US lawmaker's aide draws ire over first daughter scolding

WASHINGTON: A US lawmaker's communications director was facing social media calls she be sacked after her Facebook rant about President Barack Obama's daughters prompted widespread anger. Elizabeth Lauten, spokeswoman for Republican Congressman Stephen...

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DD anchor distressed by net attack on IFFI gaffe

MUMBAI: Cyberspace can be a cruel world. A Doordarshan anchor has come in for abusive criticism by netizens after failures in a live broadcast.The 24-year-old casual announcer made a few mistakes while hosting the opening ceremony of the International...

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Surat businessman to host wedding of 111 ‘daughters’

SURAT: City-based businessman Mahesh Savani will play parent to 111 girls who have lost their fathers by hosting their wedding in a lavish ceremony organized on Sunday.The day before the event, Savani, a businessman with interests in real estate and...

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Sadananda Gowda may lose railways, BJP firm on Suresh Prabhu whatever Uddhav Thackeray’s stand

NEW DELHI: With a day to go for the first recast of the NDA government, there were indications that railway minister Sadananda Gowda may be given a different assignment as part of the government's new thrust to catalyze the infrastructure sector.READ...

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reveals why he wears the same T-shirt every day

The author has posted comments on this articleBusiness Insider | Nov 7, 2014, 06.04PM IST Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered a lot of different questions at his first-ever public Q&A, including why he wears the same T-shirt...

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Pakistan lobbyist Robin Raphel under lens for alleged spying

WASHINGTON: Robin Raphel, a former state department official and lobbyist who tormented New Delhi in the 1990s with provocative remarks on Jammu & Kashmir's accession to India and was seen as a brazenly pro-Pakistan partisan in Washington, is under...

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Rang Rasiya

The Critic has posted comments on this MovieSrijana Mitra Das, TNN, Nov 6, 2014, 11.14AM IST TRIVIA1) Rang Rasiya was to first release in 20082) Randeep Hooda has played two age groups in the film - a 60-year-old and then a 20-year-old which he...

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With Cong down and out, Robert Vadra moves to wind up six companies

NEW DELHI: With Congress's fortunes on a sharp downward spiral in recent months, party chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra has been winding up at least six of his companies even as one of his firms reported a profit of Rs 33 crore in 2012-13.According...

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Robert Vadra shuts down 6 companies in Haryana, Rajasthan

NEW DELHI: Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra is on a spree to shut down his companies in Haryana and Rajasthan, according to Times Now.Robert Vadra, who was in the news recently for misbehaving with a reporter who asked him questions about his land...

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Al-Qaida training Indian militants for big attacks: Intelligence officials

NEW DELHI: Decrypted communications between Indian Mujahideen (IM) and al-Qaida and testimony from suspects have triggered alarm among intelligence officials in New Delhi: the groups appear to be working together to launch major attacks in the region.The...

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No takers for Hyderabad's most expensive homes?

HYDERABAD: Is the Jubilee Hills Landmark Project Pvt Ltd, touted as Hyderabad's most expensive residential venture (only a stone's throw away from KBR Park), struggling to find buyers? Sources in the know of things revealed that the project is in doldrums...

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Unceremonious sacking as captain was humiliating: Sachin Tendulkar

NEW DELHI: Sharing his anger and pain after being stripped of the captaincy in 1997, batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has revealed that the "unceremonious" sacking was very "embarrassing" and "humiliating".Writing in his autobiography 'Playing It My Way',...

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For Hussaini brahmans, it’s Muharram as usual

NEW DELHI: As Muharram passed off peacefully in the capital amid heavy police presence on Tuesday, a group of brahmans in east Delhi were wondering what the tension was all about. Like every year, these Hindus took out a Muharram taziya of their own...

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Govt plans huge new office complex in Lutyens’ zone

NEW DELHI: The central government plans to build a massive new secretariat spread over nearly 10 acres in the Lutyens' Bungalow Zone to overcome an office-space shortage of about 22 lakh sq ft.Going by rough calculations, the new secretariat would be...

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Why Jagdish Mukhi is AAP's candidate for BJP CM

NEW DELHI: It seems AAP hasn't just chosen their CM candidate for the next election but also BJP's. Online and offline, AAP has gone all out to pitch the next election as a face-off between Arvind Kejriwal and BJP veteran Jagdish Mukhi. BJP, which has...

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Pay techie Rs 12.5 lakh for sacking her, Karnataka labour department orders US-based firm

​In a landmark case, a US-based IT firm has been asked to compensate a techie employed at its C V Raman Nagar office in Bengaluru for illegally terminating her services without providing valid reasons and for causing harassment. The labour department,...

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Pakistan using militants as proxies to counter superior Indian Army: Pentagon

WASHINGTON: In a blunt assessment of terrorist safe havens in Pakistan, the Pentagon has told the US Congress that the country is using militant groups as proxies to counter the superior Indian military."Afghan - and India - focused militants continue...

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Where 'Allah' means God, Christians can't say 'God'

KOTA KINABALU: As the students knelt in a circle at a Christian kindergarten near the shores of the South China Sea, a 6-year-old girl in pigtails read out a chapter from a children's Bible: "Sepuluh hukum dari Allah" — God's Ten Commandments.Technically,...

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RSS cancels VK Singh’s speech after his late arrival

AGRA: Minister of state for external affairs VK Singh was not allowed to address a session at the ongoing three-day camp — "Yuva Sankalp Shivir" of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Agra on Sunday because he arrived at the venue late.According to...

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'Kiss of love' movement: They came, dared the mob, did it

KOCHI: The placard paraphrasing Pablo Neruda that a Kiss of Love (KOL) supporter held up for the whole world to see even as she was dragged away by the police at Marine Drive on a warm Sunday evening said it all: "You can cut all the flowers but you...

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PG student gang-raped in Hyderabad varsity men’s hostel

HYDERABAD: A 23-year-old postgraduate student of the English and Foreign Languages University (Eflu) was gang-raped by two persons, including a fellow student, in a room at a men's hostel on the campus on Friday night. Police arrested the two culprits...

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Sri Lanka snubs India, opens port to Chinese submarine again

NEW DELHI: Despite India's strong reservations about a Chinese nuclear submarine at the Colombo port in September, the government has learned that Sri Lanka has permitted another Chinese attack submarine to dock at a Lankan port.According to the information...

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Vadra made Rs 44 crore windfall gain in Haryana deal: CAG

NEW DELHI: The comptroller and auditor general has faulted Robert Vadra's land deals in Haryana, saying he reaped nearly Rs 44 crore in windfall gains because an indulgent Congress government allowed him to do so in breach of law, and did not insist...

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IIT-B to lock lips with Kochi's 'Kiss of Love' movement

MUMBAI: To protest moral policing by political activists, a mass-kissing event will be held at IIT, Bombay at 5.30pm on Sunday.At least 70 students and about a dozen faculty members of the premier institute will gather near the convocation hall lawns...

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Nokia employees at Sriperumbudur to get severance package of Rs 7.5 lakh each

The author has posted comments on this articleTNN | Oct 31, 2014, 03.07AM IST In addition to the settlement sum, the Nokia management has agreed to pay salaries for November and December, sources said. CHENNAI: A final settlement was...

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It is official: Bangalore becomes Bengaluru

BENGALURU: Yes, what you just read is the new name of Karnataka's capital. From today, Bangalore and 11 other cities have new nomenclature. The state government issued a notification to the effect on Friday evening. The renaming coincides with the Kannada...

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PM says Mahatma Gandhi was incomplete without Sardar Patel, also rakes up 1984 anti-Sikh violence

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday raked up the anti-Sikh violence that followed the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi this day 30 years ago and said it was a "dagger" in the centuries-old fabric of India's unity as he...

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