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A week long operation to clear the wreckage from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine has been completed. A cargo train took pieces of the Boeing 777 aircraft to the eastern Ukrainian town of Kharkov. The wreckage will be transported to the Netherlands and reconstructed...
21:41
Magnus Carlsen retains the World Chess Championship after he beat India's Viswanathan Anand in game 11 of the championships. Carlsen forced Anand to submit in game 11. The Norwegian won with 6.5 points compared to Anand's 4.5 points. Anand needed to win both games to beat Carlsen.
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Lewis Hamilton has won his second Formula One drivers' title in brilliant style by winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Hamilton overtook championship rival Nico Rosberg at the start and the German suffered a string of mechanical problems that hampered his chances of overhauling his...
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Pakistan has the fastest growing nuclear weapons programme in the world and by 2020 it could have enough fissile material to produce more than 200 nuclear devices, a top American think tank has said. Though many states are downsizing their stockpiles, Asia is witnessing a buildup. Pakistan has...
21:02
Three officers, one havaldar were injured inside the army's sprawling Air Defence College in Gopalpur, Odisha during firing practice. All of them had to be rushed to Kolkata where they were admitted to the Command Hospital for further treatment. The officers were injured while...
20:10
A suicide bomber walked into a crowd of spectators at a volleyball match in eastern Afghanistan and detonated his explosives vest, killing at least 40 people, a provincial official said. Paktia provincial spokesman Mukhles Afghan said at least 50 more were wounded in the attack in...
19:33
India did not rule out a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the SAARC summit, saying that he is keen to have meaningful dialogues with as many south Asian leaders as possible. External affairs ministry...
18:56
Gujarat Chief Minister Anandi Patel adopted Lilapur village of Daskroi taluka in the district with a population of around 1,200 people. Taking her cue from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna', Patel has asked all the MLAs of Gujarat to adopt a village of their constituency...
18:36
One of London's main railway stations has been evacuated after a fire broke out on a train at a platform. Passengers were ordered to leave Charing Cross after hearing a 'screech and a bang' prompted a blaze in the front carriage of one of the trains inside. Firefighters were called to the...
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There have been more than 200 cases of polio in Pakistan since January - the first time infections have reached this level in nearly 15 years. Despite this, not everyone wants their children to be vaccinated. Read more HERE
17:29
The Sri Lankan Navy on Sunday arrested 14 Tamil Nadu fishermen near Jaffna Peninsula, on charges of poaching in Sri Lankan waters.Fisheries Department assistant directors Gopinath and Sekar said that the fishermen belonged to Rameswaram and Jagadapattinam in Pudukottai district. They said three...
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Shiv Sena will play the role of principal opposition in the winter session of the Maharashtra assembly beginning December 8, party leader Sanjay Raut said. I have no knowledge of any talks between my party and Bharatiya Janata Party. As of now, we are an opposition party and will take...
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In a prize catch, the wife of Burdwan blast prime accused and the chief of the women's wing of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh militant group was arrested in Bangladesh along with three others. Fatema Begum, who confessed to training at least 25 women militants in India, is said...
15:42
Legendary singer and composer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan will perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, which will be held at the Oslo Spektrum Arena on December 11. This is the second time a Pakistani will be performing at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert. Junoon previously performed at the event in...
15:31
In a jubilant moment for the Christian community in India, Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Sister Euphrasia from Kerala have been declared saints by the Vatican at St Peter's Square in Vatican City. Kuriakose Elias Chavara been started a special school for the weaker sections...
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JUST IN: Keshari Nath Tripathi has been made the new governor of Bihar. Tripathi has been given the charge of Bihar in addition to his role as governor of West Bengal. More details are awaited.
15:03
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of copying his schemes of adopting villages and constructing toilets. He (Modi) is talking about adopting villages. I have adopted villages in 1990. The PM is copying me. I have done all this. I have initiated...
14:29
Best-selling author Chetan Bhagat has run into another controversy in Bihar. An English scholar from the state has accused him of plagiarism.Dr Birbal Jha, director of British Lingua, a spoken English institute in Patna, has alleged that Bhagat had lifted the plot of his latest novel, Half...
13:56
Have Rs 20,000 to spare? Then you have a chance to have dinner with Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal. In order to raise funds for their Delhi assembly elections, the party is raising a fundraiser in Mumbai on November 27 where the minimum donation is Rs 20,000. Other cities, including...
13:19
Angelina Jolie has confirmed she is retiring from acting to focus on writing and directing. The Oscar winning actress said she has never loved being in front of the camera and feels much happier in an off-screen role.Jolie, 39, told of her decision while promoting her latest film Unbroken, which...
12:41
A whole set of second generation reforms will be unveiled in the next Union Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitely said, promising exciting times ahead. Looking ahead, Jaitley envisages the GDP growth to cross 6 per cent in 2015-16 once the effect of all the steps proposed kicks in. From thereon,...
12:34
Adulation greeted Narendra Modi during his recent tour of Australia following the G20 summit. CNN's Ravi Agarwal takes a look at the country's rock star prime minister -- is he the leader that India has been waiting for?Read the entire report HERE
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Looking to give a new impetus to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat mission, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has suggested that officers could adopt one railway station each in order to ensure proper cleanliness on the premises. Noting that in Railways, cleaning is nobody's baby,...
11:34
After mulling over for two months, US president Barack Obama finally made up his mind to accept the invitation extended to him by India's newly-elected prime minister Narendra Modi to visit India and be the chief guest for the Republic Day celebrations on January 26. The decision is masterstroke...
11:20
Officials in a Polish town have opposed a proposition to name a playground after Winnie-the-Pooh due to the bear's unclear gender and immodest clothing. Officials at a council meeting claimed that Winnie the Pooh is of dubious sexuality and is inappropriately dressed to be around children,...
11:10
Hinting that the stalemate between the Bharatiya Janata Party and their former ally, the Shiv Sena is over, Maharashtra Public Works Department minister Chandrakant Patil said that Sena will be accommodated in the Cabinet expansion before the winter session of the assembly starts on December 8....
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A North Korean student with family ties to the regime has escaped a kidnapping bid in Paris, where he was studying, and is now in hiding.A French source said Saturday that the student, identified only as Han, escaped a kidnapping attempt at a Paris airport where he was to be put on a plane...
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An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 6.8 jolted central Japan on Saturday evening, trapping at least five people when their homes collapsed, public broadcaster NHK said. The Japan Meteorological Agency said no tsunami warning was issued after the quake, which was felt in the...
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Islamic State militants have killed at least 25 members of a Sunni Muslim tribe in a village on the eastern edge of the provincial capital Ramadi, local officials said on Saturday, in apparent revenge for tribal opposition to the radical Islamists.They said the bodies of the men from the Albu...
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US pledges $135 million in additional Syria aid after UN warnings: The United States pledged an additional $135 million in aid for the victims of the Syrian war on Saturday, much of it to help the United Nations with a funding shortfall it had warned could force it to scale...
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A Saudi citizen with links to al Qaida has been released from Guantanamo Bay after serving 12 years.Muhammad al-Zahrani, 45, was sent back to his homeland of Saudi Arabia on Friday after a U.S. government board decided that he no longer posed a threat.The move came as the U.S government...
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Jama Masjid Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari today anointed his 19-year-old son, Shaban Bukhari, as the Naib Imam (deputy Imam) of the 17th century mosque at a ceremony, notwithstanding the surrounding row and High Court's ruling which said that the ceremony had no legal sanctity. I announce...
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SP workers thrash toll booth attendants in Barabanki 14 injured in London 5-star hotel gas explosionMulayam cuts 75-ft cake at grand birthday bashBengaluru: Woman teacher detained for alleged assault of minor girl1 dead in blanket distribution programme in UPMP Srinjoy Bose remanded to four days'...
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