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New Delhi: Indian star Saina Nehwal on Monday expressed her excitement about the ‘trump match’ rule and said it will be the turning point in the 2016 Premier Badminton League (PBL) starting on January 2. PBL organisers have brought in few chances to make the league exciting. Apart from the matches being played up to […]

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha is likely to take up on Monday the Juvenile Justice Bill as the members agreed on its discussion and passage, amid protests over the release of the December 16 gang-rape juvenile convict. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu told the house he had asked for a supplementary list of business […]

Las Vegas: Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines was announced as the Miss Universe 2015, after the ceremony’s host Steve Harvey admitted to making a big mistake by mixing up the names of the winners. There were as many as 80 contestants vying for the coveted Miss Universe title here on Sunday. After beating others […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the plea by Delhi Commission for Women opposing the release of juvenile accused in the December 16 gangrape case. “We share your concern,” the apex court vacation bench comprising Justice A.K. Goel and Justice U.U. Lalit said, while dismissing the plea by the DCW.

Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s “Dilwale” and Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone-starrer “Bajirao Mastani” continued to perform well on Day two of their release. While “Dilwale” raked in over Rs.20 crore, “Bajirao Mastani” managed to mint Rs.15 crore on the second day of its release. After collecting Rs.21 crore on its opening day itself, […]

New Delhi: The parents of the December 16, 2012 gang-rape victim were detained by police on Sunday while they were protesting against the release of the juvenile convict. The victim’s father Badrinath told IANS that they were taken into a bus at India Gate, and were possibly being taken outside Delhi. “We were detained and […]

New Delhi: The juvenile convicted for the 2012 gang rape, along with five other men, is out of the correctional home, Delhi Police said on Sunday. Police, however, said they were not aware of his whereabouts at present. A Delhi Police official told IANS the juvenile was shifted out of the correctional home around 4-5 […]

Hyderabad: Former India cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin on Sunday denied reports that he has married for a third time. “News about my 3rd marriage is incorrect and false. Please check facts before publishing,” he tweeted. The denial came after a section of media carried reports that Azhar married his friend Shannon Marie, an American citizen. According […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Sunday wrote to the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) requesting it not to go ahead with the release of the teen convict in the Nirbhaya gang rape case pending the hearing of a petition in the apex court. DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal had filed a Special Leave […]

Chennai: Hollywood films have shown steady growth in India year-on-year. However, this year has been phenomenal as the domestic box office collections of the top five Hollywood titles stood at over a staggering Rs.500 crore ($75 million). With films such as “Fast and Furious 7” (Rs.155 crore) and “Jurassic World” (Rs.103 crore) making it to […]

Mumbai: Actor Ranveer Singh, who sported a bearded look and ponytail to play Maratha warrior Peshwa Bajirao I in his latest film “Bajirao Mastani”, says he is feeling weird after letting go of the look. On Friday, he shared a video in which his “Bajirao Mastani” co-star and rumoured girlfriend Deepika Padukone was tweaking his […]

Kabul: At least 91 militants were killed in cleanup operations across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, the country’s defence ministry said on Sunday. Afghan National Security and DefenCe Forces carried out the operations in Herat, Ghazni, Paktika and Helmand provinces of the country’s 34 provinces, Xinhua cited a defence ministry statement as saying. At […]

Tokyo: Japanese police on Sunday announced that the international network of activist and hacktivist entities, Anonymous, has attacked at least 97 websites in Japan since September. The National Police Agency said cyber attacks by Anonymous have intensified since September, public broadcaster NHK reported. The group has made online sites of companies and other institutions inaccessible […]

A three-year old child in the capital city of Pakistan was on Saturday booked for land grabbing of a plaza and for stealing property from inside the plaza, the media reported here

A girl, who was harassed on a running train, tweeted to the railway ministry for help following which the accused was arrested, a railway police official said here on Saturday