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India start Azlan Shah campaign on positive note, beat Japan 2-0

India defeated Asian Games champion Japan 2-0 to start its campaign at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament on a positive note here Saturday.Varun Kumar converted a penalty corner in the 24th minute to hand India the lead before Simranjeet Singh (55th) scored a diving field goal from skipper Manpreet Singh’s brilliant pass to secure full three points for the five-time champions.India will play Korea in their next league game on Sunday before taking on hosts Malaysia (March 26), Canada (March March 27) and Poland (March 29).The top two…

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Streisand on Michael Jackson’s accusers

Veteran singer-actor Barbra Streisand has said that even though she believes the two men who accused Michael Jackson of sexual abuse in the HBO documentary “Leaving Neverland”, she has sympathy for the pop icon. In an interview with the Times in the UK, Streisand said she empathises with victims– Wade Robson and James Safechuck– but the incident “didn’t kill them”.”His (Jackson) sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has. You can say ‘molested,’ but those children, as you heard them say…

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Digvijaya Singh Congress candidate from Bhopal: Kamal Nath

 Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh will be the party’s nominee from Bhopal Lok Sabha seat– a BJP stronghold since the last three decades– Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath said on Saturday.The announcement was made at the “Holi Milan” programme organised by the Congress here and comes a week after Nath had said that if Singh wants to contest the Lok Sabha polls, he should choose the “toughest seat” in the state.Singh, a former chief minister and a royale, had accepted the “challenge” the next day.Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency, which…

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Macron says IS defeat removes ‘significant threat’ to France

 French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday that the fall of the so-called “caliphate” run by Islamic State jihadists in Syria has removed a source of potential terror attacks against France.“A significant threat to our country” has been “eliminated”, Macron said on Twitter, adding that “the step taken today is immense.” “But the threat remains and the fight against terrorist groups must continue,” he said. France has suffered a wave of jihadist-inspired terror attacks that have killed 250 people since 2015, when gunmen massacred 12 people at the offices of satirical…

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Sensex rises over 100 pts on robust FII buying

Rising for the ninth straight session, market benchmark BSE Sensex rose over 119 points in early trade Friday led by gains in banking, metal and auto stocks amid sustained foreign fund inflow.Gains were, however, capped tracking Asian markets as investors turned cautious after the US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged, experts said.The 30-share index was trading 119.52 points, or 0.31 per cent, higher to 38,506.27. The index began the session on a firm note at 38,452.47 and hit the session’s high of 38,526.71 on steady buying by foreign funds…

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चीन में बस में लगी आग, 26 लोगों की मौत

चीन के हुनान प्रांत में शुक्रवार को एक बस में आग लग जाने से 26 लोगों की मौत हो गई। सरकारी संवाद समिति शिन्हुआ ने स्थानीय लोगों के हवाले से बताया कि हादसे में 26 लोगों की मौत हो गई और 28 अन्य लोग झुलस गए। घायलों को उपचार के लिए तीन अस्पतालों में भर्ती कराया गया है। इनमें से पांच की हालत नाजुक बताई जाती है। हेनान प्रांत की 59 सीटों वाली बस में शुक्रवार शाम उस समय अचानक आग लग गई जब वह चांगदे शहर की हांशोउ काउंटी…

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लोहिया को आदर्श बताने वाले दलों ने उनके सिद्धांतों को तिलांजलि दी, महामिलावटी गठबंधन को बेचैन : मोदी

प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी ने शनिवार को कहा कि कांग्रेसवाद का विरोध डॉ. लोहिया के हृदय में रचा-बसा था, लेकिन डॉ. लोहिया को अपना आदर्श बताने वाले दलों ने उनके सिद्धांतों को तिलांजलि दे दी है और उसी कांग्रेस के साथ तथाकथित लोहियावादी पार्टियां अवसरवादी महामिलावटी गठबंधन बनाने को बेचैन हैं। प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने अपने ब्लॉग में लिखा, ‘‘आज अद्वितीय विचारक, क्रांतिकारी तथा अप्रतिम देशभक्त डॉ. राम मनोहर लोहिया को उनकी जयंती पर सादर नमन। प्रखर बुद्धि के धनी डॉ. लोहिया में जन सरोकार की राजनीति के प्रति गहरी आस्था थी।’’…

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Emilia Clarke says she survived two life-threatening brain aneurysms in early ‘GOT’ days

Actor Emilia Clarke has revealed that in the early years of “Game of Thrones” she suffered from two brain aneurysms that nearly took her life.In an essay for The New Yorker, published online on Thursday, Clarke said the health scares began soon after the success of the first season of the HBO epic-fantasy drama.Clarke said just before she assumed her role as Daenerys Targaryen in 2011, she started feelng a “shooting, stabbing, constricting pain” in her head during a workout with her trainer. “I immediately felt as though an elastic band…

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Lahiri opens with a creditable one-under at Valspar Championships

Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri opened with a creditable one-under 70 in the first round to sit in a tie for 28th place at the USD 6.7 million Valspar Championship here.Lahiri, who is having a rough time this season, is four shots behind the leaders Joel Dahman of the US and Austrian Sepp Straka, who shot five-under 66 each at the Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead course.The scoring was not easy with only 44 players in the field going under par.Lahiri, who has played the event in the past, said, “It was a…

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PM Imran says no room for ‘jihadi outfits and culture’ in Pakistan

There was no room for “jihadi outfits and jihadi culture” in Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said amidst intense global pressure on his government to rein in the terrorist outfits operating from its soil after the Pulwama attack. Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after a suicide bomber of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district in February 14.India launched a counter-terror operation in Balakot. The next day, Pakistan Air Force retaliated and downed a MiG-21 in an aerial combat and…

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