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  • Modi calls for a Clean India

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     Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday called for making “Swacch Bharat” (Clean India) mission a mass movement and said the government offices up to panchayat level would be involved in a cleanliness drive to be conducted from Sep 25 till Diwali. A PMO statement said that Mission Swacch Bharat will launched Oct 2, the birth anniversary…

  • Iran doubtful of US coalition

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      There are serious ambiguities in the real intention of an emerging so-called international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Iran’s foreign ministry said Thursday. The formation of an international coalition against IS militants was raised by the US at the end of the NATO summit in Wales, Britain. “There are doubts about…

  • Pistorius not guilty of murder

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    A court in South Africa Thursday found paralympian Oscar Pistorius “not guilty” of premeditated murder or murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, a case that was widely followed by the media worldwide. Handing down her judgement at the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, Judge Thokozile Masipa said the court accepted Pistorius’s version that…

  • Pak denies presence of ISIS supporters

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    Pakistan Thursday denied any presence of supporters of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist group in the country and reiterated that it is against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. No government source has confirmed presence of the IS supporters in the country, said foreign ministry spokesperson Tasnim Aslam, reported Xinhua. Aslam was responding…

  • Moral victory for India in British parliament

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    The British government Thursday condemned terrorism and violence and rejected mediation in the dispute between India and Pakistan on Kashmir in a parliamentary debate in which pro-India speakers among the MPs overwhelmed Pakistan supporters by almost three to one. Replying at the end of a three hour debate on the political and humanitarian situation in…

  • Never bothered with my image: Bips

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    Bipasha Basu, who has done a string of horror and supernatural movies, says this is the only genre that allows an actress to drive the plot towards box office success. “I want to travel that dark road,” she said when asked about her choice of cinema. “…I’ve just done five supernatural films. This is a…

  • Vibrant Gujarat rocks in the US

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    Vibrant Gujarat arouses huge excitement in the US Organisers of Vibrant Gujarat Thursday declared their recent visit to promote the biennial investment summit to Washington as successful citing huge excitement which was aroused among business, industry and government officials. According to the oragnisers, the high-powered delegation included government officials and business and industry leaders from…

  • G20 to focus on job creation

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    Labour and welfare ministers of the G20 countries called for the creation of hundreds of millions of “decent jobs” to reduce poverty around the world. “It has been almost five years since our first meeting on global financial crisis. Many governments have introduced many measures to improve the situation of labour and contracts,” the ministers…

  • INTERVIEW: Sushant Singh

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    Financial considerations are not an issue for me, Sushant Singh told Subhash K. Jha  Two-film-old Sushant Singh Rajput, who has wrapped up shooting for director Dibakar Banerjee’s “Detective Byomkesh Bakshi”, says he prefers unconventional roles and won’t do a run-of-the-mill kind even if he will get big bucks for that. Excerpts: Q: How was the experience of…

  • ‘I’m crazy about Indian culture’

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    I’m crazy about Indian culture, says Mathias Duplessy, the French composer  of Finding Fanny Does Finding Fanny music sound different to your ears? It’s the result of the creativity of French composer and multi-instrumentalist Mathias Duplessy, who composed for the film sitting in Paris. “I love to work here (in India), the people here are great and…

  • Why do you want the clearance?

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    Veturi Srivatsa says today athletes can go at no cost to government  It was Margaret Alva as sports minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government who first said there is no such thing as “at no cost to government” for any athlete or an official to go to an international event representing the country when he…

  • Sari gown helped Gail

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    Goa-based model Gail Nicole Da Silva, who was placed third in the Femina Miss India 2014 contest, bagged the best National Costume title at Miss United Continent 2014, thanks to the innovative dome-style sari designed by Melvin Noronha. Gail was announced the winner of the title Sunday. The first and second runner-ups are Miss Panama,…

  • Aalishan Pakistan’in Delhi

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    ‘Aalishan Pakistan’ inaugurated in Delhi despite protests ‘Aalishan Pakistan’, a lifestyle exposition, was inaugurated here Thursday despite protest by a group of men outside the venue. The delegation from the neighbouring nation is upbeat and says that protest doesn’t “affect” them. Rabiya Javeri Agha, secretary, Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDPA), said they are unperturbed…

  • Indian Army unit honoured in London

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    The National Army Museum (NAM) based in Chelsea, London, has been chosen as keeper of the lasting legacy of an Indian Army Regiment’s contribution during the First World War. A silver salver honouring the role of the Regiment of the Deccan Horse and Scinde Horse was presented to Janice Murray, Director General at the NAM.…

  • Labour pushes No wagon

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    ‘Our families didn’t come to live in Scotland or England. They came to live in the UK’ Prominent British-Asian leaders like Sadiq Khan MP and Afzal%20Khan MEP support the No campaign in Scotland.  Afzal%20Khan, MEP from the North-West, campaign along with Ed Miliband to bag the undecided votes for the No basket. Sadiq Khan MP,…

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  • ‘Minister forced owner to sell compmay’

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    Ex-minister Maran forced owner to sell Aircel to Maxis: CBI Former union telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran had pressurised telecom promoter C. Sivasankaran to sell his company to Malaysia-based Maxis by keeping his spectrum licence pending, a court here heard Thursday. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told Special Judge O.P. Saini that Dayanidhi Maran had…

  • Cameron makes final pitch

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    In a passionate appeal to Scottish voters Wednesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the rest of the Britain “desperately wants the nation to stay”, and warned there will be no second chances after next week’s referendum in Scotland. “If the UK breaks apart, it breaks apart for ever,” said Cameron, who arrived in Edinburgh,…

  • No gets 6 point lead over Yes

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    The “Better Together” campaign against Scotland’s independence has a six-point lead over the “Yes” campaign rooting for the country’s separation from Britain, according to the latest opinion poll. If undecided voters were excluded, the “No” side would win with 53 percent of the votes against 47 percent for “Yes”, according to a survey conducted exclusively…

  • RBS threatens to move south

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    Royal Bank of Scotland has confirmed it will relocate its registered headquarters to London if Scotland votes for independence next week . The bank said in a statement that it believed it would be “necessary to re-domicile the bank’s holding company”. In a letter to staff, the bank’s chief executive said there was no intention…

  • Poverty fuels abuse on minority kids

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    Poverty makes minority kids more vulnerable to abuse Children belonging to minority communities face increased risk of maltreatment due to exposure to poverty, says a US-based study. Poverty – rather than biased reporting – seems to account for the higher rates of child abuse and neglect among minority children, the findings showed. “For families of…

  • India to stem health crisis

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    Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan is planning to convert health issues into community movement Health Minister Harsh Vardhan stressed upon turning health issues into a social and community movement, saying that the “power of belief” has gone a long way in taking on health challenges. “My mantra for success is to find a way to…

  • Foreign tourists flock to India

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    Foreign tourist arrivals rise 16.9 percent in August There has been a 16.9 percent rise in foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) in August 2014 over the corresponding period last year, the tourism ministry said. In August 2013, FTA growth was logged at 9.1 percent over August 2012. The ministry computed the figure on the basis of…

  • Kashmir floods affect tourism

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    The devastating floods in Kashmir are expected to hit the state’s tourism hard, a top tourism industry official said. With domestic tourists’ numbers to Kashmir Valley expected to cross two crore this year, a top tourism industry official Thursday said the floods in peak travel season will impact the industry. The natural disaster has led…

  • HEALTH: India to help Hasina

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    India, Bangladesh sign MoU on traditional medicine, homeopathy India and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of traditional systems of medicine and homeopathy. Training, research, exchanges of experts and setting up an academic chair are the highlights of this new cooperation envisaged in the MoU , bdnews24.com reported. Bangladesh’s…

  • Myanmar parliament in session

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    Myanmar’s parliament began the 11th session of the House of Representatives (Lower House) and the House of Nationalities (Upper House) on Thursday. In his opening address on the first day of the Lower House session, Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann said discussions on the constitution amendment issue and other important laws as well as the…

  • Jaya seeks consensus on Services Tax

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    Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has written to all her counterparts to rally support for her view that the central government should strive for broad consensus on the issue of Goods and Services Tax (GST). In a letter to the chief ministers of all the states Wednesday, text of which was released to the…

  • Study Tour in the UK- Desi Style

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    Smells fishy! Tiger prawns star in Goa legislators’ study report On a study tour to soak in the grandeur of the British Grand Prix, guess what caught the fancy of Goa’s lawmakers so much so that it featured prominently in their report to the government? Tiger prawns. Going by the report submitted by three ruling…

  • Why Apple missed the target?

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    Prasanto K. Roy looks into the newly unveiled  Apple Watch  Apple chief executive Tim Cooks got a standing ovation on Tuesday in Cupertino, when he announced the “next chapter in our story” at a special event that also launched the iPhone 6 in two sizes. The Apple Watch checked more than the expected boxes: Nifty design (not spectacular…

  • UP’s WhatsApp crime stopper

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    WhatsApp is fast emerging as a tool to check crime in Uttar Pradesh with the police receiving a slew of complaints, including traffic violations and corruption, through the hugely popular social networking app. In the past one month, over four key departments have taken to WhatsApp to either act as a crime stopper or as…

  • Oscar Pistorius verdict today

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    Murder-accused South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius Thursday arrived at the high court in Pretoria for his trial, as Judge Thokosile Masipa prepares the verdict. Pistorius is on trial for fatally shooting his girlfriend Reeva Stenkamp through a locked toilet door Feb 14, 2013, at his house in Pretoria, Independent Online reported. Pistorius has denied the…

  • Rajnath warns Pakistan

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    Threats from “across the border” will be dealt with firmly, said Home Minister Rajnath Singh whose two-day visit to Gujarat ends Thursday. “No stone will left unturned to provide tight security to India’s western coast,” the minister said late Wednesday at a meeting with BSF officials in the border town of Koteshwar. Koteshwar is the…

  • Obama vows to hit Islamic State

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    Nearly six years after he entered the White House with a promise to end America’s decade of wars, President Barack Obama has reversed course with a vow to strike the Islamic State terrorists “wherever they exist”. In a nationally televised address from the White House, a sombre looking Obama Wednesday night outlined a “steady, relentless”…

  • Half a million marooned in Srinagar

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    Nearly five lakh people are still marooned here as the flood waters continued to recede in river Jhelum and its tributaries, bringing relief to the flood-ravaged Kashmir Valley. “There has been a nearly four feet drop in the water level in the river Jhelum which has brought overall relief in the Valley. But a major challenge…

  • LOVE AND THE IPHONE 6

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    YEA YEA YEA,IT HAS GROWN FROM 4.7 INCHES TO 5.5 INCHES LIFE IS A CABARET, OLD CHUM…writes Bikram Vohra I came home last night and my wife said, tell me, do you love me. I said, you have to ask after 35 years. She said, no, tell me the truth, do you really love me?…

  • Ethnicity dictates heart disease risk

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    A man’s likelihood of accumulating fat around his heart might be better determined if doctors were to consider his race and ethnicity as well as where on his body the excess fat is deposited, new research shows. Higher volumes of fat around the heart are associated with greater risk of heart disease. “So if you…

  • ‘India needs electoral reforms’

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    Dr Kailash Chand OBE and  Prof Navdeep Singh Khaira seeking electoral reforms at world’s largest democracy – India.  India needs the reformks if they want to become the BEST. Now that the din of the elections is over it is hoped that the parties and their supporters will come out of their blues of defeat and euphoria…

  • NRI woman sues gurdwara over injuries

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    A British Indian woman has sued a gurdwara in Britain after she was severely hurt in a kitchen explosion three years ago, a media report said Wednesday. Kuljit Bahia, 54, was hurt after a pressure cooker exploded while she was volunteering in the langar service at the Sri Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Dundee city of…

  • Inquest on royal nurse Jacintha’s suicide

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    The inquest on Royal Nurse Jacintha Saldanha suicide over a prank call by radio DJs will take place in London on Thursday. Jacintha Saldanha was a nurse at King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes. She was found dead on 7th December 2012 by apparent suicide, three days after receiving a hoax call. The prank call was part…

  • Amit Shah booked for hate speech

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    Uttar Pradesh Police Wednesday filed a chargesheet against BJP president Amit Shah in Muzaffarnagar over a speech delivered by him during the Lok Sabha election campaign, officials said. The speech was reportedly delivered by the Bharatiya Janata Party chief April 4. He was then booked by the local police for breaching prohibitory orders under section…

  • Some facts on Kashmir

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    Jas Uppal writes on some facts related to Kashmir in the backdrop of David Ward MP’s move to table a motion at British parliament David Ward the Member of Parliament for Bradford East recently tabled a motion to “debate” the political and humanitarian situation in Kashmir. This is scheduled to place in the British Parliament on Thursday…

  • Chance to visit London heritage – FREE

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    Open House London 2014 which begins on Sept. 20 gives visitors to London the opportunity to see inside over 800 buildings, both public and private Revealing’ is the theme of Open House London in 2014, the hugely popular free annual event opportunity which gives visitors to London the opportunity to see inside over 800 buildings, both…

  • THE DABAHAI NAOROJI AWARDS

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    The Dadabhai Naoroji Awards are named after the first British MP of Indian-origin and the man who brought the first Indian business to the UK. Nominations are invited for the first Dadabhai Naoroji Awards.  Priti Patel MP,  Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Prime Minister David Cameron’s UK Indian Diaspora Champion, in a message urged the community…

  • Sonam & Fawad @ sets of Zee Cine Star Ki Khoj

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    Sonam Kapoor and Fawad Khan recently visited the sets of television reality show Zee Cine Stars Ki Khoj to promote their upcoming film Khoobsurat. While Sonam sparkled in a beautiful Bibhu Mohapatra dress, Fawad looked absolutely dashing in his grey check coat and black trousers. The on-screen couple seemed quite excited to be on the…

  • Cilic on cloud nine

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  • Kerry arrives in Baghdad for talks

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    US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Iraq’s capital Baghdad Wednesday for talks with Iraqi leaders for building up an anti-terrorism campaign, media reported. Kerry is expected to meet top Iraqi leaders, including new Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, to discuss forming a broad coalition against the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist organisation, an Al…

  • Chinese president meets Ajit Doval

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    Chinese President Xi Jinping met Ajit Doval, special envoy and national security adviser to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Beijing. Doval conveyed a message from Modi to Xi in which the Indian prime minister said he believed Xi’s upcoming state visit to India would deepen the two countries’ understanding, friendship and trust, and inject…

  • David Ward on Kashmir gets India furious

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    The Indian government is furious about British MPs’ plan to hold a debate on the “political and humanitarian situation in Kashmir” on Thursday. India interprets the move as an attempt to criticise India’s role in Kashmir, even question its sovereignty over the region. Ironically, the debate is scheduled when Jammu & Kashmir is reeling under…

  • Evolution of Ganges dolphin

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    The discovery of a new fossil of dolphin species belonging to an extinct family of dolphins has shed light on the history of the endangered Ganges and Indus river dolphins living today. It belongs to the rare squalodelphinids, small to medium-sized dolphins — until now found only in a few localities in Argentina, France, Italy…

  • At last a Volfie!

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    There were a couple of volcanic eruptions last week in Iceland and Papua New Guinea. Luckily for Canadian adventurer George Kourounis, this one did not erupt as he dropped himself into an active volcano for a jaw dropping selfie! Currently known for his television series Angry Planet, Kourounis descended into the Marum crater – a…