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  • SC won’t stall army chief’s appointment

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     The Supreme Court Monday refused to suspend Lt.Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag’s appointment as the next Indian Army chief, as sought by an officer who contended he had a better claim. “There is no reason for us to stay,” Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel told counsel R.K. Anand for petitioner Lt.Gen. Ravi Dastane.…

  • Breaking news face bumpy road

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    Shilpa Raina and Kavita Bajeli-Datt is looking for Breaking News. Hardly any because the Modi government tightens grip on information Among the subtle changes associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government are those dealing with the media and nowhere has it affected a news-hungry media’s working more than in the way news sources from the government…

  • Congress fights for post in Lok Sabha

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    Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Monday said her party was the single largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha and hence was entitled for the post of the Leader of Opposition in the lower house. The Congress, with 44 members, is the second largest party in the Lok Sabha. However, it falls short of the 10…

  • A review of India’s deficits

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    Amit Kapoor and Sankalp Sharma look into India’s various deficits.   Over the past few years, we have heard of all sorts of deficits that have been ailing India. The most recent one has been a ‘rain deficit’ with monsoon expected to be less than normal according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). While the lack…

  • 63 women escape from Boko Haram

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    Sixty three women abducted two weeks ago by Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram are reported to have escaped from their captors in the northeastern state of Borno, security sources said Monday. The women ran away after the militants went to fight Nigerian military forces near the city of Damboa last Friday leaving the hostages…

  • World awaits Modi’s first budget

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    Gyanendra Kumar Keshri  says high hopes from Modi government’s first budget on Thursday  Amid high expectations from the common man and corporate India, the maiden budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government Thursday is expected to extend tax relief to the salaried class and unveil steps to spur investment and growth, even as fiscal situation remains…

  • Eduard Shevardnadze dies

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    Former Georgia President Eduard Shevardnadze has died aged 86 His aide Marina Davitashvili said he had passed away on Monday after a long illness. In 1992 he became the head of state of Georgia after it broke away from the Soviet Union. He led the country out of instability and civil war but in November…

  • Diabetic patients and fasting

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    Doctors are saying diabetic Muslims must be cautious during fast Muslims around the world fast in this holy month of Ramadan — from pre-dawn hours to dusk. Health experts have a word of caution for those who may be diabetic. Due to prolonged fasting, diabetics undergo metabolic changes as they don’t eat anything for long,…

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  • May to address MPs on sex abuse claims

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      Home Secretary Theresa May is to address Parliament on the row over her department’s handling of historical sex abuse claims. The Home Office faces accusations it failed to act on allegations of a Westminster paedophile ring when they first emerged in the 1980s reports BBC. She is also set to announce a review into…

  • Israeli air strike kills two Palestinians in Gaza

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    Two Palestinians were killed and one was moderately injured Sunday as the Israeli fighter jets launched air raids targeting central Gaza Strip, authorities said. The two Palestinians were killed right on spot in the strike in the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of al-Maghazi, Xinhua quoted a Palestinian health ministry spokesperson as saying. The two…

  • Jaya seeks action on fishermen’s issue

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    Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa hoped the Centre under Prime Minister Narendra Modi would take an “early and decisive action” to resolve the issue of Sri Lankan naval attacks on the Indian fishermen. She requested the Centre to “initiate immediate efforts to find a permanent and pragmatic solution to this livelihood issue of our…

  • Abbas seeks UN probe into Israeli crimes

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    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Sunday asked the UN to form an international fact-finding committee to investigate what he described as ongoing Israeli violations against the Palestinians. Abbas’s comments came after his meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah with Robert Serry, the UN special envoy on the Middle East peace process, Xinhua reported. His…

  • 2,200 Indians to return from Iraq

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    Nearly 2,200 Indians in Iraq’s non-conflict areas wish to return home, with 117 of them set to reach the capital after midnight Sunday, it was announced Sunday. The external affairs ministry said the government was buying tickets for some 1,600 of the 2,200 while the air fare for the other 600 were being paid by…

  • Djokovic wins second Wimbledon

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    Serbian Novak Djokovic wins his second Wimbledon title after defeating mighty Roger Federe. After winning the tirles he said: “First of all I want to congratulate Roger it was a great match to be a part of he is a magnificent champion and a great example of a great athlete and a role model. I…

  • Minister leaves car for injured couple

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    Here is an example. An Indian  minister gives his official car for accident victims, takes auto to attend Iftar Karnataka Health Minister U.T. Khader came to the aid of an old couple, involved in an accident, sending them to a hospital in his official car and himself taking an auto to reach his destination. “The…

  • Modi to attend BRICS in Brazil

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    In his first participation in a global meet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the sixth summit of BRICS countries in Brazil July 14-16 where reforms of the UN Security Council and issues like the BRICS development bank and climate change are likely to be taken up. It will also be his first meeting as…

  • Jaya seeks better ties withSingapore

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    Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa told Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Law K. Shanmugam that there could be synergy between his country and the Indian state on key projects. In a statement issued in Chennai, the Tamil Nadu government said Shanmugam had called on Jayalalithaa at the state secretariat. During the meeting, Jayalalithaa, citing…

  • A mountain named Mt. Sinha

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     Arun Kumar writes about Akhouri Sinha, an Indian-American research scientist, was looking for some information to write a few words on the death of his team leader on an expedition to Antarctica in the seventies. To his surprise, he found a Wikipedia entry dated May 17, 2012, saying a 990-metre high mountain at the southeast extremity of Erickson…

  • EDUCATION – Chalo Delhi, not Oxford

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    Shradha Chettri says institutions across the national capital are offering courses to mould social entrepreneurs, medical experts and disaster management experts, to name just a few, as the rush for students from all over the country to study in Delhi continues. Fancy pursuing distinctive areas of study to create a niche for yourself? Institutions across…

  • Asian illegal migrants concern EU

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    Kavita Bajeli-Datt meets EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström in Brussels. The EU wants to discuss illegal migration with Modi government. In 2012, EU member-states returned around 12,000 Indian citizens found to be staying irregularly. Afghanistan (33,500) and Pakistan (29,000) are the two top countries from where illegal migrants were found staying illegally in EU. The European…

  • AAPI to help Indian medical system

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    Arun Kumar interviews Dr. Jayesh Shah, who handed over charge to the new AAPI President Dr. Ravi Jahagirdar  One of the largest ethnic organisations in the US, representing about 100,000 Indian doctors settled here, is working on a plan to help India improve its health services in a coordinated fashion. The outlines of the plan were…

  • Dalai Lama greeted on birthday

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    Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh Sunday greeted Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on his 79th birthday and wished him a long and healthy life. Presenting a bouquet on behalf of the chief minister to Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay at a function here, Transport Minister G.S. Bali said the spiritual leader’s message of…

  • Caliph Ibrahim Calling…

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    Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’ aka Caliph Ibrahim’s first public ­appearance in Mosul, Iraq’s second city, ­contrasts with former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who hid his location when recording messages. Wearing a black turban and robe, al-Baghdadi – who claims to be ­descended from the Prophet Mohammed – is filmed slowly climbing stairs to a balcony, above…

  • MIXING WITH THE MONEY MANDARINS

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    DAILY DOSE BY Bikram Vohra I wasn’t very good at money matters when I was a youngster. And I wasn’t very good with money matters when I was middle aged. Now, as I totter into antiquity I am still not very good with money matters. Guess I am constant. In fact, I was well into…

  • COMMENT: Indian cricket team in the UK

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    Veturi Srivatsa in his columns Just Sportsays Nobody can complain about unfamiliar conditions any more  Every time the Indian cricket team goes on a tour of England, the wailing about blustery conditions, green tops, on which only English bowlers seemed to get wickets for the asking, used to be a routine. Some used to add…

  • And quiet flows the Ganges

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    Anjali Ojha says Sabarmati model not enough for cleaning the holy river Ganges A new ministry to tackle the cleaning of the Ganga may not really change its fate, nor can the “Sabarmati model”, experts say, adding that legislative provisions are needed to ensure that the river’s glory is restored. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

  • Dutch overcome Costa Rica

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    Substitute goalkeeper Tim Krul turned out to be the unlikely hero at the Arena Fonte Nova here Saturday as the Netherlands beat Costa Rica 4-3 on penalties to set up a mouthwatering FIFA World Cup semifinal clash against Argentina Wednesday. In a masterstroke from Dutch coach Louis van Gaal Newcastle United keeper Krul came on…

  • Kvitova wins second Wimbledon title

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    Czech sixth seed Petra Kvitova lifted her second women’s singles Wimbledon title after defeating Canadian 13th seed Eugenie Bouchard in straight sets in the final here Saturday. Kvitova, who also won here in 2011, completely destroyed her opponent to come out victorious 6-3, 6-0 in only 55 minutes. This was the first even Grand Slam…

  • Argentina beat Belgium

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    Argentina reached the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup, for the first time in 24 years, after a hard fought 1-0 win over Belgium at the Estadio Nacional de Brasilia here Saturday. Gonzalo Higuain scored his first goal in this year’s tournament with a brilliant first time volley in the eighth minute and that turned…

  • US JULY 4 – INDY DAY Pictorial

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  • REVIEW: Lekar Hum Deewana Dil

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    Subhash K. Jha says Elope at your own risk Film: “Lekar Hum Deewana Dil”; Cast: Armaan Jain and Deeksha Seth; Directed by Arif Ali; Rating: ***1/2 It’s that old boy-meets-girl thing again. But with a twist. But wait! You know that thing about how the boy and girl don’t know about their true feelings until…

  • PICS: Taliban burn oil tankers

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    Hundreds of Oil tankers destroyed as rockets hit Kabul Hundreds of oil tankers caught fire and were reduced to ashes as three rockets fired by militants slammed into a parking lot in the western part of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, drivers at the site said. “It was 11 p.m. Friday night when three rockets hit the parking…

  • PICS: Ramadan across the world

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    Muslims across the world observing day to dusk fasting in the holy month of Ramadan. Asian Lite presents a selection of pictures from the Ramadan

  • World News N PICS

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  • GALLERY:HMS Queen Elizabeth

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    The UK’s largest warship marks “a new phase in our naval history”, the Queen has said, as the vessel was officially named in her honour at a ceremony at Fife’s Rosyth Dockyard, BBC reported. A bottle of whisky was smashed on the hull of the 65,000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth – the first of two new…

  • PICS: 1,600 years old skeletons

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    One of the three human skeletons of more than 1,600 years old is exhibited in the National Museum of Antropology, in the city of San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, on July 4, 2014. The skeletons were found by Japanese and Salvadoran anthropologists

  • PICS: Kenya’s new airport

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    Photos show the exterior scene of the new terminal of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. The JKIA new terminal building, which was built by Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) International Holding Corporation, started a test on Friday. The building, with a construction area of 25,000 square meters, will start…

  • BIG INTERVIEW: Shraddha Kapoor

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    Subhash K. Jha talks to Shraddha Kapoor for Big Interview. After flop films, I could’ve disappeared, she told Asian Lite  Shraddha Kapoor, who began her Bollywood journey with films like “Teen Patti” and “Luv Ka The End”, made it big only with “Aashiqui 2”. The actress, who is loving all the attention she’s getting with her…

  • Modi & Saffron Brigade

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    Amulya Ganguli analysing the initital days of the Modi government. Modi prevails over saffron traditionalists  The Hindutva fundamentalists may be slowly realising that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory is unlikely to help their cause as much as they would have liked. For instance, any sense of elation which they felt when Narendra Modi said during the election campaign…

  • Naqvi on the trail of jehadists

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    Saeed Naqvi analysing the plot behind the jehadists. Why is the world in grip of jehadist menace?   Three momentous events, all in November-December 1979, are the genesis of a great deal of chaos the world faces today. First, was the return of Ayatollah Khomeini to Tehran and the Iranian occupation of the US embassy, a…

  • Indian nurses land in Kochi

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     A special Air India flight with 183 people on board, including the 46 nurses freed by insurgents in Iraq, arrived here Saturday noon, officials said. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy reached the airport to receive the nurses, where a special immigration desk has been set up. The plane had earlier landed in Mumbai for refuelling…

  • Neymar out of FIFA World Cup

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      Neymar is out of the World Cup after suffering a fractured vertebra in Brazil’s 2-1 victory over Colombia Friday. The 22-year-old left the pitch on a stretcher after being kneed in the back by Juan Zuniga with only four minutes remaining in the quarterfinal at Arena Castelao, reports Xinhua Examinations after the match confirmed…

  • Israeli jets raid southern Gaza Strip

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    Israeli fighter jets carried out a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip Friday, as Palestinian militants continued to fire rockets into Israel, security sources said. Israeli warplanes carried three air raids on a Hamas military site in the city of Rafah and another Hamas site in Khan Younis city, both in southern Gaza…

  • Brazil into the last four

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    Hosts Brazil set up a FIFA World Cup semi-final clash with European powerhouse Germany thanks to a nervy 2-1 win over South American rivals Colombia in the quarterfinal at the Estadio Castelao here Friday. Captain Thiago Silva opened the scoring just seven minutes into the game while his centre-back partner David Luiz doubled Brazil�s lead…

  • Germany reach World Cup semis

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    Germany booked a berth in the last four of the FIFA World Cup for a record 13th time after a 1-0 win over France at the Maracana stadium here Friday. Matt Hummels 12th minute header was all that separated the two European giants at the end of 90 minutes. It was a tight affair at…

  • UAE Exchange in Germany

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    UAE Exchange launches Money2anywhere.com in Germany UAE Exchange partnering with SOFORT AG and launches Money2anywhere.com in Germany The online money transfer portal is currently available in nine countries. Germany will be the 10th. Money can now be transferred using an internet connection and computer from personal environment. UAE Exchange, the leading global remittance and foreign exchange…

  • Indian nurses’ ordeal ends

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    All 46 Indian women nurses seized by Sunni insurgents in Iraq were freed Friday after intense diplomatic efforts, and were set to return to Kerala Saturday morning. In what appeared to be a sudden change of mind, the militants told the nurses Friday morning after breakfast that they should be ready to move to Erbil, the…

  • ‘Team Shunya’ in Paris

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    Rajendra Shende writes about Team Shunya, a collaboration of IIT Bombay and Rachana Sansad’s Academy of Architecture, is one of these 20 international teams selected for 2014 Solar Decathlon Europe after first level screening in 2013  Just 20 km west of Paris stands a huge icon of French grandoise, the Palace of Versaille. Wealth has been the…

  • Phone apps aid Genxt Muslims

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    Mohit Dubey  says the market is flooded with new apps for the young Muslims to follow their religion Hard pressed for time in today’s fast-paced world, keeping track of religion and its day-to-day rituals is not an easy task. Cutting across religious lines, this seems to be a niggling problem for the Genxt devout, in…