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Cong has no regard for NE region, its traditions: PM

November 23, 2018 strong

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said he felt a deep sense of anguish at the Congress “abusing” Northeast culture and calling its dress “outlandish”.Coming down heavily on the rival party at an election rally at Lunglei, he also said that the country has understood the “divide and rule” policy of the Congress and that is the reason the party was just confined to two to three states.Mizoram in the Northeast is the last bastion of the Congress. Election to the 40-member assembly is scheduled for November 28. “The Congress party,…

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Swedish tennis player Ymer finds connect with ‘Dangal’

November 23, 2018 strong

When Elias Ymer, the number one Swedish tennis player of Ethiopian descent, watched ‘Dangal’ he could not stop tears from rolling down his eyes.The story reminded him of his father’s struggle for him and his two younger brothers (Mikael and Rafael), who at one stage faced similar difficulties, if not opposition, while establishing themselves as tennis players in their adopted country.”Ethiopia is known more for producing runners and it had nothing to do with tennis, so people started saying you can’t be tennis players,” Ymer said, recalling the days when…

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I’ve never read a script in my career: Sunny Deol

November 23, 2018 strong

Thirty five years and several blockbusters later, actor Sunny Deol says his process of working in a film is purely “instinctive” where he is more interested in listening to the storyteller than reading scripts.For Sunny, it is a matter of choice that he avoids reading scripts as he believes he might look at them with a “certain mindset” and hence prefers to hear them straight from the writers.”I am a very instinctive person. I hear an idea, a thought and if it is good and I like it, I just…

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Indonesia wraps up Lion Air crash victim identification

November 23, 2018 strong

Indonesia on Friday wrapped up the grim task of identifying Lion Air jet crash victims from recovered body parts, with a preliminary report on the cause of the accident that killed 189 people due next week.The Boeing 737 Max jet — one of the world’s newest and most advanced commercial planes — plunged into the Java Sea on October 29 shortly after taking off from capital Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang city, killing all on board.Since then, investigators have been doing DNA testing on recovered body parts. As of Friday, 125 people…

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‘Big Four’ accountancy giants face UK probe probe

November 23, 2018 strong

Almost two decades after the collapse of US giant Enron in a notorious accounting scandal, the accountancy sector is back in the spotlight, this time thanks to a string of scandals in Britain.The sector’s so-called “Big Four” — Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC — have a long-established oligopoly to advise and monitor big business, experts say.The powerful companies engage in a wide range of activities, from accounts auditing and strategy consulting to proposed mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and taxation. However, a series of high-profile corporate collapses in Britain — including…

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HC for restricting free rice to BPL families alone

November 23, 2018 strong

The Madras High Court has observed that free PDS rice given to ration card holders should be restricted only to families below the poverty line, noting that doling out freebies to all sections of people have made people “lazy”. While it was obligatory on the part of the government to provide bare necessities like rice and other groceries to the needy and poor people, successive governments had extended such benefits to all people for political benefits, it said.“Consequently, people began to expect everything for free from the government. As a…

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Leak of CBI director’s confidential reply irks SC, adjourns hearing to Nov 29

November 20, 2018 strong

The Supreme Court Tuesday adjourned the hearing on CBI Director Alok Verma’s plea challenging the government’s decision to divest him of his duties, expressing anguish over the alleged leak of his response to a CVC report. The court, while adjourning the hearing to November 29, also expressed displeasure over publication of graft allegations by CBI DIG M K Sinha against senior officers.The top court adjourned the matter twice, soon after the hearing began and again later in the day.Irked over the alleged leak of Verma’s confidential response to the Central Vigilance…

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Sensex drops over 100 points on global selloff, profit-booking

November 20, 2018 strong

The benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 100 points in early session Tuesday, breaking its three-day winning run as metal, IT, realty and banking stocks retreated, tracking sell-off in the global market.The 30-share index dropped 104.41 points, or 0.29 per cent, to 35,670.47 points in opening trade. The gauge had rallied about 633 points in the previous three sessions.The NSE Nifty too fell 36.80 points, or 0.33 per cent, to 10,726.60.Brokers said besides a weak trend at other Asian markets amid sharp losses at the Wall Street, profit-booking by investors in…

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India will have psychological advantage playing on grass: Zeeshan

November 20, 2018 strong

The Indian players may not be formidable on grass but playing Italy on that surface will give the hosts a psychological advantage, reckons Davis Cup coach Zeeshan Ali. To qualify for the inaugural 24-team Davis Cup Finals, India need to beat Italy which boasts four top-100 players, led by world number 13 Fabio Fognini.The Italians, who are superior on hard and clay courts, might struggle on grass and that is the reason why the Indian team management has asked for a tie at South Club in Kolkata.”Playing on clay or hard…

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Being the ‘beautiful young thing’ worried Jude Law

November 20, 2018 strong

Actor Jude Law believes it is a worrisome fact for an actor to get typecast as a handsome person. In an interview with New York Times, the 45-year-old actor said growing old is actually a “good news” for him as it helps him to experiment with the roles he take up. “Getting pigeonholed as an actor is terrifying because you want to keep people guessing. So being the golden boy or the beautiful young thing clearly worries me because you think, ‘What happens when my hair falls out, like it…