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INTERVIEW: 'Angry Indian Goddesses' Is About Positive Change, Feels Director...
Filmmaker Pan Nalin has made a number of shorts, documentaries, and feature films over a career spanning nearly 15 years, most notably Samsara (2001) and the documentary Faith Connections (2013). He...
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Justice TS Thakur Sworn In As 43rd Chief Justice Of India
NEW DELHI -- Senior-most Supreme Court judge Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was today sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan. 63-year old...
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Like Hrithik, Farhan Wants Sequel To 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara'
MUMBAI -- Actor-producer Farhan Akhtar wants to bring a sequel to his 2011 hit road trip drama Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. The Zoya Akhtar-directed film had an array of star cast including her brother...
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Today the world is posed with many challenges. But out of all the challenges that our humanity has to face, the biggest and most fearsome of the lot is undoubtedly the uncertainty for the energy...
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Features You Would LUV to Have in Your Car
There are many ways to be social-minded. Straight off, the first one is a properly capacious vehicle, where there's always room to invite someone in. Another is to go easy on the country's oil imports,...
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Living In Delhi Like Living In A Gas Chamber, Observes High Court
NEW DELHI -- Observing that the current air pollution levels in the national capital have reached "alarming" proportions and it was akin to "living in a gas chamber", the Delhi High Court today...
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'Angry Indian Goddesses' Review: Girls, Constantly Interrupted
At the intermission point of Angry Indian Goddesses, I was kinda done with it. So far, about one hour in, all the ‘female buddy film’ — not an entirely accurate description, by the way — had done was...
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Islamabad Always Wanted To Resolve Outstanding Disputes With India, Says...
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan has said that Islamabad has always emphasised on the need for a sustained and result-oriented dialogue with India to discuss all issues, resolve outstanding disputes, including...
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'Allah' Punishing Turkish Leaders By Stripping Them Of Sanity, Says Putin
WASHINGTON -- With the war of words between the two nations escalating since the downing of the Russian jet by Turkey, President Vladimir Putin hit out at the Turkish leadership saying, that 'Allah'...
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In A First, Dawoodi Bohra Women Loudly Protest Forced Genital Mutilation
For the first time in India, seventeen women from the Dawoodi Bohra community have publicly called for action against female genital mutilation (FGM) in India. The petition, started on December 1 by...
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Government Photoshops Modi Survey Photo; Twitter Delivers A Flood Of Memes
In keeping with the times, the Press Information Bureau on Thursday turned into Photoshop Images Bureau. It took a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi doing an aerial survey of the Chennai floods...
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Army Can't Be Held Responsible For Alleged 1,500 Extra Judicial Killings,...
NEW DELHI -- The Centre informed the Supreme Court that the Army cannot be held responsible for alleged encounters in Manipur as it was discharging its sovereign function to defend the nation from...
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Chennai Rains: 96 Trains Cancelled Today As Rail Tracks Remain Submerged At...
NEW DELHI -- Even though the torrential rains have stopped battering Tamil Nadu for now, the Indian Railways are still facing the herculean task of restoring services as the tracks at major stations...
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Trimbakeshwar Temple Women Entry Must Be Unrestricted, Says Petition
Building on protests at the Shani Shingnapur temple, a mother and daughter-in-law duo are questioning the wisdom of a ban that refuses entry to women into the sanctum sanctorum of the Trimbakeshwar...
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Bank Of America-Merill Lynch Report Says New Metrics Hype India Q2 Growth
Though official numbers peg India's July-September quarterly growth at 7.4%, a Bank of America-Merill Lynch report says that it would have been only 5.2%, if the traditional method of calculation were...
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Chennai Floods: State Health Secretary Says Preventing Epidemic Outbreak Top...
Dr. J Radhakrishnan is the health secretary for Tamil Nadu government and now faces the mammoth task of preventing outbreak of epidemics as flood waters begin to recede from Chennai and coastal Tamil...
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Pregnant Woman Labourer Dies Of Exhaustion After Allegedly Being Forced To Work
KARIMNAGAR, Telangana -- A 24-year-old pregnant woman labourer at a brick kiln here died of alleged exhaustion after being forced to work and lack of timely medical treatment, police said today. Four...
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Chennai Rains: 14 Die In City Hospital Due To Lack Of Electricity, Oxygen...
Even as the torrential rains in Tamil Nadu appeared to abate, the destruction and mayhem in its wake continues to be relentless. 14 patients in the ICU unit of the Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and...
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US Offers India Assistance To Deal With Chennai Floods
WASHINGTON -- The US has offered assistance to India in meeting the humanitarian challenge posed by the Chennai deluge and condoled the loss of lives in the worst flooding faced by the city in decades....
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Banks Nudge Reluctant Temples To Part With Their Gold To Cut Down On Imports
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI -- India is trying to persuade rich temples to deposit some of their gold hoards with banks to revive a plan to recycle tonnes of the precious metal and cut gold imports, sources said....
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