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FTII Students' Strike Was Longest In Institute's 60-Year-Old History
PUNE -- The 139-days long strike that was called off today was the seventh major and the longest such protest in the history of the Film and Television Institute of India, which is replete with stirs...
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Unidentified Gunmen Fire At Girls' School In Pakistan
KARACHI -- Unidentified gunmen on Thursday opened fire at a girls' school in the Shabqadar area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Charsadda district. District Police Officer Charsadda Shafiullah Khan stated that...
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BCCI Apologises To PCB For Shiv Sena's Disruption Of Talks
KARACHI -- The BCCI has extended their apology to PCB for the protest outside the cricket board's headquarter in Mumbai, eventually leading to cancellation of talks between the two board officials....
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Historians Join Protests Condemning 'Highly Vitiated Atmosphere'
NEW DELHI -- After writers, artists, filmmakers and scientists, over 50 historians today came out strongly against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not making any reassuring statement following...
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There can never be enough make-up loot, even on a limited budget. Add to this the onset of the wedding and party season, and the words 'last-lasting' 'extra-volume', 'smudge-proof' suddenly seem to...
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Here's Why Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan Won't Return Her National Award
MUMBAI -- Bollywood star Vidya Balan today said she will not give back her national award as it was an honour bestowed on her by the country and not the government. The comment come in the backdrop of...
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SpiceJet's COO Sanjiv Kapoor Quits
NEW DELHI -- SpiceJet's Chief Operating Officer Sanjiv Kapoor today put in his papers, nearly ten months after original promoter Ajay Singh took over the reins of the budget airline. Kapoor, 48, was...
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Shahid Kapoor Has Started Prepping For Vishal Bhardwaj's 'Rangoon'
MUMBAI -- Actor Shahid Kapoor has began working on his next collaboration with filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj Rangoon. The period drama will see the 34-year-old actor teaming up for the first time with...
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American Policeman On Retrial For Assaulting Elderly Indian, Leaving Him...
WASHINGTON -- An Indian grandfather in the US who was violently assaulted by a policeman leaving him partially paralysed, did not pose any threat, two fellow officers testified during a retrial of the...
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'On Air With AIB' Is An Indianised Version Of John Oliver's Show -- But It Works
On Thursday, comedy collective All India Bakchod premiered the debut episode of their news comedy show On Air With AIB. The weekly show, which is up on Hotstar, is out in two versions: English,...
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Ex-Padma Bhushan Pushpa Bhargava's Half A Century Of Dissent
Pushpa Bhargava, who's perhaps become the first Indian scientist to return the Padma Bhushan, has a long history of being opposed to the government. Whether it was filing a writ petition in the Supreme...
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3 Shah Rukh Khan Films Show Karva Chauth Can Make You Do Bizzare Things
In the world of Bollywood, average human beings have a host of impractical powers. Everyone can sing without a single note going awry, all women can dance, all men can send other men flying like...
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Bihar Elections: Amit Shah Says Pakistan Will Celebrate Diwali If BJP Loses
RAXAUL, Bihar -- BJP President Amit Shah today said if BJP loses in Bihar, Diwali will be celebrated in Pakistan, a statement his rivals called was an attempt to communalise the elections. "If BJP...
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Rajnath Singh Criticises Writers Returning Awards
PATNA, Bihar -- Home Minister Rajnath Singh today came down on writers and some prominent persons returning their Padma and Sahitya Akademi awards terming it as a political conspiracy and wondered what...
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Kerala Bhavan Beef Row: Second Right-Wing Activist Arrested, Chandy Writes To...
NEW DELHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM -- A day after arresting Hindu Sena chief Vishu Gupta, Delhi Police today nabbed his aide Mohit Rajput for breaching peace and tranquility by calling police claiming that...
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West Bengal Man Hit By Bullets Drives Himself, Fiance 15 Kilometres To Hospital
ALIPURDUAR, West Bengal -- Shot at by a snatcher in the ribcage, a man drove his two-wheeler and took himself and his injured would-be wife to a hospital 15 km away. Police said the incident occurred...
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Stuck In Delhi Traffic For 4 Hours, Woman Forced To Deliver Baby Inside An...
NEW DELHI--Forced by Delhi's nightmare traffic to deliver her baby boy on an autorickshaw and receiving 35 stitches in the process, Roshni and the infant today went back home, a day after the dramatic...
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Election Commission Bans Controversial BJP Ads In Bihar
NEW DELHI-- The Election Commission today clamped a ban on publication of two controversial advertisements printed by BJP in Bihar where assembly polls are on. In a strongly-worded advisory to Chief...
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Rajiv Pratap Rudy Thinks Nitish Kumar Advertised In A Pakistani Daily, Gets...
With the Bihar polls underway, both sides are leaving no stones unturned to in trying to make the opposition look bad. A day after BJP chief Amit Shah courted controversy by saying if his party loses...
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Journeys Then And Journeys Now: Why I Miss The Heat, Dust And Highway Breakdowns
One of the most vivid, most abiding memories of my childhood is that of my father and his (not ours) car. He loved it and looked after it like his fourth (sometimes first) baby. We could not litter it...
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