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• How Modi-Shah Defeated The Stone-Pelters In Kashmir

  'Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power we had the same police force, same army, same CRPF and the same BSF.''India needed a mahasevak who could take on the terror elements working in the country.' IMAGE: A file photograph of stone-pelters in Srinagar. Photograph: S Irfan/PTI Photo/Rediff Archives   Altaf Thakur, spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Jammu and Kashmir unit, has been holding high the party flag in the Valley for the last two decades. He joined the party ...
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• Brothers from Karnal held for killing Indian student in Australia

  Two Indian-origin brothers wanted in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old MTech student from India have been arrested by Australian police, media reports said. Abhijeet Abhijeet, 26, and Robin Gartan, 27, were arrested on Tuesday in the New South Wales country town of Goulburn police are preparing to extradite them to Victoria, the Goulburn Post reported. The brothers were on the run since the early hours of Sunday after Navjeet Sandhu from Noble Park was killed and a 30-year-old man, ...

• Mutual funds bet on 'special' opportunities as uncertainties loom

  Mutual funds are looking to tap into the special opportunities theme ahead of the results of the general election results and the continued uncertainty on the geo-political and interest rate fronts. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Two fund houses — WhiteOak Capital and Samco — are set to launch special opportunities funds next week. Kotak MF has also filed papers with the regulator to launch a scheme in the same category. “Though the strategy makes sense at all ...
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• Indians Are Saying NO To SUGAR!

  With rising incomes, education, and health awareness in India, especially in the big cities, droves of people are saying no to sugar. IMAGE: Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind courtesy Myriam Zilles/Unsplash.com   Six summers ago, Cadbury, owned by Mondelez, unveiled a campaign for its Dairy Milk chocolate brand to mark its 70th year in India: 'Kuchh achchha ho jaye'. That is Hindi for 'Let something good happen'. It built on a ...
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• 3 Indians accused of killing Nijjar appear in court

  Three Indian nationals accused of killing Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year have appeared before a Canadian court through video for the first time to face homicide charges in a case that has soured Canada-India relations. IMAGE: Karan Brar, Kamalpreet Singh and Karanpreet Singh, the three Indians charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in relation to the murder in Canada of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in 2023. Karan Brar, 22, ...
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• Has Joe Biden Lost Interest In India?

  Had it not been for the slow but sure emergence of China as a threat to the Western order, would India have been accepted as a near-equal partner by individual Western nations, jointly and severally, questions N Sathiya Moorthy. IMAGE: President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra D Modi welcome US President Joe Biden at the Bharat Mandapam for the G-20 dinner in New Delhi, September 9, 2023. Photograph: ANI Photo   It may be just a coincidence, yes, but the way the US has been ...

• The Girl From Laapataa Ladies, Heeramandi

  'I joined Heeramandi's shoot right after completing Laapataa Ladies.''When I landed on the Heeramandi sets, I was like, "Oh my God!" because this was for the first time I was seeing such a huge set in my life.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Pratibha Ranta/Instagram It's a remarkable breakout year for Pratibha Ranta. She encountered a sliver of fame with Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies and then some more in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar. For the 23-year-old actor from Shimla, ...
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• April's service sector growth is among fastest in 14 years

  India's services sector growth eased slightly in April but growth of new business and output remained sharp and among the fastest in 14 years amid favourable economic conditions and strong demand, a monthly survey said on Monday. Photograph: PTI Photo from the Rediff Archives The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services Business Activity Index fell from 61.2 in March to 60.8 in April, highlighting one of the strongest growth rates seen in just under 14 years. Survey members attributed the ...

• Rift among INDIA partners triggers 3-way contests across Bengal

  As the final five phases of polls draw closer, rift among Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) partners, Congress-Left combine and the Trinamool Congress, which are fighting separately has intensified, triggering a fierce contest across half of the remaining 36 constituencies in West Bengal driven by local issues such as Sandeshkhali and the SSC scam. IMAGE: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee throws a football during a public meeting in support of TMC candidate from ...
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• Heavy rains, flood leave 56 dead, thousands homeless in Brazil

  At least 56 people were killed due to torrential rains, followed by floods and mudslides in Brazil, forcing thousands of people out of their homes, reported Al Jazeera citing the government. IMAGE: A man is rescued by military firefighters after the floods in Canoas, at the Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 4, 2024. Photograph: Renan Mattos/Reuters Rescue operations are underway as emergency responders race against time to locate survivors trapped amidst the debris of collapsed homes, ...
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• Kerala shocker: Woman delivers in bathroom, throws newborn on to street

  A 23-year-old woman, suspected to be a victim of sexual assault, concealed her pregnancy, delivered a baby in the early hours of Friday in her apartment bathroom, and allegedly threw the newborn on the street in front of her flat complex situated in a posh residential area in this port city of Kerala. Image used for representational purpose only. Photograph: Rainer Maiores/Pixabay.com The police said the woman had been taken into custody after being traced using the address on the Amazon ...

• 'Sometimes Sanjay Sir Would Be On Fire'

  'For him, the frame needs to be beautiful and then the actors come in.''If he doesn't like the outfits of the background artists, he will get it changed. Sometimes, in an entire day, we haven't taken a single shot because of that.''Every day was a new day. He goes according to his mood.'   IMAGE: Taha Shah Badussha with Sharmin Sehgal in Heeramandi. "Only a man like Sanjay Bhansali can take somebody who's a nobody and put him in such a prestigious role, a role that can redefine one's ...

• Manipur women pleaded cops to drive them safety but ...: CBI chargesheet

  The Manipur Police personnel allegedly drove the two women from the Kuki-Zomi community, who had sought refuge in their official Gypsy, to a mob of around 1,000 Meiti rioters in Kangpokpi district, the Central Bureau of Investigation chargesheet has said. IMAGE: Women take part in a demonstration against ongoing violence in Manipur, in Imphal on July 21, 2023. Photograph: ANI Photo The two women were subsequently stripped naked and paraded before being brutally gang-raped during the ethnic ...

• Modi Is Being Outnumbered And Out-Rallied

  This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a ferment. This has reduced the BJP campaign to a laundry list of recycled grievances and thinly veiled communal appeals, neither of which are working as well as they have in the past, argues Prem ...

• BJP ensured that Prajwal Revanna fled country: Congress

  The Congress on Monday held protests in Karnataka demanding the immediate arrest of Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing allegations of sexually abusing hundreds of women. IMAGE: Congress supporters protest against Janata Dal-Secular MP Prajwal Revanna over his alleged involvement in the sex scandal, in Bengaluru. Photograph: ANI Photo Congress workers -- with women members joining in large numbers -- took to the streets in Hubballi, Hassan and Bengaluru, among other places, seeking action ...

• 'We will grow at about 20% over the next few years'

  'Private General insurers are poised to grow at 17 - 18 per cent over the next 5 to 7 years and we will grow faster.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Future Generali India Insurance Private sector general insurer Future Generali India Insurance plans to focus on the underpenetrated non-motor, non-health space to support growth. Anup Rau, the MD & CEO of the company, discusses the company's expansion plans in a video interview with Aathira Varier/Business Standard.   What are the growth ...

• Kerala LDF legislator Anwar booked for DNA remarks on Rahul Gandhi

  Kerala's ruling Left Democratic Front legislator PV Anwar has been booked for the penal offence of promoting enmity between different groups due to his remarks that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was a "fourth-grade citizen" and that his DNA should be examined. IMAGE: LDF legislator PV Anwar. Photograph: ANI Photo Anwar, while addressing an election meeting in Palakkad district of Kerala on April 22, had also said that the Congress leader does not deserve to be called by the surname of Gandhi.

• Kotak Mahindra Bank's loan, deposit growth may be impacted after RBI curbs

  Kotak Mahindra Bank’s loan and deposit growth are likely to be affected after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked the private-sector lender not to take on board new customers through the bank’s online and mobile banking channels and not to issue any new credit cards, according to analysts. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters The bank’s share price fell 10.85 per cent on Thursday to close the day at Rs 1,643 on the BSE. The RBI’s action came after market hours on ...

• Border situation 'generally stable': China on Modi's remarks

  The Chinese military on Thursday said the situation along the India-China border 'at present' is 'generally stable' and both sides have maintained 'effective' communication to resolve the military standoff in eastern Ladakh. IMAGE: Indian soldiers demonstrate a drill in the Tawang sector. Photograph: ANI Photo Defence Ministry spokesman Senior Colonel Wu Qian was reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent interview with Newsweek magazine in which he had expressed hope that through ...

• 'I Don't Know What I Am Going To Do'

  The political heat in West Bengal has been giving the rising mercury levels serious competition since the high court order. IMAGE: Upper Primary (2016) job aspirants protest in Kolkata on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, demanding their recruitment. Photograph: ANI Photo   Thousands of teachers, whose appointments were declared null and void by the Calcutta high court order, gathered at the vast Shahid Minar ground at Esplanade in central Kolkata, braving the sweltering heat. Divided into ...

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