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Abuja: A suicide bomber hit a Muslim procession in Dakasoye town of Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kano on Friday and casualties were feared, security sources told media. The bomber blew himself up amid the crowd, after pretending to be a member of the Islamic sect which organised the procession, said a security source in Dakasoye […]

Chandigarh: Haryana’s outspoken Health and Sports Minister Anil Vij on Friday ordered a woman police officer to “get out” of a meeting. When she refused, he himself stormed out in a huff. The outburst came after both were locked in an argument over liquor smuggling in Fatehabad district. Vij walked out of the meeting after […]

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday got permission from a city court to conduct a lie-detector test on former media baron Peter Mukherjea as he was “evasive” and “not cooperating” in the probe into his step-daughter Sheena Bora’s murder. CBI sources said the agency moved the application in a CBI special […]

New Delhi: With the arrest of driver Pradeep Shukla, Delhi Police on Friday claimed to have solved within 10 hours the sensational bank van heist in which the cash van driver allegedly drove away with Rs.22.5 crore in cash. “The biggest ever case of misappropriation from a cash van in the history of Delhi Police […]

Abuja: At least 35 bodies were found in a commercial town of Bama in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, a local official has said on Friday. The bodies were decomposed when found in the ruins of houses, Ali Modu Gajji, chairman of Bama local district, told Xinhua. The town, located some 60-km from the state […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday described the constitution as his government’s “only holy book” and India first its “only religion” as he sought to reach out to the opposition at the beginning of the crucial winter session of parliament. “The Indian constitution is a binding force in a diverse country,” Modi said […]

Paris: France held a national memorial service on Friday for the 130 people killed on November 13 in the Paris terror attack. Around 1,000 people attended the service in central Paris, including President Francois Hollande, survivors of the attacks and victims’ families. A minute’s silence was held and the names of all the victims read […]

Turkeman tribesmen, on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, calling themselves the Syrian Liberation Army, are actually in harness to protect routes on which oil tankers have been plying regularly from Syria to Turkey for the Western market. This smuggling enterprise is controlled by Bilal Erdogan, son of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. The […]

New Delhi: Refusing to permit custodial interrogation of former communications minister Dayanidhi Maran in a case of alleged commercial use of high-speed Integrated Digital Switch Network for family-owned Sun TV, the Supreme Court on Friday asked him to appear before the CBI from November 30 onwards. The high-speed Integrated Digital Switch Network, described as service […]

Chennai: Multinational banking major HSBC on Friday announced its decision to exit private banking business in India while offering its existing clients the HSBC Premier, a global retail banking and wealth management proposition. There will be no loss of jobs because of the closure decision, said a bank spokesman. “After strategic review of global private […]

India, or at least parts of it, is going through a weird phase of fetishised nationalism and knee-jerk rejectionism. The divide is between those who profess unquestioning nationalism and are staunch supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and those who castigate everything and are virulently antagonistic to the prime minister. Social media seems neatly divided […]

New York: Last year when Italy sent an espresso machine up to the International Space Station (ISS), researchers wondered how astronauts would sip their double shot espresso in a zero-gravity situation in space. They came up with six funky-looking cups from a 3D printed transparent polymer that are making spending time in space a more […]

Mumbai: Actor Emraan Hashmi, who was once tagged as Bollywood’s ‘serial kisser’, says censorship of films in India seems like it’s “going to the dark ages”. “I feel that it’s going back to the dark ages. We’re not taking steps forward,” Emraan said at the launch of a single “Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon”, starring […]

Mumbai: The Indian rupee dipped in the early hours of trade on Friday to its lowest level against the US dollar in over two years, mainly on account of the gaining strength of the American currency, but recovered somewhat on likely sales by the central bank. The Indian currency was at 66.88 to a dollar […]

Patna: In a bid to keep up another election promise, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has directed officials to provide free electricity connection to everyone in Bihar by November 2017. Providing free electricity connection to all the households was one of the seven promises Nitish Kumar made ahead of the assembly elections which his Grand Alliance […]