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Suicide Bomber Hits Shi'ite Procession In Nigeria, 21 Killed
A male suicide bomber hit a procession of Shi'ite Muslims in Nigeria's Kano state as they walked to the city of Zaria to pay homage to their founder in the country, security sources and a Shi'ite...
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Indian-American Offloaded From Qatar Airways At Islamabad Airport Over 'Bomb...
ISLAMABAD -- An Indian-American man on board the Qatar Airways flight to Washington via Doha was offloaded at the Benazir International Airport in Islamabad around 3 a.m. on Friday after he claimed...
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PM Modi Meets Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh To Break Deadlock Over GST Bill
New Delhi -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted opposition Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi for talks on Friday to try and break a deadlock over launching a new indirect tax, in a bid to put his...
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Infiltration Attempts From Pakistan Have Increased, Says BSF
NEW DELHI -- The Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday said the attempts to infiltrate from Pakistan side have seen a considerable jump this year. Talking to reporters in New Delhi ahead of BSF's...
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Nestle India Slams Charges, Says Maggi 'Pazzta' 100% Safe
NEW DELHI -- Nestle India has slammed charges regarding the lead content in its Maggi 'Pazzta' products and said that the pasta was 100% secure and safe to consume. "MAGGI Pazzta is 100% safe. The...
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'Spectre': A Not-So-Spirited Homage To 007 Films Of Yore
Spectre is the latest James Bond thriller to hit the screen -- the 24th film in the celebrated espionage franchise based on British author Ian Fleming's spy fiction books. Directed by British filmmaker...
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Missing The Point: Anish Kapoor's 'Hindu Taliban' Jibe And The Rajasthan...
Eminent sculptor Anish Kapoor's characterisation of the Modi government as a "Hindu Taliban" has invited instant action from Rajasthan Government -- In an obviously retaliatory move, it has scrapped...
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Can Web Shows Like TVF Pitchers Give TV A Run For Its Money?
This article is from Open Magazine. By Priyanka Pereira The revolution began with the story of an ordinary man. Naveen Bansal, stuck in a dull 9-to-5 job, is heartbroken after his company does not...
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Indo-Pak Cricket Series Proposal To Honour 'Team Kasab', Says Shiv Sena
NEW DELHI -- The Shiv Sena on Saturday launched a full-fledged attack on the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for going ahead with the India-Pakistan bilateral series, saying that it was an...
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Kiren Rijiju Wasn't The First To Suggest Muslims From South India Get Lured...
New Delhi -- It was reported by various news portals that Kiren Rijiju, union minister of state for home, has said that Muslim youth from south Indian states are most likely to get attracted to radical...
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New Delhi Under Threat Of Aerial Strikes From ISIS, Says Home Ministry
NEW DELHI -- New Delhi is under a serious threat of aerial strikes from different terror outfits including the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ( ISIS), the Ministry of Home Affairs said. The report...
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Jan Lokpal Row: The Bhushans Should Join The BJP, Retorts AAP
New Delhi -- Hitting back at Shanti and Prashant Bhushan, AAP today claimed that they were opposing the Jan Lokpal Bill at the behest of BJP and asserted that the proposed legislation was similar to...
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'Intolerance' Row: 3 Kannada Writers Withdraw From Bengaluru Literature Festival
Joining the protest against the alleged spike in intolerance in the country, three prominent Kannada writers have withdrawn from Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF) 2015 scheduled to be held on 5 and 6...
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RSS India's Number One Terrorist Organisation, Says Former Mumbai Police...
S M Mushrif, former Maharashtra inspector general of police, on Thursday described the BJP's ideological mentor, RSS as India's 'number one terrorist organisation'. According to a report in The Times...
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Rajiv Gandhi Government's Decision To Ban Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses'...
NEW DELHI -- Hours after former Finance Minister P Chidambaram termed the ban on Salman Rushdie's book Satanic Verses as wrong, the author yesterday asked how many more years it would take to correct...
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Goa Off Russia's List Of 'Safe' Travel Destinations
Goa, one of country's popular tourism destinations for New Year celebrations, has now been dropped of the list of travel destinations considered 'safe' by Russia. The proximate causes were a build-up,...
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Sheena Bora Case: CBI Has New Witness Who 'Saw' Indrani Mukerjea In Raigad...
MUMBAI -- A gymnasium instructor has told the CBI that he had seen Indrani Mukerjea, her former husband Sanjeev Khanna and driver Shyamvar Rai at a forested patch in the neighbouring Raigad district on...
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How Payments Banks Could Help Pave The Way To A Less-Cash Economy
In India, cash is king. The persistence of cash as a percentage in the value of consumer payments in India is 68% versus 14% in the US and 11% in the UK. This dominance of cash transactions comes at a...
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Arranged Marriages May Not Be The Most Romantic, But They Are Practical
A 'love marriage' is every Indian girl's true fantasy. We were a bunch of 8 girlfriends - all intelligent (or so we thought), reasonably attractive young ladies from Mount Carmel College, the...
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Three Days In Goa - On A Shoestring And Off The Beaten Track
I wanted to get away from normal life for a few days and zeroed in on Goa as my hideout after reading various traveller accounts on the serene countryside. Two of my friends decided to join me, one of...
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