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Harendra lacks enough time to change team’s fortunes: Joaquim

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Welcoming the appointment of Harendra Singh as the coach of the Indian men’s national hockey team, former coach Joaquim Carvalho wondered whether he has enough time on his hands to fine tune the squad for tougher battles ahead. Yesterday, women’s coach Harendra Singh was made in- charge of the men’s side, while men’s coach Sjoerd Marijne was re-designated the women’s coach in a rejigging of roles by the Hockey India following the medalless show of the teams at last month’s Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. “Harendra’s appointment as a coach is…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

Jake Gyllenhaal to play composer Leonard Bernstein in ‘The American’

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Jake Gyllenhaal has been signed on to play legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein in “The American”. The movie will be directed by Cary Fukunaga, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project will be based on Humphrey Burton’s biography on Bernstein and has been adapted for screenplay by Michael Mitnick. The film will follow the exponential rise of the composer after conducting the New York Philharmonic when he was 25, all the while struggling with fame. His career boasts of penning the score for “On the Waterfront” and the avant…

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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS CATEGORIES 

Auctioning ‘Rustom’ costume for good cause: Akshay Kumar

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Actor Akshay Kumar says he and wife Twinkle Khanna are unfazed by the backlash they are receiving over the auction of the costume he wore as an Indian naval officer in “Rustom”. Akshay last week announced that the costume of his 2016 film would be auctioned for charity and the proceeds would fund animal rescue and welfare. Taking offence to his description of the costume as the “original naval uniform”, Twitteratti pointed out to that his outfit was just a film costume and not the real naval uniform, that the…

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NEWS CATEGORIES WORLD NEWS 

S Korea confirms arrival of F-22 stealth fighters for drill

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American F-22 stealth fighter jets have arrived in South Korea ahead of a joint air force drill, Seoul said today, despite a recent diplomatic thaw with Pyongyang. The “Raptor” fighters previously flew to the South in December when Seoul and Washington staged their largest-ever joint air exercise, days after North Korea test-fired a missile believed capable of hitting the US mainland. The North customarily reacts with anger to the deployment of American stealth fighters, which it fears could be used for surgical strikes against its leadership and strategic facilities. The…

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NATIONAL NEWS WORLD NEWS 

India, China militaries to set up hotline after Modi-Xi summit: Report

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The militaries of India and China have reportedly agreed on the long-pending proposal to set up a hotline between their headquarters after the informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan, the official Chinese media said today. Modi met Xi last week in an unprecedented two-day ‘heart-to-heart’ summit to “solidify” the India-China relationship. “Leaders of the two nations have reportedly agreed to set up a hotline between their respective military headquarters,” state-run Global Times daily reported today. The reported move comes after Modi and Xi…

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NATIONAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

NR to install gates at 121 unmanned level crossings in Lucknow division

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The Lucknow division of the Northern Railways has decided to install gates at 121 unmanned level crossings in view of the Kushinagar incident in which 13 children were killed at an unmanned crossing. “The work to close these 121 unmanned crossings will start from June and will end by September. Though the Railway ministry had decided to close all unmanned crossings by 2020, the work will now be completed by September this year,” NR, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Satish Kumar said. He said unmanned crossings in Kanpur, Lucknow-Varansai and Lucknow-Prayag…

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NATIONAL NEWS NEWS CATEGORIES 

J Dey killing: Chhota Rajan convicted, Jigna Vora acquitted

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A Mumbai court today convicted gangster Chhota Rajan in the murder case of journalist J Dey while acquitting former journalist Jigna Vora and another accused in the case due to lack of evidence. Besides Rajan, special MCOCA court judge Sameer Adkar convicted eight others in the case. Vora and Paulson Joseph were acquitted due to lack of evidence and the prosecution’s failure to prove the case against them beyond reasonable doubt. The sentencing in the case likely later today. The prosecution in the case has demanded the maximum punishment for…

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अर्थ हिंदी न्यूज़ 

मारुति, महिंद्रा व टाटा मोटर्स ने नये वित्त वर्ष की शानदार शुरुआत की, बिक्री बढ़ी

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मारुति, महिंद्रा एंड महिंद्रा तथा टाटा मोटर्स सहित प्रमुख वाहन कंपनियों के लिए नये वित्त वर्ष की शुरुआत काफी अच्छी रही. वित्त वर्ष के पहले महीने अप्रैल में इन कंपनियों की वाहन बिक्री दहाई अंक से अधिक बढ़ी. देश की सबसे बड़ी कार निर्माता कंपनी मारुति सुजुकी इंडिया की बिक्री अप्रैल में 14.2 प्रतिशत बढ़कर 1,64,978 इकाई हो गई जो पिछले साल के 1,44,492 वाहन रही थी. कंपनी ने कहा कि इस दौरान उसके स्विफ्ट, एस्टिलो, डिजायर और बलेनो जैसे वाहनों की कॉम्पैक्ट श्रेणी की बिक्री 31.8 प्रतिशत उछलकर 83,834…

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अर्थ हिंदी न्यूज़ 

66 रुपये में शुरू कीजिए ऑनलाइन बिजनेस, ये कंपनी लाई ऑफर

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कोई बिजनेस शुरू करना हो, सारी प्लानिंग और रिसर्च धरा का धरा रह जाता है अगर हमारे पास फंड नहीं है. फंड के कारण कई युवा अपना बिजनेस नहीं कर पाते हैं. लेकिन अब एक कंपनी ऐसी है जो ऐसे युवाओं को बिना बड़ा निवेश के बिजनेश शुरू करने का मौका दे रही है. इस मौके के तहत जो इससे जुड़ेंगा वह 1 डॉलर यानी 66 रुपये में एक ऑनलाइन दुकान यानी स्टोर खोल सकता है. जानकारी के लिए बता दें कि सिंगापुर की एक ई-कॉमर्स कंपनी शॉपमैटिक ने ये…

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खेल हिंदी न्यूज़ 

भारत को पछाड़कर आईसीसी वनडे रैंकिंग में शीर्ष पर काबिज इंग्लैंड

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इंग्लैंड की टीम भारत को पछाड़कर आईसीसी एक दिवसीय क्रिकेट रैकिंग में शीर्ष स्थान पर काबिज हो गई है । इंग्लैंड को 2014 . 15 के खराब सत्र के कारण फायदा मिला है जिसमें पूर्ण सदस्यों के खिलाफ 25 में से उसने सात ही वनडे जीते । उस सत्र को ताजा गणना से हटा दिया गया है जबकि 2015 . 16, 2016 . 17 को 50 प्रतिशत गिना गया है । पिछली बार जनवरी 2013 में वनडे रैकिंग में शीर्ष पर आई इंग्लैंड टीम के 125 अंक हैं । दूसरी…

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