SpiceJet passengers bristle at risky mid-air manoeuvre above Indore

INDORE: In what is being termed as a risky mid-air manoeuvre and possibly a violation of standard rules, a SpiceJet aircraft at 5,000 feet was allowed to land before another Spice Jet flight hovering at 3,700 feet at Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport on...

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Gujarat polls: Cop Sanjiv Bhatt's wife Shweta to contest against Narendra Modi

AHMEDABAD: Shweta Bhatt, the wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, on Friday announced that she will contest the state Assembly elections on a Congress ticket against Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi from Maninagar constituency in the city....

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'Talaash': subtle suspense, tame thriller

Director: Reema KagtiCast: Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Rani MukherjiTalaash, as is common knowledge, is a suspense film but isn't supported with the complementing thriller genre. While it certainly is a who-dun-it, it isn't essentially an edge-of-the-seat...

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All sorts of idiots call me 'bhai': Salman

Salman tells us all we want to know about his alter ego and why he does not approve of Abhinav Kashyap's 'tutor'We caught up with Salman Khan at Mehboob Studios, in between meetings, interviews and sporting a new hairstyle. Salman breezed through the...

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Google a bad place for shopping: Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft is trying to skewer Google as a lousy holiday shopping guide in its latest attempt to divert more traffic to its Bing search engine.The attack started with a marketing campaign focused on a recent change in the way Google operates...

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Manisha Koirala diagnosed with cancer: Reports

Bollywood actress Manisha Koirala has reportedly been diagnosed with cancer. The actress is currently admitted to Jaslok hospital, Mumbai, where she was brought in two days ago. She will undergo treatment there, said a source.Manisha was in Kathmandu...

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Rinu Srinivasan back on Facebook; Chennai college waives admission interview

MUMBAI/KOCHI: Refusing to be cowed down by self-proclaimed censors, Rinu Srinivasan has reactivated her facebook account. The plucky 21-year-old is also looking forward to studying sound engineering in a Chennai institute which rolled out the red carpet...

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Rs 17L for kindergarten seat in Tamil Nadu, parents vie to pay

CHENNAI: P Balram* was particular about the school his daughter should go to. And he was willing to go to any extent to get admission there. So, before the school could ask for a donation, he offered to set up a computer lab for 7 lakh. It was an offer...

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Karan Johar doesn’t take me in his films: Akshay Kumar

Akshay (Khiladi) Kumar jumps in the air with glee. He's back to the phase when many of his films set records. In a relaxed mood, despite the media mayhem around him on a day when he's promoting 'Khiladi 786', Akki jokes, laughs and sportingly takes digs...

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Aid pours in for Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party on debut

NEW DELHI: After over a year of campaigning, dozens of protests and exposes against ministers, Arvind Kejriwal officially entered the political arena on Monday. Negating the perception that only big parties can draw hefty funds, the newly launched Aam...

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His world crumbling, Sachin Tendulkar sticks to the drill

MUMBAI: In India's second innings on Sunday, a hush enveloped the Wankhede at around 3.15 pm when Sachin Tendulkar misjudged a fuller-length delivery from England left-arm-spinner Monty Panesar, went back and was trapped leg-before for eight. It was...

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Google's $400 million acquisition is a hoax!

NEW YORK: A bogus news release prompted several websites to run incorrect articles about Google making a $400 million acquisition of a wireless company on Monday, the target company said. "This was a hoax. We are investigating the source," said an emailed...

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Mile-high club: New members keep coming

NEW DELHI: Move over Viagra, getting airborne is a potent aphrodisiac for globe trotters looking for diversions on long, dreary flights. A recent survey discovered that the 'mile-high club' continues to find many takers, with numerous instances of couples...

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The end of SRK and Arjun Rampal's friendship?

The Shah Rukh Khan-Arjun Rampal friendship is over, RIP! Rumbles of discontentment have been audible for a long time. We now have it from a very reliable source that Arjun and SRK have completely distanced themselves from one another while their wives...

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Disappointed with my spinners: MS Dhoni

MUMBAI: His insistence on a spinning track boomeranging, a sheepish Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday said he was disappointed with his tweakers who did not adjust their pace to exploit the pitch in the lost second Test against England.India...

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Sari makes a comeback in placement interviews at IIM-Ahmedabad

AHMEDABAD: The sari is back on the campus of India's premier management school. Women students at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) may go the whole nine yards during placement interviews this year.The Indian ethnic wear has been...

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Bal Thackeray 'sitting duck', Headley had said after recce

MUMBAI: Mumbai terror attack conspirator David Headley, who had surveyed most of the 26/11 targets, had also conducted a recce of Bal Thackeray's heavily-guarded residence 'Matoshree' in suburban Bandra in 2008, and found that Shiv Sena chief was a "sitting...

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Ind vs Eng: India stare at defeat as England take stranglehold of 2nd Test

NEW DELHI: India were staring at an embarrassing defeat in the second cricket Test against a spirited England who rode on Kevin Pietersen and Alastair Cook's brilliant centuries to gain a vital 86-run lead before the spinners tightened the noose around...

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Ponty Chadha's 'task force' worked as parallel excise department

LUCKNOW: Ponty Chadha controlled his Rs 12,000-crore liquor empire in Uttar Pradesh through his 1,500-strong private 'task force' that ran parallel to the government's excise department and maintained its own network of intelligence gathering.The main...

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Support for Modi if he regrets 2002: Muslim umbrella body

NEW DELHI: An umbrella body of Muslim organisations has acknowledged "some signs of change'' in Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's attitude, but laid down stiff conditions, including an apology and "expression of sorrow'' for the 2002 riots, before...

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Ind vs Eng: Cook and Pietersen guide England to comfortable position

MUMBAI: Skipper Alastair Cook continued to torment India with yet another gritty batting display while Kevin Pietersen returned to form with an unbeaten half-century to give England a slight advantage in the second Test on Saturday.Scorecard | Match...

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India eyes Israel's Iron Dome to counter Pak, puppets

NEW DELHI: As Fajr V rockets rained down on Israel from battleground Gaza for a week, many Indian defense planners were keeping a close watch on the performance of Israel's Iron Dome, which is probably the only deterrent to these homegrown short-range...

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Ind vs Eng: Cheteshwar Pujara props up India with second consecutive ton

MUMBAI: Cheteshwar Pujara cracked his second consecutive Test century as India recovered from a precarious situation to restore the balance in the second cricket Test against England on Friday.Scorecard | Match In PicsPujara, who had scored a double...

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Girl shot dead for telling man not to urinate in public

NEW DELHI: An argument over lack of civic sense again ended in murder in the capital late on Wednesday night. A 17-year-old girl was shot dead and her mother shot at in Nizamuddin in south Delhi by their apparently-inebriated, former tenant for asking...

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Ajmal Kasab hanged: A puppet's life ends on a string

MUMBAI: Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab exited this world as stealthily as he had entered Mumbai four years ago. The lone surviving gunman of 26/11 was hanged to death in Pune's Yerawada jail at 7.30am on Wednesday in an extremely hush-hush operation.Asked...

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Pakistan Taliban vow to attack Indian targets over Kasab

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Taliban movement threatened on Thursday to attack Indian targets to avenge the country's execution of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of the militant squad responsible for a rampage through Mumbai that killed 166 people...

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Ajmal Kasab sang in cell the night before

PUNE: It was only when he was being taken to the gallows that Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab lost his composure. The 26/11 terrorist, who was hanged to death at the Yerawada central prison at 7.30 am on Wednesday, remained "cool" and even "sang songs in his...

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Ajmal Kasab hanged and buried in Pune's Yerwada Jail

PUNE: After nearly four years, Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving Pakistani gunman involved in the Mumbai attacks, was hanged to death at the Yerawada central prison here this morning in a top-secret operation.Kasab was buried inside the premises of Pune's...

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Ajmal Kasab nervous but quiet before execution, offered prayers: Jail officer

PUNE: Minutes before his execution in Pune's Yerwada prison on Wednesday, Pakistani gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab appeared to be nervous but was quiet and offered prayers, a jail official said. "From his body language, we could make out that he was...

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