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Pran died after a prolonged illness in Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital at 8.30 pm.The funeral will be held at 12 noon on Saturday at Shivaji Park in Dadar.
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Pran acted in over 350 films and left his imprint as a villain with powerful roles in films like 'Kashmir ki Kali', 'Khandaan', 'Aurat', 'Bari Behen', 'Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai', 'Half Ticket', 'Upkar', 'Purab Aur Paschim' and 'Don'.
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Pran, star of films such as Zanjeer and Amar Akbar Anthony, made a tremendous impact on Bollywood as the villain in Dilip Kumar's Ram Aur Shyam and was the first actor to break stereotype by playing character roles as well. Pran was credited with making the role of...
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Veteran Bollywood actor Pran Nath Sikand has passed away at Lilawati Hospital in Mumbai. The 93-year-old actor was given the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest honour in Indian cinema, on May 10 by Information & Broadcasting Minsiter Manish tewari at his residence in Mumbai.
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In the name of God, The Most Beneficent, The Most Merciful.Honourable UN Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-moon,Respected President General Assembly Vuk JeremicHonourable UN envoy for Global education Mr Gordon Brown,Respected elders and my dear brothers and sisters;Today, it is an honour for me to be...
20:49
Prime Minister David Cameron today joined hundreds of mourners at a military funeral of a British soldier, who was hacked to death on a London street by suspected Islamist terrorists. The Prime Minister and family members of 25-year-old Lee Rigby attended the funeral service at Bury Parish...
20:32
Germany today called for the release of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi amid mounting tensions between supporters and opponents over his overthrow. We call for an end to the restrictions on Mr Morsi's whereabouts, a foreign ministry spokesman told reporters. Morsi is currently being...
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Uttarkhand Government has sought a special assistance of Rs 115.8 crore from the Health Ministry in an attempt to rebuild the medical infrastructure in the flood ravaged state. The state government last week submitted a proposal in this regard to the Union Health Ministry which is now...
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Malala Yousafzai -- the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education -- addressed the United Nations today, pressing for the right of education for every child. The Taliban thought that the bullet would silence us, but they failed, said the girl, who turned 16 today....
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National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden asks human rights groups to lobby Moscow to grant him temporary asylum, Human Rights Watch tells CNN. He requested the meeting with around 10 activists in the airport transit zone.
19:33
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today took a dig at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for describing himself as Hindu nationalist, saying it is an oxymoron. He also said the BJP strongman was gradually becoming his own worst enemy.
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Indian army is planning to put back a surveillance camera in the Chumar area along the LAC to keep an eye on the movement of the Chinese troops which had reportedly taken away a similar device last month. The camera was said to have taken away by the Chinese side on June 17 when...
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A meeting of the Congress working committee will take a final call on the Telangana issue, says Digvijay Singh after core group meeting.
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Vicky Nanjappa reports: The meeting of the core committee of the Congress discussing the formation of Telangana state has ended in New Delhi. The issue has been referred to the Congress Woking Committee, which will take a final decision on the states formation.
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The New York Times reports that Edward Snowden's meeting with human rights activists has begun at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The meeting cannot be filmed.
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American intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has blasted the United States for threatening behavior and carrying out an unlawful campaign against him, as he prepares to meet Friday with human rights groups at a Russian airport.Snowden will address human rights groups any time now. ...
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Former Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma today said Narendra Modi had prime ministerial material, but he would have to test his acceptance in non-Hindi speaking belts. People want development and good governance and he has proved these (in Gujarat), Sangma said. On 2002 riots, Sangma said, that...
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And the reactions begin: JD(U) on Modi's puppy coming under a car comment to Reuters: Modi always treated minorities with contempt. It is up to the people to decide whether Modi is guilty. It is not for Modi to decide. He is a fascist, says the JD(U).The Samajwadi Party says Modi should apologise...
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After ensuring former Karnataka CM B S Yeddyurappa's KJP will return to the fold, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has set his eyes on Jharkhand. He wants Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) leader Babulal Marandi to consider a homecoming. Modi established contact with Marandi earlier this...
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Sanjay Jha, national spokesperson AICC criticises Modi over his comments on the Gujarat riots in his interview to Reuters. You cannot equate the death of hundreds of people to a puppy. And how can Modi give himself a clean chit in the riots?
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BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitaraman says it is 'despicable' to suggest that Narendra Modi compared Muslims to puppies in his interview with Reuters. Modi reacting to the 2002 riots said, Any person if we are driving a car, we are a driver, and someone else is driving a car and we're sitting...
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Just in: The Supreme Court has dismissed senior IPS officer P P Pandey's plea challenging CBI probe in Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case.Pandey had failed to get relief from the High Court in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case and approached the Supreme Court thereafter for quashing the FIR...
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It is without doubt the largest warship ever to be operated by the Indian Navy. But if there is a record for the longest time spent by an Indian warship in a shipyard, the INS Vikramaditya would hold that too. After a long a painful process of renegotiations, price escalations and delays, India's...
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Update on the Mumbai rains: Tracks have been flooded at several places including Chinchpokli, Vikroli, Sion and Masjid on Central and Harbour lines and several trains are running late. On the Western line, suburban services have been suspended between Nallasopara and Virar.Waterlogging at several...
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The Congress Core Group meets to discuss the Telangana issue. All eyes are on the crucial meeting, which is expected to arrive at a decision on demands for a separate Telangana state. Few are optimistic about a solution in favour of Telangana and say that the Congress is likely to drag the...
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Narendra Modi's definitive interview to Reuters:Do you think you did the right thing in 2002?Absolutely. However much brainpower the Supreme Being has given us, however much experience I've got, and whatever I had available in that situation and this is what the SIT had investigated.Do you...
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Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai shot by the Taliban will address the world body in New York and call for universal free education. Read
15:57
Waterlogged Kalwa station in suburban Mumbai. Pic: Traffline.comAnd Rishi Jaitly's video of waterlogged Linking Road. Watch
15:53
In response to criticisms of the Centralized Monitoring System, India's new surveillance program, the government could contend that merely having the capability to engage in mass surveillance won't mean that it will. Read
15:49
Several community leaders Narendra Modi's Happy Ramazan' tweet on the first day of the holy month was inappropriate. Read
15:45
Thane district has taken the bigger beating since Thursday. Dozens of tree falls, inundation and now trains disrupted, Kavitha Iyer tweets.
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Just in: It's life imprisonment for all the 21 people convicted in the 2006 Lakhan Bhaiyya fake encounter case. A local court in Mumbai pronounced the quantum of punishment for the policemen who were convicted on July 5. Only dismissed police officer Pradeep Sharma has been acquitted of all the...
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Fresh reports by Traffline says local trains on the Central line running late by 30 to 45 minutes. There is waterlogging at Vikhroli, Kanjurmarg, Nahur and Thane stations. The western line is running late by 15 to 20 minutes. WR trains not operating beyond Vasai since tracks are flooded at...
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The Congess's deputy leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly went against his party and defected to the ruling BJP on the floor of the House today in an act of defiance that scuppered a no-trust vote. Read what happened.
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Yesterday's Supreme Court judgment debarring convicted lawmakers from continuing in their Houses has raised a tricky question: what happens if and when a convicted and thus disqualified legislator secures an acquittal from a higher court? Read
14:41
Nitish Kumar tweets this picture of waterlogged Vasai in suburban Mumbai.
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Heavy rains through the morning has disrupted traffic in Mumbai. Trains on both the western and central railway are running late by 30 minutes. Water logging is reported at Andheri, Kandivali and Borivali in the western suburbs and in Thane in the central suburbs. In northwest Maharashtra...
14:18
As the telegram service comes to an end in India, the WSJ spent a day at work with Om Dutt, one of the country's last telegram messengers. Read
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In his own words, Rachit Mehta attempts the difficult task of replying to an intellectual par excellence - Pratap Bhanu Mehta, but since I have the conviction -- like David had in taking on Goliath, I will do it. Opinions and views change. Facts remain constant. Opinions can be objectified;...
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Nawaz Ali Muhammad, a fisherman from the small village of Shah Bunder in southern Pakistan, went missing during a cyclone over the Arabian Sea in 1999. His wife believed he was killed in the storm. But six years later, she heard he was alive, in an Indian prison. The WSJ on the lost fishermen of...
13:48
The Supreme Court refuses to entertain Congress leader Jagdish Tytler's plea seeking a stay on further inquiry by CBI against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
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American intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is due to meet with a human rights group Friday, the press service for Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport said.The former NSA contractor is believed to have been holed up in a transit area of the airport since leaving Hong Kong for Russia on...
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A large section of the Indian middle class, though living in the country, is in a state of mental exile. Read
13:22
The legal battle is centred on whether the Ishrat Jahan encounter was fake and if so, who were the men behind it. With all these battles being fought in the public sphere, the media has emerged as a key player. Read
13:20
In an interview conducted using encrypted e-mails, whistleblower Edward Snowden discusses the power of the NSA, how it is in bed together with the Germans and the vast scope of Internet spying conducted by the United States and Britain. Read
12:56
Andhra Pradesh CM Kirankumar Reddy meets Sonia Gandhi ahead of the Congress Core Group meeting on Telangana.
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Ilavarasan's uncle Joseph says the police have surrounded their village Natham. The SRM Medical College and Research Centres Forensic Medicine Department Head Dr Thangaraj and Sri Ramachandra Medical College Professor of Forensic Medicine Dr P Sampath Kumar examined Ilavarasans body and took...
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Rediff.com's Ganesh Nadar reporting from Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu where the Dalit boy's love story which ended in his death is playing out, says that the Madras High court has ordered a second postmortem on Ilavarasan's body. The decision was based on the report of the two doctors to examined his...
11:59
The Telegraph's witty piece on what Mamata Banerjee, the awesome chief minister of West Bengal can do (play the harmonium, climb trees, knit sweaters) and can't (play the guitar, and bring dead people to life). Read
11:54
The Bharatiya Janata Party's gamble on Modi is based on the calculation that he will galvanize the BJP's core vote (bigots), and yet attract swing voters who aren't particularly stirred by the prospect of a Ram temple or excited by the sangh parivar's favoured sport and raison d'etre,...
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More on that gruesome gang-rape and attempted murder in UP. On Tuesday evening, the police said, a young man known to the student invited the girl to his home, where he allegedly raped her. When the girl resisted, he allegedly poured kerosene on her and set her on fire, reports NDTV. The...
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Ahead of the Congress Core Group meeting today, which could be crucial in determining the Centre's stance on the demand for statehood for Telangana, odds are stacked against those seeking bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.Most of the leaders invited to the meet have reservations against it. ReadOur...
11:25
Union minority affairs minister Rahman Khan wants the government to form an all-powerful taskforce to monitor and review terror cases against Muslims, arguing that it is needed to ensure justice for innocent Muslim youth languishing in jails after being framed in terror cases. Read
11:17
And the horrors continue: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped and later set on fire by six youths in Etawah district in Kanpur on Wednesday. She is now battling for her life at the UP Rural Institute of Medical Science in Saifai.The accused hail from influential families and...
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Tech giant Microsoft helped the National Security Agency develop its now infamous surveillance programme, according to a report.Not only did Microsoft help the NSA intercept communications, it also helped the agency decode complicated encryption devised by Microsoft itself.Read the full report here
10:04
Is a 26/11-style terror attack possible inside the United States? While such an attack is definitely possible, the scale of the attack may not be quite so large.Read the article here
10:00
The BSE benchmark Sensex today rallied by nearly 229 points to hit a fresh six-week high in early trade, mainly led by gains in IT stocks after Infosys posted better-than-expected first quarter earnings. Besides, a firming trend in the global markets...
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He has made a habit of coming good when the chips are down and Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni feels his excellent finishing skills have a lot to do with the good cricketing sense he is blessed with. Dhoni's 52-ball 45 proved to be decisive as India lifted the ODI tri-nation series...
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After a debate that dragged on for hours, Ireland's Parliament has decided to allow abortion in certain cases when the mother's life is at risk.Ireland's coalition party won the motion by 127 to 31 votes, in spite of the massive protests held by anti-abortion groups across the conservative...
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In the backdrop of strained business and trade ties between India and the US, top business leaders like Ratan Tata have vowed to address the concerns and identify the steps that needs to be taken for strengthening bilateral relationship. Together we...
03:27
Asserting that there has been no change in the attitude and policy of Pakistani military towards India, a former American diplomat has said the next frontier of conflict between the two nations could be Afghanistan. Afghanistan is going to be in...
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At least 150 prisoners have escaped from a jail in the Indonesian city of Medan on the island of Sumatra. The breakout came during a riot that officials say may have been prompted by a power cut that knocked out supplies of pumped water. Hundreds of police and soldiers have been trying to...
02:13
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to continue its resistance in defiance of the military's ouster of the country's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. A Brotherhood statement on Thursday also distanced the group from an assassination attempt on Wednesday against a senior army commander in the...
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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic once again faces two genocide charges instead of one in his long-running trial over ethnic violence during the 1990s Balkan wars. Appellate judges at a U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands on Thursday reinstated the second genocide charge, ruling...
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The possibilities of Telangana's Big FridayThe big, deep game being played by Digvijaya SinghTwo separate blasts kill seven in PakistanIshrat's family alleges threat to their lives, writes to CentreNew lake poses threat to rain-ravaged UttarakhandCourt rejects ex-minister Raghavji's bail plea in...
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