihadists

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    Islamic State jihadist militants could grow strong enough to target people “on the streets of Britain” unless action is taken, Prime Minister David Cameron has warned, BBC reported. He said a “humanitarian response” to the rebel group was not enough and a “firm security response” was needed. The prime minister was writing in the Sunday…

  • Why I don’t want to celebrate…

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    Bikram Vohra says only a handful of super-patriots risked their lives to take on the colonists while the majority did nothing but aid and abet the invaders Every year I put out this article or a form of it hoping someone will agree. Lonely me. So far no one has patted me on the back and…

  • Indian films go global

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    Director Homi Adajania is set to bring to the table “Finding Fanny”, an English language film with a cast of desi actors. The experiment is not new, but it stands a testimony to how the multiplex culture is allowing filmmakers to try new ways of attracting youth, say distributors. “Finding Fanny”, starring Arjun Kapoor, Deepika…

  • CRICKET: Tourists losing their way

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    What can bowlers do if batsmen don’t deliver?  India’s campaign in the current series can, without fear of contradiction, be summarised as the tourists losing their way after the second Test, especially after the third. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) need to seriously ponder: why? Was a five-test series beyond the…

  • Singapore to aid India project

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    India and Singapore expressed the hope that negotiations for the second review of a bilateral economic cooperation agreement would be completed soon, which would send a positive signal to the business community. Singapore’s Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam and India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met at capital Singapore city  for talks.The two leaders welcomed the excellent…

  • Modi floats INS Kolkata

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India’s largest indigenously built warship “INS Kolkata” into the Indian Navy, describing it as “a symbol of our self-reliance in the field of defence”. “INS Kolkata, entirely built in India, is a symbol of our self-reliance in the field of defence. It is a worthy example of the country’s technical…

  • PICS: Aamir supports clean campaign

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    Bollywood star Aamir Khan launches a campaign to support cleanliness in Jodhpur

  • New BJP: RSS men in, Varun out

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     BJP president Amit Shah Saturday announced his new team of office bearers. Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was inducted as vice president and former RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav as general secretary, but Lok Sabha member Varun Gandhi was dropped.The new team of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office bearers saw Shah seeking to strike a…

  • Games behind Indian sports awards

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    The controversy over every national award is getting beyond the pale. Unedifying hankering, uncultured lobbying and above all the lack of firmness in sticking to the norms have robbed the awards of the grace they deserve.It is not just the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna and the Padma awards which are mired in the unseemly…

  • Indira assassin movie faces ban

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    The Punjab Youth Congress (PYC) Saturday strongly opposed the permission granted for the screening of the controversial Punjabi movie ‘Kaum de Heere’, saying it glorifies the assassins of former prime minister Indira Gandhi. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, PYC president Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary said it was unfortunate that a movie that glorifies and…

  • Man returns Israeli medal

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    A Dutchman honoured by Israel for hiding a Jewish child during World War Two has handed back his medal after six of his relatives were killed in an Israeli air strike on Gaza. Henk Zanoli, 91, wrote to the Israeli embassy in The Hague to say he could no longer hold the honour, a BBC…

  • Asian migrants in UK container mishap

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    A man has died after 35 people – including children – were found in a shipping container at Tilbury Docks. The survivors – believed to be illegal migrants from the Indian subcontinent and suffering from severe dehydration and hypothermia – are being treated at nearby hospitals,” the BBC said. The group were found when dockyard…

  • Ritz to get £ 1m from Omani gambler

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    The Ritz casino has won a court battle to recover £1m from a wealthy gambling addict who failed to pay money she owed. Noora Abdullah Mahawish Al-Daher, who is married to the foreign minister of Oman, lost £2m in the London casino during an evening of gambling but only paid half of the debt, leading to the…

  • In Goa, pay to wear bikini?

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    The Congress accused the government of trying to impose restrictions on women and using bikinis as a ruse to privatise beaches after a ruling party lawmaker demanded demarcation of private ‘pay to enter’ beaches where women would be allowed to wear bikinis.“They are trying to impose restrictions on women by making these statements and curb…

  • Agra launches cleanliness campaign

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    Brij Khandelwal says Agra municipality cracks whip for cleanliness The Agra Municipal Corporation has announced better sanitation management and tougher enforcement measures to ensure a cleaner Taj city. Property owners would be prosecuted if domestic waste or garbage is found accumulated outside their premises, Environment officer Rajeev Rathi said. All sanitary inspectors and zonal officers have…

  • Why Modi’s speech inspires India?

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s maiden Independence Day address, where he called for “political consensus” in the running of his government, was praised by several political commentators with one even rating him above Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the first BJP leader to hoist the Tricolour from the Red Fort. “His address to the people was not limited…

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    Latest news pictures from Asia

  • PICS: Banagalore Fashion

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    Bangalore, the garden city of India, is emerging as the capital fashion. Models walk the ramp during Bangalore Fashion Week 2014, in Bangalore

  • PICS: Haider ready for release

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    Shahid Kapoor says a lot of good things in his career have come his way courtesy filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj who has worked with the actor in “Kaminey” and now in “Haider”. “Haider” is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” and hits theatres Oct 2. “One works with all kinds of directors. When he (Bhardwaj) wrote…

  • Incredible India!

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    Give up caste, communal poison: Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to give up the “poison” of casteism and communalism and embrace unity for the country’s progress. During his Independence Day address, the prime minister said it was a shame that caste and communal politics continued even so many years after independence. “How long will this…

  • CRICKET: BCCI treasurer has 3 offices!

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    Abishek Roy reports on extravagance and corruption in the BCCI. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) now maintains offices for its treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi — and surprisingly not in his home town Bhiwani besides a a 5-star hotel suite! Successive cricket board treasurers have often asked for the…

  • Cricket: What’s wrong with Indian cricket?

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    Bikram Vohra says Indian cricket wrecked by instant wealth… And Caesar said to Mark Anthony: Let me have men about me that are fat. Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look, such men are dangerous. He clearly did not have India’s cricket team in mind. For when…

  • Egypt to expand Suez Canal

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    New Suez Canal project to offer 1 mn jobs: Official The new Suez Canal project — aimed at expanding the existing vital waterway — will completely eradicate unemployment in Egypt as it will offer nearly one million jobs, an official said. Suez Governor El-Arabi al-Serwi made the remark during the launch of the first phase of…

  • Dhoni helps India to clock 148

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    Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni led the fightback with a gritty 82 before India were bowled out for 148 by England shortly after tea on the first day of the fifth and the final cricket Test at The Oval in London. Earlier, Indian batsmen cut a sorry figure again after they were put in by England captain Alastair…

  • Selector’s Logic – Heads I win, tails you lose

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    Veturi Srivatsa looks into selectors’ logic – Heads I win, tails you lose Selectors in most sports insist they are invariably correct while picking teams. Sometimes they take the rankings into account and on other occasions they argue about the potential of a player for picking him or her — it is a case of heads they win,…

  • Amulya Ganguli on Modi’s I-Day speech

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    Amulya Ganguli analysing the impact of Modi’s Independence Day speech on the Saffron Brigade. Will saffronites heed Modi’s I-Day counsel of restraint?  Perhaps the most important part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech from the ramparts of New Delhi’s Red Fort was his call for a 10-year moratorium on caste-based and communal violence.…

  • Are you a workaholic?

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    Do you spend much more time working than initially intended or you become stressed if you are prohibited from working? Chances are that you are already a workaholic. In a first, Norwegian researchers have formulated a seven-point criteria that decides if you have reached the level of chronic work addiction or not. “If you reply…

  • Red Tape hurdles investors

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    Fakir Balaji says regulatory hurdles keep away foreign retailers from India Regulatory issues over the entry of foreign brands and luxury goods are keeping international retailers from investing in India in a big way, says a new study by the US-based global investment management firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). “Though international retailers have shown a…

  • Imran Khan survives attack

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    Imran Khan attacked during Pakistan anti-government march Opposition leader Imran Khan Friday said he was attacked by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) activists during an anti-government march in Pakistan’s Punjab province, TV reports said. The attack took place in the industrial city of Gujranwala, Dunya TV reported, adding that the PML-N activists hurled stones that smashed…

  • PICS: India celebrates I-Day

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    India, a nation with one billion plus population, celebrates 68 Independence Day on Friday

  • Come, Make in India

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    MODI: I tell the world, Make in India! Sell anywhere but manufacture here. We have the skill and talent…Reports  Kavita Bajeli-Datt In his maiden Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited the world to India to test its skills and utilise the opportunities in the nation Modi appealed tothe global investors to make India…

  • GALLERY: Rohit’s Vrindavan

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    India’s ace fashion designer Rohit Verma and actor Kavitta Verma during the preview his newest collection `Vrindavan` presented this Janmashtami, in Mumbai

  • PICS: Elephant Fest in Karnataka

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    Gaja Payana’ or the march of elephants is a popular event in Karnataka. The first batch of five elephants Balarama, Abhimanya, Arjuna, Mary, Varalakshmi lead the traditional ‘Gaja Payana’ or the march of elephants from Veeranahosahalli to Mysore Palace, in Mysore. The elephants will participate in the world famous annual Mysore Dasara celebrations. In fact, Gaja Payana…

  • Britons joining IDF may soon beome illegal

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    By Shafi Rahman The Government may review the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870 filled with loopholes which prevents effective prosecution of people joining the armed forces of foreign country in the wake of many British citizens joining conflicts abroad. Responding to a question at a press meet about Britons travelling to join the Israeli forces, a…

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    Describing India as a “beacon of democracy”, President Pranab Mukherjee said people must defend its “secular fabric with vigour” and those who believe in the “poison drip of inflammatory provocation” don’t understand the “country’s values” or “its present political impulses”. Addressing the nation on the eve of India’s 68th Independence Day, Mukherjee cautioned the people…