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  • Akshay auctions ‘Entertainment’ clothes

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    Actors Akshay Kumar and Tamannaah Bhatia have donated all the clothes from their film “Entertainment” to Youth Organization in Defence of Animals (YODA). The organisation works for the welfare of street animals and Akshay also bought an item here. “You see so many stray dogs everywhere and this organisation is for them, where they (the…

  • SPECIAL FEATURE: Human Development

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    Amit Kapoor in his weekly column Active Voice looks into Human Development: Ends over Means Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices. The most critical ones are to lead a long and healthy life, to be educated and to enjoy a decent standard of living. – HDR 1990 Human Development Report-2014 (HDR 2014) was released…

  • INTERVIEW: Tibet PM Lobsang Sangay

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    Vishal Gulati talks to Lobsang Sangay  who says it’s in Chinese interest to give Tibetans more autonomy Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay says the people in Tibet will be happy if are given more autonomy by China “within the Chinese constitution”. The 46-year-old Harvard educated elected head of the Central Tibetan Administration, who completes three year…

  • Kingfisher Ultra Punjab Style Tour

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    Models showcase fashion designer Jattinn Kochhar and Sheetal Lyall’s creation during Kingfisher Ultra Punjab Style Tour in Amritsar. The city of Ludhiana witnessed an all-time fashion high as Kingfisher Ultra Punjab Style Tour in collaboration with Storm Fashion Company put up a scintillating show at Hyatt Regency. Noted designer Jattinn Kochhar, known for his versatility…

  • UK gears up to mark WW1

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    World leaders are gathering in Belgium for one of a number of ceremonies marking 100 years since Britain joined World War One. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be at the Liege event, as the Prince of Wales and PM attend a Glasgow service. UK buildings from Downing Street to the Blackpool Tower will turn…

  • Modi woos Nepali leaders

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    Anil Giri reports from Kathmandu on Modi’s visit to the Himalayan country The commitments and candour in the expressions of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his meetings in Kathmandu have paved the way for the two countries to renew their bilateral relations with political leaders across the spectrum lauding his approach and statements. On Sunday…

  • Varanasi widows send rakhis to Modi

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    Mohit Dubey reports on the plight of widows of Varanasi The widows of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh will send 1,000 hand-made, colourful rakhis and sweets to Prime Minister Narendra Modi who made his debut into the Lok Sabha from this holy city, an NGO said. Hundreds of old widows who are spending the twilight years…

  • SPECIAL REPORT: Communists in India

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    Samir Kar Purkayastha says Communists in India need new leadership to recover politically The Communist party of India – Marxists (CPI-M), the largest Left party in India, has decided to hold its 2015 party congress in Kolkata instead of Agartala, capital of the only state now ruled by the party. Tripura is far off, more…

  • Good Memories @ Glasgow

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    Music centrepiece as Glasgow bids adieu to Commonwealth Games  The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony came to an end with a fine display of fireworks over Hampden Park but music took centrestage as Scottish singer Lulu, pop band Deacon Blue and Australian singer Kylie Minogue – to name a few – belted out their…

  • WHO REMEMBERS LIFE

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    Daily Dose by Bikram Vohra Isn’t it sad that we live most of our lives without any recall of what happened over the years. Like I am 65 and if I bundled all my memories together it would come to about two or three years max. The rest is all a blur, just white noise…

  • Obama honours Mumbaikar Neha

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    Quaid Najmi reports on a differently-abled Mumbai girl’s memorable dinner at White House For differently-abled Mumbaikar Neha P. Naik, her “dinner date” with the Obamas in the White House was like “a dream come true” and she will always cherish memories of the humbleness and courtesy of the US president and the grace of the…

  • REVIEW: India at CWG Glasgow

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     Veturi Srivatsa says India should be happy with the Glasgow returns  If you take away 2010 New Delhi, the benchmark for India at the Commonwealth Games has been 2002 Manchester when they crossed the 50-medal mark for the first time by ending up with 69 medals, 30 of them gold. Before the Indians left for Glasgow,…

  • Rajeev Mehta – A Kalmadi prodigee

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    From being the president of the low-profile Kho Kho federation to secretary-general of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), Rajeev Mehta has had a meteoric rise in Indian sports. But the 49-year-old Mehta brought embarrassment for the country when he was arrested in Glasgow for driving without a valid licence and under the influence of alcohol.…

  • Rift in UK stance on Gaza

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    Labour Leader Ed Miliband  has described Israel’s incursion into Gaza as “wrong and unjustifiable” in his toughest comments about the Middle East conflict, the Sunday Times reported. The Labour leader challenged David Cameron last night, saying it was “inexplicable” that he had failed to condemn Israeli attacks that have killed Palestinian children. No 10 hit back…

  • PICS: Teej Festival

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  • Modi freezes legislative agenda

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    Sreeparna Chakrabarty says there is no legislative agenda before government The more than month-long budget session of parliament seems to have run out of steam with the government failing to draw up a legislative agenda for the remaining two weeks, a situation the opposition blames on the “inexperience” of the new dispensation. Though the current…

  • Delhi to join Cyber Police Network

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    Rajnish Singh reports on Delhi’s decision to  to join cyber police network to curb crime Delhi Police are all set to join the Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS), a cyber highway of criminal records data, along with other states that would enhance their crime-fighting prowess. According to a report by the National Crime Records Bureau…

  • Special Feature – KABADDI, KABADDI….

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    Abhishek Roy says kabaddi is now cool sport in India, thanks to Bollywood, corporates Kabaddi, an indigenous contact sport in India, is witnessing a resurgence, thanks to big-time commercial sponsorship and prime-time TV patronage. Riding on the IPL-style hockey and football leagues, kabaddi has come up with not one but two leagues to complement each…

  • Air India targets global aviation market

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     Anasudhin Azeez meets  Pankaj Srivastava, director (Commercial) and a board member of Air India India’s national carrier Air India, the new entrant in the 27-member Star Alliance, is overhauling its systems to take India’s flag carrier to the next level of the global aviation market and meet the challenges arising from the new alliance. Pankaj Srivastava,…

  • BIG INTERVIEW: Kareena Kapoor

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    Uma Ramasubramanian talks to Kareena who says biggest film or best script, no midway for me “Take the best, leave the rest” seems to be Kareena Kapoor’s mantra for choosing films. The actress, who is said to have refused six scripts lately, says she is keen to do a few but fantastic films as there’s never…

  • KERALA NEWS LETTER – Sanu George

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    Sanu George ponders will Kochi blackmailing case go the solar case way?  Sleaze stories make headlines in Kerala at regular intervals. If it was the solar scam that took centrestage last year, it appears that what is known as the Kochi blackmailing case this year is going to give sleepless nights to many. The solar…

  • Police detain Indian Referee, IOA Official

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    Rajeev Mehta, secretary general of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and wrestling referee Virender Singh Malik will be produced in court on Monday. Mr Mehta was allegedly driving without a licence at Glasgow city centre and was above the legal alcohol limit and Mr Malik was allegedly involved in sexual assault in a hotel in…

  • SPECIAL REPORT: Euthanasia in India

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     Shweta Sharma and Shradha Chettri look in to the euthanasia debate which rekindled on right to die for the terminally ill Three years ago, the Supreme Court ruled against ‘active euthanasia’, administering a lethal injection to end lives of patients with terminal illness, but said that ‘passive euthanasia’, withdrawing life-support systems and stopping medication to…

  • Modi gets warm welcome in Nepal

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    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here Sunday to a grand welcome, with his Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala breaking protocol to receive the Indian leader at the airport. After getting off an Indian Air Force plane, Modi warmly shook hands with Koirala and other Nepalese leaders at the Tribhuvan International Airport before accepting a bouquet…

  • PICS: Modi in Nepal

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  • NEWS N PICS – World

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    Latest news pictures from across the world

  • INTERVIEW: Wrestler Sushil Kumar

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    Abhishek Roy is talking to Wrestler Sushil Kumar who says Glasgow gold boost for Rio Olympics India champion wrestler Sushil Kumar said Saturday that the Glasgow Commonwealth Games gold should inspire him to bigger success at the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro. India’s only individual two-time Olympic medallist is now eyeing the…

  • PICTORIAL : CWG in Glasgow

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     England are on top of medals tally on the penultimate day of the 20th Commonwealth Games with 56 golds, 54 silvers and 53 bronzes followed by Australia and Canada. India are fifth with a tally of 61 medals, including 14 golds, 28 silvers and 19 bronzes.

  • PICS: Israel renews raids on Gaza

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    Israel blasted Gaza with a fresh wave of air strikes as it continued with a huge-scale search for the son of a former University of Cambridge academic who is feared to have been captured by Hamas. Hadar Goldin, 23, an Israeli soldier who spent a large part of his childhood in Britain, disappeared when two…

  • GAZA: Egypt, S. Arabia finally wake up

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    Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi finally commented on the ongoing Israeli raids on Gaza. When the King said Israeli actions are war crimes against humanity, the Egyptian President Sisi said  Israel and Palestine must implement Egypt truce plan. He said the truce plan provided a “real chance” to end the 25-day Gaza conflict…

  • PICS: Beach Game

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    Local people run into the sea for the Sea Mile Cross, a kind of summer beach game, at the beach of Narva-Joesuu, Estonia

  • COLUMN: BJP Old Guard in Exile

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     Amulya Ganguli  says Modi sends Advani, BJP old guard into exile  In the Hindu way of life, old age entails exile from home and hearth. As the Manu Smriti says, when a man sees “his skin wrinkled and his hair gray and when he sees the son of his son, then he should resort to the…

  • SRK to host `Got Talent World Stage Live`

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    Actor Shahrukh Khan during the announcement of a new television show Got Talent World Stage Live in Mumbai. The show will be hosted by Shahrukh and will be telecast on Colors channel. Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who is all set to host “Got Talent World Stage Live”, says talent has no competition and a…

  • Abdullah says Gaza raids a war crime

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    Finally the King has spoken. King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia criticised  international inaction over Israel’s offensive in Gaza, which he described as involving mass laughter and “war crimes against humanity”, in a speech read out on his behalf on state television. “This (international) community which has observed silently what is happening in the whole…

  • US to aid Gujarat clean energy

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    The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)said it has signed an agreement with state-run Gujarat Energy Transmission Corp (GETCO) to support the integration of renewable energy like wind and solar power with its transmission system. “This technical assistance will allow GETCO to analyze its power system through modelling and statistical techniques, and to develop strategies…

  • Pune landslide toll rises

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    The overnight toll in Maharashtra’s worst landslide disaster in Malin village of Pune district went up to 73 Saturday morning with no reports of finding survivors, a top official said. “We have recovered 73 bodies so far… Rescue work is still underway,” District Collector Saurabh Rao said. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and…

  • COMMENT: India and WTO Veto

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    Arvind Padmanabhan says India’s veto doesn’t mean collapse of global trade talks India’s demand for concessions on food subsidy as a quid quo pro to a pact to simplify procedures on global commerce may have blocked the first major step forward in the 19-year history of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). But that does not…

  • PICS: NAG PANCHAMI

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    The Hindu festival Naga Panchami is celebrated by Hindu devotees during the monsoon season and sees prayers and tributes to snakes

  • 65 killed in China factory blast

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    At least 65 people were killed and 150 injured Saturday in an explosion at a factory in China’s Jiangsu province, officials said. According to officials, the blast occurred at 7.30 a.m., inside the wheel hub polishing factory in Kunshan city, Xinhua reported. More than 200 workers were at the site when the explosion occurred. Rescuers pulled out…

  • Pranab congrats CWG wwinners

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    Indian President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday congratulated sportspersons for winning medals at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The president congratulated Yogeshwar Dutt, Babita Kumari, Vikas Gowda, Geetika Jakhar, Dipa Karmakar and Pawan Kumar for winning medals at the 20th Commonwealth Games in their respective disciplines and gave his “best wishes for future success”. In separate letters, Mukherjee…

  • PICS: Canada Carnival

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    Performers during the King and Queen Competition and Show of the 47th Toronto Caribbean Carnival in Toronto, Canada.  the event gave the spectators an opportunity to experience the colourful Caribbean culture.

  • THE GREEK JUSTICE

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    It sounds like Greek to you but it doesn’t sound like that to the Greeks. To them this is justice. Never have the scales of justice been so blindsided as they were yesterday when a Greek court set free four countrymen who were accused of shooting (with real guns) 28 Bangladeshi workers who were protesting…

  • India inspires Colombian artiste

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    Karishma Saurabh Kalita meets renowned Colombian fusion artiste and multi-instrumentalist Carlos Balanta  Inspired by Indian music, renowned Colombian fusion artiste and multi-instrumentalist Carlos Balanta says he will incorporate the country’s rhythms in his latest album. Balanta regularly watches the Telepacific channel which showcases Bollywood movies and music on weekends. Balanta, who is all set to charm music…

  • INTERVIEW: Chetan Bhagat

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    Writer Chetan Bhagat told Nivedita that ‘Indian educational system broken somewhere’  Celebrated writer Chetan Bhagat feels that the college cutoffs should not bog one down because hard work can also take people places, adding that the country’s education system is “broken somewhere”. “A student securing 98 per cent is no less capable or intelligent than the…

  • ASIAN LITE – Book-Shelf

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    Death, spies and thrillers An exciting week for books with a variety of thrills, chills and spy stories. Take your pick. 1. Book: The Sad Demise of Manpreet Singh; Author: Patrick Bryson; Publisher: Hachette Dominic “Biscuit” McLeod is an expert in making the best of a bad situation. A viss fraud investigator at the Australian…

  • Tribute to ‘Pancham Da’

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    Musafir Hoon Yaaron’ is a befitting tribute to ‘Pancham Da’ Putting on a host of famous, well-remembered melodies, singers Vinod Rathod, Babul Supriyo, Hema Sardesai and Mamta Sharma evoked nostalgia as well setting up a peppy beat at “Musafir Hoon Yaaron” concert commemorating the 75th birth anniversary of composer R.D. Burman, fondly known as Pancham Da.…

  • Special Report – World Friendship Day

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    Natalia Ningthoujam says virtual friendship in, personal connect out Time was when Friendship Day meant hanging out with buddies and wearing colourful friendship bands. But now virtual connect through forwarded messages or mobile app stickers or a simple post on a friend’s wall of a social networking site overshadows the personal touch and people’s socialising…

  • Currency Corner by Vatsal Srivastava

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    Deep global stock market sell-off is coming Indian benchmark equity indices ended sharply lower with a cut of more than 1.5 percent Friday (Aug 1) afternoon. The sell-off was on the back on solely global cues, particularly the confusion over the US Federal Reserve’s QE exit strategy, the strength in the US Dollar Index and…

  • PK poster baffles Khan fans

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    Aamir Khan throws up a surprises with almost all his new movies – the latest comes with the poster of his upcoming film “PK”. The actor features nude with a strategically placed vintage boombox, and he has left audiences guessing what the Rajkumar Hirani movie will be about. “What do you think guys? Tell me…

  • THE AFTER PARTY AFTERMATH 

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    DAILY DOSE By Bikram Vohra See that car. At the STOP light. Next to yours. With the man and the woman in it. She is leaning to the left. He to the right like disjointed windshield wipers. They are a husband and wife and they are returning from a party. You can see the ice…