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Have A Message For Aliens? Russian Billionaire To Offer $1 Million Prize For...
LONDON—Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire who is funding the USD 100 million search for aliens, is offering USD 1 million prize money to craft the best message to send to an extraterrestrial...
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China Stocks Suffer Biggest One-Day Loss Since 2007
SHANGHAI - Chinese shares tumbled more than 8 percent on Monday amid renewed fears about the outlook for the world's No. 2 economy, reviving the spectre of a full-blown market crash that prompted...
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Bombay High Court To Hear Salman Khan's Appeal Against Conviction From July 30
MUMBAI -- The Bombay High Court today said it will hear the appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan against the five-year sentence awarded to him in the 2002 hit-and-run case from July 30 on a...
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Karnataka Lokayukta Son Arrested For Extortion Racket
Karnataka's anti-corruption watchdog, or Lokayukta, long held as the model anti-corruption ombudsman, had a shattering fall from grace after Ashwin Rao, the son of the Lokayukta chief, Bhaskar Rao, was...
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Yakub Memon Death Penalty: Mercy Petition Hearing To Continue In Supreme...
NEW DELHI -- The Supreme Court on Monday said it would resume the hearing of 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon's mercy petition tomorrow morning. The apex court was hearing Yakub Abdul Razak...
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My Tweet Was The Mere Frustration Of A Helpless Citizen Of Mumbai: Neha Dhupia
Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia, who came under fire for criticising the government in her tweets, today said she had no intention to "demean or personally attack anyone". Dhupia, 34, had taken to...
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Sensex Dives 500 points On China Stock Crash, Weak Domestic Corporate Earnings
NEW DELHI: India's key market indices had a precipitous fall on the back of a sharp decline in China's stock markets, weak Q1 results by companies and worries that the government may impose restriction...
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Lalu Calls Bihar Bandh To Compel Modi Government For Caste Data
PATNA -- As the poll battle for Bihar intensifies, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav today called for a state-wide shutdown to press for the release of caste-census data, which he alleged,...
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ED Seeks Non Bailable Warrant Against Lalit Modi After Summons Gets No Response
MUMBAI -- The Enforcement Directorate today moved a special court here seeking issuance of a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against former IPL chief Lalit Modi in a case of alleged money laundering...
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Gurdaspur Attack: All Three Terrorists Killed; Pakistan Government Condemns...
All three terrorists who stormed a police station complex in Dina Nagar in Punjab on Monday have been killed, Punjab Police chief Sumedh Singh Saini told reporters. The total tally of those who died in...
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Former President APJ Abdul Kalam Dies At 83
Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam died in Shillong on Monday evening of a suspected cardiac arrest. He collapsed during a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management and was rushed to Bethany...
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It's difficult for me to come to terms with the fact that we are now in a world without Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. I had the privilege of knowing him well over the years and had nothing but the greatest of...
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PHOTOS: Dr Abdul Kalam, The 'People's President'
From a space scientist to a Bharat Ratna awardee and eventually India's 11th President, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam led an illustrious life. He was loved by politicians across the party divide and was the...
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Gurdaspur Attack: SP Killed In Terror Strike Is Son Of Policeman Who Died In...
KAPURTHALA, Punjab -- Baljit Singh, the police officer who was killed in the gun-battle with terrorists in Gurdaspur district on Monday, was a son to a policeman who too was killed by militants during...
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Maruti Suzuki Profit Rises 56%, Still Short Of Expectations
NEW DELHI — Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., India's biggest carmaker by sales, said first-quarter net profit rose 56 percent helped by lower costs, favourable foreign exchange rates and higher sales, but...
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7 Bollywood Actors Who Rocked A Glorious Moustache
A day before his birthday -- Dhanush turns 32 today -- this cute minion poster was put up to celebrate his latest movie Maari. This basically imagines Dhanush as a minion with a 'stache. #Maari minion...
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The Socio Economic & Caste Census 2011 released on Friday, July 3rd 2015 showed that only two out of three rural homes in India own a mobile phone, while 28 per cent of rural households are without...
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Politicians Pay Their Last Respects To APJ Abdul Kalam
Political leaders cutting across party lines fondly remembered former President APJ Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Pranab Mukherjee and Congress President Sonia Gandhi were...
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Gadhimai Animal-Slaughter Festival In Nepal To Go Bloodless
In what will certainly cheer both the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Gadhimai festival, a quinquennial celebration in Nepal that involves the ritual...
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SpiceJet's Turnaround Continues As It Posts Rs 71.8 Crore Profit In June Quarter
NEW DELHI — On 17th December 2014, SpiceJet's flights were grounded after oil companies demanded dues be cleared before they would supply any more fuel. It had seemed at the time that this might be the...
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